Ann and I

16.She Floats With Me. Ken

As soon as the ' others' have surrounded my Ann, I have been fighting my way through. To be near her and to be with her .But those in the graveyard, the ones like me, They bullied and they raved and rented driving me mad. I keep away from them. They are cruel. They laugh.. They make so much ruckus sometime that I hide away from them. That day they made Ann run. Then they surrounded me and hissed and shouted on me.They often hit me too. But this time I didn't give in. I fought back. When they shoved me I hit back. They threw me around but I fought back.. It took me long time for when I came back bruised and battered. I found my Ann in pain. She was in her room, huddled on one side and moaning in fever. Her eyes were closed and she was burning with Heat of her body. She tossed very uncomfortably and spoke " grandma" for a few times but never woke up..... I cudnt reach her. Cudnt. No matter how hard I called her. No matter how much I howled and screamed. No matter how I hung upside down around her, she wouldn't get up. Once when I was crying. She opened her eyes looked long at me and closed again... I feel helpless and terrible. Why won't she speak to me??????
Her aunt is almost same to the evil that live in graveyard. That day she came.. All swaying and staggering in the morning hours and went in her room and slept. She, not even for once looked at Ann. It was late evening when she noticed Ann laying and then kicked her. When Ann even then didn't open her eyes. Then only her aunt realized that she wasn't well and felt her head and hand. She was angry. "first they dump her on me and then I have to pamper her" . She muttered angrily. Lit her cigarette and sat their waiting for Ann to get up. After a while she put up paint on her face and went out. Ann lay sweating and tossing and there was nothing... Nothing that I could do. I just hung there and cried. What was going to happen??? Will she come back to me or would she never be seen and heard. I wept with grievous anxiety.
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After a day, Ann's aunt started bringing men into the house. They would come get locked in a room and drink from bottle. I could see that. In the morning they would leave. All this lecherous woman did was to shake Ann time to time and mutter curses at her. I have watched many a human beings from my tree and other places but none as bad as... this woman. I feel angry now... Very very angry. Ann.. Ann. Get up. Please do.
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I am angry. My rage is burning me mad. A sinister looking man came at Ann's aunt today. He oozed evil. I hated his scrawny face and deep yellow teeth. At night he was in the other room and as Ann lay on ground covered with a thick blanket he did not notice her at all like others. The trouble started when he got up after midnight to get water from the kitchen. I was just hanging. Near Ann. AS this mongoose of a man came out he noticed Ann moaning and tossing in fever. He switched on the light so I had to huddle in a corner all uncomfortable . I remained there. To my great dismay he stood there looking.... Greedily at Ann. Wetting his diseased lips with his diseased tongue. Looking as if some humans look at food.... Hunger in his eyes. I could do nothing except hiss in anger. That ugly woman came out of the room and hugged that untidy, repulsive man from behind. Together they looked like pair of ugly cockroaches. And then they started talking about.... Ann..
" who the hell is this beauty??? He asked lighting a stinking cigarette.
" A burden. " she puckered her mouth with a dismissal of hand." " I kept her because a very high personnel from my village came to request me to give her shelter and being kind hearted I relented". She snatched the cigarette from the cockroach and took a deep swag. They stood in silence and looked at Ann as if she was an exotic dead deer. The cockroach spoke again " she would fetch you a good price"
Mercy stood fuming cigarette smoke from her huge ugly nostrils and spoke thoughtfully. "How much???". The man grinned ugly with a raspy voice and said " More than you can think" and they cackled an evil laugh together. Anger ran through me... Everything looked red. Deep red to me. At that time Ann moaned with pain and that man smiled an evil grin...
" tch tch! You have a goldmine here but you are ruining it!!! She is extremely reedy and ill. Now no sensible customer buys dead, ill and reedy girls. At least she should be alive." That made mercy sprint to her room and bring a medicine and shove it in my Ann mouth with water. Ann almost choked because of her clumsiness. The man still focussed on Ann . looking at her with the eyes bespeaking thousand evils. I wanted to jump on his shoulder and ravage his face with my long nails. "she is young and fresh" he whinnied on... And would fetch a good start ". And then he looked at Mercy whose face was scrunched thoughtfully." if you kill her with your dumb wit you would only manage to get a police case or trouble only. " Mercy stood frowning at Ann. My Ann.
That man sighed and snivelled..." she is all different...... " He bent near.. My anger burst through my veins and flowed red... I howled.. Ahoooooo oooooooooo and the wind answered me. The glasses of the windows cracked the sickly bulb bursted with an unpleasant blast. Those two monsters retracted away from Ann. But I was seething with rage that I have not known before. I wanted to drink blood..... I flew into the room and hit the man hard on his chest... He spilled blood and that witch Mercy started whimpering..she carried him to the other room . I sat near Ann and my tears won't stop.
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That cold night I was lost in my foggy thoughts. I heard someone calling me and I stared in the utter dark that clouded my mind. All lost. Something stirred. when I turned to my right, I was startled to see Ann's soulful green eyes looking at me. . Ann sat beside me all milky and thin. I cud see through her. I quickly looked at where she was sleeping.... And she laid there too!!!!! all peaceful. Not breathing... I looked at the Ann sitting by my side. She gave me a sad smile.. "Ann " I said softly. She was like me. I knew she could float with me. "ken" she said in her sweet soothing voice. Her eyes two lovely pool of tears. " let's go away from this nasty hell" she floated toward the window. I looked at her. Her beautiful sad face. Her weeping eyes... She is floating with me... She is with me.. we could live together¡¡!....... She and I... Away from all.. I felt happy at this thought.

But then... But then.....

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