" Thank you guys. ", he said.
He went ahead and greeted his relatives and went to chat with his friends. He was still having a hard time that his friends were also in on this. One should know that his parents didn't particularly like his friends, as they were all not particularly bright students. But they were there so whatever.
' No wonder I didn't get a call from any of these bastards. ' Shuvam only had a few close friends. And these five were his best friends. Only these people except for his relatives had his phone number. The other ' friends ' he knew from high school were friends with him on Facebook but they weren't close enough to have his phone number. They must have posted birthday wishes on the Facebook because it showed that today was his birthday but they didn't actually care.
He hadn't used his Facebook today because he was busy and all so he naturally didn't know that they wished or the fact that today was his birthday.
The dinner was ready. All his relatives and friends along with his parents and brother started having dinner. There was rice, chicken, dal, mom's homemade pickles and other stuff. They had cake for dessert. It was fun. After everyone finished having their dinner. Shuvam took his friends to his room. They just talked for some time. He was thinking of telling them that he had earned some money by selling a game idea but he stopped himself from doing so and thought that he would tell them after the exams finished.
One by one, everyone started going home as it was getting late. When everybody had left, he went inside his parent's room. His dad was watching movie on the TV. His mom was not here as she was probably doing dishes in the kitchen and his brother had already went to sleep. He was planning on telling his parents about the money.
He had already thought of a plan. He was going to tell them that he had sold his game idea with a full GDD ( game design document ) to a foreign game developing studio.
" Dad, can you come to the living room for a quick moment ? I have to tell you something. "
His dad slightly nodded and followed him to the living room. He sat on the couch. " I will go get mom. ", Shuvam said and hurried to the kitchen.
" Sigh….. What is this kid going to say ? Don't tell me he's really thinking of quitting and not going to college. " he sighed and murmured in a low voice.
Whereas, Shuvam was currently leading his mom into the living room. He had told he wanted to say something important. After entering the room, Shuvam told her to sit beside his dad.
" What is it that you wanted to talk about ? ", his mom said hurriedly as she was only halfway through the dishes. It was already pretty late and she had to get up early everyday to leave for school.
" Dad, do you have an account in Nepal bank limited ? ",he asked. His mom was rather gloomy after being ignored like that but seeing that her son was serious about something, she decided to listen.
" Yes, why do you ask ? "
Shuvam took out his mobile phone, opened the e banking app and said," Tell me your account number. "
" XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX "
Shuvam quickly went to the transfer money to other accounts option and wrote his dad's account number in the recipient section and set the amount to NRs 1,000,000. He clicked on the transfer money option and his account showed an remaining balance ofabout 1.5 million NRs.
His dad got a message on his phone. He took out his phone and clicked on the message to see its contents. He was stunned when he saw the contents of the message. The message said - ' Mr. Shuvam has transferred NRs 1,000,000 to your account. Your new balance is 1,237,600.'
He showed his wife the message that came from the bank and both of his parents looked at Shuvam with disbelief in their eyes.
His father looked at him with uncertainty and voiced out, " How..? " His father was worried that his son had involved himself in some sort of illegal activities and got himself this money through illegal ways.
" I sold a game idea. I sold my game to a company based in UK. They bought it for NRs 2,500,000. ", he said solemnly.
His father was a owner of a company so he knew hard it was to earn this money. So, he was a bit suspicious but since his son had told him that he earned it by selling a game, he decided to believe his son. He himself would take about 3-4 years in order to earn this much, so, it was natural for him to get suspicious. He was happy for his child, there no more thoughts in his mind, he was just happy.
His mom, on the other hand had tears rolling down her eyes. She was happy. She was happy that this son who got her worried because of his carefree nature and uncertain nature could finally be somewhat reliable. She was happy that he would have a good future. She went ahead and hugged her son while sobbing.
" Mom, why are you crying ? Isn't it a good thing that I earned this? It was hard to earn this you know. I had to work on the GDD for about 3-4 months. "
His parents ' naturally ' didn't that this GDD meant game design document but hearing that he had been working on it for 3-4 months. The last shred of doubt they had about the money coming from illegal sources vanished.
" These are tears of joy, my child. ", she said with a soft voice and went back to the sofa and sat down.
" What are you planning to do now ? ", his father asked. His father was worried that he had now gotten money so he might want to quit studying. He didn't want his son to quit his studies. He knew that moon would sooner or later be used up. So, he wanted to use this money to get his son into a good university.
" I have about 1.5 million in my account. I can use this to go to college in Kathmandu. I told you about that college I wanted to go to, right ? I will go there to study. The money I sent you is for brother's further studies in the future and for any financial problems that may arise at home. "
" Black box academy, right ? Have you thought about stuff like ' Where will you stay ' and other things ? "
" Yes, I have thought it through. I will rent a apartment. Cousin is doing a job there, so we can live together. She was saying that she was going to move soon so I could get an apartment that is near both my college and her office. "
His cousin was an engineer. She had done bachelor's in engineering. She was currently working in an consultancy firm. He actually had two cousins there who had moved there for studies but his other cousin had gone to Dubai for internship. He was doing bachelor's in hotel management and had to go to some foreign country for a year for internship. So, he had decided to stay with his cousin, Supriya.
" I can come too if you want. There is nothing much to do here. I could do the chores there. It would be easier for you and supriya. ",his mom suggested.
" No! Its okay mom. I can handle myself. If there are any problems, I can just give you or dad a call."
" umm… ", his mom and dad nodded in satisfaction. Their son had grown up.
Shuvam went back to his room, dad went back to watching TV and mom went to the kitchen to do the dishes but they all had a smile hung up on their face. Shuvam was too bored to do anything. He knew that in order to run the game dev system properly he would need a PC with very high specs, so he decided to start his game making experience after going to Kathmandu and getting a new PC. He went to sleep.
His exams were 3 days away but he wasn't worried much. He had to score 50% marks in all his subjects except Nepali in order to be meet minimum grade requirement to study Bachelor's in science in game design and development. He was pretty sure that he could easily score that much.
The next two weeks went by in a breeze. His exams were good. He was sure that he could score about 60% but even if some mishap happened he could easily get over 50% marks in each needed subjects. Today was the last exam. He went out of the exam hall and waited at the entrance of the school. He was waiting for his other friends to come, so that they could go home together. Among the five from the birthday party, two of them studied with him and were in the same class as him but the other three were in different college.
Two more of his good friends studied in the same school as him. But those two girls were in a different section. They all used to go home together after exams because their houses were in the same general direction. The six of them were asking each other how their exams went and telling each other the questions the cheated and how strict their guarding teacher was.
Suddenly his friend, Jasmine's friend came. Shuvam's heart skipped a beat when he saw her.