The Lurking Danger

'Hey, you psycho!' They screamed as they barged in.

I clutched in the corner due to fear.

'You don't deserve to live here.' Said the old lady pointing her wooden stick to me.

She was the supreme of our village. She used to treat me as her child once but, everything changed. Everything changed when my one and only family members died.  The whole village hates the ten-year-old me now. I was in grief and guilt cause I had lost her, my only family. The one who cared about me the most. But, no one bothered to look at my face, no one bothered to calm me. Everyone just wanted to punish me for the sin I'd committed.  

I was all weak cause I hadn't eaten anything since the day she died. I was crying hugging my legs and literary embedding my face between and chest and my legs. Her memories were flashing in front of my eyes as I used to close them. I had only this one-room sized cottage to live in. The cottage had a small