Unlucky Serat

Written by: Abdullah Fazli

It was a snowy day. Serat’s brother, Jawed had bought a new sling to Serat. Serat was very happy and he left home to play sling with his friend, Naqib.

 Serat showed his new sling to Naqib and wanted him to play with him in the lane. Naqib preferred village ground but Serat did not accept. They started to shoot a target with a sling. While Serat shot, he missed the target and the stone hit on the glass of Serat’s house. Meanwhile, they heard the crying of Serat’s small sister, Suraya. Serat’s brother, Jawid went out of the house to find out the person who caused breaking glass and hurting Samira’s head. When Serat and Naqib saw that Jawid was coming toward them, they hid behind a big wall and Jawid found no one and he went back home to dress Suraya’s head.

Serat went home and put his sling beside the gate of his house and he came back to the lane. He saw that Naqib had gone home too. Serat sadly sat beside the wall. Jawid came and asked Serat who was playing sling. Serat worried and replied with a stutter that he wanted to go to the other village for playing with his friends.

Jawid took him and asked some other boys about the issue but nobody knew about it.

They saw Naqib along the way and Jawid shared the issue with him. Naqib did not want to tell anything but Jawid forced him and he said that Serat was shooting a bottle with his sling but he missed the target and the stone went toward Jawid’s house.

Serat accepted his mistake and promised that he will never play in the lane again. Jawid said that he burned his sling in the stove as firewood and also he spent the money on the treatment of Suraya that he had decided to buy a bicycle for Serat.