DESOLATION

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INEZ'S POV

"Here is your coffee and brownie, mam". I look towards the lady who has just placed a fresh chocolate brownie and a mug filled with steaming hot coffee on the table. I smile at her despite the sadness which is gripping my heart so tightly. I very well know how to hide my pain and my sadness behind my smile. It looks so tasty and perfect enough to make me forget about my sadness for a few moments.

"Thank you". I politely thank her and move my eyes toward the window. While sitting alone inside this small café, I have nothing much to do. I was looking outside the window which has started to get blurry because of the small water droplets which are cascading down the window glass. It is raining quite heavily today. The month of march can't pass without heavy downpours in this city.

The sound of heavy rain can easily be heard in this crowded cafe. As it is going to be evening soon, more people have started to come here. The small wooden bell hanging above the door catches my attention when another person enters the café.

I look towards the rain. This heavy rain reminds me of the sadness which I have inside me. Since childhood, I have heard this saying that rains are sorrowful but I never believed it. For me, rain always brought happiness and fun but it all changed when my father and mother and my sister had an accident on a stormy rainy night last year. They were coming to pick me up from my friend's home.

Only if that unlucky accident had not occurred then my life would have been filled with happiness instead of sorrows right now.

HE also came into my life some months after that night. No, I should stop thinking about him. Thoughts of him only bring pain and nothing else. I wish I had never met him.

People are running around in the rain to prevent themselves from getting wet. Some are holding nice umbrellas in their hands. My eyes move toward a happy couple who is crossing the road under one umbrella. They seem to be enjoying the rain. The girl is smiling brightly and it seems like the boy is telling her a story. They look so happy together.

I wish I could have that happiness in my life. I wish I also had someone in my life who would make me smile like this. I wish I was in a relationship with a normal person rather than an Irish Mafia lord whose heart is made of stone. I shake my head to remove his thoughts from my mind. I hate him and hate every thought about him. I hate myself for even thinking about him.

I again look outside one more time and then move my attention toward the brownie placed in front of me. Chocolate is covering the whole brownie. Just by looking at this, I feel my mouth watering. I pick up the fork and take a bite of the fresh brownie. It does taste awesome. I continue to eat while looking out the window from time to time.

Rain is quite beautiful in the city of Charleston. Charleston is a nice city in South Carolina. This city is full of life. I love this city because of its charm and because I was born here. I have been living here for nineteen years of my life. Sometimes, I wonder how unlucky I am. At only nineteen years of age, I have experienced and gone through so much pain and difficulties. I am an ordinary nineteen-year-old and my life is controlled by that sick Irish lord.

How much my life has changed. On that stormy rainy night, my parents died and my sister got hospitalized because she fell into a coma and all the burden came on my shoulders. She has been hospitalized since then. It has been a year since I heard her voice. Evelyn is two years older than me. She was the best sister one could ask for.

My parents always loved her more than me because she was perfect in everything.

Our life was going perfectly fine because my father had a nice job. We had a beautiful home. We were a small happy family living in our home. All my dreams were crushed after my parent's death. They were not the best parents but still they were my parents.