Standing in front of the picture of her dad, Alisha was holding an empty plate. She murmured with wet eyes,” Dad, you are seeing now, your princess will sleep another night without a meal. Mummy is inside waiting for her medicines as her infection is exacerbating each day but I don’t have a single penny even to buy poison to end this miserable and dilapidated life.”
There was a storm of memories in her mind. Some were enchanting enough to forget her current squalid condition for a transitory period but some were so terrible that her already wet eyes were drenching more in the flood of tears.
When she opened her eyes, she belonged to a very affluent family. She didn’t experience any hardship or restraint. There was neither scarcity of wealth nor love. She was the only child of her parents. Many might be keeping grudges and envies from them but they didn’t dare to show them. In fact they always expressed affection for them.
Life for her was very smooth until her father faced a serious and humungous setback in his business. It was mainly due to the betrayal of some of his relatives who threw sand in his eyes and kept him in the dark. When her father noticed the irregularities and embezzlement, it was already late. Being an owner, her father owed a lot to many people in that scam. And they had to sell everything of them to pay debts and dues.
Her father was a man of strong nerves but a betrayal from a most closest one broke him from inside. His health started deteriorating day by day and a day came when she along with her mother saw her father closing his eyes forever leaving them alone and helpless in this cruel and ruthless world.
While she was drenched in her thoughts, her mother tumbled inside room. Seeing her daughter in front of picture of her husband, she said
“Why do you repine daily, time is ruthless, it encounters you with different circumstances.”
Now when none of their relative was paying heed to their destitute condition, they were alone striving for their livelihood. Both of them enjoyed their life inside home because his father was sole earner and guardian of whole family. He was running his family well unless he was deceited by one of his most trustful.
“Why is their any relative, what is the concept of relation when they are cause of your downfall. Why do we keep us surrounding with such relatives who can’t come to us when we need them most? “ she beweepingly asked
“Time changes everyone. Even your shadow leaves you in dark. Everyone thinks about his own benefits and status and now we are nothing before them except some beggars and empty-handed souls. All they used to stick us just because of shine of wealth of your dad and now both of them has gone . See , what do we have to attract? Nothing” her mother replied.
Lowering her head down and cleaning her tears with her shawl she could just say
“Dadda, everything was fine untill u were. Your departure has devastated us.”
This is my entry for #inkwellfictional writining prompt.
