When she reached the corridor of her house, the sound intensified.
"It seems to be coming from the kitchen," she moved to grab a broom lying in a storage corner of the hallway and prepared her heart for a fight.
It's only 6 in the morning and she was alone in the house. Her parents had gone to their relative's house for a family function and her brother has been out to Kabaddi playground since 4 in the morning leaving only her and her most trusted aide, Rocky, in the house.
"But which burglar tries to sneak into the house in the morning? Did the thieves change their working hours!? Yea, people get lazy and many of them wake up late but still stealing in daylight has many risks!" She thoughtfully got worried for the thief.
"Aren't they supposed to be coming in the middle of the night? If he is trying to come here at this time when half of the public is already awake, that means he has other motives," she whispered anxiously after concluding. "Maybe he knows that I am the only one in the house right now and that's why he is here now," her own thoughts made her hair stand at the end.
For two days Somya was having too much action in her life in a row. She looked at the ceiling as if she can look past it and stared at the sky and thought, 'Dear God, I know I asked you to make my life adventurous but... this is too much, okay! I had enough of all this Dishoom-Dishoom*! Now, I prefer a dull life. Do Something. Please.'
"Baby, you have to be quiet, okay? Be ready to attack once I instruct," she patted Rocky, bringing him closer to her.
The Lebara responded to her with a low growl as if approving her plan.
After getting her thoughts together she decides to fight tooth and nail with the intruder.
When she has finally reached the kitchen door, she puts her pet down and quietly enters inside.
'Bang Bang Bang'
She raises her broom in an attacking stance, ready to pounce on the thief any moment but…
After finding him there, sitting on the kitchen window, she froze.
There he was having his arms sneaking his way into the kitchen from the rails and they were currently beating anything they found lying nearby.
But what shocked Somya so much was the fact that he was…
a monkey.
Her thief, her intruder, turns out to be a monkey!
Doesn't that mean she made a fuss over nothing! Fighting tooth and nail! All those brave thoughts and courage-gathering moments just now look like a joke.
She doesn't want to accept this but looks like she has taken herself too seriously! Hehe.
Meanwhile, the monkey who paused for a moment to check on the strangers was back to work and was again drumming the utensils.
He had created a huge mess in the kitchen, spilling anything and everything, whatever came in his reach through the rails. Rocky was growling and barking endlessly but was not jumping on the window, maybe afraid of spilling something more and getting scolded too.
"Sigh...why did you do this?" Somya asked in annoyance to the monkey.
"Keke...Khuu Khuu," he bared his teeth on her and once again started beating.
"Hmm. I don't remember you monkeys pulling these kinds of stunts to just anyone randomly. Aren't you afraid of me beating you?" She tried threatening him. As if he could understand her!
The monkey just ignored her.
"What the hell! After Angry Young Man even a monkey is now ignoring me," she stomped her foot and grabbed a stainless steel ladle herself.
Somya starts beating the kitchen platform with the ladle to grab the attention of the monkey.
"Hey, you, Mr. Monkey! Care to tell me in what way I owe you this visit?"
After an intense drumming battle and almost bending the steel spoon by her continuous beating before she gives up.
Monkeys and pigeons in Jaipur City were as common as stray dogs. But they don't go barging in just anyone's home.
Monkeys are respected creatures in her culture. People revere them as the symbol of the monkey deity, Hanuman, whose simian army helped rescue Sita, the God Rama's wife, from a demon king, according to the Sanskrit epic Ramayana. So she can't kick him out with the broom she bought with her.
Suddenly she thought about something and called someone.
"Dad, do you know what a monkey is doing in our kitchen?"
"You let him in?" He sounded surprised.
"So, I was right! You again got yourself a new child behind our back."
No matter what people say or do in the name of following a religion but actually being religious is all about being humble. That's the belief her dad follows and thus he feeds stray animals regularly. As per the Shastras, the first bread of the house should be daily fed to a cow and the last bread goes to any homeless dog, they feed water and grains to pigeons and birds every day. That's how things proceed in the Sharma's house.
But monkeys are smarter than other animals. Biologists found that North Indian monkeys may adopt certain types of behavior that prompt people to feed them. Either by begging...or threat. So, in the end, she has to fetch some people from the neighborhood to help. And finally after much 'khee khee Khuu khuu', they managed to send him away.
~I am 99.9% sure that
I am a Disney Princess.
That 0.1% is that I haven't met a Bird yet that can to me ~