Anu!

Envy strucks!

You see…He! She! Him! Her!

They all got the Time-slot when Anu was still young, graceful, beautiful, strong.

A boy of 13 he was, wallowing in his bed at night as the usual hunch of homesickness kicks in; trying hard to muffle his sobs with the quilt,

Murmuring the prayers she taught him.

Craving for yet another one of those tight and warm hugs she gives him- especially like that one he got, the night they felt the tremors.

“She is at the final stage”, the guys in white aprons said.

“Huh! they know shit about her”, he smirked.

But when the truth hits, ‘It Hits!’ Doesn’t it? Time moves even faster then…

He confided in her about his discontentment of not showing Anu how much he love her. She persuaded him to tell his Anu everything; the serenity he got after the ‘tell-all’ was ineffable.

She was his rock when Anu was fighting her own battle and he – his own. She is the reason, he got through his lowest point in life. She is the reason why his Anu now knows how much ‘he loves her.’

Being the Almighty Being He is,

He granted us the extended time we needed, manifesting His ever lasting love yet again.

Who’d knew this Wrinkled, Aging, Ailing and Weak version of Anu will be his only Dose of consciousness.

Anu was ascertained she will name him “Yishaq” as he was born to her in her old age.

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