CHAPTER 1 - FINDING MOM
- NOVEMBER - - 2022 - - NEW YORK -
NICK LIVES WITH HIS FATHER (JOHN) IN NEW YORK. HIS FATHER IS THE MANAGER OF HUMPTY DUMPTY HOTEL AND HIS MOTHER (LAURA) IS NO MORE IN THIS WORLD, THEY BOTH ARE LIVING IN A SMALL HOUSE WHICH CONTAINS TWO ROOMS, A HALL, AND A KITCHEN. BUT KITCHEN IS NOT USED MUCH BECAUSE THEY GET FOOD FROM HUMPTY DUMPTY HOTEL. NICK AND JOHN SLEEP IN DIFFERENT ROOMS. NICK IS EIGHTEEN YEARS AND HE'S AN INTROVERT. HE HAS ONLY ONE FRIEND NAMED RON. NICK HAS NEVER GOT HIS MOM'S LOVE, HE FEELS LONELY AND MANY TIMES HE SITS ALONE IN HIS ROOM AND SEES HIS MOM'S PICTURE. NICK IS NOT A BRIGHT STUDENT, HE ALWAYS SITS SADLY ON A BENCH AND IS LOST IN HIS OWN WORLD.
SINCE CHILDHOOD, WHEN NICK WAS NEARLY SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS OLD, HE STARTED THINKING ABOUT THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HIS LIFE AND OTHERS LIFE. WHILE LYING ON THE BED HE THINKS ABOUT THIS AND CRIES ALONE. HE DOES NOT HAVE ANY GOOD FRIENDS APART FROM RON, HIS FRIENDS WERE NOT GOOD, THEY PROVOKE NICK A LOT AND THEY SWAGGER A LOT OF THEIR MOMS. SOMETIMES, THEY BRING TIFFIN MADE BY THEIR MOMS, AND THEN THEY GO NEAR NICK AND TALKS ABOUT THEIR MOM TO ENRAGE NICK. THEY DISCUSS IN FRONT OF NICK THAT 'FAST FOOD IS GOOD BUT FOOD MADE BY MOMS HAS NO RATINGS, IT IS THE BEST. THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAD NEVER ATE FOOD MADE BY MOM, ARE THE UNLUCKIEST PERSON IN THE WORLD.' NICK CRIES AFTER LISTENING TO THEIR TALKS. AT THAT TIME HE MEETS RON JOBS FOR THE FIRST TIME. RON SAW EVERYTHING AND THEN HE WENT NEAR NICK AND TRIED TO DIVERT HIS MIND, AND THEN HE PLAYED WITH NICK AND SLOWLY AFTER THEY BECOME BEST FRIENDS. RON WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO KNOWS EACH AND EVERY SECRET OF NICK AND HE ALWAYS MAKES HIM LAUGH AND TRIES TO MAKE HIS LIFE EASIER.
NICK HAS SUFFERED A LOT SINCE CHILDHOOD. AT THE TIME OF THE ANNUAL FUNCTION IN SCHOOL, EVERYONE'S PARENTS WERE PRESENT AND NICK'S FATHER WAS BUSY, SO HE DIDN'T ATTEND THE FUNCTION. NICK FELT BAD BECAUSE THERE WAS NO ONE TO SEE HIS PERFORMANCE AND ALL THE OTHER STUDENTS WERE ENJOYING THEMSELVES WITH THEIR PARENTS, NICK FELT VERY SAD.
ON THE TIME OF MOTHER'S DAY EVERYONE PUTS STORIES WITH THEIR MOM ON SOCIAL MEDIA. NICK CRIES WHEN HE WATCHES THE STORIES. HE HAS NO ONE TO GIVE A PRESENT AND NO ONE TO HUG AND SLEEP WITH. HIS FATHER IS NOT MUCH ATTACHED TO HIM. HE TELLS EVERYTHING TO RON TO FEEL LIGHT.
WHEN HIS DAD GOT FREE FROM HIS WORK, NICK ALWAYS ASKS HIS DAD TO TELL THE STORY OF HIS MOM. AND AFTER LISTENING TO THE STORY, THE NEXT DAY HE TELLS IT TO RON AND WHEN RON FEELS THAT NICK IS GETTING EMOTIONAL, HE CHANGES THE TOPIC.
NOW NICK HAS GROWN AND HE CAN NOW HANDLE HIMSELF. ONE DAY WHEN RON CALLED NICK TO THIS HOME AND THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT A SCHOOL PROJECT, SUDDENLY NICK ASKED RON 'DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO MY MOM? YOUR MOM COULD HAVE TOLD YOU.' RON KNOWS THE REASON BUT HE DOES NOT WANT TO TELL TO NICK BUT THEN HE THINKS THAT IF NICK WILL ASK SOMEONE ELSE THAT PERSON MIGHT TELL NICK THE REAL REASON. SO HE THINKS OF A FAKE REASON AND THEN HE TELLS NICK THAT ' MY MOM TOLD ME THAT WHEN YOU WERE OF THREE YEARS, YOUR MOM DIED BECAUSE OF CARDIAC ARREST.' AND THEN NICK PONDERS ABOUT THIS FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS.
ONE DAY NICK CALLED RON TO JOIN HIM FOR DINNER. NICK, JOHN, AND RON WERE READY FOR THE DINNER, AND THEN ABRUPTLY NICK ASKED HIS FATHER JOHN THAT ' YOU MUST KNOW THE REASON WHY DID MOM DIED?' NOW RON IS WORRIED THAT IF HIS FATHER WILL TELL HIM THE REAL REASON, NICK WILL NOT BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT. THEN HIS DAD TELLS NICK THAT ' WHEN YOU WERE THREE YEARS OLD, YOUR MOTHER WAS GOING TO DELIVER YOUR YOUNGER BROTHER, AT THE TIME OF DELIVERY YOUR MOTHER DIED AND YOUR BROTHER WAS IN VERY CRITICAL SITUATION, BUT AT THE LAST YOUR BROTHER DIDN'T SURVIVED.'
NICK AFTER LISTENING TO THIS BECOMES UPSET AND GOES TO HIS ROOM AND THEN RON COMES TO HIS ROOM AND HE SEES NICK CRYING AND THEN RON GOES NEAR NICK AND TRIES TO MAKE HIS MOOD.
NICK ASKS RON THAT ' WHY DID YOU TOLD ME THE WRONG STORY ?' RON TELLS HIM THAT ' I KNEW YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO HANDLE YOURSELF AFTER LISTENING TO IT AND I DIDN'T WANTED THAT, SO I DIDN'T TOLD YOU THE ACTUAL REASON'. NICK DIDN'T REPLIED AND WAS CRYING A LOT. THEN AFTER SOMETIMES NICK TELLS HIM THAT HE WANTS HIS MOM BACK AND RON REPLIES ' SEE THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE, WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING IN THIS SITUATION. IT IS WHAT IT IS. SORRY NICK'. THEN NICK GOES TO SLEEP AND THEN RON LEAVES FOR HIS HOME.
NICK AND RON WENT TO AN AMUSEMENT PARK. THEY DECIDE TO RIDE ON A GIANT WHEEL.
WHEN THEY WERE RIDING, SUDDENLY IT STARTED SHAKING AND THEN IT WAS ABOUT TO BROKE AND THE CROWD OVER THERE STARTED SCREAMING. NICK WAS SCARED SO MUCH, SO HE CLOSED HIS EYES AND THEN WHEN HE OPENED HIS EYES AGAIN, HE SAW HIS MOM IN FRONT OF HIM. THEN THE DREAM BROKE AND NICK WOKE UP AND WAS IN SHOCK, THEN HE REALISES THAT IT IS A DREAM, IN REAL LIFE THEY NEVER WENT TO AN AMUSEMENT PARK AND NOTHING HAPPENED LIKE THIS, IT'S JUST A DREAM.
NICK THEN GOES UP TO HIS TERRACE AND IS LYING OVER THERE. HE IS WATCHING STARS
AND THEN SUDDENLY HE SEES SOMETHING FALLING FROM THE SKY AND IT CRASHES NEAR HIS HOUSE. SO NICK GOES OVER THERE AND HE SEES A DEVICE ON THE GROUND, HE TAKES IT IN HIS HAND AND TRIES TO KNOW WHAT IS IT. SUDDENLY A BUTTON ON THAT DEVICE STARTED GLOWING, HE CLICKED THAT BUTTON AND HE DISAPPEARED.
TO BE CONTINUED......
- BY DHRUVIL DANGASHIYA
END CREDIT - WELCOME TO THE TRIASSIC PERIOD, NICK WILLSON