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Book - 1 - Draft 1
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- 1. The Setting -
Big ship, sailing on a cruise.
The design is unique, it as Bunk cabins allotted as per booking.
Shiro, Akira, Sonia are in a room in the lower bunks.
Upper deck looks like a dorm, where sleeper seats look like they have been made of Train compartments, only sown in white and orange leather fabric and ultra luxurious walls and carpeting.
Rooms come with attached toilets while upper deck comes with common toilets the at the entrance of each compartment or boogie.
The ship comes loaded with on borad pools and ski jets on the ship itself, yes this is a massive ship. With its own mini ski pool at the centre of the ship.
The first destination of this cruise ship is a hill side by the sea followed by somewhere beachy like ibiza where everyone is allowed to party either in the ship or off it in the water
The last destination is the South Pole with penguins, snow and automated Shopping Floors.
Ship cuts through ice then glide on it with wheels/skies that come out at the front and back.
- 2. How they met -
The families decided to send the girl and boy on a journey 'before' their marriage
They have been introduced by family.
Girls family is very rich and orthodox
Boys family is away, the boy himself lives in a mansion by the sea.
They are introduced and they fall in love right away.
Her family is very happy.
The boy has an elder brother and a huge aunt but there is no ware about outs of the rest of the family.
Both have decided to take residence in the girls house while the boy and girl have gone on the trip.
The trip is about three and a half months.
They get on board the ship, bid their relatives goodbye and start this adventure together.
They are happy and the boy seems to be crazy about the girl and her seeming innocence.
They begin holding hands and stealing kisses as frequently as possible, literally every chance they get
After about 3 weeks of sailing, they reach the first destination, a hidden hillside by the sea.
During their first visit off the ship in the mountains hillside, the boy take the girls hiking.
They find an old abandoned cottage.
They both enter and talk about how nice it would be to live in a small house at the edge of nowhere all by themselves.
The decide to picnic inside the cottage.
The sun is up and the cottage is warm.
The boy spreads the sheets for them to sit and the girl has wine for the first time.
They make out and the girl is very happy with how things are going and so it the boy.
- 3. Her story: The things you don't anticipate -
'It’s like a match made in heaven, they fit each other like a glove 'she thinks.
They understand each other’s expressions without words and the boy notices everything about the girl. The girl loves his attention to detail.
The girl feels safe with the boy and when she shared this with him and he’s overjoyed.
He kisses her all over and then begins to take her clothes off
The girl is caught off guard but little by little begins to give in.. after all, their marriage is set?
The boy lays the girl down and asks her to relax
She is tense at first but begins to give in,
Only to realise she’s now completely naked and the boy has backed away looking at her in awe from a distance.
Then suddenly he pulls her towards himself and begins to devours her like freshly cut fruit.
The girl is a bit overwhelmed and scared about the pace fo things but he doesn’t let go.
Waves of a pleasure and fear go through the girl.
'Is this even happening?' she thinks to her self.
It feels as if he’s another person all of a sudden, his movements become steady and mechanical and without warning or permission, be begins edging towards the third base.
The girl shrieks and punches the boy in the face while pushing him off and then goes silent thereafter in confusion and shame.
Fully aware that the boy almost took her modesty, the girl gets afraid of him losing control like this.
It is only after he begins bleeding at his lip that the boy begins to come back to normal to the person she knows him to be.
They lay there till evening after this and the girl begins to cry.
The boy profusely apologises to her and consoles her for loosing control
He goes down on his knees and begs her to forgive his actions
He says he loves her a lot and in excitement just didn’t realise how far they went but that it was inevitable to happen especially now that they were about to get married.
The girl is taken aback but agrees to him and the logic and eventually quiets down.
Her mood is off, but later back on the ship, she can’t help herself from thinking about what happen more and more...
The boy begins acting frisky, leaving her alone and vanishing on the ship from time to time to gamble and do drugs.
Girl, on the other hand, is straight like an arrow, ignoring passing comments and even simple requests to make friends with other fellow passengers on the ship and in her free time likes to explore the various parts of the ship as she’s afraid to get off again alone in fear of being left behind if not raped.
She trusts the boy very much and always forgives him for going gambling or playing sports with other boys.
She, on the other hand, likes to venture on the ship by herself, explore every nook and cranny and the boy encourages her to do this, since it seems to give the girl a sense of peace after their last ‘encounter’.
Because of this she finds her friends also on the same ship but doesn’t tell the boy for some reason.
They begin to make out often, in different places across the ship. Some in the open and some dangerous.
Then it happens, the girl realises that she's pregnant.
Thinks the boy will be overwhelmed to know. She finds the right moment and tells him enthusiastically. The boy is filled with joy for one moment but quickly gets very angry and almost goes crazy and says she will have to get operated right away.
On the ship he means?!
'WHAT THE FUCK!?!' she thinks
She lies and says that she was testing him but now after seeing a completely new side to the boy is fearful.
It seems like the boy didn’t want anything to do with the girl and as if the baby was a complication he hadn’t expected on the way.
She goes to her friends and explains to them the situation and they are equally shocked.
She spends the night with her friends on the ship as she ends up crying and falling asleep in their cabin.
Wakes up next morning early and runs to the boy
Boy is nowhere to be found, goes looking for him, finds him gambling at her expense
He’s blown away a lot of money, leaving her with almost nothing
She doesn’t say a world, she loves him but now begins the sense that something is wrong with the boy altogether
He hasn’t noticed that she was missing for the entire night?
This puzzles the girl even more but she doesn’t question him...
Instead, she starts to follow him silently across the ship here on.
As it seems the boy is trying to release some sort of tension but not at the expense of he girl.
He gently tells her to explore like she does and says he’s off to play with some of the boys he made friends with.
But she doesn’t follow orders this time. She follows the boy across the ship. Often finding him entering rooms with various women he starts conversations with at random.
She’s still not expecting him to cheat, thinking he’s scoring drugs,
One time She follows him and a girl and a bunch of other people into a big room.
She watches what happens from the window while the group goes inside.
She is correct to the analysis they were all doing drugs
But shocked seeing what happens next,
And the boy seems to be the one directing and ordering the group as to how to go about hallucinating.
He isn't part of the hallucinating group, he is simply the orchestrator.
Chanting harsh words at all the people in the room who seem to be under some kind of trance.
She gets disgusted and at the same time feels nausea and runs off from the sight.
Its almost the end of the third month now.
She’s started to get morning sickness now, gets afraid that the boy will find out she lied about not being pregnant
Starts getting off the ship and floating around in a big floater by herself there on.
Boy and girl continue to make love in odd places and this makes the girl very sad and disgusted but she doesn’t say a word or show an off expression.
She then tries going through the boy's things to find out more about him and finds odd ornaments which she doesn’t know what to make off.
They are sharp and seem to be for precise use, but afraid the boy might find her snooping through his things she puts them away and continues to pretend like nothing happen.
She goes over to her friends and tells them about what all she found him doing and what she found in his luggage and they encourage her to leave him and take shelter in their cabin till the trip ends but she passes up in fear.
She still believes that’s the boy loves her in his own way even thought something seems to have snapped in him, he means well.
Was it the pregnancy? Or is he over her now that he’s deflowered her?
She couldn’t understand but she knew something is wrong.
- 4. Gack home -
They get back from their trip, the end of which seemed like she was alone on the trip by herself.
She had gone shopping at the South pole and since she was out of money, only managed to buy herself a jumpsuit.
Her family was going to be disappointed that she didn’t bring back anything for anyone but she couldn’t tell them what had really happen on the trip.
She was ready put on a happy face for them.
Maybe this is what all women go through after marriage she thought to herself.
This must have been why she had often found her own mother crying crying by herself in the past.
When she was younger and she would ask what it was that bothered her she would never tell her.
It was always after a quarrel with her father she knew.
But on what basis she couldn’t tell.
She felt as if she could related to her mother right now. After all these years.
These weren’t troubles worth discussing or telling other people she thought.
They were just worth being absorbed and released through silent tears. Like her mothers.
On the day the ship got back from the trip.
The boy woke up the girl with a passionate kiss.
Apologised for not being himself the last couple of weeks and convinced her that everything would become better here on.
And he kept repeating it every now and then in their way back.
'Don’t worry, it will all get better. Everything will get better. It will end soon.'
The girl starts getting a bit alarmed by this overly loving behaviour of the boys and also the words he kept repeating.
He takes her on a speed boat to take her to his house. He says, 'Let’s visit my house first. I know we’ve not had any contact with the outside world for three and half months almost, but my mansion is by the sea and has a water entrance. I’d like for you to come to see it before we go back to see your family, my brother and aunt at your place.'
The girl feels some relief seeing his behaviour and agrees to go along.
She’s all too excited but as they enter the water gates she sees his aunt waiting for them at the water banks.
The girl gets a bit confused, how come she knew they were coming home? They haven’t had any contact with the outside world in three and a half months traveling by sea?
As they get closer and closer to the water stairs of the mansion she sees the aunts expression up close. It’s not one purely of joy.
There is a strange sense of danger in her demure and smile.
- 5. This is called madness -
The mansion itself is on a small island which was spread over just a few acres.. it had vast hallways and pillar cast walkways overlooking the sea from one side. While the other side seem to be somehow merging into the hill behind it.
It seemed as if the the mansion was cut into the mountainous hill and extended inside it.
It suddenly begins to strike her that the boy has Some sort of control over the people around him.
And that she too Somehow was under his influence despite so much having past.
She begins to worry, what’s going to happen next?
A shiver runs down her spine as they get closer to the stairs in the water... like something bad is going to happen.
Suddenly the girl begins to start looking for ways to escape and all possible escapes she may have at hand.
And out of nowhere, she jumps into the water.
This makes the boy howl in anger.
As if he was already expecting this to happen.
And instead of helping her out he starts shouting at her.
One accusation after another.
About how simple she was. How stupid she was. How backward her family was despite being so rich.
About her getting pregnant and then trying to hide it.
This alarms her even more.
She stars crying in the water and tries to swim away from the boat towards the water stairs.
As she approaches she sees the aunt headed towards her.
Her eyes bloodshot red and mumbling something to herself.
As she gets closer to the banks she realised that his aunt was holding not a chest or a big box but a very large slab above in her hand as if to crush her skull with it.
The girl suddenly turns course and begins swimming back towards to the boat.
The boy by now has reached the other end of the stairs himself and suddenly she sees the odd sharp ornament in his hand.
But instead of charging towards the girl he takes the ornament and clips one of the hands of the aunt!
This causes the stone to fall on her own body and leg.
Her head begins to bleed and she falls to the floor.
He starts screaming at her for her bad behaviour and the aunt begins to cry, begins wiping away the blood like an psychotic obedient child putting up a good show for a parent.
He leaves her aside and turns back to the girl.
She’s in the water but frozen still in shock and horror of what she had just seen.
'What the hell was happening?!", she just couldn’t make any sense.
Then he looks at he ornament on which the girls eyes and fixated and throws it to a side and lunges at the girl to get her out of the water.
Hurting the aunt has some how calmed him down and restored his sense of surroundings and reality.
He pulls her out and hugs her.
Begins saying he wouldn’t let anyone hurt her.
She was his. And he wouldn’t let anyone else every hurt her.
The girl breaks down hugs the boy feeling hurt, fearful and in utter confusion.
The boy just stands there hugging the girl drenched in water for a while like this.
Some guards and house help show up at this point.
They see her wet and order for towels and begin to pick up their luggage.
That’s when she notices that one of the helpers picks up the ornament and puts it back in the bag and for some reason, no one was paying any attention to the aunt despite her having hurt herself.
Whatever it was, it was her chance to face it next she realises.
As they walk towards the mansion she realises that there must be about 20 rooms on the ground floor alone facing the sea.
Was it his house or an abandoned hotel?
He takes her to one of the rooms, puts her down on the bed and put our some clothes for her to ware.
Says she should dry herself and he’ll be right back and leaves the room.
The girl is alarmed and panicked.
She quickly changes out of the wet clothes only to find that the new clothes laid down for her on her bed aren’t her’s at all?
She still puts them on, it’s a delicate skin hugging kimono dress.
She looks around the room and find a phone connection and immediately dials Akira.
Without a moment to waste as soon as Akira picks up the phone, she begins babbling about being kidnapped and about her life being in danger and then hears footsteps walking towards the door in the lobby so she puts down the phone receiver, but immediately instinctively picks it up again and dials a random number.
The boy walks in with some food and fruit at this point and sees her holding the phone.
She freezes in fear so he keeps the food down and walks towards her, take the receiver from her hand and puts it to his ear.
Hello? Then he cuts the phone and presses re-dial.
The number says it doesn't exist.
So he looks at her straight in the eyes and asks her who she was dailing to very calmly.
She said she wanted to phone home but since she had never left without a family member she didn’t remember who or what to dial.
A lie she realises quite handy at this point in time.
She’s relieved of her instincts.
He bursts out laughing, pushes her on to the bed behind her and orders her to have some food.
He says she needs her energy and its circuit she eat right away.
Then turns his attention to the rest of the room and it’s set up.
'What does she need her energy for?'
She can’t imagine what’s coming next only to find the ornament in his back pocket.
She’s immensity alarmed.
She needs to get out of here she thinks to herself.
No one knows she’s out here.
And begins crying and blurts out “But what do I need my energy for!?”
To which the boy shoots back a cold look at the girl and beings laughing the next minute.
He comes over and kisses her on the head. And hold her, looks into her eyes and says she needs her energy for their long journey ahead to her house.
After all, she jumped into the water for good knows what! (completely disregarding the fact that he injured his aunt at the water stairway.)
He couldn’t let her look so worked up and exhausted when her parents and family saw her.
She begins to calm down and he begins to tell her how she’s different.
How he’s torn into two parts.
How he’s seen many women before but never had the same connection with them.
He mentions how her pregnancy scares him.
He’s very calm and composed about it.
He said he knows she’s pregnant and that she’s been hiding it.
He says it’s terrible timing and it would reflect badly on him as her family is so conservative.
He politely suggests she get an abortion on their way back and that he wouldn’t say a word to anyone about any of this having taken place.
That since they were to be married shortly it could be their own little secret.
That he didn’t want to be a father right now and they had all the time and age at their side to plan kids in the future.
They couldn’t possibly become parents right away.
There was so much life to be seen he says.
She brings to sob silently in his arms.
He says he knows how hard it has been for her in trying to hide it but her body had been giving the indications all along.
But he didn’t want to show that he was upset about his doing and hence tried everything he possibly could on the ship to maintain a respectable distance from her all this while since Ibiza.
He confesses to her that he started gambling heavily and got into taking drugs while on the ship (he leaves out the part about orchestrating raves with random men and women and something tells her not to bring it up either).
Then he pulls away and tells her to eat her food.
At this point, she calms down and settles on the nearby sofa and begins eating.
A helper knocks at the door and the boy swiftly moves towards the same as if hoping for the girl not to be able to look at what News or item he bore.
He lifts the curtain and quietly gestures to the helper ‘no this won’t be needed’, then there is a pause and the helper gives a salutation and moves away.
As the helper is leaving the aunt turns up at the door.
She’s changed into a new dress, another deep red and has redone her makeup and doesn’t seem to be in any kind of pain.
She asks the helper to stop and gestures to the boy ‘what’s going on?’
And the boy freezes in place and asks the help to keep moving and not to turn back again and asks the aunt to come into the room.
On seeing the aunts face the girl is a bit nervous and stands up in shock (more than out of respect) and the aunt politely asked her to be seated and be comfortable.
At this point, the boy goes over to her and asks her to forgive him for what she say happen at the water stairs and give a chance to him the explain what had happen.
The girl feels as if she has no other choice but tries to be confident and nods to him to go on.
- 6. Stroaks of bad luck -
He explains that her aunt had lost her twins right at birth a few years ago.
And to make things worse, they had been found on the banks of the water where they got off with the skulls of the kids smashed in with a rock.
This had caused her aunt some serious brain damage from the shock of the matter and eventually, she started believing that she herself had done that to her own new born children.
The kids were bastards as the man who had fathered the children had no intention of marrying her and when she went to him to have mercy on her, he had sedated her and passed her around to a large group of men, all of whom had taken turns to rape her and left her off outside the mansion by herself whispering to her that it would be best for her to take her own life. Crush her head with a rock. And so on.
And since then she had attempted doing so a multiple number of times at the banks of the mansion.
And she believed she did that to her own children who she carried in her womb for 9 months in the end.
So it had been a coincidence that they found her at the banks almost as if repeating the same thing from past trauma.
But due to her size, no one could possibly take her down so he had managed a method after many failed attempts to put her through alternate shock and bring her back to reality.
The girl turned to the aunt at this point and the aunt apologised to her in gestures as if almost ready to cry.
He says he fears pregnant women and small children were at threat around his aunt.
(But how did she know she thinks to herself)
The girl settles herself hearing all this and finally gives a sympathetic smile.
She’s been overworking herself all this while.
After all, everyone has problems she thinks to herself, thinking of her own younger brother who had gone crazy a few years ago after the death of their mother.
He was the one to have found her dead.
If it hadn’t been for her relatives he wouldn’t have survived either.
Now he would stick around the house, almost like an adrenaline junkie swinging from floor to floor and never taking a conventional route through the doors inside their house.
He spoke to her sometimes but it never made any sense.
It seemed to her as if he was always predicting the future or telling alternate truths about other family members.
All lies and dementia of course.
She was happy again.
But her guard was up.
She had seen the ornament with which he had cut his aunt in his back pocket.
Why did he have it on on his right now?
But as she had her food and began to normalise she realised that the ornament was no longer in his back pocket.
'What? But it had just been there?'
Her gut told her to keep her guard up.
His aunt was not in the room but the boy had suddenly misplaced the only thing he could use to defend himself?
She didn’t utter a word.
For now, she was satisfied to an extent with his words and actions.
It seemed like she would get home safe.
(To. be continued.)
