fireflies-1

There was a small room with a bit of light that also came from the hallway. Inside, there was a young lady around the age of 10 with a small violin in her hands, crying as she looked down at the ground. Injuries were all over her, cuts, bruises, everything. As she whimpers, she gently opens the door. Then she sees a lady, hanging from the ceiling. Then suddenly a girl wakes up in the middle of the night,  it just happened to be a dream, nothing else. “The same dream?” a lady asked her with a gentle voice. The young lady nods her head, saying yes. The lady passes her cold cup of water and tells her, “Carmia, you need to get to heal from your past. It's just because you are stuck in the past, that's the reason for all this nightmare that have been having for the past couple of years.”:

Carmia just took a deep breath and said,  “I try, but it doesn't work. Her face still haunts me, I think I am just cursed as I was the reaso-”. Before she could complete her words, the lady interferes in the middle and tells her, “You should remember that you were just 10 that time, you have nothing with her death.”

Carmia just falls silent and tells the lady, “Good night, aunt.” as she fake sleep, eventually actually sleeping with tears in her eyes.

The lady who was her aunt seemed to really care about her. She kisses her forehead as she whispers “goodnight”.

The next while Carmia was walking to school, she sees a beautiful firefly following.

Carmia notices the insect following her and starts talking to it as if it would listen. Soon the firefly goes inside the forest which hold millions of memories of Carmia. She looked at the forest. And smiled a depressing smile to herself and said, "why do you always go there?"

Then a person taps her shoulder. She looked behind and saw a young boy around her age. The young boy asks her, why does she always come from this way?

"I always find you coming from this way. Don't you know about the forest?"

"I do know about the forest, but I don't believe in it." she said to him. The boy looked amazed at her words, as she looked like she actually didn't care.

The forest had a deep dark past, plus it was said that a spirit which is called jinn in Islam lives there (Jinn – also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genie – are invisible creatures in early pre-Islamic Arabian religious systems and later in Islamic mythology and theology) lives at the forest as the people who lived near the forest were Islam

The boy asked her what her name was, and she answered that it was Carmia.

The boy also introduced himself, "And I am Outis... Wait, are you the Carmia who was famous for violin?"

Carmia looked down as if his words hurt her somehow and whispered yes.

The boy got excited and told her that he was a huge fan of her, and he told her that he never missed any one concert of her, then he suddenly fell silent. "Why did you stop playing?" he asked with a serious face, but she didn't answer him and ignored his words as she ended the conversation.

As they waved goodbye to each other, she again looked at the forest. Shivers went down her spine when she saw her mom staring at her from far away.

She quickly ran away from there. She took a deep breath and looked behind as she heard a beautiful melody. It was very similar to the one her mom used to play for her. She closed her eyes and took another deep breath.

After some times, she finally reached her school. But she was again late for her school due to which she got detention.

 At the end of school everyone went home, but she had to stay, as she had detention. But she was not the only one staying, as another boy also had detention. The boy just happened to the guy that Carmia met in the morning, Outis.

They both didn't say a word, then suddenly he asked again, "Why did you leave violin?" Carmia asked him why he asked the same question again, but he replied, "I am asking you because you didn't answer to my question."

She didn't say a word. "You know what, it's okay, don't say it right now, I mean we are not even close friends for you to tell me that. First let's be friends then who knows you would be the one saying it without me asking you.:"

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