chapter 26
My Promised Land
Life was unfair to me from the time I born. I was born as only son of my father Rakesh Raichand but as soon as I was born my father's other two brothers Ramesh Raichand and Umesh Raichand betrayed my father and throw us out from our family property. Everyone thought I was an unlucky child who brought his parent to roadside. But my parents never stopped loving me.My father was a simple minded person so he had never thought that his own brothers would do that to him. My mother Rashmi Khurana, only daughter of a famous business man, But they were living abroad. As soon as they heard about my mother's situation they told my mother to went back to their family with my father and they wanted to give some shares to my father.My parents refused their offer instead they asked for their help to start a new business on his own. My grandfather helped my father at that time for a startup.My father was pure,kind hearted and hardworking, in a few years with the help of my mother and my maternal grandfather my father reached that point in his own business from where he was thrown away by my paternal uncles.My small family was happy and my mother returned all the money he brought from my grandfather when we were at difficult position. But when we thought everything is good and there would be no other difficulties for us, at that time my paternal uncles who threw my father out came to beg us. Without my father their business started to face downfall and at that time they were at the verge of bankruptcy.They asked for my father's help to revive the business my late paternal grandfather started with his own efforts but my father send them away without any help at first. They were shameless and persistent. They didn't leave my father alone and persuaded him continuously with every emotional act in the name of their parents.As my father was a kind hearted person he agreed to help them atlast, afterall they were his own brothers and that business was his father's life long achievement. My father helped them to revive their business and brought it to a stable position. It would be inhuman for them not to give anything to my father in return after he had helped them so much, so they decided to give back my father's shares back to him, which was stolen by them before. My father was young and naive he thought his brothers were changed and they were very good to him and their relationship became the way they were in before. But who knew they were snakes not humans who were hiding their teeth and looking for perfect moment to bite. Suddenly my parents died in an car accident when I was only twelve years old. I was very young to understand anything and at that time my uncles got the rights to became my guardian. My maternal grandfather was not okay with it at first before but later he thought may be my uncles were really changed that was why my father left my guardianship to them and staying with them might be good for me.Those greedy people were there for me because they wanted the property my father left for me. I was not an adult so properties were said to be managed by gurdians until I turn eighteen. But my uncles and their family abused me physically and mentally. The younger me couldn't bear all those pains and scars and I endup contacting my maternal grandfather secretly. But it took me two years to freed myself from their confinement and torture. My maternal grandfather get me back from them as soon as he got my call and then freezed all my assets they were slowly taking from me and collected it from those uncles. Then we found out the will they showed were fake and how could my father let them to be my guardian when he never thought to leave me alone. After that my grandfather took me abroad with him. I was freed from their abuse but I couldn't forget the pain I had to bear for those two years. I became under confidence and an introvert person. I didn't talk much and thought if I talk I would laughed because I was an orphan.I used to dressed shabby, wear round big glasses to hid my looks and hid my eyes with bang. I used to be shy and afraid of every little act of others. I was a tortoise who was living hiding in his shell.When I turned eighteen I got back here again for the court work. I became an adult and was eligible to inherit my father's property. It would have taken some time for every work to finish and I also wanted to supervise everything I had, so my grandfather send me here alone to boost my confidence. He decided for me to continue my study here in my own city . That was how I got into a top college here. For my introvert nature I couldn't made any friends and also bullied by others often. I thought I didn't suit in these places and there was no good people here. I said my grandfather I couldn't stay here but he didn't listen to me. All only knows how to poke other's wounds and weaknesses here. Your one weakness and they would attack it until it finished you.I thought this world and this place was not for me and I should left after selling all my assets here. I was a little bit reluctant to leave this place because I had many memories here with my parents and their graves were also here, but I didn't want to face all those troubles everyday.I was in deep thoughts and calculating good things or bad things to conclude my decision but then I met her .... Gauri.......Gauri, my first love......