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She sat up stretching her arms for sometime before folding the sheets . This head ache was still killing her, she rubbed her forehead as like the pain would vanish if she does and resumed arranging the pillow but stopped after when she noticed it. A small parchment beneath the pillow.
' I'm leaving ' it said.
It hardly took her a second to realize what it actually meant. Annika knew how her father has been these days, he never liked living like this. He wanted more but all he had were three daughters to handle, no fund for his research, no justice for his son's death, lost his wife to jaundice . He never spoke until it was crucially necessary, she understood he was having his bad days and thought he would reach some threshold point and come back , cause that's what families do.
But after seeing this note, the reality hit hard. He left forever. She then saw the tiny twins sleeping on the other bed. Curled to themselves . She was about to burst out crying but rushed to the other room and locked herself before anything. She didn't want to scare them.
She broke down in tears and surrendered to this feeling of misery. What was she going to do now? Even yesterday a few loan sharks had come to seize their house. The girls are too small and she had just joined college. She was too afraid and vulnerable. Veer, then her mother, and now this man. Hell broke for her .
Curling herself to a small thing, she cried pressing her face to the floor. She has no one now. The more she cried the more it ached, her head felt like it would explode for she kept turning positions to overcome it. And suddenly out of nowhere she felt it, her side vision alarmed her , like someone was here. Her body shivered as she looked by that side slowly and for a second, she almost died on seeing it.
Jhanvi her mother, looking completely strange and scary in that attire, wearing a multicolored shirt with black pant. She was grinning wide showing every tooth of hers . Annika wriggled out and dragged herself far from it, as much as she could. When the wall hit from the back, she pressed her legs together and brought it close to her chest and tried hiding between her knees.
Her mother always wore salwars and she never used a bindi this big, Annika was shook, every time she blinked to come out of this , she only saw her coming close and close and close up until she was just a few inches away from her.
' Kill them and die, kill them and die! '
She heard her saying this continuously, that wide smile haunted her like anything . She closed her ears and again moved away from there, her legs didn't help she fell down and dragged herself to hide under the bed. Her muffling sobs got worse when she saw the face again, peeping down to watch her from the other side of the bed.
A- please please!!
' kill them! Die! '
A- please!!
There was no sign of Annika the whole day, the girls were scared until they heard her voice from that room once.
A- I'm tired, I'm going to sleep. Eat your food and do not play outside. No karate classes today so do your homework and play in the house only.
Riya and Riti were two kids who can't stay a second without quarelling. And when Annika wasn't there to control, they went more wild . It all started when Riya tore Riti's drawing note by mistake, well by mistake Riya said but she knew she did it with all vengeance on Riti for not letting her be the player 2 in the video game she played last night.
