Nightmare I

"No! Leave me! I can't let this happen! Please don't leave me!"

Laying on the hospital bed, a lady was sweating all over as her condition looked horrible. The doctors were surrounding her and were trying their best to take her out of her deep slumber! But it seemed like the lady was not willing to wake up, no matter how much they tried and no matter what they did to her!

"Who do you think you are, do you even deserve to live? As sinister as you are, you deserved to live alone! You ate your parents at a young age and even left your brother all alone when he was in need! In the end, you even let your husband go and almost have him killed! How dare you expect that a woman like you can ever be loved by someone?"

The lady heard all those words and tears kept on coming out of her eyes as her dream continued further.

This time, she saw a little girl around 6 years old, standing beside a poolside and looking into it.

She saw a boy of around 13 or 14 was drowning in it and the house in front of her was on fire! A loud shriek came out of the house and the little girl kept on standing there seeing everything right in front of her eyes and could do nothing.

She had no expression on her face but she still tried to take the boy out of the pool.

All these scenes were making the patient agitated on the bed, as the scenario of the dream kept on changing!

In the next scene, the same little girl was begging on the streets and then feeding the food she had got from the streets to the same boy she had taken out of the pool.

The boy was not even looking at her and was doing everything quietly as she had instructed! The little girl did all those things for the next three years as now she had turned nine.

She was still on the streets running here and there but now rather than living on the footpaths and begging on the streets, she was working here and there as a child labour and had a house made of sacks in which she was able to hide herself and the boy with her!

She was doing the work as always when a bunch of people came to her and took her away.

All those things were fine for the lady to see but the next scene was terrible for her to watch.

She saw that the little girl had been abducted in a small, dark and smelly room where there was not even a single source of light and no food for her to eat.

She was there in the same room for three days, kept on wailing and crying to let her out but no one came, until one day 4 men came inside and took her shirt off, made her lay down on the cold metal table and then started whipping her white, milky back.

The little girl started shrieking, crying and begging them to let her go but the more she cried the more they were beating her as if they were seeking pleasure from that little girl's pain! They beat her until she was unconscious and woke up the next day feeling a burning sensation on her back.

She felt like she was about to die but the next second she felt relieved when someone threw a bucket of cold water as she heard, "What are you doing? She is just a little girl! You can't just put red chillies on her wound like this!"

"Come on! We were ordered to play with her as we wanted!"

"But we were also told that we can't rape her!"

"Where are we doing it? We are not touching her anywhere that is inappropriate! We are just teaching her a good lesson! She should know that taking care of that boy was the biggest sin she had committed in her lifetime!"

As he said, he put the burning cigarette on her back where her skin was already pulled out!

The little girl was too tired to cry as she had cried a lot last night but it seemed like those men were having fun doing this to her.

For the last 5 days she had only eaten 3 buns and drank 3 glasses of water, she had no strength left in her body. All she knew was that she had to run away from this place and everyday, after being whipped, burned and then rubbed by the hot red chili powder, she would only think about how to run from there.

For the next 15 days, she had been treated like an animal, even an animal could have been dead and consumed by the humans by now, but she was still alive, living in the same place, being whipped, burned, slapped and whatnot!

The nine years old girl was tortured to the point where she could not even feel the pain anymore! It was like she had lost the sensation of feeling pain and now, no more tears would come out of her eyes!

She got used to all these things and just kept on going on with it!

The next thing she knew was she was not in that dark place anymore! She was not in her homeland India anymore!

She was standing in front of a handsome and dashing man who was holding a bouquet of flowers and a packet of gifts in front of her.

The room was filled with the red roses and the memories full of the man and her all over the room, in the form of pictures.

He was right in front of her as soon as she opened the door but unfortunately, the man was disappointed when the woman threw legal papers on his face and said, "Hah! Do you think that a person like me can live with a beggar like you?"

"Wh… What are you saying?"