A Mysterious Hand

The 'Sweet Home' was no more. On zehan's tenth birthday they turned it into a pile of rubble. It all happened in front of his eyes but he couldn't protest with his tiny voice.

Then zehan took a tough decision as he watched the director and the other children cry for their home.

"They destroyed our home with the power of money huh?...then I will destroy them with the same thing..."

The fire of revenge burned furiously inside his child heart. The director decided to build another orphanage very far away from there with the offered money. As the director and other children moved away from this city, zehan willingly stayed behind. The director's request to go with them didn't move his heart from it's goal to take revenge.

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Zehan was now staying in the streets working as a labour. He was barely earning enough to feed himself. He has learnt how depressing and frightening poverty could be. But he still hoped that a miracle would come to help him complete his revenge and get him out of this poverty.

On zehan's 11th birthday he didn't had someone to celebrate with him. So he wanted to gift himself with a new shirt as his old shirt was ragged because of heavy labour.

He went to the nearby garment shop with the money he has saved till now working as a labour. But as he was short in money to buy even the cheapest shirt the owner shoo'd him away like a dog.

Angry and frustrated of his poverty, zehan started walking towards the little street corner which he called home. While walking he felt a little press in his right shoulder. As he looked back to see what pressed his shoulder he saw a hand.

He wondered whose hand could it be as the face of that person could not be seen in this dark alleyway..

[To Be Continued]