At One Usually Busy Road's Daybreak at Christmas

That day was Christmas Even at the country's Presidential election done year, but to Tom, that year was as earlier two years as not so fruitful at getting chance to have a stable job, but he could never get insurance money nor pension, because he was surviving as homeless roamer at LA., very sometimes he either had a chance to be gifted charity by neighbor churches, but usually he spent his life at very old typed but simultaneously very shabby station wagon for staying and sleeping, for several months at this year. His raised age environment was as well as the one of top billionaire Bill Gates as Wood-Stock generation, he either participated in that concert as audience, those days he had a lover younger than him, and they were dreaming millionaire as honest as Gates, and he either ran those days at very smooth developing, but at a period he was engaged in some pioneering new model of transmitting system, he suffered from several very superior investors, engineers with Gates, or Jobs, and Wozniak, eventually he had very superior originality, nevertheless, he has no excellent sensibility to operate the business, that was the true reason to get his wife divorced and lose his trust around his camaraderie from his fellows and investors, then he could at last never revive his power at his field and he more and more fell to the cheapest levelled daily life, and until now he'd gotten only homeless life for several years. 

But he had one so confident life piety as his creed, it was his belief to Christianity with Jesus and praying honestly, then he wasn't disliked by the same circumstanced ones around his staying street at LA with same charity receiving life, even he had some special pride to his own intelligence and intellectuality, any other one must have had steady understanding to his personality as so gentle to the other ones. That road was relatively widened and at morning commuting time zone and noon lunch time zone, and evening going home time zone, but other time zone used to be so vacant especially after passing going home time zone, any pedestrian was not confirmed, but simultaneously even staying homeless ones were only staying their own shabby home as card board or instant dug and built hut. He either had some own pride at just starting period of homeless life to any other ones like him but with longer experience to him, nevertheless he gradually changed his stance and soon he threw all his unnecessary pride as ex-elite away from his mind and act, and he got to be assimilated with any other same circumstanced ones at that road sides. That year, certainly liberal idea President was elected at Presidential election, but his life mode was never so instantly switched, thus as usually as he spent that kind of days at that day as Christmas Eve at 2020. 

That year was very awfully periled with new corona virus pandemic at his country, and that anxiety was never expiring nor sunk, but he rather had a detachment and his mind was prepared to dare to die at that levelled life there. Nevertheless, that day was Christmas Eve, then at the time zone of evening glow, many ones were coming and going, passing that street. 

But after eight o'clock, few people was walking down that street. Then, he thought that it was about the time to get in his station wagon and reading Bible and praying some words and writing diary at his notebook, then he kindled candles for doing so. At the time, he was heard of singing tone from the outside of his wagon, that seemed to be a little girl's voice. That was Billie Eilish's song bad guy. He was noticed to that voicing and from the inside of his wagon, he confirmed that the girl was about a little beforehand of her adolescence age, and that appearance reminded him of his daughter whose mother as his ex-wife who was taking her from his home leaving only him. Then, very impulsively he called her voicing to her saying, "What are you doing now at this so cold winter Christmas Eve, by yourself, alone, how are your dad and mammy?" then, she unexpectedly strongly replied to him saying, "That calling is only for instant, I am not so, twelve years old already, you know!" Being heard of her reacting voice from his wagon, Tom was answering that her reaction, saying, "Sorry, your appearing was reminding me of my ex-wife taking my daughter, not so intentional calling to you, you see." Then, he re-asked her with so politely again, "Now are your parents staying your home?", then she immediately reacting that saying by Tom, "That is never my home, nor our home." Being heard of that answering content, Tom was getting some strong interest to her home circumstance and re-asked again, "What does that mean?" To his question, she instantly and bluntly replied to him saying, "My true Dad was leaving my mother and she by herself gave birth to me at city hospital and she raised me until now, but her guy was each different at each occasion, she was nurse, then now she was busy at nursing all inpatients at quarantined isolation wards, then she and I have no Christmas this year, but not exceptional to us, either this year, we had no Christmas because she anytime had different guy at Christmas night and only I was left at my single room so small but very comfortable to me only anytime I was alone." Listening to her confession about her life so silently, Tom was first asking her, saying," Are you going to school everyday except holidays?" To his questing, she immediately replied, telling him, "Yes, I am, at not holiday or so." To her that reacting words, he subsequently asking to her serially, "What subject do you like at your school life?" To his that question, she answered, "Physical education, music and art." to it, Tom, "Sounds good, you could be so healthy mentally and bodily, couldn't you?", to it she said abruptly, "I don't see it, uncle, are you living alone?". He surprised at that question, but that asking seemed to be so necessary, because his look was never so better to anybody who could watch so carefully. However, that thing was never so essential to that time Tom, but he got to like that pretty girl, she was a little reddened hair but normally seeming to be so clever, then he asked her again, "Are you having some good affectionate boy or so at your school?". And she a little showing her shy expression, answered his question honestly telling "Of course, I have that boy at the same class. When you were a child, you either had that girl too, didn't you?" immediately she responded saying so, and necessarily Tom was nodding, and quickly saying "But now I am alone, again." By the way, he synchronically thought that she as so pretty younger generation girl either had some so coquettish tasty womanish fragrance together, and with that idea, he remembered his one daughter between his ex-wife, and at parting her with her mother, those days, his daughter was about 17years old, and from the days on she must have gotten to be adult beautiful lady, but he was never looking at these process and not accompanied with these serial changeable life happiness. But it either was his destiny, he made his mind persuaded by its truth at some term for him as reviving spirit was emerging to him. 

He said asking that girl, "May I have your name, I'm Tom, and you?", then quickly she replied, "Linda. how do you do?", to it, Tom, "I'm fine today thank you, by the way, what do you intend to do, from now on? Now not so earlier for you as pretty little girl, here around is never so safer, then,..", to it Linda replied him saying" Today, I am not intending to go home, because not so favorite this time my mother's partner is the object now I want to stay away from and never contact nor approach, you know. If she arrived home but usually the one must be accompanied with her, he is the newest hospital staff guy working with my mammy, you see and agree to me now, okay?" ", being heard of it, Tom supposed her telling, "Then, why don't we take some dinner, because today is so far Christmas Eve, tonight, then very cheaper restaurant but so kind shopkeeper I know there, just around the corner, either I have some money at bank and credit card, very popular restaurant but not so bad taste shop, you know! I'll introduce you to there. ", Then for a while, thinking of it, suddenly Linda was showing smile to him and answered, saying" Sure, I'll be welcomed."

Tom was confirming his watch and that time was already 15minute before 9o'clock, he thought that easy talks unexpectedly spend the time so quickly, particularly to the lonely one like now Tom, of course he'd been thinking of his revival to the society even at what he could have never be the chance to succeed like what he held at younger days, but as these days' him could have, that trial and challenging was seeming not empty, and that aspect could be interpreted by even that younger lady like Linda, he believed so that night. 

That day, the street there had a little hastening going home ones so much, but except the time zone, other time was so empty after he met that girl so accidentally at evening glow time, when two with very older homeless male one and younger pretty elementary school older student gadding about these areas were arriving at the objected restaurant, just 9 o'clock. Confirming Tom's appearance, over the glass shield, older generation as really as Tom as mustache having Mexican tasty shopkeeper showed his greeting to him and when they entered into that house, he instantly, "Is she a grandchildren of you?", then Tom responded saying, "Yeah, the kind of what you say." And two were guided at one set table with two chairs. That restaurant was managed for night time employees, then last order time was eleven thirty, then still more than two hours were left to Linda and Tom.

That day was having skies condition of clearly skies' adjourning clouds shape, beforehand, forest firing at wind impacting orange skies were reduced its degree, and usually seen it was confirmed to citizens at that state. They ordered that days' special menu with turkey or so. 

Two were eating their menu slowly, at no talking, sometimes a girl Linda watched that old man's face, and he smiled to her reacting her eyes. And two persons were sometimes synchronically smiled mutually, he smiled to her reacting her eyes. And two persons were sometimes synchronically watched the proceeding of skies' accompanying clouds direction. And a little prior to the last order time, he urged her to eat up all and two after he payed that all account and called taxi with his smartphone, and accompanying that girl and after seeing taxi's coming, went out from that restaurant, and got in it together at backseat, and a little earlier to first destination of her residential apartment, his watch showed the Christmas day's coming, and he with farewell greeting to her and she either voiced to him "Merry Christmas!" 

She showed sometimes even at eating time, her anxious expression to him, probably with her future prospect's imagination, but he only looked at her it.

After "Good by, uncle" said Linda, Tom smiling to her said, "Have a good Christmas, and good year at next new year!". She just nodded to his smile and went into her house with her key to it. 

Tom asked taxi driver to go to his station wagon stationing point at his staying city. 

(end)

Dec. 24th 2020