Wordsmiths Fiction Week 4: Season 24 – The Family Secret

selina1 (72)in #fiction-s24wk4 • 3 months ago

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Since Julie heard her father's decision and the name Jeremy from the lawyer, there was only one question in her mind: who is Jeremy and why did her father write his name as an inheritance? Julie kept thinking like this, even as the evening approached, she could not sleep and the same question kept coming to her mind.

At around ten o'clock at night, Julie called her brother Michael. Michael was also silent on the other side. After overcoming their depression, Julie asked Michael, "Do you know about your father?" Michael said no on the other side of the phone. Then they decided through phone conversations that they would find out the mystery of their father's past and find Jeremy.

The next day, Michael and Julie started looking through the old things in their house and tried to understand if anything from the past had anything to do with Jeremy. Suddenly, they found a box in the store room where there were some of her father's old things and some letters.

Michael and Julie realized that these were memories of their father and women. An old envelope and a letter inside the envelope, but the envelope was closed. The name of a place and a woman named Jerin were mentioned on the envelope and the envelope was written as if this letter was read by a woman named Jerin. So Michael and Julie want to go to that address through the letter. After a few days, they go to that place and knock on the door of a house.

Suddenly, an old woman from that side opens the door and lets them sit inside. Then they ask the woman if she knows someone named Jeremy.

The woman answers, Jeremy is my son. Then Julie tells the woman her father's name and everything their father's will said. Hearing Julie's father's death, the woman takes a deep breath and is silent for a while.

Julie again asks her about her father and Jerin. This time the woman breaks the silence and starts telling Julie about their lives.

The woman and Julie's father were studying in the same city. While studying, they fell in love with each other and near the end of their studies, they got married. But Julie's grandfather was influential and very angry. So if the father was very afraid of her grandfather. So he could not tell his family about their relationship.

Suddenly, their father went home after hearing about his grandfather's illness and on his grandfather's orders, he married Julie's mother. Even after all these years of marriage, her father could never tell his grandfather about the woman. But Julie's father did not know that the woman was pregnant when she came home.

After that, Julie's father could not tell her mother about their relationship. But later, Julie's father came to know that she had a son, Michael. The woman accepted her father's decision because she loved Julie's father very much. The woman raised her son Michael on her own responsibility and with her own ability. The woman never went to Julie's father about her rights. Then Jeremy also came there and listened to everything they said. Hearing all this, he arrogantly said that if he did not get his father's love, what should he do with his father's property.

However, this time Julie gave her father's letter to the woman. The woman started reading the letter in front of everyone,

The letter was written to Jerin and Michael. Julie's father wrote, I really loved you so much that day and I wanted to go home with you. But due to the situation, it could not happen. I did not want to hurt my father and family either. But I did not know that you (Jerin) were still a piece of my love. That is, you were still alive with my son. I found out a few years ago that I have a son.

I thought that you had gone to someone else's life. But since I found out the truth, my mind and heart have been eating me up. I could not tell my family and you what I was thinking because of fear. I am sick, I do not know how long I will live. I do not have the face to apologize to you and Michael. All children are equal to me, so I divided my money and property equally among my three children. If you can, please forgive me.

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Now Julie, Michael, Jeremy and the woman understand and they stay silent for a while, all of them had tears in their eyes. Then the day her father is measured by her mother's words. Because her mother understands her father's situation.

Now Julie, having overcome all anger and pride, comes to their house with her brothers and Jeremy's mother. Because Julie also understands her father's emotional moments, because Julie's father never had any imperfection of love with them and with her mother. Because only for them did her father give up love.