The Cursed Girl

Gwen There was never a time in my life where I have found myself happy but always under the influence of loneliness and pain, but there was a moment where I felt happy and thought that all of my pain was coming to an end, but today I am feeling much more devastated than I could compare with my entire life. My heart is full of sadness and around me all the people are wearing black, including myself. As much as this color is fancy, it also indicates that someone near to us has died and they will never come back. I looked in my front and saw my best friend and also my fiancé's body, which was lying lifelessly. His lips were a very pale shade of pink and his body was very cold. I had never thought that I would lose a good friend like him so easily. Am I really cursed that this had brought a death curse on Leandro's life? He was the only one who was with me, even after getting warned many times. Now who will motivate me? Who will be beside me when I am low? Who will tell me that I am the most beautiful girl? Who will tell me that all the people around me are just joking? Who will make me laugh when I am sad? Who will wipe off my tears? All these questions were only popping with the memories which I had with Leandro. It is very hard for me to say goodbye to him. I can't even explain how hard this is. I was moving forward to seeing Leandro for the last time, but before that, I tripped a bit and before I could fall I balanced myself and saw that I was getting tripped intentionally. I turned around and found Leandro's sister was the one who had made the trip and she was having an angry look on her face. She came towards me and stood in front of me. "You know what, Gwen? My brother didn't die naturally." That took me in horror. Was he killed? But who might have killed him? He was such a free-spirited man, who might have held grudges against him that they went to such an extent to kill him? "You mean someone had killed him?" She nodded and I am sure that my face must have left all the color. "Yeah!!" Her voice was so strange and kind of mocking as well, which was confusing to me. "Who must have killed him?" "You." That shocked me to the core. I pointed my index finger at myself. "Me?" I asked her and she nodded and that was the most terrible moment for me when she said that, because of me, Leandro had died. I was unable to process what she had told me, but my mind was making more complex conclusions which were making my head hurt. I looked at Aria who was standing in front of me with her arms crossed over her chest. I wanted to ask her further but it was like that I didn't really have the voice inside my voice box. But then I gathered some courage. I looked at Aria. "How....." I gulped. "How did I....." I wasn't able to speak the things which she had said to me or pointed in my way. ".....killed your brother?" Finally I had completed my sentence which was stuck inside my throat. She just chuckled dryly a bit and then shot her eyes in my way which contained contempt for me. "Gwen Bellingham. Don't try to be innocent in front of me. I am well aware that you are none other than a cursed person who can't bring happiness but omen only. My brother was a fool that he had thought about marrying you and now look, in which condition he is lying. He is no longer around us. He is in...." She trailed off and her eyes became glassy. ".....coffin now. This all happened because of the curse which follows you. You always knew about this but then also you didn't keep your distance from him. If you did, then he must have survived and must have a happy life. Now see what your curse brought. His death. I don't want to see you here. I am afraid that you won't let his funeral go well. I am glad that before he married a cursed person, he died." After saying that, she went away in one second. She wasn't here any longer there but her words were here. They were echoing inside my ears and the scene was repeating once again and again. I was trembling over and over. My brain was no longer functioning well but was creating the same scene again and again like a broken radio. The sky was gloomy as the earth. The sky had black clouds around it and today everything seems black where no happiness can come but the sadness which is surrounding this area. I looked ahead and found Leandro's mother, who was crying her heart out and his father was busy consoling his wife and was looking at the coffin with sadness in his eyes. I can feel their pain? But what about......Forget it? Aria's words made me rethink the whole situation. Was this really because of me? I didn't realize that my footsteps were already moving backwards. With my thoughts running inside my mind, my feet were also going back. This can't be true. I am not the person who killed him. I am not the one. What would I get if I had to kill him? Aria had lost her brother, her parents had lost a son and I had lost my whole world. He was the only one on whom I could rely on and could share my problems, but now he is also gone. I stumbled a bit. "I don't want to see you here. I am afraid that you won't let his funeral go well." "I won't do anything at his funeral. I didn't kill him." Suddenly, my back hit something which jerked me a bit and I found that I was already at the end and was also far away from there and suddenly, rain also started to pour, but not a single raindrop touched me because I was under the tree. Black umbrellas started to open up and no one really cared about my presence. This was the limit of everything which I was having inside and, without any further warning, my tears made their way down my eyes and I sat under there and soon a few raindrops started to pour in. I am feeling low. I cried till everything happened and left the place. After a few minutes of everyone's departure, the rain also stopped and I went out of my shelter and went towards his grave and saw the stone which was present on his grave. Tears again made their way down my eyes. I was looking at that when I saw a handkerchief extended towards me and I looked for the person who had done it. I turned my face to the person and found an unfamiliar person who was only looking at me. He gestured to me to take his handkerchief and I hesitantly took it and wiped off my tears. "I guess you were my friend's fiance?" he asked, and I looked at him with questioning eyes. "Who are you?" I said in a soft voice and he chuckled. "That little rascal.” He mumbled under his breath but I had heard him. “I bet that Leandro did not tell you about me. I am Tsetan Cheshire. His childhood best friend and if you are wondering how come you never saw me, then that is because I live overseas." I didn't really know how to respond to him. "But you weren't present at your late fiance's funeral." I looked at Leandro's grave. "His sister didn't allow me to be near him at that time." I said while looking at his grave. "Why?" "Because she thinks that, because of my curse, he has died and that I am the killer." "Curse? Well...I don't believe in all these things, but I guess I would like to share this thing with you as I can see that you care about him, that is why I am telling you." I looked at him."You must not be knowing this but your curse didn't really do anything." "What do you mean?" "People might be thinking that your curse has killed him, but let me tell you, before we came over here, I had some man who had inspected his room and found something. There was something that was mixed inside the food which he had eaten this morning and that concludes that he was killed. So Ms., this isn't your curse but someone's cold-blooded murder plan." That made me go blank when he said that. Leandro didn't get killed because of me, but had somebody killed him? Who must have done this?