once in a rainy day......

MY TURNING POINT

LIAM P.O.V

Monsoon season in Italy is one of the best season that I like the most because I like the smell of the mud when the rain drops on it and the whole atmosphere looks lovely and full of life. I am waiting for the first rain of the season. I go to washroom to get fresh and take a bath because I have a school to attend, I take a bath within 20 minutes and got ready in my black shirt with blue pants and comb my hair neatly and wear my shoes.

I am not one of those kids who needs their mom to wake them up or like to be pampered. I like to be in my own world where there is only peace and love. My mom and dad loves me, they always say I am the most well behave kid they ever knew and I couldn’t agree more with them. I am 15 years and within few months I am going to be 16, people of my age are more into cigarettes, wines and what not but I never participated in all this because these things never excites me. I am famous in my school for my good behavior polite nature that is hard to find nowadays

I am not a nerd, I have lots of friends and lot of girls wants my attention but they are not what I wanted in a girl. I want a girl who is simple and understands the silence in me and that would be the only girl in my life. I know I am kid to talk about this deeply but what can I do, my parents are writers and I inherited this quality from them. I take my back pack and goes to breakfast table where mom and dad will be waiting for me.

“Good morning mom” I sit on the breakfast table and said to mom who is busy in making breakfast for us, we have lot of servants in house but they only assist mom as she likes to give us food which is made  by her so that we don’t get ill. She is a sweet lady and always encourages me to do better things in life.

“Good morning Liam, how did you sleep last night” she asked me from the kitchen counter

“I slept tight mom and anyways what is there for breakfast” I asked her getting excited because breakfast is the best meal of the day and according to me , its gets to decide how is your day going to be

“That’s a surprise for you son but let me tell you, you won’t be disappointed” she said to me

“Where is dad, he is dropping me to school today right” I asked mom because today is very important day for me as I have my science exhibition in the school

“Oh I am sorry honey, your dad is working late on one of his story so he can’t come honey” she said and  I am little disappointed because both first mom denied to come with me saying that she has important presentation today and now dad ditched me.

“Okay, its fine” I said with half heart

“Liam baby, you know us we love you so much but sometimes things doesn’t go as we plan” mom came and ruffled my hair lovingly

“I know mom and I understand, don’t worry I click the photographs of my exhibition” I said to her and she smiled looking at me

“And we will frame those photos and put it in our library and I must say your dad and I are lucky to have you in our lives because you understand us and our work” mom said with a smile and I got happy seeing the smile on her face she is the only woman in my life who loves me this dearly and besides it’s just a exhibition, nothing special.

“Okay enough with talking, close your eyes I have a surprise for you” she said and put a hand on my eyes and take a name of one of her servant to bring the plate and then she removes her hands from my eyes. There is plate of fortune cookies in front of me; I have an unimaginable love for these cookies because whenever mom makes these cookies some good news came into my life

“I love this surprise, today’s morning is actually special to me” I said and take one cookie and have a first bite of it and it melts like butter in my mouth then I notice there is one slip inside the cookies

“Common sweetie, take it out” she said and I take out the slip, I opened it

“TODAY IS GOING TO BE THE TURNING POINT OF YOUR LIFE”

“Mom, what is it” I asked mom because she is the one who writes all this

“This is what my gut feeling saying, anyways you are getting late so  I make scrambled eggs for you with bread” she said and ordered the servant to bring my breakfast but I am kind off thinking about  the thing that is written on the slip

“Hey buddy, ready for school” dad said coming out of his room and take a seat across me and have a sip of his juice, actually he is looking tired

“Morning dad” I said and dig into my breakfast

“Buddy I want to tell you that I can’t accompany you to school” dad said and he is really disturbed about it, I can sense it

“It’s okay dad, mom told me and I am completely fine about this because I know about your dreams and one day you will achieve what you want” I said to dad and he look at me in admiring way. We are rich but dad wants to be the best writer in this whole world and he will be I am sure

“It’s felt so good to hear it from your son who is just 15 years old” dad said and I shake my head

Okay I am done and now I am getting late, okay bye mom and dad” I wave them bye and rushed towards outside taking my bag pack, car with driver is waiting for me outside. Within 30 minutes we reach the school and I go inside. I collect my schedule from the reception and headed towards my class, first class is English and after that I have an exhibition.

I entered into my class and shake hands with my friends and there is one girl ‘liasa’ who keeps on staring at me, it’s creepy but I let it pass. My friend thinks that she has a thing for me because last year she invited me to her birthday party but I didn’t go because I didn’t like going to parties so she cancelled the whole party and make the guest to go but I don’t have the same feeling for her so I maintain my distance from her.

After completing the English class, now there is time for my exhibition. People like my science exhibition, they praised me and given me the chance to represent my school in next Olympiad. I guess that what fortune cookies wants to say ‘the turning point of my life’. Whole day went as usual after that.

Now it’s afternoon and I am in my car heading towards my home, when I was 15 minutes away from home, the rain starts. I got happy because this is the first rain of monsoon and something is really special about that, I don’t know but I am getting the feeling that something good is going to happen. I started looking outside the beauty of city; ITALY looks more beautiful when it rains. No wonder people call it the city of love.

I was looking outside when I saw a girl she is probably 9 or 10 years sitting on a bench in a park and drenching in rain, her face is not clearly visible to be as I am far from her and its raining so the car’s windows are covered with water droplets. She is nothing to me and I even don’t know her but still I want to go near her

“Stop the car, Mario” I said to my driver and he stopped it

“What happened sir, are you fine?” he asked me turning around

“Ya don’t worry everything is fine, just give me the umbrella” I told him and he do what exactly told to him

“Are you planning to out on this heavy rain?” he asked me with frowned eyebrows

“Ya, something urgent came up, you just wait here I am coming back in 2 minutes” I said and get out of the car with umbrella above me. I go into the direction of the park where that girl is sitting, when I reach there, her face is covered with her palms so I not able to see her face but what is she doing outside in this heavy rain.

I go and sit beside her and take her under the umbrella. I don’t know how to start the conversation with a girl who is crying.

“Hey, are you fine” I asked her and then she removed her palms from her face and looks at me, she is looking at me with scared expression, her big doe black eyes got wide and her pink lips quiver and there I feel like the time has stopped. My eyes got stuck on her pink lips; my words got stuck in my mouth. She didn’t say anything but ran away and it feels like my legs have lost his strength to follow her.

My brain is still processing her image and my heart is hammering fastly, this is the first time I felt a tingling feeling in my stomach. I don’t know where my umbrella has gone but I am drenching in rain. I am in my own world until I felt a hand on my shoulder

“Sir, what happened, where is your umbrella and why are you sitting here” he asked me questions which I didn’t know myself

“Let’s go” I said to him and go towards my car but it felt like I am walking without a heart.

Fortune cookies are right, today is actually turning point of my life, and I don’t know where this turning point will take me