My Little Secret

CHAPTER 1 [A STRANGE FEELING]

NOTE: Before you start, things you should know are - 

This ''  '' symbol / sign denotes the phrase of the respective character. Translation will be denoted in bold font. Italics denotes the Author's commentary or thoughts which you may or may not find.

Now...........enjoy reading !  ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝

Author's POV 

Just like every other day, the morning hustle-bustle of getting ready for the day to go to school was happening. While Dhara was rubbing her head in between while having her breakfast, trying to catch her dad's attention so that she can complain about her mom's stunt which happened a short while ago.

 ~FLASHBACK~  '' TO 1.5 HOURS AGO ''

RRRRINNNNGGGGGG........... the alarm was blaring yet somebody was sound asleep. After few mins the alarm stops and the special wake up mission was carried by her mother coming upstairs to her room with belan {translation: rolling pin for making roti}. She opens the doors and sees her sleeping like a log and snatches her blanket off her body and says ''har din ka tamasha hai yeh is ladki ka''. She proceeds to wake her up saying ''Tinku(it's her nickname at home) ....uth jaa itni der ho gayi hai.... dekh alarm bhi band ho gaya and 10 bajne wale h'' {translation: It has become daily drama of this girl, Tinku....get up, how much time has passed......see even the alarm has stopped and it gonna be 10 soon}, but nothing much changes.

Shanta(Mother of Dhara) sighs and very soon her expression changes into smirk, she says '' abhi dekh tu nhi uthegi toh tik h me bhi baki ghar ki tarah pankha band kardu , bas panch ginungi 1..2..'' {translation: now if you don't wake up, i'll be like in other households and switch off the fan, i'll just count upto five}. Within a second, dhara sits up straight, her sleep was completely thrown out of the window and blinks at her mom while showing her teeth. Her mother glares at her with her hands on the waist. Dhara immediately gets up from the bed and hugs her mom, soon proceeding to kiss her cheek but before that happens, she gets little smack on her head from her. dhara looks at her dejectedly and pouts while saying ''yeh kya zulm h mumma , kitne pyaar se apko morning kiss dene aayi thi..aapne toh masoom si bacchi ko maar diya..me toh papa ko pakka bolungi'' {translation: what did i do mumma, how much lovingly i was about to give you a morning kiss but you beat this innocent child ...i should defenitely tell this to papa}. 

                                   Shanta says '' please stop this acting of yours, i didn't even hit you hard..go......go tell your papa, let's see what does he have to say. now go and get ready fast if you don't wanna stand outside of your school'' and goes downstairs to prepare breakfast.

Now our tinku quickly gets ready with her morning duties and come downstairs. As soon as she comes to the living room and sees the dining table has been set and her mother is in kitchen about to the food, she runs into kitchen and hugs her mumma from behind and peeps knowingly to look at her and found her smiling. This brings smile in her face too and withdraws from the hug and kisses her mom in the cheek. Her mom looks at her smiling and says ''achha ja ke baith ja aur sun jaate samay is sabji ko bhi leja ke rakh de'' {translation: well now go and sit down ...and while going bring this sidedish and keep it there} Tinku nods her quickly and runs to the dining table and keeps it. She sits on the chair and keeps swinging her legs while waiting for parents to eat together. 

Mahesh(Father of Dhara) descends down from stairs and comes to the dining table. As soon as he reaches , he looks at his daughter with a smile and kisses her head while caressing and sits down opposite to her. Few mins later, Shanta emerges from the kitchen and sits down while keeping the rotis. As soon as she takes her seat, tinku looks at her and smiles sheepishly to which she shakes head. They proceed to have their breakfast and while eating having it, tinku rubs her heads looking at her papa. Mahesh catches this and enquires what's wrong with her head , is it paining .....she tells him accusingly that shanta beat her head with belan without any reason and pouts. He turns to his head to wife who seems to be waiting for him to turn and ask or say something to her. She throws warning signals through her eyes'not to take his daughter's side or else he's done for' ....seeing this he alerts up and smiles at her and turns to tinku saying ''Arrey! aise kaise maregi ..pakka tumse koi bhool ho gyi hogi ..kuch gir gaya hoga tumhare sarpe ......tumhe pata hai na tumhari mumma kitni pyaari hai and woh tujhse kitna pyaar krti hai ......tik hai beta koi baat nhi chod dete hai jo ho gya ab hogya kya kar sakte hai abhi..aur tu na thoda jaldi utha kar'' {translation: Come on! how can she beat ..definitely you would've mistaken or something would've fell on your head..you know right how sweet is your mumma and how much she loves you...ok let's leave it what has happened has happened as we can't do anything...and you try to get up a little bit early}. Tinku looks at her papa with her mouth open and looks at her mumma who's now smiling in victory and wiggling her eyebrows at her. She shakes head in fake disappointment and haves her breakfast. 

After a short while, she runs to the car outside and sits inside waiting for her parents. Her parents daily drop her in the school and go to their office; and today also they'll drop her and Mahesh will drop his wife at her company and go to his. Suddenly she feels something in her mind that she can't figure out, but she thinks that it's simply weird or strange but doesn't ponder on it much.

Who knows ? ┐(￣ヮ￣)┌  ..when she herself don't know !

Soon her parents came and they first drove her to school bidding her with a bye kiss and went to their respective offices.

Dhara's POV 

--IN SCHOOL-- 

.... Peww .... 😮‍💨

Finally I reached my seat in my classroom. Just as i sat , a hand was calling me by my shoulder. i turned and saw my classmate and raised my brows gesturing 'what's up?', she said today's my turn to collect everybody's assignments and submit . i nodded and turned back , opened my bottle and drank some water. After that i stood up and went to the centre of the front of my classroom and announced everyone to get ready to submit the assignment; just as i completed the shuffling of notebooks and papers, some hurrily going to other students, the searching and borrowing of extra pen/pencil can be seen. 

                       After a few mins , i started collecting the notebooks from the last bench; few were asking excuses to write and give later while few were giving reasons why they couldn't give their notebooks......well they were like -

1.  woh kya h na me tuition jaati hu na toh waha pe note mix hogaya

2. (first searching in the bag just i reached their desk, then turning to me saying) sorry yaar me complete krdi lekin ghar pe bhool gayi

and few geniuses were like ''tere note de bas 2 min me likhe de denge, tab tak tu baaki ka note lele''. {translation: 1. you know i go to tuition , so the note must've mixed up there 2. i did my assignment but forgot to bring it from home   , you give your note in 2 mins we'll write and give you till then you collect from the rest}

After all the assignment fiasco, i submitted and class went on and on. During the social science class, i was not in my full concentrated mood so i was doodling on the textbook's corner gaps and filling the lead in the 'O' 's of paragraphs of the lesson; but to my bad luck i got caught by sir (social science teacher). well the rest is history ......as you know he called out to stand and answer the question on the topic which he was going on and on about 15 mins. I stood up and said the correct answer, he simply stared for a min and told me concentrate properly even though i answered, so finally when i thought he would just ask me to sit,who was i kidding.. he was not in the mood to make it easy for me as he told to meet him after the school before heading back home. 

 As per the instruction, when i went to his desk in the staff room..he simply stared at me for few mins completely silent thinking of ways to not to make it easy for me and ALAS! when he spoke like i droped a hammer on my foot myself and told me to bring my parents to meet him. 

                           And what could i do?   Just simply nodded my head and said 'thank you sir' bidding him departure. While returning to my classroom, again a unknown strange feeling settled in my heart like in the morning but this time rather quite hard that i couldn't shake off even after i tried. So i decided to ignore it and took my bag; but one of my bag's zip was half opened, 'strange' yet i simply closed it and went outside the premises to see my brother waiting in the car with papa.I ran towards them in a jumpy manner and settled in the back seat quietly as something is about to happen.

There you go...... after a min papa asked me how was my day? and i replied it was fine and went smooth, just after my reply a scoff escaped my brother's wonderful mouth(ignore the word 'wonderful' as he doesn't deserve such a normal word rather a more special and respectable tag like 'suar kahin ka'......i thought),ignoring that i said to papa '' papa let's go to icecream parlour pleaseee....i want to have chocolate truffle flavour today''. Just like the uninvited guest my brother has to welcome his mouth in between my talking saying''laga tha mujhe aise kaise shanti se peeche baith gayi''{translation: i knew how come she sat in the back seat without any tantrums}, i glared at him and said '' iska chodiye papa letz gooo jaldi, we have to reach home before mumma''{translation: ignore him papa letz gooo fast}. we went and had icecream, while i had half of my brother's butterscotch too cause he was talking back in there and we went home.

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So with that the 1st chapter ends......see you in 2nd

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