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Why Is Elder Sister Lying On The Phone?
A loud wail startled him just when he was about to pee. The liquid froze inside when he realized the heart-wrenching sound was that of his mother. Soon it was followed by bawling of his elder sister as he slowly walked back to the source of the cries: parent’s bedroom. There in the bed, daddy lay still with eyes wide open; he wasn’t convoluting anymore. As he stood in the door, his second sister came running and dropped howling on daddy’s chest. In his seven-year-old life he had never witnessed his mother’s tears; slowly, tears trickled down his cheeks. The spectacled man and his spectacled wife from the adjacent apartment appeared followed by their spectacled daughter. They picked his second sister off daddy’s chest but the girl of ten easily loosened herself from their grip and fell back on daddy’s chest. Again they …show more content…
Daddy has left us. Huhuhhuuu huuhhuuuu... Why is elder sister lying on the phone? Daddy is just lying on the bed; in fact, he’s not moving at all, maybe due to his sickness. Oh! Yeah, all the people have come to carry him to the hospital. Mommy, sister is playing pranks on the phone. However, he soon learned that his sister was not lying and daddy had in fact left for god’s home. Even though he lay there on the bed, he was gone and will soon become a star. People had formed little circles and talked in a muffled voice – all sorts of conversation. College bro came and lifted him from the moustached man’s lap. Until that moment he had no clue where he was sitting or what that man had been uttering on his ears. : Come, let’s run down. Ok champ? Bro held his hand and took him out of the room, while bro’s mother brought second sister out of the room, and they all walked downstairs. The lady took his sister to her kitchen, while he sat on a couch in the sitting room. Bro came from the kitchen with a glass of yellow liquid to which he shook his head, but the youth placed the glass in his

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