When Even Silence Is Overdone

Breakfast has never been a part of life for Raina. Her mom was least interested in cooking with heart and soul. Though She could manage a fixed menu lunch everyday of which her friends made fun on many occasions saying 'Why can't you bring something else'. Raina always blamed herself that she likes the fixed menu and did not want to trouble mother early morning. She has no other reason or a simple will to go to her mom and persuade her to make some thing else.

Although she was thinking about her philosophical food-life while rolling in bed early morning, yet she could hear her parents tiff in the background. Sub-conscious mind picks up everything. Multi-tasking was one such talent which was common with Raina and her brain.

She got up at once the moment she heard a sound of food-plate being thrown on floor. She could hear her own heart beat going on minus scale if any such scale existed in medical field.

She puts herself together and makes a move with an enormous amount of fear in her heart. All of a sudden every single buzz in the room dilutes somewhere and she can only hear her father screaming and abusing her mother.

Raina comes out of bed and now faces both of them but just like always none of them actually gives a damn if they are being witnessed. Father is now furious as mother gives some shit reasons for over cooked food. She is visibly scared but replying. It seems with growing years she has also decided to grow up with unnecessary responses with every tiff. Initially she used to be silent and giving. Now she utters words and makes it worst. Why she has to make him angry everytime. Does she not know what are the consequences.

Father has now stood up and Raina has hidden behind the bed wall. Raina knows now what is going to be followed. Father abuses mother's dad and family. He is cursing and regretting the times when he got married. He is cursing the life altogether. 'Going out for work in morning and working like a dog, And in the end what you get in return, such treatment' said father. Mother gave an unneccasary response asking what is wrong with food and he warned her to not speak in front of him.

She just went inside and Raina took a sigh of relief that it got over.

Raina turns to bathroom and looks back once again when she hears father running into kitchen.

She just heard two sound of slaps and a sobbing noise of mom.

Rains sits on floor and hides her face in between bed and wall.

She now listens carefully though she is not willing to. This time she hear a different sound. A sliding sound.

She shivers just when she realizes that Father has taken her leather belt out from trousers and has bolted the kitchen door.

Raina is cold feet and her heart has nearly stopped functioning. Is he?

She hear the loud zap. This is basically on Mother's spine. And he is not stopping.

Suddenly, Raina is not able to hear, feel, sense anything. She goes upstairs rather than knocking on kitchen door while crying and shouting her lungs out. It is raining heavily. She takes a walk towards that side of roof where high way leads a busy ruthless road. Though there are same birds and nests which sometime cheers her up. Today nothing around her is really moving her.

She stands on the edge of balcony grill and gaze in sky. It pours more water in her eyes than she is capable of handling. She turns her eyeballs on the farthest distant objects and tries to recall faces which should matter to her. None of them is really coming into her mind. She does not say sorry or cry a bit. She neither thinks to write nor does she take a second thought.

She closes her eyes and looses her self.

She frees a soul which otherwise could have led an unending saga of unexplained life!