Sibling Betrayal: A Journey from Heartbreak to Strength

A heart-wrenching tale of sibling betrayal and the struggle for respect and love. Samara’s journey through family turmoil and personal heartbreak leads to a powerful rebirth as she finds the strength to rise above the past.

“I will make life hell for you for you don’t know how much I have tolerated you now you shall see what I can do to you,” screamed Tejas Rai as he thrusted a menacing fist right in front of his shell shocked sibling and her two equally stunned and worried friends.
Shivani Rai couldn’t believe what was happening in front of her eyes. Was this her same loving father like only brother upon whom she had showered all her maternal love especially after their single mother had passed away due to Cancer in 2020.
She had been too depressed to have seen or realised that all her brother ever did was to use her till her entire share of money left by their mother had gone into the construction of their dream house at Rumtek just a few turns after the famous Rumtek monastery.
They say a person before dying may have flashbacks of their lives play before their eyes and for Samara this was it.
She died in that moment and now she saw herself and her brother Tej scared and absolutely horrified as theyhuddled into a corner watching their alcoholic father smash plates and terrorise their mother and their grandparents .
Samara would try to cover her little brother’s ears being the first born she felt she need to protect her brother and she was just seven years old and her brother was five.
They grew up confused and lost but were close to each other. Then the celebrations of Rakhi and Bhai Tika ( similar to bhai dhuj) one thing was apparent though that the siblings loved each other dearly.
Then Tej got married to Reena Gurung and his sister was the happiest that day for she felt her brother had finally found a safe harbour to anchor in his childhood trauma for Reena was a strong personality.
The greatest joy then entered when Samara’s niece was born and the minute that fair infant looked into her aunt’s eyes both felt a precious bond that would last till the day Tej showed his fist to his sister, and all the love, the joys , the childhood ordeals they had suffered together and the times Samara had stepped in to look after Pema Lamu Tejas’s little daughter all evaporated into thin air.
Her two friends started sobbing loudly as they saw their friend’s heart breaking into a thousand million pieces right in front of their eyes.
As they reached the front gate Samara’s bag fell down from her shivering hands and she realised the photo frames she was carrying must have broken inside.
“ Don’t you dare throw broken glass pieces in my house it’s bad luck just get out of soon as you can,” Tej yelled from behind her and her two friends now started howling loudly as they must have felt a fraction of that pain that now reigned Samara’s heart.
“ Sammy see it’s your picture with mom that got broken the rest photo frames are fine,” uttered her friend Roma and Seema said,” It’s a sign from heaven Sammy aunty must be crying up there to see you hurt now.”
Just then her dog Bono ran towards her howling in misery and she hugged him for the last time for he belonged to her sister in law she didn’t pay for him she had just helped to raise him up and then entered their maid Durga Thapa, the one she had loved with all her heart and was a sister to her not a house help and here she was snatching Bono from her and dragging him to be chained else where.
Betrayal was final Samara saw nothing but a cold icy, evil vibrations from Durga and she realised how the night Julius Ceaser must have felt .
All she had done was to voice her opinions and to have asked to be treated with respect.
It was never a question of money for her she had stayed with her brother for she had loved him and her niece and now after selflessly serving this family she was humiliated this way .
What a thank you she had received for having sacrificed her time, her love,genuine care and money on these money hungry, materialistic evil people .
She knew the main villain wasn’t present there physically but she was the one who had pulled the strings behind her spineless brother.
Samara looked once back into the house she had loved and the memories of the love she had showered for the people there and finally she realised only Bono knew her value and now she had to leave him and that broke her heart more.
As soon as she entered that reserved taxi she started crying first silently than loudly and as she cried so did her friends in the second seat.
Kalyug smiled as he observed everything was going exactly as had been planned from the beginning now Samara will break apart to die and to be born again.
As the howling first born looked into the sky she thought she saw a brilliant image of a trident in the sky , she blinked again and she saw the three eyed one looking down into her shattered soul whispering as if everything was going to be fine.
Samara didn’t tell her friends what she had seen for she had been seeing this apparition from the time she was all of seven and now she had stopped taking about it for people will label her to be insane and hail evil like her brother and sister in law who ran after money without caring about the hearts they had broken and the souls they had killed along their way to success.
Samara smiled because she knew karma won’t leave anyone that people will get what they have sowed within this lifetime.
She smiled and comforted her two grieving friends instead and said, “ My life will now begin so cheer up I lost nothing but they lost everything today.”
Trilochana