Saturday, August 15, 2015

Adventure story 202. Shaila's son Shishir

                                                     Shaila's son Shishir
Rita was excited about taking her daughter Tina to school. This was so perfect day for start to school. Since it was monsoon Rita was so scared regarding rain. But it was not that much heavy rain. She was so happy to understand that her small daughter would have a perfect day in school. She started going out when she heard screams from neighborhood. She saw Shaila was carrying her daughter Pinky and her mother-in-law was screaming like she normally did. That was really strange household. She just never understood why did Shaila's mother-in-law kept complaining. Shaila was acting in best way with her mother-in-law but still she just received criticisms. It was always regarding some mistake in something. It could anything. It could be cleaning and dusting of house or cooking. Her mother-in-law just kept screaming on her and Shaila had to tolerate it. Rita never understood that how did she tolerate. It was so wrong on every point. But Rita knew that it was not her business so she just smiled and she pretended as if she didn't heard any thing. She looked at Shaila's son Shishir. He was inside her arms. He was hugging his Mom possessively. He always stayed with his Mom in that way only. Rita looked at them. and said "So what is plan today? Shishir is going to school with Tina?" "Yes. Of course." Shishir said timidly "No..NO..I will not." Shaila "Baby you have to go to school. Don't you want to become wise like your Dad?" "No..No.." He started crying. Rita was so confused. She could sense easily that Tina was going to follow Shishir. After all if that thing seemed so scary to Shishir then it must be some thing wrong. That would be little Tina's logic which Rita just hated from heart. Rita just started walking fast. She didn't want to get that trouble. Shaila sensed same thing so she started moving fast but Shishir was holding her so tight that she start feeling pains. Shaila "Shishir just relax. You are hurting your Mom." Shishir started crying immediately. After hearing Shishir Tina started crying too. Tina "Mom I am scared." "Now you don't worry. Don't you remember Pooja Didi? She went to school before you she was so happy." Tina began to get convinced. Tina turned to Shishir and said "School is good." But Shishir was not ready to accept it. He just kept crying. Tina was little scared but she just took hold of her Mom and relaxed. When they got auto, they sat inside it. Whole time Shishir was crying even auto driver tried to convince him. But he just didn't seem to be willing to understand any thing. Finally they reached to the school. When they stood at gate, they saw that school had so wonderful look. But both kids started crying. They were just not ready for school. It was so hard. They had to force themselves to go away from kids when their kids were crying from heart. But parents had to go since school authority told them to do that. They went away with one hope from heart that their kids would be fine at school.
        Rita just didn't want to go home. She wanted to observe from corner and see that her daughter was fine. But teachers had made one thing clear that they must go. They said if they kept coming around like that children would keep crying. Rita was so tense. She turned to Shaila. Rita "So what happened today? " "What?" "Shishir was so scared of school. Don't you told him that school is nice thing etc.?""I did every thing but he just didn't understand. That boy is acting so strange. He always remain stuck to me. I just want him to play but he just never want to stay away from me. When I am around, he was just fine jumping and active. But when I try to leave him behind, he just started screaming." "Tina is also like that only. These kids never leave their Mom. Just kept running behind us but when they grow up we have to run behind them." They both started laughing then while chatting with each other. They went inside building. They fixed their timing to pick up kids. Rita went in her house and started finishing work. Then she got some time to relax but not much soon she had to go out to take back Tina. She just wished from heart that Tina grew up little bit more and her school timing should increase so that she could at least able to relax for few hours. She knew that she just loved her daughter and wanted her always around her. But sometimes her energy just quit her. Tina required a Mom who could play with her for 24/7 hours which was not possible. After all she was a human being not a machine. She needed to understand her capacities. But her daughter needed a super mom who just jumped around with her. She sometimes felt so angry that her little daughter didn't understand her limits. Tina always kept complaining regarding how less her Mom played with her. But Rita did always her best. She just wished from her heart that only Tina gave her little bit more respect. But somewhere she knew her daughter was too small to understand it. She just felt one thing from her heart that every day her daughter was getting more and more stubborn. It was not right for her. She just looked around then she noticed that toy which was broken by her daughter. She just wished that her daughter was not that much aggressive. She just remembered Shishir. He was so obedient. He just acted the way his Mom ordered him. It was so good to had a child like that she just wished her daughter act like him. He was so nice boy. He never argued, But few moments ago while going in school he acted in such a strange way. She had never heard him scream like that. He just always sat near his Mom and play with something. Mostly Tina also sat with him and then for sometime Tina acted like good girl since she enjoyed playing with Shishir from heart. Then slowly when Tina convinced him that they should go, he agreed to go. But they never went far away since Shishir rejected idea of going too far which always suited Rita. She just wanted such a nice boy to set example before her daughter. But today he acted too differently. Then Rita thought that he must had hated to stay away from his Mom. Then she looked at wall clock. It was time to pick up her daughter so she once again started to change her dress. She just wished that she didn't need to do that but while working in kitchen. She couldn't use clothes which she needed to go outside. She had to change her clothes.
     Rita went out and started calling Shaila. Once again she heard screams from inside, Shaila's mother-in-law was screaming. That woman was so strange. She never spoke without screaming. But finally Shaila came out. Rita immediately stopped auto. They went inside and Rita took breathe of relief. She didn't want to be late. When they reached there, they were little bit early. But they could hear voices of children. It was clear that they had adjusted and not crying. But they couldn't identify voices of their children. But after some time teacher started sending kids out. Parents of younger child to stand in corner. Then slowly children started to come out. Shishir was first come out and grab his mother. Then Tina did same thing. When she hugged Rita tightly, suddenly it seemed to Rita as if Rita received biggest treasure of world. She was so happy to get back her daughter. So then they started going home. But both kids were not ready to go there tomorrow. But both Moms knew that it was not optional. Their children had to go to school. Only if they could convince them importance of education. But then she looked at her small daughter's big cheeks and she knew that large lectures were not useful. She just keep quite. She needed to told that thing in nice way. She knew that a pastry or ice cream would do the trick. She knew that bribing children was wrong but for education. She had to do that. She decided that she would discuss this with her husband and they did it. After all it was delicate issue she didn't want to do any wrong with her daughter. She would bribe her but only after discussing it with her parents and her in-laws. Then if they all helped then she was going to win.She decided to take all help, She could since she just wanted success in this mission. So when they reached home, she feed lunch to Tina. Then Tina slept in her arms. After that she started to phone. She talked with every one and took each advice. Every advice was just one type of bribing so moral of story was that. It was not bribing but reward. She just felt there was so little difference in both. Any way she decided to use all those tricks. Like promising trip to amusement parks on Sunday and ice creams, pastries. Then she even used toys as reward. When she began that convincing, Tina seemed totally willing. She was so glad. When her husband Pratap came back, he also talked about school. Slowly Tina decided that she must go to school since she was getting so much attention just due to her school. Rita was so glad. But next day when time came of going to school Tina was upset, Rita just kept consoling her. Then they heard big voice of Shishir, he was screaming so loudly. He was getting so upset. Rita felt for first time that something was totally wrong with him. He was hugging her Mom in such strange way while Tina was sitting in her lap independently. Tina was upset. Tina was even crying in soft voice but she was not making scene. Rita looked at Shaila in confused expression. Shaila "He just hate school." Rita nodded. Then they went in school.Whole time in auto Shishir was screaming and crying. He was holding Shaila so tightly that Shaila's hand started getting mark. It was so strange. Even Tina looked scared. Tina just slowly started to hide in Rita's arm. It was strange.
       Rita was so glad when they stopped near school. She just wanted to go inside school. She knew that she could not go inside but she just wanted to get over with her job of dropping Tina in school. She just sensed one thing that Tina also wanted same thing. They both wanted to avoid Shishir. It was really scary. He was creating so much show off for small thing. Finally they went near school. Shishir was not ready to leave his Mom. But teacher forced him. He just kept crying. Tina went inside but she was not that much scared. Slowly they started going every day. Tina started talking about school in her own way. Tina even began to accept school. That fear she felt at beginning just reduced from her heart. But Shishir was scared on every day. He just kept looking upset on each day. Shaila started getting panic every day. At beginning Rita was upset by it. But since Tina was no longer effected by it. Rita began to sense that Shishir was not normal. Finally one day Shaila started crying. Rita "What happened? " "Shishir is becoming strange day by day. He just kept hiding behind me. He just never leave me alone." "I don't get it. This is common. Kids love their Mom and when they grew up, they just started wondering around. They just never want to look at their Mom." Rita started smiling. "Rita this is not joke. He just hold my dress and stay with me even when I do cooking. He just never want to move away from me. He just hate school. Every day he kept complaining about something when he had to go home." "It was so strange. Have you tried to convince him? " "I have tried so hard." Rita explained all her methods. Shaila had tried many of them but that one of amusement park was impossible due to her mother-in-law. Shaila "Any way he hardly like such type of adventure. He just liked to sit in home and enjoy playing board games." "Then let's buy more board games." Then they went to buy them. Slowly they tried every thing but every day Shishir just kept screaming. Then after few days he even started having fever. Shaila was so tense. They just didn't able to find cause of it. Rita just kept every day dropping Tina in school. One day finally Rita was called inside school. She was so nervous. She felt that Tina did some mistake. But when she went inside, she just looked around that school was very cute and nice. She went inside room. Principal was sitting with another teacher. Rita introduced herself. Rita "So what happened? Did Tina do something?" "No.. No. She is fine. It was about Shishir. Why he is not coming?" Rita gave away breath of relief. She knew that it was not right but every one had one bad habit that they always think first thing about themselves. But she knew that she must thought about her friend. Rita "Actually he was having fever. It just comes every day and vanish by evening." "Ohh. What did report says?" "They found nothing until now but they are still doing tests." "Did that fever goes to high or just rises to limit?" "It is not that high. But it comes every day so.." "Did they thought about psychological angle?" Rita was so shocked. Rita "Psychological angle? But Shishir is just small boy. How can he have mental problem?" That teacher started laughing and asked " Who told you that small children don't have psychological problem?" "No one. I just assume.""Then you assumed totally wrong. They have mental problem. Go to your friend and tell her that Shishir's teacher feels that he have mental problem." Rita nodded. But she knew that it would not be approved in Shaila's house but she had to do her duty. She decided that she would take Pratap with her since it required lot of convincing. She just hoped that they were not thrown out of Shaila's house.
      That day Rita dropped Tina to her mother's house. She had to work hard to get courage to explain this to Shaila. She was so glad when Pratap came. She told him every thing. At beginning he was not pleased. Pratap " Why shall we have to interfere in their family matter? You know very well they will never listen to you." Rita nodded. Rita "But Tina's school teacher told us so we have to do our job. We have to do that." "I just don't understand. Why don't she call herself?" Rita never thought about asking it. But then she was more scared now. She suddenly felt that what would happened if that teacher had already called and insulted. Then she sensed it was not possible. Rita " May be she want it to be personal? It doesn't matter if that teacher asked us then we must go." Pratap was not ready. "Come Pratap we have to do it for Tina." He finally nodded and got ready to go. As soon as they entered in that house, Rita sensed that every thing was wrong. They all looked so different and stubborn. She was so scared when she sat there. She looked at Pratap with hope that he would do talking. But he didn't seem ready. Shaila was not even in hall. Finally Shaila's husband asked " So what happened? How did you come here?" Pratap looked angrily at Rita. It was clear that he didn't want to talk but now he had to talk. Pratap "Actually I want to talk about Shishir." Shaila's mother-in-law" What about him?" Pratap no longer wanted to talk so Rita took over since she wanted to finish this issue. She started telling them every thing what she was told by teacher. She was not even daring to look at their face. She knew results already. When she was finished, she was shocked to hear Shaila's mother-in-law laughing. Shaila's mother-in-law turned to her son "Didn't I told you that woman hate your son? It is clear. Since she got daughter, she must felt jealous. But this is too much. I have sensed her evil eye on my grandson many times. I even tried to warn your wife but she never listen me. She wanted boy and gave birth to daughter. That's why she began to create such a story." Rita screamed "Just shut up. I love girl and I never insisted on boy." Shaila's husband "Every one keep saying that but they all want boy only." Rita's husband "Just shut up." "My god you are telling me to shut up my mouth in my house. Just get lost before I loose my control and slap you. Your wife is such a evil witch who always used her witch craft on my son and that's why he is having that fever every day. I just never want to see her." Pratap was so angry and shocked. They both just went out of that house. During whole time they had just one thought that they would never enter in that house again, Next day Rita told teacher every thing. Soon Shishir's name was pulled out of school. When it happened teacher told it sadly to Rita and thanked her. Teacher "Actually Shishir was scared of every new factor and situation that was his problem which will slowly turned in to Anxiety Disorder when he grow up, If he doesn't treated on time. But any way what can we do? Their wrong thinking is just destroying Shishir's chances of future." "Madam but does Tina get effected if she play with him?" "No..NO..It is not viral. Tina can cure him but he can't hurt Tina. Any way by what you told me they will not allow any of your family member near Shishir so just forget it and move ahead." Rita felt that was impossible. But after that Shishir's family member kept continuous enmity towards them made it easy. Specially since they kept telling every one that their Shishir was better than Tina since he was boy. Slowly Rita began to hate even their chapter so they didn't helped a boy who needed their help. But what could they do when his parents just don't understand? Every time parent's understanding would matter more that any thing in that children's future. They just concentrated on their daughter since they didn't want those negative effect of their thinking on her. After all she was their beloved daughter nothing matter more than her.
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