" come let's go play with my ball" the five years old boy said to the beautiful six years old girl. She offers him a wide smile that shows her toothless front teeth. The little girl loves it when he ask her to play with his ball.

" ok" together they went to play with other kids.

Unknown to them that a particular seven years old boy was at the far end of the garden watching with anger. He hates it when other boys play with the little girl, he always wants to be the only guy friend she has. So, he plan to interfere in their game. One would be surprised at how this seven years old can be jealous and how he even have a mind to hate someone . That someone he hate is his brother. Yes, he hates his junior brother, he hate him with passion.All because, whenever they are out to play, all his friends prefers to play with his junior brother than him.

Sadiq is this kind of charming and friendly boy right from time. He is a carefree kid who is full of life and loves with all his heart. He was busy playing the ball that he didn't see his brother Mansir coming his way in full speed. Suddenly, he felt himself being pushed down by someone. By mansir actually .

He felt a crack sound immediately he fell.He shouted in pain and turn to look at his brother with teary eyes

" why did you push me? now my hand is paining me" sadiq cried out.

Mansir stood tall with a smirk as he watch his brother in pain " that is for stealing my friends away. Go and play with your friends and leave mine alone"

" what do you mean by your friends? but they are my friends too"

He felt a kick on his injured wrist" ahhhhhhh" sadiq shouted in pain.

" when next I see you playing with my friends most especially safiya, I'll do worst that injuring you. If you like tell anyone that I did this to you, you will see what I'll do to you" Mansir threatened and left a crying sadiq on the ground

Sadiq cried in pain as he dragged himself inside the house . He spent all evening in misery over his injured hand, he refused to tell anybody about it and it isn't because Mansir told him not to. It because he doesn't want to cause his mother more pain. To him, his mother is in more pain than he was. so ,he will suck it up and bare with the pain till he recovers. Thank God he has robb in his drawer which he rubbed on the injured hand. Not that it would stop the pain but at least he hope it would.

When it was time for dinner, he was called down by his mother to come have dinner. He doesn't want his mother to find out about the hand so he lied that he wasn't hungry. When actually, he was dying of hunger right now

His mother already getting suspicious of this behavior of her son, she knows how her sadiq loves food and he has never answered her with his room door closed. He always opens his door with joy when he is been call down for food.

What changed?, she thought

She didn't think twice before she barge into the room. What she saw wasn't what she expected. She saw her son shivering on the floor with sweat embedded on his forehead. She rushed to his side immediately.

" sadiq please talk to me, what happened to you?" she was so confused that her son was healthy when he woke up this morning so how come he is sick now. She touch his forehead and saw that he was burning up

"Your temperature is high. We need to go to the hospital " she tried picking him up but sadiq shouted in pain because she tried raising him up by holding the injured hand.

She immediately left him alone due to his scream. She got scared that her son might be dying and at the reason why he shouted like that.

" talk to me son where is the pain coming from?" she asked in tears. He tries pointing at the hand with his other good hand. That was when she saw the big swell on her son's wrist.

" ya Allah.. What happened to you there? Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi rajihun. You have a fracture. How? When? " she was confused Beyond believe

She immediately pick him up gently and put him on the bed and then rushed downstairs.

" Tariq...tariq ....tariq.. " she shouted the driver's name

" yes hajiya " he came rushing

" please prepare the car, we are going to the hospital. Make it fast please "

" OK hajiya " he ran out to do as he was told

She was about to go upstairs to pick up her son but got stop on the way by her senior wife, hajiya maimuma

" please aunty, I don't have time to fight right now. My son is sick and he needs to be taken to the hospital "

Hajiya maimuna laughed " eyya, good for you"

Fatima wanted answering back but at the scream of her son she ran upstairs to him. She quickly pick him up and went downstairs with him.

Hajiya maimuna sat comfortably watching TV without a care in the world. " I pray he doesn't survive it" she said immediately Fatima got downstairs with her son.

A lone tears fell on Fatima's face at hajiya maimuna's utterance. She just couldn't believe how the woman could be so wicked. She breath in and walk faster to the awaiting car outside. Her son was more important right now.

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