Scavenger

I and my wife were standing at a bus stop early in the morning. We were about to go to my sister's baby shower function. Suddenly my wife grabbed my hands. I initially thought that she was feeling romantic and so I touched her hip and pinched it.

She said "I didn't grab your hands as I felt romantic, I did that as I'm feeling scared."

I asked her the reason. She said that a scavenger was watching her for a long time. She also said that, that person seems to be unusual. I asked, "what unusual ?"

She said "he is having a good external appearance... "

Now I understood the reason. But I didn't reply to her anything. This made me remember about my past.

Soon the bus came. In the bus, I was thinking about my tough past life.

When I was 16years old: I completed my higher secondary school education. I was about to join my bachelor degree course. But during that time my sister's marriage was being planned by my family. So they had financial burden. They were running out of money. Now I felt I should not disturb them. So I decided to earn myself. I got permission from my family saying that I'm going to work with my friend in taking short films. But I didn't do it. I was working as a paper boy in the morning, a food delivery boy in afternoon and a scavenger at night times.

When I was working as a scavenger at night, several girls would see me and get scared. They would move out of that area very fast, rushing. Also during those days, several rumours were spread in social media that few people were involved in kidnapping young girls and children and those people would be acting as scavengers. So people seeing me would get really scared. I used to take my school ID card with me so that no one would hit me doubting as a kidnapper. Once I didn't get a lot of reusable bottles when I was working at late night. During that time I saw a girl who had fallen down on the road. She had fully consumed alcohol. I was trying to help her and suddenly a person hit me from my back. He shouted and thought I was a rapist or kidnapper. Then I cried loudly and showed my school ID card and explained what happened and then he said sorry. I went with bleeding mouth to my home and so my parents thought I had gotten into a fight with some of my friends. My dad scolded me and said "I will even fall on your leg, please don't fight with anybody because your sister is going to get married."

The days passed out so soon. Now my sister is going to have her own baby.