Their mom Sara died due to heart disease when she was at the age of 15. Her dad loved her mom more than anything else in the world.
Their family of four was the world to him. Her dad was very devoted to her mom, which was both admired and envied in their neighborhood.
Sara was the ideal wife, every man wishes to have in their life. Bella was apple of their family.
She was her dad’s cute little princess and her brother Oliver’s gorgeous little Tinkerbell. Bella brought happiness to everyone in her family.
But all that came crashing down when her mom died of a heart disease. Due to their mom's death, her dad was terribly affected.
A year after their mom’s death, their dad was diagnosed with depression and was bedridden.
That was 2 years back. Since then she has been taking care of her father in their home.
Her elder brother Oliver is working in a construction company. Though the salary is not ample, its enough to feed everyone.
He would go for work for days without coming back home, for extra salary. Her sister in law Mary was a greedy woman and was not satisfied with the way her husband was living.
She considered Bella and her dad as burden. Mary thought that they would live a happy and comfortable life, If they lived alone.
But when she talked to her husband Oliver about moving out and living separately , Oliver straight out refused. Because Oliver loved his family.
He loved Mary thinking that she was an understanding and loving girl. Its not Oliver’s fault that he failed to see the original face of Mary.
Because she hid it well from him. Mary loved Oliver too. But she loved his family status a little more than him.
When they were dating, their mom Sara was alive and her health condition was well.
So Oliver’s financial status was steady and they had quite a some sort of luxury.
Actually Mary was a caretaker in the hospital, in which Oliver’s mom used to take treatment. Oliver first saw her in the hospital.
Believing the kind and humble acting of Mary, he started dating her and soon introduced her to his family.
His family members were too fooled by Mary’s pretense and agreed to Oliver’s marriage proposal to Mary.
They married in the church in Oliver’s neighborhood with a small reception party for friends and family.
Everything was going fine for the time being. Isaac’s printing business was doing fine, Oliver helped his dad in his business.
Mary resigned her job in the name of taking care of Sara and Bella had a normal happy teenage life.
But everything came crashing down, after 6 months of Oliver’s marriage, which took their mom from them.
Eventually, everything went downhill from then on.
Oliver knows how Bella took care of their dad single-handedly and also continued her studies on the other hand. The only thing he can do now is to support them financially.
Oliver didn’t have a permanent job. He used to do multiple jobs at a time to earn enough money. He didn’t even had enough time to go home certain days to see his family.
Luckily he got a contract job on a construction company, which made his life a little easy-going.
He didn’t have to worry about searching jobs frequently for the time being.Oliver refused to move out to live alone with Mary. This made Mary frustrated which eventually turned into needless hatred.
Since she can't do anything to change Oliver's mind, her hatred for his family grew ten fold.
So Mary’s anger was directed on Bella. She made Bella to do all the house hold chores from cooking to doing laundry.
Even that didn’t satisfy Mary’s anger. Truth to be told, She was jealous of Bella’s beauty and kind nature.
Even though she was treated unfairly, Bella never complained to her brother. She knows how hard her brother was working to meet their financial ends.
Bella never allowed the negativity to reach her. She believed that if she created a happy environment for her dad, he would recover soon.
Her only wish was to see her dad in full healthy condition. So she would always smile, even when there are millions reasons to cry, she would push them out and try to smile for her family.
But this didn’t stop Mary from taunting Bella and her dad every chance she gets, mostly when Oliver was not at home.
So to reduce to financial problems, Bella took special teaching classes to neighborhood children and baby sat toddlers to earn more money to buy meds for her father.
Since she cannot leave her dad alone for long hours, she didn’t go out often.
The only time she would leave her dad alone was when she would go to church on Sunday mornings and when going for groceries shopping or for buying meds for her dad.Bella quickly finished the breakfast. Her mom was a great cook. She taught Bella everything about cooking.
The breakfast consists of toasts, milk , scrambled eggs and bacon with hash brown.
She called Mary to have her breakfast and again went inside to prepare breakfast for her dad.
Soon Mary came and ate her breakfast. After she was done, she didn’t even put her utensils in the kitchen basin.
She just kept everything on the dining table and went back to her room while cursing Bella for no reason. It became her habit to curse and taunt at Bella to satisfy her anger.
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Bella made her dad’s favorite vegetable porridge and transferred it into a bowl to speed up the cooling process.She covered it with a lid. Keeping it aside, she went to her dad’s room across the hall.When she opened the door to her dad’s bedroom, he was wide awake, staring at one point in the ceiling lost. It’s the same scenario everyday.Whenever she came into her dad’s room, she would catch her dad staring at a point, looking lost or thinking something deep according to her.Seeing her dad who had lost most of his weight and looking lost at the ceiling, brought tears to her eyes.Her dad was the most happiest person she had ever known.Everyone around him liked his company, because he possessed such an irresistible charm to spread happiness and positivity to the people around him.He had the power of binding people around him and everyone around him loved him.He used hi
Shaking her head, Bella went out of her dad’s room after a moment of time, slowly closing the door behind her.Nearing the dinning table, she saw the left over foods on it. She kept her dad’s dishes on the side in the dinning table and began to eat her own breakfast which lost its heat, a long time ago.She only took a slice of the bread toast, which was crunchy and in a crispy golden brown color, with some scrambled eggs which was fluffy because of the addition of the extra butter, which was cooked to perfection.After eating the little food she served herself, she poured a glass of milk to drink. Mixing a little honey to taste, she drank the milk happily.Even though she ate only little, she was always energized. Even she didn’t know why and, where she got all those tremendous energy from.She even wondered how could her small body can store so much energy, as she always felt that she was full of energy.Maybe
Bella took all the ingredients out from the respective bags and placed them all on the kitchen counter for easy access.She began to pick out ingredients for the tart base and pie base first, since they both need time for both preparation and resting time.So she began to crack open the eggs in a large glass bowl. Then added the flour mix along with little sugar, salt, oil and added a small amount of yeast for rising of the flour.Then she began to knead the flour mixture into a nice dough and covered them with a wet cloth to retain the moisture and kept it aside for rising.After that she started the microwave oven and set the temperature for preheating.Then she moved on to Cookie mixture. She mixed all the ingredients into a large steel bowl and mixed them well, so as to avoid the lump forming.moving to next, She took a small portion of the cookie dough and added some chocolate chips for making the chocolate chi
“ did u get caught? Did she thrashed you?” Questioned Bella curiously.Waving her hand, Sara replied proudly.” Nah….your sweet grandfather saved me from your crazy grandma”.Now it was Bella’s turn to laugh.Hearing the laughing sound from the kitchen, both Oliver and Isaac who had just returned home, came rushing through the kitchen door.Looking at both the mess and the ladies of the family, they managed to grasp what had had happened earlier.Then the whole family cracked into laughter.Thinking about the fine memory of their past, Bella smiled sadly. She missed her mom very much. She missed her happy family even much more.The family which lost their laughter years ago. Shaking her head sadly, she began to concentrate on the work on hand.Atlast came her favorite part. The cake making. She was a pro master in baking cakes.She carefull
‘Mom’s can exaggerate everything when it came to their children' was the first thought came to Chris thinking about his mom.Shaking his head, Chris served food himself and started eating his dinner.As usual, he lost himself in his mom’s cooking and ate happily. After eating he did the dishes himself.Since his mom liked quiet environment, he didn’t appoint many servants in his villa…so the mom and son pair did their own works themselves.After finishing the dishes , he headed to his bedroom on the second floor.Entering his room, he began to undress himself lazily and headed to the bathroom while taking his night dress.After a long hot bath, he felt energized and refreshed. He came out of the bathroom with drying his wet hair.When his hair was dried, he headed to his study to do his pending work. He made as much less noise as possible in fear of waking up his mom.
When he reached downstairs, he was greeted by his mom’s melodic humming and fresh smell of baking.Automatically he went towards the kitchen to see that his mom was taking the freshly baked bread from the microwave and setting it on the dining table. He went towards her.“Good morning beautiful. You always make my mornings wonderful with your presence and your freshly baked goods”. He kissed Diana’s cheek and sat on a dining chair in the kitchen for breakfast.“ you are such a sweet talker.. I still can’t believe that about how you managed yourself to remain single till now…its beyond my imagination” exclaimed Diana amusingly.“Mom !!! Not again…that too in early morning….not the girl topic please”.“OK….ok…..I won’t start……don’t make a face as if I killed your puppy..”“that’s my
After a long day at office, Chris came home totally exhausted. He was counting the steps to his lovely bed as he was walking towards the main entrance. He quickly changed his shoes and went to his room in upstairs. All he wanted now was a long and relaxing hot bath and a nice undisturbed heavenly sleep. Inorder to win this deal, he worked so hard the past two weeks, that he barely had a good night’s sleep these days… So when everything was over all he wanted to do was to catch up to his unfinished business with his soft bed and fluffy pillows. They are long overdue. But fate was not in his favor… he had to be present in the upcoming party tonight, since it was held in his honor. Also it’s the celebration party for winning the collaboration, so he had to go there to appreciate his fellow partners and investors… Resigning to his unlucky fate, Chris decided to take a quick nap before going to the party.
When Chris reached downstairs, his mom Diana was watching some reality shows in the television.Hearing the noise, she turned to see what it was. Seeing her handsome son, she was impressed.“you look handsome and sexy honey”.“why. Thank you milady” Chris bowed and faked a British accent.Hearing his horrible accent, Diana laughed out loud.“Honey …please don’t try to pull the stunt you did just now, Infront of those young ladies who you will meet in the party tonight...I would be losing my prospective future daughter-in-law, if you did what you did just now” teased Diana happily.Hearing his mom’s teasing, instead of compliments, Chris fake glared at his mom playfully.Diana who was trying her very best to control her laugh by biting her lips, couldn’t stop from laughing out loud seeing the look on her son’s face.