Winter's embrace [ Completed ] {EDITING}

Chapter three: I am not the girl anyone generally will want

Song: I am a mess by Bebe Rexha

I was immersed in my thoughts when Adarsh broke me out of my reverie and helped me get back into the car and he proceeded to drive us home , so that I wasn't the one to drive as he knows I am always stressed out.
He is the kindest person and no matter whoever comes no one can replace him.

We returned home and became sad to see a note left in the kitchen island stating, " We have thought to go out for the night and will be back by the morning." Written by dad and mom. Showing the note to Adarsh I said, " Let's party bro."

He cocked his eyebrows, "Why?"

"Why? as in why? we should relive good old days that we spent in India and USA."

"We really didn't do any significant thing in the USA other than getting a citizenship for us as you had your's already and your job and then some years later flying off to England with such memories that I wish no one should ever have in their lifetime."

" Ironically speaking , I don't think I had any fault...that you are coming off real rude to me."

"I am sorry Lavanya, but sometimes I regret us coming here and making you more miserable and I know I shouldn't be telling this but sometimes our aunt also feels bad for you genuinely."

"You know what , you successfully ruined my mood for today , I was suggesting we play indoor or outdoor games for the evening and then eventually drift to bed while doing netflix and chill....BUT YOU RUINED IT!!! IF YOU REALLY DON"T WANT TO STAY HERE WITH ME IN ENGLAND ANYMORE,THEN JUST GO AWAY AND I WILL BOOK TICKETS FOR TOMORROW'S FLIGHT. Lastly, I will ask mom and dad , if they want to stay with their miserable girl anymore and if they answer me as no, I will send them off too." I yell my insides screeching in pain by his words.

He looks up at me as all the while his head was hanging low after listening to my words and he states, "Book flights, I will leave." Then he leaves me in the hall his words still hanging in the air leaving a trail of devastation behind. I think to myself that what I did for brother all these years and now a moment of realisation comes, that he is going back leaving me all alone with my destiny , just like that. Now , only dad and mom are the ones left for me to ask whether they will leave me too and I am going to do it tomorrow.

Still processing those words, I climb the stairs up to my room and close the door my tears finally getting a signal to come out and they make me more and more broken as my past creeps in too and I didn't imagine that the night after going to that witch's house will turn out to be like this.

But ultimately I am a strong person not to be broken by anyone , I mentally prepare myself with the loneliness that will come along after everyone leaves me in my vacation house and also while I travel to the city side ; that house will also feel the same.

The next morning, he says , " If you have booked the tickets let me know I will pay for it, breakfast is in the table take it." Saying those he storms out.

All I could think is when dad and mom will be returning to me in this house , as they had promised their stay will be short of one night. Suddenly, the phone chimes in my hand which I had forgot was in my hands due to absent-mindedness. Mindlessly looking into it I find, a message. The text stating, I will come for you soon. Shaking with horror, I throw the phone down straight without thinking twice, one thought comes to mind, what if everything will repeat itself again? I gulp water from the bottle my hands still shaky with the unnerving thought.

After looking at my phone mindlessly which is practically lying in the ground, I pick it up and then a call makes me come out of my reverie and it is a unknown person. Immediately after picking it up ,the person says, " Your dad and mom was found dead near the river come fast and this is the address ." Practically, the next town and I muster up all my courage , nerves and drive my Range Rover straight to the destination. On the way, I call my brother only to be sent into the voicemail. I am feeling hayward and just don't know what is going to happen once I reach there.

With my heart pounding so hard that it is threatening to come out any moment , I drive at a speed of 160 km/hour to reach the destination, with no care what will happen if any legal authority catches me because after all they are my parents and this concerns them. I think my brother doesn't want to even contact me , such is the juncture our relationship has come to with an argument just the night before. If they are going to catch me, I will show my former position even though the post doesn't work here in England.

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"This not going to be an easy task", Emily the police officer in charge of the case informed. After reaching there, I find them recovered from the site and already covered with white cloth and when requested they do let me see them and really surprising it is , my brother hasn't really turned up after morning and I am afraid that I will have to make another report regarding my brother. My eyes started betraying me after the sight of them both lying there lifeless. I started weeping and sobbing loudly enough to say Emily took a moment from doing other tasks on the site and started rubbing my back and reassuring me by saying , "You have to be strong, this is only the beginning of the responsibilities on your shoulder and should your brother return, make him understand the situation too and tell him to cooperate." I am standing and feeling that my body is not responding literally and feeling completely numb , as my family was everything to me and now there are no to none of the remnants left except for my relatives. That is when I realise as if my sixth sense informing that, I should go and check my car and there will be something. My body takes some time to act which my brain had instructed already and by the time I reach my car ,there it is a very small sheet of paper as if taken out of a writing pad which is not big enough and in it scribbled hurriedly, "I AM WATCHING YOU!" I spring from my place forward and sprint toward the side I feel someone was lurking around watching me only to find no one.

The next moment , I just go and inform the incident to Emily while she was still measuring the areas within the place where my parents stood sometime before. She assured me telling me not to worry , "if the person who had murdered your parents are out here , we will find them out no matter what and will go any extent." Defeated and completely sensing that my brother won't return anytime soon, I finally file a missing complaint about my brother. A thought comes to myself , "I am not the girl anyone generally will want." I second that thought sometimes.

The day ends, me driving back to the lonely house in a miserable note.