Written by: Prakarsha Tabdar - 25010, Grade X
Posted on: 17 November, 2022
Once upon a time there was a poor family and they used to live in a small cottage which used to leak during the monsoon. The family consisted of a mother, father and their 10 year old child. Despite being poor they were a happy family. The father used to work extremely hard so they could leave the small cottage behind and live in a house which did not leak in the monsoon. Fortunately, after some time they found a house in the middle of the woods. It was old and abandoned. They moved in as soon as possible, just being away from a leaking house seemed to make them happy. They were happy for a while in the house until one day the father heard a few people talking about how the house was haunted and how people claimed to hear a girl crying for help. Many people also warned them not to stay there and move out as soon as possible. However they preferred living there rather than in a leaky house.
Curious, the mother asked around and found out that the house was owned by a rich family. A happy family which also consisted of 3 family members, a mother, father and their 10 year old child. The father was a successful businessperson and the mother was a very famous and successful model so they never had a problem with money. But they really didn't have time for their daughter and they always used to hire a babysitter and go out. The poor daughter never got any attention from any of her parents. As time went on the father’s business started declining. He was so frustrated by seeing his business going in a loss that he started to drink and eventually became an alcoholic. His wife did not take up many jobs to help her husband and she always tried to stop him from drinking but he didn't listen to his wife and started drinking even more. But it was all in vain. Nothing worked. The father’s frustration became so unbearable that he started to become abusive; he began hitting his wife.
After seeing how abusive her husband had become, the wife decided that he had no future now and divorced him. The divorce made him more furious. The wife was still young and beautiful so she thought that she would marry another man and start fresh, hence she didn't bother taking their daughter with her and left her with his alcoholic father. Now that the wife had gone he started to beat his daughter. The daughter was innocent and didn't know what to do so she started to hide from her father. One day the father was so drunk that he grabbed a knife and stabbed his daughter in a fit of rage just because the daughter said that she missed her mother. The father cooled down but realized what he had done and ran away. The innocent girl’s soul was never at peace for she missed her mother and she was a victim of her father’s undeserved rage and she cried every night……
The story startled the mother but they were determined to live there and hoped to make peace with the girl’s soul.
