SLS#1#Mirror Knows The Truth

Never

Sarah's POV

" It's been years but it still feels everything happened yesterday." He said in a painful voice. I knew he was missing his mom badly. I can say that surely cause it was showing on his face clearly.

" You don't have to continue if you don't want to." I said.

He hugged me tightly from back burying his face on my neck and we kept sitting there silently. I felt him pressing his lips on my neck. I trembled a bit but didn't pull myself out from him. I couldn't. He had something in his touch which made me want to be there in his arms forever.

" But I want to." He said.

" Ok. I am always here to listen to you anyways." I said. He sighed deeply and then took a deep breath to calm himself down.

" Well...." He said and stopped. "My mom was the only child of my grandparents. I had an uncle who died in an accident long before my birth. I have never seen him. My mom was born in luxury. Because my grandparents owned a fortune." He said.

" Is Fitzston's Villa included? " I asked him and he chuckled.

" Yes, it is. My grandparents made it." He said.

" Oh, ok. Then? " I asked him.

" They used to love my mom a lot because she was their only child then. But it was my mom's bad luck that she fall in love with a wrong person. Her parents tried to make her realize the truth about that person that he wasn't the right person but she was too crazy in love to understand that. She went blind in love that she failed to see his flaws. My grandparents thought if they get her married with someone else she will be in good hands but she ran away from her wedding with that guy. But soon after that she realized that it was a great mistake to do that. Her parents was right. He wasn't the right person for her." He said and his hands turned into fists and his hold tightened around me.

" Then?" I asked him.

" She thought she will go back to her parents but her self respect wasn't letting her. She decided to fight this war against her own. She tried her best to hold on and made this work. Once Mila was born she thought he will think about his family now and come back to a normal life because he didn't use to work. He forced mom to work and earn money anyhow which he used to spend on his drugs and alcohol. This how life was going on. Then I was born and one more problem was created now. Mom wasn't able to handle things alone. But he refused to go to work. He told her to do anything. I mean anything. He even..." He stopped he was shivering in anger. I kept my hands on his fist because his knuckles were turning white because of the pressure he was applying on them. He loosened the hold a bit and looked like he was relaxed at me.

" He told her that she has to earn money even if she has to sell herself." He said and he stopped. I kept looking at him with widened eyes. Now I understand why he hates him this much. From now onwards I also hate them. I softly kissed on his forehead. He smiled sadly with that deep hurt expressions on his face that made me want to kiss him badly to make him feel better.

" He used to torture my mom. I have seen that several times. But she never ever let anyone know. He used to hit her and she kept hiding them. I was so scared that someday he will kill her. But he didn't kill her because she was his only way to earn." He said."We had to fulfill his demands first. He didn't care even if we are starving. He needed his money first. Mom had never ever complained about it. She accepted her fate. When I was in high school Mila and I used to do part-time works to carry on our expenses. Because we knew mom wasn't able to handle this alone. We tried to help her. Though she didn't want us to work but she was helpless. We accepted everything. We decided that this is our life and we have to live it like this. No other option. Everything got messed up when one day he came home with another woman saying she is his girlfriend." He stopped and sighed deeply. "Trust me, my mom was deeply hurt that day. She never ever cried in front of us. But that day she cried hugging Mila and me. She was so helpless. We didn't know what to do. The new woman was a witch. She started to torture us. But mom still kept tolerating everything until one day she tried to accuse Mila and me saying we have stolen her money. My mom couldn't bear that and she threw her out of the house along with her stuffs and when he came back he tried to hit her again but that day we saw my mom turning into a tigress. She got the same belt that he used to hit her and she beat both of them without any mercy and kicked them out of the house." He said.

Bravo!!! She was really a tigress. Not every woman are that brave to go against domestic violence thinking about their family but they forget that doing this they are doing nothing but encouraging those bloody bust*rds to torture them more. When a kid saw his mom get beaten by his dad and his mom is not protesting against it then he will think it's natural and he will do the same with his wife in future. Thus she is destroying some other girl's life as well. So if we want this chain to stop we have to raise our voice and say no to domestic violence. It's really a curse in the society. We just call us civilized but in reality we still have to work a lot to be civilized.

" Then my mom contacted with my grandparents and she divorced him. She started her life again. And this how our life started to get into places. But we still had to suffer more." I said.

" What happened? " I asked him.

" My mom died in front of my eyes." He said and my eyes widened at once. " We were coming back from supermarket after shopping and some drunk bust*rd had hit her with his car. I wasn't able to believe what happened in front of me. I couldn't help my mom. She was  We took her to the hospital but she was already gone." He said very softly. I turned and hugged him tightly. " Everything happened in front of me, Sarah. But I couldn't do anything. I couldn't save my mom when she saved us from every single harm she could. She loved us a lot. He used to torture her a lot she never protested but once she pointed finger at us she turned into a volcano. She wanted to live a happy life with us but she wasn't even able to get that." He said. " I have just failed to fulfill my duty as a son. I couldn't save her." He said and I pulled him and pressed my lips on his. I broke the kiss and wiped his tears. I myself was crying like a mess but I did a little care about it.

" You are not failed, Caleb. You are the best son ever who loves his mom the most who can feel her pains and tears. You are lucky to have a mom like her." I said and he sighed. Then pulled me into a hug. I felt his breathing was coming back to normal.

" Don't you ever dare to leave me." He said.

" I will never ever leave you. Never ever." I promised.