Road To Success(Completed)

Chapter 15 Friendship : A Special Bond

Dedicated to @kanchan mehta for her deep involvement to the core of the story

Also I appreciate her deep involvement with the mythology of our country:)

Chapter 15

Friendship : A Special Bond

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

---------Henri Nouwen

Shruti handled the challenging task very well balancing her home, daughter, work and skating even Piu's academics very well.

But in the jest what went down trodden was Shruti and Govind's relationship. They did not fight like other couples.

All they did was argue in which Shruti was always the one to give in.

Govind had been a bit too silly these days objecting on Shruti's late arrival, her folly in maintaining house, taking classes even on Sundays when it was their time together. Hadn't she once warned him, no office work on Sundays and he duly agreed to it.

And now she herself is engaged in her classes even on Sundays.

She might have seek his approval prior and he agreed wanting to give her an opportunity but now he is not taking it very positively, he even yelled at her last night when she was discussing something about skating.

Gosh! Is that all she could talk her classes and skating!

Couldn't she once have the ethnicity of enjoying the most awaited Saturday night? He did not talk to her for a whole day a day before, he even disconnected her call because he was angry at her for not visiting his mother who was unwell last week.

Ofcourse Shruti had nursed her then but wasn't it her responsibility to at least call and check on her whereabouts.

'If I forgot, Govind should have at least been smarter enough to remind Me." Shruti debated in her thoughts but did not say it openly scared of his feisty reaction.

Govind have been quite grumble these days. Last evening he even snapped at her friend Rita who was only enquiring and forcing him to bring Piu for road skating in the evenings too.

Govind was already taking Piu in the morning for road skating and she did skate well too but Rita was of the opinion that that wasn't enough for Piu wasn't doing good skating rink skating during the beginners session, night road skating would help her improve.

Rita was straightforward and sounded authoritative as thats how her broad and short built portrays her.

But Govind felt insinuated and insulted with her words and instead shouted saying that "Piu was her daughter and it was none of her business to teach her what is to be done.

They both argued for a while inviting attention of all the presentees including coaches, parents and all the skaters.

"Why are you indulging into this?' asked bethratled Shruti shocked that somebody is defending her.

"I have to. You are my friend and nobody can say like this to my friend." Sapna answered Shruti, her eyes narrowed at the boy who'd just bullied Shruti by calling her names and commenting on her odd oiled hair style.

"Sapna" Shruti sighs. James was Sapna's bestie, another popular boy from school and Sapna had only befriended her last week after Shruti offered her with the emergency as Sapna had not assumed to have her mortified days a bit earlier. Also she helped her with the notes she missed while she was fussing embarrassed about her preponded arrivals in the middle of the school  .