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Chapter 5
He Felt Her Pain & Cried
Mayank laid on his bed, turned on the AC and pulled the blanket all over him. Adjusting himself comfortably, he flipped over the first page of Nupur's diary.
What will a 7 years old girl do in her leisure time? Obviously she will play with her friends, right? But if she doesn't have friends, then? Sounds weird, right? Such weird thing could only happen in my life, in Nupur Bhushan's life.
When I was 7 years old, I used to sit at a corner of my room and cry my heart out. Day and night passed but my tears didn't stop to flow. Wanna know the reason? The reason was my loneliness. I had no friends. Now why had I no friends? That's because I was not a good girl. Well, that's what I used to think. But the truth.. The truth was something else, very horrible truth which my small brain could not understand at first.
"Kya ho sakti hain woh bhayaanak sacchai? Kyun Nupur itni akeli thi?", Mayank said to himself curiously. He continued..
As I had no friends, I used to pass my time by watching movies. Yeah, movies not cartoons! Now that's shocking huh? But the reason was very simple.. mummy and papa always used to be out of town for some so-called business works. They always left me in care of a servant. Must be thinking how my parents could do that, right? They had no other options, actually. Or I should say that mummy was helpless. Yes, mummy not papa!
Mayank shook his head in disgust and said, "Aisa kaise kar sakte hai koi parents? Strange!"
The movies I used to watch were the romantic movies. Haha surprised more, right? A 7-years-old girl and watching romantic movies? How idiotic! That's what you are thinking eh? Well now I think like that, too. But what could I do? I had no friends, remember? No cable connection, no cartoon DVDs because there was none at home. Neither the servant couldn't buy me one nor could I go out to buy one. Why? Because he was illiterate and I wasn't permitted to go out with him. Okay so leave all these! In those movies, I had always seen that the girl would get a friend who was a boy. They would hang out together. After a few days, they would exchange garlands and live together forever. This theory could never enter into my little little brain! How does a girl leave her mummy and papa and live with some unknown boy? How rude! Yeah that's what I used to think after watching those kind of movies.
Mayank giggled after reading the views about marriage of a 7-years-old Nupur. "How cute!", Mayank said and smiled.
As the day passed and I watched some more romantic movies, I started liking the theory of exchanging garlands and living together always. Now that's super shocking! I know, I know! But I was so fed up with my loneliness. I had no one with whom I could play with. So I began to think that if I put garland around any boy's neck, he would be my friend and we would always play together. I started dreaming of getting such a friend who would always play with me without hesitation and adore me the most in the whole world.
A tear dropped from Mayank's eyes as he thought how much Nupur desired for a friend. She couldn't even enjoy her childhood. After a while, he wiped off that one drop of tear from his cheek and smiled a bit. Nupur's innocence was clearly reflected in her writing, that made him smile. When Nupur's face flashed in his mind, he felt as if his heart smiled. With a slight smile on his face, he said to himself softly, "I'll always play with you, Nupur! Always!"
Mummy and papa were gonna come back after three days! I was so happy and excited when mummy called me and told about their come-back. I jumped with joy. But there was a lowness in mummy's voice. I asked her the reason of her sounding so low but she didn't tell me anything. She just told that it was maybe because she was tired. I believed on what she said and jumped again in joy and excitement. Little did I know that my joy, my excitement were gonna see their end very soon.
"Akhir kya hua tha? Jis ke vajah se Nupur ki khushiya bikhar gayi?", Mayank said with curiosity.
I was watching a movie as usual, when the doorbell rang. I jumped off the couch and ran to the door with a huge smile to welcome my dear parents. As I opened the door, papa stormed in without saying a word. That hurt me! I made a sad puppy face and looked at mom. I was horrified seeing her condition. Her eyes were red and she had scars all over her face. My eyes widened and I asked her with concerned expression, "Mummy, aapki chehre pe chot kaise lagi?" Hearing my question, mom felt nervous as I could understand by observing her face. After a couple of seconds, she knelt down and hugged me tight. I encircled her by my little arms and hugged her with all love and affection.
Suddenly I felt the shoulder part of my dress wet. Mummy was crying, that was the first thought came in my mind. I broke the hug and saw the wet cheeks of my dear mummy which were piercing my heart a lot. My eyes became teary seeing her like that.
I cupped her face in my tiny hands and asked, "Mummy, aap ro kyun rahi ho? Papa ne maara aap ko?" Mummy nodded and broke again in my arms. I hugged her very tightly in a way of being her support always. Tears started to flow from my innocent eyes as it was the hardest thing for me to see mummy like that. I wiped off my tears secretly so that mummy didn't know. I broke the hug. Wiping off mummy's tears, I said to her with my anger filled with innocence, "Aap ro mat. Papa ko main khub daatungi. Woh dubaara aap ko nahin maarenge. Pakka! But please aap pehele rona bandh karo."
Mummy said with fear expressed on her face and in her voice, "Beta, aap aisa kuch mat karna. Papa ko accha nahin lagega." "Par papa ne agar phir se aap ko maara, toh?", I asked her innocently. Mummy smiled and said, "Unhone mujhse promise kiya hain ke woh aisa nahin karenge. Don't worry sweetheart!" I smiled as she wiped off her tears, smiled and assured me that she was perfectly alright. Little did I know that she was faking to be normal.
Mayank was in tears. He said sobbingly, "Nupur bhi ussi dard se guzar chuki hain, jis dard se main guzra hoon. Aap ne maa ko humesha rote huye dekhna kaisa lagta hain, yeh shayad mujhse behetar koi nahin jaanta hain. Aisa main sochta tha. Par aaj lag raha hain ke Nupur meri dard samajh paayegi, kyuki woh iss dard se waakif hain."
Once at night, my deep sleep was suddenly disturbed as I heard some loud voices. I covered my ear with my pillow as the voices were irritating me. At last, when I couldn't tolerate that, I jerked up in irritation and anger. Just then, I heard mummy crying very loudly with all her force. My eyes widened in shock. I got up from my bed to check. Tip toeing to mummy-papa's room, I stood just at a corner of their doorway very carefully and secretly. And what I saw made me shocked and scared to the fullest. Papa was hitting mummy with a long, thick, wooden stick. Mummy was screaming and crying because of pain. I instantly went in to stop papa. Mummy was shocked to see me there. She yelled at me to go back to my room but I paid no heed to her. I held the stick with which papa was hitting mummy. Papa pushed me very hard and I bumped my forehead against the door which made me injured. My sight began to blurr. I felt as if someone pushed me inside a dark world where neither could I see anything nor could I hear. The last thing I heard was my mom yelling out my name continuously and her screams. I yelled at papa to stop hitting mummy. Slowly my strength started to be weak and I couldn't speak up. Everything began to darken in front of me and at last I fainted.
Mayank's eyes were filled with tears and anger. How could anyone be so stone heartened? He thought angrily. Slowly the grief about Nupur's past began to take power of his anger. Tears flowed from his eyes which seemed to have no plan to stop.
I slowly opened my eyes and found myself in a different place. I looked around and realized that I was in a hospital. "Agar main yaha hoon toh mummy kaha hain?", I thought worriedly. I stormed off the bed and went out of the room. I searched mummy in every room but I didn't get her. My eyes soon were filled with tears.
Just then, a nurse came up to me and asked, "Arey beta, aap yaha kyun aayi? Aap ko toh rest karna chahiye." I looked at her and thought if she could help me in finding mummy. "Aap ne mere mummy ko dekha?", I asked her sobbingly. The way I asked her about mummy had made her emotional, I could understand that by seeing her face. She knelt down in front of me and asked, "Beta, humne toh aap ki mummy ko nahi dekha." "Toh phir mujhe yaha kaun laaya?", I asked her again hopping to hear a positive answer. The nurse replied, "Beta, aap ko yaha police uncle lekar aaye hain." "Police!", my eyes widened and I said in shock.
"Nupur ki maa achanak se kaha chali gayi thi?", Mayank said curiously.
I laid back on the bed as the nurse assured me that they would find my mummy. Just then, a policeman entered in my room. I jerked up in a sitting position and hugged my knees in fear. I had always watched in movies that the police people always hits the good ones. I swallowed a lump of saliva inside my throat and lowered my eyes. The policeman sat beside me and softly placed his hand on my shoulder. I jumped in nervousness. He said, "Arey beta, ghabraao mat. Main kuch nahin karunga aap ko. Mujhpe believe karo."
I slowly looked up and realized that he was a good man. I stammered, "M..m..ujhe mummy ke p..pa..s j..a..ana h..a..i!" The policeman said gently, "Main aap ko mummy ke paas lekar chalunga. Aap fikar mat karo." Hearing that, my hopes became high. I said excitedly, "Sacchi? Aap mujhe mummy ke paas lekar chaloge. Woh kaha hain? Theek toh hain naa?", I said in a single breath. The policeman replied, "Haan beta! Woh bilkul theek hain. But pehele mujhe yeh bataao ke tumhe chot kaise lagi?"
I told him everything, how papa was hitting mummy and how he pushed me very hard. The policeman stood up angrily, called someone and told him to search my papa as soon as possible. I stared at him confusedly.
"Aap papa ko kyun dhund rahe ho?", I asked him in curiously. He said, "Aap ke papa ne aap ke mummy ko maara hai naa, issi liye main usse punishment dunga." I said to him innocently, "Aap papa ko zarur punishment dena. Woh accha papa nahin hain. Unhone mummy ko daata aur maara, mujhe bhi dhakka diya. Woh humse pyaar nahin karte."
The policeman got emotional seeing my innocence. He hugged me and said sweetly, "Don't worry beta! Aap ke papa ko zarur punishment milegi."
Mayank cried silently. He felt his heart pieced as he kept reading. Nupur's pain touched him like no other.
A couple of hours passed. The policeman was taking me off somewhere in his jeep. I kept asking him about mummy's whereabouts but he wasn't replying. That made me scared! Suddenly I shouted, "Aap ne jhoot kaha. Aap ko nahin malum ke mummy kaha hai. You lied to me." He stopped the jeep and said to me politely, "Tumhare mummy aur papa ka pata chal gaya hain. Hum wahi jaa rahe hai. Calm down beta."
I calmed down and he started his jeep again. After an hour, we reached to an unknown place which seemed to be a village. He got off from his jeep and then took me off. We then started searching for my parents.
While searching, I suddenly heard my mom's screams. I turned around in shock and ran to the policeman to inform about it. Then I took him to the place when I heard those screams. Now he could hear that, too. We started searching all the houses individually on my insist. After searching 2-3 houses, I entered to a dark house. Now I could hear those screams even louder.
I took a deep breath. I was sweating as fear took over me. Yet I stepped in as my only goal was to save mummy from that monster! Yes! By now, I had realized that my so-called papa was a bloody monster. I went inside a room. Suddenly the screams stopped which made me astonished. I tried to look inside a room, just then, I felt someone's tight grip on my wrist. I turned back and saw that monster, my so-called papa.
My eyes widened in shock. Tears flowed from my eyes as his tight grip was hurting me. Somehow I managed to speak, "M..u..u..m.m..y k..k..aha hai?" He said nothing except tying my hands and legs with thick ropes. I screamed for help but at last he put a tape on my mouth. I felt myself very helpless. At last he made me unconscious.
Mayank closed his eyes and let his tears shed. He felt his grief smaller than Nupur's. After a while, he opened his eyes and sighed.
I opened my eyes and found myself on a chair at the corner of the doorway of a room. My waist was tied with a thick rope to the chair very tightly. My hands and legs were tied together with the same rope extremely tightly. I had no tape on my mouth anymore. I tried to look inside and saw that monster hitting my mummy again. I cried my heart out and screamed with all my force, "Papa, please mummy ko mat maro. Please! Unhe chordo."
But that monster paid no heed to me. I lowered my head in frustration and guilt because I was helpless. I won't be able to save mummy, this guilt was killing me. All of a sudden, he took an alcohol bottle and smacked it on mummy's head. Mummy screamed her heart out and lost her life in front of my own eyes. I screamed while crying, "Mummmyyy!"
Mayank tightened his grip on his bed-sheet as the pain was too hard to tolerate. He wondered how Nupur would have tolerated it. His eyes was red as he cried a lot.
As that monster killed my mummy, I felt myself lifeless, too. Only my body was on earth. My childhood, my happiness, my excitement, my dreams.. all were snatched within a blink of an eye. Years passed but I could never get over the guilt of not saving the lady I loved the most, just because I was damn helpless. You might be thinking about three things - the reason of me being lonely and papa killing mummy and where the policeman was when he killed her. Well, I was that monster's step daughter. The other parents used to tell their kids not to be friends with me as I was an illegal child. So-called society's cheap mentality! They never tried to find out the depth of this fact. They just kept boycotting me and mummy. After mummy married that monster, she found out that he was a drunkard. Whenever she tried to stop him from drinking, he hit her severely and tortured her to the hell. His torture, at last, led mummy in a different relationship which resulted the birth of me. What could she have done? Even she needed a companion. When I was born, that monster didn't know that I wasn't his blood, that's why he treated me and mummy very well. All of a sudden, one day, mummy seeked divorce from him. When he asked the reason, she told him everything. Since then, he started torturing her again. He killed my real dad and then he killed mummy. But why didn't he kill me? I thought all these years. Maybe he wanted me to suffer. Yeah! Maybe that's the reason! And before he killed mummy, he made the policeman unconscious. That was his master plan!
After the horrible thing he did, he fled to another country. Now whenever I pray to God, I pray only one thing, that is, to give the most horrible punishment to that bloody monster which would be worse than death.
Mayank wiped off his tears and promised to himself, "Nupur, tumhare maa ke qaatil ko zarur sazaa milegi. Main humesha tumhara saath dunga. Main tumhe tumhare guilt or taqleef se baahar nikaalunga, chaahe kuch bhi ho jaaye."
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