Malik's War: A Short Story

The marriage that brought Malik’s parents together was arranged after countless hours of consideration. Two young adults from well to do families were pushed into a union that held no real meaning. Neither of them even knew the others name until a week before their wedding but they managed to make do with the situation at hand. For a solid year after they were officially husband and wife there was a constant argument about where they were going to set up home since both were from completely different towns they desired to return to. Once the battle had begun it didn’t end for months when their families finally stopped the feud because it was beginning to affect the work quality provided by the couple. Eventually they were relocated to Felicity …show more content…
To combat the neediness that their child showed one parent made a sacrifice in taking on only the workload that could be managed from home. His father had offered to take on the duty instead but Malik had always been a mama's boy and insisted on more meltdowns when the woman was out of his sight. With the matter settled his parents began making plans to put the new lifestyle into effect immediately. It took countless months to become accustomed to the drastic change yet all of it was worth it due the silence that tended to ring out in their household. A happy little boy apparently made for pleasant parents though his father did start traveling to make up for the slack caused by his mother's altered position within the family's business. While there were certain charms to watching her little boy grow in front of her eyes that didn't mean his mother desired to monopolize him. Socializing Malik became a top priority for the sake of his future and the prospects of the companies their sole heir would undoubtedly run. That's how he met his first childhood playmate,