Chapter 3

Nurse did you take the child back to his room? Not yet. Ok, I will do it, I have to talk to them about him anyways. he picks up the child and heads to the patients room, the parents are already in there. As he enters, he sees a sigh of relief on their faces. putting the child on the cradle. he pulls a chair close to them. There is no physical problems with him. However, he is a little under weight and very fragile. The doctor is about to leave the room, when the father grabs him and gives him a hug,  "thank you for everything doctor". the doctor nodes and taps his back and exits. "Hun don't you want to see your son." says the mother. He approaches the cradle, gently brushing his hands over the baby's head. "go on open him up, you will be surprised." and surprised he was; The men in that family had a habit of crossing their legs with one foot in between the toes of the other. "he truly is my son" he said with a wide smile across his face.

Chapter 2

The door opens up, inside are some men in sitting at a table, at the end of that table stands a young man giving a presentation. a woman enters and whispers something in his ears and he runs out, leaving the men astonished. He starts his bike and heads to a shop, grabbing cloths, bathroom utilities and a small plastic tub. placing them them on his bike he heads of again, his destination is a small town three hours north to Kolkata.
he rides faster and faster till the tub that he kept infront of his bike flips and blocks his view; He is heading straight onto and oncoming truck, he misses it by inches but he doesn't stop, he get there in an hour and a half. He enters a local clinic, and walks down a narrow hallway. He sees his parents and his in-laws at the end of the hallway, all crying. He slowly approaches them and then turns and enters a room. His wife is sleeping, as he approaches the cradle next to her to look whats inside, she wakes up and watches him. A tear roles down his face. The child isn't there.

Chapter one

The year is 1992, two retired airforce officers and their wives rejoice in glory, they became grandparents today. They watch while the nurse wraps the newborn child in a white cloth and hands him over to the mother. She holds her baby in her arms for the first time now, he is smaller than most babies but he seems to be healthy. Finally after a few hours, she and her child are left alone. She unwraps him, holding his tiny fingers in hers, when suddenly her moment of joy is followed by a moment of complete horror and panic. One of his ear is closed, she panics and starts thinkings how it was her fault that her child is born with a cauliflower ear but the moment passed soon when it opens right infront of his eyes or rather "like how a bud blossoms into a flower", as she tells her son 17years later, on the morning of his birthday.

Intro

I have been waiting for a while to write a story, I am not sure if I am the best person for the job but I guess I wouldn't know till i give it a try. the story is related to my life, or rather a story about what I fantasized  my life to be.