Entangled by Sartison Albert

Author:Sartison, Albert [Sartison, Albert]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Albert Sartison
Published: 2014-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

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Their children grew up before Aaron even had time to realise it was happening. One day their son went to university, and before he and Jessica knew it, it was the following year and their daughter was next to go. After their children left to start their own lives, their house suddenly felt too large and too quiet.

They had only just managed to get used to the peace and quiet when their first grandchildren forced them to remember their youth, when their own children had been babies. At the weekends, when their now already grown-up children came to see them with their own families, their house was once again filled with the noise of children. It was exhausting but wonderful at the same time. When he played tag with the toddlers, Aaron felt like he was playing with his own children, they looked so alike.

Their happiness continued until Jessica felt a lump in her left breast. She spent the next few months between hospital and home, but it was all in vain. They had caught the disease too late. One autumnal evening, Jessica fell asleep and quietly slipped away from Aaron forever.

Everything had happened just as the doctors had predicted. Jessica had had no chance at all and Aaron knew it. He prepared himself for it, but Jessica’s departure still plunged his life into impenetrable darkness.

His children helped him as much as they could. They took it in turns to stay with him at first so that they could at least in some way fill the emptiness growing in his soul. Time heals all wounds, however, and after about a year, maybe a year and a half, Aaron was able to return to his former life, as much as that was possible.

The years passed. The layer of time between the last evening he had spoken with Jessica and the present became increasingly solid, and his memories faded. He sometimes felt as if it had been a different life that had happened to somebody else.

Aaron did not feel regret for how things had turned out. He understood that that is how life works, and there is nothing that can be done about it. The only thing he reproached himself for was that there were so many things he should have said to her that he never did. Sometimes this thought ate away at his insides. He would have given anything for the chance to speak with her just once more.

The doctor who had dropped into the ward that day to see him said they were going to discharge him tomorrow. He had made a full recovery, as much as that can be said in the circumstances, and life goes on. On the one hand it was good news, but on the other he had absolutely no desire to go back to his flat. Despite the fact that he had been living there since his Jess had slipped away, it still did not feel like home to him. His real home was where he and his wife had raised their children and lived together for many, many wonderful years.

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