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THE DARKNESS OF LIFE

She was missing since last week.  Her parents, belonging to one of the richest families of the country, have some influence in government circle, so the entire police department was with him looking for her.  She was a teenager, reaching to her 18^th birthday very soon, was a disturbed girl in the sense that she never cared much about her parents, she never showed interest in her studies, and her school progress, though not bad in the early schooling, but later on it had been declining. 

Today her father received a hopeful news that his daughter has been located on highway travelling with a boy, who happened to be one of his delivery men of one of his food factories.  He instructed the police officer to first recover the girl, then they decide themselves what to do with the boy.

Naturally police didn’t care much about the boy, and when they came out of the hiding place the police arrested the boy,  not caring her shout that he was innocent and she herself went with him.

She was sitting in the living room with her parent, there was one of his uncles, who came from abroad after five years.   She threw hateful look at him.  She was crying badly, telling her parents that she ran with the boy with her own will, even he was not ready to take her with him, but she insisted and forcefully got on the delivery truck.

“You do not know these hoodlums, they are bad people they might have hurt you, they are drinker and rapist.”

“RAPIST!”  She burst out, “YOU ALWAYS TALK ABOUT THE BAD PEOPLE OUTSIDE, BUT YOU NEVER PAID ATTENTION, TO LOOK FOR THE ONE IN THE HOUSE, YES THIS COUSINE OF YOUR, SO CALLED UNCLE OF MINE!”

“Stop nonsense, her uncle scolded her.

“HONEY YOU ALWAYS IMAGINE THINGS” Both of her parents also shouted at her.

“NO, THIS TIME I WILL NOT STOP, I’LL NOT KEEP QUIET AND YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO ME. UNCLE, I AM GOING TO WASH ROOM, WHAT DO YOU THINK?

“What you are talking about, go if you want, why you are telling me.”

“BECAUSE YOU ALWAYS LIKE TO SEE ME IN THE WASHROOM AND CATCHING ME THERE!”

This time her uncle turned white as all blood from his body drained out.” 

“YES THIS UNCLE OF MINE, WHENEVER VISITED US HE NEVER MISSED THE CHANCE TO CATCH ME ALONE IN ANY CORNER OF THE HOUSE, HIS FAVOURITE PLACE WAS THE WASH ROOM AND HE FOLLOWED ME THERE, THEN HE USED TO GRAP ME, SHUT MY MOUTH TIGHT WHILE HE…………………………………..”

 She was hysterically crying and telling every detail she had been victimized by her uncle.

 ‘I ALWAYS TRIED TO TELL YOU BOTH, BUT I WAS SHUT UP BY YOU LIKE HE USED TO TIGHT MY MOUTH AND I WAS ALMOST SUFFOCATED TO DEATH. THE SAME WAY YOU, MY PARENT DID BY NOT LISTENING TO ME.  MY ENTIRE CHILDHOOD WAS BURNED OUT BY THIS PSYCHO PATHETIC ANIMAL.  YOU BOTH ALWAYS WARNED ME TO BEWARE OF THE BAD PEOPLE OUTSIDE, BUT YOU NEVER PAID ATTENTION THAT ONE IS ALWAYS LURKING UNDER YOUR OWN ARMPIT,  WHY MOM! WHY DAD, WHY DIDN’T YOU REALIZE THAT A RAPIST CAN EVEN BE IN THE HOUSE IN THE FAMILY AND HE IS MORE DANGEROUS THAN THE ONE OUTSIDE.  WHEN I HEARD HE IS COMING BACK, I DECIDED TO RUN AWAY FROM THE HOUSE, RUN AWAY FROM THE RAPIST GOING TO LURK IN THE HOUSE ONCE AGAIN.”

She was trembling with rage, and misery, her uncle had already got away in rush saying “your daughter got sick, I will never come to this house again”.

 “DAD, THAT BOY WAS VERY NICE AND HE EVEN DIDN’T TOUCH ME DURING THESE DAYS.  I FOUND MYSELF MORE PROTECTED WITH HIM, THAN IN THIS HOUSE.  I AM GOING AWAY FROM HERE, AND WILL LIVE IN THE GUEST HOUSE NEAR THE FOOD FACTORY, FOR HOW LONG I DON’T KNOW.  AND PLEASE WITHDRAW CHARGES AGAINST THAT BOY, HE IS INNOCENT, AND HE IS A VERY NICE PERSON.’

 Saying this SHE went out to go to her own world where she felt herself protected away from the frightening ‘darkness of life’.