After one year

The weather of Mumbai had turned chilling. We surrounded half of the world in one year and we were just exhausted with travelling.

It was a Sunday when I heard the doorbell.

"How are you my boy?" Chaitra's dad said as soon as I opened the door.

"Uncle" I exclaimed.

"Did I surprise you?"

"Of course uncle, to the maximum" I welcomed him inside. Shreya was much happy with his advent.

"How are you honey?" he asked Shreya rubbing her head keenly.

She nodded embracing him warmly. After Chaitra died, I must say, he got a new daughter since Shreya always takes care of him profoundly. Watching them my eyes welled with joy.

"You are taking care of her right?" he asked me, resting on the couch.

I smiled and said yes. Shreya took coffee for him and he sat sipping it.

"Why won't you stay with us, uncle?" Shreya said, pleasingly.

He was silent. She again repeated the question but silence was all we got.

After he finished the coffee, he said "I am afraid of my people dear. After Chaitra's mom died I sent Chaitra away because I was feeble to face the situations. The habit was growing beside with me."

"But I was worried about of your well-being?" she said.

He giggled.

"Let it go." he said and we upheld stillness.

"I heard you had your revenge." He said, peering at us.

We both looked at each other. We tried our best to skip that from him but it was leaked.

"It was never a revenge uncle; we just drew him down and made him realize how deep it pains losing someone significant." Shreya said.

He gave a peculiar look at us and said "how did you do that?'

We both once more switched innocent smiles.

"I'm afraid that more than the process you had followed, your facial expressions were making me keener to hear the story" he said, in his as usual professional sort of language.

"Two people assisted us uncle." Shreya said with a childish tone.

I chuckled as she was making him more curious to hear what we did.

"Who are they?' he asked like inquiring.

"Vidya and Santosh" Shreya chuckled.

From the past few minutes we were talking and beaming which irritated him too much. I could sense vexation in his face.

Shreya refilled his cup with coffee. He sipped the coffee and also attended to me with much consideration.

"Who are those people? I never heard about them." he almost shouted, politely.

"You are going to." I said and started our best probing payback story.

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