Change Ahead

Chapter 1

'This is really tiring', I thought as my father kept yelling at me for the mistake I did not commit. Yes... I was innocent for that mistake. I was the bad child. I committed to it when before I knew I was in it and after I realized, I started doing it for my sister.

My father said, "Hey.. You... Come on... Get up... You cannot just sit while I shout like an animal here..." I laughed, "Are you calling yourself an animal dad?" I was sure... I could see his BP rising and the thirst to kill me and end the tension of his life.

"You are the biggest sin that I ever committed", said he. I gave a lazy look at my mom, she looked at me angrily but I could only see her sadness for me. I felt her thoughts, which said, 'Poor child... Why don't you agree with your dad for this one time?' My sister, tried to console my father. But in no vain, she was who looked so scared and kept quiet.

My father got hold of my hair and tried to drag me out of my place. I fell down the couch. He dragged me as I tried to get hold of the couch to regain my position and obviously he was stronger. 

I was 17 by then. I was expected to be an adult, to be so mature and understanding of the parents' situation and not to have fun, because 'your life is a serious thing damn'.

"Life is a serious thing!! You damn..." famous dialogue of my father. He never failed to say it every time we had to cross. He dragged me and threw me off; I rolled and went into the dining room. I could sense the force of dad's anger on me for doing such a thing. Even before I anticipated, I had hit my head to the leg of the dining table.

I could barely hear my father shouting, "I only spare you for the sake of you sister, if not, I could have easily killed you." Slowly I fainted.

I wake up to find myself in a small clinic of my father's friend. I had hit my heard hard. Uncle had to stitch it up. I could feel a sharp pain in my head, ringing sound in my ears, concussion had happened. 

I looked up to see him look at me like garbage. He sighed heavily and said, "Why can't you listen to him for once in your life? He is not bad after all. You are the one who is making him bad." I smiled at him. He would have thought I was being a fool to do so. 

My mom said, "She is so stubborn. Just like her dad. He is also not considering that she is in her adolescence. They never get along. She wants him to change and he wants her to stop questioning him. I don't know when this is going to end." She exhaled heavily.

I was lying there and thinking about what she said. 

'I was a rebel. That is what my father hated the most.' I smirked at myself for my life. I have been going through this for about 2 years now. It was a routine for us to fight on anything and everything.

 'Yes..!! I wanted him to change his behavior towards you mom.' That was my only thing, when I started realizing how she was being treated by my father. She was a slave to our family, I would say. She never had any interests for herself. She would blindly follow my father's instructions no matter what happens. 

And he... in turn, would ill-treat her and make fun of her in front of his friends. He insults her like anything. Treats her like a shit. I want that to change. She needed some respect; some personal time for herself.