Her Promise

The Sad truth

That old man.....I wonder who he was? And why did he glare at us?
  
Clouds of thoughts gathered me after our encounter with that strange man. I kept wondering who that man could be or maybe if he had some kind of connection with the story of that woman and her daughter.
   
                Well, nothing is always as it seems to be. Soon, the truth will be revealed. I had an urge inside of me to help solve the mystery of that woman and her child. I started by asking from people first. Nobody answered me; either they ignored me or started making excuses. The situation was not really good at all. Fear had made people so frightened that many started believing that the daughter of that woman was haunting them. For some reason, I felt like something was wrong. As if the facts and figures had been buried alive and everything was long gone. It sure is a harsh reality of life. People just make up the rumors and everybody believes it, how stupid. I asked the villagers and ended up finding the place where they used to live. It was really far away from the village that's why the girl was kidnapped so easily. It was near a bridge, the whole place looked like a paradise I had never seen. Even though the place was beautiful, it had been turned into a quiet place after the death of both of them.

               I was strolling around the place when I heard someone crying. It was coming from the oak tree near the bridge. When I came closer to look, it was a girl;more like an angel. Even her crying face looked beautiful while her tears came rolling down her cheeks like pearl. When I came closer to reach out to her, she got scared. She must've thought  that I was trying to harm her so as self-defense, she ran away. I followed her and found myself in a house. There was dust everywhere so I assumed nobody lived there.

            Suddenly, a voice came asking me who I was. I answered and told her that I was just a traveller and meant no harm to her. She was satisfied  and showed herself.