Saturday, April 18, 2015

MAYA and MELISSA

Thus she had become...

She could faintly remember her parents, they both were always working.Father was heading a Stock Broker Exchange or something akin to that. Her mother was a highly social elite woman , the Rich aristotcratic , highly sophisticated society...

Their marriage was a Gala event, and the fruits of their holy matrimony yielded a beautiful kid ,They named her MAYA ...


 Within two years she was already the eye of every ones affection, the two years was the most time she ever got to stay around her mother....

On her third birthday , Maya became the kid taken care by the Nanny ...

Her mother had other pressing issues to address, her father would never ever be around anyways....

She found joy playing with her dolls , which her father would bring her every two weeks,
She had Superman , Batman and all superhero dolls lined up in her own room...

Life went on...

Schools started, the schools got classicer, more posh ,
And she made steady progress...

She was not exactly excellent in studies, not extremely beautiful, atleast that was what she told herself...

Soon, Came the time for her to become what she is today ...

MAYA, Maya ,Maya ....
The teacher called out, she was sleeping like a tree, snoring like a pig in class and she was reprimanded properly,
Twelve rounds of running around the school with a nametag attached to her neck,

SNORING SLOTH


That sparked off events that made her....


In days to come as days rolled on , she got into the habit of day dreaming and losing interest in studies,
Except for one thing...

She spent all her evenings studying bees ants and wasps and spiders ...

She was alienated for this odd behaviour,

The principal of this prestigious institute called her parents once,
MAYA was happy to see them,but as soon as she saw them in the principals room , ready to shout at her...

She knew the ritual, two letters came to her , both the next day , typed by the same secretary,

The parents expressed shock at her behavior and felt ashamed of her actions, it was un characteristic of a well versed high society kid ...

She tore it apart, when she read the last line,
They had explained how busy they were and how much inconvenience she had caused ...

All was well until, Her friends mocked her,
Her friends called her names,
Her friends taunted her...

She had put on a ton of weight,
They called her a Hippo...

She would often lock herself in the room provided to her,
She would read, read and read.She never had any friends apart from them...

In her eighth year of schooling, she found an odd book , Killers of Ancient Egypt...

She read it but forgot all about it until two years later...

The school or the boarding institute was an completely Girls school , female teachers , female staff and female principal ...


 In high school,
She was still plump as a baby elephant,
Graduated from a hippo ...

Her parents had sent her a gift for clearing her exams and a letter to say how busy they were, to not have time to meet her ...


She had a small black diary,
She had named it Chronicles of MAYA , the nobody.

In the first page was a photograph of her and her Nanny , Mrs.Bai .

She looked at it every night and slept peacefully until the clocks rang and the days begun their nightmare Or daymare in fact ,
She hated the school, the curriculum and highest hatred was reserved for her batchmates...

They had their own little groups and they would make fun of her. She did not listen much to their words, she just wrote every taunt in her book,
Every name in her book ....

They would get bolder by the day, just words could not hurt her...

Then one day her entire room had pictures of her with elephants ,

Titled MAYA,the elephant...


Then came an entire song, about her and the elephant herd ...

Everything was noted in that book of hers,
A dead cockroach found in her food...
Then on the day of holi she had a bath in cow dung manure, courtesy her arch Rivals ...
One last event , triggered the becoming of MELISSA , Maya was no more ...


The principal shrugged it off as a prank,
And even laughed at her covered in Manure

MAYA's room now resembled a wreck , a scene of war and rampage , all her books had been torn to pieces...

She wanted to cry , she cried and cried, she tried to sleep but could not ...

Then the next day she discovered her dairy, still intact , but the picture of her Nanny Mrs.Bai had been burnt...

It was,then she screamed aloud ...

She remembered that book , Killers of Egypt ...

MELLITUS CROCODILA was an assasin in the court of Cleopatra, her method of killing was to kill with Snake and Vasp Venom ...

The principal called her and locked her in a dark room...

In that dark room, the plump kid , picked on by her own kind, left by her own parents ,
Rotting away , MAYA the nobody wanted to become someone , she wanted to be loved , respected and most of all now feared ....

Two days later , the principal was found in her room, stung by wasps thirty four times,

Her mouth was full of molten wax ,
MELISSA the killer was born...

The school closed down , the killer was never found...


But every week , a student from that institute was found dead with vasp stings and now as if to mock them in hell, A letter that said Sorry, it would be a while for her to come to hell ...

The Chronicles of MAYA, the nobody .. the Book of MELISSA ,the Girl from Hell
..

Thus she had become MELISSA, the Justice Giver...