A Single Girl On The Highway

"Mom, I'll be home in half an hour, Ok I'll call you later." Nisha disconnected the call as she saw that her scooty suddenly stopped. She came down from the scooty to see what's the fault. "Oh God! It seems that there is no fuel left in the scooty." Nisha said getting embarrassed. She noticed that on the highway she was driving the scooty and the area where her scooty stopped was a deserted area. It was nearly 10 pm, she was very scared. There was no girl on that highway, she was just a single girl there. She wanted help from somebody. She put and locked the scooty on aside and went for asking help from somebody.

After walking a few meters, she saw a paan shop on the side of the highway. Three to four men were sitting there. She was hesitating to ask help from them because today only in the newspaper, she saw that the headline was 'A girl being gangraped in Delhi'. But there was no other way left with her. With little courage, she moved forward and then she said to them in a scared voice, "Bhaiyaa, I-I think that the petrol of my scooty is finished. Could you please tell me where's the petrol ?" Then, there was silence for a moment and the men looked at each other's faces. Nisha's fear was increasing every second. After a while, one of them stood up and said to Nisha, "Madam, just stay here for a while, I would do something. Then, he went behind the shop where is truck was parked. Nisha was afraid of eyeing anyone there. Then, she noticed some of that some of the men were staring at her. Then, the shopkeeper asked her, "Madam, What is your name ?" She thought that what he will do by asking her name but in a soft voice she said, "N-Nisha."

After a few minutes, the man who went to his truck returned with a bottle full of petrol and with a chit in his hand. The man said, " Madam, Where's your scooty ?" She took him to her scooty. After reaching near it, he filled the petrol in it and told Nisha to start it. Then, the man gave her the chit and told, "Madam, Please open this chit when you'll reach home and drive carefully. She said Thank you to him and left for her home.

When she reached home, she rememembered about the chit and opened it. The thing which was written on the chit was, 'A single girl on the highway is not an opportunity, it is a responsibility.'