STORY - THE BODY

“Nope I don’t want to You will just get bored and ignore like last time ” irritated Jack said to his fiancé Rose. “ Don’t say like that. That day Mom came to check on me. Tonight we are all alone just the two of us, pls tell me ..”

“Will you listen ?”

“ Of course babe ”

“ My grandmother told me this story when I lived in a small village in the mountains in our small home. In that village there was a man named Ben and ……”

Ben headed to work after having breakfast with his two daughters Anna and Lara. His wife passed away giving birth to her second child. He raised her daughters with the most love and care. Sometimes memories of his wife Mona make his heart heavy. Today he seems to be lost in his thoughts. The big daughter Anna grown to the age of marriage, Ben who can hardly earn his two meals per day, this has become a matter of concern. As he was thinking about this matter, he went to the house of the village chief. “ Ben why you are so late, quickly go to the fields and finish the harvesting by the day” As soon as he heard the the voice, Ben went to the field.

There was a commotion all around, in mids of the work everyone surrounded Ben. Some youngsters went to get the village doctor. After a while, the doctor came, “I couldn’t save him because it was a little late, the snake venom went up to his head .” Ben left the two girls. The two daughters whom his father loves very much are now orphans. The responsibility of the youngest daughter Lara also came to Anna.

Anna, who has passed eighteen springs of life, is very beautiful to look at. She looks slightly dark, with a mole on her cheek to the left of her lips that makes her look even more beautiful. Anna’s life is now waiting for the one who can blossom again the flowers that faded after her father’s death, the one who will fulfil her, the one who will protect her and her beloved sister in life. The whole village is in discussion, no one has taken Ben’s death lightly, and many are also worried about the two girls.

Suddenly, the village chief becomes kind to the eldest daughter Anna.

The 65-year-old village chief has a lot of assets, he also has a house in the city, and two sons are married and live there, the village chief just does not leave the village where he was born. Everyone in the village fears the chief, no one dares to go on his word.

“I have made this decision after thinking about the girl’s future, what is your opinion?”-Everyone one shocked at the chief words, but no one could say anything. On the appointed day, Anna married an old man. Everyone explained to Anna that the future was bright and everything will be alright. Anna became the 18-year-old wife of the 65-year-old village chief. Ben’s youngest daughter also came to her brother-in-law’s

house with her sister.

Dina woke up in the middle of the night to a knock on the door. She opened the door and was surprised. She brought Anna and Lara inside so that no one would see them. “ The village chief has married me as a victim of my youthful desires, his wealth, money, and gold can’t make me happy, for I’ve become just a companion to celebrate the night, I exploited myself by giving him the hard work of the day and the satisfaction of my youth at night, I don’t want to live aunty, you are my last hope, today I come to you with Lara, I don’t want Lara to be in the same situation as I am, I leave Lara with you.”After saying this Anna went back on the way she came, she went away crying without hearing anything from Dina.

A body is lying frozen on the sand of the river some distance from the village. She gave in to the real truth of life. The village chief’s men finally found her. The village understood Anna’s grief and why she was in that condition.

Voices slowly began to rise against the village chief.

Dina’s family also left the village two years later with Lara. The prestige of the village chief declined, and the villagers got their voices back in exchange for the body of Anna.

———the sound of the phone brought Rose back from the past to the present. “It’s too late. Let’s go” Jack got up from his seat. “Who is Dina Jack ?” “Dina is my grandmother Rose” replied Jack shortly. They look at the horizon, and they both have the same question as they look at the setting sun, why is a woman’s body sometimes her enemy?