The House
"It is terrible..."Zarin shouted,' I cannot take it anymore. I told you several times that it is very difficult to live in this small house.'
'I will buy a house for us, just give me some time,' said Rahim, Zarin's husband. He added that.' In our house, there will be plenty of rooms, much space in the house, and there will be a playing field behind our house .'"Why do you need time ?’’Zarin asked.' You know my job is good, but it is impossible to manage a lot of money to buy a house, and it could be our lifetime residence. So, it should be a good house. For that, we need lots of money.' ok, do you feel rude about my words?’ Zarin asked Rahim. No, why did you ask?’’ Rahim replied calmly. In his entire life, he has always tries to stay calm in every situation. That's why everybody likes him.'I don’t know. I just feel that I was rude to you about the house. I think I should give you time. Actually, every day when I see our children, I feel very sad. They both live in the same small room, and they are having fights with each other every day, and they are grown-ups. So I thought we need a house, but I don’t want to create pressure on you.' I understand that. Then she put her head on Rahim's neck and told him softly '' I love you, you know that, so don't feel hurt by my word.”
Times pass and one day Rahim comes to the house with the news 'I found a house which is at the end of the cityHe added,' The House is quite big but we can renovate it and add some room in it and another great thing is we have plenty of lands are surrounded by a house, we can make a swimming pool, garden anything that we want to make.’Zarin asked,' Is this affordable to us?’ ‘Yes, of course, but one problem.’ 'What is that?’Zarin looked tense now. 'This place is far from the town & very few people live there. Most of the farming lands are around our place, I think very soon this place will be crowded because the price of the land is very cheap .’’If you think it will be a sweet place for us, then it will be ok with me.’Zarin said this with a beautiful smile. Five years ago, this smile killed him. He fell in love with her, then they got married, and now they have a happy family with two kids. Rahim hugged her and said, 'That’s why I love you, cause you can understand me.’
One week later, they are all in a rush, and all of their packages are ready. They will move to their new house today. The kids are very happy. Finally, they live in their own house. There will be individual rooms for them. The playing field, which is the backside of their house & they can make a garden in front of their house. When Rahim was driving their car, the kids were very excited and they asked their father how far our house is now. Rahim replied,' We're almost there.' When they arrived in their new house, they were all stunned. This house is pretty old, and there is a broken part hanging from the house's roof. Some glass in Windows is broken. She asked his husband,' Are you crazy? This is a broken house, how can we live in that?’Rahim replied,' We can renovate it, honey. I know it looks terrible from the outside, but the inside is not so bad, just take a look .’She helplessly shakes her head, which means she can't agree with him. Then she stepped on the stairs of the front door. But the kids looked happy because this is their own new house and it is much bigger than their previous one. Their mum looked at every room, and she is still not happy. Rahim asked his wife,’ Are you still not satisfied?’ 'Why do you lie to me? Zarin looks angry. She added' You said it was old, but it is a broken piece of shit. We need a lot of work to make this place nice and habitable. Please send us back to our house. We cannot live here, and we don’t have any neighbors around us. If you face any problem or any accident happens, who will help us here?’ He replied, 'This place is cheaper than any other house I have found, and it completely matches my salary, and this area will be really habitable very soon. Due to the cheap rate of nearby lands, people will be living here soon, I can promise you that.' She seems not convinced, but for now, she remains calm for the best because if she continues arguing with him, it will make the situation bitter. So she tried to find some happiness in looking at the children's happy faces in this house. The kids are very happy, they run all around in the house they choose their own room. It makes Rahim happy. His wife looks better when she finds out the kids are very happy and enjoy their moment in this house. Rahim addresses his wife and children .'We have plenty of room in this house, but they are not well prepared for living, so we all live together in the drawing room tonight. Tomorrow carpenters will be here and they will start to renovate this house, and we will help them to make this place habitable. And kids, make a picture in your mind of how your room will be, both of you, ok ?’’ ' Ok, Dad, we love you,’they hug their dad. Now she feels happy, and they all join in this family hug.
At night, they make the bed in the drawing room and light a candle because this house has been abandoned for a couple of years, so the electricity line is cut. They had a long day so they slept quickly.
In the morning, Rahim wakes up by hearing noise from someone knocking at the door. Rahim opens the door. 'Hi, I am Robin. I am the electrician.' ''Hello, but you seem very early at your work. By the way, I am Rahim. But it is good because it is very hard to survive in this hot temperature without electricity.'' 'That’s why, man, I am early at work. I think it is the priority,' Robin replied. 'Thanks, man, come in please.' Children are not familiar with this kind of situation, so they are not awake yet. 'Zarin, this is Robin, the electrical mechanic. He is here to fix the electrical problem, and he will be here to help us in the morning because he realizes we have faced a lot of trouble with electricity.' Thanks for coming, Mr Robin. I appreciate your concern.' ''Now, Mr Robin, let me show you where the basement is. You will find the electrical box there. Rahim and Robin are carefully going to the basement. The basement is full of dust, and the spider's net is everywhere, and it’s very Messy there. When Mr Robin is doing his work, Rahim goes to check on his family; meanwhile, the kids are waking up from bed, and Zarin makes some breakfast for them. When they try to eat their breakfast, suddenly they notice that the water pipeline is giving some trouble. Rahim said that when the carpenter will do their work and renovate this house, they will also bring us a plumber. Now, I call them to bring a plumber with them. Don’t worry about that for now. Just use the reserved water from the bucket after a few moments. The mechanic returned from the basement and told them the electricity problem is fixed. They can switch on the lights. Rahim turns on the lights, and the whole house is glowing by the lights. They all appreciate Mr. Robin's work and offer Mr. Robin breakfast with them, but Mr Robin seems not to stay here for a moment more. So, he takes their leave.
After a couple of hours, the carpenters arrived with a plumber. They start to fix the house and fix the waterline. The kids are moving and running in the house and making noise. Rahim tells them to go outside and play in the field. Rahim tells the carpenter to fix the kitchen first because if they fix the kitchen, then Zarin can prepare their lunch. Meanwhile, the plumber fixes the water tap problem.
At 1 o’clock, the two carpenters finished their work in the kitchen. Now they moved on to fix a bedroom. They know their work will not be finished today. So if they can finish only the bedroom's work today, then the people can spend the night in that bedroom.
At night, they are going to the bedroom to sleep only in the kitchen and this room is prepared for living. Tomorrow, the carpenter will arrive to finish their work.
At midnight, Zarin heard some weird noise on the roof. She told Rahim about this and told him to check that out. But Rahim told her that the work of this house is not finished, so it might be some wood banging and some noise by having touch with the air, or maybe a rat makes this noise. 'Please sleep, honey. A big day ahead of us tomorrow .' The children are already asleep. They make their garden in the backyard today. It’s not a garden yet because they only dug some soil with their father, but their father cannot help them properly because he had to help a carpenter to do their work.
The next morning, the two carpenter arrived at the time when they were having their breakfast. But they started the work without bothering. Rahim told them that he could not help them today because he have to go to the town in his work because he has to go to work. Because he took a few days' leave and the leave has passed. If he cannot go to work, he will lose his job. So the carpenters said,' ok, you can go, we will on our own now .' They added, 'We can do our work today. We will work on your children’s room. If we finish the children's room today, then we will work on the drawing-room.' Rahim finished his breakfast and took his belongings and go to the car. His wife says goodbye to him, and the children are waking up from bed late because they have nothing to do in this house; they have no friends, and they are not going to school because they are only 2 and 4 years old.
At noon, the carpenter said the children’s room is completed now they can work on the other side, which was the drawing room, but Zarin said she heard lots of sounds in the roof, so she told them to first fix the attic. They go to the Attic to fix it. When they reach the attic, they feel something that is unusual. Then they realize there is a snake that is very aggressive to see them. Zarin is very frightened to know about this. The carpenters have killed this snake carefully with their tools. The carpenters bury the snake behind the house. They told Zarin, 'We are almost done with our work, but we need more days to finish all the things and wrap up. .'OK take your time, but make sure the renovation will go perfectly, and I am sure that my husband will be there tomorrow to help you. She added, 'ok, you can go now. We have a horrible day, and I don't want to talk about it in front of kids.’
But the kids got the snake news when their mom talked about it with the carpenters.
In the evening, Rahim returns from work, he is tired than usual days, then his younger son tells him that the carpenters have found a snake in the attic .”Is that true, Zarin?” ''Yes, it is, and I am sure that the noise I heard the other night was the snakes. Now the problem is gone. Now we have some relief .'' ''OK, children, after our dinner, you can go to your room, is it prepared for living?'' The older child replied, 'It is repaired, but we can make this good by decorating this room.' ''Ok, now it’s up to both of you to decorate as you like. If you need some help, then call me and your mum.''Then he asked Zarin, "How much of the work is left?" "We have one room left to renovate and fix the drawing room, and some outdoor work. We need to do work on our storeroom, which is outside of this house. It is also not fixed. So maybe one or two days they need." "Alright. But if they had more people, then it would be finished by now. After fixing the house, we need to paint the house and decorate the other rooms, so we need it for our new home for almost a week."
After finishing dinner, Zarin asked Rahim how his day was. He told her that it was good, no trouble at all. But I should go tomorrow to work. "That’s very awful because I told the carpenters that you will be there tomorrow to help them. Now, I cannot tell them to do work on their own ." They have skills, they can do it fast, and I can only help them move things from one place to another, and most of the work is done by them. They can manage it by themselves, and after their work, all the paintings should be done by me, so at that time I need a leave from work. So I should go to work tomorrow."
The next day, Rahim goes to work. He didn’t want to waste his leave on house renovation because the carpenter could do their work and they could do their work nicely. When the renovation is complete, the house needs to be painted, and Rahim is not capable of wasting money on the painters. He can paint his house. It will save his money. He is thinking about this and driving his car to his work.
In the house, the carpenters arrive for renovation. They asked Zarin, "Is Mr. Rahim home?" Zarin replied, "No. He is at work. He cannot use his leave now. Does it give trouble to you?'' "Not at all," the carpenters replied. 'We can do our work, and we have an additional man to help us, but it will cost you some more money for an additional man.' "I will discuss it with him. For now, you can do your work." Carpenters are going to their work to fix the house. They have to fix the additional room and the drawing room.
The children are playing in the backyard, where they have started to dig the soil to make a swimming pool, but it is not their work; it will take more time, and they cannot do it properly. So their mom told them to leave it for their father when the house is complete, he will dig the swimming pool for them. Meanwhile, carpenters discovered unnatural things. When they fix a wall, they find some big holes in the wall. Probably the snake used this hole to travel through this house. They close the hole and repair the wall in the evening.
All the work is almost done. Then Rahim returns from his work. He observed all the work of his house, and he was very surprised and told Zarin, "Look how beautiful our house is!" Zarin agrees with him and says, "You're right, it looks very beautiful, but the finishing touch remains. When we paint this house, it will look more beautiful." The carpenters are ready to close their work, then, Zarin told Rahim, "We have to discuss something. The carpenters bring one extra man today for work, which helps them to finish their work in time, but it costs some money for an additional man." Rahim told the carpenters, "When we make a contract with you, there is no condition that it will cost more money if you bring another man, and there is no condition written that I should help you to do your work. But I help you sometimes, so you can not get any additional money. I think I made my point very clear. The carpenters don’t look happy, but they don’t argue with him. They just say, "Ok, if you don’t want to give us money, then we will not renovate this house anymore. Most of the house is renovated, only the outside storeroom has remained unfixed. If you do not cost more money for the additional man, then it will be settled. If you give us an extra charge for an additional man, then we will work. Today's work is already done, so we are done here".
In the next few days, all things are going normally, and Rahim and his wife are too busy to paint they are house. The house looks very nice, and the children’s room was also very beautiful. They put wallpaper around the world, and they made some art of their own, and some photographs of their family is hanging on the wall.
One day, Rahim is at work, and in the house, Zarin and her children are alone. Their younger son is going to play near the swimming pool, but it does not look like any swimming pool. It’s like one kind of pond. If they put some money and time into building this thing, then it will be a swimming pool. For now, it can only be a fun place for the children. Suddenly, his younger son fell into the pond and asked for help loudly. His mother heard this and tried to help him. So she also jumps into the pond to help his son, but she doesn’t know how to swim. So they both are drowned, and an invisible force is trying to keep them underwater.
Her daughter is crying and loudly shouting near the pond and asking for help. After some moments, the farmers from the nearest land heard their shouts, so they came to help them, but when they arrived at the place, they found that Zarin and his Son were dead. They picked off their body and found that there was a black mark on both of their bodies. It seems like something is trying to bang them with something.
The people of this land say that two snakes are living in this area, but when Rahim renovates this house, the carpenters kill one of the snakes. So the other snake takes revenge on Zarin and her son by killing them. Probably the other snake was in the storeroom, which is outside the house. If carpenters had fixed that on that day, then Zarin and her son might be alive today.
