Against my will

Episode 5

Jack started coming to his senses and he smelled horrible. With all the mosquitoes biting him and the dog kennel was making him smell horrible. And all the sweat and cuts on his body were not helping either.

He got up only to realise that he was thrown into kennel already and he wasn't even cleaned or anything. His body still smelled of meat and sweat which made him puke his guts out because all in together it was disgusting. He doubted if his mother even cared for him or even was his mother anymore. It seemed like she changed overnight. His mother he remembers used to pamper him so much. Called him his prince but now all that changed suddenly. He can't seem to get a point that how can money change someone's feeling towards the one they gave birth to. Carry them and bear pain of labour all alone and in the end blessed with the tiny soul who depends on the one who bear it. So how can one mother abandon her own child for money.

He prays to god to give him strength to bear the pain inflicted on him by the one who beared him. Cause he has no strength of going against her. His mother's love for money has blinded her own heart and made it of stone that she feels no remorse towards anything.

Jack pledges not to ever treat his own son or daughter like this ever. His child will be cherished if he is ever blessed with one of his own.

He gets up from the mat in kennel and shifts to farthest corner of it. Sits there kneeling and tries his best to stay farther away from entrance where the dogs are tied. The kennel is made of wood and it's designed in crisscross way so that there is space of ventilation. Jack threads his fingers through the gaps and peek at the moon. Imagining how he is like a moon, beautiful yet so lonely. Yet the only difference is that he has his own beauty and not by someone else's effort. But right now all he wishes for is to be ugly so that all this can stop. His beauty was a curse for him and boon to his mom who didn't care even a single bit about him. She played with his fears instead of encouraging him to face it and get over them. To help him.

He wants to sleep. His body is tired with no food and water. He hasn't been fed and its been days without having some proper food and not just fruit and juices. His vision blurred again before he passed out again.

This time though he doesn't wakes up to disgusting smell or inside dogs kennel. But his own room, cleaned and freshly made bed. He sighed in relief. He really didn't want to wake up anymore if he was near those dogs anymore.

He gets up from his bed and his feet land on soft carpet instead of cold floor. He rechecks his room again. It surely looks his room but not what he used to be in every day. His room was filled with flowers and curtains were changed to bright colours from black and grey.

While he was still checking out his room, a note comes in his vision. He picks it up carefully and opens it.

"Hey beautiful, as much as i want to stare at you sleeping with a Smile on your face, i had to leave for work. But don't worry, i am sure you will have a smile soon on your face after you check out your drawers and cupboards. I will make sure you shed no tear in future".

Jack hesitates at first to open the drawers expecting it to be some sick joke. But when he opened it his eyes sparkled looking at boxed of chocolates and so many other drinking beverages. It was a whole hamper in the drawer.

Picking it up, he opened one chocolate but before he could eat any of it, it was snatched right out of his hands and he felt a slap on his cheek. His eyes teared up as he watched his mother take the hamper from his hands and throw it dustbin.

"What were you trying to do? Eat away all the hard work i did on you? You want to eat right well lets see if you can cook something edible enough to eat. If i pass it you can eat whatever you want but one mistake, and you will not even hear the word food".

Jack eyes again filled with countless tears, unexplainable pain wrecked his heart. He thought maybe he will finally have something but looks like he will have to give up because he cannot cook. Hell he cannot cut the vegetables perfectly yet and he wasn't even taught till now how to prepare a simple vegetable stock. How would he cook a proper meal.

Going through all this torture inflicted by his mom, nobody came forward to help him at all. He sunk down on floor and hugged his knees crying at his pathetic life.

He was about to get up when he saw a piece of chocolate lying near the bed. He checked if someone was looking at him. When he saw that nobody is lurking around he immediately picked it up and ate it.

When he ate it he felt something his tongue stinging terribly and could taste blood in his mouth. He immediately rushed to the bathroom and spit everything out and saw pieces of crushed broken glasses and he felt some still stuck on his tongue too. He ran back to his room and banged his door hard again and again.

Someone came rushing to the room and it was a maid. She helped him immediately seeing his bleeding mouth. She immediately called the madam and told her what happened. His mother immediately became furious as why did he eat it when she told him not to.

"Leave the room, no one will help her. No medication for you and no rest either. If you think you can slack off because of this then think again. And this will be a reminder for you not to go against me ever. Just clean his tongue and get out all the pieces of crushed glass and then you come to kitchen immediately. Food is not gonna cook itself".

Ordering everyone to get out she glared at Jack one last time before leaving him.