The Cruelty of Destiny

A Story-

Tears roll down onto Luna’s cheek when she hears the news. All her faiths were now destroyed.

‘’The shipwreck in Alaska has been very disastrous. Many children have lost their parents and siblings and are mourning their death. They are stranded and desperate now. There is a very great turmoil here and no one knows what is happening, they want revenge from the captain of the ship and their families who left them shelter less. Millions of people are wounded and some are massacred too.’’ Said the reporter.

Luna thought about her family, it was best she could’ve ever got. They were travelling on the ship too. She didn’t know how any of this had taken place, she was in her home waiting for the phone call of her family when she heard the news and all she knew was that she had no family now. Luna imagined her family drowning in the waters of Alaska, even thinking about it felt like she had poisoned herself.

Things had taken place in such a short lease of time that she hardly had time to react and shout and scream and cry. Luna was very close to her family ever since she was a child. Her mother, Everdeen, was very cheerful and affectionate. Her father, Charles, was charming and intelligent. But her brother, Percy, was quite the opposite of all of them, he was very unfriendly and shabby. Even though Luna was a very polite and loveable girl whom everybody liked; she did not have many friends for she did not trust people, no one but her brother Percy.

Luna and Percy were very close to each other, their relationship was not because they were siblings but because they understood each other more than anyone, even themselves. Their relationship was very unexplainable. Probably that is why she couldn’t believe his brother was gone, his own brother who was his best friend and only friend she had ever made. And this was too much for her, even if she was 22.But Luna could feel something stirring in her heart which said that Percy may be alive. Luna just wanted Percy, because he was Luna’s everything.

So she decided to go to Alaska and try and find her brother. So this is how she books a flight online that takes off for Alaska at 5 in the morning the next day. Luna packed her bag and kept some food to eat. And so soon she is on a flight to Alaska, and the next moment she is in Alaska itself. The weather in Alaska was temperate and it seemed very graceful in the summer’s sun. She could smell the fragrance of daisies and feel the cold but self-serving breeze on her cheeks. But she did not have much time to waste.

Luna ate one of the sandwiches which she had brought from home and then started the search. She started from the local market for if she were with her family she would go to the market only. But when she had asked all the shop owners and local people Luna knew that she was not so right always. She had even tried to spy on some businessmen to see if they knew something at all, but of course that was of no use at all. She asked all the people if they had seen a boy who was tall, filthy and grumpy, again no. The next few days which seemed like they were eternal, Luna wandered from here to there; she had gone almost everywhere, but as you have also noticed she did not even think of the port!

She was so baffled that she forgot that the most obvious place was the port, of course. Soon Luna had given up hope until there was a spark in her mind. A voice in her head said ‘’Luna, honestly you’re the biggest idiot I have ever seen in my life! Why did not you go to the PORT???’’. And as soon as she heard it she was in a rage how did she not even think of it, and she took a cab nearest and told the driver to rush to the port as fast as he can.

On reaching the port Luna was surprised by a very big pack and she knew that all of these people were down-and-out and destitute. She wanted to help them but right now she was just thinking about him; Percy her brother. She looked for him everywhere but there was no sign of his filth or shabbiness at all, Luna was broken, she was so desperate to see him and she felt like she had known that he was alive but now the reality was in front of her. On comparing the reality from the expectations Luna felt like she was betrayed. Now she had given up. She turned back and was about to leave when someone stopped her by seizing her wrist. She tried to free it but her wrist was narrow and she was easily trounced. She turned around and was ready to fight with whoever it was, but when she saw who it was she almost died of a heart attack.

Yes! It was him! It was Percy, her brother at last. Tears started to roll down from her eyes and everything became blurry, she looked at him through the blur and saw he was untrimmed. Percy hugged her sister making Luna cry even more.

‘’I knew you would come!’’ Percy said at last.

‘’I thought you were…’’ Luna started but couldn’t complete for she had lost it completely. ’’Where are Mom and Dad? ’’ She managed to say at last.

At this Percy became rigid and did not say anything.

‘’’Percy, I asked where are Mom and Dad?’’ she repeated again.

‘’They are no more’’ he said silently.

At this Luna did not know how she should feel. She knew she had only two options either her parents or Percy, and she had always wanted Percy more than anyone, but it was all very naive to know this. Luna now knew that she only had Percy, though they will be orphans now but she still had him.

Now five years had passed and again it was another summer day in Alaska, but now Luna and Percy were orphans they had nobody but each other. They stayed in an orphanage but it was moreover a home, a home where one could find all types of people. People who keep bragging about their possessions, people who care for others, people who are insolent and people who have lost hope. But they were still a family and would always remain one. Percy and Luna knew that if this was their destiny; they had to accept it for they knew what has to happen will happen and no one can stop it from happening.