"Call him for the dinner." He ordered one of the servants. The servant nodded and went to his room. After coming from his room, the servant infrormed them "He said that doesn't he want to eat."
Zia stood up from her place but Ved stopped her "let him be-"
After they all finished their dinner, Ved ordered the servant to send his food to his room. Zia went to his room to talk with him and Ved had already left from there.
Mayra saw the servant who was holding a plate and going upstairs. She quickly approached and stopped him and took the plate from his hand.
"I'll give him." Saying this, she went upstairs. If he would show some remorse for his doing, her uncle Ved will forgive him and will not send him away for punishment. He just needed to show some remorse towards her, even if it meant faking it for some time. Mayra didn't know why she was turning so restless hearing that his uncle is giving him this much big punishment. Maybe after he saved her life today, she didn't want him to be punished so badly.
Running her head a little more than necessary, she decided to do something like that. She thought about going to his room and telling him to fake some remorseful ecpressions in morning, in front of her uncle Ved so that he would end his punishment.
Mayra stopped at her place seeing her aunty Zia coming out of Rian's room. She saw her, rubbing her eyes which meant she was crying. Something happened in that room between her and her son which made her cry again. It made her feel bad and regretful.
Zia went downstairs without noticing Mayra. As she left, looking here and there, Mayra started taking tiny, attentive steps towards his room. She stopped at his doorstep and saw that his room's light was dim, almost dark. It made her feel like dropping the idea of getting inside but then she remembered about his punishment and also that he has not eaten his food.
Shaking away her fear, she stepped inside his room wirhout knocking because she knew knocking could grab his uncle and aunty's attention which she didn't want. She had just made a plan that she will converse with him secretly and tell him to show some remorse and so that everything would turn right again. That much her little head was capable of thinking.
After swallowing, Mayra stepped inside that room, penetrating the deadly silence of that gloomy room with her bracelet's jiggling.
It was first time she had entered his room and she didn't know why, it was feeling colder than rest of the other places in the house. She felt a shiver down her spine. Almost everything was dark and only a dim light was on, making possible for her to look at her surroundings.
She roamed her eyes everywhere but couldn't find him. Mayra stopped at the centre of the room. She didn't know why her heart was shuddering so bad inside her chest.
She was feeling like she had entered inside a cave of a scary ghost, who was going to possess her soon.
She gulped and when she couldn't find him, she decided to leave. She was about to when she saw a light flickering open. It was another night lamp that didn't brighten the room that much.
Mayra hurriedly spun around and her throbbing heart halted for a while by seeing that person standing in front of her. The expression on his face was unreadable. Now she was really regretting her decision to come her but the damage has already been done.
Mayra felt that her throat had extremely dried of fear, like she hadn't drunk anything since ages. The way he was staring at her, it seemed like she was his little prey who had dared to enter into the den of her predator.
She gulped in order to hold back that urge of running away from there and never to come in front of him again.
Mustering some courage she finally spoke up in stuttering voice "I-I came here to deliver your f-food in your room."
She expected a response from him but none came. He was still staring at her with those predatory eyes without uttering a single word. Mayra gulped down before reached towards him.
"Eat something, you know your parents are so worried." She told him, putting his food plate on the wooden table next to his bed. Her hands were trembling but she managed somehow.
He didn't give any reponse to her actions and continued glaring at her, which made her really terrified. So she decided to quickly tell him the reason for which she came to his room and head off from there.
"Yo-Your dad wants you to show some remorse in the morning and if you did it then he won't send you to prison, so show some fake remoseful expression infront of uncle Ved. He will stop your punishment."
Mayra waited for his reply. She looked here and there nervously. She was hoping that he would atleast try to understand and would do as she was telling him to do because it was for his own good and she wanted good for him.
Mayra snapped her eyes at his face and her heart dropped in her stomach by watching that nefarious deadliness in his eyes. He was looking murderous which terrified her very being.
Mayra took her steps back as soon as she felt him coming closer to her. Turning on her heells, she attempted to run away from there. It was her worst decision to come here and talk to him. He hated her and he could never understand her.
Mayra was about to walk past him when she felt him grabbing her arm forcefully and pulling her back. Her legs wobbled, the sound of her bracelet's jiggling turned agressive, as he pulled her infront of him.
Her eyes widened in horror, watching his clenched jaw and blazing eyes. Mayra tried to push him away, resulting in her bracelet to wriggle more.
Gritting his teeth violently, Rian grabbed her both arms harshly. The little girl gasped. His hold around her arms was painful. Her eyes filled with tears. Why was he behaving like that with her? And what exactly was he going to do to her?
"Now you want me to show some remorse for hurting you in front of my dad?" He spat at her, gripping her arms more violently. A tear slipped down from her eyes because it was hurting her terribly.
"You want my punishment to get stopped? Really? But why? Shouldn't i deserve it after hurting our dear innocent and selfless Mayra?" He seethed out.
His eyes were turning darker and darker with each passing second. Mayra felt like her heartbeat was about to stop any second, she had turned that much afraid of him.
Tears were flowing from her eyes but that person infront of her had turned too cruel to see them and to understand her pain. All he could understand at that moment was...She was solely responsible for whatever pain he had suffered till today and was going to suffer in future. She wanted to snatch his everything away from him and she finally got successful in it. She snatched his family, his parents, his life in a brutal way. She ruined his very existence.
Rian yanked her a bit almost tearing her skin with the sharpness of his nails and violent hold of his fingers and palm. He peered into her watery eyes, like burning her soul with his anger and wrath.
"You wanted this from the very beginning. You wanted to tear me apart from my family and my happiness and you finally did it so congratulations for it.... If he's sending you away from here, it is only because he wants your fucking safety from me. You're going from here, only after snatching everything from me." He barked at her. She couldn't anything but just cry.
Poor thing only came to save him from his punishment and give him food.
She couldn't even think of snatching his parents away from him because she knew the pain of not having her parents with her.
"Is this your new way of portraying me as a bad and your own self as an epitome of goodness infront of my parents? That now you're trying to stop my dad from sending me to prison? Are you really that desperate to destroy and wreck my life?" He growled. Mayra flinched and broke down into tears.
"I never thought about it Rian...Trust me!" She pleaded with her watery eyes. How badly she wanted to tell him that she always wanted good for him. But she could not grab words to express her emotions. She could not think abourt ruining him after he saved her from getting tainted.
Mayra just cried silently while shaking her head in denial. She tried to push him away but he didn't let her go. He forced her to look at him in his eyes. Her soul shivered when she noticed that not only just wrath, the corner of his eyes had also slightly moistened. It was making her aware of not only his rage but his pain too.
"You've fulfilled my wish of wanting you out of this house, but now, this is not gonna satisfy me. You're leaving but..." he uttered in his extremely low voice and finally pushed his face closer to her. Their gazes got fastened with each other. Nothing was similar at that moment except the pain which they both were feeling.
"But someday you will come back right? And the day you will come back..." he paused, Mayra just gazed at him numbed.
"That day i will make you regret that very second when you dared to think of coming in my life and ruining it." His flaming gaze held that voracious promise which shuddered her soul.
"I will break you and torment this fucking fake innocence of yours..." he paused and clenched his jaw.
"...which you used to ruin and taint my life, Mayra Singhal. I'm fucking giving you my words."
And that was exactly where two broken souls were sealed to turn into one ruined destiny.
Losing himself in his anger, he grabbed her wrist and forcefully dragged him with her and then shoved her out of his room, harshly.
Mayra tripped on her feet and fell on the floor with a thud. Her knees and elbows got grazed against the hard floor, making more tears to fill into her eyes.
Sending her one last hateful glare, he shut the door on her face.
Mayra lowered her head and squeezed her eyes to hold back her tears. Slowly getting up on her aching legs, she stood up and glanced at the closed door of his room before walking away from there while rubbing her eyes.
She entered her room while crying, closed the door and dashed towards the bed. The little girl threw herself on the bed and buried her face into the pillows. That night she cried her heart out because she just could not stop her mind from repeating those words. Why did he hate her so much? Why could not he see that she only wants good for him and not to ruin his life?
These questions continued to repeat in her mind that entire night until she closed her eyes when her eyes started hurting with those countless harsh tears she shedded and even her body started hurting which made her sleep to finally take over her.
Next morning, Mayra woke up to the loud noices of cars' honking. She woke up and sat on her bed. She rubbed her eyes and felt her eyelids were feeling too heavy to even move and then she remembered the reason behind it.
Her heart again ached remembering what happened in his room. She looked at the clock on the wall and it was already 10 in the morning. It was already so late in the morning and her uncle Ved might have...that thought shivered her heart.
Mayra hurriedly got down from the bed and ran towards the door with her bare feet. She didn't even waste time in wearing her sleepers. She opened the door and ran out of the room.
In the middle of her way, her eyes fell on his room, whose door was wide open. Immediately the images of last night started flashing on her head, but shoving them away she still dared to peek her head with the only hope of finding him there. That it had still not turned too late, but to her horror he was not there which meant her uncle Ved have already sent him to prison.
No, this could not happen! Mayra dashed towards the hall with her glossy eyes. She entered the hall and her feets halted by finding that person standing there and she got totally horrified seeing the cops standing on the main door. She heard the words coming out of his mouth.
"I have no regret after what i did with her because she deserved it and i will do it again with no remorse." Rian's voice echoed against the walls of that hall.
Ved, who was standing infront of his son and beside Zia, clenched his fists. He was angry, hurt and most importantly disappointed, he expected his son to atleast show some remorse but there he was, almost unbothered by the fact that because of him that 14 year old girl was almost about to get raped.
Zia's eyes turned more glossy than they already were because she could not believed that she has raised a child like him. She had given birth to him but she failed to make him a human.
Everyone from there family had tried to undertand Ved that the decision he had took is not right but he didn't agree, because according to him, his son needed a very strict punishment. He needed to be punished.
Ved would have changed his decision but his son's words and behaviour didn't let him do and nobody dared to question Ved's decision because they knew Rian was utterly wrong in all this.
"Remember i told you...do not let your mistakes turn into a sin Rian because there is no forgiveness for a sin." Ved uttered looking at his son.
"And now you don't deserve forgiveness because now your mistakes have turned into a sin, so rot behind bars until and unless you would have regretted your sins."
Rian keenly heared his father's each and every word which he knew exactly what they meant. Closing his palms, he went towards the door where the officers were standing.
Zia broke down into tears and tried to follow him but Ved stopped her.
Every single person inside that hall, watched him getting handcuffed by the cops, which turned almost everyone's eyes watery, but no one tried to stop them except that 14 year old girl.
Mayra ran towards the door which turned everyone stunned. She was about to step outside the door but she saw them already taking him inside the cruiser. Rian trailed his eyes at her ansd saw her standing at the door. Her teary eyes, which were vigorously falling tears were begging to make everyone stop, but at the moment his hatred towarsds her didn't let him understand it.
Rian gazed at her golden brown eyes which were continuously shedding tears, but that 14 year old Mayra felt like she had gotten the biggest pain of her life when she watched a tear pricking down his eyes as he gazed at her.
After that the door got shut by the constable. The car started driving away from there which made Mayra lift her hand and open his mouth to scream his name.
"RIAN....." She screamed her lungs out. She again screamed bit till now the car disappeared which caused her heartbeat to skip a beat. But suddenly, she feltt and extreme amount of pain, she grabbed her neck and coughed badly.
Ved and Zia who were standing behind her watched their son going to prison, turned shocked witnessing Mayra gasping and coughing badly.
"Mayra..." Ved uttered shocked. Mayra's feet trembled. Her head spin abruptly, she was about to fall but Zia held her tightly. Everyone rushed towards her.
"Mayra, what happened? Mayra..." Zia uttered terrified by watching her condition. Ved carried her and took her to her room. Her heart was still screaming with the pain that she couldn't save him. All the night, she curesed herself for everything. She was feeling extreme amount of guilt for Rian.
Some minutes passed, Ved and Zia were sitting with her on the bed. They were going to call a doctor but Mayra convinced them that there was no need of that and convinced them to leave from there so that she can take some rest.
But as they left, Mayra felt a sharp pain in her chest and she felt like out of breathes. She begin coughing badly and quickly went to the bathroom. But this time it was not a normal cough, she was coughing blood. She panicked witnessing the blood trickling down from her mouth, in the mirror. She gulped in horror watching the droplets of her blood in the sink.
***
That day she had decided; She will leave from there forever and will never come back in this house ever again.
He lost so much because of her...and that was where their fate had decided to turn the pages of their lives and a new phase was about to be started of Mayra and her Sinner.
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