Episode: 9 ( last part of this series)
Mom calls and says,
"Rabeya, your father's condition is very bad, I don't know what to do."
"What happened to father?"
"I don't know, it's hard to breathe and I can't speak properly."
"What happened suddenly, mother?"
"I don't know what else to do, I don't even understand what you do."
"Mother, give it to Fatima."
"Well."
I said as Fatima picked up the phone.
"Fatema, tell Raj Kaku now."
"Apu, Raj Kaku is not at home, I went to call. But no one knows where he has gone.”
"Well, you call a nearby doctor."
I hung up the phone and saw the time! It's half past twelve, I can't go alone from Jessore to Alam Nagar this night. Sohag has not returned home today and I have to wait till he comes. Arms and legs are getting paralyzed. I don't know what to do, I don't understand what happened to my father. Walking from place to place, I can't keep myself still. It's twelve o'clock in the night, it is impossible for a girl alone to go that far from Jessore. It is difficult to find a girl and a car on him for so many nights. I will not get any car except one from Dhaka. Then I called my mother again.
"Hello mom and dad how are you?"
"I don't understand, mother, I'm very scared."
"Don't worry I'm doing something."
I hung up the phone and left the room. Waiting eagerly for Sohag near the door. I am calling him and he is not answering the phone. Thoughts are swirling in the head. Suddenly the door bell rang. I quickly opened the door. Seeing that Sohag had come, I felt tears in my soul.
"Sohag come with me."
"Where do you mean to go with you?"
"Father's body is bad, father is very sick, mother called."
"Your father is sick every day, what's new?"
"Please don't argue today, father is really sick."
"So what do I do? I didn't hold you back."
"Sohag, look at the time, it's a quarter past one. Do you think that a girl alone can go this far in such a night?”
"What am I supposed to do here?"
"Get your bike out and go."
“I can't. Look Rabeya I am so tired today I can't even drive a bike now.”
"Sohag my father is sick and you are wearing your body."
“When your father is sick, you are not right. And I don't feel sick on you."
৳ Sohag I am not in the mood to quarrel with you please go.”
Sohag did not say anything even after making so many requests. Seeing that, I hugged Sohag's leg.
"Please come Sohag, please have mercy on me, I know why my heart is not obeying me today. You go with me once, I would go alone in the daytime. I can still go alone but it will take a lot of time to find my car.”
But Sohag said,
“Look I won't go when I said I won't. I am asking that Shariful next to us to take out his autorickshaw, you can do it."
He won't go but I'm glad he's arranging something.
Then I left for Shariful by autorickshaw. It was one thirty. As soon as we came from Jessore to Phulbari Gate, the police stopped our car. It took about fifteen minutes to explain everything to the police. Then Shariful did not stop the car anywhere else. At about half past two I reached home but did not find father. Because Raj Kaku went to Khulna Medical Hospital with his father. I rushed there, called my mother many times but no one answered the phone. The inside of the chest gradually became heavy! Something seemed to be missing, the chest felt empty. Then it took me an hour and ten minutes to reach the hospital from home. After reaching the hospital, I frantically searched for them. But I can't find it, I searched all over the hospital but couldn't find it anywhere. As if I kept seeing darkness in my eyes, my hands and feet slowly stopped working. I started running again. Suddenly I bumped into someone and said sorry, I looked up and saw Raj Kaku.
I was relieved to see Raj Kaku.
"Kaku father, mother, where is Fatima?"
"Yes they all are."
"You know how restless I am not to find you."
"Let's go, well, what's up with Kaku Baba?" What happened suddenly, what did the father's doctor say?"
"Rabbi"
"Hey uncle, tell me"
Must have been influenced by father, or something else? Nothing will happen with this Fatima. Now I will heal my father for a few days and then return home.
"Rabeya!"
"Hey, don't tell me, Cuckoo."
"Rabeya, your father is no more."
I could not see my father's living face despite coming so hard. This pain was making the chest heave. The word burned me inside and out. So I couldn't stand it. Before hearing those five words from Raj Kaku's mouth, I fell down on the ground of Haspal. When I opened my eyes, I heard my mother's sister screaming. Mother's hoarse scream.
"Ogo, why did you leave me alone like this? What do I live with now? Take me with you.”
The sister's chest burst into tears.
"Daddy, where did you go?"
I just couldn't cry. I tried so hard to cry but I couldn't. As she sat in front of her mother, she gripped her chest and moaned.
"Mother and mother you have never seen your father's face alive. Oma used to tell me a lot about you and what happened to your father. We were left alone."
Still I couldn't cry. My heart and soul cried out, but no words came out of my mouth. Then father took a bath. When I was taking my father for the funeral, I heard the cry of my soul in the whole neighborhood. Screaming "Baba" I went to catch my father. But then the father went out of touch. When I remember that pain, my chest bursts into tears. That day I regretted for the first time that if I had been a boy and not a girl I could have touched my father for the last time.”
After finishing the words Rabeya wiped her tears.
Mr. Sumon Rahman wiped the tears from his eyes with a handkerchief. Ramani, who was sitting in front of him, didn't want to do any more jingles, but he didn't ask a question, so he sat down with the question,
"Sohag?"
"Sir he came with me and my family
to take with you. Why do I know that day he is also mine
I thought he was a criminal, if he was with me
He would have brought me without arguing, maybe I am mine
I could see the living face of my father. i know mine
I am not lucky to see my father's face alive, but she says that
Human mind, so I gave him back. then mom
I came to Dhaka with my sister. Job interview
And I succeeded. Then the story stops here
gone Today there is money, there is a house, but there is no happiness
Which was in our Golpata room. today
I can eat cow's meat if I want, but that's it
There is no happiness that my father's blood has brought
There was salt." You know, sir, I could have gone out alone that day, but I couldn't. You know why? Because I'm a girl."
"I could have judged their torture that day, but I couldn't. Because I'm a girl."
"I didn't have to marry my mother that day because I was a girl," said the society.
"That day I could have taken the responsibility of my parents but I couldn't. Because I am a girl."
"Yes, sir because I'm a girl."
Rabeya left after saying the words. Sumon Rahman looked at him.
"He's trying to say the only reason you won the war is because you're a girl."
~~End~~
No one should have to fight a war like Rabeya. May everyone be happy in everyone's life this prayer. Forgive the mistakes. Thanks for being by my side for so long.
