Fauji papa

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The sound of the slap echoed in the drawing room. Surprisingly it was madhavi and not kalyan. Ishaan's face jerked to another side and tears welled up in his eyes. He was in denial.

Madhavi has never slapped them before. She does hit them but never slapped them. Ishaan was not able to believe that his ever lovely mother has just slapped him. He kept his hand on his cheek and looked up. Madhavi was glaring at him angrily.

"Kya matlab hai uska?" Madhavi yelled and everyone else shrunk in fear. It was not her daily yelling which they casually ignore. She was bubbling with fury behind her yell. Noor who was sitting beside madhavi ran towards ansh and tightly hugged him. Ansh himself was scared so he hugged kalyan.

"Sharam nahi aati apne papa se aise baat karne ki! Badtameez!!" Madhavi yelled again unable to digest her son making jab's at his father's career. Him saying that he is being a dictator in the house because he failed to become a general in the army angered her to no extent.

"Mene aisa nahi bola tha..." ishaan says while tears trickle down his face.

"Tho aur kaise bola tha? Yahi matlab tha na ki tere papa unke profession me fail hogaye aur tum logo pe dikharahe!" Madhavi yelled again.

Ansh burst out in laughter. Although it was a very serious situation, what madhavi told made him laugh as in any other situation, that sentence would sound like her making fun of kalyan. But he immediately schooled his face scared of his angry mother.

"Mama me aisa nahi bola tha..." ishaan said as he now realized how his words came out as. He definitely didn't mean it as a jab to his father's career but just blurted it out in anger. But it came out in a very wrong way.

"Me bas gusse me tha... aur galti se aisa nikal gaya sorry papa.." ishaan mutters out while crying.

"Itna gussa kyu aya tumhe? Do hafthe se keh rahe the aur tune nahi kia! Aaj PT sir se daant khaya, kal bhi nahi kaat ke jatha tho maar bhi khatha sab ke samne school me!! Wo acha lagta he tumhe?? Aur galti tumhari thi and gussa bhi tumhe hi aaye?" Madhavi says still angry.

"Nahi... i'm sorry par papa bhi overreact kiye the.. itni maarni ki kya zarurat thi.." ishaan says weekly. Usually he wouldn't say this as he would be too scared but now he was very upset about his haircut, therefore mustered up the courage to blurt it out.

"Papa overreact kar rahe the??" Madhavi says and lifts her hand again to whack him but is stopped by kalyan who held her hand gently. Ishaan who flinched and was waiting for the hit opened his eyes.

"Go to bed ishaan!" Kalyan orders and he runs to his room. He has been hit enough for the day.

"Tum dono bhi jao aur so jao." He says to ansh and noor gently. Ansh nods and drags noor from there. She is scared to sleep in kalyan and madhavi's room tonight. She tugs ansh's tshirt and he looks at her.

"me aaj tumhare saath sojao?" She asks timidly and ansh nods. That room is shared by ansh and ishaan so they found him crying on the bed while covering himself with a blanket. Ansh really wants to comfort him but he knows ishaan needed his alone time so he left him alone. Noor slept with ansh on his bed clutching his tshirt tightly.

Kalyan and madhavi were still in the drawing room. Kalyan handed her a glass of water to calm down.

"Mujhe maarna nahi chahiye tha...." Madhavi says in regret.

"Koi baat nahi! Bilkul sahi kaam kiye ho!" Kalyan says while smiling.

"wo bilkul sun ne ki mood me nahi tha! Kitni bhi daantu ya maaru farak nahi padegi! Par i couldn't control myself when he spoke to you like that!"