Eddy jumped on the couch, flicked on the TV and made himself comfortable. He turned the volume up high where his dad could here it in the kitchen. Not getting any rest last night. His eyes switching closing shut. He fell into a deep slumber. He had the most peaceful dream about something wonderful.
"What's this?" Eddy asked.
His mom didn't answere for a few minutes, but she picked her son up and raised him high.
"This is a tree of blossoms, my grand father grew it when he was about your age, His great grandfather gave him the seed,"
Her mom looked up.
Eddy smiled down at her. His mother soon released him, Eddy held onto his mothers dress.
"Your 4 fathers before you were great." She said.
Eddy looked up at the tree, He walked up to it and placed his hand on it. His arm lowered.
"And where are they now?" He asked.
Eddy's mom didn't answere.
"I made coco nut pie. Wanna eat some?" She asked.
Eddy smiled and skipped to the house.
His mother stopped in her tracks, and turned back to the tree. She smiled and walked back to the house, Everything was a blurr to Eddy now...
"Eddy..."
"Eddy..."
The voice called out. The dream, was gone..
"Eddy wake up." A voice said. He could feel his arm being tugged by a stronger grip.
"Dad..?" Eddy asked. He got up and rubed his forhead. "Must have dozzed off.."
"You had the TV on to loud so I came in here and turned it down." He said rubbing Eddy's face.
Eddy looked around.
"Hey dad, do yuo remember this tree, That mom would talk to me about?" Eddy asked.
"Well yeah, I didn't thikn you'de remember, you were only 2 years old at the time. That tree was something your great great great grandfather grew when he was a boy, your great grandfather told my father, and my father told me." He said.
"Is it still alive?" Eddy asked.
"I pretty much garantie its not, Its over hundreds of years old." He said patting his head.
"Do you think you can show me where it is?" Eddy asked.
"Well sure." His father answered.
?
Eddy walked into a fild of dead grass. He stopped. looking around confused.
"This is it?" He asked.
His father nodded.
"Where's the tree? Where are all the trees?" Eddy asked.
"I told you, the tree must have been cut down, or died." He said looking down.
"Dad, what happened to my 4 fathers before me?" Eddy asked.
"Well, pretty soon after your great great great grandmother married your 4th father, He died in these fields." He answered.
"What happened to him?" Eddy asked, wishing he hadn't.
His father looked ahead of him.
"Well Eddy, in these fields were nature breathing its glory, The winters were hard, There was alittle cabbin near here, where your 4th father and 4th mother lived. They weren't very rich, (seeing how they live in the fields)
This was a few weeks before the death, She planted that tree for a special memory, she wanted that tree to live forever, But after that. A few weeks later. There was, a man. Who's been out to long. He had drinking problems and would go out every night looking for that one special thing to comfort him, So he walked out and spotted the cabin, He had his rifle at his side, He shot bullets at the glass windows. making the glass on the walls fall and break. They ran for cover. But the man broke the door down. Startling the couple. He ran inside and looked under the table. Seeing them tremble in fear, He had no control. And..Shot them both." He said.
Eddy looked away whiping tears away.
"Your mother wanted the same for you.." He whispered.
Eddy looked ahead of him.
"I only wish she was standing next to me right now.." Eddy said to himself.
A ghost of his mother stood next to him smiling.