Lahat ng Kabanata ng A journey to Elysium: Kabanata 11 - Kabanata 20

Knowing about her abominable past and all the atrocities that had befallen her, her mind wasn’t gaining peace at any cost.The life which was a sum of just counted breaths, with every breath a part of it was losing, where in her case, at her very first breath much of her life was lost and much sucked out.It was hard for her to believe that life wasn’t easy for her, but it was too hard for her to believe that life was not just miserable but way too unjust to her, from the very beginning! 

The clock struck 12:00am, and they were still sitting there, pondering over their situation, trying to find any straw to catch upon to help save their hope from drowning.The hospital was swarming with busy and anxious faces, everyone seemed to have been hit by some misfortune there, that no one could attend to anyone else's grief.Every person for himself.They kept observing the masses, while their thoughts were lost more than their hopes were.Finally, there came a Nurse gliding over towards them through the crowd, having information to be delivered to them, and informed them about the health stability and shifting of Nanny to the ward from the int

Chapter 15: 12th March 1985 ‘Johanna. . . . My daughter. . .

It was Sam who was cutting his birthday cake and laughing heartfully. She stood there looking at his lively laughter and playfully admiring all the arrangements done for him.Deep inside she was feeling hollow, deserted, lost, like a cut kite falling away with the wind.She was loving how Sam was enjoying his big day and left bad to be not able to stand by him like she always could, her mind was filled with the secrets they were keeping them from her.Sam guessed the lost mind for hers, and tried to bring her around by pasting whipped cream on her nose, the gleam in his eyes was the same as he would always have after getting her annoyed.She could no longer keep herself back, she went to grab a piece of cake and stuffed it in his mouth, meanwhile, Nanny was smiling

“Good morning”, Sam came in to join Murphy on breakfast, “how was the night? Got to sleep well?” He made a place for himself next to her on the table, meanwhile, Nanny was getting toasts done and serving them freshly.