Mom's secret
Here Avinash is busy studying in his college and on the other hand the team of scientists on Titan has found out that these signals are coming from Earth which is millions of kilometers away from their planet but they could not find out who is using it, a god or a human,
Then a soldier comes to the chief and salutes him and then says, "Sir, the exact location of the signals could not be traced, because it is not coming from one place, its location is changing all the time, but we have found out that it is present with a common man, and we are waiting for your orders, we will send our force there and bring it here from there and then they will kill that person and snatch it from him",
"Don't be crazy, do you even know how much power it has, and if it comes to this place then it will destroy this whole planet, you do one thing, send one of your spying teams to Earth and get the data Collect them and find out whether that person has discovered all his powers and whether he has learned to control all those powers and use them according to his wish or not, only after that we will reach a conclusion whether we should kill him there and take them from him or we need to bring him here, you send a team from here to Earth as soon as possible", the chief said to the soldier,
"Ok sir", the soldier said to his chief and then saluted him and left from there,
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Here all the classes of Avinash's college are over and then he comes to the canteen with Suraj to have some breakfast, and then both of them sit on a table,
"Now tell me everything in detail from 8 o'clock last night till you went home, how and what all happened", Suraj asked Avinash,
"Hey brother, first I will tell you whether you will give me something to eat or not, I told you in the morning I have not eaten anything since yesterday, I had to come home in a hurry without eating anything, now you wait and I will order something from the counter and come back." Saying this, Avinash goes ahead to the canteen counter to order food for himself and Suraj, and Suraj calls him from behind and says, "Come quickly."
Then Avinash goes ahead to the counter and orders and comes back, and then sits next to Suraj and says to him, "Yes, tell me what were you asking at that time?"
"I was saying that you should tell me everything from before leaving the house last night to coming back home last night, that too in a line." Suraj said to him holding Avinash's hands,
"Okay, by the time I tell the story, our order will also come, so listen carefully.
When I was in my house and was preparing to leave, before that I followed the things you told me and then told at home that I am very tired today and so I am going to sleep early. I am going to take you, after that when my family members went to their rooms, I secretly came out of my room and then opened the main gate and went outside and then left the gate closed so that everyone thinks that the gate is closed, then I took out my scarf and tied it on my face and then ran to the Chatkara restaurant and then went to that restaurant like normal people and Naina had already reached there, and then both of us ate food there and after that both of us came out and then I dropped her to her house on foot and then I came back home running like that, that's all that happened",
Avinash hid some things from Suraj or it can be said that he did not tell him due to shame like when his hair got spoiled due to his running and Naina fixed his hair with her hands, and then as soon as he puts the first morsel of his plate in his mouth, his eyes get stuck on Naina's innocent face which he had never seen till date, And then when he was going to drop her to her home on foot, he silenced the crying child by giving him chocolates, and then on the way when Avinash and Naina's eyes suddenly met and then both of them smiled at each other without saying anything,
"That's it, I thought that something else must have happened but you will always be a very innocent person, I doubt how you will impress a girl, and whether you will get married or not, if you keep being shy in front of everyone like this then you are already married in this life", Suraj said,
" She was not my date that I could kiss her, propose her or dance with her holding hands, it was just a small treat that she gave me to save her from falling", Avinash said,
" She was wearing a nice new dress", Suraj asked,
" Yes, she was wearing a blue coloured western dress, but why are you asking all this", Avinash said,
" That is why I call you naive, because you do not understand anything, hey she did not take you on a date to give you a treat, that is why she was wearing such a nice dress, and then you did not understand anything even after seeing her", Suraj said,
Meanwhile her breakfast order comes from the front, and then Avinash says, " Leave it, the night is over, here breakfast for both of us has arrived, now let's eat quickly and then leave for home", then both of them start having breakfast and then after some time both of them come out of the canteen after having breakfast and then start walking on foot They go out of the college gate, and then while walking on the road they start talking,
"This is how girls' affairs are, ok Avi leave all that and tell me whether you will submit the new assignment given by the professor in the diary or make a file and submit it, because sir has said that only those students who submit the assignment in the diary or file will get marks, if anyone submits his assignment in any other way then his marks will be deducted", asked Suraj,
"What is the big deal in that, I will give it in a file or diary, and it takes time to write the assignment and not to decorate it and submit it in a file or diary and I always ..., one minute what did you say diary, hey friend how did I forget such an important thing, hey listen, you know when I was searching for that old bat of Anshu in the store room of my house in the morning, then I found an old bag in a cupboard there from which I also found a diary, some photographs and some small devices", Avinash said to Suraj,
"Diary", Suraj Avinash said in surprise,
"Yes friend and when I saw those photos, there was a picture of a girl in it, which I had also seen in the photo hanging inside Professor Bhaskar's house, and when I asked him about that girl, he told me that she was his batchmate and later she used to work with him", Avinash said,
"Wait a minute, when did you go to his house and why did you never tell me about it, and when did you go to his house, please tell me", Suraj asked angrily,
"Hey friend, that day when Professor Bhaskar stopped coming to his college to take lectures, and then that day we both were talking whether he was unwell, so I went to his house that evening after college to find out whether he was unwell or whether he had gone out somewhere, so when I went to his house, I came to know that he had gone out somewhere, out of town, that's why he was not coming to college And then while talking I asked him who was that person in the photo on his wall, then he told me", Avinash said,
" Wow son you keep roaming around secretly and don't even tell me", Suraj said jokingly to him,
" It was just like that..., well leave that aside I am not able to understand what relation that girl and my father and the professor have with each other", Avinash said,
" Your father, where did he come in between, you said that it was the photo of the girl who used to work with sir, right", Suraj said,
" Yes friend my father, when I looked further in those photos, I also saw the photo of that girl with my father, and what's more, in the next photo there was a small child with both of them, who was sitting in their lap", Avinash said,
" Okay now I am leaving, my house has come, bye, see you tomorrow", saying this Suraj started leaving from there,
to Avinash There were some more things to talk about but today the way to his house had come a little too early,
Avinash says to Suraj in a low voice, "Ok bye", and then starts walking towards his house,
After a while Avinash reaches his home, and then with a gloomy face he slowly goes up the stairs to his room, and then he puts his bag on the chair near the study table and then he goes and sits on his bed and starts taking off his clothes and then he wears other clothes and goes to the bathroom to freshen up.
When Avinash comes out of the bathroom after freshening up, he picks up a towel from the hanger in his room and then starts cleaning his face with it and then when he cleans his face and takes the towel down from his face, his eyes fall directly on the bag kept on the table which he had taken out from the cupboard of the store room in the morning and kept here in his room. Then he puts the towel on the bed there and moves towards the table and picks up that bag and then opens that bag again and takes out that diary and then takes out all the pictures kept in it and comes back to his bed and sits and then starts looking at those pictures.
Then Avinash starts moving forward those pictures quickly which he had seen in the morning. And then he sees some more pictures in which his father and that girl "Riya", both are standing together with garlands around their necks and many people are also standing around them,
Then Avinash understands that this girl Riya and her father must have got married, that is why both of them had garlands around their necks and seeing the atmosphere around it seemed that they were in a wedding mandap, then Avinash takes out the picture with the garland from there and keeps it with him and then puts it on a copy kept on his table and presses it with a paper weight so that it does not fly away with the strong wind of the fan, and then puts the rest of the pictures back in the same diary and then keeps that diary in the bag and keeps it in the cupboard of his room and closes it and keeps the key safe, and thinks in his mind, "Today evening when father comes back from office, I will ask him about this picture, for now I will keep it in my room", and then Avinash goes back to his bed and takes out the towel kept there. He hangs it back on the hanger and then comes back to his bed and starts using his mobile,
After using his mobile for a while, he looks at the time and gets up from his bed and says, "Oh my god, I am half an hour late today, come down quickly Avi or else your grumpy mother will again start shouting that you are sleeping", saying this Avinash puts his mobile on the bed and comes out of his room, and then he goes straight to the kitchen after climbing down the stairs,
After a while when he had already cooked food, he hears someone's voice from behind, "Avinash, please come here", he tries to recognize that voice and then he realizes that this voice is of his father, maybe he has come back from his office, then Avinash also replies to that voice, "Yes father, I am coming just two minutes", then Avinash quickly cooks food and turns off the gas and then opens the tap of the sink in the kitchen and washes his hands with it. "Yes, father, I had just finished cooking and was coming, when did you come from office?", Avinash said, "Son, I had just come a while ago, I wanted to talk to you, come and sit here with me", Avinash's father said a little seriously, "Yes, father", saying this Avinash goes to sit near his father and as he was going near his father his heart starts beating fast, and he starts thinking in his mind, "Son Avi, did you do something wrong, like you did in the last school and then when father came to know about that, he made you sit near him and then interrogated you like the police and beat you well, did he find out about me and Naina, or did he see me with Naina last night in that restaurant or somewhere around it, if so If this happens, then it is certain that you will be in trouble today, son Avinash. Now if you want to save yourself from his anger, then keep some good excuse ready and if I had known this earlier, I would have found some painkillers so that after getting beaten up, I could take those medicines and reduce the pain. Because only God knows how much you will be beaten up today."
"Yes Papa, you wanted to talk to me about something", Avinash asked his father with his head down in fear,
"Avi, I found this in your room, I want to know how it came to you", saying this, Avinash's father shows him that picture,
"Oh God, did Papa find my suit in my room, but I hid it very well in that bag and then hid that bag too, hey, he is your father and how is it possible that something is kept in this house and he does not know about it, now that I have come to know, I will tell him that I have participated in a play in college and this is the dress of that play and I brought it from college to get it fitted in my size, and I kept it hidden so that you all do not come to know", thinking this, as soon as Avinash raises his head to see that suit, he sees that his father was holding that picture in his hand in which he and a girl are wearing wedding garlands. Avinash had got his picture taken standing with some people,
" Papa this picture is.....", as soon as Avinash says this, his father interrupts him and says, "Yes son this picture, it was kept on the table in your room but how did you get this picture son?",
" Papa that morning when I was searching for Anshu's old cricket bat, I found it, but why are you asking about it, and the man in this picture, is it you Papa?", Avinash asked his father in a questioning tone,
" But this picture was kept in a diary and that diary was kept in a bag and I had kept that bag in the cupboard and in the store room, but where did you get it from?", Avinash's father said,
" Yes Papa I found this picture in the diary kept inside the same bag in the cupboard, but why did you keep it there Papa?", Avinash asked in surprise,
" Because Anshu's mother did not want any sign of your mother to remain in this house, even these photos, that is why I hid all these things from your step mother and kept them in that cupboard so that when you grow up and ask about your mother, I can tell you about your mother, and show you some things related to her memories", Avinash's father said,
" What, this is my mother, my real mother, whom I have not seen till date and neither did you ever tell me about her nor did you ever show me her photo so that I could know how my mother looked, Avinash said while taking that photo from his father's hands, and then he starts looking at his mother's photo very carefully and then while looking at the photo, his eyes become moist and tears come in his eyes,
" Yes son, this is your mother, and your mother's name was "Riya", she was a scientist, even I did not know this, she told me this after many years that she was a She was a scientist, we met at a party where she had come with one of her male friends and it was my office boss's party in which all of us employees were invited, and at that time I had just got a new job, I was a new fresher there so I went there with the intention of enjoying the party but when I saw your mother in that party, I just kept looking at her and I was not able to take my eyes off her and was just staring at her, and then maybe she saw me staring at her and then she came to me and started abusing me that why am I staring at her, don't I have a mother and sister at home, am I a scoundrel who has come to this party with the intention of teasing a girl, etc. etc., and then she called the security guards present there and told them to push me out from here, and then after listening to her, those guards were about to throw me out from there when my boss came there and sent those guards back and Then I explained to your mother that I am not a scoundrel but an employee in her company and I have come to this party like any other guest, then your mother understood that I am not a scoundrel, she also apologized to me for her behavior, then we both became friends, and then we both used to go to eat together every evening, she used to stand outside my office at exactly four o'clock, and when I used to leave the office, she used to be there, then we used to eat together in the evening, and then after that she and I used to talk while walking and then I used to drop her at her home and come back to my home", Avinash's father said,
"Who else was there in your house, father", Avinash asked,
"No son, I was an orphan, and I was brought up in an orphanage and then from there I completed my studies and then joined a company, in which I am still working", Avinash's father said He said,
"And what happened after that, Papa? How did you and Mummy meet and how did you get married?" Avinash asked his father out of curiosity.
"After that....., after that son, we both started meeting each other like this and then slowly this meeting turned into love, we did not know when, and then one day I gathered courage and expressed my love to her in a park and she also said yes, and then all our friends group got us married, this picture is of that wedding mandap, in which apart from me and your mother, there are some of my office friends, look this one who is standing next to me and this one behind him and this one too, and these are your mother's friends who used to study with her in her college", Avinash's father said to Avinash pointing to that picture,
"And then after one year of our marriage you were born and on the day your naming ceremony was going to take place, the Pandit ji told that the first letter of your zodiac name was "A" and your mother named you, "Avinash", which no one can destroy", Avinash's father said,
"Papa, If you don't mind, can I ask you something?", Avinash asked a little disappointedly,
"Yes son, ask me, what do you want to ask?", Avinash's father said,
"How did my mother die? Whenever I asked you this question, you just said that you will tell me some other time, but you have never told me this till date, did she have any serious illness?", Avinash asked his father,
To be continued...