Fictional Friday -5

Shama was on her balcony sitting like any other day, enjoying the pleasant weather. She heard her mother shouting at her brother over something she didn’t quite know. Her brother was on his phone watching a video.

The family belonged to a small village. They had traveled a long way to get out of there.
Her mother kept on shouting and while scolding she came to the lobby where Shama’s brother was, and then she aggressively pulled his hair saying something in an angry tone. He stood up. Shama was near the gate that was placed in between the lobby and the balcony. Her brother stood up and locked the door leaving Shama out. She couldn’t understand what is happening as everything was happening so fast. He went near his mother, she was standing in the lobby, Shama was watching everything from the balcony. He went close to his mother, hold her hands, and went to her ears, and said few words. And with that everything went silent for a moment till Shama screamed with all her strength. She knew what has happened.

In their village, a man was famous for his work and expertise in performing miracles and black magic. She knew her brother had bonded with him. He was in contact with that man even after coming here.

She screamed knowing her brother had done something terrible this time. She watched her mother going from shouting and scolding to being silent as if her soul has just left her body. Her brother made her mother sat down on the chair. Shama watched her mother who looked like a lifeless body with no expression on her face, and eyes showing no emotion. Shama’s eyes traveled to her brother’s face, he had tears in his eyes and a smirk on his face, like possessed by the devil himself. He knew what he did and for a moment regret flashed in his eyes and then it was gone. Shama started crying hysterically and begging her brother to do something, to reverse whatever he had done. But all he could say was he never learned to do that.

After that day, Shama never heard her mother’s voice, never saw her smile, all she saw was a face looking like her mother with no emotions in her eyes, no words in mouth, no soul in the body, just a lifeless body. Years went by, Shama was waiting for the magic to wear off. She went to a lot of people in search of ways to bring her mother back. She sat beside her mother on the same balcony, where once she was, tears rolled down her eyes.

And then she jerked up and noticed she had tears in her eyes. She remembered everything and she looked to her right, her brother was sleeping. She ran to her mother’s room and saw her mother was asleep peacefully. She went to her and kissed her forehead and then returned to her bed thanking it was just a nightmare.