Lucy episode 3 – finale

Lucy episode 3
Finale
 
As the song ended and the words faded from my head, I cried with my father…. because that song describes everything he had just told me…
And I knew that someday…I would have to leave him to find my own …and fall inlove…and be happy. But what happens to him…to my father.
I had to do something for him..
 
I just had to try.
You see, he kept her picture hidden,in a book he always read, and her name. Written behind it…
 
“Lucy Aberdeline francisca”
I stole it one night when he was in his room and I left with it
I went back to their old town ..
 
I searched all the persons of that same name…
Oh it took me a long time. …
 
Days rolled into weeks and months to years..
No one was her. ..
 
No one knew about her .
It’s been a long time…I am 26 now…
 
And Papa seats by himself staring at the stars ..
But I didn’t give up…
 
I refused to.
His poor lonely heart still beats for the one he lost while being young. Now they say he is dying ….and I only want to bring him peace
I keep searching
Every time I get tuned away from offices…
 
“She maybe dead by now”
“She may be a ghost” they said
“She..used to go to the school my grandparents used to go to in their time”
“She is dead”
“She moved away years ago with her family..this was their house ..I saw that picture in the atic with my grandparents things ..Oh sorry..I thought it was thesame person..”
You see. ..I kept searching…
 
And I didn’t stop..
One day I came back home, I was tired …
I had to tell myself that I was chasing ghosts..
I came back to find him there…sitting and still staring at the skies. Sicker than ever.
I go to him,k-ssing his hands
“Papa, I wish I could have found her for you…but..trully…she is gone” I told him..
But he just stares at me, a tear leaving his eyes. ..
“No, she is in my heart. Always have..always will be”
*
It was a couple of months later when I came home from school, graduated and ready to travel the world..
I stop by a floral shop to get something nice and pretty for the one my heart has fallen inlove with…
 
When I saw her…
She was smiling at a little girl, as she gave her a rose and patted her head and waved as the little girl left with her parents.
You see, I wasn’t sure because …whenever I thought I saw her, it turned out to be someone else…
It wasn’t just the fact that she smiled…
 
It was her eyes…that eyes I swear caught me.
I had stared at that picture for so long that if I closed my eyes I could see it right infront of me..
It didn’t matter that she was elderly now, and hair had turned white just like my Pa’s.
It didn’t matter that her smile came with wriggles around her eyes ..
It didn’t matter that she walked slowly…but when she smiled..it lights up her eyes like the one in that picture Papa hid in his book.
I walked up to her…
‘I am sorry but are you…Lucy Aberdeline Francisca?
“Yes child, and you are?’
My heart leaped for joy….
I grabbed my phone, having snapped the picture there…i showed not to her .
“Are you her…please tell me…are you her???” I point to her and to the phone
There..the smile again. …”Where did you get this from? its been so long I thought I lost it….no..no….I have gave it to…I gave it to…to…….” she trails off. …
“Who are you, how did you get this picture, what is your name?” She asks me
I am crying now ..I am choking for breaths. …I am breathing hærd . I tap my chest…
“I am Christian , my father…my father is Peter Kevinson… he. . he….Oh .my God!!” I threw my arms around her and cried..
“Peter Kevinson..Peter ??” I felt her gasp
I release her…”My father……he ..Oh God Lucy, please come with me..please. ..he has so much to tell you..he searched for you and he is sorry and …please. .let me take you to him..please..”
She is crying now…”No child, Peter was someone I knew in my young years. ..but that is over and closed.. I am on a different path ”
“Grandma?” A girl comes close to us
 
“Is everything okay ?”
She nods “yes..yes. .the young man is just leaving …”
“No” I shake my head wiping my eyes. .. “I am not leaving…not until she comes with me. I can’t find you after all this while and I leave.
my father. .my father is waiting. As been waiting to tell you things himself and…..Maybe your paths are different now…but…he would love to tell you all that he holds within……please Lucy. .please. …” I begged
“Grandma …what is he talking about?”
“Nothing. ..” she cries and walks away
“I don’t know who you are or what you are doing here but you upset my grandmother and I want you to leave. ..”
I shake my head “please…please once i explain things to you you would see. ..you would understand…” I begged
“Explain what? ”
“A love that never happened because one of them didn’t see untill it was too late”
‘”What are you saying. ..?”
“I will tell you….but promise me…promise me you would help me?”
And so I sat there with her and I told her what my father had told me, I reached for the tissue and gave her when her eyes pulled up…
“This is…so sad” she cried.
“I know..that is why…why I can’t go without her you see…I know she is your grandmother and that your grandfather is somewhere around but. …I am not asking for the impossible. … I don’t think anything would come out of this but you see , my father is sick and dying and u just want him to see that she is okay..and happy and has a life and that even if he can see her and tell her what he felt and how sorry he is…Maybe he can die happy…that is all..he has searched far and wide…for her and I think it is by divine grace I saw her….right next to us….look my father is a few streets down…please ..help me…”
“She never married you know….now I know why”
‘I don’t understand, what do you mean. You are are grandchild yes?”
“Yes… she adopted my mother when she was fifteen , and a few others. ..she never had been married and she never wanted to but….now…now I know why. She loved only one man and couldn’t bare to see another man take his place…she never married. ..or loved another again” she bursts out crying and and I swear my eyes began to blur again
“Then..you must help me…you must help me bring them together. …?”
“Yes..Yes I will”
*
I walk home….lifted than I have ever been in years…
“Papa, papa….??” I call him sitting next to him…”Papa, this may be the last good thing I would do for you but I am glad I did it. ..I am glad I was bale to try”
“What are you saying son?”
“Soon,you would understand ” I tell him praying that they come through those doors soon…
I dress him up in his nicest cloths..
“Where are we going to son?”
“Soon Pa,you will understand ”
I wait…till I hear the bell ring…
I go out to meet them…
“You told me we were going to the mall dear ” Lucy tells her grand daughter as I open the door
“Yes grandmother, from here…I just need to see my friend first. ..why don’t we go in grandmother and we would leave soon ”
“Why is this young man here ?” She is reluctant to enter
“He is leaving grandma ..he is, don’t mind him”
I move away for her to enter …
“He is in the back” I whisper in her ears and step away as they go into the house…
“Grandmother. ..why don’t you wait out here for a second…I will be back”
She tells her and leaves her there…
“Sonia, sonia? ?”
No answer..
“Christian is that you? We have a visitor ?” Papa says turning on his chair …
I stood behind the curtains…I and sonia and watched…
*
 
“No…my granddaughter asked me to wait here and don’t worry she would be back in a minute and we would leave…I am sorry ” Lucy says turning away
Peter is staring at her….
 
Those eyes…that voice….those eyes…that voice…
“Sonia..Sonia honey where are you?” She is moving away..
Those eyes……I …I know them…
“Lucy…?? Lucy is that you??” He chokes
No..it can’t be Lucy .
 
It can’t be his Lucy. .
 
His Lucy is gone..
 
She left him…she went away and never returned ….
She stops and turns around…
“How did you know my name? ” she says turning and walking slowly to him..the sun in her eyes..she can’t see him from far. .
“Lucy Aberdeline francisca hope ??”
She gasps, no one knows her full names ….no one but….
“Who are you? ”
He staggers….holding his chest. ..
“Lucy, Lucy is that you? It is me…it is me Peter Kevinson …Peter. ..Peter. ..” he slumps to the chair and holds his chest….
“Peter. .?” She gasps again,she is visibly shaking now…shaking her head…
“Lucy…Oh my lucy. …Lucy. ..Lucy. ……I am sorry ..I am so so sorry ……..I am so so sorry ” he cries
‘”No Peter please”
“Lucy …my Lucy. …I was so young and stupid and I haven’t been able to forgive myself for losing you. ..i tried to forget you but I couldn’t. ..I moved on with my life but not my heart…i was never able to tell you how I felt because I didn’t know how I felt till you left. …
my world became quiet. ..my quiet became deafness. ..and my deafness became sadness. ..
Lucy my Lucy. …. I am sorry…I am sorry ” he sl¡ps from the chair,fighting to go on his knees…holding the chair for support…
She is crying now….”No Peter please. ..please don’t I beg you…” she places her hands together and cries…”Its been soo long. ..let it be…let it be” she turns away
‘Lucy. Nooooooo. ..don’t please don’t leave me again…don’t. .i will die..I will die..
I love you Lucy and I have loved you for a long time.. i searched for you to tell you but you were gone….like smoke…disappearing from my world. ..leaving me to my pain and mystery. Why did you leave? Why did you go??”
“Because you asked me to..you wanted me too Peter. ..please let it be…I can’t be here…Sonia !!!!”
“No…..if you leave this time it would be me going after you . This time, it would be me waiting by your doorstep, this time it would be me picking up your books and nursing your head when you fall. This time it would be me walking behind you in the dark.. this time it would be me waiting for your lightss to go off before I go to bed.
This time, I don’t care if you love another and stay with another, I would go on loving you from a distance till my last breath. This time even if you tell me to leave.. I would be the one coming back again and again.
I found you Lucy. ..I found the one I never had…and I won’t lose you because you are a diamond ….and I won’t go chasing stones.
No Lucy. .. this time…I will give you all of me, as pure and undiluted and unconditionally as you gave me untill my heart stop beating .
I have searched for you for so long…I won’t let you go. I won’t leave. I wanted to tell you…to tell you …..I love you Lucy. ..and I have for a long time…Maybe much longer than I realised. ….Lucy ..my Lucy. ….” he cries in his hands
Lucy slowly rushes to him cradling him in her arms shaking her head “it’s okay Peter. ..its okay ….it is okay…”
“I love you…i love you…i love you ……..i ove you I love you “he holds her tight crying…”Lucy …I love you”
She rocks him in her arms “I love you peter,,I always have…always will…always and always “she cries too
“You are here….you are really back Lucy…don’t leave me ever again…don’t go…don’t go…”
“Never…never Peter” she laughs “for over 50 years all I wanted to hear was those words….all I wanted was you Peter.. you……I loved you for so long that loving you was all I knew how to do , that loving another I couldn’t do.
I love you Peter and i can’t believe that after all these years… my one true love would love me back too”
“I love you Lucy…I love you ” they cried in each other’s arms
..
 
Sonia kept stifling her sob , she cries on my shoulders as I cried into my hands..
You see… this moment right here was all that matters…
My father …my father became a different man.
He became younger…. and even the doctor told us that he was okay .
You see how love conquers all pain and sickness. ..
He was slowly dying from heart ache.
 
But as soon as Lucy came back into his life…. he became a new man…
Its been three years now…
And whenever I walk into the room…i see them…laughing into each others faces, k-ssing their l-ips and acting like teenagers and my heart swell inlove for this two….
My son is ten years old today……
We stand together with my wife throwing sand ontop their coffin as they laid them to rest.
Do you know how they died?
Going to sleep in each other’s arms…and a peaceful smile on their faces.
Oh…this love…this love is a beautiful thing.
And I pray noone suffers the life of loneliness my fatehr did, settling for another for so long all because he lost a diamond while he was chasing shinning stones …
But I am glad…that I was able to find that diamond and give his remaining life a meaning. ..and let him feel that love he thought he lost and grant him the peace. ..only love can bring..
I love you father …..
But I know ….you have all the love you need …because right there …in your cold earth bed, your love..your one true love warms you up …..and I know it would be for eternity …..
The End.