A Providential Escape:A story of a small kid

Just like every morning, Raja, the shepherd, took his flock of sheep for grazing in the open fields on the outskirts of his village and after letting them loose, he was about to sit on the wall of the well which dried out long time back, when he heard a groaning sound from inside the well. First he ignored it out of fear and later on he started peeping into the well with a lot of hesitation. He noticed that it was a wailing for help by a nine year old boy. He slowly went down the steps of the well and brought the boy up on to the ground. Once on the ground, he asked “what is your name?” The boy did not respond. Soon he recognized that the boy fell unconscious and that he was badly injured. He took him home, cleaned his wounds and went out to bring a doctor from a nearby village and on not finding him, returned home dejected only to be told by his wife that she saw the photo of the child in the news on television and that he is the kidnapped son of a wealthy couple. So, after the boy regained consciousness, he took him to the police station to avoid further trouble. On seeing the boy in the hands of Raja, the police inspector, Suresh, heaved a sigh of relief and embraced Raja for his act of bringing the kidnapped child to the police station. An excited and dumbfounded Raja enquired the police officer about the story of the kidnapped boy. “Wait let me ring up my higher-ups and the parents of the boy to inform them about the tracing of the boy and then I will tell you the story”. So after doing this he ordered a cup of coffee for both himself and Raja and started narrating the story.
“Stephen and Sirisha were post-graduates in management. Both of them rebelled and married against the wishes of their family members. Their family members did not try to reconcile with this event and because of their wealthy and influential background tried to scuttle their relationship by exploring all avenues. I came to know that Sirisha’s family was more aggressive and tried to silence Stephen at least on two occasions, but he being a black belt Karate fighter and Sharp shooting pistol champion, proved to be more than a match for the henchmen of Sirisha’s father. I was told that on the third occasion, after a big fist fight with the goons of Sirisha’s father, he drove his Gypsy at hectic speed to his father-in-law’s house, quickly approached him and shouted at the peak of his voice by pointing a gun at his temple, ““I am leaving you just because you are Sirisha’s father”” .This enraged the joint family of Sirisha’s father with whom his younger brother Prakash also lived. Later, Stephen announced to Sirisha that they are going to migrate to a foreign country where they will be safe and secure. Sirisha readily agreed. So they migrated to New Zealand.
For some period there was a lull in their lives and both of them lived cozily .They had a son and named him Bright. After earning a huge fortune with their talent and hard work for ten years, they decided to return to the country of their origin and hoped that both their families would reconcile with new developments. Back home, their respective families increased their rivalries, incurred heavy business losses and started blaming each other for their woes. However, Sirisha’s father secretly opened a channel and blessed his daughter and her family after coming to know of the latest developments but soon passed away to heavenly abode. The mantle of hatred was taken up by his brother, Prakash and Sirisha’s younger brother, Aryan. Prakash harboured nefarious design of aiming for two birds with one shot-eliminating Aryan and gobbling up their wealth. So he deliberately continued the rivalry on one flimsy pretext or the other. Prakash planted in Aryan’s mind that both Sirisha and her husband were responsible for the present plight of their family and that he ought to take revenge.
Bright was frequently advised by his parents not to venture out of the flats that they are residing and go far away after school hours as danger was lurking around. One day, Bright did not heed the advice of his parents and wandered out along with his friends to play a cricket match. At this juncture a jeep came and he was whisked away by Aryan and goons in front of Bright’s friends who reported the matter to Bright’s parents. Two days later, after coming to know of the story of hatred between the families from Bright’s parents, the police have come to a conclusion that it was Aryan and his henchmen who kidnapped the child. My dear friend this is the story of the kid.”
Turning to the child the police inspector asked “By the by, how did you land up in the well and who threw you in?” The child replied that he fell accidentally into the well when he was trying to escape as he saw that Aryan was rebelling against the gang after a long fight and chase in the bushes, as he came to know through the messages on the cell phone to one of the goons that his uncle was plotting to kill him also. Aryan left him there to survive on his own depending on his luck and escaped into the jungle.
Immediately after finishing this story, the police inspector heard the sound of helicopter and a posse of cameramen and others. Bright’s parents and a host of important police personnel and people’s representatives descended on the police station as the case attracted the attention of many. The boy was safely handed over to the parents. The police inspector remarked that they now have to catch Aryan and Prakash.