A Step of Revival - Book I
Prologue - The Kido's
Another sunrise and sunset had gone by and a man was carrying potatoes back and forth from the hoed farming land to the shipping bin. He had done the same over and over while his wife was knitting some clothes for him. He did the same all over again on the seasons except just with different products. The man never saw it coming one day, for one day its going to all be over. Throughout the Summer, they had a baby and had named him Moe. If you thought that was coming think again. It was in the Winter of the 8th whereas 39 years after they had their child born, he had said good-bye to his wife and went into the mine when it was just opened. As he was digging in the mine on his 17th patch he had threw the hoe to the left of him and collapsed. It had felt as if thunder hit his chest.
After 39 years the baby boy named Moe had a son too and named him Jack. Jack was already at 17 in his age and living in the town with his dad.
When the man from the farm had opened his eye he had found himself in the doctor's room. The doctor said he was only going to live for one more week because of his bad rheumatism. "Well, right now's the Spring of 24th, Umm… do you mind if I call your son?"
"No, I don't mind", the old man replied in a weak yet calm voice.
"Ok."
As the doctor was calling into town to Moe he had looked back at the old man. *sigh* 'I'm going to miss him…', he thought then had started pressing the numbers. *RING-- RING-- RING-- RING--….* He thought they weren't there so then he hung up the phone. But just as he was about to hang up was a loud voice shouted, "Hello?". The doctor excitedly picked up the phone to his ear and replied back. "Hi! Can I speak to Moe please?"
"Umm, may I know whose calling?"
"Its,… his father's doctor."
"Alright, hold on a sec."
The doctor was fidgeting and twisting the wire on the phone cord until, "Hello?". This time he knew it was Moe because of his deeper voice.
"Hi, this is your father's doctor speaking and well its kind of urgent. Can you come here right away?"
"What's the problem with him?"
"I hate to break it to you but he's going to err…", the doctor paused. Then he had saw a bucket next to him and kicked it.
"Are you kicking a bucket? Uh I don't understand."
"Kicking the bucket is the same as saying passing away."
"Oh, ok… I'll come there right away."
When Moe, Nina (his wife), and Jack had gone to the hospital where Moe's dad was it was a long talk with them. Moe and his dad talked for nearly two hours. After talking of two hours Moe's dad had said to leave the room but leave Jack. Moe had looked at his dad puzzled, then left the room. When everyone left only Jack and his grandfather was there.
"Jack, what would you think if *coughs*… well what would you say if something were to turn into a landfill on a person's own land."
"Huh?"
"*sigh* Well, what I am trying to say is this will may be a lot of work for you, but the mayor of this island wants to turn my farm into a landfill if no one takes care of it. And *coughs* I want you to take over the farm. Could you, please?"
"I-I-I don't know. But I guess I'll do it for you."
The grandfather smiled and Jack said they could come in now. Jack was now talking to his father, Moe, about the farm. Moe was a bit jealous but then agreed. After that day, Jack had talked to the mayor about the farm and what he was going to do. The mayor only said that if he had done a good job keeping up on the farm then the farm will stay a farm but he would only have eight years. He would check up to see how he was doing every end of Summer. But then the shocking part of it was: "If your reputation isn't up by then get out." It was one week after Jack's grandfather had died. The funeral was already planned and it was set after 10 days he died at 10:00 AM. The stone memorial for his grandfather was also prepared. On it was written:
Joe Kido
You were the best farmer we had and we thank you.
He had taught us how to plant using the best formations and
finding the best place to where to plant……………………..
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1902 - 1989
Winter 08 - Spring 04
After the grandfather's death, Jack's grandmother had moved to the bakery because that's where both grandparents had gone most with the happiest times. Elli happily agreed to letting her stay. Along the way, when I had moved into grandpa's farm no one suspected a thing, except the mayor.