The Lonely Lass - #1

Centuries ago

In an enchanted forest

There was an abandoned castle

Where lived a girl name Oriena

She always used to sit at the balcony, singing and staring at the old path, nobody has used for year,

Wishing her mother would come again and hold her in her arms telling it will be all okay.

She still remembers the day her mother left...

It was like a storm rushed towards her all at once...

she still remembers how she was begging her mother not to leave in that rain....she couldn't leave the grip from her mother's dress and all she did was cried but her mother didn't even flinched to look at her and she never looked back again.

It has been 7 years since she left.

Oriena's father died couple of days after her mother left and she was all alone in the castle.

All along she didn't knew something more was coming her way. Something dark, something she didn't knew from all along the years.

Oriena used to wait till 5:00 pm and after that would go and sleep.

Every night she dreamt about her father, mother and herself drinking tea in the backyard.

One day on a silent night,

She heard an unexpected knock,

On the doors of castle

She rushed towards the door wishing she will see her mother.

As soon as she opened the door with her heart racing

she saw a boy.

She was disappointed still surprised. She asked in a stuttering voice, "wh- who are you?"

The boy said, it seems like I am lost, may I rest here for a night as it's too dark in the forest?

Oriena let him in the castle.

After that she showed the boy an old room

And told him that he can rest here.

Andd went in her room locking the doors.

She was in total shock that how he can find this old castle between a dark abandoned forest. Between these perplexed thoughts she slept.

At 2:00 am she heard a low voice screeching down the hall

Which woke her up.

She took an old burning kerosene lamp

Which was burning at a low flame

And went downstairs,

To check what's happening...