Charles Lomu

I will buy a car and I'll take you guys driving anywhere you want to go.

And I will become your driver and travelling because my grandfather never drove, my grandmother never drove.

So I always promised this to them when I'd get older.

And I remember one day I was asking my grandfather, would you ever visit Tonga again?

And he said to me, I'd only go back there to later rest.

That's the only time I'd go back there.

So we had this conversation, and that was that.

And then one year came during my teenage years, and my grandfather's getting ready to travel to Tonga.

And so we're all saying goodbye to him.

And I remember going to say goodbye to him, and he was really emotional.

And I was like, Grandpa, don't be too worried.

I'll see you again.

I'll see you again.

But he was really emotional.

And so when he went to Tonga, he ended up passing when he was in Tonga.

And when he passed, my mind went right back to that conversation we had where he said he'd only go visit again to be laid to rest.

And so I was a bit like... The way the news came to me was...

I was in bed, it was a summer holiday, I had my cousins over, we were in bed, just lying down sleeping in, like a normal school holiday.

And the news came, Grandpa had passed.

And I remember getting up and I was really, I didn't want to believe it.