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Ritika - Lucky or Unlucky

Today is Ritika's birthday, a day which should make her happy, but she is always expression less. It is not that she does not have friends or well wishers, but her past keep coming haunting her. She has turned 20, beautiful, grown up young lady. She is blessed with good look, sharp features, her dusky skin attracted many unlike other girls of her age, she never bothered about her look, her features.

She was born to a family of doctors, her father is serving central secretariat of government services at Delhi HQ. She lost her mother when she was 9 years old. Her mother was also a doctor. She lost her mother when her mother had picked her up from home and was rushing to drop her to the school for annual day practice. Ritika escaped, but her mother succumbed to death. She could not forget and blamed herself. Her father was a considerate man, and always took care of her. He had his own limitation as a human, demand of job and after losing Ritika's mother, he buried himself in his work.

Initially a year Ritika and her father managed the house, from cleaning to cooking themselves along with the facility provided by government support staff. Ritika was always good in studies and her father never had to worry anything from an academic perspective, but he was always concerned about her security and she gets a normal childhood and the warmth of family. One of the evening in the summer of her grade 3, when she was preparing for her annual exam, she still remembers the conversation of that evening
Papa : Ritika exam ke tyari ho gayi
Ritika : Je Papa
Papa : Acha jab ho gaye toh dinner karenge, tumahri favourite banaya hain kofta
Ritika : Je Papa, 10 min
After 10 min, both had dinner as usual watching news channel and debate. They finished dinner and both helped geeta mausi who had been with them before her birth. It was a usual routine for both to sit together, cuddle watch news or play songs for 20-30 min with her head on her father's shoulder or on lap . It will be a silent night where her father would be usually catching up the newspaper or files from office and ritika enjoying the warmth of her father and relaxing with TV playing olds songs which her mother hummed. Something was different that everning her father was massaging her head , his other hand was not having any file or newspaper or journal. After few min her father started the conversation which changed life for them especially her

Papa: Riti ek baat batani hain
Ritika:Je
Papa: Mujhey 2 saal kay leye Germany jana hain
Ritika:Oh papa..
Papa: Gabrao mat, mene Preeti didi sei baat ke hain,Tum aur Geeta mausi unke yahan rehna. Woh tumhe bauhat chahte hain, Rohan bhaihya bhe tumko bauhat chahte hain, tum toh unke chotee behna ho. Woh pehle bhe kai dafa mujhey bol chuki ke tumhey wahan bhejo mein he manna karta raha. Haan mere didi ko teacher pana jaada hain strict hain per woh tumhe behed chahte hain. Jijaji toh Airforce mein busy rehte hain, unko bhe bete ka bada moh hain.

Dadi bhee satth hain
Ritika: per papa mujhey apney ghar mein rehna hain.
Papa: 2 saal kee baat hain, kaam bhe important hain beta, mene private kabhee join nahin kiya Doctor baney kay baad, taki desh kay leye kuch kar sakon.Agar tumko bilkul mann nahin toh mein mana kar dunga.
Ritika: mein aur geeta mausi yahan reh lenge
Papa: Geeta pei vishwash hai beta per akele sara sambhalna unsey nahin ho payega. Koi jaldi nahin , exam ho jaye fir batana, agar nahin mann tumahra toh mein mana kar dunga

Ritika did not get sleep that night. She kept tossing, finally she got up quietly with her pillow tucked in her hand went towards Geeta Mausi's room . She with slight push opened the door, slight push was enough for Geeta Mausi to open her eye to identify the little figure Ritika , she was about to get up from bed but Ritika was swift to run and hug her. Geeta Mausi asked her koi Bura Sapna dekha ... rikita did not answer. Geeta moved bit inside to make space for Ritika. Ritika threw her pillow and holding mausi she lay down beside her. Mausi patted her back and asked exam ke chinta hai kya? Ritika just made a meek voice which mausi understood it not exam which is bothering her. Mausi after few min whispered again,is it because of going to kasuli. Ritika hugged her more tightly. Mausi patted her and said koi na mein hoon na. Hum dono sath rahenge jiji bhee bauhat pyar karete. Mausi could feel tears in her arms – she uttered ghar toh yahin hain jab mann karega yahan rehnay aajayenge. Ritika uttered but maa toh is gar mein hain, geeta hugged her close, didi humare saath humehsa hain.