A greedy brother inherits a house and mocks his younger sister, who only receives five rusty antique watches from their late grandmother. Little did they know what those watches were hiding.
“So Grandma called you too? I thought you’d be busy at the library… Like a bookworm!” Brian, 26, teased his younger sister, Linda, 19.
She had just gotten out of the taxi. Fear filled her eyes as her heart told her: “Nothing will happen to Grandma. She’ll be fine. She’ll live another hundred years.”
Brian and Linda had come to visit their 90-year-old grandmother, Marlene. She had asked them to see her urgently.
“My dear ones, I want to see you one last time. I may never get another chance,” Marlene had said painfully on the phone two days ago…
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As she entered her grandmother’s bedroom, Linda coughed, noticing that it was quite dusty. Marlene was too old and sick to do anything for herself. She hadn’t swept the floor, and Linda saw that the ceiling was moldy due to leaks.
Linda opened the watch, and what she found inside would change her life.
“Grandma!” she ran and hugged Marlene, who was in bed. “Nothing will happen to you, Grandma. Please don’t worry. God won’t take you away from us because you’re all we have.”
Until a year ago, Linda lived with Marlene. She took good care of her and helped her a lot. She was even willing to turn down a life-changing scholarship, but she moved to the city to pursue a degree at Marlene’s insistence.
Brian entered the room, coughing and smiling. “Damn… I’m allergic to dust! Grandma, haven’t you swept and dusted your room?”
He approached and saw that his grandmother was sick and thin. But it bothered him less and he stood there, waiting to find out why she had called them.
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