The Present

One fine morning, the principal received Chief Robinson, a big and busy businessman from town; it was a great surprise for him. The bigger surprise was Chief’s unexpected monetary aid to the school.

But Chief Robinson wanted to give something more to the school in memory of his late wife Jeniffer. To accept that present, one selected teacher from the school must go to Chief Robinson’s place.

When the school’s representative Mr. Valentine visited Chief Robinson’s house, he had to accept the Chief’s present with the story behind it: The story of intense commitment, possessiveness and sensitive love between Chief and Chief’s wife. There was the lesson for everybody to take that it is better not to get unnecessarily involved in the relationship of two loving and committed persons. True love is sensitive, and if a third person tries to disturb it, the consequences also have to be faced by him.

Mr.Valentine got the present with the big lesson. But he was not able to digest the horror behind it. Perhaps his own past became his own enemy.