Saturday, December 24, 2022

page 61

....for  past one hour she held the calculator  in her hands  doing  accounting  and  making budget  of the month  very busy , manahal sat before her as usual busy over her phone gossiping,  
The problem with the Pakistanis is they have to use their fingertips also after calculations are done on the calculator said manahal  without  taking away her eyes from the  phone  and  mahin who was calculating on her fingers stopped in the  middle 
Manahal launched  pointing out mahin what was she doing  if she didn't  trust the  calculator why use it in the first place 
Mahin  without bothering to make a reply gave her head a jerk before carrying on with her calculations 
It was like  getting the  money from an ATM and then counting it
Perhaps the machine  added or missed out on  a five hundred rupees note
ATM, mahin just realized startled  the other day her card got blocked and the bank had called her to collect her card
Then you must get it today 
Mahin recalled  the young man with  the mention of her ATM card who had walked with her down the past memory lane nostalgically when she had returned  to her native land with  hopes , when she was for the second time thrown out of her parents home,  then how she used to live in fear and how she managed to restore her life practically from those scary looming shadows 

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