Just Another day

Priyanshu Gupta
2 min readMar 9, 2023

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It was just like another day in her regular teen life. She was about 14 years old. Her parents had arranged a van for her to commute from the school. Her van driver should also leave her like 50m from her house. That way he saved a bit of his time skipping a turn. She was always sceptical about it. She should always tell him, please leave me at my door, but the driver should refuse. He should say it is just 1 minute of walk. She gave up, as it was true. Days passed by and everything was going well. Now she didn’t even care to tell anything to the driver. She had lost hope.

As usual one day, the driver left her at that very same spot and she started walking towards her front door. It was about 2:30 pm and it was summer, the sun was at the top. There was no one on the road except a middle age man coming from the opposite direction. Apart from him, everyone was at their house, no spot of any soul. She was wearing her school uniform which consisted of a blouse and skirt which was to her knees. She was holding her bag on her one shoulder and was walking. Three more steps and she will be home after a tiring day. But she didn’t know what was coming her way. The man was about to cross by her and he did cross but after touching her vagina. She was shaken for a moment. Being a 14-year-old, she didn’t even know what had happened to her. She didn’t even shout or do anything. She knew when someone hurts you, you have to scream for help. But she didn’t know if this was what has happened right now, happens, what to do. Is this wrong, if yes what she should do? She was completely numb. After seconds of being astonished and so many thoughts back to back, she looked back and saw the man. He was just casually walking away. As if he didn’t do a thing and it was all in her head.

She entered her house and saw her grandparents, but she did not know what to say. She saw her mother after that, yet she didn’t know what to say.
She went to her room and didn’t know what to do.

And to date, she hasn’t spoken about it to anyone.

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Priyanshu Gupta

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