Blood

Dark clouds had engulfed the entire night sky. Cold and chilled air was blowing in its full speed, causing the trees and its leaves to create a blood freezing sound, especially under that deadly silence of the night where nothing and nobody could be seen and heard, except for her slow and soft sobs, who was sitting on the muddy ground of the cemetery, on her knees.

Her glossy hazel eyes were stuck on that white cemetery stone which was in front of her.

"Mamma... "

Her slightly parted lips softly called her mother whereas her tears silently flew down from her cheeks on the soil.

"How are you, Mamma?"

Her question got no answer, except for a painful silence which made the tears in her eyes turn more harsh but her lips still managed to form a small smile, and that smile of hers was not fake because the pain behind it was real and genuine.

She wiped her eyes with her sleeve.

"I know you must have missed me and I have missed you too, that's why look, I am finally here to meet you,"

Her smiling lips glistened with the tears, which her eyes were shedding.

"But I am a little angry with you," She spoke while rubbing her eyes in order to clear her blurry vision.

"Why didn't you come in my dreams today to wish me? It's my 20th birthday and you still didn't wish me. I am very upset with you,"

A child complained to her mother, knowing her mother was never going to reply back, not anymore and never could, but still that child's heart had those desires of getting wished and blessed by her mother, even if it was just in her dreams.

"Nobody wished me today except for Mirana and her brother, Alex, and I don't even want anybody to. I just need you to wish me and look… my birthday is going to end soon and you still haven't wish me,"

Those words were heart-drenching for her, who was talking to her dead mother, but not for the child, who was pleading in front of her sleeping mamma.

"Why you still didn't wish me, Mamma? Why you still didn't hug me and give me my birthday kiss, Mamma?”

Her voice got broken at the end of those words because now the painful reality started shivering her soul, which now had started making that child break too .

"Why are you not with me, Mamma? Why didn't you take me with you ? Why did you leave me a.. alone here with those m.. monsters...? Why..?"

Now the tears which she was holding had started falling loudly. She and her soul shattered into an uncountable number of pieces which started escaping from her hazel eyes in the form of her big and warm tears.

"They are the worst, Mamma. They're monsters. They hurt me and even said bad things about you. They are bad,”

She told all those things to that lifeless person, who was the reason behind her life…..her mother, who had crossed each and every barrier of the fakeness of life and had now peacefully got collided with the ultimate truth of life, which was the demise.

"They beat me, they starve me, even have done so many bad things to me. They are cruel, mamma. How can you leave me alone with them? How?"

Her words stuttered because of her continuous sobbing which now had turned a little loud but she knew that in that darkness of that night, nobody and nothing was going to hear and see her because in that place, people only came to leave their loved ones forever .

Every time her aunt and her son threw her out of their house, she came here to be with her mother.

Inessa again grazed her palm over her cheeks for wiping her tears but this time she badly hissed when her hand got rubbed against the wound on the corner of her lips, which those monstrous people had given to her

She softly swallowed and then got closer to her mother's cemetery and placed her head over her mother's memorial stone. Inessa wrapped her arms around it like a kid embracing her mother.

"I miss you, Mamma.. I miss you so much... They all say bad things about you but I know you're the best mother in the world.. My mamma... "

She teared up more badly and buried her face into that stone and if anybody could have seen her in that state, they surely would have considered her as a maniac, an insane ,who was crying almost in the middle of the night while hugging a cemetery stone, in that cemetery.

But she knew that there was nobody here to be with her because nobody had ever been with her…..but that night, much to Inessa's awareness, someone else was also present there with her who was breathing but his heart was numb, whose eyes were open but his soul was dead.

Inessa never knew that, that night under that dark gloomy sky, she wasn't all alone at that numbed place because a certain pair of cavernous dusky eyes were gazing at her, without blinking even for once, and was witnessing her each and every word, tear and pain.

"They even took my every earnings and today I don't even have something to buy for you, mamma. They are bad, very, very bad... "

She uttered, sobbing, and then slowly pulled back and gazed at that cemetery stone with her reddened eyes. She again rubbed her eyes to clear her tears.

"Sorry, mamma. I don't have anything to give to you today, as I had promised you that I'll always come here after getting a gift for you to tell you how much I miss you and love you but today, I don't even have that, because you know today I helped a little puppy in getting a home,”

She told her mother while a soft smile crept on her face on its own when she recalled that puppy's face.

"I am happy that I helped that puppy today and about your gift, I'll get it for you next time. Okay?"

She spoke and again tried to lean her head on the stone but she stopped when she bent her head and her eyes fell on that small silver pendant, which was hanging on her neck.

A big beam crept on her face by watching it which made those darkened eyes get stuck on her alluring smile.

"Look, I found your gift, mamma, " She spoke, beaming, and then she started opening the clasp of her chain.

"Remember I told you, I had bought this with my first earning on my 18th birthday... Because It has something inside in it which always makes me feel closer to you, mamma,"

She looked at the pendant on her palm and then took it closer to her mouth and kissed it..

"I Love You So Much..... "

That person heard her slightly parted lips uttering those words with an innocuous beam on her face and then she placed that pendant over that cemetery and that person was so lost in her teary shimmering eyes and in that soft and enchanting smile of hers, that he completely forgot that his entire body was injured, wounded and was bleeding badly.

He forgot about his own self by just staring at her and didn't even notice when his bullet-pierced arm, which was oozing blood, got grazed over the bushes, behind which he was hiding himself, and that noise caught her attention towards it.

She immediately snapped her eyes towards the bushes, hearing that noise and felt like her heart sank deeper into her stomach when her beige hazel orbs met with nothing, except for darkness and the deadly silence of that place.

Surely, it could be terrifying for any person to be in a place like that, especially at that time but it wasn't for her because she was habitual with it because she had been coming at that place from the mere age of 15 and now she had started feeling like it was her home and she wanted to live there rather than to be in that house where she was staying and was dying everyday.

Inessa got up on her feet and gulped hardly by staring at those bushes from where that noise came from but nothing caught her attention, so she decided to walk towards it which a sane person would have never done because a sane person would have run away from there in order to save their life, but she wasn't afraid of losing anything, not even her life.

Parting the bushes, she looked inside but found nothing. She got further inside and trailed her eyes everywhere, trying to find the reason behind that noise but still she saw nothing.

Her eyes were capable of watching everything even in that darkness just because of the dim street lights.

She scoffed and decided to get back but as soon as she turned around, her eyes fell on those crimson red liquid drops on that muddy ground.

She knitted her brows and then bent herself down. Inessa touched that liquid which made her heart shiver, realising what it was...

Blood…..