The Shadow Queen
It's around the time of 90's in the house of Tamang family which is near the border of the nation , at the time of sunrise a girl was born . She was named Sang Tamang by the Lama( it's a tredition among Tamang community that the first name will always be given by buddha's priests in Tamang community) . Just because she was was girl her father's family were not happy at all . Her mother who has already in tough situation got more worse . Because of these her mother has to return to capital (KTM) just in 11th day of giving birth.
And that girl is me , Sang Tamang .Most importantly today is birthday m 6 years old today .
I have a family of six people my Dad ,mother ,big brother who is 7 year older than me , my older sister who is 5 years older than me , me n my small brother who is 5 years smaller than me . All my siblings are fair and have white skin where I have a dark brown skin ( my mother always told me that I got dark skin because she didn't have any object which was given to child for warmth and oil for massage so she always kept me in sun for hours n hours in the hope that I couldn't get caught by cold ) . But to be honest I felt bad about by skin colour. Most of people always comments she so dark ,she is so ugly . But, let it be today is my birthday so m going to enjoy . Who have thought that the day of birthday will start with sadness , today my father went to abroad to work , to earn little bit more money that he could make our family little bit stable . I m desperate to know why he have to go today . ( I know m still child but I love my father I don't want to separated to him ) He left house with smile, tears in eyes n one hand bag of his some clothes n necessities .
After some time , its about to start a new grade I m happy and m also thinking to make some new friends. I picked up my bag n left for school alone . I love moving or roam around alone , I get curious about every little things , I love spending time with my friends n m kinda good at acting sometimes and to go new places . After reaching school i went direct to my class with help of some other students . I did manage to make some friends and like this some months goes on . And one day I went to my sister's class room , I just felt like meeting her ( my big brother, my sister n me we were at same government school) n I asked some one from her class 'do you know my sister Lina m looking for her ' and she took me Infront of my sister and asked her ' Is she is your sister ??' and she ,my sister said ' I don't know her' I felt so dump n leave that room n I can hear her saying 'how can she be my sister she is so dark n look at me how fair I am ' . To be honest this is the first time I felt so discouraged and disappoint I couldn't stop myself crying I went to one corner n cried silently. I didn't felt like telling anyone about it . From this day on I started to maintain my distance with my sister .
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