32. Frozen time

Ember demonstrated everything to Akshara and she being quick-witted learnt everything, “…Wow, Axe. You are good…It took me nearly five days to hold the wine bottle like this…”
Akshara smiled in the corner of her lips, “Thanks Timber, I mean to say Ember. This is the first compliment out of my hard work, I ever received.”
An obese man called out a wine lady to fill his glass who was seated in the corner of the wall with a gang of wine-drinkers. As everyone was busy serving other drinkers, no one expect Akshara would receive the turn to serve the dirty men.
The lady-in-charge rushed towards the table where Akshara was positioned and shouted at her, “Are you deaf, you rotten. The man is calling, go hurry and serve him.”
The balloon structured lady-in-charge dragged Akshara from her initial position by pulling her arms, Akshara moved from that place and headed towards the obese man. Soon Akshara was stopped by the balloon structured lady-in-charge, “Wait... Where are you going?”
Akshara replied with stammering, “To... to serve that man.”
The lady-in-charge slapped at the cheeks of Akshara, her cheeks turned red by the sudden blow, tears were ready to roll down her cheeks, “Will you serve yourself to them? (Akshara was shocked to hear those words) To serve you need wines. Take your rotten face out of my sight. Ember gave her a wine bottle.”
Ember rushed with a wine bottle and pleaded with the lady-in-charge to spare her and handed over the wine bottle to Akshara and informed her, “Axe, take this… remembers to serve with a smile.”
Akshara asked after confirming the lady-in-charge had disappeared from their sight and with a trembling tone of shock and fear to Ember, “What if they ask me something I couldn’t offer?”
Ember replied by touching the cherry red cheeks of Akshara, “Answer them with politeness. You have to go through this, Axe.”
Akshara rooted her path to the corner where the obese man and his gang were having fun, on the way Akshara saw her roommate Alaso, dancing sexily by exposing her body in the middle of the Cave bar along with tapping to the loud music.
Some men gathered to watch Alaso. Some were eating her alive with their eyes. Some men ignored her like she was a lizard attaching to the wall. Some were drunk with both wines and the beauty of the young girls.
Akshara’s mind raced to build her thoughts, “Why does she dance like that... All the men are seducing her with their eyes. Alaso is far better than Nail. Alaso performs only dance but Nail... She was... I don't want to look at her. Disgusting! Ember and Chaos are hard-working but they often demotivate themselves as beauty-less girls. Indeed, they look pretty. Ruko... Where is Ruko...?”
Akshara couldn't find Ruko and she made her way to the table near the corner of the wall by penetrating herself through many nasty minded men by EXCUSE ME words and felt bad about the behaviours of her roommates while holding the wine bottle.
Akshara reached the table and hold her thoughts for a moment and decided to finish her job successfully. Akshara bends forward a little to fill the empty glass, as she was dressed in a mini skirt, a man behind her looked cunningly by tilting his head down and slammed her back by saying, “Very sexy…”
Akshara quickly jumped a little and was shocked to receive such a response from that man and dropped the wine bottle and turned to slap that man; soon Akshara felt a hand on her waist and twisted to look whose hands were on her waist.
A man with a missed tooth in his blackish mouth and many scars all over his face grinned at her, “Poor Wine bottle… Don’t worry about that... I will pay for it.”
Akshara slapped at his hand and that man took his hands off from her. Another man with a plaited beard came forward, “No wine… No worry…So, you serve yourself... Sit in my laps, Baby” and pulled her hands towards him.
Akshara pushed him back and her wrist was caught by another man and forced her to face against the wall, “How dare you bitch... to raise your hand against us. Do you know who we are?”
The man held the arms of Akshara above her head and started to pull the cord of thread that was knotted in her corset. Akshara was bewildered and shocked, the fear swallowed her brain and she couldn’t help herself from his hold.
The cord of thread that was tightened the corset against her body which covered her belly, when it was loosened, it revealed her shape partially. Akshara released herself by kicking him hard with her heels on his knees.
The other man went close to scare her; he laid his hands on her body to rip off the corset which she was wearing around her waist to cover her belly. While another man caught her legs and she was made to lie on her back on the floor. Akshara screamed a lot. But the other men were gathered around to laugh instead of helping her.
As the cave bar was filled with extreme noise and horrific music, Akshara was unheard of by her roommates. She wanted to choose death instead of being their toy. Tears rolled down to hit her ears and decided to defend them with her full energy.
Though Akshara was scared throughout her life out, did not show them but protested hard enough to escape from them. She somehow managed to loosen their hold, twisted and turned to crawl. Some men grabbed her leg and pulled her towards them and laid their hands on her to abuse her. As they were in the state of half-drunk, Akshara kicked them hard with her heels and started to run towards the door without minding anyone on her way to exit.
The eyes of Akshara were filled with involuntary tears and her hands were busy wiping them and her feet were quick to move from that hell place without looking back. Alaso, Nail, Ember watched Akshara running with tears but Chaos followed her.
Akshara was quick in her steps and she was bombarded with many who was in her way and did not mind anyone’s yelling and calling her abuse names. She felt relieved by the blurred vision of the door as her eyes were filled with tears.
Akshara couldn't open the door with her weak force, so she transferred her full energy to her arms and pushed the one side of the big ice door outside to open; the other part of the door was pushed inside simultaneously by Dev.
Akshara emerged from the closed-door with lightning speed and Dev drove himself inside to enter the cave bar of Frozen Crescent. The two partitions of the door were rested to their position after they both went in different directions.
Akshara made her way to nowhere where there was no one around. Akshara decided to run off this place and thought, “It would be fine if I was eaten alive by any beast rather than employing such things”.
Dev moved to the table where he usually sat in the cave bar, “It would be fine if I was drunken rather dreaming sinful intimacy with those exotic eyes.”
It was almost the same time when tears emerged from the eyes of Akshara that rolled down like pearls on her cheeks while Dev poured his empty glass with his favourite wine in the Frozen Crescent, the red wine.