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The Night Everything Changed

A 16-Year-Old's heartbreaking goodbye to her father

By Rohitha LankaPublished 9 months ago 3 min read

A short story by a 16-year-old girl

Mom....Mom... please open the door....[That's what my mother said to my foster mother. Since Kiriamma is alone at home, I will go to Kiriamma's house to sleep at night....(In this story, I am Sudu)..]

Why should I open the door like that.😲What should I say

Mama Kumara is vomiting blood...(As soon as I heard those words, I ran home at around 11 pm and asked my father what happened in the dark. I can't even imagine how he ran like that in the dark..)

Dad 🥺 What happened? Get up...

Why did something happen? No, you go to sleep....

Nothing happened. No, get up.... 🥺

Sud, touch my head a little.... Saying "Hmm," I took my father's head on my shoulder while he was sleeping on the bed. I whispered to Amma secretly in my ear and said, "Sud, my dear, be careful, even if I don't, I told my brother so that Amma doesn't hear... I will repaint the place where there was blood near the bed with red paint. Dad, who had his head on his shoulders, bowed his head and vomited again, red... 🥺

Dad, let's go, it's hard for you at the hospital. I don't have a problem, you sleep like that with your brother. It's not going to work, get up and go.. (Until all this time, my mother was sitting on a chair in the living room. When I saw it, I was angry and sad. I shouted at my mother to talk to a wheeler. She was waiting there, but she talked to about 2 wheels. She had only been there for about 2 months. She talked to me and my father. Not even at home)

My father came to the living room and asked me to lie down on my back for a while. 🥺 He slept on the floor and told me to lie down. At the same time, he got up and went outside because he was going to vomit again. So... At the same time, I called for a car. A car. I said I would come and gave my father a sweater and a T-shirt to wear. White. I had to go to the hospital. No... If I go. If I stay at home, all of you will be there. Then those words were said. I counted. No... After that. I also agreed to go with my father... I don't want to, mommy is going, 2 other men are going. So I stayed at home again... On the way, he stopped the car on the highway and slept. Then my father told my mother that if I die today, the two girls will take care of you. No..... Saying that, he took my father to the hospital admin that night. Mommy came home. The next day, my mother went to work, and she worked at the same hospital where my father was an admin... The doctor had said that someone had to be put in touch with my father that day. My mother called my father's sister and brother and asked them to give me 1000 and give me 3000. Then I called my mother and said, "Aren't you ashamed to ask me that?" She scolded me and hung up the phone...🥺

Somehow... 🙂

It was around 2 pm when I called my father. I had already called my brother and hung up on my father. Then I called him again. What's wrong with you, father? It was a little difficult, honey, I'll get it later, so I cut it off, saying I'm going to give you the medicine... It was about 8 pm and my mother came home.. 🙂.. I waited until my mother came home, so since my mother was alone, I came there and at around 10 pm, my mother's phone rang and she came to my bed asking me to sleep... I got a call around 11:30 ...🥺💔

=Helo

=Helo, who is this

=.I'm talking to you at Kurunegala Hospital, is Nirasha there...

=.Um, if it's my mother, say no at this time

= Son, is there any adults there...

=If my mother is there, I'll give it to her.

= Say hello (that's what the mother said)

=Is Nirasha there

=He. No, who are you?

= I'm at Kurunegala Hospital, so should I tell Nirasha that her husband is gone... 😳💔🥺

That mother experienced the joy of having a child in her womb one day... She experienced the loss of the child she had conceived.... 🥺

A 16-year-old girl felt that her father had abandoned her in front of the whole world... 🥺

familyLovePsychologicalShort StoryYoung Adult

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Rohitha Lanka

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  • Sera9 months ago

    Interesting story.

  • Nikita Angel9 months ago

    Very nice

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