Destiny

It was a winter night with dark moon over the sky made the

day more colder. When a heavy cold breeze strikes him , He

tightened his body coat and came out of the endless thoughts

running on his head . He looked at the light flickering board of

police station. He is a person of quadragenarian by his attire says

him a businessman but deep inside there were eternal bruises

that made him to face intense and extreme situations in life

He knew this day would come soon but not as soon as now,

He felt worried for his inability. With heavyhearted he moved

into the police station , as soon as he entered he noticed a high

flame argument between a teenage boy and a constable and

some four boys of his age were standing near him. In the mid

of the argument the boy perceived that his father standing over

the entrance ,he cut that argument and sat down quietly . The

constable turns around to the see the reason for sudden change

in the boy. By the figure he assume that must be his father.

The constable informed his father that they were caught for

drunk and driving and public nuisance . He asked him to wait

for the senior officer to arrive. The fatherly figure watched his

timepiece and its already half past eight. He sat near his son and looked his face it was full of anger neither a sorrow nor

a discomfort over there. He knows his son well that there is

no negative in his character except his adamant nature and his

intervention with his shoddy friends that pulls his character

down to a pathetic situation. Neither the son nor the father

shows any discomfort externally but there’s a burning anger

inside on both. It takes an hour for the senior officer to arrive

meanwhile that one hour looks very long and bitter.

Soon after the senior officer entered his room the father followed

him inside, In the first glance of the officer he realised who was

standing inside his room with an excitement ” Sir , you was the

successful businessman Mr.Ravichandran”

‘But an unsuccessful father’ He reputed

After fifteen minutes Ravi came outside and payed the fee

for all and showed a sign to his son’s friends to move .Father

and son silently moved to the car and hopped in. The journey

was half an hour with only silence inside , Ravi’s thoughts were

fluttering that he felt he gave more freedom to his son and if

his mother were alive she would have made him right , with his

hectic schedule he had less time with his son.

As soon as they reached their home there was the boy’s elder

sister and his grandma were waiting for their arrival . the sister

ran and hugged the boy with tears rolling down ” Are you okay

?,Arav” She asked in a soft tone. Once they were inside the

temper Ravi concealed were burst out and raised his hand to beat

Arav bur Arav’s sister came in between to defend his brother.

With swift action Arav moved to nearby storeroom and locked

him .Ravi moved to his room in anger , Arav’s sister rushed and

pleaded him to come out.

Arav was sitting at the corner of the storeroom in darkness , He

still frozed by the incident happened in hall as he never seen his

dad got angered with him. Still he didn't felt for what happened

but only anger. When anger raised to his head he tries to punch

the wall in frustration but in dark he punched a old trunk box.

He turned on his mobile torch to found his name on the old

rusty trunk ,On looking inside that would be his old baby dresses

on digging deep he found an adoption certificate on his name.

The world around him starts to swirl he sat nearby and after a

longtime his eye became wet and the past memories came to

haunt him , the humiliation he gave to his father for the sake

of his father but he never seen him rude .From the second his

perspective on his father starts changes and also the family he

got never shows any neglection , the care and love he got from

his sister was wordless . Now the guilt surrounds him as in

return he gave only pain to everyone. When he realised his pain

in his hand and stopped banging sound of door made him back

to present , he kept the things on the place and came outside of

store room .

In the hall he saw his grandma was sitting with a sad face , He

went and sat near her and the first thing he uttered was ‘Am I

adapted?’

The words were like a current shock to his grandma but she

recovered soon and before she makes a word

“I know everything, I need the truth and this will be a secret

between us” He replied

With a deep breathe she started to say the enigma which he

unfold.

It was the same day when Rani was admitted another anonymous

woman was admitted in her adjacent room as both were admitted for pregnancy but there were no one to look after that

anonymous woman. When we asked about her even the doctors

know nothing except she was found unconscious outside the

hospital and with some money for her treatment. It also it was

also the same time the boys were born on both room but due

to some ill fate two life were also gone ,one was your biological

mother and another was the new born boy in our room he was

numb after came out of his mothers womb and pronounced as

dead by the doctors. we were in dolorous and when we heard

about your case we thought it is due to some curse but Rani

felt that this was the destiny for the either survived life to join

because they need each other. For the hope of survivality we also

accepted with open hearted and we adopted you but we never

treated you differently.

When the grandma stops the flashback already Arav’s face was

fully drenched with tears. Suddenly he came to conscious , wiped

his face and rushed to his dad’s room. Inside his sat near his

father to consolidate him. Arav ran fast and hugged his father

, with his sudden action his father was movementless soon he

regained to hug him and his sister also joined .

With a sadly enlightened tone he said ” sorry for everything ,

We are family”