Whispers of Hope ✓

CHAPTER 2

5 YEARS LATER.....

"Hey Ish, wanna go with us? It's lunch time already" One of her colleague asked her by lunch time.

"No Luna, thank you. I already have my lunch box. You go and enjoy" Ish said showing her lunch box which she prepared at home.

"Come on darling, why you are not coming with us? We only get lunch time to have fun together. This time I am not going to accept no from you, okay?"

"But you know Luna, I don't like outside food, I like homemade foods. I am okay here." Ish said with a firm expression

"Okay then, you eat here and eat your home made food. I am going then bye." She said and went outside to grab her lunch.

Ish sat sadly. She opens her lunch box and looks at it and started to think about her life.

ISHITA's POV.......

It's not like I don't want to go there but I guess it's my fear which is not letting me go outside. I am here in Philippines. It's been 3 years since I came here from India and 5 years from where that incident happened and it still shakes my soul, completely.

What incident? I will tell you guys later. I think you all should know about me. Let me start with my introduction.

Hi, I am Ishita....Ishita....Only Ishita with no surname. Why I don't have any surname? Because I am an orphan. I spent my childhood in an orphanage which is in Delhi. There I studied, lived my life and spent my childhood. I don't have friends there because no one liked me. Why? I also don't know the reason. I just came to realize that I have to start to living there all alone.

I have everyone there in orphanage the but no one was there for me. Even when I needed them the most. Only one aunt was there to take care of me. When I needed someone, she was always there for me. My childhood is not that easy, never was and never has been. I suffered; I was depressed or I could say I am still in the depths of depression. That was like a nightmare for me which haunts me even now. I don't want to remember those days but I also can't run with the fact that I have to face it one day; no, I had to face it daily.

In my life, there was never anything new to me. I live here in Baguio City, in Philippines. I got a job, fortunately as a massage therapist. I garnered experience and knowledge in massage therapy from all the free events and activities offered in the orphanage back then.

Sometimes I feel like I am the luckiest girl. But then again, remembering that day, I will never, in a lifetime be ever lucky for anything; the worst luck has been imparted upon me, so I thought.

In my life, only limited persons are present. Luna, she is a bubbly chubby girl. When I was new here she helped me to settle here. I live by the top floor; second floor of the massage center I work. I never go outside, not that I don't want to, not even for shopping within these 3 long years I've settled in here.

There's this feeling which still haunts me. What if I go outside and someone kidnap me then?

I always do online shopping weather it's a grocery shopping or clothes shopping. I am not fond of expensive things and not even interested in makeups. I like to be a simple girl. Luna tried so many times to take me outside but I never went. She doesn't know the reason, not that I'm keeping it but because I don't want anyone to know about my horrible past, I've convinced myself to keep it just for me.

Those marks, those faces, that night, the screams, those words; how am I going to forget it?

Will I ever get to erase those mem'ries?

Will amnesia be even enough to get over these traumas?

Will there be anyone I could share my burdens to?