Meera a 25-year-old lady the mother of her 7-year-old son Yuvan lived together in India, New Delhi. Yuvan Phandi Murad Beneath was half a half American and a half Indian child. Yuvan was a very fun person to be with he was so youthful and energetic it was his character that gave his mother the idea to name him Yuvan. Yuvan was a sweet little boy but had developed asthma at the age of four, he was good in cricket, writing essays in Hindi he was loved my few people and hated by many. Meera tried her best to make sure her son was always happy, a move made by Yuvan changed his life for the worse.
CHAPTER ONE
front of the school. Yuvan was taken into the ambulance accompanied by his parents, everyone prayed for the child and hoped for recovery.
...the ambulance wailed blinking red and blue lights all over. Right in
SIX MONTHS EARLIER
INDIA…. NEW DEHLI
. "Yuvan are you ready for school" Meera said walking into his room. To her surprise he wasn't in his room, she got scared she checked all over the house but couldn't find him, she looked out the window and saw him all dressed in his uniform waiting for the school bus.
"Yuvan" she yelled from the window. The latter quickly turned back facing the window and waved to his mother. Meera ran down stairs asked with a smile on her face, she was so proud of him because this was the first time her son got ready to go to school on his own. "I woke up very early today and I didn't want to wake you up so I got ready, I also asked aunty Roshni to make me lunch and breakfast" he said with a smile on his face.
"I'm so proud of you, you're becoming a man now" she said jokingly. "I know" he said proudly. The school bus came and Yuvan got into the bus and waved his mom goodbye. She was about going inside when she got a call from Jude. Jude was her university crush and after collage they almost got married after getting intimate she realized she was pregnant for Yuvan but when she told him, he said he was financially unstable which left her all alone and heartbroken, he promised he'd come back for her but she didn't believe him and moved back to India. She had no idea why he was calling her.
"I told you to stop calling me, why are you calling" she asked him angrily. "Meera, I know you don't like me calling but its good news, I'm back to fulfil my promise" Jude said from the other end of the line. "What do you mean by that?" she asked suspiciously. "I want to bring you and yuvan here to America with me" he said happily. "No, you can't do this to us again I refuse to believe you, so please stay out of me and my son's lives" she said and hung up the phone.
Meera was very sad because this wasn't the first time Jude promised to take them to America and anytime, she informed her son about it, he gets all exited, packs his stuff, tells his friends and gets heartbroken when Jude refuses to come due to "work" issues, Yuvan would cry for more than three days and ends up throwing tantrums on how he hates his father and how he never comes to see him.
TWO YEARS AGO
"Yuvan are you ready? Your dad will be here soon" Meera asked while walking into his room. "I'm ready, I can't wait to see what America looks like, I bet it isn't as beautiful as new Delhi mom." 5-year-old Yuvan couldn't stop talking about how exited he was about going to America and seeing his father for the first time. They waited and waited and waited but Jude never came. "mommy is daddy still coming, or is he going to abandon us like he did last time?" Yuvan asked with a sad voice. Meera didn't know how to answer him, she wanted to in courage him since she still had faith in Jude believing that he wouldn't let them down but was interrupted by Jude's incoming call. "Jude where are you we've been waiting for a while now." Meera said waiting for a reasonable response. "Meera I'm really sorry but I ...." Meera knew what he was about to say and was heartbroken. "...…don't do this Jude, you promised" she said with tears in her eyes thinking about how he was going to tell Yuvan that his dad wasn't coming to take them. Sad and worried Yuvan saw the tears in his mother's eyes and knew what was happening, Yuvan's eyes filled up with tears and he started to cry. "I knew daddy was lying" Yuvan said crying and he ran to his room. Meera saw Yuvan running away and spoke to Jude angrily. "I was a fool to trust you, because all you ever do is disappoint me" "Meera that's not true its...." Jude tried to defend himself. "don't ever call me I never want to hear your voice or even see your face again" she said and hung up the phone. She ran to Yuvan's room only to see him crying while Roshni tried to console him. "I knew he was a liar; he doesn't love me he hates me, he hates me" Yuvan said, throwing tantrums all over the room. He threw the brand-new watch his father bought for him and when he saw his dad calling his mom on her phone which she kept on his bed, he angrily threw the phone to the ground. Meera tried calming him down but all to no avail. This went on for two hours which ended up with Yuvan having a sudden asthma attack, Meera rushed to his drawer and got his inhaler and gave it to him. Yuvan cried and cried left disappointed as usual.
PRESENT DAY
VASANT VALLEY SCHOOL
"Morning everyone" miss Lati, the Hindi teacher arrived and said "today we're focusing on essay writing". "my specialty I love essay writing, it's so simple" Yuvan boasted to his friend Suman. "I hate essays, they're dumb" suman said. Yuvan got angry and said "they're not dumb, you're just terrible at it" "no I'm not, you just love it because your mom is Miss lati's friend and no matter what you write she'll give you an A" Suman said to everyone's hearing. "that's a lie" Yuvan said angrily pushing Suman to the ground. Suman retaliated and started beating Yuvan which caused a fight attracting miss Lati. "Yuvan, Suman, stop fighting" yelled miss Lati. "He was the one who pushed me first," said suman. "Well, he said that I am not good at essays" Yuvan said. "I don't care who started it, the both of you are going to the principal's office now" miss Lati said while escorting them there.
FIVE HOURS LATER
Yuvan got back from school but didn't see his mom in her room, he taught she might have gone to work so he asked Roshni where she was, "Aunty Roshni, do you know where my mummy is?". "Um...… she said nobody should bother her...…. I mean, um... she's busy" she said unsure on whether she said the right thing or not. "But where is she" he asked. "she's in the guest room, she's thinking so don't disturb her" she said. "Thank you". Although Roshni told Yuvan not to meet his mother, being as naughty and troublesome as ever he went and saw her his mother in tears and ran towards her. "I'm sorry mummy, I wouldn't do it again, I promise" "what are you saying yuvan" she said wiping her tears and looking at him with a fake smile on her face. "I knew you'd be disappointed because I fought with Suman, I'm sorry" Yuvan said bursting into tears. "I'll never fight again, I promise" he said holding his ears as an apology. "No, no, its not that" she said comforting him. "Then what's wrong" he asked curious. "it's your dad, he wants us to go live with him in America" "yay, we're going to America, we're going to San Diego yay", a naïve Yuvan said jumping up and down. Meera felt sad because all he'd do was disappoint them and she didn't want that. She said angrily, she was angry because he didn't learn anything from all what Jude has done to them and yelled. "Yuvan, stop" he immediately stopped and looked at his mother, "why, what's wrong" "we're not going" she said angrily and stood up, she tried to leave but he said "why not?". She snubbed him and left.
LATER THAT EVENING
"Madam, dinner is ready" "Roshni said walking into Meera's room. She was lying on her bed and asked if Yuvan was ready to eat but Roshni told her that he said he wasn't hungry. "What, do you mean by he's not hungry?" "I don't know his room was locked when he said I should go away so I don't know" she answered and left. Meera quickly ran to his room and saw the door was locked "Yuvan, please open the door, I'm sorry for shouting at you earlier, just please open the door" she pleaded but he didn't answer her, Meera got worried, he could have a sudden asthma attack and she wouldn't be able to help. "Manu, Panghish, Artav, come here quick" she called for the security men and they rushed to the house. "Madam, what's wrong?" Manu and Artav asked. "it's Yuvan, he locked his room door for a while now and I'm starting to worry" "don't worry madam we'll bust open the door and get him out. Artav said while Manu and Panghish nodded on agreement. They tried and tried and finally bust the door down. Meera quickly rushed into his room and saw him on his bed crying. Meera rushed and hugged him saying "Yuvan, I'm so sorry, thank God you ..." Yuvan pushed her away saying "don't touch me, I hate you, you don't ever want me to be happy, EVER, I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU" he kept on repeating the words over and over and Meera burst into tears saying "Yuvan why don't you want to understand that your dad is not coming, he's not coming okay, he is the one to be hated and not me Yuvan, you don't understand he doesn't think of us as his family, he abandoned us so please don't hate me, I'm doing the best for you, just try to understand that " "liar, liar, liar, I hate you, I hate you, get out of my room GET OUT!" he said pushing his mother off the bed and to the floor and kept on saying 'I hate you' Meera was surprised, sad, and angry she knew Yuvan threw tantrums a lot but he had never said he hated her, just then she saw a piece of paper under his bed which caught her attention, she took it and put it in her pocket, Manu came into the room and helped her get up, they tried to calm him down but he didn't agree to be comforted. "Yuvan why are you saying you hate your mother all of a sudden?" Manu reacted to his repeated use of 'I hate you' Yuvan didn't say anything but stood up and went to his drawer and brought out his mother's collage journal and opened to a particular page where she wrote,
"Today I found out that it's a baby boy that I gave birth to, I wish I aborted the baby, I have no idea on how I'll tell dad about my son. Since I met Jude, my life has been cursed, this child is cursed, I'm very angry I feel like killing this child, I hate him, I hate Jude, anything I got from him, I hate it, the bracelet he gave me, this child. 29th March 2017, is and will remain the worst day of my life."
Both Meera and Manu read the journal while yuvan was crying, Meera felt so bad within herself, she was angry and she didn't mean what she said besides she was 18 and all she ever wanted was a social life in America but Jude ruined it, of course she'd say something like that. Manu didn't know what to say so ho just handed the book to Meera and left. "Yuvan I'm sorry you know I didn't mean anything I wrote, I'm sorry, I don't hate you please forgive me" Meera said in tears trying to hug him but he pushed her away causing her to hit her head on the floor and she started bleeding. "I don't like you and I want to live with daddy and you said we shouldn't go, because you don't want me to be happy, I HATE YOU, I HATE YOU" Yuvan screamed and Roshni came and carried him out of the room. "Yuvan I'm sorry, Yuvan, Yuvan, Yuvan come back" she plead but Roshni kept on walking with the child and left. "Roshni bring him back" Meera kept on pleading with Roshni who had already left. She brought the paper she saw under the bed from her pocket and opened it and saw a silly drawing made the first day she told Yuvan that they were all going to live together with his dad when he was three, she felt so bad and wished she had never written any of that
In the picture, he was so happy and it wasn't for the reason that they were leaving India or he'll see his dad in person, he wanted them to be a happy family. Meera placed the paper back in her pocket and went to look for Yuvan, on reaching the guest room Roshni approached her and told her "Madam, Yuvan is having an asthma attack and we can't find his inhaler" "what" Meera said and dashed into his room and checked his school bag for the inhaler but couldn't find it. Meera swiftly went into her room remembering she had another inhaler incase of emergencies like this, she took it out of her drawer and went to Yuvan and put the inhaler in his mouth for a few minutes and she said "I'm sorry" "I know" he said smiling. "Mommy I'm sorry, I don't hate you, I love you, and I didn't mean what I said, can you forgive me?" he added.