The Unwanted Princess

part-9

Waqt ne kitna chaha pr choo na paya voh un toote huye wado se ghire jakhmi dil ko.

(Translation : no matter how hard time tried it just couldn't touch the wounded heart surrounded by broken promises)

All the members of Oberoi Mansion looked on worriedly as Anika sat silently on the pulsh sofa,with her gaze fixed on the main door. No matter how hard any of them tried she won't just speak and the worried members now turned their gaze towards Shivanya trying to know what caused their beloved Anika's this condition.

"Shivanya di" Shivika spoke timidly noticing their gazes on her

"What,where is she?? Why didn't you bring her with you.How is she?? How is my bacchi" were the various questions that greeted her, making it more hard for her to utter the next series of words

"I don't know....She fainted and he took her away" she replied to them sadly remembering the scene that took place before her

"Who took her away???" All of them yelled simultaneously at her, scaring her.

"I don't know, he seemed to be her friend" she informed them sorrily,she was as clueless as them on the guys identity.

She watched as slowly despair surrounded each and every member of OM as all of them seemed lost in their memories of the girl, they have knowingly lost.

Shivika was thinking about her past with the timid elder sister she had always known versus the strong sister she had known just before losing her forever to some unknown strangers. She thought bitterly thinking about the guy who disappeared with her sister. She remembered every wrong she had done with her sister and every right her  sister had done for her.

A 3 year old Shivika was captivated by her mother's favourite vase and the flowers in it. She didn't knew why it was her mother's favourite but she just knew that she liked those pretty things very much. So with mischeif and curiosity shinning in her eyes she tried to climbed the table on which the vase was placed.

She couldn't climb the table and by the continues shaking the vase had come tumbling down and crashed into the hard marble floor breaking in million pieces with a loud sound.

Shivanya was the first one to come to the room drawn by the loud sound of crash. She looked shocked as she stared at the fallen object and her crying sister. Anika was the next to come in the room and engulf Shivika in a tight hug trying to pacify the crying child before her eyes fell on the broken vase and rage engulf her whole being as she all but shouted at them asking her "Who broke the vase"

Terrified the little girl blamed her elder sister and even when the elder girl tried to deny the false accusations placed on her. The enraged mother didn't hear anything and for the first time in her life a six year old Shivanya was punished without any fault.

And slowly the other children realized as long as Shivanya was on the site of crime and blamed by them. Their parents didn't need any other proof to punish her. They didn't ever heard her side of story so she stopped trying to justify her. They watched as she was never called to eat with the family instead her food was delivered in her room where she ate alone.

Her interaction with the family were minimum and no one from the family ever went to meet her teachers on Parent teacher meetings. The family never showed any interest on her and so the children also started ignoring her and didn't felt it was important to tell their parents about how badly she was being bullied in the school.

So, they also turned a blind eye on her misery. Shivika thought with a wave of shame engulfing her as she remembered the day when she had slapped her elder sister in front of her crush and still she did everything she did for her.