HEAL ME

1. The Enemy Inside

K a l y a n i

I woke up rubbing my eyes while the sun was rising bright in the sky. It was 7am in the morning and I got up to get ready for college.

My college will start by 8:30am so I need to be quick.

"Mummaaaaa where is my charger?" I shouted from my room because my battery was about to die.

"It's in downstairs I actually took it as mine was lost. " She replied from downstairs

I ran down in my nightsuit to get my charger. Instead of getting it upstairs I kept my phone downstairs near the television to be charged.

With that I left to get ready. I'm a morning person so that's when I'm fully energetic.

After half-hour I was out the bathroom combing my hair in a loose braid, I completed it and applied khol in my eyes with a small bindi taking my bagpack heading downstairs for breakfast.

I wore a peach kurti and looked at my wrist watch that had just ticked 7:40am.

As I was halfway down, my Bua shouted loudly, "Hayee Ramm!! Yeh iss Ghar mei kya ho raha hai?"

Hearing her I quickly decended the stairs and until then even my parents and my younger brother Samarth, were in the living room.

"Kya hua Mona?" My baba asked her.

"Kya HUA? Apni beti se pucho Vikram ke kya hua hai!" She again shouted

My brows knitted not being able to understand her.

"Bua kya hua hai? Aap aise subha subha kyu chilla rahe ho. Mujhse koi galati hui hai kya?" I asked her.

"Itni besharam ladki hai tu. Bahar tu gulchare udda aur mujhe puch ki kya hua hai? Sharam nahi ayi yeh sab karte hue?" She continued

"Bhabi hua kya hai? Saaf saaf bataye. Tu toh bata na Kalyani, kya hua hai?" My mother spoke this time.

"Are wo kya batayegi, yeh tum dono khud dekho apni beti ki kartute." With that my Bua handed over my phone that I earlier kept for charging to my dad.

My dad looked at the screen for a moment and then he looked at me. I could feel his intense gaze was on me.

What happened all of a sudden? Why are they both behaving like that.

My brother snatched the phone from my dad's hand as he brought it to me and we both stared at the screen in pure shock.

I had a text from an unknown number that claimed to have my nudes.

He was blackmailing me to spend a night with him or else he would post those nudes on social media.

The thing was not only that but he had also sent an attachment with it which displayed me taking off my clothes.

I can bet on my life those pictures were morphed.

Never in my life I would do such a thing.

No. Never.

I looked at my dad who had red eyes and was breathing heavily. I know he trusts me. He knows his daughter would never ever do such a dirty thing. He trusts me.

"Baba-"

"Not a single word Kalyani. NOT.A.WORD"

He breathed out heavily as he sat on the couch behind with a thud.

I flinched when he shouted at me. Never in 20 years he had raised his voice on me.

I had tears in my eyes and I looked at my mother who stood there still.