Good Samaritan

Paradise!, angels around and the soothing music, she was all smiles….wait!! She could feel something crawling on her body.. she just tried to shake it off, but no she could not move. She tried to open her eyes, which were still sleepy and could feel a heavy body on hers trying to take her clothes off. She just shrugged her shoulders and called out for her mother Maa! which astonished that heavy man such that he was not even thinking that the girl would scream so loudly. Good, it made that heavy figure just got off her body and walked out of the room briskly. She sat up in a state of shock and vaguely remembered his face as there was still time to dawn. Her mother came running asking her daughter what had made her scream so loudly. She briefed her mother the reason of screaming. On listening to her daughter, her mother hugged her tightly and lifted her from bed and just ran down the stairs.

Her mother was scared now as she did not know how to tackle this problem, but it was serious considering her daughter’s tender age of 5. They lived in a joint family wherein all the male workers would go out of the house in the morning and would return only in the evening leaving behind only the ladies and few workers at home.

Mother made it a point to her daughter not to reveal this incident to anyone in the house and told her to scream at the top of her voice next time someone tries to get close to her and if the other person did not budge, then the mother also instructed her daughter to hardly bite the hand of the person whoever is advancing to touch her. Little did the daughter know that her mother was a super genius and was trying her level best to save her daughter from the demon’s hands.

Mother became so vigilant now that she always made it a point to have an eye on her daughter and kept her engaged in something or the other. One day it so happened that while the mother was busy in her household chores, daughter just slipped out of the house in search of a ball that she was playing with. The loud scream from her daughter alarmed her mother, and she ran out of the kitchen in search of her. As soon as she saw the worker next to her daughter, she slapped him hard on the face and took her daughter away from him. The worker was trying to talk to her mother, but all in vague. Little did the mother realize that her daughter had hurt her knee so badly while searching the ball, that it had made her scream so loudly, and on hearing this the worker came to pick her up from the ground and was trying to clean the wounded knee, and the mother who came running saw this and mistook the worker for being the molester and had hit him hard.

The mother was trying to pacify her daughter who was crying uncontrollably pointing at her knee, which then made the mother realize that the wound was deep and bled profusely. Unaware of all this, the worker followed them till the house and offered her to take to hospital. Mother was at loss of words. She sheepishly agreed to it and took her daughter to the hospital along with her worker. After the first aid was given, the worker treated both the mother and daughter with a candy and they both went home happily.

The night was so tiring for the mother that she fell off to sleep instantaneously. Her daughter was still playing with her dolls and took to sleep after a while. They both woke up together. Since her daughter still had pain in her knee, mother had to carry her down. After the daily routine, she made her daughter ready for the fare that was happening in a village nearby. The daughter was all excited to go to the fare and kept on pestering her mother to finish off the household work fast, which she finished quickly.

While they were on the way, the worker came and offered them a lift, to which they obliged happily and reached the fare early enough to go around and buy some fancy stuff for themselves. While going around the girl mistook her mother for someone else and went behind another lady, when she felt a heavy hand lifting her from back and closing the mouth. When she realized, it was dark and could feel her mouth closed with a stinking cloth and her legs and hands were tied tightly. She saw a heavy man approaching her slowly. She could not do anything and closed her eyes tightly and thug…..

She heard a loud sound and the heavy man fell on the ground with a scream. Behind him stood her mother with a heavy stick, which hit the heavy man’s head at the back. The mother rushed to her daughter and untied the ropes and the cloth around her mouth. She hugged her daughter tightly and ran off from the spot. They reached home and as the daughter was hungry, mother fed her nicely and put her off to sleep, and she too tried to catch up with sleep, but in vague.

The next morning, daughter woke up and came down the stairs to find that her mother was standing outside wherein there was a huge crowd. She could see the worker talking to her mother in a strange manner. She could hear the drum beats and she rushed to her mother and was picked up by her mother so that she could see what was going on… The village priest was on the death bed with flowers all around and a bandage on the head.

The priest was very close to their family, but not to the extent that the mother thought that he would resort to such a grimy act of molesting her own daughter, who was like his granddaughter. The only clue that led the mother to the culprit was the smell of sandalwood, which she smelt on the day the incident took place, which was very evident of this priest since he was always in the temple surrounded by the fumes of the sandalwood incense stick. The priest was a Good Samaritan to the village but to few, he was???

The daughter was unaware of this, mother though aware of all this, kept numb and went on with life, and the worker did his job as a Good Samaritan who was indeed a True Samaritan. …..