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Paartha Nyabagam – Px02 – 2nd Innings

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My train journey was further derailed when the girl in white top and torn jeans came up to me and said, Would you mind if I sit here for a while as the aunty there is trying to put her baby to sleep.
I just couldn’t bear the sight of this chick… She had a drooping look, shabby looking with a tom boyish dress and above all her hair was a complete mess. To top up her beauty levels, she had a bubble gum in her mouth with which she made bubbles to show off her coolness!
She was hate at first sight!
“I need to stretch my legs and sleep… So…!!!
She gave me an “Alright Jerk” look and turned away.
“I am sorry…”
It was 3 AM in the morning; I had this unusual habit of hitting the restroom for reducing the tension in my gal bladder. So went up to the rest room and the mere look of the toilets, made my gal bladder to take a call on whether to go or get back to the ctrl+alt_del mode.
But I couldn’t.
I turned to the other side of the compartment and found 1 of the two toilets in the similar state and other one locked from inside. So I stood there for 10 full minutes before knocking on the toilet door.
Oh! No… It was the same girl whom I showed attitude in the evening.
“Don’t you have the manners to wait when the sign shows ‘Occupied’?”
“Sorry… My bladder couldn’t read English…”
“Now until you say sorry, I am not going to let you inside, Mr. Bladder”
“Alright Tommy, I am sorry… Now will you please let me in?”
“I want a genuine sorry!”
I folded my hands and said, “I am sorry! Please let me in…”
“That’s better and she let me in with a smile on her face.
I released all my tension and decided to look for the girl who troubled me just at the right moment but sadly couldn’t find her.
The next morning I reached Chennai and Mano uncle was waiting for me. He was my 2nd uncle and he was a terror in my family.
“Welcome sir! How are you?”
There he goes… That’s a sort of satirical warning! “I am fine mama…”
And then he enquired about a lot of things from my parents to my other cousins in Hyderabad.
I gave him a edgy smile and said, “They are all good”
We reached home and he asked me to get ready for breakfast…
Mama, but I never have breakfast; I just have brunch at 11 AM.
He turned towards me and said, listen very carefully Raam. I don’t know the life you had in Hyderabad but this is Chennai and you are at my place. Your dad and mom have given me complete rights on you and I hope I don’t use any harsh ways of making you understand things. Here things go my way and you have to oblige and listen to it. I respect your father and I have made a promise. Hope you help me in it or allow me to help you. From today, everything will be as I say and decide for you.
I just couldn’t understand the situation for what he’s talking to me but certainly he was clear in what he said…
I… I will…
Good!

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Paartha Nyabagam

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