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
Martha’s father, Benjamin, silently listened to her demands since everything she spoke was utmost true and he too realized that her mother was not just Cindy’s responsibility but Benjamin had to make equal efforts to ensure the well being of her mother.Alas, he was at a loss of words since there wasn’t anything he could say to bring Cindy’s rage to a halt. Hell broke loose then and what was earlier only Cindy yelling now became a heated argument between the two.Cindy, intoxicated by anger, had said, “I dealt with your parents’ shit when they were unable to walk and were bedridden. Now when it is your time, you’re becoming insensitive to the only parent I have got now and plainly avoiding your responsibilities!!” This statement from Cindy’s end infuriated Benjamin and they both began to quarrel. Martha also remembers how her parents weren’t on talking terms with each other for as l
After taking a bath, she came out of the bathroom and opened her wardrobe to select the dress she was going to wear.Her eyes fell on the red dress that she’d planned to wear on the occasion of today’s gathering.This again reminded her of Matthew. “He’d be mad at me tomorrow when I’d show up.We had planned so much for today but everything has gone in vain now. Worst among all is that I won’t even get a chance to explain this all to him today only as it’d take a whole day in going to and returning from granny’s place plus the time we’d be staying there.Better would be if I seek an apology from him tomorrow only.I can bring him a present as a token of my apology. Asking some flowers from Uncle Belvot sounds good!” She wore the same dress she had decided to wear for the Sunday gathering.She c
She had been doing so ever since she had come back to home after spending time with Matthew from yesterday. Also, these very deep conversations had begun ever since her plan for today was dropped and there was no one she could speak about how she felt. Therefore, she preferred to share her misfortune with her own self. “I had read somewhere that one’s best friend is one’s own self.That is so true since only one can understand her own feelings better than anyone else in this world. Or maybe Matthew will listen to me attentively as he loves me a lot! Nope, he will only turn my misery into his silly jokes, which he does EVERY SINGLE TIME. Anyway, I like the way he does that. He surely does that to distract me from thinking about my problems. I love him!” She was quite enjoying talking to herself.She again saw outside the window. As far as her gaze traveled, all she could witness was lu
She would prepare her most favorite of the dishes. While it is also true that Martha loved everything her granny would make on her visit.The reason her granny would give whenever asked by Martha’s mother how she make such savoring delicacies was that she uses a very special ingredient which is available everywhere.When asked the name of ingredient she was referring to, she’d say ‘love’. Love is something you can pour in abundance into your dishes and it’d never be sufficient for the dish you make. It is the only ingredient which you can keep on adding to a dish and the dish would go on to become better.Moreover, when it would be the time to say goodbye to her granny to return to home, her grandmother would give Martha a good amount of money as a token of her love. Martha always used to refuse to accept the money saying that she can get it from
Martha posed so innocent a smile that could be weighed against a billion dollar and yet would nonchalantly outweigh the hefty amount.This smile of Martha encouraged her grandfather to get back to preparing something good for her granddaughter and began with his work.He again ran his eyes across what was kept in front of him. There were eggs in front of him so he though to make a cheese omelet.Now that he had the main ingredient of his dish, he began to find the secondary ingredients like cheese, some spices, essential vegetables, etc.He gathered all the ingredients; some from the cupboard, some from the vegetables basket and some from the drawer. After gathering all the essential ingredients, he now began to find the utensils. He first of all took out a bowl in which he would blend the eggs.He, meanwhile blending the eggs, added the cheese to the bowl. He
After a journey of not more than ten minutes, the restaurant arrived.The restaurant was not big enough but was capable of comfortably cater to twenty guests at once.Martha along with both her parents occupied one of the sections of the restaurant. The day being Sunday, they had to wait for around five minutes to find a vacant place. Nonetheless, they found a place and seated themselves.On the two seats that were adjacent to each other sat Martha’s parents, Benjamin and Cindy. In their front sat Martha with the seat besides her being vacant.The duo still didn’t seemed to be on talking terms, nor did Martha felt the need to inquire about the matter since she’d dealt with enough of it in her own mind. She rather was focused on what to order for her to eat.As soon as she had entered the restaurant, she was delighted wit
It isn’t too long a journey” clearly evident that she didn’t pay much heed to her mother’s words and was more focused on her sandwich.The big bite of the sandwich had resulted in the exposure of all the ingredients that have been packed inside the sandwich. Martha took a look and found cucumber slices inside it. This reminded her of her grandfather’s words ‘I will force you into eating green veggies’ “You had succeeded in your venture Paa.I am now fond of these green veggies” thought Martha as she remembered the incident that occurred more than a decade back.It took not more than five minutes for Martha to eat the ham sandwich. Her devotion towards the sandwich finally ended when she took the last bite of the sandwich.The last bite was more of a humdrum bite as all there remained was bread since she had already had most of th
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