Gloria's Time: A Short Story

Gloria was a pretty, bubbly girl, who would admire nature like her parents and would always be engaged in solving puzzles and quizzes. As soon as she would return from school, she would go to her play room, pick up the mat and the puzzle games and bring them to the lawn. She would sit and start playing and solving. Gloria might not be having limitations of time, but time does have its own limitations. it takes with it everything when it moves ahead, sometimes it takes away even the happiness from a child’s heart. So the time came when Gloria was about to turn 13 years of age.

As the clock struck 12, Gloria shivered. Her phone started ringing. “tring tring”, “Gloria, pick up the phone darling, it must be for you only”, Gloria’s mother

She would neither study nor would she be able to enjoy her puzzle games anymore. All the time she would be thinking about the evil and the mishaps that might happen with her or with her family. At times she would start crying in the night, she would suddenly get up from her sleep and would give a cry, call out for her mother. Her parents would rush immediately to her bedroom and pacify her. At the day time also, she would not be able to concentrate in the class, while the teacher would be teaching the important lessons. Days and nights went like this only when Gloria would spend her moments in fear and would be left alone because nobody was able to understand her pain and the problem of

Next day when the psychiatrist came for her check up, Gloria was not on the bed. She was standing at the gate of the ward, holding her whatever little luggage was there with her. the psychiatrist called her to come and lie down on the bed, as he would interrogate her. but she boldly and confidently said, “I’ am absolutely fine, and I ‘am going home.” She left the ward immediately, took a rikshaw and very innocently told the rickshaw puller that once she reaches her home, her parents would pay him. she reached home and her parents were surprised to see her. she told everything to her parents. Her parents gazed at her innocent face and tears rolled down their