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Chapter 3 - When I Convinced Myself to Live!

'Years ago, when I was a young child, my father was an inebriated, abusive person who took pleasure in beating my mother to appease his delicate male ego. At the time, I was the third child in our family, but my older brother tragically passed away in a car accident, a cover-up for the reality that my father's beatings had caused him severe trauma that ultimately resulted in his untimely demise. My sister, too, couldn't bear the horrendous circumstances within our household and ran away at just eleven years old.

My mother, a strong and caring woman, wanted to ensure that I had a better life, so she enrolled me in school at the age of 9. To pay for my education, she even donated an eye, but my father quickly spent all the money on alcohol. One fateful day, I returned home from school and discovered my mother's lifeless body, the victim of my father's brutal attack with a hammer. He even gouged out one of her eyes to buy more alcohol. As a result of his monstrous actions, my father was jailed, and the government assumed responsibility for my upbringing, sending me far away to a new school to start fresh and leave behind the shadows of my traumatic past.

It took me two years to recover from the trauma of losing my mother and witnessing her violent death. Time healed and Washed Everything...

I was Eleven when I saw her. She was a Charming Girl. I couldn't muster up the courage to talk to her. Her Tremendous gaze was enough to make me Numb around her. We were only Classmates, Until We turned 14.

That's when I gathered all my guts to talk to Her, and I finally did. Or maybe 14 year old Hormones were Active.

I Loved her, and I always will... not because she was my First or Last Love, But She was the first person apart from my mother for whom I possessed such Strong Feelings. The Feelings are not too hazy or temporary so I will forget in a Lifetime, She was My Home.

Priya, A Delicate Beauty, She had long hair inherited from her Mother. How can one Forget the mole on her Chin? or those raspberry Lips of hers? or The fact that how tall she was.

She used to look like a Full grown woman already.

Then one day, She found me Quite Intriguing. She asked me about my feelings, And in lunch break, We confessed to each other in the last row of benches.

She asked what I was thinking about her, And I didn't say anything.

That was my Answer to her.

She wrapped her Heavenly Arms around me, and held me tight. She started to Cry immediately. I'd no idea How a Woman like her could Break before someone like me. What thorns a Delicate Flower like her was Bearing. I couldn't sense it, Neither I dared to ask.

But One thing I made pretty clear to myself; She was the one, The One Girl i wanted to protect at Any Cost.

Then I started, The best 2 years of my life. A beautiful girl beside me, Finally something to Cherish, Care and Protect. I Remember the taste of Every chocolate she gave me, the songs she sang for me, The Nights she texted me.

I had No idea of the things she'd been going through...

One rainy day, We had to Stay in class for a long time even after the dismissal bell.

It was raining like never before. The roars of the thunderstorm, Teacher left the class and Children started to make noise. That day, My hormones were Out of my control. I grabbed her by Arm and took her to Stairs Which lead to the chemistry lab and Library.

We kept ascending the stairs one by one and I pushed her to a corner and Kissed her passionately. We were not in any hurry to stop, We kept going on... I had no idea for how long I kept Kissing her, Kissing the Lovely lips of her and When she made a Eye contact with me; I couldn't Hold myself, I started to Kiss her neck.

grabbing her waist, I pulled her closer to me and That was the moment, she grabbed my ears in her mouth, It gave a Mad Feeling of Joy. Then Slowly, I went down on her, my hand went on her breast and Found I something wrong with it... I could feel the scars she had on her chest.

My other hand Went inside her skirt and Out of nowhere, She Cried in pain, She Screamed and Pushed me away and started running Far Away from me. She didn't care about the Thunderstorms or Lightning, or that Heavy Rainfall...

I could draw only one Possibility from that touch of fractions of Seconds,

Her thigh and Crotch area were badly injured.'