PAST

CHAPTER 127

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After the dinner, Eve and Charlie retired to their bedroom.

"What was Victor and Michael talking about at the dinner" Eve asked Charlie as he joined her and sat down on the bed.

Charlie chuckled and said "Well... Before I met you, I was the type that just does not want to get married but when I met you, everything changed" Charlie said.

"Oh... But why would you not want to get married?" Eve was curious about Charlie's reason for deciding not to get married.

"You see... My mom died when I was 18 years old and I watched my father grieve over her death. He was beyond devastated because of her death and even tried to commit suicide but luckily I was able to save him in time before the effect of the drug's he took could do any harm to him.

And when he was in the hospital recuperating, I was in his ward on evening looking at him on the bed and decided then that I would not get married because I did not want to go through the same thing my dad went through, it was just too sad and frustrating"

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Flashback ~~~~~~~

18 years old Charlie stands with his father in front of the operation theatre waiting for the result of his mother's surgery. His mother had an accident while going to pick him up from school.

That faithful day was a rainy day and the wipes of the car she was riding happen to not work at that particular time and the front window was been covered with water and she was not able to see clearly which made her to hit a pole and as she was the driver she was affected very much.

The surgery lasted for hours and when the doors opened and the doctors coming out of the operating theatre with faces not happy.

"What about my wife?" Mark asked holding back some tears that were threatening to fall but he had to be strong for his son.

"How is my mother?" Charlie asked with tears already falling from his eyes.

"I am sorry but we lost her" the doctor said. Hearing the seven words from the the doctor both father and son broke down crying while comforting each other.

After Charlie and his father buried his mother, his father turned to drinking for comfort. He would come home from school sometimes and he would find his father deadly drunk to the extent he would not even know his name.

This continued until one day, Charlie came back from school and found the house very quiet. He was anxious to why the house is very quiet. His father would usually be drinking himself to stupor, of course it was not always quiet when he was doing that. He immediately ran upstairs to his parents room, he knocked on the door but there was no response and he became scared. He pushes the door open and ran inside the room and what he saw kept him scarred for life. 

There on the floor, is his dad holding his mom's picture onto his chest and he saw a small white bottle and a paper under the bottle by his side. 

He ran closer to his dad and picked up the small white bottle and paper under the bottle. He took the bottle and looked at it but not for long, then he began to read what is on the paper.

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LETTER TO MY BELOVED SON ~~~

Dear son,

I know by doing this, I have disappointed you but I had to do this because I can't leave without your mother. I do not want to reach the point where my alcohol addiction will affect you. 

I hope you will find someone that you love and will love you back. I am sorry for leaving you early but I need to go and join your mother. Bye.

                                                        Lots of love,

                                                             Dad.

~~~~~~ end of letter.

Charlie is already crying by the time he finished reading the letter. "Dad! Dad!! Dad!!!" Charlie called but his father is not responding.

"Dad! Wake up! You can't do this to me! You have to wake up dad! Please...." Charlie shouted and was weeping bitterly. He pulled out his phone and called the hospital and an ambulance was sent immediately to the house to take his father to the hospital.

Charlie waited in front of the operation theatre for any news of his father. He waited anxiously outside without even sitting down for a minute.

The doctor came out hours later (this doctor was none other than Mr Philip the director of the hospital) looking worried.

"How is my father?" Charlie rushes to Dr Philip and asked him.

"He is out of danger now. He is really lucky you found him early before the drug's he took would curse any further harm to his vital organs" Dr Philip said.

"Thank you very much uncle" Charlie said.

"No need to thank me Charlie, he is my friend so I had to do what I can for him" Dr Philip said.

"Hmm" Charlie said.

"You have to be patient with your father, you know what he is going through is really difficult and might take time to get over" Dr Philip said.

"Okay I will. Can I see him now?" Charlie asked.

"Yes. He would be transferred to the VVIP room soon so you can go see him" Dr Philip said.

"Hmm..." Charlie said nodding his head.

"Do not be too hard on yourself, okay?" Dr Philip said.

"Okay" Charlie said. Dr Philip patted his shoulder and walked away.

Charlie went to his father ward after he has been set up in his in his ward. He sees his father lying on the bed and he pulls a chair to sit down beside his father.

"Dad, is this what it means to be in love? After witnessing what you are going through now, do you really think I will be cable of love? Hahaha.... I do not think so dad. Infact I vow not to fall in love with anyone or get married as long as I live" Charlie said to his unconscious father on the bed. Charlie layed his head on the bed and fall asleep out of exhaustion.

~~~~~~ flashback ends.

"But why was the news about your father's condition not known to the public? I thought there would be some media who would want to spread news of everything" Eve asked.

"The media companies that tried to reveal the truth about my father's condition were destroyed" 

Eve hugged her husband and assured him that she would not leave him.

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