It was sunday, no hurry to get up early morning. Parth woke up at 8 o'clock.
" Today, i have to go sport complex for basketball practice. " he thought but before brushing his teeth, he went in the balcony.
" Hi Parth! Good morning." Isla waved her hand and almost shouted from her compound.
" Good morning. " Parth replied and smiled. He looked around the compound to see Ryan's car. It was deep black Mercedes in which he used to go for the basketball practice. Parth had not seen him going college yet. It's because he used to go school earlier than Ryan.
" Will you... will you go for the basketball practice today? " She said.
Parth nodded. He looked the time and said, " At 10 o'clock, i'll go. "
" I want to go too. " She said, " Please wait for me . I'll come outside exactly at 10 o'clock. "
Parth didn't want her to go with him but he couldn't say no directly.
She rushed inside to get ready. Parth turned back to move inside, he saw Ryan coming out in his sport dress and shoes, got inside his car at the driving seat. The guard saluted him while he was driving out of the building.
" I don't know how will he react today when he'll see her with me there? What can i do? " he took a long breath.
He took bath, got ready and came downstairs. He saw no one was there in the courtyard. He went to kitchen but no one was there too. He went to Lily's room. " Oh! You are here and i was looking everywhere. Where is grandma, Pa and mummy? " Parth said.
Lily was busy in cleaning her room. " Mummy, Pa and grandma went out in the park for walk around 7 o'clock itself but it's 9:30 and they didn't return. " she said while folding her clothes and adjusting them in the wardrobe.
" Why didn't you call them? " Parth started to agonize.
" I was busy. There's my phone, call mummy and ask her. " Lily said, pointed to her phone laying on her bed and engaged in cleaning.
Parth took her phone and called his mummy.
" Hello. "
" Mummy, where are you? Why didn't you return home? "
" Don't worry Parth. Actually, we came to my friend's home. We are about to leave now. " she said and hung up.
" What did she say? " Lily almost finished cleaning now.
" They went to friend's home. They are about to leave now. "Parth said, " Breakfast is ready? I have to go for basketball practice today. "
" How many hours will you practice today? "
" 4 -5 hours. "
" If you practice, 4 -5 hours, definitely you'll get tired and then will you able to focus on your study. " Lily seemed worried about him.
" Next year, you need to go college. If you won't score good marks, you can't get admission in good college and you know our economical condition, we can't afford fees of the top colleges. " Lily said.
Parth kept quiet. He knew, Lily was right. If he wanted to get admission in the college where Ryan studied then he needed to get scholarship as Isla told him.
" Next Sunday, there is competition. I promise after that, i'll focus only on study. "Parth said.
" Okay. Take your breakfast now. " Lily moved to kitchen and came out with plate of breakfast.
He finished his breakfast and stepped out of his house. He was waiting outside for Isla. After few minutes, Isla in her car came to him.
" Get inside the car, Parth. " Isla said from the window.
He got inside the car and the car drove off with its high speed. Within twenty minutes, they reached there.
" Hello! Parth, come this side. " his captain waved his hand to be visible to him.
" Isla, come " Parth said. She held his hand and walked to that place. Parth looked around the court for Ryan. He saw Ryan was sitting on the ground with his teammates and discussing something. They had already practiced a lot since morning. He was sweating a lot and gasping while talking to them.
" Hey! Isla. " Darsh shouted her name out of excitation.
Ryan heard it. He turned back and saw Isla was talking to Parth and Darsh.
He came to her said, " Isla, what are you doing here with this boy. "
" I came for playing basketball. " she said. He grabbed her hand and said, " This is boys' court, come i'll take you to girls' court. My college friends are playing there, you can also join them. "
" But i want to play with my Schoolmates. " she pulled her hand and said.
Parth got scared looking at Ryan's face. Ryan went to Parth, grabbed his collar and said, " Did you bring her here? " Parth was trembling and couldn't say anything. " Stop following my sister, you don't dare to have friendship with her. You better know your place. You're not upto our level, even don't deserve as a servant in our family. "Ryan shouted at him.
Darsh was also shocked at Ryan's behaviour. He opposed him but Parth kept him quiet. Parth was an innocent, simple like kid. Nobody ever behaved with him so rudely before like Ryan did.His eyes filled with tears and about to burst out. He moved out from there and returned home.
" You are disgusting. How can you do this to my friend. " Isla tapped her feet with anger and left , got inside her car and returned home.
Parth directly went upstairs in his room and fell down on his bed. He broke down, couldn't hold his tears." How can he presumed himself that i'm after his sister? "He thought, " Why is he so rude to me? "
He cried and cried and at last slept. When he woke up, it was already evening. He went to his grandma and took her phone, acme back to upstairs. He put headphone in his ears and played the song at high volume.
He was walking on the upstairs while listening music loud. Meantime he saw Isla, walking in her compound with Rocky. She tried to talk to Parth but he ignored her and looked away. He didn't want any further issue from Ryan.
It became completely dark now, streetlights were switched on. He saw Ryan getting down from a car but this was not his car. A young beautiful girl also got down after him. Both of them stood near the car and started talking. The girl looked from a very rich family. She took his hand in her hand and said something and both of them smiled. This was the first time Parth looked him smiling.
She tried to kiss him but he moved her face away from himself. They talked there for a while then the girl got inside the car and moved away waving goodbye to him from the window. She even gave him flying kiss. Ryan got inside his building and looked up and found Parth looking at him. Parth walked away from that place as if he didn't see anything .
Today Ryan screamed at him, insulted him a lot but when he saw Ryan with a girl, he got jealous of her. He came in his room and started studying. He wanted to get admission in that college where Ryan studied, now matter how much he needed to work hard.
Around 9 o'clock, Lily called him down for the dinner. He came down. They had the dinner together. " After dinner, we'll play ludo" Grandpa said.
" Sure. Will you Smiley? " Grandma asked him.
' no grandma , i have to study a lot. " Parth said.
Pa got happy and said, " Finally, he showed intrest in his study. Let him study. Come, we'll play. "And everyone bursted out laughing