The Cursed Human

Pain.

Fear.

Anger.

Betrayal.

Her senses were dominated with all these emotions, all these feelings that she was having were insufferable yet she was trying not to panic.

She woke up with intense headache. Her whole body was aching. Her once perfectly styled hairs were now a wild mess. She couldn’t describe what was hurting her most; her aching body or her betrayed heart.

She slightly opened her eyes and blinked three, four times to adjust herself with the light coming from chandeliers hanging freely on the ceiling.

‘Wait, what? Chandeliers?’

She panicked as her eyes immediately roamed around her surroundings. The unfamiliarity washed over her panicked face as she recalled what had happened.

She sat straight up on bed on which she was previously laying. She looked around and gasped. Her surroundings were completely different from her home.

The room was huge, dark, scary, opposite of her liking. The walls were painted with grey and black colours. There was a large couch sitting proudly at a corner in front of bed. The couch was also black in colour with white and grey cushions. The windows were hidden behind the tall, velvety dark curtains. There were two huge chandeliers which were emitting light all around the room. Chandeliers were made up of crystals with golden embroidery. However, there were light but the room was still looking dark, dim , shady. Her whole body stiffened when she observed her surroundings.

This was not her room, not her house. She was not supposed to be here.

‘Falcon’ she whispered when she remembered him drugging her. Her hands unconsciously moved towards her neck where Falcon had pricked her with needle. She was so angry at him but more than angry, she was dejected. She could never in million years could thought that Falcon would do this to her.

She pulled the silky duvet off her which was covering her and looked down at herself finding herself in the same red dress that she was wearing on other evening, when she was on date with Mathew. She was thankful that atleast she was fully dressed.

She get up from bed instantly but regretted as she halted in her steps when she felt her head throbbing again. She stumbled and fell forward. She hit her knees hard on the floor as soft materials scrapped against her kneecap. She hold her head in her palms and rubbed her temples vigorously. After sometime when she felt little relieved, she get up on her feet and moved forward. She saw two doors standing tall in front of her.

‘It must led outside’ she thought to herself and rotated the door knob, making click sound. The door opened revealing a long hallway decorated with flower pots with antique design. The hallway was bright mint colour. The floor of hallway was covered with long fluffy red mat. She sighed deeply. She had no idea where she was.

She walked and observed that the walls of hallways were covered with paintings, portraits. There were antiques sculptures decorated the surrounding of the hallway.

Everything was beautiful. Everything was screaming luxury, richness and royalty.

She moved forward till she reached the end and took a left turn. An involuntary gasp escaped her when she saw huge semi-spiral staircase with more than fifty steps. It was not staircase that made her gasp;but the railing that was covered with gold and black shimmering stones, shining with the rays of sun coming from large floor to ceiling window which was located at left of the staircase. The steps were pure white as marble.© 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

She looked around, making sure there was no one.

She stepped down the stairs in hurry. She took two stairs at a time and reached the end of the stairs. At this time she was panting heavily because of little workout that she did while running down the stairs. She didn’t stopped. She needed to get out of here as soon as possible. She ran towards right when she saw a huge large door at her side. A new happiness washed over her and she sprinted towards the door.

She was only a hand distance away from the door, when suddenly she stopped dead in her track as low and small whispers fell onto her ears. The voices were not loud but she could still hear them cearly.

“You said she won’t be here till next week, then what is she doing here now!”, a voice said. Whoever was speaking was tense and the tone reflected how much angry he was.

Sarah was startled, it was not the words that made her shocked but the voice. She recognised this voice, it was the same voice she grew up hearing. Her whole demor changed as she expected nothing.

She moved towards the room from where the voices were coming and gasped loudly.

This was not what she had expected too saw after years.

When she saw the person to whom the voice belong, she tried to sink the reality if it was her conscious mind or she still was in deep slumber.

All three heads turned towards her as her audible voice interrupted them. They didn’t knew what to do, it was shocking for them as well to see her there. Her eyes were as wide as saucers. There were unshed tears in them. She knew that if she would blink one more time, she would be a crying mess.

‘No, no this can’t be possible. It’s not true. He was dead!’ she screamed in her mind. She could not believe that person standing in front of her was alive. Same brown hairs, same black eyes, same physique, same person. It was the same person she cried for seven years desperately.

“S-Sarah,” the person said in shock.

“D-dad.” she whispered almost as shocked as him, her voice barely reaching her ears but all three persons standing in front of her heard her loud and clear.

She didn’t knew whether she should be happy that her Father was alive or she should be sad that her father was alive all this time and he didn’t bothered to come to her.

She felt her knees weaken as she fell down on her knees. Her head started throbbing again but this time her heart was in more pain than her head. Her eyes finally gave up and tears started flowing through them.

She looked towards other two persons standing near her father.

She looked at brown haired man with forest green eyes, eyes that once were her safe territory but now nothing but cause of her suffering.

She looked in deep green eyes.

“You k-knew i-it?” she said choking on her tears. She inwardly wanted him to say no and told her that you were dreaming and this was all some kind of nightmare.

But nothing happened. No assurance. No comfort.

Falcon looked at her startled. He knew that this would eventually happen but he didn’t wanted this to happen like this, not this early.

He never wanted to saw tears in her eyes and yet again he was reason behind them.

He couldn’t bear seeing her like this. She was a mess, crying mess. She was sobbing and crying and looking at them with emotions flowing down like waterfall. Her whole body shook with each cry left her mouth.

“Yes..” Falcon wispered loud enough for her to hear. There was guilt, regret and unheard remorse in his voice. He felt so disappointed in himself for doing this to her.

Sarah looked at her father, Brian Lenkova.

“Why?” She wispered hoarsely.

Brian was at loss of words. He knew he wouldn’t be able to explain himself with words. He knew he had messed up and there was no turning back now. He never wanted this to happen. He never wanted Sarah to know that he was alive.

“Why?!” This time she screamed with all her might. She was angry at Brian who once called himself her father, she was angry at Falcon for betraying her, and she angry at third person present in the room, Nancy Collins, who called herself her best friend.

Pathetic!

“Why did you do this to me? You left me when I was a child, you were dead to me, I cried myself to sleep countless nights, I spend my life as an orphan. B-but, you didn’t even bothered to look back!” She yelled at him. Her anger seemed to triple when she looked at Falcon.

“And you,” she stood up from her position and walked towards Falcon. He looked shocked at her as his face did a one eighty turn when her hands connected with his cheek.

“You are no one to me! You are such a disgrace to word ‘friend’! You betrayed me in worst possible ways! I never thought that the person who was best friend would stoop that low!” she screamed, hitting him on his broad muscular chest.

Falcon didn’t made any move to stop her from hitting him, he deserved that. However, her little hands weren’t doing any harm to him.

“Sarah, please listen, it’s not what you think-” Nancy tried to calm her down.

As Nancy grabbed her by her arms, Sarah turned around and slapped her hard.

“Don’t you dare touch me!” she gritted.

Nancy was shocked. Once sweet, innocent girl was now raising her hands on people. Well this was what they deserved for betraying her.

“I dont even want to breathe in same air as you disgusting people.” she whispered and without thinking turned on her heels and ran towards the door leading outside. Her feet carried her out of the room as she wiped her flowing tears with the back of her hands.

As she opened the door, she was yanked away by hands on her waist.

“Let me go, you bastard!” she yelled. But her cries were unheard. She was screaming, yelling ungrateful words.

Falcon dragged her away from the door. She struggled in his grip as he tried to move but hands on her waist were making it diificult for her. He picked her up by her waist as her feets swept away from the floor. Falcon was stronger and she was too exhausted and weak to fight him. Falcon tightened his hold around her waist.

“Let me go, please.” she pleaded when she thought nothing was going to work.

“No, you are not going anywhere. This is your life, accept it or wipe over the fact that your so called normal life is gone.” he said. There was no emotion in his voice yet his heart was betraying him. It was like he didn’t remembered that she once was her friend.

Sarah again thrashed in his hold. He passed through the same hallway by which she came down. He opened the doors to large room. He further went into the room and threw her rashly on bed. She bounced on bed as she immediately crawled back. As she looked up, she saw Falcon exiting the room

She ran towards him but it was too late, he had already exited the room. And to her dismay the door was locked from outside. She banged on door hard. After banging till she tired herself, she gave up. She slided down the door and brought her knees close to her chest and cried. Her tears flowed down like streams of her broken, bleeding heart. She cried until darkness consumed her.

On other side, Falcon placed his head on her door and sighed deeply before mumbling.

“Why don’t you understand? I’m trying to keep you safe.” His words left strangling in air as he blikded away tears and inhaled.