In The Pit Of Despair

CHAPTER : 1

                                 "Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixture dementia fuit"

Our story takes place in a city known as Stratford which is a little away from London.

Like most houses in that part of the city the house of Benjamin Maurice was built elegantly and beautifully if you would look inside you would see a boy no more than 18 washing his face, he had black curly hair that had clamped up and stuck with his face after being wet, he opened his eyes as the water was dripping from his face, you would see that they were grey deep-set eyes that were hollow as if life didn't exist in them, he had a smile worth dying for and when he smiled it wrinkled his eyes and a dimple would be visible on his left cheek.

He got ready to leave for his school , it was a 10 min walk from his home towards his school.

When he entered his classroom , everyone greeted him good morning and then he sat down on his chair which was right beside the window.

He was deep in thoughts while looking the falling leaves outside , but a voice interrupted his thoughts it felt like it was the voice of an angel, he looked towards the root of the voice and what he saw was a beauty, she was standing beside their homeroom teacher, maybe she was a new student but he wasn't listening to anything else just her voice like honey and her.

She had chestnut brown hair that was straight but came in loose curls towards the end, she had Almond eyes that looked honey shaded when sun glinted in her eyes, she had a slender physique with an uplifted neck.

They say things would've turned out great if Benjamin Mourice never looked at her .

She was introducing herself

"Hello! I am Zain Isaac , I hope to spend this year with you and enjoy it"

She said it with a smile on her face. Ben was looking at her , no staring at her would be the correct word , she sensed him looking and passed on a smile and his heart skipped a beat and his lips curled into a very beautiful smile. The teacher pointed to a girl and told Zain to sit beside her. Ben had this tingling sensation, maybe it was jealousy as to why she was sitting beside the girl known as Suzy Jason and not beside him. He didn't understand why he was feeling that way.

Days passed and he stole looks at her but didn't strike up a conversation.

From a young age he lived in boarding schools because his parents apparently lived in "Spain". Now that he was of legal age he lived in an house owned by his parents.it was a elegantly built house with Slim mahogany tiles that clad the floor-to-ceiling fireplace in the living room which opened out onto a garden .A door in the facade's wooden screen led into an entrance area, which stepped down to allow the ground floor living, dining and kitchen space to sit at the same level as the garden.

A white, steel staircase led up to the first floor, which contained two bedrooms , one was used by Benjamin while the other acted as a storeroom.

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"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time." - Albert Camus

It was a beautiful morning , the clouds were scattered on the sky , birds were leaving their nests to bring their young ones food to eat , People were busy going from here to there . Ben was leaving for his school ,upon reaching his class he searched for Zain and on investigating he learned that she had apparently taken a leave. His day passed normally on his way to his house , he passed through a cemetery , he could hear someone crying he would have moved on but the voice was similar , it was the voice that he could recognize among thousands and his feet automatically moved towards the voice. As he was going he suddenly felt a tug at his heart as if his heart was heavy with guilt but he had nothing to feel guilt about , he felt bewildered but thought best to ignore it and at that point he felt light and things started moving around him in this dizziness a vision engulfed his eyes.