INDALI

CHAPTER - 11

INDALI'S P.O.V:-

Another morning , another nightmare and another headache. It's been a couple of weeks and these things have been my best pals. But today is something that I have to prepare myself for.

After my plans that how I will renovate the school and about the girls education , some women of the village are coming to the mansion to confront me. To make me stop from what I am doing. It's been a while since I have been sitting in the drawing room waiting for the ladies to grace me with their presence but they are very late and my nervousness is touching it's peak.

All the while I kept thinking what could I say to make them understand how important this is. How important education is. Baba must have made them understood the importance of education on a snap of his finger but here I am. That is when I heard the opening and closing of my front door and I stood up on reflex.

"Oh there you are didi-" Shyam came and stood infront of me and I exhaled sharply before I could say something he whispered "Or shall I call you zamindar?"

I smiled a bit and said ,"Didi will do. But what are you doing here? That to this early?"

He beamed at me and said ,"Didi I - wait you are looking very stressed is everything alright?" I slumped down on the chair again and buried my face in my palm.

"Yes someone's coming to the mansion to visit me" I replied sulkly.

"What? Someone's coming to visit you? That's so nice of them to do so. I haven't actually seen anyone around this house except for bulbul maa and Ramesh dada" he said cheerfully as he took a seat beside me.

"They are coming here to quarrel with me" I said as I looked up at him , making him understood as simply as I can. His little eyes widened and he replied,"They are coming here to quarrel with the zamindar? They got some guts." He merely murmured the last part.

I chuckled and he continued,"If they are going to quarrel with you then I am by your side I will beat them up. What do you say?"

I shooked my head ,"it's not that easy." He looked here are there making sure that there's no one hearing us and replied ,"it is very easy but you are the one who's making it difficult. "

I furrowed my brows and before I can explain things he showed me his palm and asked me to stay silent as he continued,"Remember a few days back how I was doing a sum wrong? How I was complicating things and you made me learn how one should try to solve it in a simpler way first?" I nodded as I knew where this conversation was going,"Exactly. Try to solve it in a simpler way make them understand your point if they still don't understand then you're the zamindar you have all the powers now don't you?"

I nodded my head again in a stance. With a shock filled voice I asked ,"aren't you only 13? See here, you're talking those wise words" he chuckled and stood up.

"You might scare a ghost away right now yes that's how you look. Go didi get ready for the fight" he said and walked to the door and I sat there looking at him.

"And didi" he called out and my attention was back to him , that's when he wished ,"All the best".

And I nodded not with shock or nervousness but with a victorious smile.

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After Shyam left I got up and walked up to my room. I showered and dressed up in a plain saree. While adjusting my saree my eyes fell on my reflection.

My hairs were down , water was dripping down like some cascade. For the first time in a month I looked at myself. I slowly walked up to my dressing table , looking at that young girl who was staring back at me. My fingers went up in the air to touch her, but it clashed with the hard surface of the mirror. But I didn't retreated.