Sunday 3 July 2016

a little girl she was...

the brutality of a man was unearthed when her mother lifted her top.her shoulder was marked by red spots as if someone had tried to take a chunk of her skin.
 but,her mother was silent.the little girl went to her granny,hoping she would gain attention from her atleast.
"what happened,who did this?"granny was flabbergasted.
"but it hurts alot.can you apply that paste on my back?"
"but first tell me who did this?"granny was adamant.
"if i tell you,promise you won't take me to him."the girl was all afraid.
she couldn't tell the ongoing slaughter on her body and her mind.how the boy from "high school" has been treating her.she was embarrassed to admit that she was equally responsible.how could she tell anyone that she had failed to make any friends!!what would people think of her?
she had never thought anyone wanted to talk to her.but while sitting alone in the class,the boy had come to her and had spoken very sweetly.she was surprised when he wanted to be friends.how could she deny!!!
the joy that she had someone to eat with and play with during recess time made her feel she was no longer alone.when he would come in her class and they would go out,sit on the grass and eat their food.but,then he started pinching her and slapping her.he would deliberately touch her inappropriately.she felt odd.but then she didn't want to offend her"only friend".
and it became a routine.he would tell her teacher that he was her brother and the girl nodded when the teacher looked at her.silently,without any word she would accompany him and let him do his "deeds".she bore all the tyranny and let him kiss her when he wanted.sometimes it hurt badly but then she never winced.he had that devilish smile on his face that haunted her even at home.she didn't have any strength to see the marks on her body,and she wouldn't allow her mother to see any part of it.
she became very quiet.she no longer spoke even at home,when other children were so naughty at her age.nobody felt any change in school,because she was always silent and never made any friends.but then she was excellent in studies,so no complaints either from her teachers.
her mother was always too busy in her household chores to notice her girl suffering all alone.her father was too stern and hard to talk to.there was nobody to see her innocence being strangled by a boy.
 until she decided to tell her mother.but getting any response she went to her granny.and then granny had started asking details.she couldn't say anything.she lied.and promised that wont happen again.she decided she won't let that boy come near.
but,then the next day,the boy came smiling in her class.and she took his hand and let him take her.
 

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