1 Chapter- 1[Birth-Alice]
What do you think life is?
Is it a good thing that you could live happily every time, or is it a bad thing that you just suffer in it...?
No.
Life is like a book.
Some pages are filled with happiness so some are with sadness, and to reach the next stage of your life, you need to fold the next page, no matter whether you get the happiness or sadness.
....But it is not the same for me.
My whole book is filled with darkness.
All the pages are covered in sadness and sorrow.
Only the starting pages will show you some happiness which changed into the worst nightmare.
Why am I saying it?
Cause I am lying down in a puddle of my blood with a knife stabbed in my stomach right now.
Haa...I don't even have tears left to shed as the person who killed me was the one who started to fill my book of life with some happiness.
But I still decided to ask the reason.
"Just...why?" A hoarse voice left my mouth due to the pain.
Ohh... He flinched hearing me, so is the feeling the guilt for what he did?
"I needed money and they said if I killed you they will give it to me!!!" He screamed back at me, but why is he screaming...is it my fault that he doesn't have money?
No, it is not...I was giving money to him every week...
"I see...then for how much did I got sold?" I asked thinking of what price did I get sold at.
He flinched again. Hih...Looks like the price was quite high.
"100K $, They said they will give me all that money in cash." He answered me but hearing his words I felt cold all over my body.
I was giving him 2000 $ every week!! How could he kill me for that much less money?!
But I wasn't able to retort as my body went cold and I started to feel myself losing consciousness.
I guess the blood loss...and I am going to die now.
Ahh... I wish I could have just...
My whole life started playing before my eyes.
Well...so....I...d..i..e...he..re...
Want to know how it started.
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In a Hospital,
The door of the operation room opened and a nurse walked out with a tired face but still showed a smile facing the man walking in front of the door.
"Congratulations Sir, your wife gave birth to your daughter." The nurse said.
The man already stopped walking in circles and a smile adopted his face the moment he heard the nurse's words.
"Really?!" The man asked excitedly.
'What an excitement...I guess that's how people would feel when they have their first child...' The nurse thought warmly.
"Yes, and the condition of your wife is alright, just a little tired but you could see her." The nurse explained.
The man nodded and walked in the room and saw doctors moving around but he ignored all that and walked beside the bed where a woman is laying while leaning her back on the bed and a small newborn baby wrapped in the towel is in her arms.
The woman looked at the baby with a warm smile and lifted her face to see the man and smiled brightly completely betraying the tired look on her face.
"Dear! Look our daughter!!" The woman exclaimed excitedly and lifted the baby in her arms for the man to see.
The man took the baby from the woman's arms and showed a smile on his face.
"My daughter, Alice.." The man said slowly looking at his daughter with an affectionate look on his face with tears gathering in his eyes.
"Thank you..." The man said softly and lovingly to the woman as tears left his eyes.
The woman seeing that gathered her strength with difficulty and hugged the man making him look at her surprise.
"Don't say that, she is our daughter." The woman said that lovingly.
The man nodded and hugged the woman back for a few seconds using his free hand and after that, the woman lay on the bed and handed the baby Alice back to the woman and walked towards the doctor who seems to be waiting for him with a smile on his face.
"You could discharge tomorrow after we check everything." The doctor said warmly.
The man nodded.
"Thank you, doctor." The man replied politely.
After paying the money and everything, the man stayed beside the woman who fell asleep.
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3 Years Later,
A young girl around three years old walked into a room in an apartment while looking around.
"Mom! Dad!!" The girl screamed to call for her parents.
The door opened and a man and woman entered the room with bright smiles on their faces.
"Ho Did our little Alice miss us?" The woman asked with a bright smile on her face as she took the little girl, Alice in her arms.
Alice hearing that kept nodding her head as she hugged her mother.
The man on the side kept smiling at them.
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2 Years Later,
"Mom who was that man?" Alice asked her mother after she saw another man entering her parent's bedroom along with her mother and spent an hour there while she heard the voices of screaming of their mother for quite some time.
Her mother flinched hearing the innocent voice of her daughter and looked away from keeping herself looking into her daughter's eyes.
'I am doing all of this for my daughter....there is nothing wrong with that!' Alice's mother tried to justify herself mentally.
"Mom?" Alice asked again seeing that she doesn't get the reply before.
"...Someone who is here to help us as your father is having some problems." Alice's mother answered without looking at her daughter's face.
"Ohhhh... So a good Uncle!!" Alice exclaimed happily.
'If only he hadn't lost his job....we would have no problem...' Alice's mother thought as her mind filled with guilty feelings.
"Yes, a good uncle. Now go to sleep, Dear Alice." Alice's mother said while her legs trembled a little.
"Yes Mom," Alice replied whole nodding her head as she is feeling sleepy.
After Alice left her room, Alice's mother sat on the chair around the dining table after taking a bottle of cheap alcohol from the refrigerator and started drinking it while sitting.
"Haaa. Why do I have to suffer like this!! It is that Bastard's fault!! If he hadn't done those wrong things...I wouldn't have to do things like this!!" Alice's mother screamed in a low voice letting go of her pent-up frustrations.
She remembered how their life started changing a year ago.
A year ago, her husband, Alice's father got into jail as he tried to force his way on a junior working with him. He left the Police station quickly as there was no proof of anything happening and the girl was also safe but he lost his job and with his name saved on the police's list, he wasn't able to live there.
The place where they lived before became hell for her and Alice as they heard things every day from many people saying things about their family and being fed up with all that, Alice's Mother left that place and started living in a completely different place with her daughter while her husband came home rarely just to ask for more money.
She having no work or that much work to do started selling herself to earn money for herself and the future of her daughter. She had no choice but to do that as she may be literate but she hadn't studied something complex that will provide her with a job where she could earn money for herself and her daughter easily.
