''So mommy please tell me how you met daddy...preety please tell me.I promise I will not ask again mommy''begged little Tommy.''Oh Tommy ! how many times do I have to tell that story''said Jane.''Please mommy, you won't have to tell it to me again if you tell me today''nagged Tommy.Last Thursday he also said the same thing but she had no other choice since it was the only way to get him to sleep. But what Tommy didn't know is that the fairytale he enjoyed listening to brought dark and sad memories to Jane.But she would not allow herself to show them ,she had to stay strong for herself and Tommy too.''Okay .Cuddle up my boy .A long long time ago when I was in high school I met this tall,muscular and handsome man.He was a local salesman at a business store nearby .We met often when I came back from school and whenever he waved at me I got butterflies in my stomach.My friends would make fun of me often but I wouldn't mind.I knew I was in love.The thing was that I had never been in love before ,it was such a new feeling but it felt so right.I did not know what to do or say. And it even got better when one day he offered to take me out for lunch.My friends preferred to call it our ''first date''.After some weeks I began to get gifts and flowers from him.I felt so special .I completed highschool and sooner rather than later he asked for my hand in marriage.My parents couldn't be more happy since he came from a well-to-do family and money wasn't an issue and within no time was our wedding day.I had never been more happy.My friends even wished they were me!We rented a house and lived happily ever after..The end.''''Oh mommy!It even gets better by the day!Tomorrow again maybe?''Tommy chuckled naughtily.''Okay but only if you get your sleep my boy .I love you Tommy.''said Jane.''I love you more mommy.''she switched off the lights and Tommy slept.She felt it once more.That feeling she felt whenever she told him the story ,pain ,devastationand fear.It kept haunting her again and again.She grabbed her bottle and she chugged the beer.She felt as though she could drink away all the pain but once more she was wrong,the memories kept coming back.She began getting flashbacks of the day he was moving overseas,how he constantly kept telling her he would keep in touch of her and the unborn baby .She felt like she was such a fool to beleive such bullshit.But either way she still loved him after all he had put her through.He had been gone for nine years and she had not heard a word from him since then although she had heard rumours that he had settled down and had a family.That is what she feared even more...that she could not move on.Tommy constantly asked when he was coming back but all she could tell him is ''soon.''Not once but countless times she saw the impatience in Tommy's eyes but what more could she do?She had to protect her baby from her cruel past.She turned on the radio to listen to some soothing music to clear all the tension and pressure she was under.It was like the radio also knew her past ...it was their favourite song by Chris Adams...What Tommy knew as a fairytale or a happy tale was a dark,sad,and haunting story.It never ended there ....It was never a happily ever after.
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THE LETTERS
AdventureTommy is the only child of a single mother .He has been raised without the love of a father and longs to meet his father.He finds an address that might lead him to his father and he decides to write letters to him.On his eleventh birthday he asks fo...
