Barrister Babu

Chapter 3

Bondita is bustling around, checking her packed bags.Bondita was extremely happy today,just for today she kept aside her all problems,when she meet her ma she will solve those problems for now she just needs to focus on her present, that's what her patibabu taught her.

She was going back to her village.She packed her and her patibabu's clothes and all necessary things carefully but she is again checking those trying to find if she forgot anything.

Bihari: bahuraniji,chote Malik said you should hurry.
Bondita:ah bhari Babu,I am done,take these bags downstairs and load them in the motorgari please.
Bihari:ji

Bondita claps her hands, her voice brightening.
Bondita:TITLIIIII,come here first.
Titli came running into her room.
Titli:ji Malkin
Bondita:here you are, please make sure that everyone eats properly here after I am gone ok?koeli Didi went to her village so make sure to look after everyone.Don't give spicy food to kaka sasurji,and remember, sasurji only drinks English tea every morning.Batuk has a tendency to avoid few vegetables,grind them into a paste and mix them in his sabji bowl,and keep that separately,ok?som dada eats midnight snacks,so keep few snacks in his room by evening.and...

A soft laughter drifts in from the hallway.
"Bondita,we are just going away for one day,you do know that we will return tomorrow right?"
"Offo, patibabu,you didn't get ready yet,then why were you hurrying me?"
"Cause I know it's you who will be late,and madam ji I am ready,I just have to wear my shoes"
"You take almost a day to wear your shoes patibabu"
"And you take forever to get ready"
"No, it's you who take forever to get ready"

'again,why is it always me who has to suffer, can't they see me standing here,if they want to flirt why can't they do that alone,shiv shiv'
Bondita:did you say something titli?
Titli:no, Malkin.
Bondita told her to remember all her instructions and was pushing Anirudh towards downstairs to wear his shoes.

Anirudh: Bondita,if you take everyone's needs and likings in your small brain it will burst someday.
BONDITA:IT won't, there's no harm knowing how to keep one's family members happy.

Anirudh smiled endearingly,he sometimes gets speechless and overwhelmed with gratitude towards bondita when he sees her caring site for his family.After ma left them,roy choudhurys lived a material life,they were never really good with expressing themselves,there was hardly any emotional support between them, everyone was busy with themselves and with their own sadness, Anirudh was sent abroad even before he could get out of his sadness, everything was upside down,but after bondita came here this house became a warm home.Women's are really amazing,they know how to hold people together,now things have changed,her love and care definitely made baba feel like a human again,she handles batuk so nicely,just like a mother would,she is so small yet so mature.He can see how batuk treats her,he never got his portion of mother's love,even when they are same age,he saw batuk treating her like a mother sometimes,and sometimes like his best friend,if she wasn't here he would have definitely get rotten spoiled by his kaka and his huge ego.Even though Bondita and batuk Is off same age,but they never give off that feeling,it might seem out of place but bondita being a kid herself still acted like his mother sometimes.At first she wasn't good at it,but now,she handles the whole household like a mother.both som and batuk feels a motherly love from her,they are quite attached to her and it's kinda funny how obvious that is.Som used to hide it but in recent years his ever so quiet brother became vocal about his attachment,this young brother of his held a special place in his heart,he loves batuk and som equally but he still remembers how som used to cry and ask him to come back,he always felt guilty for not being beside him,he wasn't this quiet in his childhood but he became really quiet throughout the years, fortunately he is getting vocal about his feelings a bit all thanks to Bondita.Baba too warmed up towards bondita,but he still tires to hide that.And kaka is kaka,he is number 1 fan of his bahu.And "The on1y one" left is him.