My Unknown Cousin

Chapter 3

Chaitra POV

Today is the best day of my life because I also got my jee result and It is more than I expected.Iam so happy that I am one step a head to full fill dreams.

"Hey babe congratulations. Iam so happy for you". My one and only best friend sanjana said while running like a monkey in to my room.

"Thanks sanju ". I said to her while handing her favourite snacks.

"What about your result Sanju .You never mentioned it to me ".I asked her .

I just passed it yaar you know na how I hate studies.I just wish to kill the person who created studies.amma thodu addanga narikesta.( Famous dialogue in Telugu meaning is : mother promise I'll kill you)

I laugh out loud while hearing her thoughts .she is from a rich background her father owns a couple of rice mills and supermarkets in our locality. But she never make me feel low when I am with her. She is the best example for a true friend .

We both decide to went out to our fields.our neighbour Meenakshi aunty saw us and congratulate me for my achievement with a fake smile and fake blessing.Every one wants to mock you when you are fail,every one wants to sympathize you when you are low , every one feels jealous when you achieve something but they never say out that loud instead they put there fake smile and wish you but behind your back they gossip about you.

Once it hurts me  more than any thing but now it is normal thing for me.

"Thank you aunty ". I politely said to her.

"Sanju ! I hear that you get very low score in your exams. If you concentrate more on your exams than chaitra  you too get good marks maa". Meenakshi aunty said to sanjana.

I just don't know what to say she always gets jealous because she thinks sanjana helps us with money but never in our life mom and me asks money from anyone.

"Bitch. Always wanted to poke her nose in others matters". Sanjana Muttered.

"Ayyo aunty ! I heard your dear  daughter Divya failed in  her intermediate (+1 and +2) exams .Hope next time she chat less with her boyfriend and focus more on her studies." Sanjana said while showing pity in her eyes.

I just controlled my face while seeing Meenakshi aunty face.

"It is worth watching ".Sanjana  beamed happily . I just shook my head while watching her antics.

We just roam around felids sometime and decided to drink chai(☕.) Tea is an every Indian emotion. We silently drank our tea while enjoying the weather.



More two months passed. Today is the day of our online councelling.Nervousness is a small word what I am feeling now . I just put the top colleges in India which have highest packages and which afford scholor ship with the rank I got .

Sanjana also keep same colleges as me because she want to study with me and  I too wish the same.

While mee and sanjana playing ashta chamma ( a game which is mostly played in Telugu states for entertainment)

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After playing for a while sanjana went to her home  . I check the time to see it is already 5 pm and I have to make food . I feel like to make my  amma favourite dishes so fatafat( fastly) I prepared  vankaya ( brinjal) which my mom loves the most and Iam waiting for my mom to arrive .

My mom came and went to fresh up . I went to kitchen and bring the food which I  prepared. Amma is very happy today because one of her students got selected for state-level since fair.

I just congratulate her and she asks me to come to her school tommorow to help her students with it. I agreed with her and decided to take Sanjana with me to school .

After completion of my food I went to my room and call sanjana and she agreed immediately.

I lay on in bed and try to sleep but it never cames and I remembered today's incident how meenakshi aunty talked with us

Flash back 2

I don't know what happened to my nanna but he is silently sleeping in front me while my amma and others are crying hysterically. I don't know what to do .I made my way towards my dad and call him. But he didn't move nor he said "what chaitu ma". Like he always said. My nanna never ignores me nor he stays silent when I was with him.

I call him again and again but there is no response from him . I don't want to digest the fact that my nanna never talks with me,nor he plays with me neither he carries me and we could never make fun of my mom in my life time.

I started crying  my heart out . May be God too felt my pain and he also cries with me in the form of rain.

I performed last rites to my father. Every one saw me sympathetically which I hated the most.
Tht night is no less than hell for me and my amma .No one is with us, every one left us or I can say abonded us because no one wants to lift unnecessary burden.
 

1 month passes in a blinck and my mom stays at  home in these days . Gradually we spend all the money we had on our expenses and now we are penniless .

Next day morning my mom decided to continue her job but we never expected that  day turns the most pathetic day of our lives .