Müsnah - Access Divide

Dana ran as fast as she could into her bedroom. She locked the door and was frantically panicking. Palms sweating. Heart beating. Mind scattering. She needed to calm down and so she did a few seconds later. Dana stared the door in silence. No sound could be heard from the other side when suddenly, the doorknob started shaking. Somebody was trying to open the door!

Her anxiety came back. Without any other options, Dana hid inside her closet and closed the shutters. She could still hear the doorknob; it started off softly and then it got louder and more aggressive. The sound was unbearable until suddenly it stopped. Dana couldn't hear anything else. Before she could peek outside, a pair of hands appeared in-between the shutters, slowly opening them to reveal Müsnah's face.

"WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME?! WHAT DO YOU WANT?!" cried Dana.

Müsnah reached out for something with her right hand to reveal a picture of Sam. It then dawned on her: this was for all the beatings and abuses that she had given to her own son. In fact, she was in the same closet where she regularly locked her 12 year old boy over the smallest things. Sam was a good boy; he meant no harm but too bad her own drug-addict mom couldn't see that. Due to her negligence, Sam was hospitalised for accidentally putting a nasty pill in his cereal that drugged him. Instead of visiting him, she was at home getting high.

"A..are..are you going to kill me?" Dana cried for mercy. Without any warning, Müsnah punched her in the face and then everything went black.

When she came to, Dana realized she was in a hospital room and sitting next to her son - heavily sedated with tubes all over his nose and mouth. The sight alone made Dana burst into tears. She hugged him like she had never hugged him before in her life and cried on his shoulder uncontrollably. Before she could said she was sorry, she noticed Müsnah was staring at her outside the window. Müsnah then made a gesture of pointing her index and middle finger to her own eyes and then pointing her index finger to Dana to say "I'll be watching you."

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