Our Bride Is Back

Today, after five years, my father will smile. Although, Jules will miss it (her hangout parties are more important than us). But I am happy because she is the one who selected pa’s new wife and in other words, a new hope.

Only two hours are left and father is in his room examining all the decorations for new bride. I and my uncle are on the duty to welcome all good guests except one unwanted whom pa invited to show his glory and she is none other but our ‘young’ mother who left us few years ago to live her own life as such we are from some another planet. Well, I stretched my lips and she entered inside with a flying kiss sent towards me.

All preparations are looking best. My father with chest broader, smiling feebly is groomed in another look which is surprising to see and difficult to believe the same person who usually found in the corners of the room with my ‘young’ mother’s photo. Relying on the fact, I am like my dad who loves my mum very much but she left us when dad’s business was crashing in water. And yes, she must be a bad luck for us because as our hands separated from her, within few years, we are back on our comfy beds with peaceful dreams.

Now, today is our day. It took time to convince dad to remarry again with the lucky bride who is my mum’s best friend, Ms. Lissy. My thoughts took me in the past and here, dad has reached before father. Pa’s new wife looks poorer than our mum but beauty of heart matters the most. I instruct musicians to play a heart-warming welcome song for pa’s soon-to-be wife.

And she is here, she must live hundred years, a proverb my mum used to say for me.

We welcome you,

Your presence blossoms flowers of our heart.

We welcome you,

We honor you.

And rest lines evaporated from my brain. I turned my eyes towards my father who is looking at mum’s photo kept inside his chest pocket. Behind him, my eyes caught Jules waving at me. Seriously, she is looking foolish.

Sooner, guests and our acquisition start the ceremony. Ms. Lissy has veiled her face but still she is looking brighter. Me and Jules are shouting at highest of our vocal when bride take ring to make wear to dad. Then, my eyes start searching for our mum. I want to see her jealous face, but she is nowhere. Might be her jealousy carried her away.

But we and our guests enjoyed a lot. Wedding rituals has ended and our new mum along with her husband descending down but Ms. Lissy sneezes very hard as like mum. THIS IS STRANGE!

I stepped towards them to unveil the face of bride and when I did, I found my assumption to be true. She is here. Yes, unwanted guest or our mum had remarried again with dad. Along with father, everyone is fixed to their positions. And she, she is smiling, looking deeper in my eyes.

Our uncle steps in front of mum and starts scolding for her betrayal.

“Stop acting like this, OUR DEAR UNCLE”, a very bold voice from back somewhere.

Today is my surprising day, because the girl who loves her uncle more than father is talking rudely. I want to interrupt her in between but she indicates me to stop.

“Dad, we all know you still loves our mom very much. You still can not live without her. But yes, last years made you upset and also misunderstand many things. She was the one who left us when we were in conditions to beg. Everyone, do you know why?”, she turns back and faces every surprised face.

“Because, she knew the person who made our dad’s business fall is none another but our DEAR UNCLE and later on things settled down because we started to live under supervision of uncle and he took all the commands of business in the name of our dad. But it’s our mom who stayed away these five years from us and collected proofs against this man who betrayed all of us, especially his brother.”

She gets silent and thus, the audience but dad breaks it and hugs our lovely mom warmly. We both hugs each other too and joins our family hugging ceremony. We smile and mum snatches our wipes as previously she used to do.

But our uncle is a genius. He cannot accept his allegations at once. He blames my sister with an explanation of knowing this all.

“Me, oh, this isn’t a great thing but a coincidence because as I went to the club to shed my tears in name of hangout. There, I got mum sitting and asking for more shots. I couldn’t resist myself, so I sit beside mum to control her and there the story of your things visible to me and Ms. Lissy backout from the marriage when she got to know our plan of union.”

Uncle, our dear uncle, then leaves us without getting attention. We do not want any more disturbances by him in our life, so we do not pay attention to his departure.