The Present DayFrom the window above her head, first rays of sunshine passed in and fell on her face, causing her to squeeze her eyes in discomfort. She used her hand to block it but realization of the time didn't let her fall asleep back again. Although the clock had only chased the time till 6:20, but there was place where that she had to be at that time.She got out of the bed that was a mattress on the floor, she stretched her hand for the pleasure of her joints and headed toward the window, relishing in the warmth of the early morning sun. "I hope that by the end of this beautiful day, I become happier," she prayed and turned to take a look inside her room."Good Lord!"She found that the dress that she had laid on her bed in order to return it spotless to the dry cleaners, was not there anymore."I'm sure that I laid it on the bed, and I myself slept on the floor because the dress is worth more than me... then where did it disappear it to?"She panicked and ruffled the covers a
Oriel marveled at the twisted fate; the stained dress that she had in her hand belonged to the wife of the man she met in the party last night, though it was the first time she got to know that he was married."Mr. Bruce? president of Bay transports?" she inquired. "Are you saying that he is already married?"The young boy was an encyclopedia of his life and began telling everything he knew to Oriel. "Yes, he is married ever since I've heard about him. He is a devoted husband and his wife is pampered and spoiled by him. However, she is very scary, that goes without saying because she doesn't have to fear anybody. That is the reason that I am afraid she is going to fall like thunder on our shop."Mr. John listening quietly to the boy, was trying to control his laugh. When Oriel noticed his contorted face, he suddenly let a loud chuckle out.Hahaha..."Mr. John! why are you laughing?" asked Oriel.The young boy also scratched his head in confusion. "Children these days are so prejudiced
On just one phone call made by her, Collin stood on her door. "I guess I was needed again," said Collin, slowly marching towards her.Till now, she had been sitting helplessly staring in the empty space and dwelling in her daze. But when his soothing voice entered her ears, pulling her out of tension, she missed a heartbeat and sighed heavily. "You don't even look surprised now," said Ursula with wavering eyes.He had already assumed what could have happened with her, because it was not at all the first time. "Did you guys argue again? Or shall I ask if it has reached to the point of violence?" he asked.She turned her head in opposite direction, serving silence as her answer. Collin tried to read her ambiguous expressions. "Sometimes, it feels like three of us are married. You both quarrel and then call me to listen to both of you." She looked towards him, narrowing her watery eyes. "It's also about you," said Ursula. "I thought you were different; that at least you are on my side.
The two met in the most unfavorable times of their lives. Even when Oriel was in her worst look, her short pajamas and a sweatshirt, Ursula envied her youthful beauty. She was embarrassed to face her in the eye, with her withering face.The two ladies sat in a cafe, facing each other on two opposite ends of a table. "I'm really sorry that I wore your dress without your permission and also ruined it," said Oriel, breaking the silence."If I'm to do the justice then old the man I trusted with my dress is the one who should be punished," said Ursula."Please don't! I don't want him to bear the responsibility of the mistake that I made."The server brought the coffee that Ursula had ordered. He placed it on the table. She gracefully reached for the cup and took a sip out of the hot mug of coffee, relishing in its taste. "Well, it's sad that a person I trusted so much tried to fool me, lending my precious dress to people like you. I hate it when the lower class forgets their place and trie
"I am capable to help you. All you have to do is to ask me once, and I can get you out of this hell," offered Bruce. "I have absolutely no need for your help." Collin's voice was faint and barely audible to him. Bruce shoved the mop back inside the water filled bucket and approached him closer. "You will die if you keep that arrogance on, just go on and ask for my help." He persisted. Collin was on the verge of falling unconscious but a displeasing smirk formed on his lips. "How is a cleaner going to help me?" he jeered. "A cleaner?" emphasized Bruce. He looked downwards at his clothes and exclaimed, "God Damn! you are right. One can easily comprehend that. But to tell you the truth, I'm someone really special, having a lot of influence on this world. Today is just one of those days when I volunteer." Collin's faint smirk turned into loud chuckles. "Volunteering in a jail?" he asked. "Not even an orphanage but a jail?" Bruce smiled looking at him. "According to me, both orphanage
At 1 o'clock, the bell for break time rang and children at the kindergarten went swarming outside in the playground. Oriel stayed in the classroom all alone. She was tired of smiling all day and talking incessantly with the children. Her cheeks ached and deep sighs were frequent from her mouth. 'What is it that she wants me to do?' she thought about Ursula's offer. She bit her lower lip in panic and just then, her poised phone rang up in her bag. She reached for it and checked the screen: there was a call from an unknown number. She was quick to answer it and said her first word, "Hello!" For next few seconds, no one spoke from the other end. "Hello, who is this?" "It's me! owner of the dress you ruined. I thought that you would have guessed that it was me by just listening to my breathing, but you didn't. Looks like you don't find my silence as intimidating as others do." Oriel's fingers gathered into a fist listening to her bluffs. She controlled her tone from going irritable a
The police officers kept the investigation going and interrogated Oriel, while rummaging the classroom thoroughly in the search of something."Officer, I request you to stop this. This is a kindergarten!" interrupted the principal."Please don't meddle in our work, we have received solid information that she has the possession of some highly addictive drugs, even at his moment."Mouths of the people watching the scene started to move, their whispers were undecipherable. Teachers, parents of the children, and people from management also witnessed the Officers ruffling every paper and book that lay on her desk."There's nothing that you will find there."Then suddenly, one of the officer got his hands on the empty box that she had put in one of the drawers of the chest. "I found something."The officer shook the box close to his hear but no sound departed it. "It seems empty though!"Oriel crossed her arms in displease, "So did you find any highly addictive drug? I hope that you will le
Oriel gazed at him standing right before her. Her eyes were moist and her expressions were lifeless. "Even if I'm not the most perfect person to say this but I can see clearly that you have not lived your life properly," said Collin. Chilling air surrounded the two. Cloud of scorn encircled them. "I know why. This is because I have been deceived too many times in my life and I have still not learned my lesson. I keep end up trusting people." "That's so like you. You really enjoy to seeing yourself the victim and believe that everyone else have wronged you," retorted Collin. She laughed wryly and said, "Isn't that true?" She abruptly rose from her chair . "Even today, if your mother had not been around, none of this would have happened." Collin took a step further in her direction, shortening the distance between two feet. "Then why do you even live with her?" he asked. "Looks like someone has done some research on me but it could have been more accurate because she is the one wh
A four walls filled with darkness in every corner, and only a fainting lamp placed on a wooden table, emitted rays of light, falling on the face of Collin who sat on a chair. In his hand, there was a lighter that he clicked open every now and then, adding to the numbered light rays there were.Not too far from him, but somewhere the light of the lamp couldn't reach, came the noise of a man groaning in pain and various solid objects clamoring against him. "Please... don't... don't kill me. Ah!"Collin remained calm hearing the man getting battered with rods and human legs. He kept fidgeting with the lighter that he held in his hand."Boss! looks like he is going to die if we keep beating him like this," said one of the men.Collin again lights up the lighter and brings it in their direction, and looks at the scene with utter sereneness on his face. A man lay on the floor half dead, and several other gang members surrounded him with tools in their hands. "But he hasn't opened his mouth
Exquisite moonlight glowed upon the land during a starry night. Reflection of the moon was getting dissolved in the running water of a city lake. A little bridge built over the lake carried the presence of Oriel in a scarlet-red dress, tight on her narrow waist, shining shoes of the shade similar to her dress, and hair resting lose over her shoulder.She was waiting for someone, standing on the bridge, gazing at the beautiful moon drowning in the lake. Although there were other people, crossing the bridge to get to either of the sides, Oriel was the only one walking to and fro.She went closer to the railing of the bridge, leaned against it and continued staring at the moon's reflection in the lake. As she fixed her gaze calmly at the lake below, her face glowed and got reflected on the lake surface, appearing more exquisite than the moon itself.She suddenly felt a rapt pair of eyes on her face, she turned her head to the side, and saw Mr. Bruce coming towards from one of the ends of
"You're the one who is pushing me away," he lamented.The usual warmth returned as his aura and his touch became comforting to her."I am sorry if I scared you just now," said Mr. Bruce. "I can only request that you keep this to yourself, I don't want others to see me as a sick person, and those eyes looking at me with sympathy, please don't do it."Saying this, Mr. Bruce walked away to gradually disappear from her sight. She sighed deeply coming back to her senses. "I just came back alive after almost dying?" she mumbled as she stood there.Then, she braced herself for the scolding that she was to receive from Dr. Ian. She headed back in his cabin and sneakily peeked through the door, she called Bonnie out. "Bonnie! let's go back home now."Bonnie sat on his father's lap, who immediately gathered some reports and stacked them one upon another. Seeing Oriel at the door, he called her by name and asked her to come in. "Miss Oriel! I have some important stuff to discuss with you."Oriel
"I have spent twenty years filling the markets with ample stock of the most addictive drugs, dealing with the lives of innocent people; bodies of women, killings of men and orphaning of their children. After making such great use of my life, here I'm sitting in front you," said Mr. Bruce, with an unusual shine in his eyes. "I will advise you as a friend, there is definitely an almighty up there, giving each one of us the punishment of our Karma, so you better watch yourself as person."Dr. Ian could only sit still and serve silence as his reply, before saying, "if you are alive, you can always make amends for your doings, no one achieves anything if you die.""I didn't say that I regret my life, I mean, I have had fun always being at the top of the food chain and being the most feared person of all. If a short life is the price for what I have gained, then it is not at all a bad thing, in fact everyone would want this," replied Mr. Bruce.Oriel and Bonnie, stills hiding outside the sl
Oriel organised Bonnie's closet as the latter was treading back and forth in her room, waiting for her father to return and take her to the amusement park. She didn't leave the sight of the clock above her and couldn't sit still even for a moment."Why is he not coming?" she asked, pouting.Oriel firmly shut the door of the closet and replied, "he must have gotten stuck with something urgent. Let's call him and find out."She reached her phone, trying to appease the upset Bonnie. She dialed to her father and passed the phone to her. The call went forward but nobody answered it. Bonnie grew more upset and anxious. "I hate him.""It's fine, he will be home soon." Oriel tried to convince her."Why don't you take me to the hospital?" requested Bonnie."Are you sick somewhere?" asked Oriel."I meant the hospital where my father works at. I want to go to him right now."She started acting like the typical princess of a palace and made it hard on the maid Oriel to calm her down. "I can't tak
She worked as a kindergarten teacher; had no family of her own to receive support from and to make the hole bigger in her already impoverished umbrella, Bella was also there. Things were tough and getting fired from her job meant that she was in dire need for another source of income."I have been working here since years now and you know better than anyone else that I can never do such a thing," she begged her senior, in an effort to save her job."Oriel!... if it was in my hands I wouldn't let you leave, trust me. But it's all those parents who saw that damn packet of cocaine with you, they are all on my heads, asking me to fire you. I am very sorry dear."Her senior didn't stay another second to listen her request and left Oriel alone there. "Now, what do I do?" she breathed.Oriel walked out of her office, stressing over the problem of finding herself a new job. She began to regret abandoning the chance to win the heart of Mr. Bruce."He is clearly into me; I shouldn't have though
Ding Dong! Ding Dong! Ding Dong!The constantly ringing doorbell could be heard by Collin even inside his dream. There was someone at the door, and even after knowing that, he couldn't get himself to rise from the couch that he slept on. His face was damped with sweat and he was contracting his body because of the chills that made him shiver. His flesh had turned paler and his skin was burning with fever.Ding Dong! Ding Dong! Ding Dong!He felt worn-out and didn't have the strength left to attend the one who was aggressively pressing the doorbell. The person standing outside was also not willing to give up until the door was opened for them.Collin slowly placed his feet on the ground and reluctantly got up. He was still wearing the clothes from last night, and even when he looked his worst in that condition, he still appeared dashing.Ding Dong!"I swear I am gonna..." he was cranky at the one outside.He walked to the door with almost no energy and pulled the door open to find Ursu
Sunrise of every other day had always brought a new hope in her eyes, but it was not the case that morning. She feared another unpredictable day that stood before her.She rose from her bed, like every other morning, she fixed her bed and came outside in the living room. As soon as she opened the door, she saw Bella completely passed out, and several liquor bottles on the floor around her. It was not something that she had seen for the first time. It had been a scene that she saw almost everyday, and it irked her each time the same.She walked on her toes, trying to pass through the mess that was scattered all over the floor: glass bottles, tissues, and peanut shells were lying across the whole room."If I am ever allowed to kill one person in this entire world. You bet it is going to be you, Bella."She came in her balcony and breathed in fresh air. The morning sunshine was pleasant and the narrow street down her balcony had started to liven up with the chatters of her neighbors."Lo
"Your delusions are getting worse day by day, we are going to Dr. Will's right now." He grasped tightly on her arm, trying to drag her from her feet. Her feisty personality didn't allow his force to work upon her; she freed her arm from his grip. "So now you are saying that I'm crazy?" "Isn't that what you wanted to prove by doing all this?" spoke Mr. Bruce. "You would have made an excellent actor. My friend is a film producer; I will give you his number. But this act isn't working on me anymore." "What makes you think that I'm cheating on you?" he asked. Suddenly, a man came walking toward them from the entrance. Ursula gestured him to come forward. "You think I'm acting like this on my assumptions, huh?" "Did you ask for me, mam?" the man asked. Mr. Bruce turned to take at look at him and saw the police officer from before standing there, lowering his head in front of her like a slave. "This is an old friend of mine. I can't believe that it is a just coincident that you went