CIARA IN DISTRESS

"I didn't do anything. Please let me go", cried Ciara. But that black figure was walking as if he hadn't heard her talk. He raised his axe, "no...", shouted Ciara.

"Whats wrong?" Lilly her roommate rushed to her bed. It took Ciara only two minutes to realise that it was just another nightmare like the other nights.

Ciara was breathing heavily and finished the glass of water that Lilly had given her in one go.

"Another bad dream?" a sleepy Lilly asked, with concern visible in her eyes. Ciara could only nod at that. She had been having such nightmares ever since her parents died in an accident. Theirs was a happy family. But that accident had completely shattered Ciara. Her father was a rich businessman and had left all his property for Ciara. She could have led a carefree life. But everything changed when she was sent to stay with her maternal relatives.

In the beginning everything seemed good. Ciara was happy that there was somebody to look after her and would help her live her dreams. Everybody was really nice to her.Although Ciara missed her parents a lot but still she was happy staying with hr relatives.

But within a few months their attitude towards Ciara changed completely. Nobody spoke to her. She was not allowed to go to school and was made to do all the household chores.

Ciara lost all interest in life. She would stay locked in her room staring in the dark and crying. The ultimate shock came when Ciara's relative sent her to mental asylum saying she was insane. Ciara shouted, she cried but there was no one who could hear her cries. Nobody came for her help and neither did people believe her when she said that she was not crazy.

Her relatives had taken her in just for her property.

as soon as they got access to all her funds they falsely accused her of being insane and sent her to the asylum. Since she had been sent to their place after a long legal procedure, sending her to an orphanage could raise suspicions.

This past one week had been really difficult for Ciara. Life in the asylum was a complete torture for her. There was no proper food and she had to take all those disgusting medicines. And worst of all she was treated like an insane there. The only time she felt relaxed was when she was with Lilly. Lilly had been in the asylum for the past two years now. She had gone through exactly what Ciara was now going through.

"Ciara are you listening?" Lilly's voice pulled her back to reality.

"Lets just run away from here. There are a number of NGO's that would take up your case and help you." Lilly said.

"But how?" The next two days both of them planned how they were going to run from the asylum. As it turned out, it was rather easy for them. During the lunch hour they quietly sneaked out. And they were just lucky that the watchman was not there. They made sure that there is no one watching them and ran away from there. The main gate was closed but they managed to climb over and got away. They ran at full speed without looking behind.

Finally after covering a long distance did they stop. Both of them panting from all the running. They had successfully got away from the asylum but had no idea as to where to go now. Ciara had a friend in school Sia, to whom she was really close. They decided to go to her place. With great difficulty they reached there. Her mother was generous enough to let them in. They were shocked to hear all that had happened with Ciara.

At once they decided to help them. The next day Ciara and Lilly went to a NGO along with Sia and her family. The people from the NGO decided o take up their case.

It took long for everything to get over but soon Ciara got all her property back and her relatives were behind the bars. Through all of this Ciara and Lilly stayed with Sia's family. On the day of the final hearing Sia's parents announced that were going to adopt Ciara and Lilly. They'll take care of them and when they turn eighteen they can move on with their life as they want.