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The Nights Are Never Silent
After the party Raymond came back to his house and got undressed and went to sleep without even talking with his mom about everything that happened in the day.
He lied down on the bed beside a huge window and looked at the outside world and the tears never stopped crawling down. Emma’s words were still ringing in his head and crying out and whining much louder and louder. Ellie on the other hand was listening to all the cries and moans of his son while Jake was asleep. She started to realize that whatever she did and the way she treated him for the last few years were completely wrong but couldn’t get enough courage to go ask for forgiveness to Raymond.
Each day went silent for both Ellie and Raymond. During the lunch Raymond always looked away from his mother and didn’t talk to her much without necessity and they finished their lunches and dinner all silent. The days were silent where as the nights were filled with whining and moans of Raymond and Ellie. Both of them loved each other, they couldn’t even figure out what they should do to please the other. But the way they acted was really confusing.
Raymond and Ellie both of them thought that each hated the other. And every night was difficult for them they used to cry and regret for everything they have done to hurt each other. This continued for a week and then one day, Ellie woke up early and went and checked on Raymond and found him sleeping so she went close to him tip toeing and kissed his forehead and said ‘Sorry’.
Then she went downstairs to wake up Jake since he had to go to work early that day. But found a shocking a news. She called him once, twice and kept on shaking him and tickling him but there was no response. Jake died. Ellie rushed to Raymond and woke him up and was stammering
‘your father, you your dad, your your da dad’.
‘what what happened to him’ said Raymond with a horrific feeling and rushed downstairs while grabbing his mother’s hand tightly.
This was the first time he touched after a complete week. They rushed down and Raymond found his father already passed away and he held his father’s face and said
‘Dad, dad wake up, talk to me dad, talk to me please, I didn’t even talk to you properly this past week. please’ .
.cried Raymond and holding her mother they felt pain. Then after everyone’s arrival the funeral took place and everyone went back to their place.
That night Raymond and his mother were the only ones present in the entire house. Ellie opened the door and came to check on Raymond.
‘ Mom are you there, mom?’ said Raymond with a feeling of happiness.
‘yes honey it is me.. ray listen I need to talk to you’ said Ellie.
‘no ma I need to tell you something first’.
‘No Raymond I m going tell first’
‘ladies first isn’t it.’
Both of them laughed a little and then Raymond said ‘ok’.
‘so here it goes. Look I have acted really badly with you, I have hurt you a lot I even hit you with a bat and slapped you and you said nothing. I am truly sorry. I truly am and if you want to study in the media line you are free to but please first forgive me. I am the worst mother I know but you were quiet and didn’t even a little anger come to me.. I am sorry please forgive me please.’ Said Ellie holding Raymond’s hands and cry solemnly.
‘ no ma. You did what a normal mother would do. You loved me too much, so much that you thought that me being a doctor will help in my future, but it wont. Don’t say that you are the worst mother, according to me you are the best mother but you are just different and I know you love me a lot.. oh mom stop crying you are making me emotional and since dad passed away you are the only one who is left in my life.. oh mom stop crying..’ said ray hugging his mom with the possible love he could give and kissed her head rapidly.
‘this is so awkward’ said ray.
And both of them started laughing. The nights were not full of depression anymore but it was more full of happiness. Raymond and Ellie had dinner and lunch together talking about all the happy things in life and their attitude completely changed towards each other. And their love started to grow more and more….
The Spinning Seizures
Raymond was now happy with his life and also joined the theatre group and everyday morning was more exciting than the previous one. Ellie and Raymond decided to take turns on making the breakfast, dinner and lunch.
‘You have no idea how to cook. You don’t even know the ‘c’ of cooking.’ said Ellie.
‘what, what did you just say’ said Raymond.
‘you heard me. You don’t know how to cook’ said Ellie.
‘maybe I don’t know how to make a pancake but I do know how to cook you head. I can make it heat up and start boiling and you will start screaming at me. hahahaa’ said Raymond.
They both started laughing together ignoring the fact that the pancake got burned.
But all that happiness that took months to build were all starting to disappear and vanish because of the spinning seizures. In the middle of the play one day Raymond had a kind of headache and he was staring at a place for too long as if he was having a vision. And automatically he started recovering. Then that night before sleeping he came out of the toilet and his head gave such a spin that he twisted himself around and unintentionally sitting down on the floor beside the cupboard. He had his eyes shut close tightly and he held his shoulders tight and said
‘ouch, what is happening to me’.
He went down for dinner and saw his mother smiling at him.
‘what mom, any good news?’ said ray.
‘well of course here take this envelope this came from your school’ replied Ellie.
‘well what does it say’ asked Raymond.
Ellie pointed the envelope with her eyes as a sign to read it by himself. After opening the letter he stood up and was at a terror shock and said
‘I, I am selected for the school’s critic judged play and I am the lead..Mom did you read it….’
Ellie came and hugged him and said with such an adorable way ‘yes dear I read it.. and I am really and truly proud of what you are doing .. Congratulations dear congratulation…and that’s why I baked a cake for you’
‘with extra chocolate and choco chips??’ said raymond with a doubting face.
‘yes with extra chocolate and choco cips’.
Then they ate it together after the dinner and Raymond experienced another seizure and Ellie asked ‘what happened honey, why are you looking like that. Is everything alright?’
‘yes mom everything is just fine. Don’t worry about me’ said Ray with a smile but a pain hidden behind it..
Then the next morning Raymond bunked the class and called me, Andrew, yes I was his best friend back in the theatre days. He called me and asked me if I could make up a lie and make excuse so that the director excuses him. So as a best friend I did what he asked for. And this continued for days and then excelled to weeks. He missed a lot of the rehearsals and bunked sometimes. But he kept all this as a secret from his Ellie. He acted normal and was always cheerful with everyone especially his mother because the last thing he wanted was to give Ellie the pain that she does not deserve. Though he acted normally and performed excellently in the plays I found something different about him.. All of a sudden he used to close his eyes and hold something nearby tightly as if he was about to fall or he had seizures that I took a long time to notice. Then one day when he decided to skip the rehearsal I went out and followed him…. Tip toeing I found out that he visited a doctor. And every time I followed him he went to the same place, the same hospital and the same doctor.
But then a day came when every of his secrets were out….
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