The Telephone Number

Written by: Abdullah Fazli

Once there was a girl living in a village. She was new to the village and had no friends. One-day when she was going to school alone, a car hit her and she fell on the ground and the driver escaped. Amina and Tamana were sister and classmates and they were going in the same way to school. When they saw the accident, they went near to help her but the girl was unconscious and could not talk.

Amina and Tamana tried to carry her to the clinic but they were not able to do so and there was no one else to help them.

Tamana and Amina searched the girl’s school bag and notebooks to find any phone number of her relatives but they could not find. Meanwhile, an old man was carrying woods on the back of his donkey. Tamana asked him to help them in carrying the girl into the clinic. The old man said that he could not take her on the back of his donkey due to having a heavy load.

Amina and Tamana took his mobile phone. Tamana dialed her father’s phone number from her notebook and shared the issue with him. Tamana’s father came and took the girl in his car to the clinic. The doctor treated her and the girl came on her sense and said that her name is Malalai and she was new to the village.

Malalai’s father came to the clinic and said that an old man informed him the accident.

He asked the doctor about his daughter’s health. The doctor assured him from the good health of his daughter and said that Tamana had her father’s phone number and she called her father and he took Malalai to the clinic.

Malalai’s father thanked Tamana, Amina and their father for their help.

The doctor asked Malalai to keep always her father’s phone number in her school bag. Malalai accepted. The policemen arrested the driver who was accused to the accident.