"Wordsmiths Fiction Week 2: Season 24 – The Envelope"
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A mysterious stranger and Envelope.
This is my participation in Wordsmiths
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Challenge Season 24 @waqarahmadshah in #fiction-s24wk2
The Story starts from :
Diego’s night shifts at the 24-hour gas station were usually chill. A few truckers passing
through, some tired college kids grabbing energy drinks, and the occasional confused tourist
asking for directions. Nothing out of the ordinary. But on the seventh night of his new
schedule, things got weird.
At exactly 2:17 in the morning, a rusted blue sedan pulled into the lot. The driver didn’t get
out. He just sat there, staring straight at Diego through the glass for a few seconds, then
drove off. It was odd, but not scary.
At first.
When it happened again the next night, and the one after that, Diego started feeling uneasy.
The guy never did anything. Just watched. Like he was waiting for something. Or someone.
Diego told his supervisor, who barely looked up from his old computer. “People are weird,”
he mumbled, typing one-handed while sipping gas station coffee.
Still, Diego couldn’t shake it. The man’s face looked kind of familiar, though he couldn’t
place it. On the fourth night, Diego finally stepped outside to ask what was going on. But the
sedan had already disappeared.
Later that shift, while taking out the trash, Diego spotted something behind the ice machine.
A plain white envelope. His name was written on the front in neat, block letters.
And Now this is my story:-
Diego was very disturbed after receiving the envelope addressed to him. He could not understand what was in this envelope which the stranger used to give him at his gas station at the same time every night.
He opened the envelope with a pounding heart and trembling hands. Inside the envelope, he found a picture of a woman and a letter. Diego looked at the picture with great surprise but he did not recognize the picture. Then he started reading the letter in excitement. The letter had written in a bad and crooked writing,
My dear Samuel,
"When you receive this letter, I will be gone from this world. There was a secret in my heart which was causing me a lot of pain. But I hid it from you for 30 years because of my anger. Actually, when you accused me of infidelity and threw me out of the house, I was pregnant with your second child."
"Your misunderstanding about me had grown so much that I go out of the house to have a
relationship with someone else, while I used to go to work in a cake factory in the night shift to help my father financially. You used to beat me under the influence of alcohol and never tried to know the truth from me, your beating and the anger and ego inside me always stopped me from telling you the truth."
"Then one day you kicked me out of the house, and I left with your child in my womb. After moving to another city, I bore my second son after facing a lot of problems and financial difficulties. I educated him and became a good person."
"All my life I was confused whether to tell you this truth or not. But when my death came near, I
thought that it was not my younger son's fault. He must know that he has a father and a brother
who are still alive and live in this city."
That is why one day before I died, I made my younger son Rodrigues promise to deliver this letter to his brother.
Your unfortunate wife
Diego read the mothers letter and tears started flowing from his eyes. He waited for the next night when that rusty blue sedan would come to his gas station again and he would be able to hug his brother and tell him that now our father had also died 10 years after mother's separation .
The next night Diego, full of joy, left his duty at 12 in the night and stood outside on the road and started waiting for the blue sedan with wide open eyes. After about 2 hours, the blue sedan was seen coming slowly at the usual time. Diego jumped with joy and ran to stand in front of the sedan, and he saw that a person with the same face as him was driving it.
He pulled him out of the driving seat and hugged him and then both the brothers stood in the same position for a long time.
Then finally Diego asked his brother, my brother Rodrigues, why do you come at this time every
night? And why did you take so many days to give me this envelope?
Rodrigues told him that “ he had a night shift which ended at 2 am, and it took him 16-17 minutes toreach here in this old car, and for many days I was confused whether you will accept my letter and me or not.”
Diego hugged him and said "My brother, now we will never be separated from each other." Let's go home. “We both are unfortunate that we both were deprived of the love of our parents due to some misunderstanding of our parents. And now no one will be able to separate us two brothers.”
Maybe this was the will of the Almighty God.
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