Chapter 4 Reuniting The Past

In the past....

David and Suzan were two college-going kids who were in love with each other. David had a dream to be an author, as he had a great mind, and he used to write in the school's weekly magazine. Suzan was a dancer. Both loved each other to the extent that they were planning to live together. David was writing his first book when Suzan came to him and said, "My father has set up my marriage with somebody else, and I want both of us to run away from home to a far city." David said, "But where will we go?" "We are still studying, and I do not have much money for us to survive in such a critical situation." She said, "I do not know." "We have to do something." Suzan and David ran from the house and went to a far town. After a few years, Suzan was pregnant, and when the time came to give birth, David took her to a nearby hospital. Suzan gave birth to twins, and she died during childbirth. David was working as a janitor in an office and had little money at the time. Consequently, he placed the children in an orphanage following Suzan's cremation. They were named Matt and Ash.

David took both kids to the orphanage and talked to the man in charge. "Sir, my name is David, and I have two sons," David told the man. Their mother died while giving birth to them, and since I'm just a janitor, I can't take care of them. Can you take them?" "Do you want really to leave the babies here?" asked the person in charge. David said, "Yes, I can't give my kids a good education and a nice place to live." The in-charge said, "it is okay. Just fill out this form. No matter what happens, once the boys grow up and if they want to see their biological father, they could come to you. David said ok and filled out the form and left the boys in the orphanage.

After 15 years in the orphanage.....

As Ash cried in the corner, a child bullied him. Matt stepped in between them and smacked the boy with a baseball bat, knocking him out in one strike. There was blood all over. "Stop crying and come with me," Matt said to Ash. They both fled the orphanage and entered the woods, where they met an elderly man who was living alone in the woods and asked for assistance. "If you want, you can live here with me in this cabin," the man said. Both boys agreed and stayed there.

Both of the boys grew up helping the old man and living with him. One day, they were both in the woods, cutting down a tree for the cabin. Matt opened the bag in search of some water. When the bottle was empty, he exclaimed, "Ash, you idiot, you drank the entire water." "I'm thirsty now, okay, so I'm going to fetch some water at the nearby water source." "And you go home after you cut the tree; I'll meet you there," Matt said as he walked away.

Matt reached a lake and began to fill the bottle. After filling the bottle and drinking some of the water, Matt sat down on a stone. He heard a sound coming from behind the bushes. He took the rifle that the old man had given him in case he encountered an animal. The bushes start to shake. He took his rifle and shot a bullet towards the bush, thinking that there would be a bear. When he got close, he saw a boy on the ground, badly injured. Out of fear, Matt went near and asked the boy, "Where is your home?" "I will take you there." The boy said, "I live in a nearby village." And after saying this, the boy died. Matt became concerned and assumed that he had done something wrong. He killed an innocent boy without any reason, and now the boy is dead. He took the body of the boy to a nearby graveyard in the village.

He reached the graveyard and asked the manager of the graveyard for a place to bury the dead body. The manager said, "Come with me, but by the way, who is the man?" Matt said, "I was filling water to drink, and the boy was behind the bushes, and I shot him by mistake." The manager said, "Let me see his face; I might know him." Matt showed the face of the boy to the manager. The manager got shocked and yelled, "What have you done?" Matt asked, "Do you know the boy?" The manager said, "He is Tony, the boy from the village. He and his sister are orphans. His sister is blind. How could you do this?" Matt said, "Can you tell me where he lives and I will meet his sister?" The manager said, "There is an old house in the village; both the kids live there." After burying Tony in the graveyard, Matt left for Tony's house.

"Tony, is that you?" asked Clara. "No, it's me, Matt," Matt replied. "Who are you, and where is my brother Tony?" Clara inquired once more. Matt said, "I am Tony's employer." "I have given him a job in the next town. He will be there starting today. He instructed me to look after you and to meet your needs until he is back." She asked, "When will he return"? Matt said, "He will be there for a long time." She asked Matt, "Is he fine?" Matt said, "He is fine." "Here, I have brought some food and water for you." "I will be coming daily to help you and also see if you are alright." She said, "No, sir, I will be fine." "You do not have to come here every day." Matt said, "There is no issue." "I can come. Is there anything I can do because I owe you and your brother, who is a wonderful young man? He helped me repair my car, and I have given him a job in my car factory. Clara said, "Ok! No issues." "Thank you for giving my brother a job." "He is a bright boy, and I hope he will be doing better in your company." After talking to Clara, Matt made dinner, fed her, and took leave from Clara's house.

Matt went back to the cabin and knocked on the door. Ash opened the door and asked Matt, "Where were you? I was worried for you. I was about to go out to search for you in the woods." Matt said, "No issue, I got a job in a nearby village." Ash said, "That is good, but what is this job and how did you get it out of nowhere"? Matt replied, "I have to be the caretaker of a blind girl. Her brother is mostly out of the village for work purposes, and she is all by herself in a house. So I got the job." "How did you meet this man?" asked Ash. Matt said, "When I saw him after going to get water, he looked like he was nervous. I asked him if he was okay, and he told me what had happened. Then I asked if there was anything I could do to help. Then he asked, "Would you look after my blind sister?" and this is how I got the job. Can I have dinner now that your question has been answered?" Ash said, "Okay, come and have dinner with me." "You didn't eat"? Matt asked. "No, I was waiting for you to come and we would have dinner together," said Ash. "Did Uncle Max have dinner?" asked Matt. Ash said, "The old man is snorting now." "He's sound asleep." They both had dinner. Matt and Ash cleaned the dishes and slept in their room.

The next morning, Matt was getting ready to leave for Clara's house. Suddenly, Uncle Max came and asked, "Where are you going? and where were you last night?" Ash said, "Uncle, he has got a job in a nearby village, and he is leaving for work." Max said, "Son, be careful; this area is strange, and the people here are even stranger." "Do not do anything stupid." Matt said, "Uncle, I will be careful." "Now I am going. Bye". Matt left the cabin for Clara's house.