A Walk Towards An Endless Roads..

9. Flashback continues- My Hope..

Aditi Came back to her cabin, suddenly her phone buzzes. She saw the caller name. She sighed and whisper - More than me, it's you who are scared about this sudden marriage. She knows the caller as it was her elder sister Shuchi. Whenever she became tense, she makes her call many times; it's kind of a habit which is known by the people who knows Shuchi very well. 

She finally picks her call up and said - Yes di, now what happened? Why are you even tensed?

Shuchi - Why I am tensed, what do you mean by that? Are you not having fear of this sudden marriage? I feel like history repeating this time again. Everything is happening in the same way as it happened with me. Please Diti, try to talk to Dad, and make him realize this thing that, what he is doing not at all right. 

Aditi - Di, you really think, he will even listen to me? Not even in your or my dreams.. He is our Dad, and we are talking about him, not about any kid. 

Shuchi chuckled listening to Aditi's words and said - Yeah, I know about whom I am talking. That's the only reason I am asking you to talk to him for once. 

While Aditi continued her talk with Shuchi, other side Sam was pacing around corridors, and seeing his reaction, Monika asked him about the reason of him being so impatient. 

Samit- After listening to Aditi, don't you think it's very obvious to be impatient? Being her close friend I am finding myself as helpless. F***.. I can't help her even if I want to.. 

Monika- how can we help her? When, we are not even sure about anything. It's really felt like she is ready to sacrifice her life for the happiness of her father. Really sad.. I never thought that she would be having this side of her where she will care for other happiness also. I always assumed that she is the one, who don't believe in sacrifice for another.

On the other side, after talking to Shuchi, Aditi was having a bad headache as if someone is throwing hammer on her head and millions of needles were piercing inside her brain. Her headache was the result of the over thinking after a lot of discussion with her elder sister Shuchi.

She knew very well, she doesn't have any option and she also doesn't have any solution for the current problem of marriage. 

Previously, like a few months ago or we can say before all this chaos happened in her life, she had a great aim to do something interesting and go for higher study from a very reputed university of India, like one of the IIT’s or from IISC. The basic aim of her life was to go for PhD from any of these universities, but now it seems like she is going to end her life with her own bare hands.

Aditi POV:

I was left alone from the day I took a stand for my own sister Shuchi di, wwow.. What a Great family I have.. But now, it’s like I am just dragging my life without any aim.

I never wanted to go for this worst option what they call it as MARRIAGE.

Especially what happened with Shuchi Di and how she was sent to hell using this f*****g relationship which is called – Marriage, made for each other, husband wife… F***..

Well, it’s not completely my fault that I don’t believe in love, relation, affair, boyfriend, girlfriend, and lastly this marriage.. It’s completely not my cup of tea. From the starting of my life, I remember very well that we have been taught to stay away from the boys, because of the traditions and culture we were following.

It was always believed to be a crime, when a girl was having a relation called friendship, with a boy. I can’t blame anyone actually, because it was the culture we were following from our childhood and our family was a very orthodox one, and staying in a small town worked as an added advantage to support such thoughts. It’s not like I am complaining about my culture, or my country or my family.. It's just that I never supported any wrong decision either it’s in relation or related to something else. I always supported to the right things.

The worst thing that I had seen and when I realized that my parents and family is not less than others who supports to all the wrong deeds, it really pained that my parents never stopped that b*****d Vinay from hurting my sister Shuchi.

No… Not again.. I always found myself drowning in my thoughts, which is really nothing more than a headache.

So I decided and said to myself – leave about all this Aditi, and think about the upcoming interview because I have heard that it’s going to be very difficult one as the online test was way beyond difficult, so be prepared for interviews. At least for now, this is the only thing I can change because other than this, I can’t do anything else. Actually, it will help me to distract from all the drama happening in my life these days.

Few days back, I applied for an interview in a start-up company which is a fast growing company and earning a good name in IT industry. I have heard about the company that they took around 6-7 round of interviews to select candidates, but they pay almost 5 times more than a simple IT company, which is going to be good for me. So, I should concentrate to my interview rather than this stupid marriage flings. To be very frank, no one knows here that I am the one famous cyber ethical security software consultant who works on different projects as a freelancer.. I never shared this thing to anyone, even my two close friends also doesn’t know about it.

Well, the good part is that along with me, Monika and Samit also gave this online exam and they also somehow qualified, which is good news for me. I have to prepare for the interview as I don’t want to lose this opportunity at any cost.

While I was busy in my own thought I heard the sound of my friends who started their bickering again, but why? When I turned my head, I came to know the reason of their behavior. There stands a person inside of our cabin who always smells so bad that his aroma filled our nostrils and no one can take breathe, instead we feel like puking on him. I also shifted my chair towards back, seeing him entering into our cabin. I just cursed under my breath and said – see we have this man here BKD (I used to call him BKD- badboo ki dukan (shop of bad smell)). People in my office knows me very well that I used to keep calling people with a nick name, which I have selected for most of the people in my office or can say that most of my colleagues knows this habit of mine about creating and calling everyone with a specific nick name, which must be having a funny meaning or it must be related to his/her personality, which actually describes the personality of the person.

Once that BKD enter, I signaled Monika to get up and walk towards the exit. We went towards the cafeteria, and started discussing about our upcoming interviews as I informed both of my friends that they qualified the online test and so all of us have got the same day scheduled for an interview.

Here I am busy in talking about interviews and my friend – the poor soul is busy in deep thinking, must be either about my marriage or the groom I am going to get married. I know her very well. I can tell you, what she is thinking and so I can win the bet if someone tries to. I snapped my finger in front of her, finally it is successful, as she is out of her chain of thoughts.

I asked her sarcastically- you must be busy in thinking about my marriage? Right…

See I told you guys.. as she said yes...

Suddenly, out of nowhere she asked me something leaving me in shocked – Aditi, you really never had a boyfriend, or no one ever proposed you or you are trying to stay away from all this chaos to avoid the scolding that you’ll get from your parents.

I decided to be truthful to her, so I said to her – well, Monika dear, Actually it’s really not my cup of tea, and I don’t like such time pass and fake relations and fake committeemen’s, but I won’t lie that boys proposed me in my college but they always end up getting hurt by my actions.

I still remember the one guy whom I kicked, after he proposed me. It was not my fault actually, he proposed to me  and I asked him to say sorry as I was irritated with him, he denied my words. So when he went on his knees, I smiled evilly in my mind thinking about the outcome about to appear, as I kicked his butt making him fall flat on his face. Well, because of the reaction he got from me, people standing there started laughing on his condition; it gave me a good result because after that, seeing his insult, no one ever tried to pull such stunt on me. And so, after that incident no one ever tried to propose me in my whole college duration.  

By the time I was done with my college story, Monika was reacting as if she saw some ghost.

I told her – leave all this, we should focus on our interview rather than discussing about our past, as I have a big hope from this job. 

I clearly warned her in my dangerous tone - " You and Sammy, better be ready to go with me for the interview, or the consequences will really be not good for you people." 

I saw the worst reaction she gave, as if I asked her to murder someone. But I never knew the person I am going to face will be the worst nightmare for me..