A man standing in the hall of his home, where he was now seeing two members, coupled, in an intimate position.
As he continued to stare at them, his chest started to feel tighter, and his breathing became heavier, his legs became weaker, and he fell to the floor, and he started sweating profusely.
The world around him seemed to dim down, and the sounds of his mother calling him didn't reach him. There was a sharp pain in his chest, like a jabbing sensation in his heart.
They say that life flashes before your eyes just before you die, and it was happening to him now.
This man had a tough life from a young age. They weren't a well-off family, and his father's drinking habit only dragged them down, and he was very abusive towards his family.
After the young man reached a certain age, he stood up to his father and kicked him out of the house. By then, he was in college but had no money to keep the house floating.
So he quit his studies and started working. He took care of his mother and sister. His mother had suffered from PTSD from her abusive husband, and it was tough for her to move on.
So he helped his mother pay for her therapist and took care of her daily, tending to her. His father, from the time he knew, was indifferent towards him and beat him up. He didn't know why or for what reason he had to hate his own son.
So he hated him.
After he started to take care of his family, he had no time for his life.
All he did was take care of his mother and sister, paying for her school, paying for his mother's therapist.
And after his sister completed college, she eloped with her lover in college and married him, without any word or discussion with them.
They were devastated.
Both mother and son.
He loved his sister and cared for her, and what she did broke him from the inside. He became sensitive to issues, even minute ones, and that's when he met a woman in his construction job. She talked to him as he was feeling down and looked glum. She sat with him during lunch hours and around break time, too.
They hit it off well, and it lasted two years.
Then one night, he found her with the site manager, groping her. No, he was all over her, touching her in places that made his blood boil.
When he confronted her, she said that he wasn't earning well and she needed money.
Again, the young man was devastated, and his mother comforted him. He moved on with his life, taking care of his mother and providing for her, as she was the only woman who cared for him.
But that was also shattered today as he saw his mother and his father, a man who hated all his life and the reason for his misery, sitting in his living room, intimate with his mother.
How could she get back with him?
How could she allow a man who destroyed their life into their home?
These were the thoughts that flashed in his mind.
His vision started to darken slowly, and he could feel his world crashing before him. The mother held her son, calling his name, and she could feel his life slip away. She wept uncontrollably.