“It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife
These 100 hundred words describe the journey of a wait - a wait of years, a wait for one phone call!
‘It is time. She hasn’t shown up yet’ Esoof
wondered.
Subtle wind, sweeping away dry
leaves from the verandah of his store, made him visualize her feeble structure hunched
on the support of that timeworn stick and those brown eyes that shone amidst a
wrinkled face.
‘Her expecting eyes, my denial
and her disappointment, it is difficult even after years of routine’, he
thought.
Meanwhile he heard his public
phone ring. Esoof swiftly ran towards her house jumping with joy.
‘Amma! Your call from Amreeka! It
is your son!’
But, they were carrying her orphan
body away, on four shoulders!
This post is a part of 100 Words On Saturday 11 Prompt : Your Call