This thing is going way beyond anyone’s imagination. How worse can it get? And the biggest of all the questions is what sort of hell have we already brought ourselves in?”“Do you really want to keep on going into this hell or we might stop and reconsider going back?” said Martha.  It was less of a saying and more of a screaming. She had no other option to adhere to. She had been asking or responding to her parents’ in a mannered way and all that the well-mannered way has yielded for so long is a series of unfolding mysteries. She wasn’t up for one more unwelcoming mystery to be thrown at her fate. She just wanted peace. All she cared for was peace for her. Her temperament had reached such a level of precariousness that to quench her thirst of a peaceful environment, she saw no other way except to take a U turn and drive back and reach all the way from

 He caressed her hand lightly and reassuringly smiled at her. This led Cindy to melt down a bit. She too curved her lips upwards and responded to Benjamin’s reassurance for her.  However, her weak smile was nothing but a camouflage to the disturbing thoughts going on in her mind which nevertheless expressed themselves by a tear or two.  Yet both of them understood that they had to improve the atmosphere inside the car and begin to speak to Martha as well as each other casually before the destination arrives.Cindy cleared her throat and spoke, “Martha, honey, do you remember when I used to come to your room to wake you up for school and ask you to get up? And then sometimes I would almost scream when we are running out of time for it?” a hint of sorrow is evident in her voice. “I do mommy” said Martha, her voice appearing stronger than before. Martha continued,&

I am comfortable mommy, so long as I am with the two of you. I am comfortable with living off at a secluded place, for home is where I can have the presence of both of you” Martha smiled after saying what she felt would comfort her mother and give her strength in undertaking the task at hand. On the contrary, hearing such mature words from her mother, Cindy got on the brink of collapsing into tears but somehow controlled herself.She although had gotten teary-eyed but when Benjamin put his hand on Cindy’s shoulder; she was signaled to not get drifted along with her emotions and remain strong. Cindy promptly turned to the front to avoid looking at Martha.  Further, she didn’t want her to observe the tears in her eyes waiting to roll down her cheeks.  Despite that, Martha had already found her mother teary-eyed which led her mood go off the track as well.  “To what

“It is the same pungent smell that was tormenting me inside the car” She reluctantly walked towards the car since she could not take that smell any longer and chose to not smell the air before she reached the door handle. She stride towards the car and reached for the door handle.  She quickly opened the door and made her way into the car. She was about to close the door when it struck to her to find out the source of this pungent smell.  “What’s causing such a horrible smell? Why not just find it out.  Else the curiosity would kill me way before the smell would” She opened the door fully which was held ajar a while ago by Martha. Martha stepped out of the car and kept the door open rather than closing it so in case if something uneventful happens, she could quickly rush into the car and lock herself in.  She

She, in a fragment of second, again turned behind to secure her from the back as the fear of someone approaching her was still lingering inside her. She awaited the soft voice of her mother to assure her that nothing is going to happen with them and console her.  However, as ruthless Martha’s fate has been in the entire day, it didn’t seem to better itself in any way this time.  In response, a very deep and husky voice spoke on the other side, not actually answering her cry, “Oh so you have brought her along?”  The voice wasn’t pleasing to Martha at all and her first thought that triggered was “How could someone have so deep a voice?” She quickly returned to her old state of mind and realized determining someone’s voice wasn’t the need of the hour.   Sweat just didn’t stop to roll down her fore head a