Into the Abyss

It's for the first time that I am sharing a story with my audience. I hope this endeavour of mine is liked by all the readers.

INTO THE ABYSS

The sun was bright out there just like celebrating the happiness that was bubbling inside Hazel. The wind blew telling it was finally the time to be free, wander off and be limitless. Today was an awaited day. Once in a month did Hazel get a chance to go away from her detention centre, be with her mother, spend a few moments of joy and laughter and then later return to the same drudgery the other day. She wasn't sent there by her mother; for her she was the most precious gem that her mother could have never afforded in a lifetime. Being there was because of the continuous pressure that the neighbors forced upon her mother. Since she was born, trouble had never left her, her father died that night when she was born for which Hazel’s paternal family blamed her and was called a curse since then. Her mother was abandoned as Hazel was decided to be killed but her mother protested to keep her. They left that country and resided in a small town but since the time they settled there daily an accident would occur, a robbery would be there. Later it was taken into notice that the palace from where Hazel went something bad was sure to happen. She was named as a bad omen. Everyone feared her and unwillingly she was sent to a remote detention centre away from people. Once a month she was given that golden opportunity to spend a whole day with her mother near the countryside. She woke up early that morning and wore her favourite crimson top and blue jeans that went well with her fresh complexion. Her black eyes were dazzling with happiness and had an unusual glow, she combed her chestnut brown hair and tied them in a neat bun. She fastened her dorm door and rushed towards the main gate. The detention centre was a grim place with dried leaves, metal crinking gates and Color drained walls. The outside world had an overwhelming atmosphere perfect for an outing. Her mother was standing her arms open, welcoming her daughter to enjoy the daylight to its fullest. Her mother was dressed in a blue top with black jeans; their features were so similar that anyone could make them out as a family. They went off in her mother's black car whistling through the narrow alleys of the countryside and finding the perfect spot. Finally they reached the place away from all the hustle - bustle of the town with no one around. The grass was soft and moist. The birds were cooing in the distance and everything seemed so still and perfect. Hazel wanted to melt away with it. Her mother spread out the mat and served her caramel syrup pancakes with orange juice. Both of them relished their craving and sat contended while holding hands. They chatted away on different topics from clothes to nature to food and finally the sun started to set. Hazel dreaded that very moment as she knew that the day was going to end, she'd had to go back but she loved the night. It was the best on a clear sky like today filled with twinkling stars in the horizon. A picturesque worth a lifetime. They were making out various constellations when suddenly clouds started to cover the sky and air behind them started to suck everything within its range. Both of them turned around and saw a funnel of air sucking everything around it and suddenly a hole appeared in the ground that seemed to have an alluring glow drawing power towards it. Hazel’s mother was being pulled towards the air funnel while Hazel stood unharmed by all the power and force of the funnel. She tried to pull her mother out from the range but it was too late. Suddenly fear overpowered her, she thought that it was her bad luck due to which she was now going to lose her mother. Unaware about her mom's thought she was pushed into the glowing hole behind her, she gazed at her mother asking several things at the same time, why did she push her ? Did she know this would happen? Was she aware of the curse that clung with Hazel since she was born? Her mother just smiled at her while Hazel still tried to pull her mother out. After all her mother said, ‘dear you were never a bad omen or a curse things are meant to happen for a reason they are not always according to our need or desire sometimes somethings are wrong but consider it as the darkest part just before the dawn and I pushed you in for a reason you'll be safe believe me.’ All Hazel was able to say after that was in a small voice more or less like a murmur that I believe you and I love you still clinging onto the shirt sleeve of her mother. Her mother said I love you too and the piece from her mother's shirt lay in her hand as both of them were being pulled in opposite directions, her mother into the funnel and Hazel into the glowing tunnel. What she knew was that she was falling deep into an endless abyss of darkness. Its glow seemed to be only there on the surface, rest was nothing but dark. The other thing she knew was that our loved one's sacrifice themselves up for us even if that means throwing us into an abyss unknown but their every decision taken for us is right. Hazel closed her eyes, folding that piece of cloth and tightly holding it in her palm the last and the only remembrance of her mother. Now Hazel had only one thought that when she opens her eyes she finds herself in a place worth living for as she already had a reason to live, that her mother pushed her in the abyss only because her mother knew that the place was safe. She was also aware of one thing that whenever she would open her eyes she would never be able to see her mother who had now gone far beyond her reach. - Rumish Ali Saif