Scarlet POV

  Mom woke me up the next day, I had slept an extra hour , eventhough I slept earlier my body gained more than 8 hours causing me to be late. And they blamed him for that, well I cant stop them I try hard but to no avail. So I got up and drank my tea and was preparing breakfast and that is when we got the call from grandma, she was sick so we hurried to her house.

  “ Grandma, are you okay? ‘’ I asked once we got into her house.

  ‘’ Barely ! ‘’ she said in a low voice, she doesnt look good, she seems very ill cause she cant seem to wash her own cup.

  ‘’ What happened ?’’ I asked.

  ‘’ Nothing good darling, I couldn’t breathe for awhile, now it is okay. I am not sure when god will take me,’’ she said slowly.

  ‘’ We must do the prayers now.’’ mom , me and my sister all prayed god for better health for grandma, we hope god will soon answer our prayers. After our prayers mom started to prepare breakfast to her.

  While mom and sister were preparing breakfast me and grandma fell into a conversation.

  ‘’ How is he doing?’’ grandma looked around and looked me in the eye

  ‘’ My best friend?’’ I questioned her.

  ‘’ Your boyfriend darling.’’ I was surprised by her comment and to my luck mom didn’t heard us speaking and she didn’t bothered to cal me for help either. Grandma noticed my mysterious behaviour

  ‘’ Umm.. I don’t have one though..’’ I said avoiding eye contact.

  ‘’ Don’t lie to me darling, I know he is your boy friend last time we talked I saw it in your eyes, you mouth can lie but your eyes cant. You cant hide your love for him, so stop pretending him to be your best friend just dang say he is yours and let the world knows about it.’’ she said, a smile on her face

  Why can’t mom share the same excitement?

  ‘’ Grandma shush ! if mom heard us we both are done.’’ I gestured a finger to my mouth

  ‘’She cant do that why does she do that?’’

  ‘’ He is not christian , so I don’t think mom would be pleased to know about the news.’’

  ‘’It doesnt matter he is christian or not, he loves you and you loves him and your love is greater than anything around you , so don’t be scared to show the world who you love and who you want to be in your life, your mom gotta understand she cant do that to you, she has to do nothing about you but praise you both . ‘’ she said not taking her glance from me, she had to stop so she could cough. She coughed a bit too weakly which breaks my heart to know that these will be the final years she is spending with us.

  I will miss you grandma

  I wished my mom would treat our relationship as good as grandma.

  ‘’ It's not how things works grandma.’’ I said tears slowly filling my eyes.

  ‘’ Let me speak to her.’’ she stood from her seat and started to walk towards the kitchen. I tired to stop her but she protested against it and that grabbed mom’s attention.

  ‘’ What’s going on there?’’ mom said loudly.

  ‘’ I need to talk to you now.’’ grandma said that firmly, she said it in a commanding voice. 5 minutes later we all gathered in the living room.

  ‘’ What's this about? what has she said to you?’’ mom asked looking at me , and my sister too had the same look on her face. Like I said something wrong like I have done something wrong. They always had that look on their faces as if I am the criminal, as if I am the one who had committed everything wrong.

  ‘’ I need to talk to you all about something, not just something but many things and I think its the right time I do that as well’’ she took a deep breath and looked at all of us, my heart proceeded to beat faster when she focuses on me. She made sure that she didn’t stared for too long, if she had kept her glance I would lose it all.

  ‘’ As you know I am sick , I am not doing well and I am pretty sure I couldn’t do it any longer-’’ mom stopped her but grandma slowly raised her arm.

  ‘’ Daisy, just let me talk, I will be the one to talk and you guys listen . listen well and carefully on what I have to say.”

  Mom tried to go against her but grandma raised her arm signaling not to disturb her, coughing in between.

  “ So as you know I am old, too old to take care of myself, too sick to not admit that as well. I don’t have forever left in me so I want to spent these final days in peace , I want my freedom . When john died he left me with you guys, my child and my grandchildren . That is all I had when he left and I am grateful for him. I am blessed to have you guys, you guys take good care of me and protects me well. I am forever in debt for your service. You put your work on halt just to take care of this old woman. That is precious . I don’t see many positives in this generation, and taking care of the old is one of them I see rarely. But I am blessed with an generation who takes cares of me without a complaint. Thank you for everything my children, thank you so much.’’ tears started flowing through her eyes as she breathed heavily. Mom and sister were in tears and so was I , when mom got up from her seat to check on grandma , grandma raised her hand and told her to take her seat.

  ‘’ So I am here to say something very important. I wanna acknowledge my final days I want to spent it in this old house, this house is of many memories, and I cherish on them. I don’t want them to be perished, I want my final breath to be here, in this scared house and when I die this house shall go to either to scarlet or Abigail, since Abigail refused her offer I would like this house to go to my little grand daughter scarlet if she would accept it.’’ she said and everyone looked at me, I didn’t know what to say or do . I looked at each other finding it difficult to speak . mom came in to my assistance.

  ‘’ Scarlet would you accept it ? yes?’’ no wasn’t an option so I had to say yes, I had to say yes but I want it to be so grateful and nice.

  ‘’ I am so blessed and grateful for your kind offer grandma’’ I hugged her as I said those words and she secretly whispered in my ear “ its belongs to him as well’’ it wasn’t loud enough for them to realise what she said.

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  ‘’ Thank you mom, but wouldnt it be easier for you to live with us in our house’’ mom asked her.

  ‘ Thank you dear but I shall stay here.’’ she forced a smile on her face. Wiping away the tears that filled her eyes.

  ‘’ Or maybe we could stay here?’’

  ‘’ No child, don’t abandon your family for me. I am a dying thing don’t try to avoid it, let me stay where I belongs , you can take your trips to me once twice a week or so.’’ grandma coughed.

  ‘’ We will always.’’ mom said and went to the kitchen and arranged the breakfast to grandma. She took it followed by her pills. And we wait until evening and mom prepared the dinner for her and this time I was there to help her, no they didn’t asked for my help but I couldn’t sit there doing nothing. And one hour for 6 p m grandma called us again.

  ‘’ I wasn’t done speaking , I have something else to say to you Daisy.’’ she said, the moment she called my mom my heart started to race faster because deep inside me I was scared whether it was about him or not. And it wasn’t just about him, it was more than that.

  “ Well, I wanted to say about you and your husband. You both know how you met and how you fell in love and how you lived. When you fell in love with him and asked for my advice I never denied it , I never refused your offers or never was against them. As a mother, as a woman I understood you and gave you the freedom to love him. And I ask you kindly do the same to your daughters.’’ she smiled. And mom looked at me with that look, that look that say ‘what did you told her’ but that is her looks , her mouth denied speaking. She remain silent

  ‘’ I need a promise from you Daisy.’’ she kept her glance at mom

  ‘’ I promise.’’ mom slowly replied

  “ Then why would you be against him and her?’’ she said pointing towards me.

  ‘’ Well that is a long story you don’t understand mom.’’ mom said

  ‘’ I could if you do explain.’’ grandma said, slowly coughing.

  “ Are you okay grandma? ‘’ I asked and she nods

  ‘’ She would be if you had shut your mouth.’’ Abigail scolded me. It is true I did something wrong, I shouldnt have told grandma anything. I should have stayed silent. I gave her an unnecessary burden didn’t I ?

  ‘’ He is so far away .”’ mom said suddenly, and I felt a heated iron sinking into my heart.

  ‘’ But their love isnt so far away, their love will be always near them. Don’t commit a sin by breaking them apart Daisy, I want you to understand that they are madly in love and you don’t want to get in the middle of them and cause troubles, let them love freely. don’t throw stones at them.” Grandma said as she looked at her with keen eyes

  ‘’ I don’t want to have my grandchildren so far away, and who knows whether he will be here or not, maybe he is cheating on her who knows what goes with him and what goes in his mind, we don’t know nothing.’’ Mom said and I could see that she deeply cares about me, I never felt it before but now I can see something meaningful. But why would she never show that side of her to be.

  Maybe that’s how she thinks I must be protected.

  ‘’I appreciate your concern Daisy but she knows him well thats all that matter’’ grandma assured her.

  ‘’ That is true , but she still gotta be careful.’’ Abigail opened her mouth.

  ‘’ I trust him no matter what you people think of him.’’ I said loudly

  ‘’ We don't gain anything by separating you both, we just need to protect you from a threat, just try to understand that scarlet’’ mom said.

  ‘’ For Pete’s sake can you both stop suspecting him? He is my boy I love him , I love him a lot and he loves me a lot , he cares about me a lot. He do . I know that and he is the best thing that ever happened to my life, I can assure you that. For god sake please love him like you guys did back when you guys got to know him, he is not a toxic person or a threat he is saviour , he helps me fight everything he helps me deal with things he does everything and most importantly he never left me when I told him that I couldn’t be a mother, who would stay with such a girl? Who would stay with a girl whose family hates him for something that he never done? It's him, it's Pathum . He is not my bestie mom, he is my boyfriend yes it is true but please don’t try to keep us apart you will only end up loosing your daughter. Just see good in him just like you guys did when you got to know about him. What changed ? ‘’ I said and instantly I felt relief as if I let go something heavy instilled deep within me.

  ‘’ You grades went down, your faith is questioned, your friends are less, your behaviour is different , you don’t do your chores properly without crying about them, your don’t love you sister and mom, you pick the side of someone who isnt a member of our family, you health declines, your phone bills are high, you sleep less and do talk less, all you do is stay with him and talk and talk and waste your precious time,thats whats changed Scarlet. Do you see why we are concerned now? He might be the most perfect man in the world but he is so far away from being that.’’ Mom said trying her best to sound loud and not disturb grandma. Abigail didn’t spoke a word but still she nods at everything mom had to say.

  ‘’ Mom.’’ I couldn’t say anything else. I don’t know what else to say but accuse mom a liar, but I knew it will only bring troubles so I stayed silent , and I stayed silent on our way to home. I had a shower and got into bed with Mazie, I think I forgets her a lot as well.

  Poor Pathum he gets the blame for everything that is wrong with me.

  It is not fair. I took my phone and texted him,

  Pathum ; hi sweetie how are you? I am sorry I was late, slept a bit more today.

  Scarlet ; I am good sweetie, you needed your sleep, how is your headache now?

  Pathum ; I am good now, but I am sorry I slept 9 hours , you must have missed me a lot, I am so sorry I promise I wont sleep that much again.

  Scarlet ; sweetie you didn’t do nothing to be sorry . stop saying sorry. I am happy that you are doing well and you needed the sleep than anyone, you deserve some sleep with everything that goes around you, your studies and your OCD. Boy you deserve some rest.

  And don’t worry I spent the whole day , or we spent the whole day on grandma’s house. Taking care of her and talking to her. Unfortunately pathum she is sick. I am worried about her.

  Pathum ; oh no I will pray for her, I know I don’t believe in god that much, but I believe in you, so I will pray for you and grandma ,and wish the very best to both of you, so sweetie don’t worry grandma is totally fine she is totally okay and so are you.

  Scarlet ; thank you sweetie , if not for you I don’t know how to deal with these things that goes around. I love you sweetie.

  Pathum ; I love you too, don’t forget you are a strong girl, strong country girl, my little angel, my precious angel.

  Scarlet ; and don’t forget you are a strong precious prince.

  Pathum ; thank you so much sweetie! I am so glad I met you, so grateful to have met you, I think that is the best gift I ever got from the world, its you scarlet.

  Scarlet ; I could say the same exact thing sweetie.

  Pathum ; I wanna hug you

  Scarlet ; me too sweetie!

  Pathum ; Precious angel, now its time to sleep. I will focus on my studies while you take your rest. Please sleep sweetie don’t argue.

  I told him everything that happened before I fell asleep. Everything . Not for once did he blamed my family for what they tried to do or to what they are trying to do now.

  How come he not hate them?

  I love you darling, I will forever be yours.

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