The Last Call

A Lady named Sifa had an older brother and his name was Shihab. It was thought that the bonding between these siblings was one of the remarkable bonding in their area. People mostly named their names when their children were fighting with each other and even envied other's achievements. Sifa was a lady who was brave enough to do any kind of task and had a very much hard-working mentality. She loved his brother too much that once her brother was anything reckon to eat, she would instantly take an attempt to cook the dish.

© Carolina Pimenta

They lived on the bank of the river. At the time of her childhood, she once went to attend a marriage ceremony through a boat with her older brother. That time when they were near to the riverbank, suddenly a gigantic storm started and the heavy waves strongly pushed the boat and everyone inside the boar was in fear, what if the boat sink into the stream? And this thing happened in a very short time. Before anything could be properly comprehended, the boat capsized and sank under the water. She was approximately 7 years of age.

Her brother was just 3 years older than her age but so strong and brave enough. She did know how to swim on the contrary Shihab drove into the depth of the stream to save lives and he was able to save a couple of souls from dying along with his younger sister. It was such a memorable incident in her life that her beloved brother saved her life from dying. Yes, after a long time, when they both were mature, the bravery tale she would tell with her brother's kids.

She had a fear of marriage because the childhood event made a huge impact on his psyche. But somehow she got married and had a son although the marriage was not last for so long. She had to shift in his father's home again and she had been taking full attention to the boy. But one day, when her son was in class 6, she got a great proposal to get sit on the marriage again. Although she had not had much interest to do, her parents forced her to agree to the proposal.

Yes, everything was going well and she had shifted to another City along with her groom. But her has not with them at the very beginning of the journey, after a couple of months her partner was satisfied to take her son and bring in the family to make her wife pleased. That day she had no bound of joy as she got her beloved soul a long time back. The situation was pretty fine and she realised It was a great decision to marry the guy.

One year after her marriage spent like a sweet dream for her. One day she felt a huge headache and her partner instantly assumed her to a nearby hospital and the doctor said, " Nothing to worry about at all, she is quite fine now. " Her headache was as a usual situation for every day. As doctors did not find out any major issues in her reports, she took a decision to go to his father's home to get a little bit of mental peace.

Her physical condition was not good, in fact, it had been going to worst and she might feel that she has not too much time on her hand. Yes, it was the time when she had to return to her living place. On the road, in front of the main gate of the house while waiting for a vehicle she noticed her beloved older brother had been passing in front of her riding a bike. Watching him, she screamed out by his name, " Brother, stop I have to say something to you. " he was in hurry, and without reducing the gear, he replied, " I will call you later. "

The next day, he forgot to call her sister and a pathetic news he heard that his beloved younger sister had a brain stroke and she was no more. The news was too tough for him to believe. His inside was screaming although he could not express it as he was so older. He had to back her dead body and he dug a grave for her. Every time he got recall the last call of her. It was a dark night after graving the dead body he sat close to her grave lonely and expressing all of his emotions as there was no one to detect.

All of a sudden, while touching the bamboo shuddered, it was maybe happened just because of his tiredness or maybe she wanted to tell the last word. Maybe she would petition to look after his young son or delivery her massage through Spiritual Being.