Value of being "VALUED"

  THE 'STEP NEIGHBOUR'

Like everyday Kiara drop Divit to school gate and shoulder him his bag and water bottle and once again remind him all the major highlights of his project so that at time of presentation he can be more persistent and confident in his speech, as soon as she left the school in some distance she saw on car mirror that Divit left his project file on back seat of car. Kiara get irked but took a deep breath and went back to handover his file, Divit was already standing on school gate and seems impatient and worried ,after seeing his mother's car coming back to him gave him sigh of relief and a little grin on his face.

That day Kiara got late at office and due to immense work she didn't get time in lunch hour to pick up Divit from school and drop him to home so that day she thought to book cab for him. She called up Divit claas teacher Ms. Jhanvi asked her to leave Divit to the cab.

In evening when Kiara returns to home she heard weeping voice of Divit from his bedroom she rushed to him hugged him and asked why he is crying, he told his mother he got stucked in building elevator while coming up home for couple of hours and due to continuously screaming and short breathness he got fainted in elevator itself, but due to grace of god a boy from neighbourhood whom he never met call society guards from downstairs and rescue him. He took Divit to his house also called up the doctor,once he felt better boy leave Divit to his house,after listening this shocking incident Kiara gets panic and worryingly inquire about his well being, she softly pats her hand on Divit's head and massaged him enough so that he gets all the soothing care and nursing of his mother and immediately he felt asleep. She straight away called up the security guards and asked address of that boy who helped Divit also she thanked security guards too.She immediately went to his house as soon as that boy opened the door Kiara's eye poped out of her face and she looked little trembled,multiple scenes started running in front of her eyes.

She recalls some days before while returning home from office  she saw on road side a teenaged boy was lying on road and splash of blood is flowing out of his leg, she was about to get down from her car but stooped after seeing there were already two cars, a bike and some people standing near to him, some were anxiously doing something on their mobile phones so she assumes they might be calling ambulance or cops thinking that she left the accident location as she was already late and Divit was all alone at home.

When she was lost in past memories she heard voice on her ears aunty...aunty...aunty who are you? what do you want? she some how attain consciousness and make her self stable and told her identity and thanked him for  his help and care towards his son.She asked that boy about his leg because it is clearly visible that his left leg is artificial, boy with tears in his eyes told her; aunty i met with an accident some days before on street many cars and bike stooped beside me  but most of them took video of my accident , one uncle called up hospital but carelessly provide wrong address to the ambulance guys and after all the mockery they all went away without waiting for ambulance.Out of all of them i was mostly get disappointed by one aunty who was in luxurious red car because she even didn't get stepped out of her car and drove away, she seemed educated in comparison to other bystanders who seems to be cab drivers and blue collar worker,due to all these irresponsible behaviour medical help reached me very late and doctors had to cut off my left leg to  control toxicity spreading in my body speedly to safe my life.After listening this frightening tragedy and considering the fact how this boy despite having disability shown compassion to her child  taught a life long  lesson of humanity,generosity to her because that so called EDUCATED and owner of LUXURIOUS CAR is nobody but KIARA itself. She was unable to get out of this GUILT in her whole life.