iisuperdaughterii

CHAPTER 3

I headed towards mom's king size bed. I jumped and sat on the bed. Again, I looked at the room, all expensive things.... But what caught my eye was a rectangular shaped ruby box with an equilateral triangle on it. Important being the equilateral triangle was rotated 90° right. It seemed heavy and expensive. How could I not have seen this earlier, I thought to myself. I tried to remember what was there earlier in the place of this rotated triangle fitted in a rectangular box.
My, mom's and Humble uncle's picture, I suddenly remembered. I searched for the picture, but could not find it. I suddenly forgot all questions I had, because I just kept thinking 'how on Earth could she replace the family picture '.
I got the feeling of not being loved by mom, one again. Like everyday, this incident reminded me that mom has a hell lot of priorities over me. I just couldn't get why. If not father's, mother's love their children. But mom didn't.

"Mom, from where did you get this shimmery ruby box with a triangle on it?" I asked. And, I demanded an answer. "This is the ruby YouTube play button, and I got it when you were 4" said Mom. I had a ton lot of questions, but I decided to ask it one by one.
"What's YouTube?" I asked. Mom replied,"Um, well, YouTube is a place where you can share a video. It appears to everyone on YouTube!" Everyone! There'd be a lot of people on YouTube. "And, everyone can put up videos?" I asked. "Yes!" replied Mom. "Anyone can put up videos, anyone can comment on your video, they can like the video, share it, and since I've left, I don't know what not!"
Since, I have left. Since, I have left. Since, I have left?

"What have you left?" I asked. More than a question, it was a demand. Today, I had to know all answers to the questions Mom had inbidded in me. I demanded the answers.

Mom seemed to think before answering. She closed her eyes for a couple of seconds and held my hands. She grabbed a pillow and placed it on her lap.
"You're my daughter. I exactly know what you're thinking right now. Infact, I exactly know what you've been thinking since the past 9 years. But today is the day. Today is the day, I will answer all your questions," said Mom with a firm expression.
Yes yes yes!!!! But did I want to know all of this? Did I want to break the suspense of 9 years just like that? I thought to myself, I was really a puzzled to be solved.

"I worked in YouTube. I too like a million other people, uploaded videos on YouTube. But, as you may have anticipated, it is very hard to stand out, or earn fame. I was one of the people who had a large amount of fame. Capital L large and capital F fame."
"Is that why we are so rich?"
"Yes. That is why. I worked so hard. So hard. I would have the videos of my ahead year planned beforehand. I was very productive."
Was. "You worked hard to upload videos?"
"You would not get it Nandini, but I actually earned from it. I earned this much money to enroll you in schools like Youban School."
"So much money!"
"Yes! I and Humble, both earned so much money. We two have tried and saved as much money we can, for your education."
"Mom, you left? Did Humble uncle too?"
"I did. Humble didn't. He still earns."
I was so very excited and nervous at the same time; I thought about finally telling my friends about the job of my parents, or I could say my mom and uncle. Just then, this thought occurred.
“Mom, what about my friends? They, too, don't know what job their parents do!”
“Nandini, the parents of your friends too, are YouTubers. They got large fame...”
“Capital L Capital F?”
She laughed. “Yes!”
I leaned over and kissed mom on her cheek, which I do once in a while. “Thankyou mom,” I whispered.

I walked out of the door went to my room and started cuddling my teddy bear, while replaying my short conversation with mom.
All that was striking me was ‘Since I left’. Why did mom leave? How could I forget to ask that? Or maybe mom didn't want to answer! But, she could not escape if I asked her. But I knew I could not have with mom this type of confrontation and the talk we just had again.

That's a wrap and zoop!