An Old
Key, A New Life
He slowly turned the key, he has been waiting for this
moment for ages.
John Flee was just
four years old when he lost his parents. He didn't know how they disappeared,
he didn't know what happened, he couldn't remember anything about that day.
The only thing he knew
was that suddenly his life changed.
Now he wasn't the
happy child he had been. He lived in a big horrible house with other young
children, all of them were alone like him.
Nobody looked after
them, nobody delighted them, they had only to obey Mr. and Mrs. Callaghan who ran the house with strict
rules.
John couldn't stand them and everyday he
wondered: How would my life be if I had my parents? Would I be happy? Where
would I live? And expecially, did my parents die or did they leave me alone?
These questions were
always in his mind, so when he came of age and left the house, he started
searching for answers to his questions.
He was looking for
some relatives of him, when he met an old woman who told him she had a friend,
Mrs Emma Flee, to whom something terrible had happened: her brother's family
had disappeared. Everybody looked for them, until the police found their car
hidden into the wood, inside there were Mr. and Mrs. Flee's bodies, but no
trace of John their son.
Since then Mrs. Emma
has been looking for John and trying to discover his brother and sister in
law's killer. Now she was living in an old age hospice.
John was shocked about
that story. He couldn't believe he still had an aunt. Now he needed to meet her
and know something more.
His aunt was an old
thin lady, she was left speechless when John told her who he was, then she
hugged him and started crying. - I have always dreamed of this moment! she said.
They needed time to
talk about their past, so they spent many hours together.
Finally John's aunt
gave him a key she kept on her chest. It was his home key.
Some hours later John
was in front of an old green wooden door … now
he could fill a fifteen years void. He could finally find out what his
parents were like, he could imagine his past life, he understood that once
somebody loved him, he could start out a new life.
To do that he had just
to open that door, so he held his breath and slowly turned the key.
Maria Grazia Neglia
Level 4 with Andrei
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