I was sure that I won't let go this offer so easily. My friends also would rather convince me to accept the offer. But now my task was to convince my parent anyhow. If I accept the offer I would be off for India for three days.
I also informed Steve about this. Hearing my decision he didn't said a word, as if he was lost in his own world. he was frozen until I shook him and ask about the timing of our flight.
" Our flight is.... our flight is.....
He looked his watch and said
"It is in half an hour".
"Half an hour? Then we should have been packing our things right now. Steve we are already late. You should also not waste you time here, talking to me."
Then also he seem to be drowned in his own thought. After a while he spoke,
" Rose, I think you will have to go alone. I
have got some urgent work and I need to
stay back here for more two days."
" Do you really need to stay back? I am just a guest two to three days. And you are staying here for two days. I won't be able to spend much time with you!"
" I really can't."
I really wanted to be with him at that time but I respected his decision and continue to pack my things. All though I was little bit confused, I left him as he was. And now it was time to say goodbye to Paris. I really loved this tour and it was really memorable trip for me with Steve, before my resignation. But still I had a desire to go back with him within me so that we could have as much time to spend together. But now things are not in my hands.
I was all alone and bored during my flight when I reached USA. I directly went to my house. My mom and dad welcomed me. After telling that about my journey. I straight away went to take a bath and then planned to go to bed to sleep peacefully for sometime and make my mind calm. Also because of my tiredness, I totally forgot about the consent that I have to give them. The time I was about to go to my bed, my phone rang
"Hello Miss Aeisha. We have called you to take you consent for the offer you got."
"Consent??"
(My mind)
Sh*t! I totally forgot about the consent. Want do I do now?
At that time I didn't had any idea what to do. But my will to take part in the training made me say yes.
" yeah I remember. I accept the offer and am ready to go for the training in India."
"Thank you mam. That's really nice choice. I hope you will be able to successfully complete your training. The contract will be sent to you in an hour. You will need to take a hard copy of it and carry it with you to India. The other necessary details are there in the notice attached with the contract."
" FINE!!!!"
I did say yes to the offer but the interesting thing was that I didn't even knew the name of the organisation. It was told that the name will be notified to us when we will receive the contract. Now the final thing left form to do was to inform my parents. I don't know what their reaction would be. Not over thinking about it much I went downstairs to call my parents. I started the conversation after making them sit in couch comfortably.
" Mom, Dad, The thing is, remember I told you something about the training earlier."
" Yeah, I remember." Mom replied.
"Actually that training is going to be conducted in India. So I needed to inform you about this."
" India!!" They both were quite in shock.
" For how many days?" my dad enquired.
" For two years."
"No. you can't go."
"But why dad?"
"I don't know You can't go just like that."
"But I really want to please" I requested him deliberately.
" Dear, we won't be able to you stay away from you and that too for so long. You even have a job now."
" Mom, though I have a job, but it's not what I am passionate about. I want to do something for which I have passion. I want to be successful. Please let me do it."
" We are not stopping you from following your passion. But you can do it here too. Why do you need to go to India for that?" My Dad expressed his worry.
" Dad ,mom, I know your love for me is great. But I really don't want to lose this valuable opportunity which may make my future brighter than anyone else."
"Mom I too am taking sis side, b'cause I never seen having so desperate about something else before." my brother interferred.
Woah! My brother is taking my side ,this was something new.
By this time I think, I did my all to make them understand and convince them to let me go. But the one which have to make the decision was them. There was nothing else which I could do now.
"Okay, give some time. We'll talk about this tomorrow. For now you both go to bed."
Hearing this I took a deep breath of relief. At least they were ready to give it a thought. Assuring myself that they will be convinced somehow ,I had gone to bed. But still, because of stress I was not able to sleep well that night.
The next morning, I woke up early. Seeing me sitting in the couchall stressed, this early morning my mom tried to comfort me.
"Don't worry . Your dad is not gonna let you down kid."
I just nodded my head. I believe in my dad. There is a reason behind each and every action. He had never depressed me and I knew that he is not going to depressed me today also. It took him an hour to wake up after mom notified him about me waiting for him to talk about last night. When he came out of his room, he seemed as if nothing happened last night. Rose there you are. You know what I didn't even realize that what I was doing with you last night.Let me tell you a story of mine. Once I too as a teenager wanted to follow my passion travelling out of Los Angeles. But unlike you instead of waiting for my Parents to understand me I went away from my house because they first had denied to give me the permission. They looked for me everywhere .I was to impatient. It was then when one of my friend told me about my parent's condition. But it was too late for me. I don't want you to be like me so, yeah ,you have my permission to do whatever you want to. And don't worry I will always be there to support you.
I was not able to control my emotion hugged my dad tightly.
" Thank you dad! thank you very much."
Now I knew how much my dad had to suffer in his past. I promised myself I won't let my dad look down on me. And one day I would be able to make them proudly say that they had made the best decision by of their life supporting me in following my passion.
One more day passed. I was still waiting for Steve to arrive. Had he really have some official work or is he angry from me. But I didn't do any such thing. What was going on with him. Was he trying to avoid me? But still I at least wanted a last good bye from him.