Unvoiced Gratitude

Prologue:

Fear gripped Sarah's heart as she saw her blood-drenched hand unable to understand the situation. Her neatly ironed yellow-coloured stole had turned red all of a sudden and her eyes were crying for help. Her luscious pretty pink lips had turned pale and she was about to faint in a matter of one or two until two gentlemen in their early twenties offered her water. The throbbing pain in her heart was getting worse and frowns on her pretty face were visible. With a Shaky hand, she opened the bottle lid and drank some water until one of the two gentlemen asked her to sit and made her feel relieved. Aliyah on the other hand was crying badly and Sarah with her teary eyes was trying her best to comfort Aliyah until one gentleman grabbed Aliyah in his lap and reached the hospital and made the three of them relax a bit from this painful situation.

Epilogue:

On a warm and bright sunlight day, Aliyah, Her mother Sarah, and her sister Taniya (names changed) were heading towards her maternal home in a camper that they stepped in a couple of seconds ago. Her home has been beautiful and a cozy place for four-year-old Aliyah where she would often play with her friends in the neighborhood and live every moment of her life happily. The prettiest doll which she still remembers has been her childhood fascination. She used to dress her up and would often tie her hair up in a hair band.

   Meanwhile, On the right side of the camper sat her mother Sara, and on the left side sat her sister Taniya making Aliyah sit in her mother's lap. Her mother's lap was a warm and tender place for Aliyah where she always finds her safe. Amid all those honks and squeals Aliyah fell asleep in her mother's lap and the cramp slowly begin to occupy the vagabonds. Her mother amid the scorching heat does not bother to wake up Aliyah sat peacefully in her niche waiting for the driver to speed fast the cramp as the heat was irresistible to bear.

   Watching through the window pane waiting for a few more seconds eventually, the cramp slowly started to move, and a cold breeze of air hit Sarah's blessed face and she heaved a heavenly sigh of relief amid scorching heat. Wearing a yellow-colored stole over her head she was enjoying a beautiful view outside her window seat meanwhile protecting Aliyah as her neck continuously kept falling over the sides amid all those cranky jerks.

      

 By now the time is three past ten in the afternoon their cramp reached "Lalchowk" a place called the heart of the city in Kashmir and stopped for a bit amid a huge cracking noise causing chaos over there. The cramped vagabonds trying to figure out what this situation is all about eventually get to know from passers-by that this huge cracking noise was of a bomb blast that blasted somewhere close to their cramp resulting in the breaking of the window pane leading all vagabonds to run for their life amid that unwanted chaos.

    Meanwhile, on the other hand, Sarah's face visibly shows fear sending shivers down her spine and making her realize to look for her children. She began to search for Taniya amid all the rush and eventually found her holding the hand of a passerby. Breathing a sigh of relief she was about to caress Aliyah when she saw her hand drenched in blood and spilled all over her dress. Amid all this panic situation she began to scream only to figure out where this blood come from.

   

Amid all this fuss surprisingly Aliyah started to cry badly only to let her mother check out that this shell has hit Aliyah's head and this is where the blood put forth. Sarah with a shaky voice started to scream for help but no one offered her help until two gentlemen in their early twenties stopped and offered her help and sympathies. Moving on, one of the gentlemen grabbed Aliyah in his lap and reached the hospital, and in a matter of minutes Aliyah who was crying badly due to her head injury was all dressed up in a hair plaster and her mother Sarah heaved a sigh of relief and thus another innocent life was saved by the unknown Angels of the earth. Aliyah and her mother Sarah wanted to express their gratitude to them but to their surprise they were nowhere to be seen.

    

 Till today Aliyah still remembers that haunting day and she owes her life to those two Unknown Angels of the Earth for which her heart still yearns to express her Gratitude to them if she happens to meet them once again in her life.