Nightmare

She walked out of her bed, puffy by her sleep. Crossing the hallway she meant to drink water from the kitchen. But to her astonishment. Her mother was already there who seems to peeling off the potatoes. And then it struck her that it was a day. Deep afternoon to her wonderment. Hey mom it’s a day. Why didn’t you wake me up? She pulled out the bottle from the fridge and took a few gulps and replaced the bottle back inside the fridge. Hmm she exhaled. So what’s cooking today? She said noticing the vessel upon the gas fuming. She slid the topping from the vessel to snatch a glimpse. Something fleshy seemed to be boiling. She let the steam cleared a little and took a peek back. There were human hands were scalding to the deep red water peeled off by the skin. She couldn’t voice her horror and jerked back. Now she recognized the ring on those hands. That belonged to her father. Mom! she screamed what is that? What have you done to father. Mom didn’t moved a bit during her horror but on asking she turned tossing her hairs back revealing her face. Eyes red, face pale and seems to lack emotion. But she was abrupt and spoke inhumanly almost as if about six women were speaking at a time. You bitch how dare you to look more beautiful than me, your mother was a whore who slept with my husband and left you on our responsibility. I had to agree to take you in because I was barren and kailash wanted a child. But now I ‘ve had enough of your father and you. Come here you slut. She dragged divyani by hairs and dug the same peeler which she had been using on potatoes. And with a quick pull divyani’s skin rolled like wet paper oozing blood splattering down the floor. And she slashed the peeler across her face which bleed. But mom divyani urged I’ve always thought of you as a mother. Oh you cunning slut she said. It rather was convenient for you wasn’t it? You had no option but to live on our money. She gave another pull by the peeler and skin came out from cheek slacking off the chunk of her beautiful face. “arrrghh” she was grunting to her unimaginable pain. Pain that seared in her like a lava. She could have fainted on seeing her own blood bath but her mother wasn’t done with her yet.
She dragged divyani by her hair across the pale white tiled floor leaving the blood trail behind. Divyani couldn’t do anything as she still couldn’t sink the horror of her own mother. Even though she wasn’t her real mother but she never made divyani felt over the years. And now she couldn’t find strength to oppose her mother. As she had been dragged out of the kitchen to the backyard down the muddy floor now, all she could feel herself to be torn between the perplexed mixture of physical and mental pain and a sense of submission to that savagery.
The multi vocal, gargled like voice spoke again “I would never let you come between us. I will never let you outsmart me as your mother did”. If you think kailash loves you better than me as he did your mother, than you’ve mistaken girl. I will never let you do this. No, not this time…No…No…No, no no…She kept incanting shaking her head sideways. Until she threw divyani in the hole dug in a backyard itself like grave. Divyani was screaming and urging at the same time. But all her pleas were futile and were answered by even the worst of the scenario. She found herself showered upon by snakes, earthworms, scorpions and even leech which were sucking blood out of her thigh, earthworm sliding down her nose and snakes slithering on her body circling her neck and now hissing to her ears. She wanted to unleash herself out of those insects and run out of that hole but somehow she felt the gravity down her stronger to which she couldn’t move and was now sensing to be sucked by the earth. And her mother was shoveling the soil on her burial. As the last remaining of her eye opened to the world lasted. All she saw was the wicked face of her mother and heard the maddening laugh that echoed in her soul.
The breath implode and her eyes awakened to the reality. Exasperated and still heavy in her head. Eyes adjusted to the blurry figure that gather to make her mother. She was worried and seemed to be crying a little on her daughter’s state. What happened beta? Are you okay? Tell me sweet heart was that a bad dream? Her mother enquired.
Divyani still sickened by the horror hunched back from her mother and as she threw her eyes around the room. She spotted her father to which she jumped off the bed and in a moment embraced him. Sobbing and shuddering. Her voice trembling and a few words swallowed as she hiccupped “thank ..od..you okay…Please don’t ever ….eeve me”. What are you saying darling? I am always here beta! Don’t you know? You are the pearl of my eyes. He said.
She calmed a little and smiling to the wickedness of her dream and her immaturity. She looked up to her father. Who had no eyes but the hollow bloody casing that once stored his brown eyes.