Little roses in the Litter. #1

#I am coming…

‘Ouch… why is this bitch still bleeding? I think some piece of it is still stuck inside my foot. That’s why it’s paining every time I step. I have to pick it out or else I can’t pick trash quick this day. But I can’t do it in this dark. I should keep moving and get out of here before it’s too late, before light strikes this night.’

Sahul moved stealthy in between the wild weeds and damp drainage of the industry. Leeches in the bog sticking to his leg sucking his blood; mosquitoes are biting every possible part of his body.  The broken ends of the fence cut his right foot making it bleed. The red blood made its trace along the marsh behind him.

‘Oh my god, save me from these bitches bites. I’ll fuck you all mosquitoes, get out of my way’ he mumbled angrily. It felt hard for his 16 years thin figure to drag his wounded leg in the logged water. Weed leaves cutting his hands and face with their sharp blades. But still he is determined to move. He had to get out of the factory premises before the sunrise, so that security won’t notice him. However they’ll get to know that the fence had been cut and stolen.

‘He is such an asshole, Rahul I will kill you after I come out of this shit. He said it’s all easy and he will be there if anything goes wrong. And now he ran like a dog the moment he heard the siren, leaving me behind. He took all the metal we cut out of the fence; I won’t leave him alive if he cheats on my share on it. But surprisingly no once is coming after me. Are guards sleeping? Sleep well idiots don’t wake up till I am out.’

His pace became slower now. His wound bleeding continuously and the blood loss making him weak in every step he takes.

‘don’t faint sahi, don’t faint.’ He whispered to himself, ‘you have been through much fucked up scenes than this. This is nothing for you. you will do it sahi, just few more steps. Lets do it you fucker’

Sahi was raise in an orphanage till he’s 13. He don’t know who is parents are, but he knew his sister who is 4 years younger than him and was raise along with him in the orphanage. Strange is that he spent 5 years with his parents but now he don’t remember even how they look. After 13 years he was thrown out from orphanage along with his sister because of the orphanage ran out of money and cannot afford to raise children above 12 years. But sahi didn’t belived it, he once stole the lunch box of ammaji, the head of orphanage. He thought that is the reason why he is thrown out of the orphanage. He thought it’s better to be out of it, because he thought the food he gets here from the money he made by selling the trash is of better quality than the food the orphanage served. He says that the food is often stale and smells like shit. Sahi managed to secure a little place in the slum nearby the orphanage where he made the shelter by standing the asbestos sheets and wood logs he gathered from nearby apartment construction. Her sister is an asthma patient and is often suffered with breathing problems. So, mostly she stays at home. Sahi is the only active earner. He has no friends and to him the sole reason to stay alive is her sister, pragathi.

‘Where am I going? Is this the right way out, if it is then why it’s taking so long. I am not understanding these routes in this fucking darkness. I swear rahu I will kill you for pushing me into this trouble.’

Sahi fell down. His eyes half open body half in dirty water. He tried hard to get up but he only managed to sit leaning on to a rock behind.

‘pragathi, its paining, the wound. I wish you would be here so you’ll help me. No, no. this cold, the water and the mosquitoes it’s hell here, you will get another asthma attack if you were here. I don’t wish that. But I should have listened to you when you begged me not to go for this. We are able to afford a meal for day. That’s enough for me, I have no big dreams. But I am not doing this for just money. Your asthma got worse these days and in coming rainy season I know how the hell it feels to you. I thought maybe If I would make some extra money We can make it to buy that inhaler which soothes your asthma like a magic as it did to Ramesh, the guy in orphanage who also had this asthma and always uses inhaler and I have seen him recover quickly when he puts it in his mouth, sucking air from it. Once I am out of this hell, I will drag my share from that dog Rahul and I will buy that inhaler.’

He tried to get up and stood up, his body shivering. The moment he tried to take a step, his bleeding foot collapsed unable to bear his weight. He fell down again.

‘shit, it’s getting worse. The pain, oh god, it’s killing me. I have to do something to get up and walk, if I don’t I will die here’

He managed to turn upside down still lying flat on the bog. His back is resting in the stale water and his face somewhat above the water with his eyes looking into the infinite sky.  The night darkness is slowly vanishing with the first light that is creeping stealthily.

‘Why you left me mom? Why you don’t like me dad? I lied everyone that I don’t remember you. I still remember the night you took me to orphanage, left me and sis in front of its doors. You told me that you will comeback with my favorite ice cream in no time but you didn’t. after you left, it began rain dad. Sister is only a year old. She cried for when it thundered. All night I cuddled her in my arms and sat there soaking in rain. I thought you will come back for sue. Even in the morning when ‘ammaji’ came to me and told me to admit in the orphanage I said no. I said that you will come back to take us, that you love us so much and won’t leave us like this. I told her that when you come back you will panic if you don’t find us here, so I told her that I will stay here till you come back. Even after we are admitted into orphanage, everyday I used to come out and sit on the same steps where you left me, hoping that you will come for us. But you didn’t. I hate you dad. I hate you mom.’

The blood from his bleeding wound gathered floating around him making that part of the bog red in colour. His eyes partially open and slowly he is losing consciousness. The night sky has lit bright now with the first light of sunrise.

‘I have to get out of here, Pragathi can’t live alone. I am not going to die here. I won’t. I am coming pragathi’

He forced to open his eyes. But he can no long feel his feet. All his body made numb and he cant even move an inch. He tried a lot but its all wasted, he cant move any part of his body except his eyes. He’s paralyzed due to heavy blood loss.

‘Help… somebody help me. Please…’

He shouted loud though his voice is weak and frail he tried his best to make him audible to surroundings. But he is already a long away from the factory. Everything around was empty sewage logged outskirts. No one stays there except for factory employees, even they stay in factory not here.

‘some fucking bitch come and help me… I am dying here…’

Hi shouts disappeared into the silence. His eyes closed, his blood bled, his struggle ended. He’s not dead yet, but he lost all his senses. Still his mind working, reciting his sister name, pragathi.

Tears flooded out from his closed eyes. His last breath resonated her name, He died murmuring his last words, ‘I am coming pragathi’.

End Word: My inspiration to write this is a book named 'Behind the beautiful forevers' by 'Katherine Boo.

[To download this Ebook: http://www.bookrix.com/_ebook-majety-chakradhar-i-am-coming/]

_MCD.