@Immaculata 9 April 2022

Shattered hope "I will be back for you. Just give some time to put things in order". That was the last thing she remembered him say to her before. Her heart had been filled with hopes of a better life. Who would have thought that her hope would be short-lived because of another person's shortcomings or rather negligence. She had spent 23 years of her life as an orphan toiling to make ends meet. She needed a change. The house she lived in was without roof and about to fall on her. The meagre money she made hawking was spent on her always sick younger sister. She met him in the streets where he also hawked. They became best of friends. Soon he left the streets and began to work for a rich man as a reward for some good act. He still kept in touch with her and offered help to her in the little ways he could. This feelings soon grew into love.

On that day when things took a wrong turn, he had come to tell her that he got a better job with free accommodation and a car. The new job was secured for him by thesame rich man he once helped. He just had to put things in order and then bring her and her ailing sister under his roof. She was so happy. Just as he turned to go, he was kissed by a lorry which had lost control. He couldn't survive it. The old lorry that hit him was driven by an old man. He had lost control of the vehicle after the steering wheel came off. In an attempt to know whether he could fix the poor thing back and regain control of his vyehicle, he did not know when the old lorry veered off the road and hit the young man in who was about to cross.

The lorry driver claimed he was test running the vehicle to see how fit it was for the road, and that he lost control due to the poor nature of the road. That was the worst excuse one could give for negligently bringing out a vehicle that was not roadworthy. Because of the stupid mistake of a pot bellied old man driving a rickety racketty old vehicle, her only hope of a better life was shattered.