"Tell him the truth! He can't spend a night here with us. Besides, our space is too small to accommodate another person!"
As old and weak as their bodies and voices were, on the dinning table sitting bothered, Pinky's grandmother and grandfather were quietly watching and listening all along. The two, to Concern themselves with any matter was probably the last thing they wished to involve in.
Their old age could not give them a chance and the energy.
Silently, grandmother stood up old-style and walked slowly with her weak back bent upto the kitchen. While in the kitchen, carefully she served half baked green vegetables into her bowl to eat with her rice since Kevin had inconvenienced their dinner by taking fish off the menu forcefully.
On her way back to the dinning table, Kevin saw the vegetables in the bowl grandmother came holding. They looked exactly like deep water comestibles he enjoys with his mother back home. Suddenly, his stomach started making unnecessary loud noise, signaling a need to satisfy his hunger. Without asking, Kevin threw his hand in grandmother's bowl and picked everything upto his mouth.
His inappropriate conduct shocked everyone in the house. They frowned, looking at him as he packed all the vegetables in his mouth. He began to chew with greed in a disgusting way.
Grandaunt said with distaste:
"I'm not eating vegetables any more."
All over a sudden, Pinky grabbed a bowl from her grandmother's hand and rushed to the kitchen. Everyone switched their eyes from Kevin to her confoundedly. In the kitchen she filled the bowl with vegetables which were left in the saucepan boiling on minimum fire. On fast steps, she returned, shocking them with a bowl full of greens vegetables.
Pinky stood with her bowl and looked at them while they watched fixedly at her with piercing eyes.
Grinning, Pinky took a few steps forward to meet kevin Moore where he was standing. Face to face, with her bowl full of vegetables in hands, she stood. Kevin's jaws paused from chewing instantly, looking affectionately at Pinky's beauty which was another wonder to behold.
Pinky, with a calm gaze into his eyes she said:
"I got you this as well, Kevin!"
All eyes on her, her relatives watched her playing a good Samaritan. Pinky chuckled at them and added:
"He maybe too shy to ask yet he is starving."
The love bond was at work, drawing the two together.
Grandmother smiled a go ahead, nodding in support of the brave deed her granddaughter chose to do. Grandmother's reaction was an energizing switch, giving Pinky courage to go ahead. She had never been so close to any man like this before. By the facial gesture of the grannies, they can tell that fire the young woman Pinky, was ripe, attracting harvesters.
Grinning, Pinky forwarded a vegetable bowl to Kevin. Without hesitation, Kevin recieved the bowl from her with two hands. Hunger had taken a place, disturbing his peace. And so, he needed to deal with it urgently. Kevin found his way down on the floor where he sat so comfortably.
Who really cares whether a stranger thanked on receiving or later, after solving his hunger problems?
With a quick hand, he chewed greedily
Grandmother, seeking a third leg from her walking stick, slowly she found her way to where Kevin was sitting. With curiosity, all eyes turn on her. She sat down face to face with him. A sharp gaze at the old woman sitting in his face. Kevin's jaws paused from chewing instantly once again.
In her old shaking voice grandmother said:
"Young man, you seem to have travelled a very long distance to come here."
Protective of his identity, questions crossed his mind immediately:
"How is she able to know?"
Keeping her smile warmer direct into his blue eyes to appear friendly, grandmother added:
"I know you're wondering how I am able to know. I'm just old enough to see what young people cant see."
Kevin Moore got stuck. His mind sighed:
"Old... enough?"
He remembered one day in his water world his mother took him out, far away from their usual areas on a tour. His mother led the way, swimming into a deeper hole. Everything in this hole looked different from all other places Kevin Moore had ever visited in their water world.
So amazed by what he was seeing by that time:
"A school of mermaids!"
Meg replied with a calm smile:
"Yes, only that we can't touch them and they can't touch us but they are happy to see you here. They're spirits of our ancestors. Most of them were old enough to die. But in this place every good spirit lives."
The surrounding lighting was a unique one. Not only spirits of hundreds of Mermaids but, some other creature that seemed to have extinct swam freely everywhere in this deep hole. The energies in this place appeared so beautiful.
Now, within Kevin's thoughts as he is down on the floor seated face to face with Pinky's grandmother,
"Why do they eat us if we have like factors? Could it be they are just heartless? But they fed me!"
Kevin stared at Pinky and added:
"And my heart runs too fast whenever she gets close to me!"
A lot of an unanswered questions lingered in his head. He swallows his vegetable to clear his mouth.
Some cultures don't know how to say thank you. But to show appreciation comes naturally. Kevin saw an urge to appreciate the hospitality of these humans, having solved his hunger case in his favor.
He cleared his throat and said:
"You've fed me, I need to give you something in return."
Suddenly, With his ability to heal wounds and cure illness, a lightening waved out of Kevin's muscles, the mythical powers that got Pinky, Jonathan, grandfather who was sitting very quietly at the dining shocked in fright. Kevin held Pinky's grandmother's hands and began to channel pure light through.
Jonathan and Pinky's hearts nearly jump out of their rib cages as they pounded hard in a sign of fear when grandaunt yelled scaredly:
"See..! See..! See what I've been telling you!"
A blinding barrier of strong blue light waves sorrouded and covered grandmother inside it to deflect attacks and absorb unwanted energies. One minute later, it all disappeared instantly.
Jonathan rushed close fearfully calling:
"Mother, Mother! What have you done to my mother?"
But what happened next was so shocking to everyone _ a testimony to give. As Jonathan supported his old mother to slowly raise on her feet so he can walk her to seat safely, the strength and speed at which grandmother stood, physically fit, was equal to none older than her.
In her old but now energetic voice, grandmother said:
"Am I sixteen years old again? That's how I feel right now."
Leaving everyone in an open-mouthed gaze, she walked majestically on a straight healthy back to meet her husband, Jonathan's father, were he was sitting. Grandmother support her husband, whose body was very weak, eaten by both internal and external old age diseases, to stand up and slowly walked him upto infront of Kevin and politely requested with a merciful look on her face:
"Please!"
With his kind heart, Kevin was so committed to repaying Pinky's family's kindness too. And after healing grandfather's illnesses as well, Jonathan was next on line. He sat down to recieve his blessing, a magical treatment for his metabolic disorder and food allergies, and experience how it felt.
Grinning in gratitude after waves channeled through his muscles, Jonathan sighed;
"Awesome!"
Jonathan can now enjoy his worst food and get no complications. Kevin was a god in a physical form they had prayed to, to visit their humble home and help with solving major problems. Hospital bills for both grandfather and grandmother every now and then due to old age complications.
Diabetes and total blindness for grandfather, and high blood pressure for grandmother were all out of the window now. And as for grandaunt, total silence became her new normal. She could feel a big shame upon herself, now that she's witnessing how happy every family member was. Why should she sit down on that floor face to face in need of his help right now?
Mentally grandaunt said:
"How can I face this boy? My attitude towards him has caused more harm than good. I feel so embarrassed."
Looking isolated, distant and lonely, Pinky came closer to her.
At this moment, guilty has occupied a wider place in grandaunt's soul that, she refused to step forward to get healed. Everyone noticed it when they raised a curiosity gaze at her.
Grandmother leaned in and whispered to the rest
"Look at her. She wants to get Kevin's treat but she's shamefaced."
Suddenly, all together as family came to her rescue. As Pinky pulled her by the hand, the rest gently pushed from all sides to bring her infront of Kevin. And as Kevin meditated with his eyes closed, grandaunty was finally paraded infront of him.