Tuesday, 7 March 2017

IT WAS WRITTEN IN THE STARS. PART 5.





What reassurance can any father or parent give to their vulnerable son when faced with such a traumatic situation? 


 A situation which his brother, his mother and his father had spent the preceding years trying to avoid. By endeavouring to encourage the young man to consider the consequences of his action, before he made them. 

To get him to think before he acts? The young man, although now clearly shock by the fearful realisation of this dreadful predicament, tried to reassure his father.  

By telling him he would be able to cope with being incarcerated, and expressing his views about how he would cope. 


 Although his father appreciated his concern, it did not deflected him from contemplating how many things could go wrong, resulting in the failure of the attempted reassurance. 

Which, in any case, could only have been effective momentarily. in the hyperactive state of the young man's parents minds.  

The distressing thought of his son, who, notwithstanding the gravity and, for him, the incomprehensibility of his son’s action, in attacking his victim in the manner he had explained. 

A son who he felt, was still a very troubled and, at times, irrational young man.


Being incarcerated, filled his father with horror and despair. How would he be able to find anything about the future positive?

How did their son got himself into this dreadful predicament? 

Was it a case of an immature intellect being further eroded by the use of alcohol and drugs, and emotional volatility? 

None of this really mattered now, as the past could not be undone and his parents and him would have years to reflect on 'what went wrong.' 

Even though finding that out, would not now alter the course of fate.


 And now it all seemed too late. It seemed that it was only a matter of a short time before that their son had left the house to travel the several miles to the Police station to answer his bail and take part in the ID parade. 

His parents has hoped for a good outcome, as undoubtedly had he, even if none of them really thought the chances of that were high. 

And here he was now, several hours after having left, but with the most startling of news.

To be continued.






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