The day ended well with my graduation ceremony. I felt at the top of the world for making my parents proud for atleast once in my life. I never knew I can also make them happy but now that I saw them sharing a toast for me and my success, I realized that I have finally accomplished something in my life. Deep down I was still upset about the whole Carolina fiasco and so was my family. Infact, all of them took turns to take my class but little did they knew the truth behind that forced relationship. I never understood, how did that girl managed to hide her real self infront of everyone, when she becomes a devil infront of me. Was she suffering from some favourite person mental disorder?I knew I sounded weird to my own self but I didn't knew, how to describe her charade? Why did she act totally out of character infront of me only? Why not anyone else?After our uneventful breakup, I didn't had the badluck to see her face, but I was dreading that she might turn up anywhere and threaten m
The breakup was harsh reality check to her disoriented personality which had become thornier than it had been all these years. Having no other choice, I implored, "Just leave her, will you?" "You want me, then take my life but leave all of them. See, she is bleeding. She needs treatment". My eyes stung with tears as I begged her to have some mercy on us. "Please leave us!" Ana and Allison cried together. I wanted to hug them and tell them, that all will be fine but I was held captive by a "You all also like her?" She shouted or more like yelled, and before anyone can knew it, she fired straight on Stephanie's left side; directly on the heart. She cried in pain, but words didn't come out of her mouth due to the tape, but I can hear her sobs. And soon, her sobs died too as her body gave up. "Clap! Clap! Daddy's gun killed one person. Yayyy. I win. I win." She started to jump up and down, enjoying in her glory while we were not able to understand any thing. She was a psycho, and fro
With each minute, I paddled on the empty and dark street, I was growing tired and exhastion has been filling my lungs which I felt as I tried to keep my breathing calm. I wasn't in luck; I was drained by the time I spotted her car at the end of the cliff. My vision blurred and she was untraceable in this haunting weather. I needed help, so I yelled, "Help...," I heard no correspondence, feeling a looser for bringing this upon myself. The world was fading away and all I could do was crawl towards the descendant of the death who laughed. The last laugh was hers indeed. A fear gripped my heart as I saw her getting down and locking the car, along with my family. "Carolinaaa stopppp!!" Shaky voice screeched out of my trembling lips. "I told you that I love you but you broke me to pieces. Now they will pay for it as well...your family and the people on this site, who're summoning hearing you," she yelled, and fired four shots to her right. The sound of the petrol tankers blast literally le
Ashes. Darkness. Plight. Guilt to the point where I felt it's right to hurt myself and drown in drugs surrounded me for the next few days. I had no idea who founded me at the construction site or who brought me home. What I knew was I'd been a horrible son and brother and I dont deserve to live when I've snatched away the lives of my siblings. The funeral has been held yesterday and even if it's not funny, it appeared funny that the entire town came to visit me offering their condolences. The site had been huge work of the government or so they said, and apparently whatever went on there has been converted into the national gossip for the next few days and since, I was the only one to be rescued, I'd been in the public radar. An ordinary playboy suddenly became the man of the hour fulfilling the duties of the son who couldn't die a peaceful death. I don't sleep. I don't eat. I do drugs. I lay hollow staring at the ceiling waiting for the sun to rise and set but I don't wait for any
No one ever said revealing my past for the first time would feel like a heavenly blessing but John didn't warn me that it may feel like hellfire has unleashed upon me. My emotions were at the edge and a pounding ache rose up in my chest, and yelled loudly towards the heavenwards, "Ahhhhhhhhh!!" "Mommmmmm!" "Daddddddd!!" My haunting voice echoed in the entire apartment, as I sobbed my heart out letting out the anguish I have been holding back for all these years. It's nothing to the rage building within me, wanting justice of the hidden crimes commited in the mystifying dark of that unpleasant night. The thunderstorm outside was nothing as compared to the cyclone that was running inside my nerves. The sound of the clock striking past midnight was all I could hear apart from my heavy breathing. My body ached but the physical pain didn't matched the emotional turmoil that I was undergoing in that split moment. I never wanted to be in this place, but here I went down on my knees; ext
There's a moment when everything appears to be plain and there's a day when it's a mess filled with pity and symp[athy of what has happened; the trauma of the past hovers over and over again and there's nothing left to be said or done for the inevitable has taken place. I knew I was contained in my grief, but this overwheming sorrow could turn into a murderous attempt, this I've never given it a thought, but as I came to my senses, the first thing I did was to whisper her name, "Serena." It wasn't Carolina whom I was ready to kill, my mind has conjured up her image in this poignant state where I couldn't differentiate between the right and wrong but I only it had to end. "Serena!" I called again with remorse caging me that I lost control over myself and allowed myself to be taken away by the demons of the girl who scarred me to the point where I saw nothing but maddening need to revenge. I was ashamed but it was a partia;l feeling; the consta
FlashbackIt was the last day of Serena's internship in the Rogers, and today finally she was going to be awarded the certificate of excellence from the team. In past few days, or more like I should say since the night I have spilled Carolina's name from my tongue, we have drifted apart a great deal. We were no longer a couple who's lives revolved around their love.Surely, we did live together but our relationship was going down the drain in a way that even if I wanted, I wasn't able to stop that unwanted thing. My insecurities were all over the place, and I don't even remember when was the last time I have paid attention to her. The delusion of the storm has overpwered my senses and all, I saw was the bad blood coming from our mouths over the other and the cause was the chaos of the dead. She was busy in her work while I purposely kept myself busy in my work. I loved her, but yet I wasn't a man enough to explain her my fears; while she thought that as my manly pride but only if she
I walked into the tunnel of seclusion, darker than charcoal, deeper than the rabbits hole and if I sensed that enormous feeling then it was horrific than a haunted house. Yet, I kept ambling, unaware of my final destination or a blueprint of life. I couldn't spot a thing at first while I felt my throat being dry but there was no pain inside me like my body was used to since years. It felt as if I was granted purgatory in the most wildest sense. It made sense only to me and to no one else for it was my solitary hole to crumble or repair on my own. But then suddenly a flash of light fell on my face blinding my vision. I stepped closer to the light and a big smile came on my lips.There stood my family of five. I ran towards them to hug them, but they seem to be so far, yet so close."Mom!" I cried trying to reach out to her but she was shaking her head in denial. I couldn't comprehend the reason of this denial."I miss you, Dad. Mom, I want to be with you all. Don't leave me. Take me w
Carolina's POV (From Hell) Closure! 'What are these earthly creatures talking about?' I mused, eyeing the devils lingering around the foggy atmosphere. The realm has been freezing lately and it's impossible to step out to take a look. I sat in my chambers, staring at the mirror displaying the happy faces from Derena's wedding. It stunned me to know that the residents up in the fire have been keeping tabs on the two pathetic lovers and have given them a combined name. They have divulged from having a secretive live-in relationship to an official wedding taking the vows of sickness and health. It disgusted me to discover the insomniac's sleep cycle tattered. I ablaze the flames from beneath. They scattered in flickering venomous fireflies before they went off and the realm got covered in a silence as murky as the daunting night of our souls lurking over one another. This humbug of promises are making me itchy and edgy. 'What do they have that I don't? How did this life became so fair f
Carolina's POV (From Hell) There are no timelines in Hell for I'm the unlimited invincible force to reckon and beckon. Satan is in authority but in his absence I take the charge to pour sense into the little devil's roaming around with a vibration of an independent soul. I hate it and so does, the lord of hell. Hell is about codependency on each other; empowerment is destructive coping mechanism around here. We don't preach or teach; we probe and lead to a highly classified mission of ruining the lives of those who caused us to descend at the lower level. The pitch dark web is our prison to initiate the activities of explosive thoughts and nightmarish emotions into the earthly humans we detest. I rarely see the reflection of my charred face in the mirror; it's spooky and ruthless. At times, I crawl and crib to the magical flying beasts in the chambers, storing endless wrath. They're not long or amusing; they're power boosters rising from the fire like volcanic eruption. Sometimes,
Carolina's POV (From Hell) Withered cage. Hollow air. Silicon powers clouding the invisible realm, obscured somewhere where the human souls would come along as the hostility takes over. Monsters are cooked here; monsters are banished here and monsters seek monsters. What I think is not what I see for my vision is either protruded or the arising monstrosity within me has shielded the cone of volatile fire captivating my chambers. Satan's punishing me for defying him. I was instructed to let go off the war and interaction with the human world but I can't let my fatal enemy Daniel Price get a happily after with my newly found sister, Serena. Mommy dearest hid from me the treachery of her existence. How could I ever let it go? I was only her baby girl; she knew I loved to fight over Daniel; how could I have lived to see him sway away from the path of comeuppance? Streaks of fire tinge me on my stone walled body. It carries the weight of my deadpanned soul awaiting a release in the
Carolina's POV (From Hell) Peace. 'What is it? Why is it and who brings it?' I sorted to find out in my larger than egoistic life on earth. Mother had said, "there's no peace in the human family. It's hell."Hell. Black inky island. Faraway from human contact, food, water or emotions. The place I am scattered and trapped; a home of my darkened, defeated and dead soul. It wasn't the place for life. It became my after life when my soul left the planet in the accident I caused in my obsession for Daniel. I rested in one of the chambers of the aflamed open terrace of a roundabout endless fire, situated beneath the plateau…little demons with tails crawled up from the ropes held out through the gate of hell. The big guy with those giant white scary eyes, let me in after I wandered into the abyss for days. 'All hail Satan!' No fights. No fun. No feeling and no one to hate except for the memory of my trickling death. What an award winning scene and plan it was to mop out the entire Pr
Eight years LaterSleep! My eternal love. My lifetime friend. The only thing now I can do without fail. How peaceful it is to sleep like a log of wood and snore my way in the office at bizzare days and meeting hours. I have recognized this feeling as heart blazing. I never knew I would brim with gratification after attaining the peaceful slumber, straight for eight hours. But now that I have actually gotten into the habit of drowning in the heavenly world for eight years I concur nothing can be more blissful than sleeping in between a day exhausting me or after work. As I squirmed to find a comfortable position on the couch, whispers resembling the wind whooshing, kissed my either side. I tried to shun them away but when I didn't budge, an ear bleeding shriek traveled in my ears. "Ahhhhhhhhhhh," tumbling down the couch, I stared at the two reincarnation of Satan's, who faced me with hands on their hips and glint mischievous smiles circulating in their eyes. They scanned my face
"What the fuck!" The intensity of our curse matched. We gawked at the other, and reluctantly brought an inch or two distance between our bodies. Confronting the man behind us, I recognized the intruder as the inspector who arrested us on that frick of a night. He flashed his badge and glared. Serena scooted closer to me, eyeing me from her peripheral vision in embarrassment. "The universe does love you, Darling. It's conspiring to fulfill your outrageous wish. How do you think I should proceed now?" I taunted in her ear. "You two again!" The inspector exclaimed. "That too on your wedding day?" It was more of a reprimanding query than a statement for he pointed at us in disbelief and shook his head. His military eyes switched off my manliness and my confidence to explain the compromising circumstance tunneled down. I dare not open my silky mouth to squash some chocolaty words to this machoman who can outwit me in strength corporeally. So silky chocolate. Suits my personality. '
Our reception controversy was unavoidable. Guess, I am willing to shake hands even with the reporters to curb down the juiciest details of the encounter with the prisoner and reposition the focus on the cake which got everyone to piss in their hearts. They smiled devilishly at me, driving a wedge of discomfort in my demeanor. Perambulating upto the team leader of the Zee Cafe, I pitched, "Hey Rita, mind having a private word?" "The great Daniel Price is giving us his precious minute of the hour. It's my lucky day, indeed." She clapped her hands in joy. "How can I help the dapper groom?" She flirted, moving in my space but far enough to not cross a line. "Stick to the report on the cake, decor, and Serena's skills. Avoid the orange buzz, will you?" Straight to the point, I ordered in an authoritative way. "I got the bite from your side for the first freaking time and you're robbing me of that chance to publish it to my readers who are crazy about this place and owner." "I will giv
A miraculous waterfall emerged from the guests attending the ceremony. Sallowed than the boiled egg-yolk, Serena weeped her lungs out, dismaying me for I'd expected her to glow bronze. "You're not gonna puke, are you?" I asked, checking her temperature. "It's too much emotion for me for one day and everyday with you is a challenge," she bit her lip, apologetic to feel the way she did."Amm…you wanna go ahead, right?" "Yeah…damn yeah. Fuck yeah…I am crazy for you. Thank you," she whispered, flicking her hands infront of her face. She was flustered with compassion and gratitude. Tonight, on the bed I can finally show her my entire being and the certainty of her loving it, crowded my rock sized brain. Since I literally left my official wife in making speechless, she demanded the pastor to allow her to present her commitment from the book of vows. The intent counted and she sealed the promise in her sincere and affectionate voice. No sooner we exchanged the rings, and said our "I do'
Bringing the topic of wedding two months back wasn't an appropriate choice. A bed of hassles awaited resolution such as sorting out the differences with Mrs. Cavelli; bidding final farewell to Mrs. Rodriguez and exiting the loop of insomnia and its effects on my mental body. All that went for a toss when Serena agreed to marry me and the next day itself, I placed the ring on her, taking the stage for five minutes during the grand reception and closing out the deal for life. The reception couple and their audience were ecstatic and gleaming with passion after receiving our finest hospitality and once again, the Price Inns became the manor of hot discussion on the tabloids and news channels. The bride's blogger friends were more than forthcoming to leave the five star reviews on the website; spread the buzz wherever they could and they booked us in advance for their upcoming respective weddings. Overnight, I became a sensational figure of Times Square from a depressed lonely man who wall