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24.02.2023

It was tiring today, from early morning we have been travelling. It's already 8 clock now. Never knew it would affect me so badly. I can feel my body burning up. I just want to rest now. I hope everything is fine at home.

"Nandini come." Manik held out his hand to help me since my legs were paining badly. We exited the train station and soon took the taxi to our house. 

When we reached outside our house tension was increasing just by thinking what will happen now? Will bhaiya understand and avoid the topic of property or will he create more hungama?

We rang the bell and soon it was opened by maa. The bright smile came on her face which automatically brought smile on our faces.

"Come inside. Itni der ho gayi. Chalo hath muh dho lo aur kuch khao. Thak gaye honge." Nodding at her we both entered and by just keeping our luggage in the corner went to freshen up. First I went and then Manik. Soon we came out after changing and settled to have food which was served by mom.

"Where are others maa? Dikhayi nahi de rahe?" Manik asked before taking a bite in his mouth.

"Tumhare papa and dadi so rahe hai aur Vivek - Sneha dono apne room mein hai."

"Aapne khana khaya?" I asked seeing her all lost. She nodded and went back to her talking, asking abour our trip.

"Maa, kal hum baat karenge. Main bhai se baat kar lunga. Aap tension mat lo." Saying this Manik washed his hand and moved to take the luggage to our room. Mom and I cleaned the area and went to sleep. After entering the room I just messaged Navya about our arrival and went to sleep.

It is always like this, when you want your days/nights to last long they never last long. We didn't even realise it was already 8 clock in the morning. Manik had decided to speak with Vivek bhai today and I hope everything goes well.

We moved out of our room only to divert our direction. I weng down and Manik went to bhaiya-bhabhi's room.

Manik

I entered bhai's room only to see him reading something on the news paper.  Before entering I knocked on the door, he looked up and nodded his head to allow me to enter.

"Kaise ho aap bhai?" I asked taking the proper posture on the bed.

"Theek hun. Tu bol, kaisi rahi teri trip?" I replied to it with a smile.

"Acchi thi. Aap batao bhai, sab theek hai na? Kuch issue ho toh bata do." I initated the conversation knowing that he won't start directly. It's better to talk then fight.

"Kal tujhe jo bataya vahi baat hai. Aaj 11 baje panchayat chalte hai. Teri aur papa ki jarurat hai." He said making me stare at him. Is he really determined?

"Bhai, why? Yeh sab karke bas ghar tutega. Agar aapko kisi se bhi problem ho toh batao, hum sudhar lenge use. But don't talk about breaking the house ( Relationship)."

"Dekh Manik, I have already said my priorities are changing aur yahan rehkar woh bhi sabke sath mumkin nahi hai. Tum apni aur apni patni ki chinta karo aur main apni aur apni patni ki kar lunga." He said getting up to keep the paper on the chair.

"Par maa-papa aur dadi ka kya? Unhe kaisa feel ho raha hoga yeh jankar? Sacch kahun toh bhaiya thoda time do, sab sahi ho jayega."

"Nahi Manik. Sab thik nahi hoga. I am fed up of getting the disrespect, the comparison that I face is more than anything. It hurts me, it hurts me to see my own father doesn't seem capable enough to run a house. He always compares me with you. Why? Just because you earn more than me? And you have a bike to ride. Tum khud apni patni ka saya banke reh rahe ho aur woh uska fayda utha rahi hai." Taking a deep breathe I looked at him again just to see if he could backout from his decision.

"Par---"

"Mera decision kabhi nahi badlega Manik. Ya toh mujhe ghar ka hissa do ya main ghar chod ke chala jaunga. Kisi ko problem hi nahi hogi." Saying so he went out of the room.

What do I do? Unknowingly I have hurt him. Unknowingly he is suppressed because of me.

I also followed him out only to see Nandini glaring at Sneha bhabhi. Now what happened? For the first time I have seem Nandini angry.

"What's going on?" I asked as soon as I stood infront of them. Father, mother and my grandmother were standing mum.

"Just because aap mujhse badi hai iska matlab yeh nahi ki aap kuch bhi bakti jayengi." I hear Nandini's stern voice which made me look at her.

Nandini

I entered the kitchen to have warm water and then went out in the hall to get the broom in order to sweep. I was sweeping when Sneha bhabhi came.

"Good morning bhabhi, how are you?" I asked with a smile which only beought frown on my face. Why did she ignore and go in the kitchen?

Ignoring it I swept around and came to make tea when I saw bhabhi serving only 2 cups of tea. For whom? We are 7 of us, and only 2 cups of tea?

"Bhabhi, aapne bas do chai kyun banai?" I asked her only to earn a glare from her.

"Meri marzi. Mujhe koi shauk nahi hai sabki seva karne ka. Agar tumhe hai toh tum karo."

"Main toh bas puch rahi thi. Aap bhadak kyun rahi hai?" I said calmly. Didn't want to destroy the atmosphere.

"Huh? Bhadak? Sati savitri banana band karo tum. Sabke samne yeh dikhava/dogalapan band kar do. Vaise bhi bas sabke good books mein rehna hai tumhe. Hume bura dikhana accha aata hai tumhe. Manik ko toh already nacha rahi ho apni ungli par aur abb puri family ko nachaogi. Par, main unn mein se nahi hun samjhi." She said with agitation only to make me confuse. Maa, dadi and papa also came to drink tea but stopped listening our talks.

"Aap kya bole ja rahi ho bhabhi? Maine aisa kya kiya hai? Bass 2 mahine huye hai mujhe iss ghar mein aakar. Agar aapko laga ki maine aapko galat tarah se treat kiya hai toh aap bata do. Main mafi mang lungi. But just don't blame that I'm making everyone run on my fingers. If I had to do so na I would have done the day I had entered the house." I said clearing my point. Taking a deep breath I was going to say something when I heard her saying something which I would never tolerate.

"Ofcourse, jhuth bolna toh tumhare maa-baap ke khoon mein hi hai. Tum mein kyun ayega. Huh! Aur kya kya gul khilayenge honge tumne kya pata."

"Bhabi!" I shouted at that time only Manik and Vivek bhai came out and probably seeing us like this he asked

"What's going on?" Instead of answering I replied to bhabhi.

"Just because aap mujhse badi hai iska matlab yeh nahi ki aap kuch bhi bakti jayengi. Aap mujhe criticize kijiye but not my parents. Aapko itna toh pata hona chahiye ki kisi ki bhi parents ki upbringing pe ungli nahin uthate. Aapko kya lagta hai ki main apna muh nahi khol sakti? I can very well do som but jab aap sab kuch chodke, apne parivaar ko, apne ghar ko kisi aur ke ghar mein jaate ho na tab settle hone ke liye vakt lagta hai." I  took a deep breath and continued.

"What do you expect from me? Sab kuch easily accept kar lun? Aapka aur mera khoon ka rishta nahi par mein dil se sabko apna manti hun. We leave our parents home just to stay in another unknown family. And how do you expect me to behave? Buri tarah se behave karun mein? Sabko bura bhala kehke taki woh sab mere parents ki upbringing par questions kare? Nahi hota itna asa. Sabko vakt lagta hai. Mujhe bhi lagega, dheere dheere hi sahi but I will learn to settle here and know them. Just imagine agar maine apke mumma papa ki upbringing pe question hota toh aapko kaisa lagta." Saying so I went from there. I didn't want to say more. I would rather hurt myself than hurting my husband's family.

We (brides/girls/womens) leave our parents' house just in hope that the new family will accept us. Even though when you are accepted fully, you still will be considered as outsider. Why? You are not blood related.

I know I shouldn't have given her such big lecture but what do you expect from a college going girl? Just because people throw their unwelcoming comments on you we should keep quiet. I would rather avoid these kind of situations and just let it be.

I don't know what's going on down. I don't want to even know now.

How was it?

You might find Nandini's character here irrelevant but sometimes when you are in such situation you end up saying whatever comes in your mouth.

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