EIGHT RED ROADS

 

                  EIGHT RED ROADS

                                                                                                                        BY SWETHA S. S

At night 12pm, Riya walking on the road with restless mind and totally confused on her birthday. She is going to turn 18 on the 18^th day of the 8^th month in year 2018.

In middle of the road, a girl with red dress being unconscious who is lying on the road. Nobody helps her because she was severely injured.

     Sun sparkles on her fishy, mesmerizing, red rimmed eyes. Quickly wakes up and looks around. She is totally confused and doesn’t know who she is and why she is lying on the road. She keeps on thinking and reviving her past but she ends up in vein. She is so nervous and blank about her.

She stood and wipes all the dirt in the hands and legs. She saw a small bag near her and opened.

There was diary with full of blank pages except one line. There was a line, which is filled with the answers in her minds, she was so satisfied by reading it. In that her name was written as Lisa. She founds that her name is Lisa and checks the entire bag but there weren’t any clue about her in that bag.

She makes her restless mind calm. She makes herself relaxed and tries to look around, what is happening around her.

She saw there was a narrow road with less traffic, women fighting for the water, kids playing, small and big houses, trees.

A HOUSE. She stunned by seeing a house (bungalow) with orange and yellow shades, in which a family photo is framed and hanged outside, by seeing that she revived her past.

[Deep thinking]

Where a cute family holding a girl baby’s hand with a warm touch and father of that baby gives a beautiful warm hug and kiss to the baby, which was captured by her mom and elder brother with a smiling heart. All these pictures were captured by brother was framed as photos in her house. She grows and has endless love towards her family. Her brother captures all her beautiful moments with just eight candid photos which says the ages of the baby.

[She came out of her past thinking]

Lisa standing in middle of the road, was so overwhelmed by knowing about her past.

In the road, a guy with yellow color dress with red strips driving the bike fastly. He was coming straight opposite to Lisa and hits her very harshly. She got wounded but she did not mind that and goes near to the house.

She saw the photos and cried deeply and goes to the house.

Shouts, “MOM DAD, COME ON, SEE WHO CAME HERE”

But there wasn’t any reply and she finds that door was locked. She goes to the near house to know about her parents.

She presses the bell of the next house with more curiousness, where a gigantic women with red bindi on her face who is so angry comes and talks with her.

Lisa is completely SHOCKED…. By hearing the words of that lady.

[What they spoke?]

That women told that the family members died at 18^th day, on previous month and she told they had only one son and they don’t have any daughter.

Lisa did not believe the words of the lady, went to the house and broke the lock with big rock and it was opened.

Lisa, with confusion, opened the door of the house. It was very dark. She saw all the eight beautiful photos in the hall. All the eight photos were properly arranged according to the ages, in which her face was scratched and removed. She goes to the next room where all her toys were broken. She decided to go outside of the house because she was so disturbed.

Walking on the road with full of tiredness both physically and mentally.

A 21 year young man shouts “LISA”, and goes to talk with her.

He was looking so handsome with perfectly worn dress which was neat and crisp and moreover he is from a rich family.

John: I am sorry for what happened yesterday. Please forgive me lisa.

Lisa: I don’t know who you are?

John: don’t play with me, our family members are searching you. Come on let us go.

Lisa: Please leave me.

John catches the hand of Lisa and grabs her into the car. Lisa doesn’t know who he is and without intention and with afraid gets into the car.

John takes her to the house which was so big and it has so many red shades. All the members in the house was very happy to her because she went missing on the previous day.

Lisa shouts “I don’t know who you are all and I want to leave this place please allow me”

All the members in the house were shocked by her questions but they did not take it in a serious way because they thought that Lisa is playing.

John: Lisa don’t be angry. Be calm. All are our family members and don’t get afraid.

All were so shocked and felt pity for Lisa and called the doctor and police.

Then the doctor and police were arrived and questions Lisa. She was so disturbed by the questions. She tells them that her parents were dead one month ago. All the members were shocked by her answers.

Police says that she met with an accident as they found out from the camera footages, by that doctor conforms that she forgets the past in that accident.

So the members in the family was so shocked by hearing this and john decided to show the family photos.

He took her to his room in which all photos were beautifully arranged and Lisa keenly looks all the photos.

Lisa completely shocked as she was seeing herself in the photos.

John left her alone in the room to get recover.Lisa was crying very deeply and her cheeks and eyes become so red.

After few minutes, john opened the door with some foods and juices.

Lisa did not eat anything from the morning likes to eat but with hesitation she says no to john.

John understands Lisa and feeds her with lots of love.

Lisa ask john about her past and john tells the story.

John’s  father is business man and john has only one sister who is Lisa’s mother and john’s father have one son and two daughters, Lisa parents have one and only daughter. John and Lisa parents want john and lisa to get married.

John tells that today is lisa’s birthday and he irritates her on the previous day in which she got angry and left the house.

Lisa is confused but john takes care of her and clears all the wounds in her body. Lisa is so comfortable with john’s good quality and she wants his help to find out the real truth about her.

Lisa after eating , She says everything to him which was happened to her since today morning. John was so confused by hearing lisa words.

Lisa took him to the house which she saw morning. He keenly looked the house and investigated about that house to everybody. Nobody knows about them very clearly.

But one old grandfather says that they were from laalpuri village.

John and lisa goes to laalpuri to discover about them. They took the photos of the family with them and showed to an old lady and she tells about the family to both lisa and john.

[back story of the family]

 The family happily living the girl daughter riya, when she turns eight they went to a festival in another village, in which she goes missing and their parents and brother searches her everywhere but it was vein. They were living with her memories and can’t forget her. So they decided to change the lifestyles and left from the village.

[back story ends]

 After saying this the old lady left from that place.

Lisa understood everything that why there were eight photos and moreover it was scratched. So, john thinks in mind that if we find the riya every problems will be cleared.

It turns night, john and lisa decided to stay in the village until night. A girl came near and spoke with Lisa.

Lisa: who are you?

She says her name is Riya and she started to say the anamnesis.

[Back story]

Lisa and Riya walking opposite of each other. They hits. Riya with anxiousness ask sorry to Lisa.

Lisa: what happen to you

Riya: I am a vagabond and lost my parents in my 8^th age and I am searching them

[Riya told all her past from childhood to now and showed the photos of her parents.]

Both left from the place.

[Back story ends]

Everybody goes to John house and explains about the situation to the family.

Doctor: Lisa heard the story of Riya before accident, so that is only there in her mind.

John father to Riya

Father: what is in your hand

Riya: They are my parents and who died.

Father: They did not die I saw them in the Sadakpur.

[It is a village which Riya got missed]

Riya on her end of the 18^th birthday on the run to meet her parents.