1 1. Curse

<p>The sound of crying stopped.<br/><br/>Blood was splattered all over the white color. The skinny, small body didn't even have that much blood. Another skinny body that was not capable of standing and was plagued by cholera, was standing in surprise to see the silence of her niece. <br/>Two years old baby who wasn't aware of this cruel world.<br/>Tear glands had already been drained out. Nothing can come out even if the heart explodes. Rose sheds her drying tears seeing her niece, laying there lifeless.<br/><br/>Days after days surviving just on hard bread and with dirty water is one of the curses followed by many other curses.<br/>What an orphan can earn without any education...what a weak girl can do while getting raped?<br/>Nothing...<br/>The world here is so filthy, that a lost pistol on the ground seemed a blessing from the above. Lily didn't have to think twice.<br/><br/>Rose mumbled in an astonished voice, 'Lily!'<br/>With trembling hands, the pistol's aim was now pointing at Rose.<br/>Lily apologized repeatedly,' I'm sorry...I'm so.. sorry..'<br/>Rose smiled with her closed lips. She knows the hardship has compelled her sister. To the point to kill her beloved child and pointing a gun at her beloved twin. The only family she has is Rose, her sister.<br/><br/>Rose tried to believe this is not the reality. <br/>Lily was broken from the inside and her will to live has left her when she was raped. This Lily was not the real one. <br/>Depression has wrapped Lily's life so much that she couldn't cope up. Because of Rose, Lily could live through but now Rose too was on the verge of death because Lily couldn't offer any food to them. And the way they are living is getting bitter.<br/><br/>It's not her fault to think like that and Rose was tired as well.<br/>She knows she won't be able to change Lily's mind anymore. So doesn't regret or feel hurt by Lily's action.<br/>Rose smiled with pain and said, 'I know! Don't be…'<br/>Rose and Daisy were the obstacles of her life. Because of them, Lily was bound to stay and care. Rose knows that Lily wouldn't live even if they were dead. Because Lily won't be able to live without them as well. Even though they were obstacles, Lily didn't need to die.<br/>'But you..don't need to die with us… Please live.', Rose tried to make Lily understand<br/>'I...I want to live with you guys...in the afterlife...if there is any for me.', Lily's answer was not different from what she expected. <br/>Rose couldn't stop the pain in her chest.<br/>Not because she would be dying. Of course, she wants to live. Who wishes to die!? No one perhaps. Not willingly at least. <br/>Rose was feeling pain because Lily was aware of what Lily was doing is a sin and Lily won't be able to have an afterlife. Rose raised her hand to pray for the last time. In her mind, she prayed for forgiveness, 'Oh my Lord! Please forgive me and accept me as I am... I forgive my sister... Please be kind enough to forgive my sister too...she has offered her whole life for me...Forgive her sins.'.<br/>After praying Rose opened her eyes and with a nod to Lily, she permitted Lily to kill her.<br/>'Let's go..', After Rose said that, Lily's hand was shaking so badly. To pull the trigger. Lily felt like she was shooting in her own chest.<br/>With just a single pull on the trigger, life had ended. The thought inside Lily's mind was filled with hatred for herself.<br/>'Oh, God! Don't Forgive me, my Lord...for I have gravely sinned.' Lily falls on her knees while cursing herself.<br/>The two bodies in front of her were lifeless. <br/>For the last time, Lily hugged them like a fragile thing. <br/>Four slots in the pistol are still intact. Lily pointed the pistol at herself.<br/>One on the leg, another one in the lower stomach, another was in the heart. <br/>Each of them went through the flesh and bled out the red.<br/><br/>"I mustn't feel the pain. If I feel pain then that means I'm still alive. I cannot stop until I make sure I'm dead." Lily told herself over and over in her mind, <br/>Blood was pouring out from the body through the bullet holes. <br/>The last shot was on the head. <br/>The excruciating pain was getting better bit by bit. The blurred vision could only see her dead baby.<br/>"Ah! Daisy! My...Pretty baby...why you had to be born as my daughter," Lily thought to herself she had Nothing to give Daisy. <br/>She also hoped that Daisy would not Forgive her. 'I wish you, be born again as a lovely child...in a loving family who can give you everything…every…" her tears fell down for the last time while looking at her baby and sister.<br/><br/>"The pain?! Why didn't it go away!! Why am I alive!? I need to die. I don't have any bullets left. What should I do?", Lily couldn't understand what was she feeling. The pain was slowly fading.<br/>Suddenly, the excruciating pain begins, as if her wounds were being poked with a hot iron rod as if she is inside the lava. She started to feel dizzy. <br/>Soon, a breeze lightly touched her cheek with a beautiful smell and clean air. Lily tried to convince herself, "I cannot be in heaven! Why am I feeling so peaceful?"<br/><br/>'Lily! Lily!', She could hear a voice calling her name. <br/>A voice that she recognizes very well. Confusion or hallucination. Lily couldn't differ.<br/>"Rose?! How can Rose be here?" Lily felt it was not possible as Rose was dead.<br/>"It's really me Lily, open your eyes," that voice again spoke. <br/>So Lily opened her eyes and saw a beautiful baby girl was lying beside her. But the eyes were like yellow topaz, and the hair was jet black in color with red plumped cheeks.<br/>"Daisy??!" she thought to herself.<br/>That baby she was seeing answers, "I'm not Daisy."<br/>"Yes! How can you be Daisy, she is a skinny little girl," Lily's voice expressed the pain.<br/>"Silly Lily! I'm Rose." that baby was saying she was Rose.<br/><br/>Lily was baffled. <br/>She tried to get up but her body was not in proper control.<br/>"I'm glad that God had really sent you to me", Rose seemed very excited while saying that.<br/>"What? Where are we, and…what is this?", Lily was trying to understand the situation now they were in.<br/>She looked at her hand. Baby-like hands. She touched her cheeks which felt soft and didn't feel like before.<br/>Rose asked,'Do you want to know yourself?'<br/>Lily out of curiosity wanted to know what was happening,' Yes! Tell me!', she asked Rose to tell her everything.<br/><br/>Lily has ocean blue eyes, jet black hair like Rose, and a very pretty face. And her name is Ruan...</p>