Short Story || Light will come

- Listen, Moinar ma! If anybody comes at our house looking for me, you must tell them I’m out of home. Mr. Mazed, a primary teacher of a local person owned school, told hardly to her wife Aysha Begum and then went to bed at noon.

- Hey Allah! What are you saying? Aysha Begum astonished to his husband’s unexpected behavior as so far she knew that the person never tell a lie in life but now he forced her wife to do lie! I cannot tell a lie!

-Ok. Then I am going out. Mazid replied in angry voice.

-What happened? Why are talking as like a nonsense!

-Yes! Nonsense!  My every word is meaningless! I’m meaningless! I’m nonsense. Mazed started shouting. Hearing loud voice of father, Moina, a little kid of class three, came running to front room from inside of house. Seeing own loving daughter Mr. Mazed burst into tears. Ma, Ma…re…! How can we survive!  My school owner stopped to pay us salary! He said that due to lock down of corona, most of the students didn’t clear their school fees. That’s why …. I’m very poor man. I have no money. No deposit!  Mr. Mazed was crying. Grocer has claim to me. House owner has rental claim to me. How can I face them!!

Little Moina did not understand what to do in this unusual behavior of his father. She just said to her father, Baba! Don’t worry. Everything will be fine. May the Almighty bless us all!

Mr. Mazed hugged her daughter in a loving hand and kissed on her forehead.

-Yes! Moina! You’re right. Definitely Allah will save us all.

Everybody looked behind hearing a deep male voice at this time. Mr. Jamal, was standing at the door, who is the house owner of rental living house of Mr. Mazed. I have heard everything. Mazed bhai! Why are you so much tensed! We have been living together for more than one decade. Still now we are not thinking each other as family members! I’m very much shocked, bhai!

-I am undone bhai! Please give me some times! I will arrange your rent.

-Ohho bhai! What do you think! I am heartless! I am cruel! No…no.. bhai we all are human being. The Almighty has created us all. Forget about house rent.

-But…

-Don’t worry. I along with my family will be always beside you. We strongly hope to live together.

Speechless Mr. Mazed forgot to give thanks to his house owner for his generosity. He looked to blue sky through an open window and it seemed to him as blowing air whispering, darkness of corona will be vanished…. Light will come.