Chapter 7
Robert's father getting down from the car noticed that Robert was no more him self as he turned now asking him what the problem was.
" Son, what is the problem? Why are you just so quiet and cold all of a sudden? I thought you were so happy and excited that you were going to start living with your grand mother just now, and just after a second you just change your mood. What is wrong baby? Talk to me. " said Robert's father bending down and looking at his son Robert from eye ball to eye ball.
Robert's father was talking to Robert with a very pure and genuine heart and mind set as all he just wanted was for his son to be very happy being with him for the last moments before he leaves him to his grand mother. His father was trying every thing possible to make sure that it happens.
Robert seeing how convincing his father sounded and looked like he decided to talk to his father and ask him questions. As he was having some doubts in his mind. He had already started having strange feelings.
" Father, why do grand ma own and live in such a big mansion and still yet we lived in a very poor house in a bushy environment where we can both barely have a complete three square meals a day? " Robert started by asking his father with so many suspicions as he was very tense and had already a lot of anxiety to know about his father's point of view.
Robert at that point in time wanted to know the reason why his father chosed to live in such an uncomfortable area where they both were not comfortable at all.
Where Robert and his father were living was not just appealing to both the mind and the soul. No human being in his or her right senses will ever see such a good and great mansion and which is well furniture just to go and live in a very dirty and isolated environment which was not a good area.
Robert's father seeing how sad his son was not still understanding what his son was talking about. Still standing there looking at his son talking, he was not still understanding any single word of what his son was saying to him.
" Robert, what are you talking about? " Robert's father asked him as he was not just understanding what Robert was talking about. Robert's father was trying so hard to understand what Robert was talking about but he wasn't still understanding. So Makin him not to find the answer to his questions.
" Father, it means that big mansion that is standing over there. Why is it that grand ma Lives alone in such a big house that can even contain more than how many families in it and still yet there will still be enough space still left in it, where as they have both have been suffering in a small room that there was no light there and could barely eat? As they could not be able to afford up to three square meals a day.
All these thoughts were strolling and wondering in Robert's head as he was looking at his father right directly in to his eyes. Looking each other from eye ball to eye ball. In the course of Robert looking at his father right deep in to his eyes, he could see a lot of sincerity in his father's eyes.
That was when he had noticed that his father did not really know what he was talking about. That was when he realized that he has been thinking and having feelings and joy that he was going to finally have a good life for nothing.
" Father, is this grand ma's house? " Robert asked while pointing his finger towards the direction of the big mansion as tears were gathering in his eyes.
He was already prepared to release the tears if the answer that he wanted that hear was not given to him. He stood there still looking at his father right directly in his eyes, waiting for a concrete answer that could at least put him a great smile on his face. But on the contrary, he did not get any of all that he was expecting at that moment.
As his father now clearly understands what he has been trying to say all this while. Robert's father looking at him discovered how desperate he was to go to the Mansion and from the question he had just asked him, he now realized that Robert was mistaking the neighbor's house for his grand mother's house.
" O! Robert... That mansion? Do you mean that mansion? That is not your grand mother's house, it is the neighbor's house. " Robert's father said to him as he was very void of all the things that were going on through Robert's mind.
He was answering Robert with a genuine heart as he had not yet known how serious Robert was at that time. Considering the fact that, he was already longing to live in the mansion.
" Robert, that is your grand mother's house the other way of the road. We will have to cross the road to go to her house. " Robert's father said with a very broad smile on his face which could clearly explain how his heart was feeling at that moment. As he was pointing one of his fingers towards the direction across the road. It was a very old house. But at least it was kind of better than the one that they both have been living in.
Robert with a lot of shocks stood on the same spot where he had been standing earlier and was so carried away with the kind of house he was seeing. This time, Robert was not carried away positively, but he was carried away in a very negative way that he did not even know what to say.
The structure of the house was not at all the way he was expecting as he was thinking that at least, he was going to find and have a better life in his grand mother's house. Especially following what his father had told him concerning why he was sending him there.
One of the reasons why he had started having such thoughts concerning the way the house will look like caused his father had since morning had been telling him since that morning before they both were coming there that he was taking him to his grand mother's house because he thinks that there, Robert will have a more better life than never before.
Robert's father had this feeling that with his grand mother, Robert will have a very good life and even way better than the life that he has been living with him.
So he wanted him to go and start living with his grand mother so that he could have a better life and see how having a mother could ever feel. But to Robert, all of what he was seeing was not just what he wanted. He was not just believing what he was seeing as what he was expecting was not actually what he was seeing.
All that he was seeing in front of him was completely contrary to what he had in mind. The kind of picture that Robert had already painted in his mind concerning his grand mother's house completely shot down the moment he set his eyes in the house.
His thoughts were just shot down immediately as he saw the state at which the house was as he was totally not what he was expecting nor what he had in mind at that time. Just looking at the house, Robert did not want to think about how the house could look like internally.
As instantly he started thinking that the whole house could be covered with dust looking at the state at which the house was. Robert had already had in his mind that there was no good thing that could really come out from the house, considering the fact that the house was looking so isolated like there was no one in there.
The house looked more like a hunted house to him than a normal house. Indeed, the house needed a renovation. Any way, Robert had no choice but to follow his father's decisions. As his father knows best what was good for him and if he was doing that, he was doing that for his sake and his benefit.
To Robert's father, seeing Robert happy was the best thing that could have ever happened to him in all his life.
If Robert could be happy, then his father will be very happy as well. Robert's happiness has always been his father's priority. As he can not with stand the joy in seeing his son Robert being so happy.
Robert's father was still very concentrated on trying to remove every thing that was found in the car that belonged to Robert. He was almost done with bringing out every thing as he noticed that Robert had not yet answered his question. He hurriedly finished what he was doing so that he could attend to his son and see what was going on.
Once done, he now went down from the car and saw that Robert was standing there helplessly. Instantly, he was so confused as he started thinking that just now that he saw that his son was very happy and excited for what so ever thing that he doesn't know, he has already turned back to his previous mood.
Robert was already so sad than before. His father was just so confused that he did not even know what to think. He could not understand even one bit about why his son was behaving in that manner. But at that point in time, the only solution was to ask him.
The house looked more like a hunted house to him than a normal house. Indeed, the house needed a renovation like real quick. Any way, Robert had no choice but to follow his father's decisions. As his father knows best what was good for him and if he was doing that, he was doing that for his sake and his benefit.
To Robert's father, seeing Robert happy was the best thing that could have ever happened to him in all his life.
If Robert could be happy, then his father will be very happy as well. Robert's happiness has always been his father's priority. As he can not with stand the joy in seeing his son Robert being so happy.
No matter what, he had always tried his possible best in order to make sure that he gets just what is good for his son even though he really did not have any thing. It was actually some thing that was being just so touching and so emotional as well.
That was really a typical example of fatherly love towards his only son. His father was actually doing all of that so that he was actually very tired of seeing and acknowledging the fact that his son has been suffering for some period of time and he was actually seeing it.
He did not want to ever get to see his son suffering again at that time. He really wanted to make sure that things were going to be right at that time for both him and his son at that time. That was actually the only thing that he wanted to know at that time. Every single thing that he was actually hoping at that time was that things should actually go on just exactly the way he was wanting it to go at that time.
Like every single second that passed by, he had never even gotten to stay for a single second with out ever thinking about his son.