The Rainbow of Life

Father was not the father before, Peter thought. Mother had been dead for only 6 months, he brought another woman home.

         “This is Aunt Wang, she is the nanny to take care of your daily life.”

He did not believe, his classmates had told him that Dad would leave him and married another soon. What he most worried about happened.

         He had seen the woman before. It was one day on his way home after school. He saw Dad was in a cafe with a woman. And at this moment he knew she was Aunt Wang.

         Dad didn’t love the woman, he knew, but he need woman, he could understand. However, he could not accept.

         The woman treated him well, as if he was her son. But she was not his mother, his mother had died.

        But he had a special feeling about her. The first time he saw her, he had this feeling. If she was not Dad’s lover, he would like her, love her even.

         “she is the killer, not my mother.” He said to himself for heaps of times.

         Father came home as before, as the usual time when mother was with them. But mum had gone to the heaven, left him alone.

         The moment he heard the sound of the turning key searching into the lock, he would rush into the bedroom as soon as possible.

         “Did you have the supper, Peter?” Then came the silence.

         Peter was secretly crying on the bed, with the quilt covering his head. How he wished he could hold father again and cry in his arm. But he could not. Father was not the father before, he thought.

         He began to be fear to school. The boys kept asking him, ”Who is that mother in your family, Peter? ”

         “She is the nanny.”

         “No, she is your stepmother, isn’t she?” Then came the endless harsh laughter.

         Till one day he punched someone because he could not bear the ridicule any more. But how could he fight against with the boys and as a result he was sent to the hospital.

         The first one that hurried to the hospital was that woman.

         “I hate you!”He shouted at her the minute he could open his eyes and saw her.

         Tears poured down from her eyes. She came to the edge of his bed slowly, enduring her agony. “Are you hungry? Let me go to the store and buy something to eat for you. You stay here and wait for me.”

         Peter regretted to have said the words. He could feel her love. She just liked his mother. She would prepare the meals for them, her cook was as good as mother. She would stay with him if he had stay up late for homework, sitting near by quietly. She knew what he want, what he like, what he thought. She understood him better than mother. Thanks to her, father’s smile came back again. Thanks to her, he ignored the pain of mother’s death sometimes. But she was Dad’s lover, if not, he would like her, love her even.

         “she is the killer, she was the killer!” He emphasized to himself once again.

         After a while, she came back, with the food he like most and some medicine in her hand.

         “Have something to eat first. ” She said and asked him,” Do you feel painful? It must be very sore. I, I, I am so sorry to make you be sad.” She cried heartrendingly.

         Watching her cry, Peter could hardly bear to hurt her, ”Why are you so good to me? Why are you so good to me? If not, I can completely hate you.” In fact, he wanted to say sorry.

         Peter was taken home after two days. The woman was busy looking after him. When Peter was with she, he had a special feeling. But he could not describe it. Finally, he went to father’s study and asked, ”Dad, how did you make acquaintance with Aunt Wang?”

         “Why do you ask such a question?” Father was a bit coy, ”She is a kind nanny and take care of us well, don’t you think so?”

         “Well, I just ask for nothing. Forget it. I want to sleep. Good bye Dad.”

         “Come back Peter.”Father stopped him, ”Don’t you think that Aunt Wang is so good to you just like your mother? Do you want her to be your mother?”

         “Just you like, I do not mind what you want to do. Good night.”

         In fact he really wanted to ask Dad why he had such a special feeling with her. However, he hadn’t the second chance to ask the same question. The next day a terrible car accident took place and one of the wounded is father.

         When they hurried to the hospital, father was in operation. One nurse went out, they asked her how father was. “Doctors are trying to rescue him. I’m sorry to tell you that he is seriously injured and may never awaken. You should be mentally prepared. But who is Peter? Your father has left a diary in his bedroom for you.”

         Leaving the crying woman, with the doubt, Peter ran home as quickly as he could. In father’s bedroom, he found the diary, an old notebook. The diary began in 10 years ago, before he was born. Reading the diary, he was angry, astonished, and ashamed in the end. He understood why he has such a feeling with her. He broke out in tears.

         He went back to the hospital. The woman was crying painfully whispered.

         “Aunt, Aunt Wang, no, m-mother, you are my mother……” Peter cried in her arms.

         It was a sunny day. Peter went to the open with his parents, father and mother. Father was sitting at the wheel chair, but would walk soon. He thanked this accident for it returned a happy family to him.

         In the diary, it recorded his whole feeling in the past years. There were two women in his life. One was Daisy, peter’s first mother, but she was dead. The other was Cathy, peter’s own mother, now she was standing near him. Ten years ago, he and Cathy were lovers. Then he met Daisy, a virtuous girl, who loved him later. Daisy committed herself to love this man even dedicated one of her kidney when he was in a bad disease but only her kidney was fit with his. In order to appreciate Daisy, Cathy left him on her own wish and disappeared in his life. With a weak body, Daisy’s baby was dead in birth. In another delivery room lay a woman that was Cathy, who gave birth to little Peter. After she left, she found she was pregnant. Had known the tragedy, she gave Peter to them under the doctor’s help without telling Daisy and left him again.

         “Mum, have you hated Dad for he has bring so much pain to you?” Peter made a joke to them.

         “Never. You are the greatest love of my life. As long as you are happy, I will be fine. Because I know that there are uncountable rubs in one’s life, but if we can do our beat to get through, the rainbow of life will be into our beck.

Give it to all the great parents in the world as my respect