At about 5 AM, the Sun shone its first ray of light of the day on the village of Malaskovhana from the Salvata Hills situated in the farther east on the outskirts of the village. It was early dawn and inhabitants of Malaskovhana have still not gotten over their gentle sleep, except from a few farmers who were already on their way to the fields to sow the seasonal crops for summer.
At almost 8 in the morning, the residents began to occupy the vacant streets and marketplace as they went along with their daily chores. A big statue of Queen Katherine was centered in the village who laid the foundation stone of this vibrant village some 200 years ago.
The inhabitants of Malaskovhana can be described as cheerful and friendly. They seem to believe in upholding peace and happiness throughout the village. And this quality of the inhabitants can be attributed to their Queen who lived by the motto, “Help at least one person everyday and you shall never worry about anything in your life” Adhering to this motto by their Queen, each of the inhabitants everyday tried helping at least one person. Therefore, it became a common thing to offer help to someone in need and hence, the people would eventually bond with every person in the village.
Therefore, as the Queen would have thought about it, living by this motto gave rise to a sense of belonging throughout the village that ensured the unity of the inhabitants and that no one is left behind.
The population of the village is a few numbers behind 1400. Surprisingly, almost everyone knows everyone and thus the sense of belonging was indeed true.
The people had also come up with a weekly gathering on every Sunday where everyone would gather and enjoy the day by playing games, singing songs (While others danced to the rhythm), savoring delicacies prepared by each household and so on.
The gathering has been set to take place at the large ground situated right beside the only school the village had. Given the smaller number of students, the village thought it right to have only one school to cater for the education of the village’s children.
As the morning proceeded, all the facilities were now open. The restaurants and flower shops turned around the door sign attached to the door and it is now viewed to the public as ‘Open’.
Some students were on their way to the school while the senior citizens laughed out loud as all other members of the laughter club let out a huge laugh in the garden area.
Chapter 2As the day progressed, a mildly awake Martha reached her hand to the clock to check what time it was. Although it was just an hour before her first lecture at school would commence, she still gave in to the sleep after battling for a few seconds. Just before she had hugged her pillow completely shut her slightly open eyes, her mother called her name.“Martha, get up hon! Get prepped fast for school!“Yes mum!” said Martha even as she hugged her pillow tighter and still not combated the sleep that dominated her mind. ‘A warm sleep followed by some delightful waffles with honey.This day can’t get any better unless I add these extra 5 minutes to my sleep!’ thought Martha as she dozed off after having set the alarm clock for 5 minutes.Martha walked rapidly towards school as 5 minutes remained before the lecture cou
“Oh my child! That’s too little trouble.You must learn to cope with circumstances that are not in your favor.Remember that you all are in your last year of high school and soon will be leaving the village to attend the college.Therefore, you all would be stepping into a new city you’re not accustomed to living in.This is why you all must learn to adapt to the circumstances and never let the circumstances influence you.Or to state this otherwise, always find your way out of the problems you are or would be in. That’s too big an advice for you, too little trouble, yet I feel you must stick to this advice for the rest of your life. It will help you a lot.” Concluded the professor just before the school bell rang. Martha understood the professor’s word and made a mental note to remember it when stuck in
As commanded, Matthew promptly exited the class with the hope that Martha would read the letter.Martha again felt bad for Matthew as she blamed herself for not taking the letter from his hand early that led to him making such a silly excuse.“But wait, I am not to be blamed entirely. He deserved this punishment to make such a foolish excuse. Glad that I have been avoiding such a guy all this while who can’t even come up with good excuses” thought Martha while comforting herself a bit.The school bell rang and finally the mathematics lecture came to a halt and Mrs. Bennett left the classroom. Martha closed the notebook which brought to her sight the paper that Matthew had handed over to her.When she had taken the paper from Matthew’s hand, she quickly hid it underneath her notebook.She opened the folds to find a message by Matthew. It read –Hey love!
Then there cannot be anything better than this in the world” said Matthew, tears filling up in his eyes and smiling widely as does a child when the snowfall for the first time in a year.“Then consider it like that only” Said Martha, trying to lift her eyes to meet Matthew’s.“Oh don’t play with me. Just say you love me and caress your lips just like the way I did last time.”“I am madly in love with you Matthew!”This was enough for Matthew to plant a deep kiss on Martha's lips. Martha too didn’t back off this time and gave into it completely.The two of them kept on exploring the flavors of love into each other’s lips for what felt like an eternity. Martha had been leaning against the wall with both her hands on the side tightly under the grip of Matthew’s hands. Slowly, Matthew let go one of Martha’s hands and sli
“You want to taste it too?” asked Matthew to which Martha replied with a nod. He ran his fingers across his vagina and brought them close to her mouth. Whenever Martha lifted her head so as to get a taste of Matthew’s hands, he would purportedly lift them even higher in a way to tease his new love.He finally slid his fingers deep into her mouth so to let her taste what love feels like. “It tastes nothing but immense love” said Martha.“So allow me to give you an even better sense of love” said Matthew as he began to undo his own pants.Martha didn’t want to take things so far so she said, “I am afraid. I am not ready for it right now Matt. Maybe next time?” asked MarthaHey! Please don’t think as if I am the dominating one among the two of us. We both are equally into this and so I would never do anything that is a
So long as you remain unemployed, it would be difficult for us to get married since there are a lot of things to plan pre and post marriage.Like wedding budget, household budget, savings for the time when we will welcome a newborn to our house and what not” said Martha“Wait who told you we are going to get married and all, huh? Did I forget to tell you that you’re just my side chick and I already have a girlfriend who is taller than you? Oh don’t feel bad but I already made these marriage plans with her so you might find someone else now” said Matthew in an almost apologetic tone.But Martha was too well versed with this guy to understand his humour beneath his stupid statements.“You better stop fooling around or I will bring this relationship to a halt where neither of us would see each other again” fumed Martha, having finally fed up with his silly jokes.
She shut the door behind her and fell on the bed in a way that her face was now staring at the ceiling.She ran her hand across her stomach and giggled to herself, “Butterflies!”Martha’s father arrived almost half an hour later than Martha did.The three of them sat together for lunch which wasn’t their usual course of routine.Usually, Martha along with her mother would take lunch in the noon and after some time, her father would arrive and have lunch. Today, things were happening in a different way. The three of them began to have lunch together.After partaking some lasagna from the serving bowl, her father said, “It has been a while the three of us had taken the lunch together. What brought the change today?” “Martha arrived late from school.You too were going to arrive after sometime so I thought it better that w
The sun shone bright on the village of Malaskovhana. It was Sunday of the last week of the ongoing month.The day of Sunday brought immense joy to the lives of the people of Malaskovhana, for they celebrated this day of the week like there’s no tomorrow! The village committee which counted Martha’s father as one of its members would look after the Sunday gathering.They would come up with different events in every gathering to engage the people of Malaskovhana into one or other recreational activities. It was Queen Katherine’s order long ago that every resident of the village shall take a day out to participate in some recreational activities.She believed that doing daily chores continuously for days in a week and spending one day doing absolutely nothing at all flushes out all the excitement from one’s life.That is why she came up with this idea of Sunda
She gasped in fear as her worst of sufferings began to unveil themselves in front of her. Ronan too held Martha’s mother in the air for a while to prove to the young wench of how ruthless and gruesome the werewolves could be to someone.Ronan was further encouraged when Alpha, even after resigning from killing Martha’s mother, did not object when Ronan was putting her under intense distress.Ronan first looked Martha into her eyes and then shifted his gaze towards Cindy who bore a nonchalant face.Neither did she seem to be under distress of soon going to die nor was she horrified as her daughter was for presuming that she will be seeing her mother for the last time now and never again.This irritated Ronan who, in order to take the pain out on her face, tightened the grip around Cindy’s neck but without any result. Cindy appeared lifeless.&nb
She joined her hands and pleaded before the biggest of the demons, “For god’s sake, let us go!” she didn’t cry and not even had pleading sound in her voice.This was because she had got exhausted by now; physically, mentally and emotionally. “Sorry not sorry but you two are not going anywhere. Most importantly, this young wench” – its indication was towards Martha – “In fact, we cannot now afford to let you go alone in front of the general public as we fear you might spill the beans about our whereabouts and bring some special forces for the rescue of your daughter” Cindy did not react.She had lost the ability to perceive anything that was told to her and just wanted a way out of this hell that existed on Earth. Alpha continued, “Therefore, I have arrived at a conclusion which is that you shall be executed before your daughter so that i
They didn’t want to believe in the reality.Alpha too wanted to be a part in this act of causing misery to the family and spoke to the werewolf whose claws were stained with the blood of Benjamin, “Let go of the poor guy’s hand, Ash” – It addressed the other werewolf as Ash – “He is dead now and therefore, he can do nothing to help but spoil the floor through the blood dripping out of his body.Throw the body out in the woods” Alpha reminded both the ladies to come back to reality and accept it. They must know that their husband or father is no more now.They must, especially for Martha, take it as a lesson of what the werewolves are capable of doing; that they must fear the werewolves and make sure not to argue with them. Both Cindy and Martha had gotten numb.It was a tsunami for both of them where the tides were going against them and sinking t
Both Cindy’s and Martha’s calls were now too late to be comprehended and acted upon by Benjamin. He has gotten quite close to the demonic figure.Cindy, now instead of Benjamin, prayed to God as it was now upon the almighty to ensure the safety of Benjamin.“God, it is all upon you now!” she cried. Benjamin had now come within the range of the werewolf while his hand in the air extended to grab the neck of the beast.The werewolf smirked for it knew how foolish of a person Benjamin was to charge a being hundred times stronger than him. It noticed Benjamin’s hand approaching for its neck and pitied for what it was about to do to him in the next few moments.It first raised his left hand to defend the frail attack on Benjamin’s part.It simply grabbed hi
Though for a fraction of second, she fancied the Alpha fondling her but immediately ceased that thought.She lowered her eyes and avoided eye contact with the Alpha. But soon enough, she raised her head to look at her father and mother to see their reaction on what the Alpha had just said.They too were as disgusted as Martha on Alpha remarks. Cindy gnashed in anger while her face turned red, though she didn’t have the courage or the strength to raise a voice against Alpha.On the other hand, Benjamin bore an expression of sheer rage against the one standing right in front of him. His body was trembling with anger and his eyes conveyed only one thought – to fight and eventually die for the safety of his daughter.Yet he remained at the same spot he was at and spoke with much anger in his voice, “Neither we are fulfilling our obligations
This startled the other werewolf a bit as it wondered how come its master was seeking permission from someone inferior to it.Martha duly noticed the expression of the other werewolf of how it got startled and then she thought to herself, “What a moron! Doesn’t even get sarcasm” She looked at Alpha and nodded her head. The Alpha too nodded slightly in agreement and turned to Benjamin. The Alpha said, “So Mister Benjamin Stewart, there is not really anything to discuss about. Like what I clarified earlier, we will stick to that only” Martha was less focused on what it said but more focused on how it was said.It was peremptory in his speech. It was just not in a mood to entertain any sort of discussions.It took more than usual time to register what it said since she was busy examining his unwillingness to debate on the matter Martha apparently ha
When someone would step on it, it would make a squeaky sound; as Martha observed when the werewolf resting on the baluster went upstairs.She wanted to find a way out of this gloomy environment; “a broken window or maybe some emergency exit I could find.But it won’t help since this bunch of dense hairs would be at great ease when catching up with our pace.I have already seen their pace when one of these was nonchalantly blowing out the fire torches as our motor car moved. Running from them is not an option” she thought.She kept on thinking about something to confront these werewolves when finally, the Alpha spoke for the very first time, “Let us discuss our agendas now” Everyone got wide awake as soon as the words escaped through the Alpha’s mouth.Martha too, immediately looked up to see Alpha. Its voice was gruff. It carried the impression o
For a fraction of second, even werewolf got startled at how furious she had turned herself and therefore had to move its gaze away from her. She registered this astonishment of the werewolf and strike while the iron was hot by summoning in an even louder tone, “Somebody get me a glass of water” She just didn’t shift her gaze at all from the beast who wasn’t willing to let go of her neck. She could barely conceal the anger that manifested on her face.Seven to eight feet ahead of her was Cindy who witnessed every second of this and couldn’t believe her daughter intimidate one of the werewolves.The werewolf too couldn’t hold back his anger but it was afraid it would have to face the wrath of Alpha if he acted on his own with the girl.Martha kept on looking into its eyes without even blinking.She just didn’t want anything at that time exce
Martha, thought not being able to move her head even a bit, moved her eyeballs to her left where the greater werewolf stood and muttered to the best of her survival instincts that were triggered at that time, “P—l---e-a—se” and then signaled it to the claws that were on the verge of bursting blood out of Martha’s neck.Understood from her gesture, the greater werewolf now smiled widely so to express its pleasure to Martha that it was deriving out of her misery.Martha, however, wasn’t at all concerned of what he or anyone else felt of her state and just wanted to get out of this grip.She was losing her breath.She could sense the blood halting in her veins. Her eyelids were about to adjoin which will disable her to take note of the surroundings.She couldn’t take it anymore.A last thought that originated in her mind was &ndas