A family of 5, a father, a mother, two girls, and a boy. The eldest girl was 24, a boy of 14 and the little girl of 5. The
little girl always had her doll with her at all times which she thought was the
cutest doll in the world. They all planned a trip to travel via flights
throughout India. They packed their bags and reached a city where they took
buses to the airport. Having never traveled in the city to the airport, all
the family was very excited, the bus was full of people(foreigners, Hindu,
Muslim, etc.) they all left and the driver of the bus was supposedly a
Muslim(as guessed by the mother) although the bus had no signs to depict this
assumption.
The driver was taking the bus to some unusual places instead of the airport,
everyone inside started asking questions to the conductor and he replied that
it was a new short-cut to the airport to avoid traffic, so they all believed
him. The driver was going in a very isolated direction, suddenly other buses
that were similarly headed towards the airport came into visibility which
relieved the passengers a bit. All the buses were moving in a line and suddenly
all of the drives drove their buses into ditches on the side of the road. Many
of them were injured at the time of the impact. Unable to move, everyone stayed
inside trying to help one another irrespective of their religions/color, then
suddenly few armed men came inside, down the ditch and started shooting
everyone, chaos spread. The family remained close to one another, the
eldest girl held the little girl, the little girl held her doll, mother held
her son and the father held everyone close in his arms. Unlike everyone they
were the only ones who remained uninjured on the bus, they were in the corner
seat at the back of the bus. They happened to be the only family of five on the
bus. They were taken as hostages by the shooters. Why were they the only ones
alive on that bus? The father thought this to himself. When they came out of
the ditch held by the shooters (whose faces were covered) they saw that every
other bus was on fire and there was no one in sight. No living being in sight
just the glare of the sun and the burning buses. (Apparently, they missed that
every other bus was set with an explosive and they couldn’t hear the explosion
as it happened when they crashed) There came a new bus and it took all the
shooters and a family of five with them. (Even the bus’s drivers and
conductors were shot by the shooters) The bus was usual and traveled at
fairly high speed for some hours then it became normal, they were fleeing the
sight. They traveled from city to city and villages to villages. Everyone was
scared at first but the father took all of them at peace saying that they
wouldn’t hurt any of them as they didn’t kill them on the bus when it crashed.
The little girl was too tired of crying now. All the family was numb now. So,
they started asking questions to the shooters. (They were the only family alive
as they were Hindu and were always to be kept as hostages for their own
protection and demands to be fulfilled by the government) The first shooter
asked them to shut their mouths. Another shooter started staring down the
eldest girl with his lustful eyes, he scared her, her mother tried to hold her
close. What did they want from the family? Why only this Hindu family? None of
the questions were answered. They tried to scare them by saying that they will
shoot them. (They didn’t know which bus the family would be on so they planted
explosives on every bus and the driver and the conductor of every bus were
involved with the shooters, they blew themselves and the buses on which the
family wasn’t on. The conductor had the detonator. The family’s bus was not
exploded but the driver and conductor were shot by the shooters, they didn’t
know that they would be killed) They were traveling and the family was
scared, they came across a few police cars but nothing happened, now they came
across a roadblock by police, the shooters dressed themselves differently like
casuals and said that this bus was also having a bomb and they would explode
the bus if they did anything reckless, the shooter had the detonator. Few cops
came inside and checked the bus, nothing was found, on asking the men in the
bus they answered they were headed towards their town. After a while, all of
them were allowed to pass by. They had hidden their guns somewhere on the bus.
One of the shooters lost control and patience and tried to take the eldest girl
he had eyes on, he put her on the side backward and tried to rape her, the
father rebelled but was taken aback by the second shooter. One of the shooters
said that now is not the time and asked him to be patient, and he will get enough time each
one of them looking at the mother and the little girl. Another said that the
family was to be set free, at which he was shut up by the second shooter. They
weren’t supposed to speak about it, the whole Hindu family and their demands
thing. So the girl was sat down on her seat, she was continuously enchanting
that “he will rape me”. The little girl was unable to understand anything.
Father came to the conclusion that they needed this family for something they
wanted.
A few days passed away, they had to take ladies so they could defaecate,
same for men. They weren’t fed anything. Two of the shooters were out when a
police car came and the driver panicked and suddenly, they realized that the
car was headed directly towards them. The two shooters came inside in a hurry,
took out their weapons and started shooting, all the members of the family were
on the floor of the bus. One shooter got shot in his head and died, another was
injured, then the shooters took members of the family at the window and used them as their
shields and started shooting, another shooter took the detonator and showed it
to the police car after them at which police turned back. The injured shooter
was dead after a while. There were only two remaining, one was the driver and
one shooter. They realized that they were out of ammo and the condition of the
bus with all the bullet marks on it would give up their masquerade. So, they
decided to split up, the driver took the little girl and the shooter took the
other four family members. The four were warned that if they did anything
unwanted then the driver would kill their little angel. They only had knives as
weapons left. The shooter with four hostages and his knife was walking towards
the airport of another city and the driver was following him so that he could
kill the girl at the right time. The son thought that he was smarter than other
members of his family. (the shooter had a plan to blast the airport to which
they were walking and had some friends he called which were the backup plan)
When they reached the airport he found that there was way too much security and
he asked someone about it and was informed that five people were arrested, they
had weapons and explosives in their van. He was very disturbed after listening
to this news, so he pushed the mother to move and did it with cruelty at which
a police officer came and asked if everything was all right. The son whispered
“help us” with a terrorized face while none of the other said anything. The cop
unholstered his gun and asked the man to step away at which the man took out
his knife and placed it on the father and slit his throat, then he took the
mother. The cop was too far to react quickly. The father choked and died after
bleeding too much. The cop saw him die and the shooter asked the cop to drop
his gun. The cop took a little bit of time but after seeing another cop right
behind the shooter he dropped his gun and he stepped away. The cop behind him
shot the shooter in his head and he dropped on the floor. His blood was all
over the three hostages. The three hostages told the cops about the little girl
and the driver. Everyone started searching for her while the family was kept in
a safe place inside the airport. After a while, a cop came to the family and
said that they have found the girl. Everyone was terrified after the father
died but relieved that the little girl was found but there was something
very disturbing about the countenance of the cop. Only the mother and her
daughter could recognize that disturbing look, the boy wasn’t able to notice
it. They reached the back of the airport and found the girl’s body her eyes
were taken out and she was lying on the floor with her doll on her
chest. The females broke at this sight and started crying, a female constable
took both of them inside. The boy remained at the sight and he fell on his
knees realizing what he had done (he wasn’t as smart as he thought he was). He
thought to himself that it was because of him that his father died as he
whispered “help us”, also he was the reason that the driver killed his sister
and fled. He ran to her body and took the doll. The sight was cleared.
After a few years, the son was very depressed throughout. The mother
forced her daughter to get married and have a family which would help her
deviate from that incident. The mother stayed at home with her son. She
couldn’t help her son’s depression. A few months later when the mother was out
for grocery shopping, she came back and found her son hung from the ceiling
with a note saying “I am sorry” on the doll which he took from his sister’s
dead body. He couldn’t bear it anymore.
The eldest daughter was shocked and petrified at this news. After a few years, she will get married and make a family and get away from all of this. She was pregnant with a girl whom she thought would be the
rebirth of her young sister, finally, there was some happiness at her doors. At
the time of her delivery, she faced many complications and both the mother and
the girl died during the process of childbirth. The only one who remained of the
five was the mother, not a mother anymore nor a wife. She was very
superstitious and somehow was getting mad
day by day. She started blaming the doll for all that had happened, for losing her entire family. So, she thought of taking revenge on her. She burned her whole house down with the doll in her laps sitting in her family’s room on the floor. The whole house got burned down, none of the five remained, not even the doll.
day by day. She started blaming the doll for all that had happened, for losing her entire family. So, she thought of taking revenge on her. She burned her whole house down with the doll in her laps sitting in her family’s room on the floor. The whole house got burned down, none of the five remained, not even the doll.
