Mom's diary
After a while, both of them eat and leave the restaurant, and then Naina says to Avinash, "Avi, is your house very far from here?", then Avinash thinks, "Why is she suddenly asking about my house, is she wanting to go to my house and meet my family members? If I take her to my house and then my grumpy mother says something wrong, then the matter will get worse. It is better that when she talks about coming to my house, I will tell her that my house is very far from here and if she still doesn't agree, then I will tell her that all the family members have gone to the village and no one is at home, then she will refuse to go home."
"Where are you lost Avi?", Naina said to Avinash,
"Yes, tell me Naina, you were saying something, what were you saying?", Avinash asked,
"I was just asking that your house is far from here Or nearby", Naina said,
"By the way why are you asking all this, do you have any intention of coming to my house?", Avinash said to Naina and then started laughing,
"You too Avi, you keep joking all the time, I have no such intention and anyway if I go to your house then they will ask me what am I doing outside with you so late at night, I was just asking because if your house is somewhere nearby then both of us would have walked from here otherwise I would have walked because my house is nearby, so if your house is far then you can take an auto and go home, I have no problem", Naina said,
"No Naina I have no problem, anyway my house is also a little far from here so I was also thinking of going on foot, so let's go on foot", then both of them started walking towards their house by walking on the side of the road,
After going a little far they see some children and one of them is the youngest The child was crying very loudly, and as soon as Naina saw him crying, she immediately went to him and immediately picked him up in her lap and started to calm him down, then took out a chocolate from her purse and gave it to the child, seeing the chocolate, the child immediately became quiet and then started laughing and seeing this Naina also became happy, and seeing him happy, a smile also came on Avinash's face,
Then she left the child there and started walking ahead, and then Avinash also started walking with her, Avinash started thinking in his mind that, "Naina, I did not know that you like children so much, and your heart is so sensitive that seeing that little child crying, you will love him so much, I agree Naina, you are really a good-hearted girl",
For a while, both of them keep walking together like this without saying anything to each other and when their eyes meet each other, both just give a slight smile and then look away They turn towards the road, then after going a little further, they reach Naina's house and she stops a little before her house, then Avinash asks her, "What happened Naina, why did you stop, aren't you getting late for going home, now let's go quickly or else we will get even more late", then Naina laughs at his innocence with a light smile and says to him, "Avi, I have reached my house, here it is in front", and then Naina points towards a house with her hands,
"Oh, I have reached your house and that too so soon, okay, then you go to your house", Avinash said a little disappointedly and lowered his face,
"Okay, now I am leaving, bye Avi, good night", saying this, she starts walking towards her house waving her hand.
"Ok bye Naina, good night", saying this Avinash also waves his hand and says bye to her and then as soon as she goes to his house, he also turns back and walks towards his house,
While walking for a while he was lost in Naina's thoughts, while both of them were eating in that restaurant and he was staring at Naina's face, then suddenly he stops on the way and looks around and then says to himself, "Hey my house is one hour away from here and if I go home walking like this then it will take two hours, let me do one thing, I will take a shortcut", then he looks around and as there is no one around, he takes out that scarf from his pocket and ties it on his face and then running fast he reaches the road next to his house and then after looking around he removes that scarf from his face, then he comes to his house secretly, opens the main gate and goes inside and then goes to his room And then he changes his clothes and lies on his bed, and then he falls asleep remembering the moments of Naina's treat,
The next morning when he gets up from his bed and goes to the bathroom to freshen up, he again starts remembering Naina and he feels that Naina is really with him and just like the previous evening, she is fixing his hair with her hands, then as soon as he tries to touch Naina, she suddenly disappears and his hand touches the wall and then he understands that this was just an illusion and not the truth, then he quickly freshens up and comes down and then goes to the kitchen and starts cooking,
Then like every day, he goes to his step mother's room with food for his brother in a plate, and as soon as he puts the plate on the table, his mother sees him and then says to him, "Avi son, will you do one thing for me?",
As soon as Avinash heard Avi son from his step mother's mouth, he understood that , She must have remembered some work again, otherwise it is not possible that she calls me son with so much love, then Avinash says to her, "Yes, mother, please tell me",
"Son, I am not able to find Anshu's old cricket bat anywhere, so can you please find it for me, by the way, I have searched in all the rooms and have not looked in that store room, son, because there is a lot of dust there and you know that I am allergic to dust and I also start suffocating, so you find it and bring it for me, son", saying this, she started looking at Avinash with a big smile on her face,
Avinash was also aware of her every aspect and he knew that when she has some work, then she has a smile on her face and her talk is as sweet as honey and she repeatedly uses the word son, otherwise she does not even ask me to have food, then Avinash looks at her and says, "Yes, mother, I will look into it right now ", then saying this Avinash goes straight from there towards the store room,
On reaching the store room Avinash opens its door and as soon as he tries to go inside, he sees that inside the spiders had made a lot of webs and there was dust in them too, then Avinash comes back from there and goes to his hall and takes a broom from there and comes back to the store room and then he starts cleaning all those spider webs with that broom, then after cleaning all the webs he starts looking for Anshu's bat, he searches for her bat in every corner of the store room and in every big cartoon box but he does not find it, then he goes to a cupboard and tries to open it but then he sees that there is a lock on the outside of the cupboard which was also a little rusted, then Avinash pulls it hard with his hand to open it and then that lock becomes a little crooked and breaks, and then when Avinash looks at that lock carefully then he sees that it is not working properly. There are fingerprints on that lock, then Avinash starts laughing after seeing that, and then keeping that lock aside he opens that cupboard door and starts searching for the bat in it, then he feels something in his hand, and then as soon as he pulls that thing out he sees that he has something in his hand like a bag,
Then Avinash takes out that bag from the cupboard while dusting it and then opens it and starts looking inside it to see what is kept in that old bag, and then he finds something like an old map, and some gadgets and an old diary, Avinash dusts that diary a little with his hands and then opens that diary and opens its first page, he sees that a name is written on it, "Riya",
Then Avinash turns the next page and then sees that there are some photos in it which were kept in a plastic cover due to which the chemical on them was safe otherwise with time and due to the rays of the sun, many photos get spoiled, then Avinash removes that plastic cover and takes all those photos in his hand,
He sees a girl in those photos who was common in some photos, Avinash understands that this Riya may be the name of this girl, then suddenly he feels that the face of that girl seems familiar, then When Avinash puts a little pressure on his mind, he remembers that this is the same girl whom he had seen in the photos in Professor Bhaskar's house and who used to work with him. Then Avinash sees another photo in which she is standing with his father, which might be a photo of their younger days.
Then Avinash starts thinking, "When did this girl and my father become friends and my father never told me about this?", then Avinash smiles a little and thinks, "Maybe she is my father's girlfriend, that is why he never told my stepmother about her, and anyway, no one can tell anyone about girlfriends, let alone their wife, and I myself am a living proof of this."
Then Avinash starts looking at the next photo, then he sees another photo in which his father, that girl and a small child in their lap are seen. Then he starts doubting his father and thinks, "Did my father marry her?" And whose child is this and who could be this woman, we will have to ask Papa about this, then Avinash stops looking at the further pictures and puts them back in the same diary and then puts that diary in the same bag and closes it and then starts searching for his brother's bat, and after half an hour he finds that bat and then Avinash comes out of the store room with that bat and that bag which he got from that closed cupboard and then closes it from outside and latches it and then keeps that bag in his room and comes back and then takes that bat and goes to his step mother's room and says,
" Anshu see I have found and brought your favorite bat", his brother Anshu becomes happy to see his favorite bat and then hugs Avinash and says to him, " Thank you Bhaiya, you have found and brought my favorite bat, really you are the best brother in the world", Avinash becomes happy to hear this and when he hugs his step mother When he looks at the bathroom, his mood turns off, because his step mother was not affected by this and she was watching TV in the same way as if nothing has happened in that room,
Then Avinash comes out of that room with a sad face and then goes to his room and there his eyes fall on the same bag which he had brought from the store room, then when he reaches near that bag and is about to touch it, then he remembers that he has to go to college too and then he looks at the clock in his room in which it was already 9 o'clock, then he picks up his towel and runs straight towards the bathroom and then he quickly comes back and wears his clothes and leaves the house for college,
It takes 45 minutes for Avinash to take a bath and get ready after coming back, so he thinks, "Son Avi, today you don't even have time to go by bus, today you have to take a shortcut, now hurry up otherwise Sir will beat you up", then Avinash looks here and there and says to him, "Avi, today you don't even have time to go by bus, now hurry up otherwise Sir will beat you up", then Avinash looks here and there and says to him, "Avi, today you don't even have time to go by bus, today you have to take a shortcut ... He ties the scarf on his face and takes out another handkerchief from his pocket and ties it on his hair, so that his hair does not get spoilt due to running fast, then he runs on that deserted road and stops directly in the lane near the college gate, and then opens the scarf and handkerchief and runs inside the college gate, and then goes inside his classroom and sees that all the students were sitting on their seats but the professor has not come yet, then he goes and sits on his seat, and then Suraj asks him,
"How did you get so late, was your date too long last night, that's why you didn't wake up in the morning?"
"Yes, it was, that's why I got late for college today, see the proof", Avinash teases him and waves his hand at Naina and says hii, and Naina also says hii looking at him, he already knew that Naina was looking at him from the moment he entered the classroom and then when Avinash looked at her, she smiled at him, so Avinash also got a chance to lie to Suraj and with this excuse he could pull Suraj's leg,
"Really, till what time and what did you both talk about and where did you go for a walk, tell me, tell me what are you hiding from your best friend, see I have never hidden any secret from you, so in our friendship it is your duty also that you also don't share any secret with me. ", Suraj asked Avinash with some surprise,
" Yes, yes I will tell you everything but now you concentrate on your college studies and anyway sir has come to the classroom so whatever we will talk about will happen only after the classes are over", Avinash said to Suraj and then the professor enters the class,
To be continued...