MEMORIES OF CHILDHOOD

Back story . . . (Part - 1)

My father got divorced with my mother when I was of age four he didn't faced any problem with me, my mother clearly not want to keep me she just requested for money but my father refused to give .

When my parents got married we were not rich but we just had enough money for a small family to live peacefully but soon after giving birth to me my father's parents had given us all the property saved my them and it was totally alot more than expected by both my parents, but this made my mother selfish and it become a reason for their divorce. For the property she build up false stories and this made my father to sacrifice his parents savings and not only this property but his few savings too after complete process of divorce my father was left with only 5000 in his account. After divorce we went to my grandparents, I saw how my father apologize to them, they were very angry with what happened and told us to go away from here my father was not having any choice at that time but to leave, he asked his few friends for shelter but none were ready to take them in but one was ready in only one condition that he will give him a good house and also give money to the landlord for them till we are not able to pay the landlord and soon return the money in double amount to him we didn't have enough money for both food and shelter at that moment so after two days of thinking about the proposal by his friend and living in streets he accepted it and we moved to a new house.

I was very small when we were facing these problems but the only thing which I understood was my father's words, we faced many problems and I cried many times but he never showed me his bad side he always encouraged me and told me to be strong and smart to protect myself.

When we moved in to our new house he made me to sit on the bench in the park near our new house and told me to wait for him to return and I did the same but after few minutes I started panicking and this made me to cry, I was afraid that he left me like my mother but I still decided to wait but I was still not able to hold my tears then a boy passing by with his mother saw me crying I noticed that they saw me crying but instead of holding my tears I started crying more loudly. The boy came to me and asked that by I'm crying his mother was trying to comfort me by patting my head. She asked " what happened? Is their any problem? feel free to say to me , I'll help you. " I didn't speak any word then the boy offered me a chocolate and asked me to stop crying . I refused to take his chocolate and said in a cracked voice " my father said to not take anything from strangers and also to not talk to strangers" with a pleasant smile lady said " you're such a good child and your father is also raising you very well . Did you lost your father ?" I didn't speak a word but noded my head to answer her no , then she asked me more questions which made me scar but soon my father came and I ran to him as fast as possible, by looking at my swollen face he asked me " what happened ? Why are you crying so badly ?" Due to crying so much I was not able to reply him then the lady said " are you her father ?" my father replied " yes , is anything wrong ? "  the lady replied " no , it just we saw her crying and thought that she is lost so we came to check if she is alright or not ", by holding me in his arms and patting my head lightly he said " oh dear ! She might be missing me . I asked her to stay here and wait for me " the lady asked " are you new here ? I have never seen you around in this place " father replied " yes, we have recently shifted here " . Then the lady gave us company to our house and soon we realised that the lady lives to our next house . During departure time the boy looked excited and asked me " hello , since we are neighbours we should know eachother. My name is Hyu , nice to meet you ". I was shy but he was totally opposite of me his words made both my father and the lady smile , at that time I wished to be like him but I was not able to say any word to him in reply but my father encouraged me to say something and with so much effort I said " I'm Stacy, nice to meet you too " . Because of my bad habit which is still present in me from childhood that I speak extra which is going in my mind when I'm forced to speak at a situation when their is emotional chaos going on inside me , and this habit made me to say -" and please do make me cool like you " . This was very embarrassing but this made both his and mine parent to laugh and he replied me with yes , and that's how I met him .

More strangely we went to same school and also were in same class , soon we started going school together , he helped me to make friends both with boys and girls , our families also became very close . In his family their was one older sister and he had both father and mother , by looking at him I also thought of having mother and sometimes I asked my father too but he only said - I will take care of you like a mother as well as like a father so if you need mother tell me I'll be like a mother to you and never ask for your mother again . I was not that smart to understand his feelings in his words but soon I realised it and stopped asking him about mother . Soon I was middle schooler and Hyu and I were in different classes but we still use to do things together whenever we get free time in school we use to go to eachother classes to meet eachother, and also he was the reason that I have a good life in school , at first I usually used to get in trouble but he is always their to protect me and this makes me very happy . My father started earning good amount of money but he started to go out more for work this made me to spend more time at home alone but again Hyu is their to give me company, since he is only good in art and sports activity it is very hard for him to deal with academics and I was good academics so we use to do homework and my teaching to him at my house and whenever father is not coming home Hyu's sister and mother both invite me to their house for dinner . I got used to it very nicely but one day my friends were talking about their boyfriends and randomly my friend asked me about my love relationship but I was not having any boyfriend at that time. " Come on ! What are you asking we both know that it's going on perfectly good and not like ours " Elsa said, " wait ! I don't have a boyfriend" I said, " what are you saying, now don't fool us we know that Hyu from the next class is your boyfriend" Ella said . After hearing her words I was completely shocked and Elsa and Ella was more shocked by the look at my face . Ella said " what's with your expression, isn't he your boyfriend ? You know he is very popular but because of you no girl is able to approach him and by the look at your face it looks like you just now realised that you like him " ," what are you saying we are just good childhood friends and that's it " I said in a trembling voice "so you don't like him like a boyfriend but as a friend , right ?" Elsa asked, then Ella said " then it's a breaking news for all the girls then we should also start approaching him and Stacy you have to help us , okay ...? ". I was not feeling good when they asked me to help them . And from that day I started avoiding Hyu I'm sure he will be worried about me but I was not able to face him after that talk with my friends. When father was at home I tried to ask him indirectly about this feeling of liking someone but he caught me and also cleared my doubt and asked me that who that boy is but I ignored his question but again I'm not able to hide anything from him no matter how much I try and he openly asked me that is it Hyu , I didn't said anything but my face was completely red and he got his answer . From next day father started helping me with Hyu , I was ignoring him for past three days but my father ,he planed everything and made me to spend more time with him and keeping in mind my old habit of speaking too much unconsciously I spoke to him less to avoid my feelings to come out infront of him, and I also told my friend about my feelings about Hyu so that they stop asking me to help them . At first I thought that they will be unhappy and will not talk to me but instead of this they told me that they will help me and also told me that they were messing with my feelings so that I realise my true feelings. And that day I realised that I truly love love him .

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