Lonly child /The Ink Well Fiction Prompt #127

Antonio was a sweet 6-year-old boy, his mother Julie and his father Santiago had been at loggerheads for some time.

Julie was living with her parents, resentful of her husband, and poor Santiago was finding it difficult to raise his child.

Innocent Antonio was getting sad day by day due to a small rift between his mother and father.

Antonio 's father also could not stay at home all the time, he had to go to his job, during his absence Antonio lived alone with the help of neighbors and sometimes under the care of the housekeeper.

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Poor Antonio used to sit all day by the window of his room, looking outside, and waiting for his father.

Whenever the father used to come home, he used to love him very much and used to bring him different types of toys and food items of his choice.

But even doing all this by the father cannot compensate for the loss of the child's mother, because any child in the world whether poor or rich, his mother loves him the most. And the children also live happily with their mother.

Santiago came home a little late today and saw that his son looked very sad, so he said to Antonio , "Let's go somewhere fun today, my boy."

Saying this, she dressed Antonio in beautiful clothes and then both of them went out of the house and roamed in the market for a while, then they watched a children's film about fairies.

It was shown in this film that fairies come from the sky riding on their chariots and meet the children of the earth and bring many gifts for them.

Sometimes they takes good children with her to visit fairyland.
This film had a great impact on Antonio 's child mind, he also started imagining that some day a fairy would come from his country and take him with them in a chariot to show him the land of fairies.

That night Antonio quickly went to sleep, he felt someone calling him to his side. He woke up and looked through the glass window of his room to see that the full moon was out in the sky, the weather was slightly damp and dew was falling. There were drops of water on the window too.

A chariot was descending from the sky, many deer were driving it, the face of the chariot was like a duck bird, and there were many fairies on that chariot. One of them was wearing a crown and she looked like the queen of all of them.

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They all land outside Antonio 's room and he makes her sit in her chariot, then she takes him with her to the fairyland.

Taking him there, he fed him toffee chocolate ice cream and gave him various gifts. Then even when she came to drop him off, Antonio said to the fairy queen, please ,” I don’t need these things”

"Get me my mom back, now I can't live without her".

The queen of fairies understood his sorrow and told him with great love

"Don't be sad my child that it will happen very soon your mother will be with you".

The next morning when he woke up he saw his mother standing in front of him smiling, her mother hugged him and said,

"My child, I am back, now I will not go anywhere".

She then continued "Last night you sent me a message through the angel in my dream that you are missing me a lot, that's why I came today, and now we will be together again."

Antonio also remembered all the things of the night like a movie and he started crying hugging his mother.

Santiago was also watching this scene standing behind both of them and tears were flowing in his eyes too.

The husband went ahead and hugged his wife and said, "I'm sorry dear, now we both will never fight for the happiness of our child".