My Innocent Love (Book 1 In Novice Love Series)

Chapter 2- The Indifference

Isn't it ironic, when you start facing pain and back to back stabs at your self-respect, you become numb to the pain? But the girl who, after being treated like a princess by her grandparents and uncles- aunts, suddenly faces, their hostile behavior, she is not able to understand how is she even supposed to feel? It is easy to get through the Indifferences if you are habitual of it, but it becomes unbearable and heart breaking after being put on the heaven and then suddenly being pushed into the hell.

Raisha was made to feel like an outsider in her own family. Her grandparents, who once adored her as she was the only girl child of the Sinha family and that too, the daughter of their youngest son, now didn't even bother to look at her. Although Raj's sister Prerna had two daughters, Ekta being the eldest was about Raisha's age, while Tapur was just a year younger to both. But still her grandparents loved her dearly, but after they discovered her illness, they treated her like an outcast. It was like one illness had forced them, to shift their all love to their grandsons Avinash, Rachit, and Rajat who were Raj's elder brothers Anand and Aman's sons. They loved her brother Jay, but she was just a mere object whom they loathed now.

Raisha descended the stairs slowly, watching her grandmother and aunts feeding Avinash, Rachit, and Rajat. She wondered what mean thing will she hear today from her cousins, and all the elder clan? She had tried to get adapted to their new meany behavior, since the time she got ill, but no matter how much she tried, she was failing big time and every time they said something meanie, it felt like someone brutally stabbed at her heart.

"Raisha! Baby how many times, I have told you to call me or your mom to pick up your bag while climbing the stairs?" Raj said approaching her on the stairs. He had seen her climbing down the stairs with her heavy bag and immediately left his breakfast in halfway and was by her side. His mother along with sister in laws gave him an annoyed look which didn't go unnoticed by him, but he ignored them as he didn't want to create a scene in front of the kids.

"Dad I am fine! Relax", Raisha assured her father with a smile, but inside she could feel the pain in her knees. Her father insisted her to shift in the room that was downstairs, but she didn't want to leave her safe haven, her room. She had lived there since she was six and she didn't like the thought of leaving her room, just because she had new troubles to handle.

"Raj, come and have your breakfast. She is saying she can manage, then leave her and eat your food ", said Raj's mother. Raj looked at his mother with unbelievable eyes, that she could even suggest him to eat when his daughter was struggling.

Raisha looked at her father and squeezed his hand assuringly to calm his anger. Since the day they have started misbehaving with her, her parents had started having a tiff with the entire family. Especially her father, who has lost all his happy composure in front of his family. And how can he even be happy? When they were treating his daughter like an outsider?

Ignoring his mother, Raj helped Raisha down. Her legs were killing her, but she didn't show it to anyone. She was about to sit beside her brother, when her grandfather shouted at her, "Do I need to remind you that you are not supposed to sit beside any of the kids? What If they get ill too, because of you? "

Raisha looked sadly at everyone, who was seated on the big dining leisurely. Her cousins, who were elder to her by three, two and one year, respectively gave a smirk which showed, that they whole heartedly enjoyed her miserable state. Pulling out herself from their evil thoughts, her eyes went straight to her mother who was crying silently in a corner. She looked at her father, who had a shocked expression on his face. She and her mother had managed to hide these things from her father, but today it was all out in open. She could see her father seething in anger.

"Sorry, Grandpa. I will sit on the couch", Raisha said in a low voice and started to move towards the couch, which was kept at the far end of the room, when her father stopped her by holding her arm.