Continued from the previous part...
Siya: (with curiosity) What happened?
Siya's M: (Hesitating a bit, then it turns into guilty looks) Umm, an argument happened between me and Aunt, you just be cautious because in the upcoming days you are going to attend a lecture in the home.
Siya: (sighed) O bro, now I am gone. Why you have to do this, now she would be again lecturing me on all the past incidences and how bad you and dad are.
Siya's M: I am sorry. (With this she left the room)
After some minutes, I get up from the seat then go to the study table sit at the chair and start doing my assignment. Soon time passed and I go outside to eat my dinner, the route to dinning table is in between grand mother and Aunt room. While I am walking, I heard Aunt voice calling me inside in her room and honestly this is one of the most scariest plus uncomfortable situation because her room reek of negativity and suffocated smell of her body plus room odor.
However, though I was not at all comfortable but I took a deep breath and with full yet fake confidence I walk in that direction. I reached at the door of her, knock it once
Aunt: (High pitch voice, stern voice) come in
Siya: (I walk in, look at her sitting straight and looking at me with anger and frustration) Hey
Aunt: Come and sit we need to talk.
Siya: Umm its okay, I want to stand and you can talk.
Aunt: You know what happened today?
Aunt: Your mother is such a selfish character, she has completely destroyed my life you know she misbehaved with granny and she spoke wrong to her. She came to eat food a bit early, here your mother is doing some other work and she came at the exact moment of time when usually granny used to eat her food. When granny ask her, why she doesn't come early then your mother told her that she was busy, I spoke in-between them saying that granny is old if she is coming early to eat the food there is no harm in giving them food early.
And in reply your mother said that, usually granny comes at specific time so, I was prepared for that time only and till that time I got busy in work. See, this how she behaved with us, who girls talk like this with her mother in law and sister in law. Why are you so quite, speak something.
Siya: Hmmm but.... (she cut off me in between)
Aunt: (Showing his palm at my face, speak in bit high pitch) No need to argue with me, you are just like your mother who loves to argue.
Siya: but.... (cut me off again)
Aunt: You know when I used to be the daughter in-law I never ever dared to talk like this in front of my in-laws and see the way she behave.
However, before she could speak anything more I heard my mother calling all four of us for dinner that is me, dad, brother and she her self. I literally run out from the dinner but not before saying
Siya: Umm sorry dinner call, need to go bye.
I am just glad that at this time of dinner only we four have to eat it, because tolerating all of them together is really a difficult thing. Soon we all get settled at the dinning table, start serving food at our plates and while doing so at some point me and my mother look at each other, she mouthed 'is everything okay' and I replied in the same way 'yeah'. Though internally a battle going in my mind,
Siya: Whatever happened today wasn't too big and creating a chaos over it quite unnecessary. Though what more disturbing is that, why there is so much need to fight, what bad they have done to each other or especially my mother has done to them. Is my mother really that bad, should I hate her or should I also consider the way my Aunt and granny consider her. I just want to shout out loud, there are so many questions, complications and the last thing is my inner demon (the famous negative side) asking me go with the opinion of Aunt and granny, doubting the relation which I am sharing with the mother. On the other hand is my positive side (the good person) working against it that is want me to go against Aunt and Granny.
However, soon dinner get over with my tiring, hectic and heavy loaded mind I go to my room and tried to work on assignments and soon called it a night though I forced my self to sleep.
Next morning when I wake up and all I felt is heaviness in my head and my eyes are tired too, the whole reason behind this is that while I am sleeping my mind doesn't seem to be relaxed, whole night I have weird kind of dreams where I am just trying to resolve issues related to aunt, Erik, Mia and some other issues, though nothing seems to be related with each other. And yeah I forgot to mention, since I got involved in alcohol parties plus going more out with Erik, such kind of dreams plus heaviness in my head is becoming quite common.
However, I ignore all these feelings get read for the school, once I am done, I leave the house and reached school within a hour or more. At practice too my mind is still fogged up with the thoughts of yesterday dreams plus what happened when I had to attend the lecture the yesterday. Hence, I am not unable to concentrate on my daily activities, yeah I am performing them but my mind is not there. After half an hour practice got finished, I with continued faked smile and clamed features go for my first class which is with Ketty and Zoe, like usual I sit in between them and they start talking about food they are going to eat during in lunch and I just hummed while pretending to study.
Ketty: Today, I am going to eat chilly potato
Zoe: I am going to chilly garlic noodles and what about you Siya?
Siya: (fake excitement) Bread Jam
Ketty: I want to ask a question for you Siya, may I?
(Umm this permission taking thing usually confuse me because in my family only I am the one who used seek for permissions when I want to ask a question to them or want them to do any work for me or simply when I have to enter in their room but they usually don't seek any kind of permission rather they just demand or order things. The point is, I like this permission taking thing, because it gives a feeling as if my wish is important too but sometimes this contrasting environment make me think who is right)
Siya: Hmmm
Ketty: Why you eat bread jam most of time?
Siya: Umm because, its easy to make plus it usually becomes hectic to cook breakfast in the early morning and I seriously don't want my mother to feel pressure.
Ketty: Ohh okay.
After likely waiting twenty minutes, class get over and we move toward our next class and my this class is with Vicz, here I enter in the class and go there to sit beside her, once I get settled we greeted each other but it seems like Vicz is lost somewhere. Soon teacher come too so, I shift my chair to her side and lean a bit closer to her, whispered to her,
Siya: (low voice) Hey are you okay?
Vicz: (thinking for some minutes and then she speak) Umm want to share something.
Siya: Okay say.
Vicz: I have a boyfriend named Arnold but he is married, though I know that but I love him.
Siya: (Shock would be an understatement but I am not going to judge her) Okay, but why your mood is low.
Vicz: I don't want to lie to my family for meeting with him but I have to because, I don't know how they will take it or react it. The boy is good, even he has advised me to focus on my career and to forget about him because nothing can happen between us but what can I do because I have fallen in love with him.
Siya: Ohh don't worry just give some time and everything will fall at it right place. (Internally, thank god the boy is genuine at least not misleading her).
To this line of mine she just hummed and keep her hand on mine and I keep my other hand on her and squeeze a little. This way I guess we assured each other that everything would be okay in near future, honestly such types of physical touch making me learn that touching is not that bad, in fact it can be really comforting with full of love and warmth. However, soon class get over and as usual we move toward canteen but to my bad luck Erik again called me, told me to meet outside of the school but this time I lied to him saying I have a test to give and hearing this he huffed in anger hang up the phone.
After having doing lunch, I attended rest of my classes and thankfully, none of my these classes are with Erik because firstly I have lied to him and second I just had enough for the listening one weird news plus my mind is tired too. As soon as all the classes got over, I thought of relaxing bit before going home so, I move toward the sports ground and while I am walking Ketty joined me in the middle with a knowing smile which is saying that we need to relax and let out the frustration,
Ketty: I will go and bring the ball football, you go and get ready.
Siya: Sure.
She go inside the store to bring the ball outside while I choose my side of the ground where I am going to stand and I choose the outward area. She bring the ball, passed it to me and distance between us is probably hundred feats and we started passing long shots to each other. To be honest it took lot of energy to hit the ball with the force to make it cover that long distance but it is worth it because I am feeling much better. We played it until we got tired which I guess more than an hour, once its done we keep the ball back in the store room then picked our bags and leave the school premises.
I got home late in the evening and told my mother about late practice (now I am getting good at telling lies, which is not good but what else I can do because I think they won't understand). As I am already exhausted physically, mentally and emotionally I eat my dinner early and called it night, though I know it won't be a good night because of my weird dreams.