First Life! Friendship

[Warning: The chapter contains scenes that might be triggering and traumatizing for some.]

"What happened? Why is she in this state? "

'Maya?' Aisha forced her tired eyes to open to find out if it was her. And indeed it was.

" She was beaten by the master." One of the servants spoke.

" But then where are you taking the little miss? Her room is upstairs. " Maya was not surprised, she knew he would beat her, and even though she wanted to ask if Aisha was okay, her first concern was where they were taking her.

" To the well. " Another said and then sighed, "She is punished. "

" For what? "

" For disobeying the lord. She refused to marry the youngest master of the Raichand family. "

Maya was in disbelief thinking how evil their master could be. 'how could he do this to the little Miss? She is his blood. '

" But—"

" We need to put her there and report to the lord. You are creating trouble for us, Maya. Please, leave " Aisha closed her eyes again, knowing nothing could save her from the hellish well of snakes.

" Fine. Let me accompany you. Be gentle with her, she is the little Miss of this house." Maya said.

Maya tried her best to help her miss down the road to the dungeon. Even after repeating herself several times, the guards didn't heed much to her speech.

All they wanted to do at the time was to quickly finish their business and get back to the kitchen to grab their lunch. Because of all the drama that had happened just minutes ago, their lunch had already been delayed and all the good food had been destroyed.

Unfortunately for them, there were no good leftovers left this time. Moreover, if they are half an hour late they might miss the servings for the regular lunch.

The servants that were gentle to Aisha a while ago, couldn't do it any longer. Hunger can turn a human into a monster.

"Listen here, you maid. The lunchtime will be over in the next thirty minutes. So let's do this work quickly and go to have our lunch." One of them said, increasing his speed.

"I understand, however the little Miss is already very hurt, if you drag her—"

"That's the bitch's fault. She should have kept quiet and accepted the marriage. After all these years she still couldn't understand that she was just an experiment, a slave of her father. I pity her. By now I would have run away from this household if it were me." The other said interrupting Maya.

Maya was pushed aback by what they had said, forgetting that the little Miss of this house was still present among them and could listen to their conversation.

"How could you say that? She is the—"

"The what?" He shouted while dragging Aisha down the stairs. "Blood slave—"

"Brother, I'm starving can we hurry up?" The other one who is his younger brother said pulling Aisha more harshly.

"This maid. You think being loyal to this slave will give you recognition. Just be happy she is thrown back into the well. Live your life freely now that you will have no work to do." He said throwing Aisha on the floor.

"My—My— father — loves —me," Aisha said in a low, heavy voice making the two servants burst into laughter and enter the lift to the underground dungeons. Five minutes later they reached the very end of the dungeons.

They dragged Aisha out of the lift, this time not bothering to lift her to their shoulders, instead just holding her hands to get her out of the small elevator.

Maya rushed towards Aisha and gently placed her head on her thigh. "My Lady, don't worry you'll be out of here soon. Okay?"

Aisha pushed her head out of Maya's thigh and dashed her head onto the floor in the process. The iron doors to the well slid open and the servants dragged her to the edge of the entrance. She was thrown into the long tunnel at the end of which the well laid. Aisha was back where she had come from 9 years ago.

The thousands of snakes sitting in there for 9 years alone without any companion from outside, immediately recognized Aisha and started biting her all over her body, hungry for the blood they had been feasting on for 9 years and blood they couldn't get for the last 13 years.

Every bite of those snakes gave Aisha an immense amount of pain as their poison entered her veins and started paralyzing her body yet again. As her temperature started to rise due to her antibiotics fighting the poison. She started losing consciousness and the last person she saw above the well, was Maya who had been crying while clenching on the rails.

Maya was sad and felt useless for she could do nothing to help her mistress escape from all this pain and misery. Thirteen years ago, Aisha had no one who cared about her but after thirteen years she had Maya and Maya had made up her mind that she would not let Aisha suffer in that dark well full of reptiles for even a day.