Aanya sensed something’s wrong the moment she sat at the dining table.
Her brother who was usually chirping,
Was unusually quiet today,her father like always was quiet but today he was stern too and her mother couldn’t meet her eyes.
So she waited.
And
“Aanya” her father said his tone subtle but commanding
Her father……her father was one of the best father she could ask for no doubt, he provided her and her brother with everything they could ask for
“Beta if it wasn’t my compulsion I wouldn’t have asked you to do it you know right”
She sighed then straightened she knew this was something big very big
But what she didn’t know was that this conversation is going to change her life in ways she couldn’t imagine
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Somewhere in Delhi
In a room:
A man is shown getting ready to sleep with sleepwear on and drying his wet hair he was just going to go to sleep just then
knock
Someone knocked his door
“Come in” he said and as the door opened there stood a lady in her late 50s with a smile that can warm anyone heart
“Beta”she smiled as she saw him then came near and squeezed his cheeks “ Abhi” she whispered
“Mujhe tujhse kuch zaroori baat krni hai” she said this time with a calm face.(I want to talk something really important to you)
And in that moment abhimaan knew what his mother is gonna say
“Mumma nahi”(mom no)
“Par Abhi-“(but Abhi)
“Mumma nahi-“(mom no)
“Chup meri baat toh sun pahle”(shut up atleast first listen to me)
She made him sit in the bed and after that in a calm voice she said “beta Dekh tu ab bada ho Gaya teri ab Umar ho rahi”(see you have now grown up and you are getting of age son)
Abhi narrowed his eyes “Aap kehna chahti ki main Buddha ho Gaya”(you want to say I am a oldie now)
“Hat Pagal lekin baat galat nahi hai waise” his mom replied (no you silly but what you are saying is not wrong)
“beta tu ghar ka sabse bada beta hai tujhe shadi karni padegi aur tujhe iss ghar ko ek varis Dena padega”(son you are the eldest of this house you know you have to marry and give this house a heir)
“Maa aap janti hai Mai usse Chor ……..kar main nahi kr skta maa”(mom you know I can’t marry anyone not after her)
“Usme teri galti nahi thi Abhi , wo kuch aur chahti thi aur tu tab nahi de paya usse wo”(that was not you fault Abhi she wanted something else and you couldn’t give it to her)
“Par kahi na kahi hai maa”(but somewhere I am wrong maa)
“Dekh purani baat ko ab ham Badal nahi skte, lekin tujhe aage badhna padega ab”she said calmly,she knew her son was blaming himself for things which were not in his control,and this may anger him in the first few days,weeks or even months but she has to because neither she nor does he has any choice (see we can’t change the past but now you have to move on)
She pulled a photo from her pocket of night suit and kept it on his drawer and then kissed his forehead and went
He sighed looking at the envelope which contained a picture , he didn’t open it not yet and neither will he open it he slid the envelope on the first cabinet of drawer and switched off the lights
He will tell his mother tomorrow that he can’t do it.he can’t destroy a life of a person he knows he isn’t gonna love and with that went to his sleep.
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Everyone at the dining table at aanya’s house was waiting for her father to begin
“Beta there is a favour we want from you”her dad said to her
“Papa Aap Jo bhi kahenge main kar lungi”(dad anything you will say I will fulfill it)
Her brother clenched his jaw,her mother smiled tightly
“Beta I want you to marry someone”
She froze for a second or minute she doesn’t know and then
“Papa main Abhi just 22 ki hu papa Abhi toh bas Maine college paas out kiya and Abhi hi job join kiya itni jaldi shadi papa”(dad but I am just 22 and I have just completed college and just started a job marriage this soon papa)
“Beta meri Umar ho rahi hai aur main Jane se pahle tujhe shaadi ke jode me dekhna chahte hu bas”(child I am getting old and I want to see you in the marriage attire)
“Par aisi shaadi ka kya fayda papa shadi to jisse pyar karte usse hoti na”she whispered back her throat tight (but what’s the use of marriage when you don’t even love each other)
“I know beta I know but please please”
“Par papa Kyu reason to bataiye”(but atleast tell me the reason)
“Beta reason koi nahi hai bas main apni beti ko shaadi ke jore me dekhna chahta hi aur ek achi ghar ki bahu bane ye dekhna chahta hu”(there is no reason child i just want to see my daughter in a wedding attire and being a good daughter-in law of a good home”
“Papa……”she whispered losing hope on the verge of tearing up
“Beta please”her mother said to her
“Beta tu itna toh kar skti na apne papa ke liye hamne tujhse kabhi kuch nhi manga bas ye wish puri kar de beta”(child atleast you can do this much right for your father,we never asked anything from you)
“Agar usse nhi krna toh woh nahi karegi baat khatam”his brother said angrily(if she doesn’t want to do it she will not do it)
She looked at him and smiled then
“Thik hai…….thik hai main kal batati hu”(okay……okay I will tell you tomorrow)
“Aanu”his brother said
“Ye le ye uski photo hai…..ek baar Dekh le pasand aajyega”her mother said sliding the photo towards her.(take this it’s his photo…..just see it once and you will like him)
She took the photo then gave a tiny heartbroken smile and stood up then left for her room
Her mother and father looked at her retreating figure and sighed.
They knew this was wrong and that this may or may not destroy their daughters life but they had no choice at the she has to go someone’s home so why not this one
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