Chapter-3

"Why did you touch those things, young lady?" Grandmother screamed.

Sarah immediately yanked back her hand. She looked at her innocently. "I am sorry Grandma. I didn't mean to pry or anything. I was just looking through your books. I swear, I wasn't doing anything wrong."

Grandma wrinkled her nose disgustingly. "First of all. Don't talk back. Respect your elders. And don't act smart. I have told you hundred and one times not to touch anything that belongs to me. You don't have the right. You are not ours and you never will be understand?"

With that she hit Sarah on her shoulders.

Mother came running in as she heard Sarah crying.

"What are you doing? She is a little girl"

"Who asked her to touch my things?"

"Your duty is to forgive her and not to punish her"

"I couldn't forgive you. How will I forgive this little brat?" She said pushing Sarah away.

"Forgive me? What did I do?" She said wrapping her arms around Sarah.

"Look! Don't make me say it."

"The same talk everyday. Why don't you let out whatever is bothering you" mother shouted.

"It is because of you that my son died"

"Grandma" I shouted as I entered home unfortunately witnessing the whole scene.

Jess came up behind me and put her hand on my shoulder.

"Enough. Please. Enough!"

That which was known but not yet spoken of at home was now out in the open. Dad was not killed in an accident, he had committed suicide.

Grandma stood there frozen.

"The truth is always bitter" she said and went to her room and shut the door.

"No one knows the truth. Not even you" mother whispered softly. She looked at me with tears in her eyes and then led David and Sarah to their room.

"Grandma hates me" Sarah sat crying on mothers lap.

"No, honey, she doesn't hate you" mother tried to coax her.

"She hates you," David pointed out.

"She is angry now. Everything will become all right soon."

Jess and me entered in the room and sat beside them.

"You don't have anything to worry about. We are all here for you," Jessica beamed at her, gently stroking Sarah's hair.

Sarah looked up and wiped her tears. She softly smiled at us.

I hate looking at all of them. So sad, so fragile. When will our problems come to an end?

"Mom?" Called David snapping me out of my thoughts

"When will all our troubles end?" He echoed.

"David" she said "You know when I was a child I used to cry for really small things. At that time, my mother used to ask me to pray to god to send us an angel"

"An angel?" Sarah asked.

"Yes. An angel will come. It will wipe all our tears," she said as she looked around at all of us. "It will give us a lot of happiness and it will leave our miseries in some far away place."

"When will our angel come, mom?" David asked.

She wiped her tears and reached for David's hands. "Today lets all do something. In our prayers to Jesus, let us ask him to help us. Let us ask him to send us a guardian angel who will help to solve all our problems. Let us all pray." She said kneeling down.

I looked at Jess and smiled sadly. All of us knelt down and joined our hands. We closed our eyes slowly.

"Oh god! Please bring some light in this dark place. A little light. Please."

He opened the windows and stretched. He had traveled for so long. "Its so nice to be here. Such a relief," he smiled as he saw the snow falling down. He was about to turn back when something he saw made him stop and look.

Two cute children, two pretty teenage girls, both alike, "Twins" he mused to himself. And an older woman, their mother, he decided, were knelt down. They looked like they were praying. He shook his head. All of them looked so sad. So forlorn. So fragile. He looked up at the sky.

"Hey! God." He spoke softly "Grant their wishes, okay?"

He gave them one last look and then closed the curtains. Lying down on his bed, he gently closed his eyes and drifted off to sleep.

I opened my eyes as I felt a breeze suddenly swish across my face. I looked out at the sky and then at my family and closed my eyes again.

"And then, suddenly the season changed. I don't know how all the clouds suddenly got cleared and the sun started to smile at us."

(Sooooooooooooooo how was this chapter? Well I know cliffhanger!(oooops! sorry) So who do u think he is. Who do you want it to be? Let me know! Waiting for your reviews! Amber!)