Saying Goodbye isn't easy the second time.
When Terrance finally left hospital with a few scars left, he had nowhere to go, but the first thing on his checklist was to farewell his family.
The funeral was long as both Maragreta and Antonius said things about Zara and Holly, mentioning Chris along side it. Rosalyn was also there with a sick Felix who had picked up the chickenpox and was snatching himself crazy during the whole thing, everyone stared at Felix annoyed that Rosalyn had brought her sick child in public.
Terrance remembered when he had Chickenpox at Felix's age, they were itchy and annoying. But yet he didn't understand why people went off at Rosalyn, she was unable to find a babysitter and Felix had to stay away from school plus Chickenpox weren't able to be spread from that person after the spots appeared.
Terrance stepped up to say something, holding himself nervously, "Firstly... I want to say Sorry again. I know this makes me... Look more bad..." He rubbed his sweaty hands together, "I love My parents and my sister... I even loved Chris... Despite I didn't say it... For years... I wish I could... Rewind time... Fix my mistakes..." He started to shutter, making Margareta gravely concerned that he was going to break down.
"My life is ruined. I can't pull myself together... I can't fix myself... There's no way out of this... I-I'm sorry that I hurt people." He sniffled wiping his sore and teary eyes, "I-I-I'm sorry I caused distress amongst people that day. And I'm sorry to my whole family... F-for being the annoying burden I am."
Margareta moved to stand up but Antonius held her back, wanting for Terrance to sort this out for himself, despite his doubts.
"I-I can't..." Terrance let that word slip from his mouth before he ran off, trying hard not to burst into tears in front of a lot of people. That's when Antonius released his grip on Margareta's hand and she went as fast as she could after him. Terrance let his feet carry him outside the graveyard where he finally started to crumple under the weight of his own emotions, he fell down to the nearest tree outside and wailed into the heavens. Wishing it wasn't him that had to do this. Let go of his mother and father... After all his mistakes... This was the last thing he wanted after Chris's untimely death.
Margareta eventually caught up with him and sat down next to him, carefully lowering herself down to sit next to him. Then she moved by a few inches to wrap her arm over his shoulder and pull him close to her, like she use to do to him when he was young. She still remembered when he was so little she could fit him in both of her arms, she still saw that little baby right now, despite everything.
"It's okay." She told him once again.
"Okay be honest. Am I a bad person or not?" Terrance asked.
"A bad person?!" She was startled by the question in general, "No way! You are not Sweetheart!"
"What Am I going to do now? I've been in hospital for so long." He recalled the last two week had been spend in a hospital bed, just sitting around all day watching TV and only getting visits from Margareta mainly, he did get a visit from Rosalyn and Felix. It was kinda cute because just before Rosalyn told Felix to leave, he had gotten conformable and fell asleep right in Terrance's arms, so Rosalyn left the 18 year old to place a part of his blanket over the sleeping boy and rubbing his head softly. "I don't wanna go back home."
"You don't have to." Margareta started, she had a really weird smile on her face.
"What did you do?" Terrance questioned.
"Antonius did it... He pulled a few strings. Got in contact with one of his friends's grandson. He's 44. Owns a building company. I sent in your details. He's accepted you to come and work as a full-time house builder."
"This is quiet sudden don't you think?" Terrance asked her unsure. He just got out from hospital after his suicide attempt and he just said goodbye to the last of his family, Terrance knew he wasn't exactly ready to do anything for a while.
"That's what I told Antonius. But he's sorted it out. The boss will talk to you when your ready to talk. He understands your still grieving."
"Okay..." Terrance looked down, still unsure, "But what about living arrangements?" He questioned not wanting to go home or live with his Grandparents since he'd feel like a burden on them. Even with his Aunt Rosalyn, he'd still feel like a burden, since she lost Ben after Felix was born. He was admitted to hospital after a fall down the stairs while trying to save Finn from falling, then he flatlined in hospital and his body vanished, so there never was a proper funeral for him.
"I did pull out your Mother's will." Margareta smiled, she lifted up a white letter from her bag, which she handed to Terrance.
Terrance read over it, shocked, when he was done he looked at Margareta not believing it. "That much money?!" He thought that was a large sum, especially since his father had been unemployed for a couple of years.
"Yes. It's all yours..."
"But it states it should belong to both me and Chris-" he read over the fine detail that stated the money would belong to both Terrance and Chris. Clearly it hadn't been updated in a few years.
"BUT! Your mother told me she wants it all to go to you now." Margareta told him.
"It's a lot of money... Where did Mom get it all from?"
"Your father won a lottery before Chris died. When he died. He wanted to pawn all the money for beer. But Zara still managed to save most of the money then she locked it away in her back account so only you could access it."
"Are you sure you don't want it? I mean... You could use it for your retirement... And for Grandpa's medicine... You said that costs a lot of money..." He recalled how much Margareta complained about the high cost of Antonius's specialised medication to Zara and Rosalyn.
"We can pay for it. However you need a home... You need to build your life up... This money... Will get you, a nice house... You need it more than we do..." Margareta rubbed her hand over his shoulder.
"M-Margareta... Honey... My medicine..." Antonius weakly walked towards them reaching his hands out, "I need it.."
"Oh I forgot the time!" Margareta squeaked going into her bag to find her husband's medicine, which she eventually found then passed to him. Antonius opened the cap then took out two large tablets and swallowed them.
Terrance knew of his grandfather's failing heart, he had been taking medicine for the pass five years to keep his heart in an even rhythm, since both sides beat at different paces, often one was faster, then when the other side tried to catch up, that one went faster and it basically ended in his heart going nuts. It had even stopped his heart a couple of times, which was not good. But luckily Margareta was always within arm's reach of a phone.
"You okay now?" Margareta asked after a few minutes.
"Yes." Antonius nodded standing up straight now. Now relived, his medicine was the only way he could sorta live normally along side his wife,children and grandchildren. Hopefully he'd be around for a great grandchild. But there was no real answer as to if he'd live long enough to see either Terrance, Felix or Finn have children. Of course he still took into account Finn and Felix were too young and Terrance was not ready to have children yet, after having to deal with his parent's death, he wouldn't really want to jump into a relationship where he have to be burden with kids. But hopefully one day Terrance would have children, when he's ready. Most likely due to Antonius's old age, he might not live to see Felix have children. Seeing the most common age for men to start families was in their late 20s or early 30s and Felix was still 5, he wouldn't be over 20 for a while.
He was thankful his medicine allowed him to live life outside of a hospital or a age care home. He wasn't sure what would happen to Margareta if he was suddenly placed into age care, despite the fact she didn't have any major organ problems, she had a reoccurring problem with her Arthritis which caused discomfort.
"You sure you don't want it?" Terrance asked again.
"Eh?" He looked at him puzzled.
"The money."
"No. No. Terrance, we can manage without it. You however can't." Antonius shook his hands, "I didn't struggle at your age because I had my Mom and Dad. But you don't."
"What was it like?" Terrance asked, Antonius appeared confused until Terrance further explained, "Raising my Mom at that age?"
"My parents did most of the work for a few years. However I always made sure I imprinted on your mother's mind that I was her Father and I loved her. No matter what the actual reality of her origins."
"You had a brother... Did he help?" Terrance recalled Margareta mentioned Antonius had an older brother.
"Kayson? Nah. He told me everyday how irresponsible I was." Antonius shook his head, never remembering his older brother, Kayson thinking Zara or Rosalyn were gifts, he thought Antonius would see them as mistakes like how Margareta did the first time.
"How old is he?"
"He's five years older than me." Antonius stated, knowing his brother had a family at a good age, then they had grandchildren.
"You obviously wore your pride on your sleeve." Terrance stated figuring Antonius obviously didn't care that he was a father at 15.
"He did that's right." Margareta told him.
"I managed okay. That's all." Antonius rubbed his eyes, "now as for you Terrance. I except effort. No playing around with games anymore. The only way to get what you want is to work for it and be dedicated in the long run to achieve it."
"I-I'll try-"
"No. No. No nonsense with the "trying" and "Not putting in 100%" that's rubbish. You will DO. You will do it. You have the strength and will power to do so."
"Okay. I'll do it." Terrance nodded strongly which added a smile to his Grandfather's face.
