Family Heirloom Challenge: "The Lonely Heir" -- by Shine

The Lonely Heir

By Shine

They had said that you would get an inheritance when your parents die. Well, it came true, and you were all alone with an old mansion that had been in the family for many generations, and you had other problems to face. People constantly tell you to sell the mansion, with all the things in it, and the property, and go find a new home to be a normal person. 

"Just sell this heap of junk and buy a different home! Sell your old antiques for money! They're all rubbish anyway!" People would say to you, but you had always ignored them. Even when it hurts you so much in deciding what to do with your life. 

Whenever you were alone, you would look at the stuff and the mansion. It still needed to be fixed, but sleepless nights with nightmares of loneliness kept you up all night with heart wrenching tears of despair. Everything hurts. You often wished that you were with your parents when the time came, but no, the time took your parents away from you, leaving you alone to face many things. 

"I wish I was dead! Then, I wouldn't have so many problems to deal with, and I wouldn't be so alone! The people out there threaten me over this old mansion!" You complained in rage, throwing rocks at your once antique flower pots and other pottery. You didn't care as you were so angry with mixed feelings. 

After you finished your steaming rant, you grabbed the boxes from the basement and the attic, and started shoving your family's stuff in them, so you can forget most of the stuff, but when it came to your favorite books and toys (that were handed down from generations), you couldn't bear to put them into the box. The same with your old baby stuff sitting in the old nursery, collecting layers of dust and cobwebs, so you left your childhood things in your old room, and shoved the other things into the basement, leaving the remaining things in the attic. You had to deal with them later when you were more mentally and emotionally stable. 

You stared at your old hand-me-down Bible from your parents and their parents and so forth. You couldn't bear the idea of putting that away forever, no matter how old and falling apart it was, you had to keep it with you at all times. You had nowhere to go and no one to talk to, so you felt very alone. Like the last person left on earth, waiting for your time to come to reunite with your family.