"JUDAS KISS" - One- Lucky Helen ✔

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Helen was just back from Chicago, her birthplace, where she had lived up to age sixteen. She had gone there to bury her mother. She saw her sister, Charlotte, there after all these years. She looked so different, so worn out, so overweight, so old... She was her younger sister, yet everyone said to her in the funeral that she looked younger than Charlotte.

Her mother's death was sudden. She had not said anything to her children abut being sick. Perhaps the shame of her being witness to most barbaric and beastly act by her husband to their daughters and not doing anything, nothing at all about it, and not confessing to her daughters when they begged her to admit that she knew about it, so she could give them some peace, was the reason for her to die alone, to hide her sickness. Who knew what she thought before her death!

Now she was dead! No one could bring her back, neither Helen nor Charlotte and to demand an answer from her! "Why mother, Why didn't you protect us? Why didn't you take us away from him and leave?!!"

Her death took place in an obscure grayness! She had no one around, nothing to lean on, no family; she had no brouhaha, no commotion; she had no dignity, no longing for enchantment; she had no fear of death in the morbid ambiance and unlovely hesitation; she had no belief in her own right; therefore no credence in the right of her children! That was her concluding judgment before her death that life was more prominent charade than death; and what most of us thought to be!

This trip was the final chapter of a life long disappointment for Helen. She was sure that her sister, Charlotte's feeling even worse than her. Her life was a big disaster, four marriages, five children, all from different husbands. changing jobs every few months, and now being single, helpless, jobless, and hopeless! Charlotte for some odd reason blamed Helen for many of her misfortune. She had never tried to confront father and mother the way that Helen had done. Perhaps she still thought that what happened to her was normal and Helen was the one who ruined her relationship with their father! What ever it might have been, It was a pure puzzlement to Helen that her sister, a sixty three years old woman would be so bitter even now that both their parents were gone! Why the coldness towards her? They were the only two left from their family except their children, who even did not give a damn about anything. Father had died five years prior to the death of the mother. Helen did go to his funeral; Charlotte Did not. In the late evening after burial and after every one was gone, when everyone was gone, Helen changed her mind of spending the night. She called her travel agency, ended up to pay some more money, and left that night instead of the next morning. Her mother had treated her poorly all day, so much so that even their families and friends had noticed it.

To Be Continued