One Body Two Soul

2.

A girl is travelling on a bus at around 2 PM. She was seated at the back with an empty seat beside her. She opens a book and starts writing.

'It's time for me to confess my feelings for him. The days we spent together has brought a new light in my life. After I return, I will tell him how I really feel about him. It's time to take a new step in my life. He is a new ray of hope. I finally got a second chance in my fucked up life. If he hadn't stumbled upon me that day, we would have never met. After that day, our coincidences grew and I knew this was fate, he was my destiny. It's time to grab it and make him mine forever'

She closes the book and stares outside the window. This book was her personal diary and she would write whatever she felt or occurred that day. She was a loner. She did not have any place called as home. She was finally getting back to see him. She met him few years ago when she was lying on the roadside. He had rescued her that day and took care of her. When he knew she was a homeless person, he let her stay with him and helped her get back on her own feet. He showed me what I loved the most. I loved kids and loved being around them. So doing a volunteering work around an orphanage was a good work. And to my surprise, he was an orphan from the same orphanage I wanted to work at. That's how our bond tightens and I help him around the orphanage.

This orphanage was located in a remote village. The village was not even famous and not much people knew about that place. The orphanage was in tatters. The floors had holes, plasters were peeling off the wall, No proper toilets or bathrooms, No electricity, the foundation had cracks all over. The whole place was like an abandoned building ready to fall apart. And to no ones surprise, it did fall. A huge wall of the main section crumbled to the ground and the whole building leaned sideways making it dangerous to stay in there.

The kids were back on the road without a home and they started begging for alms. I knew I cannot let these kids suffer as I did when I was a kid. I wanted to do something for them. I wanted to make them a home so they can sleep under a roof instead of the sky. All the elders of the village planned to make a building for the kids and a school. We did not have enough money to build a concrete building, so we decided to build small wooden houses. All helped in building these houses made of bamboo and wood. After a year, we were able to make 5 big buildings consisting of few rooms for the kids and also a school so we can teach the kids here.

My man was from the same village and was a forest ranger. He would guard this village with his team and was called as chief. He was the most respected man and everyone would always rely on him. They even made a small cabin so I could stay in the same village. I was returning back from the trip from my actual house. Yes, I am homeless. But I did have a home and a family. My drunkard father and a prostitute mother took great care of me. When they had shortage on money they were even ready to sell their own daughter. That was the reason for eloping from the house and surviving on the streets for months.

I had gotten the news that my father was dead. Ofcourse, a heart failure. He deserved it. He was a drunkard and an abuser after all. My mother is a master piece, she was so happy that my father was dead that she was dancing around his corpse. I just looked at my father's corpse and walked away, deciding never to return again. This was not my home, my house was in that village with that man.

As she was thinking about her past, the bus starts jerking and finally stops. All the passengers wonder why the bus stopped when they had not even reached their destination. When they got the news that the bus had a flat tire, all got down one by one with their luggage to wait for the other bus. She was standing at the footpath with the book in her hand when someone nudged her and the book fell on the road. She kneeled down to pick it up, but a bright light distracts her and she turns to her right to find a vehicle speeding right at her. In a second, the book flew from her hand and it falls again on the road. This time, we see a bloody hand fall beside it.

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"Fu Xing, slow down!"

"This is so much fun Lu Fang, just chill out"

"Just because you aren't drunk doesn't mean you can drive like crazy. Stop it before you hurt someone"

"There is not even a single vehicle on the road who do you think I will hurt"

Xing drives the car in zig zag fashion trying to show off the car and it's speed. He does not even listen to Lu Fang's words and raises the acceleration.

"XING, LOOK OUT❗"

The car crashes into someone and a panicked Xing just drives off without stopping to look at the person he hit.

"What the fuck Xing! Stop the car. You just hit someone"

"Shut the fuck up Lu Fang. You want to end up in jail?"

"The CCTV camera must have already caught on with the license plate number. So just stop the car. The person must be still alive. We can take her to the hospital. We might save her"

"I said SHUT UP Lu Fang. We are going home and getting rid of this car. You know who's car this is right?"

"Shit! Shen Wei!"

"Yes, Shen Wei. He will fall in trouble as well. Let's talk to his dad and figure it out"

"You messed up Xing!"

"Well, I didn't enjoy doing it. Stop running your mouth and let's get out of here"

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"Now your son is in very serious condition. He needs a heart transplant right away"

"Please! Please doctor! Please save my son"

"We will try our best Mrs Shen. But,...."

"But what?"

"We don't have a donor yet. We will have to check other hospitals"

"Take my heart! Take my heart!" Wei's mother frantically cries. Mr Shen holds her close and tries to console her.

"Please take my heart and save my son doctor"

"Please calm down Mrs Shen. We will look into it"

The doctor walks away. Just then Mr Shen gets a call and he walks away to take it. After some time, he walks back and informs that he will see the doctor for a minute and asks Shao Lan to look after Mrs Shen. After a long discussion for about an hour, the doctor returns back and informs that a donor is ready to donate the heart and Wei is first on the list to get it. They all happily pray to lord for giving an opportunity in his life and after an long operation, Wei was out of danger with a healthy heart.