CH:3 A Big Loss

*Third-person p.o.v

Leila was feeling as if it's the demise of her entity and the whole world was falling apart.

Those words from her brother snatched the light of her life, she didn't only lose her sensed but she lost a part of herself. Leila was unable to understand her feelings. She wants to cry, she wants to shout and grieve to let all the pain out from her heart but the tears were frozen in the lake of her eyes. The banks of this lake were iced as her heart was frozen. But if her heart is iced! Why is she feeling the hell in her heart? This burning to let go of her loved ones who too much to handle. She fainted three times, Anna was beside her... Cara was also taking care of her but she wanted her mother... Her mother whom embrace was snatched from her by fate.

Fate is not measurable but she didn't think that God will take her parents away from her... She never was worried about anything in her life. Her life was so perfect. But this storm destroyed everything, it took her happiness.

Leila would never be able to smile so heartily ever again... She was watching blankly all the people who were coming to give her condolences, what is happening? What is all this? The comfort of anyone is not good enough to make her understand.

She didn't know where was Danny. What was he doing? But she was watching these two coffin placed in front of her eyes.

These two casket boxes were going to bury these but thinking about it, she felt as her heart was smashed with a hammer. The two people in these boxes were her universes. The light of her life. She saw blankly towards Anna.

"Leila!" Anna was crying. She saw the warm tears floating down on her cheeks. Leila wanted the same, she wanted to hug her mother and cry. But she was nowhere...

"Anna, where is Danny?" She asked in a lost voice.

"Danny is outside. He is preparing for the..." Anna sobbed then stopped talking!

"For what? He went to take mom and dad. Where are they?" Leila asked her, Anna hugged Leila closely.

"Leila, please. I want you to cry. Don't conceal this pain inside." Anna said. Leila looks at her with stray eyes.

"Why are you saying this?" She asked.

"Why are all these people here? Why did we come here?" Leila was asking difficult questions from her best friend.

Anna didn't know how to make her understand. How to tell her that it's her parents funeral. Cara looks towards Leila and Anna. She came closer to them, she sat beside Leila.

"Leila, it's your parents funeral. Your brother is preparing for that... You have to be strong." Cara said. Leila looks towards her in shock.

"What are you saying? Are you gone insane!!! No, Cara, you are lying." Leila said. Anna was also looking at Cara with anger. How can she just say it like that? Didn't she know the condition of Leila? She is going through so much pain. Her parents died yesterday, Cara is such a careless bitch. Leila may not understand the behaviour of Cara. But Anna was seeing the real colour of Cara, she saw a glint of happiness in Cara's eyes.

Anna thought to tell Leila slowly. So, she comes out from this trauma. She comes out from the state of this shock.

But what Cara did make it worse.

"I am not lying. You have to accept it. It is the truth. Your parents died." Cara said.

Leila was watching her with utter shock, her eyes were teeing up.

"Anna, is she saying the truth?" Leila asked her friend. She wanted Anna to deny it. She wanted her to stay it's all a lie. Anna higher her tight then nodded her head.

Cara move up from the bench then walk away from them, Leila was now crying. She didn't know for how long but she was crying for hours... She was hiccuping due to continuously crying, she was feeling dizzy. Her eyes were are and the tears were dried on her cheeks. But now the salty water was not coming out... Anna gives her comfort, she gave her water but Leila didn't drink it.

After hours of her grieving, she saw her brother coming towards her, she stands up then run towards Danny. Leila hugged him. She didn't know if the frozen lake again melted, she cried... She cried like a little child.

Danny solaced with her, he was caressing her back to calm her down.

"They are gone brother, they left us." She said in a breaking tone.

"Yes, Leila. They left us alone." He said. Danny also wiped the tears from the corner of his eyes.

"But we have to be strong for them, Leila we have to do it. It is so difficult for me. But please, I want you to stand beside me. Our parents will rest in the peace of they saw their children doing their last rituals." He said. Leila sobbed. She was still amazed by the cruelness of fate.

One moment she was so happy as happiness

will never fade away from her life. And the sorrows will never enter her life and the next moment she was feeling as this sadness and sorrow is for eternity. She will never feel happiness again...

After the presence of her brother and crying for too long, Leila was a little calm down. Now it is time for the most difficult moment of her entire life. She was going to say goodbye to her parents.

Danny was also crying. All of them come out of the hall. They all gathered in the graveyard. The coffins were placed in the graves. Danny and Leila put the dirt on the graves...

They both hugged either and saw their parents going away... They were now sleeping peacefully under the burden of this dirt. All the people did all the rituals.

AND with a. a slow pace the time went by as everyone started going away... The crowd gathered there was faded. Now there was only Leila, Danny and Cara standing in there, Danny hugged both of them...

They were tired and this was a very difficult day. Leila didn't want to go back home. But no one can live here until it is permanent. So, Danny made her understand, all of them can back home. Leila with a broken heart and a tired body.

(On the other end of the City)

He was sitting on the office chair. It was a very busy day, he just finished a meeting. It is so difficult to manage business and studies at the same time... Damien looks at the clock. It was ticking and the time was 10:00 pm. He stretched his arms then put his head on the backrest of the chair. He closed his eyes.

"Oh, Dad. I wish you were here. I hope you will get better soon..." He thought then heaved a deep sigh!

It was time to go home. He was so exhausted.

Damien opened his eyes, he made his composure back to his business self when he heard a knock on his door.

"Yes, come in." He said. Damien saw his assistant Liang coming in...

"Sir, it's too late. Should we go home now?" He asked.

Damien nodded his head.

"Yes, you go home. Thank you, Liang or all the help." Damien said. Liang smiled.

"Sir, it's my work. Aren't you going home?" He asked.

"I have to complete an assignment. I will go home late. Have a good night Liang." He said.

Liang nodded his head.

"Have a good night, boss." Liang thought about his boss. This boy will sit here and complete his university assignment. He is so hardworking. Liang smiled then exited the office.

Damian gain turned on his laptop and start searching for the topic of his assignment. He has to submit it tomorrow, Life is not so easy for him also...