Continued From The Last Part....
Father: (Voice come from my back) What the hell Siya!!!
As I listen to his voice I closed my eyes more tightly and from inside all I am feeling is that he is going to slap me next. Though my eyes remain close but I can hear the voices of his heavy steps walking in my direction, within ten to twenty seconds he reach close to me, hold my upper arm and turn me with a force.
Father: (Shout) You!!!
I flinch at his voice then flinch slightly back, raised my hands till my face to protect me or face from the slap but to my surprise I don't receive the slap so, I open my eyes and get surprised seeing my mother holding father's hand. Seeing this I take a breath of relief, I take a step back but my relief was short lifted because all of sudden mother turned and slapped me. (Honestly, now I start believing in the saying which is "when you expected the least then it hit hard." Because this slapped broke my jaw I guess, just kidding.)
I always thought father hit like a beast but my mother slap are not less as it force my left cheek to look at my right completely and it is stinging like hell. I keep my light palm on the cheek, took a breath to control my crying because I can feel my eyes are filling up with tears. However, I look back at both of them, with a slight smile on my face because this is the first time my mother slapped me I guess, as this is how much I remember since my childhood.
However, when I look at my mother, I can see rage and anger in her eyes but zero concern or worry or regret of doing so.
Mother: Wow, first you are roaming around the town doing nothing just wasting time then you are dinking, coming late from the school and now you failed the exam. What else you want to do, to get us famous with insults?
Father: (Keep his hand on her shoulder and speak with anger filled voice) I was used to be proud of of you because your sincerity towards studies and discipline towards life but look at you now drinking, failing exam, lying and disobeying us. You know what no one in our family has ever failed the exam or drink but you and your brother being disgusted, being girl you should be quite, disciplined, full of values and ethics. You have ruined not only our but the honor of this whole family.
(He stop for some seconds take a deep breath then continued) You disappointed me. (And walk away towards their room)
Here, I listen to both of them by keeping my head down, I wanted to say, speak, shout out loud so, that for once they could listen to my explanation or try to make them understand me but I knew they won't listen or understand me because they have never done it. They just want me to listen and understand, I think this is what society always termed as communication.
However, soon my trance get break with mother voice,
Mother: Now without any words eat dinner and leave for the room.
I just nod my head in confirmation, go in the kitchen then serve my food on the plate but I keep quantity of the food very less because all the things happened before, are taking a toll on me, as they are making me force to think, run away from here as fast as possible then hide in the corner of my room plus all I want to do is cry because I am full with emotions till my throat so, I am feeling suffocated and eating less food means, I can escape quickly.
Soon I settled myself at the dinning chair with my plate but before I could start eating the mother come with a taunt,
Mother: (Rudely) Huh! eating less would not do anything. I think this is going to be, become your attention seeking habit.
Father: Her skin has become thick and whatever we may say or think or do anything but she would be the one who would follow her own life rule. (When did he come back?)
Here, I try to focus on my food and start eating it by ignoring their voices which is filled with taunts. However, soon my food got finish, I get up from the chair and move into the kitchen, there I kept my plates and clean it but one thing remain constant that is my fake smile which I keep it while doing everything. After, this I leave kitchen as well as dinning area in a rush with a water bottle in my hand towards my room but I think today is not my good day because before I could enter in the room, I heard Aunt voice,
Aunt: (Shouting and voice coming from near the grand mother room) Siya!!
Siya: Coming
I walk towards their room while preparing myself for another lecture, before knocking the door I put a fake smile on my face then I knock the door. After listening to slight come in I walk in, there without saying anything Aunt showed me the seat, which is bit inside the room and
(Positive/Angel side) a thought pop in my mind saying "bro, it can be dangerous, full of suffocation. What if we got trap, please don't go."
Though opposite to this side, another thought come in my mind "bro, to hell with it just go and sit there, whatever happen at the dinning was far worse than this. Let just sit there, listen to their nonsense talks and we will see what else they can do to break us more and whatever may happen, if we are getting ruined so, let it get with proud and confidence." (Negative/Devil side)
And for the first time in my life I guess, I show daring because I go inside in their room in deep and there I go and sit where they had place the chair. (I don't know whether many of you readers are familiar with this feeling or not but it is, whenever you challenge your self or others challenge you to show what you have, there you stand/sit with a confidence and give your power pack performance). A different type of confidence, I can feel running inside my body while sitting there.
As soon as I settled down, Aunt started with her conversation and granny looking at us curiously while listening to Aunt,
Aunt: Hey so how was the slap, did you enjoyed?
Siya: Yeah, it was tight and sharp but I enjoyed it, how do you know?
(Inside, here we go, welcome to their police station. Now, they want to know what happened earlier today but I don't understand such nosy behavior, I mean why can't people keep focus on their own work rather than interfering in other person's issues. Whether this happening in the name of family of relationships, I think its wrong and here I am going to lie to my Aunt).
Aunt: What happened?
Siya: Nothing I just come a little late from the school today so, mother got a bit angry and slapped me.
Aunt: What? Is she stupid, mad or idiot? Who slap their child on such little issues? You tell me Siya, do you think its right because I have never done this and I am not going to do it ever.
Siya: Ohh Okay but I don't think mother was thinking anything wrong, may be she got worried so she just slapped me. (Inside me, I think for the time in life she has spoken the right thing, what mother did today is very wrong and I don't liked it)
Aunt: As usual your father take your mother's side right?
Siya: Yeah
Aunt: Sometimes I really feel like your mother is some kind of magician, who had put a spell on my brother because he just listen to her and no one else.
Siya: Ohh Okay (Inside me, O please bro! father was always like this he never speak up too much, he is more kind of a introvert person)
Granny: You know when your mother and father marriage got fixed, then your mother's father once said that your son got lucky that we fixed this marriage as he has dark complexion and my daughter has fair complexion. Your mother is just like her father only.
Siya: (Uninterested) Okay. I think I should leave now. I have to sleep early as I have early morning practice to attend.
They both just nod their head, I leave the room then enter my room and closed it from inside. As soon as I enter in the room, I took a deep breath and enter in my washroom first then perform my daily routine which I do before going to the bed. In the washroom, I see my face which has red print of fingers on my left cheek and this hurt me deeply but not knowing what to do I just splash water my face.
It takes me around ten minutes to get all fresh up, then I come outside and lay down on the bed with my fully charged phone and ear phones but my mind is so much full with the thoughts which are related to what happened today. However, to ignore all these voices in my head, I plugged earphones in and start listening one my and Ani's favorite song "See you again by Wiz Khalifa" but after seconds I start feeling my eyes getting numb.
While listening to it suddenly a thought pop up in my mind, I text Erik "Hey, can we please stay in the school after our class got over because, I want to talk about something with you?" And I soon receive his reply saying "Okay". I put my phone aside and keep listening to the song, with numb eyes only and I guess I heard and read one thing right that is, when you have cried hard then after some time you will finally fall asleep because of tiredness. As this what happened and I called it a night.
(Next Day at School - After Class Got Over)
As per our message conversation here me and Erik are sitting in front of each other, here in the school canteen. Once we both are relaxed and settled down, I initiated the conversation
Siya: (Coming straight to the point, this way I like to talk usually) What at happened at the office? And what your boss was saying, can you explain?
Erik: Yeah. Actually the boss has the knowledge of reading palm and telling one's future and he see your palm when you were lost somewhere, then he simply told what he thinks.
Siya: I hope you know whatever you are saying, you know about it because it is quite hilarious and we live in such a modern world who believe in such things?
Erik: Look, I know whatever I am saying is truth and I believe in it because he just look at my hand and then told me about what my past like and what my future will be.
Siya: Okay (Inside, What bull shit is this, I don't believe it)
Erik: I think we should leave now as its already four in the evening and I have some work to do at home.
Siya: Okay.
We both leave the school premises together and call the cab separately, I reached home early today, in the hope of taunt free evening and night it would be but I think this won't be going to happen because, as soon as I get myself fresh and leave the room for to have a cup of coffee, there I come in the area of three lioness (just kidding) i.e. mother in the kitchen, Aunt and granny in the dinning area. They looked at me carefully and curiously while I am making the coffee but none of them speak up so, I take my hot coffee in the room carefully.
To my surprise, nothing as such scene or drama happened till I completed my dinner at night and then only I realized tomorrow I have no school so, probably this is the silence before storm which I am going to face next day. With all these thoughts in my mind plus what Erik said about palm reading I called it a night.