The Ladies Hostel

chapter 25: Maya Khan Returns

Titir's POV:
Winter was trying to knock the door timidly as it was already the beginning of November. Still we used to turn our fan on with full speed and wrap ourselves in the warmth of soft blanket. Affordable content!

It was a free friday noon until I heard that Maya aunty was coming in the evening. Preeya went to the washroom after all girls were done with their hectic holiday bath!

I was alone in the room. I was trying to divert my mind from over thinking about the monthly meeting in presence of the Great Maya Khan regarding my mom staying here for three long nights!

I turned on my favourite playlist -05 on my laptop and turned off all the light except for the fairy light which I purchased from online shop with the residue of my pocket money.

" It wont reduce your worries, poor baby"- inhumane soul mocked me!

"No shit sherlock "- I pretended to ignore.

Last week my mom came here with Tanmay, my younger brother to see how my hostel life was going on. To check the efficiency of my weak heart, she even asked me to call Navan to meet her! However that's another story.

You might be surprised, in last two or three years, since I started residing in this hostel, neither my mom nor any of my family members came here to visit me.

Not that visitors were not allowed at the hostel. Visitors intending to stay with the hostel residents were orally discouraged by the hostel owner. But some angelic girls of our hostel used to do kind of hostel politics like dividing the small amount of girls in the smallest group, then gossiping about other residents without even sparing their parents to be a juicy gossip topic.

Any time, whenever anyone’s relative specially mother came to reside, somehow I felt girls could not accept their presence cordially who knows why. What every time happened after that was heart piercing insult of that girl in the wrap of general discussion!

So even though my desperation reached it's peak to see my mom's unearthly beautiful face, I did not request her to come here. Actually, I could not. Here, in Dhaka we did not have any nearest relative where she could stay plus she was a school teacher. Probably she also could not respond to my call to visit me if her institution denied.

Whatever this time she came, came with the happiness of the whole world with her. Tonmoy's best friend Rifat came here along with them.

Seeing here the faces I loved the most, I was flying in the air. I hugged my mom so tight that I could feel her chest jumping.

She was wearing a light lemon colored  saree and I was desperately enjoying her heavenly body smell, the best perfume she could ever put on!

I kissed on Tonmoy's forehead at the visitor's room and without wasting time, slapped on his head as usual. Light handedly ; don't worry!

I found him acting like a modest teen in front of his friend which he was definitely not. Without returning the thing I thought I deserved, Tonmoy happily went with Rifat to stay in his aunt house after giving me a shy hug!

Mom used to quite love Preeya.
Though, Preeya met her once when she went to our house with me- still she used to respect and kind of love my mom. They were in touch through phone calls. So I knew it won't be  problematic for Preeya.

I knew Preeya was struggling to start her life newly. It was unbearable to see how the jolliest girl amongst us forgot to smile, forgot to make us laugh. She was always in Life sucks look which, I feel,  was pretty normal in her situation.

So it was somehow felt that mom's presence was not making her that much pleased what she could have been if everything was like before.

Making my worst fear true, Momi apu as usual directly informed me that mom's presence  was quite disturbing for the girls and it was totally out of the code of conduct of the Royal Paradise.
So I was naturally scared about today's Court session.