Chapter 3

Before her admission into a medical school Amelia lived with her mother in the outskirts. It was their bad times. Her house was small and situated in the middle of a huge field along with few other houses. Her mother tried her best to make ends meet by working day and night after her husbands death. The owner who rented them a house was Jason's friend and he also lived in one of the nearby houses. He was the only person who truly cared for them. He had supported them through all the pains they had suffered after Jason's passing. He knew how their lives turned into a horrible nightmare just after his death.

They shifted from a huge white mansion to a smaller house in the nearby village. Amelia though small, remembered how they were forced to leave their house after Jason's funeral. Five men who called themselves a US government officials stormed in to make Gianna and her toddler leave the house that was rightfully earned by her husband. She could not show resistance to the officials who had come with proofs of offense against her dead husband. They left but she was not hopeless. She knew it was a grave allegation that had put them in so much pain.

Gianna despite all the pains had seen a spark in Amelia that flickered so fiercely that one day that could burn the hopeless embers of misery into a blazing fire of priceless enthusiasm. She had observed that Amelia was different. She was sensitive and inquisitive. Though Gianna couldn't afford much to meet her needs but she had made sure that her daughter went to a better school. She knew that Jason was a doctor and a scientist. His love and quest for knowledge was inconceivable. He had always wanted to do something bigger in life but his untimely death did not let him materialize his desires. He would definitely want his daughter to follow his footsteps. And it was evident from her overwhelming brilliance as well as her keenness to learn. "That's purely genetic,"Gianna would think. "She has definitely taken after her father. The thought of her husband would make her sad but at the same time she would feel grateful for Amelia's presence as a priceless gift in her life.