Along came Me

I left home at 15 and went travelling, fell in with a group that worked farms and anything we could get. One of the group, was mat 53 been all over including overseas. Had an idea to do better overseas, I was the only one who was interested in joining him at the time I was 19, the others believed overseas weren't worth the trouble. So just me and Mat headed oversea, by getting jobs on a ship. Mat had worked on ships before and with his knowledge I was able to get a job also. Once we were he wanted to be we got jobs there and I soon realized he was right everything was better there then back home. Money paid was better and health care was almost totally free, and we of course didn't stay in the one place we moved about. Mat had me save most of my money for a rainy day he said, but we were earning enough to enjoy ourselves as much as we wanted too. After years of working Mat got ill, turned out it was cancer, and it was it the late stages when he finally got checked out and it was found. He died several months later, now I was alone and decided I should return home just for a holiday mainly. I was happy living where I was but the home we owned had memories of Mat and I needed a break. I now 30 returned home and decided to look up my family, given up for dead years earlier. So, it was shock to them when I reappeared. My mother 49 was delighted I was alive and my sister 26 shocked but happy I was still alive. My father had died in 2020 of cancer heavy smoker all his life and his lungs both became full of cancer. My family were struggling and working whatever job they could get, my mother was ill and couldn't afford the medicine she needed. I got her the medicine, and she got better quickly, it was then I realized she would be better off overseas with me. So, I asked them both to return with me, but my sister was reluctant. She'd a friend 25 who was alone and reclusive my sister was her only friend and protector. So, as her friend was alone and the only reason my sister wasn't willing to go with me. I said her friend could come with us, another problem her friend wouldn't want to live alone in another country. I said she can live with us; No was the reply she would like that as she never wanted to intrude as she wasn't family. That's why she didn't live with my sister and mother, I replied Okay I'll marry her then. I was joking my sister said great idea and I suddenly found myself engaged, even my mother approved. Lucky for me her friend looked great and oh so shy. But pressed by my sister she agreed to the marriage. Quick marriage later and all passports and visas gotten we headed back to my home. One worry they had was the language, but most people there spoke at least two languages, and the second one was English, and many spoke better than we do. They were shocked by my home it was a lot bigger than they thought it be, even has I'd said it was 5 bedrooms. I was soon back working, and my wife was pregnant, and my mother and sister kept the house while they settled in. After they both got jobs in the tourist industry and my wife stayed home to raise our twins. Now 3 years since we all moved, we are all very happy with our new lives and my wife is pregnant again, my sister is engaged and soon to marry. None of them want to move back home, life is too perfect here my mother says.