Chapter 9: chapter 9

Mom – But I want a businessman to tell me the truth. In fact, I like only the businessmen who tell me the truth. Aman – Hmm... No problem, mom. Let’s wait for a day more or few days more. I guess, he has a lot of work to do. Mom, just think in his list he must be having too many boys’ profiles and girl’s profiles and he has to find matches for all of them. He is not sitting only for us. Mom – Couldn’t he call only ten girls for your profile? Aman – Oh ho mom! Try to put your feet in his shoes, only then will you be able to understand his problem. I am also trying to do the same. I am trying to see the world from his eyes. Mom – Hmm... He is not the prime minister of our country! He could easily call few girls’ families for you. Aman – Mom, you will never understand! And I can never make you understand anything!Mom flared up, “Are you my father who is trying to make me understand the world? You are not my father! I am your mother! I should teach you but you are trying to teach me! You are just a kid! You don’t know anything!”Aman – Mom, you again started fighting with me for no reason!Mom – Then why are you trying to become my father. Are you, my father? Aman – Mom, when did I say I am your father?Mom – But indirectly you were saying so!Aman – Oh ho! I don’t want to talk to you!I entered my room slamming the door behind me. Mom – Get lost! Lock the door from inside too! Stupid!I thought, “Now, it’s stupid to utter even a single word. Whatever I say, it’s going to spur my mom’s anger. It’s better to stay quiet for a while.”After about half an hour, my mom said very loudly, “Would I bring milk for you?”I shouted from inside my room, “No, I don’t want!”Mom – Yesterday, also you didn’t have milk!Aman – Then what?Mom – I am going to bring milk for you.Aman – Mom, I already said I don’t want.Mom – If you don’t want to take full glass, then drink half glass but you have to take.I didn’t say anything. I said to myself, “No matter how many times I say, she will do whatever she wants to do and no one can prevent her! Huh!”Exactly after five minutes , she knocked on the door, “Aman, open the door! Take milk!”Aman – Mom, I said na I didn’t want, then why did you prepare milk again?Mom – If you don’t drink then you will become very weak! Yesterday also, you didn’t have.Aman – I won’t open the door. My mom started banging on the door! Thump! Thump!Mom – Aman, open the door!I got scared. I opened the door. She gave me a glass of milk. I took it.Mom – Drink it!Aman – I don’t want to drink full glass. Please pour half glass of milk back into the jug.Mom – You drink half glass and leave the rest. I will drink the rest.Aman – Uff! You will drink this defiled milk! Milk drunk by me!Mom – Yes. What’s the problem in it?Aman – How can you do that mom? Don’t you feel bad?Mom – I don’t feel bad about you anything. I am your same mother who would clean your shit when you were a child! I am your same mother who you used to put your finger in her mouth to take out the chewed grams and you loved to eat them!Aman – Ew! Mom, stop it!Mom – What stop it! It’s the reality! You were like that and now you try to behave like my father! When you got a runny nose, it was me who used to clean your face with my fingers!Aman – Oh ho! Please stop it! You are very irritating mom!Mom – Yeah, yeah! Now, I am irritating. If I tell someone his reality then I become irritating!Aman – Mom, sometimes some realities need not be spoken. Mom – Yeah, yeah! Now, guru ji is delivering his discourse. Should I join my hands and sit here?Aman – Uff! Mom, you are too much!I again slammed the door and locked it from inside. I started drinking milk. While drinking I didn’t even realize when I emptied the glass. And when I realized, I said to myself, “Oh, I didn’t want to drink that much! Now, I have to suffer the feeling of overfilled stomach for the whole day long...”I heard the blabbering sound of my mother outside my room. I thought, “Now, she will go on blabbering for about half an hour. And nobody can stop her! And after half an hour, she will become normal as if nothing had happened. I don’t know if all moms are the same.”  One week passed but we received no call from the marriage bureau. In a week, I called him twice but every time, the response was “I am looking for a good match for you.” After saying that, he disconnected the call. Now, the environment in my home had become a bit tense. I and my mom was sitting on our bed and watching tv. At once, my mom said to me, “Call uncle Mohan.”Aman – Now? Mom – Yeah. Aman – I called him yesterday. I think I should call him tomorrow. Mom – No, call him right now. I want to see what he says today. Aman – Anything special today? Mom – Yes, yesterday night, I saw a dream that you called him and he said yes he had found a good match! I am feeling like if you call him today, you are going to get a positive response.Aman – Hmm... okay. I guess you are right. I should call him today. Okay, I am going to call. Please lower the voice of tv. She lowered the voice of the tv using tv remote and she was all ears for me. I picked up my mobile phone and dialled the number of uncle Mohan. He picked up the phone. (It will be so nice of you, if you leave at least a single word comment 🌺❇️🌹🌺❇️)