No to Known

chapter 2

The time when you consider yourself already dead but you have to live maybe just breathe. The time when it is fast and you want to stop it.....stop every second and want to rewind it back...
You have options and you chose the worse but you want to change. Something did you want to undo but the chance is gone as your life is one.....

................................................................. It has been three days after the darkest night of Tahlia's life. She was in a coma for two days and currently recovering from the shock. Her body at the start was not responding to the medication as if she doesn't want to live or her if the medicine will also hurt her again. Her condition was delicate and was under doctor's observation. Past seven hours whenever she got conscious, she starts struggling and screaming. Then again doze off under medicine stimulus and enters a peaceful sleep...
Maybe not after all that peaceful.

"Mr.Grayson And Mrs. Emily Grayson your daughter is recovering physically but mentally she is not stable and will need time." The doctor said while checking her reports.

No one knows how much time it will take to recover. It can be now or it can be never.....

"Doctor I want to talk to her," Emily asked.

"I'm sorry she's in sleeping now when she is not under medication, you can meet her then," the doctor said apologetically and again focuses on other blood reports.

"What's in the report? Doctor", Mr.Grayson asked the doctor.

Tahila slightly shakes her head which was badly hurting and spinning. She tries to focus. She heard some voices and recognizes.

" I'm sorry about that Mr.Grayson. her reports are positive and she is...."

"No....no.," Tahila shouted with all the strength she was left with.

"No,  no it can't be true....it was just a dream, a bad dream. Mom, it can't happen" she starts crying and screaming again. Emily runs towards her and hugs her tightly. Hold her till she cries.

"Mom where was the selfish world..... I... I cry... I shout but no one came to help me. I beg him to stop. I try to stop him, I fight him but he was...he was strong for me. Mom he ruined me... Mom, he kills me... I died that day" she cried as hard as she could in her mother's arm. Her mother was holding her, securing her, and also protecting her...
Her protection was gone, spoiled and she knows that she'll never fell protected again......

"Sshhh, my baby" her mother whispers"everything will be fine. We are here for you....you need to relax... You need to rest, we will talk later." Her mother tries all her best to soothe her...

"Nothing will ever be fine again," Tahila said and release her mom from the tight embrace and was in her own trance when she heard the doctor and her father talking.

"I think we should call the police now Mr.Grayson. I would have already called the police but you are a respectable man so, I thought it will be wiser to call you first", the doctor said clear from his voice he needed appreciation in return with a favor...

" I really appreciate that but I guess we already discussed that we are not going to involve police and defame ourselves in society." Me. Grayson said with clenched teeth.

Tahila was shocked the statement itself is underrated, she has hurt already but it was her hope dying, her faith breaking.....

"What do you mean by this dad, I thought you already would have informed police", she asked bewilderedly.

" Don't be stupid Tahila, you already create a mess for us to cover" his father barked.

"You can't do this to me dad, I need justice, it's my right. Why I should feel shame when I was not at the wrong... Why I should feel degraded and when I already had suffered the pain... No not pain the worst nightmare," she tries to reason.

"And who do you think will provide you justice, The police or the media or the government... The area, where you were raped is an elite society.... Where people talks in money..... They own police... No one will do anything for you Tahila they will just enjoy the story. Write again and again and after sometimes will forget all this and you will be left more broken", Mr. Grayson explained and was taking Tahila silence for acceptance but he was wrong.

Tahila raised her head" you can't do this to me. I'm your daughter". She said half disbelievingly, her father could be her strength but his refusal was choking her from inside... She felt more worst and tightness in the chest.

"I know better than you what to do and what not to do" Mr.Grayson shouts and his voice echo in the hospital room, " you will do exactly what I have planned for you. First, we will get rid of the baby. Then I will let you marry one of my business partner's son, who asked for your hand last week and we will completely avoid police investigation and you will soon move on in life. This mess will die soon within this hospital and no one will ever know about this" he said this time a little calmly.

"I will never do this dad and you can't force me to something like this. This mess will never die, dad, it will be the part of my soul till the day I die... And what you say no one will ever know about it, dad you are wrong, it doesn't matter anyone knows it or not, I know this and I can't live without it and consider it unknown, I will never forget that day, I can't", she said.

" you will forget Tahila, you must have to", his tone was firmed and more like demanding.

He turns to the doctor and they both left the room.

No one can ever stand against Mr. Grayson. His family was one of the richest in the town. Mr. Grayson's rules and His honor and name is something he could never compromise on. Even if it is about his own blood and flesh. No one can dare to disobey him. Not even Tahila had ever disobeyed him. She was like a living puppet on her father's hand which he wants to hand over to another master just like him but the next master will be the man, who he will choose for marriage...
Her husband.

"Mom, what dad is saying...
He's not understanding me nor my condition... Tell him, mom, it was not my fault........", she turned to her mother with tears in her eyes but a sparkle of hope, " you trust me, mom? I don't know him. I don't know..... I accidentally bumped into him..........it's wrong what dad wants me to do. I can't live with a fake life...... I can't even breathe..... I can't even digest what dad said, " she said, her body shivering badly... It was from fear or fever she was having, no one can guess. Her words were even shattering. Each and every cell in her body was in pain, unbearable pain..............

"Leave me alone" she shouts losing her sanity... She loses her grip on her mother and was hysterically shouting and screaming words were even not clear... Panic attack can't even express her state, she was in.

"Tahila listens to me" her mother tries to grip her again...

"I said leave me alone," she said losing all herself.

"Okay, I'm leaving... Just calm down please baby...", she said and leave her without another word.

" leave..." Her lips dry, the voice went just a faint whisper, throat; she couldn't felt it anymore. She was left alone. Her own parents betrayed her. It was ecstasy, the borderline of truth and fakeness,  life and death, hell, and her soul as it was already burning, burning with emotion. And a jolt of wave erupts from her body that she fainted and the world evaporates.....
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After hours or days, Tahila was out of time record, she got her senses and was out of the medicine trance and was in full conscious self. She takes a look at her surroundings, the same hospital VIP room, all cover in a blue and green shade. Then she heard the beep beep sound of the machinery surrounding her and the FLASHBACK of the previous conversation was the last trigger that pulled her strings...

She turns to her side table and luckily finds her phone. She picked the phone and dial the only number she knows by heart even in this darkness, " Natalia, it's me Tahila", before she can respond Tahila continues, " if you ever had considered me your best friend. Just come here and take me away from this hell.......