It was 12 30 at night I had been trying to sleep for a long time, but its was so unfortunate I couldn’t, some thing was disturbing me a lot, when I say lot I really mean it. It was damn silent except for the creepy sound of our fan. I found a book lying next to my bed thanks to my roommate for bringing it. The book was sent by readers digest to his colleague for no reason and they indeed never paid for it. The book had totally 4 stories in it. I some how managed to read one out of the four “The Tower” by Michael Duffy. It is a detective story and at the beginning it was interesting but before I could complete I guessed the culprit.
So coming back to yesterday’s night, I decided to spend some time in reading. I always had a habit of sleeping while reading text book during my school and college day, I hoped that reading will help me to bring back my lost sleep. I chose to read “GRACE”.
The story started with a grandfather (Eric) narrating his grandchildren a night time story which is very usual. He narrated his own childhood story to them. Eric is a 14 year old guy who goes to a high school during the day and work in a Queens Restaurant at the night. His brother Joel is 10 years old and they were always seen playing together most of their time. Their family shifted from California to Utah to their grand mother’s home. Eric and Joel build a small den behind their backyard using all the unused stuff which they found in the garage. Eric’s father is paralyzed but he was getting better and all hoped that he could be normal some day. And his mother worked in a retail store but eventually she mad less money out of the job. Eric is sincere and never missed his school or his work. One fine evening at Queens Eric was asked to pick up some grocery stuffs from storage room behind his restaurant (as always I did forget the actual name they used for this storage room). While returning back to the restaurant he heard a voice of a girl. The place was dark and he became little frightened by hearing it. He rushed to cross the road, but he heard it again the same sound. With little hesitation he turned back and yes he saw it, it was a girl with a hamburger. She looked pretty thanks to the moon for being so kind to flash his light on her so brightly. He could see her face clearly in between the night fog too. Both were embarrassed seeing each other straight in their eyes. Seeing Eric the girl dropped the hamburger from her hand. Eric figured that she was hungry and offered an invitation to have some food in his restaurant. After lot of hesitation she accepted his invitation. They went in she had some good food and left the restaurant. As usual when seeing a pretty girl anyone voluntarily offer anything they have and do some kind of tricks to impress her, and Eric’s senior worker was not refrained from it he too did all sort of stupid thing to impress her (I remembered all the idiotic and funny thing I did in front of her when I was in college, driving my bike fast, lifting my shirt collar, as soon as I see her in the ground got out in the next few balls while playing cricket etc etc…).
While walking on the road Eric finally got it right, she is a classmate in his Spanish class at school. But hardly anyone would remember her since she never opened her mouth either to yarn or to speak out. After a long discussion Eric understood that she ran away from her house and he was surprised to hear it. Eric asked, where she would stay for the rest of the night, Grace had no answer. After a short silence Eric called her to his home. She was not ready to go and Eric was also afraid how his mother will react if he takes a girl in the night. Then he remembered his DEN which he along with his brother built it. She then convinced herself to stay there. They move into the den. It was freezing inside as the snow fall was very heavy on that day in Utah.
While walking on the road Eric finally got it right, she is a classmate in his Spanish class at school. But hardly anyone would remember her since she never opened her mouth either to yarn or to speak out. After a long discussion Eric understood that she ran away from her house and he was surprised to hear it. Eric asked, where she would stay for the rest of the night, Grace had no answer. After a short silence Eric called her to his home. She was not ready to go and Eric was also afraid how his mother will react if he takes a girl in the night. Then he remembered his DEN which he along with his brother built it. She then convinced herself to stay there. They move into the den. It was freezing inside as the snow fall was very heavy on that day in Utah. Will be continued……
