STUCK IN TIME

(xli) Book 1: Chapter 33- And I'm Here for You!

Ayana's POV

I used to wonder that if love is there in a family real blood is not important. I used to think that it wouldn't really matter at all if Elena is my mother or not if she loved me. Never understood why a person wants nothing more from his marriage than to have a child of his own. Why do people think that blood is the only way continue their legacy. I always wondered that anyone can adopt a child and up bring him as his own and soon the distinguishing factor between real and adopted would vanish. And I was not entirely wrong to think like that. Perhaps for a lay man that explanation should suffice. However to someone who knows how much connected a bloodline is; to someone who knows that I and my forefathers are just one; who knows the entire phenomenon of love being at the same place as blood is incomprehensible.

Today sitting in this prison cell with white walls staring at me and I staring at them with my bare eyes (which I am otherwise too scared to open without lenses), and with my entire existence shaken up with what I just experienced I understand why blood is important. I understand how kin can keep you alive even after your death. It is the a way you can live forever. 

Immortality is after all what has been desired since the beginning of time. Maybe a part of that desire is achieved through a continued bloodline and a part of the deep rooted desire disguises itself in the form of a reasoning that we need children to look after us and our heritage.

Well, I am only an eighteen year old girl. And this whole philosophy is not what I need to ponder. This was just a small lecture to my childish self from my philosophical self. After all after what I have experienced today a few minutes filled with awe followed by a few minutes of reflection on related philosophy is natural. I will continue to think about it later. Probably when I will have a baby I will think why it is important to have my own baby but not right now.  My single self, which is currently detained in a very strange room for the last two weeks has more important things to think about. Top of the list being, how to get out of here.

My family would be worried. My friends would be worried. And Asher! who is accidentally my best friend as well as my worst enemy, I would just die to know how would he be feeling right now. Would he be worried? Of course he would be. Without my crazy jokes and without anyone to mess around with he would be dying of boredom.

Ughh focus Ayana! Stop thinking about useless things.
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I am standing in Mr. Hyder's office and I have just told him that I am ready to do whatever he says. He looks at me for a good one minute before muttering, "Good. What took you a month?"

"I just dont approve of the ways you are using like abducting children and all. But if my mother worked so hard for something like this, I am ready to help you achieve it. But you have to promise me that you will let me and my sister go after that. I promise you we would never speak a word about this to anyone, if you are afraid that we might expose this after leaving." I speak the carefully chosen words that I had practiced. Lying has to be perfect if it has to be there in the first place.

"I have no intention to keep you forever. You are Natalias daughter, she was my first cousin and my first love. I never hurt her, even after she left me, and will never hurt her family even after she dead. See? I do have values too. Its just that this is business and that is family. I break rules only when they conflict with each other. So beware, as long as you don't interfere with my business I will not harm you or anyone close to you. You have been warned." He speaks in a deadly cool tone.

After I woke up from that beautiful dream, my bodyguard gave me a chit marked with a star. That was what mama had said. She told me that her people are in this facility and they will help me and I can trust them. If that dream was a product of my imagination then how can there be actual people who would do same as what mama said in the dream. So I am sure it was real.