Metanoia | ✔

*Chapter 14*

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Paras smiles sweetly in reply of the joyful lady's. According to his guess, she must be Jiya's aunt.

"P. Excuse me, I'm Paras, living on..(can't finish)"

"Umm, Dr. Jay's son, right? Yeah I recognized you, I recently talked to your mom..please come in dear.."

Paras goes inside their house. Nicely decorated. A sweet smell can be felt here, hmm... it's really peaceful!

"P. Aunty, I just came to meet you.. thought living in the same building, we don't know each other so, of course it is weird.."

A male voice comes from the bedroom which moves slowly nearer. Maybe someone is coming.

"Who is it Shashi?"

A middle-aged man comes to living room where Paras is standing with Shashi.

"P. Hello uncle.."

"S. Listen, this is Paras.. you remember, son of Dr. Jay?"

"Oh yeah yeah, why are you standing please sit down.. Okay, I'm Vijay, Vijay Shankar.. My brother lives here with his family as well."

"P. Yeah I've been familiar with them.. so, how's everything going uncle, I heard you own a business?"

"V. Yeah actually I own it means Vinay, my elder brother has some shares in it.. and also....."

Vijay says a lot of things but Paras barely hears anything. He can't concentrate on such talks whereas he came to talk about something important about his client. As well as Jiya is probably waiting for him. Uff! He thinks that he shouldn't have come here today..

While Paras is thinking,

"V. So that's why we're here. Umm, Paras?"

"P. Uh, yeah.. so uncle, I've seen Vinay uncle's family some time.. is there any problem? No I mean, especially they have a daughter I guess, she always stays so afraid or, I mean..."

"S. Yeah you know nothing dr., how huge issues were there.. the family had really a dark past.. uff, still I feel bad for Jiya, poor girl!"

"P. If you don't mind, may I ask, what exactly happened?"

"V. I don't know whether it's right to share our family issues with you, but you really seem trustworthy dear."

"S. Yeah yeah, so let me tell it.. Dr. Paras, my brother-in-law, Mr. Vinay is always very conservative. Even their family, he (Vijay) all are from a conservative family. They always have been yearning for sons. They thought boys as "ghar ka chiraag" and everything.. Vinay ji is the eldest son of their clan. Everybody expected sons from him. Even he was fortunate enough, his wife gave birth to a baby boy first. All were too happy for them. You know him, Sahil?"

"P. Umm I guess I haven't met him.."

"S. Yeah he is their first & eldest child."

"P. Oh, then.. what next?"

"S. Days were going fine, but suddenly Sahil's mom became pregnant again. This time, the whole family expected a son from her eagerly. Then we were living in a joint family.
But fate turned its route, and the dark days came upon the family. Nidhi ji, I mean Sahil's mom, gave birth to a baby girl, and that was none other than Jiya."

"P. You mean Aunty, they were not happy with that?"

"S. Happy? Happiness as if got blown away from our house that time. All were sad, Vinay ji was not being able to show his face. Gradually, they started showering their anger, sorrow, grief on Nidhi ji. Taunt for every work, every sentence she spoke. I even heard her crying alone keeping her daughter in her laps. Neighbours started talking bad about them, and turned her mindset. She went through a lot of mental pressure, and her thoughts completely changed. She started behaving with Jiya in a way that no mother would do."

"P. What? Jiya's mother even abuses her?"

"S. Not exactly abuse, but she has got a hard heart that can't bear love now.. she can't behave well with her daughter. And the reason is, the abuse that she has gone through years ago for Jiya's birth."

Paras doesn't know what to say now. Does that mean, Jiya has such problems only, due to family abuse? Is that, childhood trauma?

"S. Okay we talked about many things a lot, now Dr. Paras, would you like coffee? Or tea is more preferable?"

Paras stands up.

"P. Umm no aunty, thank you so much.. I just came to meet you people once.. that's all. My mom must be waiting for me, also.. my one client was about to visit me so, I want to take leave now.."

"V. Ah, how can you leave without taking anything dear? At least have a cup of tea?

"P. No uncle, thank you, but it's quite difficult now.. sorry.. Thank you so much for your time.."

"S.V. Okay, please come again, it was great to talk to you dr.."

"P. Yeah sure, thank you."

Paras gets out of Jiya's uncle-aunt's house & slowly goes upstairs. It means, Jiya's nightmares, her weird thoughts, her fears, behind all is her own family! She even doesn't seem to be too close to her family, maybe their relations are not even that well.

While thinking, he comes almost near his home. Finally, rings the bell. Jiya is in front of him, she opened the door.

"P. Oh, Jiya you're here?! So sorry, I know I'm too late.. (comes in) actually got stuck in some work badly and couldn't even inform you. Yeah so,"

"J. (Takes bag on shoulder) Dr. Paras, I need to take leave now.. sorry but affording a little more time is tough for me, or you may say impossible."

"P. Umm, are you sure? No I mean, we can just sit and talk for some time, and the repo..(can't finish)"

"J. Some other day, please.. if you don't mind. I'll be scolded, please try to understand."

Paras thinks about her aunt's statements & matches, her parents will surely rebuke her.

"P. It's, it's okay.. you may go.. (Smiles) And yeah, do share with me if any problem occurs, alright? My phone is open."

"J. Hmm sure."

Jiya was leaving through the gate but suddenly turns around.

"And sir, neither I'm insane, nor mentally unstable. Please don't think like that, thank you."

Saying this, she goes to her home. Lightning strikes at the moment outside very heavily, along with in Paras's thoughts. It's still raining.

Why did the girl say like this? What does she want to explain? Paras doesn't understand anything & stands completely confused. All on a sudden, his eyes go to the reports he kept in the afternoon here. Seems like someone checked these so are kept ruffled.

Jiya silently locks the door of her room. She sits down hugging her knees in an afraid condition.

"Am I, am I really mentally,... those reports.."

Paras again is moving his eyes over the reports. She is all okay, nothing to be stressed perhaps. As far he can think, those daily abuses really have a huge effect on her mind that she receives from her family.

That's all here, thanks for reading!
Next part- Kunal to deceive Jiya at the worst (Paras, her support)?
Will try to publish next part soon😄