Tommy Castelli's Awakening: A Short Story

One day, Tommy Castelli saw a old woman running out of one of the local supermarket with bread stuffed in her bag. The thin woman had a ruddy and sallow oval face and glared at him. Her skin was wrinkled and she looked old and sick. Her hair was all messed up. The salesman ran out of the shop and screamed ‘You thief, give me my bread back’. She reminded him of himself before he was married, when he stole to survive. He then had a sudden thought about the girl that stole candy from his candy store. He recalled the memory of his happy times with uncle bob. He remembered when uncle bob took him alone out of all his children crabbing and when the cops made them throw back the crab because it was 10 inches and not 9. He recalled themselves laughing
about the lobster all night. His eyes were filled with tears, remembering him. The next day the cops raided his candy store and found a punchboard that he had forgotten to throw 30 years ago. They handcuffed him and took him to the same jail his uncle had gone to. For the first few days he was in depression and was screaming and crying all day. A few days later he heard someone say uncle dom. He tried to remember why uncle dom had left. For a few moments, he was stunned that he couldn’t remember but he eventually remembered. After all, it was his fault that uncle dom had left. Uncle dom was a He walked to him and asked him what he knew about him. On a sunny evening, Tommy Castelli was sick but uncle dom had no money to buy him food or medicines.
But he chose to hide this from Tommy Castelli and ran to the supermarket, the same one that the old woman stole from, and fortunately escaped but the police randomly came up to him and asked him for the bill. He ran for his life, trying to escape from jail, but he fell as he was quite old. The police took him in and he was given 3 months of jail. It wasn’t that bad but when he returned he had changed completely. He was now an honest man who never stole anything or was involved in criminal actions. When he came back uncle dom had come back, Tommy gave him a surprise and took him out for dinner.This was a big deal for them because they were very poor. While eating dinner, dom asked tommy ‘Where did you get all this money from’. ‘I stole it’, said tommy with ease assuming that dom was fine with it. Dom started screaming and ran out of the restaurant. Dom remembers that he said something like live on your own and never returned. Tommy felt horrible about what he had done and never forgave himself, and still doesn’t today. He also had a feeling that dom was no longer alive and if he was he wouldn’t remember him because he was very, very
old.