The Scars ✓

Two

Kiara's mother stood stunned with tears of helplessness in her eyes. She couldn't understand how a child so young could sense those things which her husband was yet to understand...

Kiara matured at an age when she didn't even know what maturity meant. None of them knew if it was for the best or the worst but what everyone knew was that she wasn't that gullible and stupid anymore. People couldn't take control of her and treat her the way they wanted to.

After Vrinda told her about the whole story, the bond between her mother and Kiara got so strong that no one could ever break it. They started to face those hurdles together. Kiara started disliking or hating people who were responsible for all their sleepless nights and all that they had been through.

All this time, Vrinda had paused; to look if she and Kiara were on the same page of the story.

She searched Kiara's face to find any kind of confusion. When Kiara looked into her mother's eyes, she gave her a look that she already knew this part of the story because Vrinda had told her all this when she was younger.

"This part of the story I already know mom. What I don't know is the 'why' part of it." The sixteen year old girl asked her mother, curious to find the missing piece to complete her puzzle.

"I know sweetie, but what I am about to tell you is a continuation of that story. You see, I told you the bad parts but there is still one thing that I had been hiding from you. You were very young to hear it at that point of time in your life. I think now you are ready to hear it." Vrinda told her daughter honestly.

Vrinda had tried to tell Kiara several times about it but feared how Kiara would deal with it.

She waited for the right time and moment and now she thought it was the time to tell her of what treatment had been given to her.

She couldn't find the right words to put for an explanation because she didn't want to blurt out everything rudely and all at once. She had to choose her words wisely. After thinking for the right words to speak, Vrinda continued,

"What I'm about to tell you, Kiara, is very sensitive. Do not do something after hearing this that you'll regret."

"Okay mom. Stop scaring me and just tell me already." Kiara spoke, searching her mother's eyes for the complete truth.

"Okay. So here it goes. You were about seven months old. I had gone to the office to work and had left you with your grandmother in the house. I was quite uneasy the entire day and called your grandmother several times to check on you. The way she told me and tried to change the topic, made me a bit curious, but I ignored it nevertheless. When I came back in the evening, I found you missing from our house. I asked where you were and finally got to know that you were in our neighbour's house..."

Kiara looked shocked! She spoke,

"Wh-what? What the hell was I doing there? I surely couldn't have walked." Kiara asked, unable to comprehend how a seven month old child could reach from one house to another when all she could do at that age was barely hold her neck upright.

"I know baby. That's what my question was to your granny. What she told me afterwords was why all this is happening now." Vrinda told Kiara.

"Just tell me what the hell happened mom. I need to know the exact reason why we haven't been able to get along with any of my paternal relatives." Kiara spoke furiously, unable to control the anger bubbling inside of her.

"Kiara, calm down honey. It's alright. It's in the past now. Let it be there. You cannot do anything about it so there's no need to be angry about it." Vrinda tried to pacify her.

"Are you hearing yourself right now mom? The past is the only thing which joins the dots of all this that is happening now. The past is the only reason why all this is happening in the first place. How am I supposed to calm down knowing that all my friends out there living with their grandmothers, happily! That they all have grown up hearing stories of fairies and prices from their grandmothers. That they have been showered with love, protected from the scolding of their parents. That my friends had a support system to lean on to when everything was going bad in their life." Kiara was crying now, unable to hold back what she had been feeling for so long.

Once she finished her rant, she felt relieved to finally let all her emotions out to someone without the fear of being exposed. She was so vulnerable at this point of time that one wrong move could destroy her emotionally, forever.

"It's okay sweetie. Things will get better someday, I promise you. Don't let people pull you down. You have a whole life to look foreword to." Vrinda spoke.

"I know that mom, but it hurts. I feel so bad that I couldn't have the life that most of my friends had when they were small. I felt so left out in the group when they all used to tell me how they spent all their summer days chilling with their grandparents while I used to spend mine, travelling with just you guys." Kiara sighed and continued, "I do not wish to roam around the world pretending to be living my life when the family that I have been craving for will remain incomplete. Anyway, we'll talk about this later. First you tell me what the whole deal is? How did it all begin?" Kiara spoke.

"Okay." Vrinda said and started telling her the whole story. From where all this began from.

They both sat through the night, Vrinda telling the whole story to Kiara and she, listening to every single detail with curiosity. They talked about the last eighteen years that flew by and Kiara gained a lot of information that had been missing from her life.

When the sun came up, Kiara felt like the missing pieces of her life were joined again and finally her life was complete. She learnt a lot of virtues from the stories that she pledged to carry with her throughout her life.

Wait, let me tell you from the beginning how the whole story went like.

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