Rising from the ashes

Chapter 5- Evil Father

Razia was sleeping, it was 5:00 Am in the morning.suddenly, she felt something hard falling on her face and she was all wet.

She opened her eyes screaming when she saw his father standing in front of her, her lips twitched, a sense of grief and fear stucked her eyes, her throat dried and her heart started bumping.

"You little bitch, I haven't brought you here to let you sleep all day. Now I'll tell you, you'll see." He said.

Razia was shivering and her eyes were continuously looking for Asha tai, to protect her but she did not find her anywhere around.

"What are you looking for huh?No one is going to help you out. You are the root cause for all my problems so, I will make your life a bloody problem."

Razia was not actually able to understand, what he was saying with her tiny head. She wondered that she met this person one day ago,she haven't stolen anything from his house, haven't broken anything that belongs to him, haven't beaten his little son, even haven't known that this monster was her father till now....how is she actually been a problem to him.

For once, she opened her mouth to argue but suddenly the image of her mother came in front of her eyes and she sucked the words back to her stomach.

"Will he beat me now?" she murmured to herself.

Suddenly, his huge hands held her hair and pulled her with them outside of the room. Outside, there was a broom and a bucket of water. she saw it and then saw his face. He pushed her on the floor and shouted, "clean each and every corner of the house, I will make you clean floor with your tongue if I find any dust in the house" He said and went out of the house.

Razia was wondering that how will she do it all by herself, she used to help her mother in the house chores sometimes but she never let her do so much. She always used to tell her that she will become an officer someday, and also wanted her to go to school and study. She was also admitted to a school nearby, where there were no girls and her school was going to start from next month.

Her gaze went to the bucket of water and then she thought about her father who was going to make her clean the floor with her tongue if she did not do what he asked. So, she first tried to lift the bucket which was full of water and then tried to drag it some way, but it was quite heavy for her little hands.

she ran towards the kitchen and brought a mug from there,and started washing the floor. Room one, two three, four and 'Angan'.

Exhausted, she sat on the floor for a while and checking, if any dust have remained, suddenly got up as she have remembered something. she started looking for something and finally got a duster, and started with dusting all the furniture and doors and the slabs etc.

It took her two hours to do all of that. she sat down on the floor with her head buried in her hands and shivering of cold.

Suddenly his heavy voice came to her ears and she jumped of fear like a pup does when someone hits him. Her tired eyes moved here and there to ensure if every thing was clean.

He came and saw that every thing was clean and the floor was shining like a glass.If it would be someone else he would definitely been impressed with the hard work and neatness of the little adorable girl but, he instead took it as a challenge to his man ego.

"Oh!You little runt, don't be so happy, You have to cook now" He said with a snort.

"B...b..but A...A..."

"You are not allowed with your ifs and buts here",he said with a slap on her face and threw knife and vegetables in front of her and said, "You have one hour only, otherwise..",and went away.

She took the knife and the potato and started peeling it, whenever she tries to peel it off, the knife slips from her hands.

"It is dangerous to play with knives" her mother used to say.

Suddenly, the knife slipped from her hands and blood started to come from her thumb as she hashed it accidentally. she started to sob while everything around her got blur and she fainted.

When she was able to open her eyes somehow, she was in the room where she slept last night and Asha tai was shouting at her father, "She is all wet and have high fever bhaisab, How can you do this a child, well..your own child."

And his hands blew her face and he said,"Don't you dare to say this again, my child huh?OK!" and came towards Razia and kicked her on her stomach. As She screamed in agony Asha tai came in between and begged him not to do that. He stormed out of the room.

Asha tai came and sat near Razia and changed her clothes with some old ones of hers, which was somewhere in a trunk in another room. It was a white full sleeved T-shirt with a red skirt. Asha tai opened her hair and tucked them back with a clip. After that, she made some 'kaadha' for her and gave it to her.

Asha tai knew that she could not help the little one, as whenever she would try to help her, the problems for would only increase and also Razia was disturbed with the fact that he slapped Asha tai because of her.

Well It it was the first time when he actually hit her otherwise he used to love his sister once and the reason for his disgust was only because she was a widow.

They both were blaming themselves for the condition of other.

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*kaadha- It is a medicinal liquid containing some remedies like cloves, black pepper,ginger, etc, which often work in fever, cough, cold etc.

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