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TANYA'S TURN: From Ruins to Rooftops

It is a long and arduous journey from the ruins to rooftops. Everyone has a turn to be on the "rooftops." And it's now Tanya's turn. She has spent most of her life with Tina who she saw as her mother, little did she know. Her father had died a mysterious death some years back and they lived convincing themselves that he had died of cancer. Tanya and her mother had lived peacefully all these years till now, when her love life became an entrance for trouble. She meets people she had never known and gets more confused to find out they are in one way or the other related to her. She becomes an international wanted person in secret organizations due to some reason she doesn't know, except for the fact that these obscure reasons points to her father. She is left with two critical questions: "why me?" and "why now?" "Life tests you with your greatest virtue." An old Sufi proverb said. Sometimes, what we think is an end is not. It's indeed a bend. It takes Tanya almost her life to realize this.

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16 Chs

CHAPTER 7: RUN TANYA, RUN!

"Tan is that you?" Tina had called from a room.

Tanya did not bother to answer. She was combing her long hair when she heard a thud.

What is going on? She thought as she waved her hand over her wavy hair.

She heard a door creak open, probably Tina was coming to check on her again. But it was different. She heard another glass shatter before a grunt of pain.

Her mother! Tanya wondered what was going on, she had tried to think if her mum was already sickened from the involuntary house imprisonment. Well she was also. She also thought Tina might have probably injured herself. She advanced to open the door when she froze.

"Run Tanya, run!" Tina screamed from a room. Tanya heard scuffles of struggle and she had shivered when she heard a slap. A scream followed shortly.

Tina! Tina was all Tanya's mind could process. Her mother was in the midst of a struggle and there was nothing she could do. Perhaps, the best option was to follow her mother's instruction. Run Tanya, run!

She heard more glass shattering, a sizzling sound and a shout of pain.

"Bitch burn to hell!" Tanya recognized her mother's voice. Her mind mapped the sound. It came from the kitchen, she realized.

Just as immediately as she realized, she opened the door and ran silently to her room. She locked the door and took her phone, she relaxed her nerves as she tried looking for Raymond's number.

"Hurry! Tina's in danger. Be here immediately!" She said into the phone and had flung it before Raymond could even speak. She grabbed a trouser and a t-shirt.

She could hear more scuffle and screams of pain from her mother and from another. She wondered what skill her mother has to hold off an attacker for so long. She zipped her trouser when she heard a loud click. Her eyebrows raised with the realization that a gun was involved. Two gunshots rang before she could come back to her senses. Then house became silent. She remained under her bed where she'd been when the shots rang.

She had hoped for a miracle, but not of this sort. She bit her lower lip and squeezed her eyes shut hard.

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