The Sister

Yuganty was always a loner right from her childhood. She hated being with friends her age, or playing with the kids in the suburban. They were a family of four, which included her mom, the two Bouriha sisters and their granny. By the looks of their mother and grandmother it was easily observed that when Mrs Bouriha first conceived their first child must have been a teenager mostly because they looked really young. It was of common knowledge that their father had died in a plane crash during their Yuganty’s birth. They remained in the outskirts of the town and lived off of money they didn’t know came from where and everything was good in the seemingly perfect house of the woman. Nothing interested Yuganty while she was young and nothing would have interested her in the future had it been for her sister Simaya who was ten years older than her and was a very, very intelligent girl.

One fine Sunday morning Simaya brought all her experimental equipment down to the floor and started working with a great vigour. The little bundle of happiness that Yuganty was, rolled to her side on the floor and started eyeing her sister about what she could have been doing. She asked aher in a childish tone though being 15 years of age by then, “ Simmmy, what are you doing with so much concentration? Are these some kind of chocolates that you are making for me to be taller?”

Simaya replied in a loving tone, “Dear Yu, these are not some random chocolates these are something that my entire life depends on. My entire career depends on how these turn out.”

“ Why do you need a career or a job? Can’t Harviz provide for both of you? Then you could be as free as a bird, fly in the open sky, spend his money and be the queen of his house.” Yu questioned Simaya with her dreams and added-

“Someday I will find my prince and not work so hard like you, breaking all your bones for your happiness. I will be the absolute princess of my prince and go shopping to buy me cute dresses, spa and everything.”

Simaya laughed her heart out at what she was listening from her sister. Little did Yu know what the real world was like outside this house, she thought to herself.

The bell rang thrice while she was still in her train of thoughts and someone stood in front of her, his hands waving infront of her face trying to wake her up from her daze. Harviz. When did he come?

Yu smiled ear to ear teasing her as much as she could meanwhile Simaya’s frozen self turned to a grimace upon seeing him and soon she pushed away the pills she was preparing underneath her mat upon which she was sitting and rose up to her boyfriend. She leaned in and gave him a kiss, which he had previously demanded her as his right and also to maintain the decorum of their relationship infront of others.

Everything looked alright to Yu but everything was far from alright to Simaya. Any moment from now her life might take a different route. This might be the end for her and her family.

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