Chocolate Uncle: A Short Story

Every childhood leaves memories of someone who left an indelible mark in one's past. Who was that somebody in your life?

A young man, waiting at an airport, sees a brand of chocolate he hadn’t seen in years and reminiscences about somebody from his childhood he had forgotten; a family friend who used to visit their home every fortnight carrying a small gift of chocolates and who was fondly nicknamed ‘chocolate uncle’.

For the boy, chocolate uncle was just another pleasant, affable, over-grown friend he could converse freely with every time.

But when life took an unexpected twist and it was time for goodbyes, the child realised how different his grown-up friend had always been.