“They say that your father has an accident in prison, something happened. I don’t know. I don’t know.” Then my mother seems to be unable to say anything and could only repeat these words mechanically.
“What happened, something happened…”
I hang up the phone and run home in a hurry. This time, I really feel that my mother is not right.
My dad had an accident. After Isabel called me, is there anything related to her?
What the hell is going on?
I run home without any care.
The door is open at home, and my mother sits blankly on the ground.
“Mom!” I scream in horror at her, and Mom looks back at me.
“Your father had an accident, something happened.” Her eyes are empty as if she sees nothing.
My hands and feet soften suddenly.
I slowly walk over and ask softly, “What’s the matter? Should we hurry up?”
“Something happened, something happened.” The mother repeats this sentence nervously.
The bad hunch is getting stronger and stronger. I grab my mother’s hand and say, “Mom! Don’t scare me! What happened to Dad?”
At this time, my mother seems to be awake a bit, and immediately grabs me with fear and says, “There is an accident, your father has an accident, and they ask us to go to the hospital.”
“Okay, don’t worry, we will rush over there.”
But I didn’t expect that it is my father’s cold body is waiting for us.
“Your father hanged himself on the faucet.” The police officer in the prison tells us this.
At that time, I just think it must be a joke.
I couldn’t believe it and says, “What are you saying? What ‘s wrong with my father?”
“Suicide.” The man says, “I’m sorry, it is our dereliction of duty.”
He bows deeply to us.
I am stunned.
My mother keeps calm and doesn’t drop tears. She smiles softly and says, ” I dreamed about your father yesterday, he said he had a hard time. He wanted to get rid of it, I just laughed and said it was because he missed me. Your father smiled, but he didn’t speak.”
“Why did your dad leave? Just for a few years, I said I would wait for him to come home, but he just doesn’t want to hold on.” Mom repeatedly narrates, “Why didn’t he persevere longer just for me?”
The events one after another makes me unable to resist, and I run up and down with my body strong.
I don’t believe my father died like that.
I want an autopsy.
But the scars on Dad’s body can be seen with naked eyes.
I want to see a scream but immediately cover my mouth.
I can’t believe everything in front of me.
Then the result of the investigation is that the prisoners have “routine education” for the newcomers, but Dad couldn’t stand it, so he chose to hang himself.
Those prisoners also increased the penalty.
But I write down their names one by one.
I always think things will not be so simple. Is it because of Isabel?
She is clearly threatening me on the phone! It seems that she really wants to kill my family!
The family accounts of those inmates each have a huge amount of money.
I suppress the anger in my heart and force myself to hold my father’s funeral.
Many people say that Dad’s death is not honorable, and he should not have a funeral, but we don’t think so. Whatever happens, he is still my father.
My mother has always been with my dad. I haven’t rested for a minute. I look at my mother worriedly, always afraid that my mother would also have an accident.
“Mom, go to have a rest.” I kneel down together with her and burn paper money for my father.
Tears fall off without realizing the tears.
But I see a smile on my mother’s face, “Mom?”
“You don’t know, your father used to say that he must die later than me in the future so that he can send me away. But now…”
When mom talks about Dad, she smiles happily, but ridiculously full of sorrow.
The firelight illuminates her face, filled with a heartbreaking smile.
I listen silently.
“Actually, I think it’s better to go with him together. It’s a companion everywhere. I don’t want him to be alone.” Mother’s eyes stare at the father’s face in front of her.
I feel uneasy in my heart. I am afraid after sending away my father, my mother couldn’t keep falling ill.
The younger sister and younger brother are crying out of breath.
No one can accept their loved ones to leave themselves and leave this world.
At this time, my heart is full of hatred, I will make Isabel pay the price!
The next day is the funeral.
Those who know us, distant relatives and friends come to express their condolences.
The younger brother greets the guests at the door, I am tired and numb.
“Oh, it’s a sin to die at such a young age.”
“It is said that he went into prison, and he couldn’t stand it, he committed suicide.”
I also feel numb when hearing people’s comments.
I say thank you mechanically, stoop and bow to them.
“Hey? Good fellow. What a funeral!”
“What happens?”
People’s topic is no longer my dad, and whisper about me, and I look at it numbly.
My heart still shakes.
The black luxury cars stop at the door and people couldn’t call their names.
The flowers fill the sides of the road.
James and Isabel come in.
I seem to be out of breath and look at her fiercely.
James, dressed in a black suit, looks cold and does not look at me.
At that time Isabel smiles and says to me, “It’s a pity.”
“Thank you,” I say with my teeth.
My eyes are still involuntarily attracted by James.
But James looks at me like a stranger. His cold and dark eyes give me a light look and turn to give incense.
“Isabel, you know what you have done. I don’t welcome you. I’m afraid you are dirty here.” I say, straightening my back firmly.
James seems to hear our voice, and his figure is shocked.
“I’m here to see off your dad, how do you say that our two have a connection?” Her fake face makes people sick.
“My father was killed by you,” I say.
Isabel smiles and says nothing.
“Then I have to go, and I tell you, it’s really not me.” Isabel glances at me, looking at James.
James passes by me, and says to Isabel, “Go.”
I really don’t have any idea about James, only think he is my enemy’s son at this time.
It turns out that I can forget him so easily.
Perhaps we should not know each other.
All of this is caused by me, and my father would not have died.
Yes, I am the culprit.
I hate myself. I hate Isabel.
At this time James suddenly looks back at me, and I meet his eyes.
The feeling that is hidden is thus exposed to each other.
I see his hatred for me in his eyes, and he also feels my aversion to their family at this time.
We finally meet each other like this, without love.
I am terribly cold and fearful.
When Dad is sent to the crematorium, I finally realize that Dad would finally leave us.
There will never be this person again, he will not call my name again, he will not cook for us again. I will not feel him, I will not touch him, nor will I see him.
I can only think back on the memory of the past.
We completely lose a person.
The flames swallow him, and my mother watch it quietly, very focused, and very serious.
Then she suddenly says, “When I die later, you remember, let me be buried with your dad. We will put it in an ashes box and mix it together.”
I couldn’t say anything. It seems that something is blocked in my throat. Looking back, my brother and sister have cold tears on their faces.
Dad is buried. It seems that no one can accept it. We can only passively stand on the spot and watch Dad settle in the ground.
“Dad! Daddy! I don’t want you to go! You come back! Come back!” My sister cries and my brother and I pull her.
From the beginning to the end, my mother doesn’t make any noise and looks at my father’s coffin quietly.
My mother’s condition scares me.
I always feel like my mother will leave me as well because facing my father’s departure, my mother’s soul seems to be gone.
I am horrified. I am with my mother all day, and there is nothing I could do.
“Why are you always with me?” I go out to buy some food for you.
After talking, my mother walks out of the house.
Then she never comes back.
I wait from day to night and call her repeatedly, but she doesn’t answer the phone.
Finally, we find our mother in front of my father’s tomb.
She closes her eyes peacefully and smiles.
But not breathing.
I squeeze my fists tightly and vow I will let Isabel pay for it!
Also at this time, I completely give up James, I can no longer love my enemy’s son.
Nothing left in my heart but hatred.