"Jiya? Jiya... Jiya?!" Muffled voice were heard
"JIYA! Wake up you're really sweating" "Huh?" She slowly opened her eyes while moving her hands up to rub them. "Wake up It's 6!" A well known voice said to her
She suddenly jumped up on her bed "D-dad?" She asked astoundingly. Her dad gave her a unbelievable look and spoke "Don't you have to go to school? Get up and get ready quickly, I'll be waiting downstairs" fixing his posture. "Just five more minutes" whining like every other human being would be
"Get up now!" He warned her and left the room with a loud thud... Jiya looked up into the direction of the gate with big eyes hoping some words, even some rude words will do... For her...
At least.
She sighed and got up from the bed, to reach out to the water jug.
Slowly pouring down the water to the glass, she got distracted by some noise outside and before she knew it the glass was full and some got leaked out.
*Flashback*
"Why WOULD YOU DO THAT?!! CAN'T YOU BE MORE CAREFULL?!" Dad shouted while raging towards her "Karan calm down, she just spilled some water" her mom said with a faltering voice, she was coming towards her with her wheel chair
Jiya at the spot was looking down at the floor where a puddle of water was formed "d-dad I am sorry I didn't spill it on purpose- please-no-please I-" A sharp smack landed across her face. Jiya was standing backing away from him while her mother watched from some distance with her eyes full of sorrow
"D-d-dad please-" another hit on her she cheek...
The force on her cheek forced her to ground... Her eyes started to flow
*End*
Memories flashed in her mind and her body stated to shiver and the glass in her hand slipped out to the ground. As the glass fell it made a clenching sound echoing in her head...
All the water got spilled of the floor including her clothes and bed.
and she collapsed to the floor with her hands over her chest, Mouth wide opened, grasping for breath
A few moments passed, she was still on the floor with her eyes widened. Slowly she gathered herself up and got on her feet...
Tripping and stumbling she got to the bathroom and stood stable with the help of wash basin.
Jiya moved her head to make an eye contact with her through the mirror
"That was in the past..." She murmured and turned on the cold water tap
Scooping some water with her shaky hands And spilling some aside, She took a deep breath
Splashed the ice cold water one her face so roughly that her bangle scratched her cheek skin and little droplets of blood oozed out and got mixed with water making the water be tinted with red...
She looked up again with wet face and some red on her face
"He is not like that anymore..." She was trying to motivate herself... "C'mon we have to get ready" She said and splashed some cold water but this time softly...
Time skipped to 7 am...
Jiya was wearing her earrings, Which had black beads at the ends and white beads surrounding and were plated with oxidized silver, Same went with her dress, Pure white up at the shoulders, and pure black down at the knees, also covered with black beads on top and white beads at the bottom. but Today... Something was different about her dressing
She was wearing a white pair of jeans instead of a pajama
Carefully pinching her earlobe and adjusting the earrings, she fixed her hair and headed towards her bed. She sighed and picked up the blanket...
"Aish... Even this got wet" She said while patting here and there around the blanket.
Instead of folding it back she spread it over a chair near by and checked her wrist
"Oh shit It's almost 7:15, Why am I always late" she said hurriedly and grabbed her phone, purse, wallet and stated to ruffle around in her closet to find something
And actually pulled out a card, driving license?!
Placing It safely inside her purse she flew downstairs to have her breakfast
Toast and Milk.
"You're late" Were the first word she heard form her father as she got downstairs
"I'm sorry dad actually I-" "No words" she was trying to explain herself but he shut her out
Jiya opened her mouth to say something but didn't or...
Couldn't
She slowly sat down and picked up two toasts "Place one down, You're getting fat" Mr. Verme said coldly while picking up some butter
Listening to his words Jiya's face loosened and followed back his orders
"Dad? can you drop me off" She asked with hopeful eyes which shinned due to the light sunlight falling to them
"No" A simple straight and bland voice replied
Jiya shifted her gaze back to her plate
After finishing her meal she took the glass of milk in her hands and gulped it down in less than a minute...
"Bye dad See you-" "I have to go get material for tomorrow's pooja I'll be home late" he said cutting her
Jiya nodded with a lowered head and went out of house.
Slowly walking on the main road She got surrounded by a bunch of stray dogs
They were all growling at her showing her some sharp teeth.
"Oh My God...! Somebody help! SOMEBODY!!" She started to yelp.
An old looking man cam running towards her, From A very huge gate, which was infront of a very huge mansion
Jiya was steadily contracting...Her eyes her shut tightly with her palms over
She couldn't open them
That man with a long stick marched towards them and shooed them away
"Hey? open your Eyes They are gone" A deep yet sweet voice said while reaching out to her
"Noo~ They will bite me" Jiya was still scared to open her eyes "NO need to be scared"
Slowly trusting the unknown voice she opens her eyes little by little
After getting a complete look of her surrounding she turned back to him with a smile on her lips
"Thank you So MUCH! I was so scared that I couldn't do anything, I am really Thankful to you" "Oh no need, Just a common problem, It's great that I came to your use. By the way, I am-"
TO BE CONTINUED