Sunday, April 23, 2017

Silent Screams (Part 4)

Sameer was in the ambulance with Anandita laying unconscious and bleeding profusely. The first person that he thought of calling was his sister, who had recently passed out of their school.

"T.. Tanya," Sameer sounded very frightened and out of breath. "What happened?" She asked assuming the worst, "Are you okay?"

"I..I..." He stammered. "What is it?" Tanya screamed through the phone. By then, their mom was trying to snatch away the phone from Tanya to speak to Sameer. His mother had already started crying assuming that something had happened to Sameer. "Tanya," Sameer said and took a deep breath, "nothing has happened to me. Ask Amma to calm down." After Tanya passed on the message, she considerably calmed down. "Do you remember Anandita?" He asked, "the quiet one." "Who?" Tanya asked puzzled. "The chubby, quiet one from my class." "Oh! That cute little teddy bear," Tanya said, "yes I remember her. She is one of the purest souls that I have met so far."


After a few seconds, she realized that there were sirens going off in the background. "Why are sirens blaring around you?" Tanya asked. "I am taking Anandita to hospital. She's bleeding terribly. Someone has attacked her. She was being constantly bullied and none of us did anything to protect her. Teachers didn't help her either. I think it is one of the bullies. I feel really guilty Tanu."

"Which hospital are you taking her to?" Tanya asked. "Surya hospital," Sameer answered. After that she hung up. Sameer knew that his sister was angry at him for letting this happen. Now that he thought of it, somewhere he was also responsible for Anandita's condition.

Next, he had to call her family about Anandita's condition. He suddenly remembered about the bag that he had tripped on. The strap of her bag was still across her body and her hands were gripping at the bag strap before she fell unconscious. He pulled the bag to his side carefully​ and rummaged through it for a phone number. He found an identity and when he pulled the ID card out a peice of paper fell with it.

He wasn't sure whether he should read what is written on the paper or not. First, he called Anandita's.mother and decided about reading the piece of paper later.

When he called, Anandita's mother was in frantic mode. He quickly told her the address.of the hospital and cut the call.

Just as he was about to open the paper to read it , the ambulance arrived at the hospital. Sameer stuffed the piece of paper in his pocket and proceeded to help the doctors get Anandita from the ambulance into the hospital.