Tears and Fears

      

Her heart was beating as fast as a galloping horse. Nothing could stop her wandering mind hover helter-skelter. However, her motherly instincts could not but hold on to her resting child.

“Where would he be? Will he be back? Or he would have left her to face her storms all by herself.”, these thoughts kept overpowering her, while she sat beside her child. He was slumbering, unaware of his mother’s fears.

 “Tring, Tring!”, suddenly the phone rang giving her shudders. “Is it him? or …” She steeled her heart, and finally decided to receive the call. The child was aroused by the deafening sounds of the phone bell. She was distraught and destitute. The child was inconsolable and so was her heart.

“Calm down!” She tried pacifying the child. 

Now she rushed to answer the call. Her heart sprinted faster than her feet. As soon as she answered the call, the voice uttered, “Mrs. Shaw, we have discovered a few documents mentioning your name. We would like to come for the inquiry.”

“What inquiry? Who are you calling?”, she retorted.

The voice asserted, “ We’ll see you tomorrow!” And the voice hung the phone.

“Helloooooooo!”, she sat with a trembling heart.

She wasn’t settled yet, when the doorbell rang, “Ding-Dong!”

Her fear was immeasurable, her heart was pounding, and the child was unsettled… Everything was out of her control!

She swooned on the floor as the door opened.