A STORY- Take care of my eyes

 

Part 3

Rushing wildly the emergency ward, Sia’s parents asked for the doctor. Her mother was trembling like hell and her father’s white face made him unrecognizable. The doctor told them that Sia was lucky to have survived the terrible accident, but the lady driver, who Sia confirmed to be her friends nun, had died on the spot. But the sad news was still to be heard. The expression on her parents face suddenly turned from relief to horrify as they learned the ugliest truth. Sia was permanently blinded in the eye.

“What! O, this can’t be! Her mother had shrieked gripping her husband by the collar, who thought himself cursed that moment. She was the only one we had.”

They were so lost that they didn’t eve notice the doctor leaving them alone and Sia sitting helplessly on a wheelchair with bandage where her eyes used to be. This was her fate. Would she have no future? Will she never see the faces of her dear needy parents again? Her world had become a vacuum.

Several years had passed. Sia’s parents did everything to help, but no help came. Sia had left her school, her friends- everything she had in her world. She was tutored at home. She became so quite- even quieter that Monica used to be. Several years of quietness had taken away her mesmerizing charm. At first many families visited to give their grievances, but gradually they wet their own ways and rarely met again. The painstaking feelings were not because of people’s indifferent attitude but because they missed Monica and had hoped that she would one day come back to see her sister and say that she still loved her parents.

It was when Sia had reached a mature age of 27 that she had compromised with her life. She would often go out with her parents ad stroll along the pavements using her walking stick as a guide. She had become familiar with the paths leading to and away from her house. Sia was still beautiful, but helpless which forced people to keep their distance and acknowledge her with a pitiful glace to her mother. They had always prayed for help. Some hope. Which did arrive.