Knowing about her abominable past and all the atrocities that had befallen her, her mind wasn’t gaining peace at any cost.The life which was a sum of just counted breaths, with every breath a part of it was losing, where in her case, at her very first breath much of her life was lost and much sucked out.It was hard for her to believe that life wasn’t easy for her, but it was too hard for her to believe that life was not just miserable but way too unjust to her, from the very beginning! 

The clock struck 12:00am, and they were still sitting there, pondering over their situation, trying to find any straw to catch upon to help save their hope from drowning.The hospital was swarming with busy and anxious faces, everyone seemed to have been hit by some misfortune there, that no one could attend to anyone else's grief.Every person for himself.They kept observing the masses, while their thoughts were lost more than their hopes were.Finally, there came a Nurse gliding over towards them through the crowd, having information to be delivered to them, and informed them about the health stability and shifting of Nanny to the ward from the int

Chapter 15: 12th March 1985‘Johanna. . . . My daughter. . . I can’t hold this weary heart for too long. . . This is going too heavy on this feeble body. . .I may not be strong enough to combat it anymore. . .Here I lie in my bed awaiting next day. . .Not knowing, whether or not I may see another rising sun. . .What has ever happened to the courtesy?’There was an ailing old man lying on his death bed, holding the hand of a young girl, Johanna, his daughter.The room was a wide and spacious one! Beautifully adorned with high ceilings and chandeliers hanging downwards. It was way too magnificent for an ordinary person. The sun shone too brightly through the large windows.Johanna seemed sucked out of happiness, her face was all drained and pale looking, his words made her feel sick even more, she took 2 steps away after seeing the condition of him and the confessions he made.Her eyes were blue, and her face was glowing angelic, she was extraordinarily beautiful! So elegantly an

It was Sam who was cutting his birthday cake and laughing heartfully. She stood there looking at his lively laughter and playfully admiring all the arrangements done for him.Deep inside she was feeling hollow, deserted, lost, like a cut kite falling away with the wind.She was loving how Sam was enjoying his big day and left bad to be not able to stand by him like she always could, her mind was filled with the secrets they were keeping them from her.Sam guessed the lost mind for hers, and tried to bring her around by pasting whipped cream on her nose, the gleam in his eyes was the same as he would always have after getting her annoyed.She could no longer keep herself back, she went to grab a piece of cake and stuffed it in his mouth, meanwhile, Nanny was smiling

“Good morning”, Sam came in to join Murphy on breakfast, “how was the night? Got to sleep well?”He made a place for himself next to her on the table, meanwhile, Nanny was getting toasts done and serving them freshly.“Morning. . . A restful one it was”, she smiled back and said shortly.She thought about the dream that she had last night, but she couldn’t remember it clearly like she used to remember the other one she had.She could recall a vague picture of an injured man and someone talking to him about serious issues, she tried harder to recall the dream, but she couldn’t, it was a diffuse though that kept her mind occupied as she tried to remember it, it was too unclear for her make any sense out of it.“Murph?. . .”, Sam interrupted, “you are playing with your food and haven’t tasted it yet. . . You are lost somewhere. . .Everything is fine?”Murphy was suddenly pulled back from her deep dive into her thoughts, and she realized that she was playing with her omelet, while Sam look