Chapter-8 Looking for solution
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Both entered the bedroom and lay down on the bed, Anna was somehow relieved as she was with her mom.
Anna turned around and looked at her mother face and hugged her tightly like a small child. Mary curled her arms around her and kissed her head.
“Good night mom”.
"Good night darling" tears of happiness fledged from the corner of her eyes,
Both closed their eyes pretending asleep, but none of them was sleeping, that have their fears, they even can’t share their those deep dark secrets with each other.
Anna felt cosy and fell asleep, so does Mary.
That night Anna is dreaming of an old man in late ’70s playing with two little kids, a boy of an age of 8, and a small girl of about 5 years of age, they are happily playing, laughing and running, in a huge garden, though the picture is quite clear, their faces were blurred,
Anna was smiling while dreaming, suddenly her facial expression changed, she started trembling,
there was a sudden flash of lightning, five tall figures in black cloaks appeared in front of the old man and started attacking him, the happy scene turned into violence and screaming, the boy immediately grabbed the girl and took her behind the bushes, both were very scared hiding behind the bushes. the throat choked she got numb she wanted to scream leave him, but the boy covered her mouth with his palm, the small girl didn't blink her eyes continuously looking to the old man.
that dark shadow disappeared and the old man dashed to the ground.
"Leave him, leave him",...Anna was crying and screaming in sleep,
Mary woke with Anna's words.
Mary switched on the side lamp and turned to Anna, she shocked to look at her Anna is trembling furiously, her face was covered with sweat.
"Anna, what is happening? wake up Anna,"
She gradually patted on Anna's shoulder tried to wake her up.
Anna opened her eyes looked at her mother and clenched her mother tightly, she was crying loud asking "mom, why I have this dream I couldn't sleep mom why again and again?"
she was completely frightened.
Mary rubbed her back to comfort her, "don't be frightened my child it is just a dream, see everything is normal around us we are both are safe in our home pointing towards the room." she wiped her face with her palm and console Anna empathically.
"let me help you sleep again," allowing Anna to sleep on her lap and rubbed her hand to make her feel good.
Anna calms down with the warmth of her mother and soon felt asleep.
Mary felt so helpless that she can’t help her daughter, her heartfelt tight, tears rolled out of her eyes, She knows the reality behind her dreams, she couldn’t reveal the truth to her daughter., she took a deep breath and prayed to God to resolve all their trouble soon.
Next morning Anna's alarm bell rang.
Mary quickly turned off the alarm before Anna could wake, she doesn't want to disturb her daughter's sleep.
She looked at Anna’s face, she was fearlessly sleeping, Mary smiled to see Anna and went out of the room.
Anna woke up, she stretched her arms and yawn, she looked at the other side her mom was not there, she then picked her glasses, put them on, come out of the bed and moved to her room,
She freshens up, got ready to go out, she came out of the room, looked for her mom, Her mom was in the kitchen as usually, Anna went close to her hugged her back kissed on her cheeks,
“Good Morning mom,”
“Good morning Anna," Mary kissed her back with a smiling face.
Mary asked to finish her breakfast and went to her shop, she wanted to spend some more time with her daughter, she didn’t want to face the same questions of Anna,
Anna did find her mother's behaviour a bit weird, she thought that might her mom is missing her dad,
Anna finished her breakfast, clean the dishes, put them back on shelves, took her belonging and moved out of her house.She took her earphones and put them on her ears and started enjoying her favourite music, she deliberately did to avoid the fear, she took the bus and reached her office. Her technic to avoid the fear really worked well.
She looked at the company building, the company board has already been replaced by a huge board of B&B groups of Company, she removed her earphones, set her eyeglasses with the tip of her finger and entered the company's building, she was shocked to see that most the employees had already started working, she admires the change and reached her workplace.
she put her bag down, switched on her computer, unlock the drawer and, took out the files from the drawer, she sat on the chair, the moment she was about to start her work, phone on her desk ranged,
"Good Morning, This is Anna How may I help you?"
Mr Brown Secretary was on the other side, "Boss wants to update the system within two hours," she arrogantly conveyed the message.
Anna astounded, raised her eyebrows, "two hours, it’s not possible in two hours,"
"It’s an order Ms.Anna" and she hung up the call.
Anna felt like a storm just hit her hard, she took a deep breath, You can do this Anna, she tried to motivate herself by saying this,
The moment she said this Molly was standing beside her,
“Hey Anna, how you always reached before time sneering at her,?" She giggled,
"Molly boss wants us to update the system within two hours."
"what?" Molly screamed in shock, "Is he out of his mind?" She frowned,
"Molly, don't be so dramatic, just be quick we have only two hours," Anna said submissively.
Molly hurriedly switched on her system and took a few files from Anna, They smartly divided the work so that they can manage it on time.
They were working considerably, no gossip, their typing speed could be estimated with the speedy sound coming from the keyboards.
Anna's cell phone buzzed,
she continued typing, ignoring the call as they are running short of time,
after a while, her phone again buzzed this time she subconsciously looked to the unknown number flashing on the screen, her fingers kept running on the keyboard,
She suddenly blacked out and press the submit button,
"Are you out of mind Anna?" Molly shouted punching Anna's shoulder.
Anna got attentive about what happened, she turned to Molly,
"Look what you just did," Molly angrily pointed to the computer screen.
Anna couldn't believe her eyes, what she did it, her face turned red, she froze for the moment.
"you have submitted incomplete information, we didn't complete it yet a lot more changes need to be done before submitting, How could you do this Anna?" Molly frightenedly asked, looking at Anna's pitiful face,
Molly didn't speak anything quickly turned to her computer screen started looking for a solution,
"you don't worry, we will definitely find a solution."
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