𝑻𝒐𝒐 𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒐𝒚𝒆𝒅

ᴀꜰᴛᴇʀ ꜱʜᴇ ʟᴇꜰᴛ

Chapter -7

After 2 weeks from that day~

She had left , my sister has left me forever and I will never ever forgive Amrit for that, for ruining my family like this for his own good . "He has to face the consequences"I shouted and banged the basin at the sole thought of him and his doings. Though he was already getting his capital punishment, still , I have lost everything and I am still not being able to tell mom about it anything and I only could tell Laura and Ryan about it and the other person who knew was my father , he was broken, too much broken I know but still we were kind of not in talking terms so I was not able to soothe him though , I thought of making amends but only my mental health was getting worse. I felt my world and the ground under my feet sweeping away to be not found again , yet I could not do anything about it.

"Well, no one can rewrite the stars" which means my sister will never ever return to me again despite me crying over her departure.

We had to tell now or then because we have to arrange a funeral for her and her body is kept in the morgue now because mom does not know ,after she gets to know, we will tell her goodbye forever. I do not know what will I do without her she was younger than me but she was my inspiration to not fall into depression in the gloomiest of times , she used stay so cheerful that my sadness would just fade away just by watching her,but now there is no way of that anymore.

I had to take pills to sleep that fateful night when we returned after I had called Ryan and Laura ,through them father got to know.

Well again that day came faster in this week only , we decided to divulge everything to mom. Mom was delighted to see all of us together and made chocolate and strawberry muffins for all and even bought snacks from kitchen. She greeted with a big smile, "Hello ,everyone here, see I have recovered fully and there is absolutely no need to feel worried for me , eat these delicacies prepared just for all of you."

I interrupted, " But mumma , I - I - mean we have something to tell you." She being amused said , "Oh! darling , all those things can be discussed later on , first enjoy ....well, I must admit if Tia was here she would have been the epicentre of the party , don't you all agree?" I upon hearing those words escape her mouth fell silent and tried hard to not start sobbing.

Everyone fell silent too. Mom on the other hand , went to kitchen to bring cokes and other cold drinks . But we thought today or never. As mom returned from kitchen , we almost told her in unison but keeping a low tone , Tia is no more.....

We could only hear a loud noise of crockeries breaking as if fallen on ground, we hurried and saw mom sitting on the floor her gaze somewhere else ;amongst the broken items , she looked as if she had lost all of her senses.

Mom did not touch a single piece of food that night and we really regretted telling her the news but truth to be told, I was more than sad , my mental state had much more waned, even before anyone got to know because without her the house fell silent.

We saw mom becoming more and more morosed and physically unwell. I sat the day after we told her and told her calmly, " Mumma , you need to eat something if you don't this will only ruin your health." She heard me but did not answer at first and by the time I was leaving thinking she might say nothing, told me, " I want to see her for the last time , please." I immediately grabbed her hands and with tears swelling up my eyes told her, " Mumma , do not say like this I am your own too and she was my everything, please dont- " all I said and after hugging her tightly I weeped so badly that my clothes and her's became wet and when I recovered , she told, " Baby, my tears are not even coming, but it is good that you can wash away your sadness through it but you see , I feel numb."
I grabbed her and said, " She may be have left us but I will fulfill her dreams and aspirations, you will never feel alone , I promise." Saying those I kissed her temple.

Then that fateful day came .
We made arrangements accordingly and before carrying out the rites according to our religious methods, mom went to see Tia for the last time. When she came back she was disheveled and even her footing was not correct but according to our religious rites, she had to stay to see her daughter off.

We all fell numb and only if she could return, everything could be normal again.

After completing the funeral we came home , I saw Kayla and all other neighbours outside our house who were eager to stay with us in this condition. They stayed till night and they went off again in morning.

Mom had to go to psychologist too in the past month , because she was not behaving like herself , pretty much contradicting with the actual world to accept the inevitable.

I restarted college after taking 3 weeks off, as exams were approaching and tried to cope up with life without her . Mom and Dad were like dead beings just doing their daily courses of work and only Ryan and Laura and yes, others from the groups did cheer or rather try to cheer me up. But , I know , I am dead inside.

Exams came, I scored god knows how, great marks and passed my semester and then saw a new thing too , which made me very surprised ,well I saw that by the end of the semester Laura has got a very handsome dude as her boyfriend, she did not really wanted to go in a relationship anytime , but this was really news to me , well people have the right to enjoy things you know...