The Transformation

The day turned out to be a dangerous day for me. I was coming from an office party. I never touched alcohol ever in my life but that day all my office colleagues forced me to drink alcohol. I was driving the car when my wife called me on my phone. Drinking and driving was very much prohibited in the streets of London. I was talking to my wife when I saw a truck coming towards my car. But that passed like an illusion. The truck was just near me.

What followed is exactly what you must be anticipating by now. The truck crushed my car like a small toy car and I fell down in the nearest drain with my car skidding and toppling all over and finally coming to a halt 3 metres away from me. My fate was in favour so some of the fellow people took me to the hospital.

I opened my eyes in the hospital where I could see my wife crying beside me. I could see, hear and feel everything but I could not speak. I raised my hand and my wife sensed that I was alive and cannot speak. After somedays, I was released from the hospital. I could see, hear, feel everything but I could not speak any more. But I survived because I was a survivor. 

One day  I sat on the driving seat and I saw my wife sitting beside me. I  drove towards the nearest old age home. I started visiting many old age homes  and slowly I started recovering from my voice crack. I recovered permanently, slowly and steadily. 

Sohini Banerjee

Class IX B