Baby sitting
Rajani started to cleaning flat. She began to arrange flat. Old tenants went away. She had to clean flat for new one. She didn't understand why didn't leave people house at least okay. This time old tenants managed to destroy flat fully. Their kids damaged colours of walls too by painting on them. It seemed as if those kids didn't have paper and notebooks. They painted on walls and also wrote on wall. It seemed so hard to rub them. When they were staying here, they needed to take care of property. But it was not their own so they didn't care. She was so glad that she charged large rent but it was not enough to do painting again and still earn large profit. She had to clean walls. She started trying hard. But finally she sensed that it was useless. She knew that with rent she could cover it's cost but she didn't want to waste money everytime when she needed to change tenant. But it just kept happening. Last tenant was such careless man. He had worst habit of drinking. They kept receiving complaint every time. After him she had to clean house and she expected it to be in worst condition. But that man wanted to clean his every crime so house was shining like new one. But after that society insisted that they must keep family so they kept. This family managed to damage their house in many ways. She felt that drunker was better tenant than kids. But she didn't dare to voice her thoughts since she knew every one would disapprove her thoughts. Kids were innocent angels while man who drank daily and bring new woman on each day was not good person. She didn't knew what kind of crime he might be doing in future. He was evil for entire society. But she knew that such label were given to just few men while other people who were favourite among crowd were permitted to do all. She always felt society should judge all with one scale but it never happened. Any way that last man was wonderful tenant who cleaned their entire house. It was return to them in condition which was looking just more new than they had given. But then she started to ashamed. She began to think that this man might be using house in wrong way. Kids might be naughty but they were not harmful. Soon she sensed that they had to paint it. She called her husband , Prakash " Hello if we want to rent it then we have to paint." " No..no keep it this way. We will reduce rent little someone will take it." " But I can't clean those walls." Her fingers were paining due to work. In fact few fingers were already hurt. She couldn't do more so anger clearly entered in her voice. " Relax. No need to get so excited. I will call my friend and we will handle it." " Really!! If it is possible why you wasted my so much time." " Come on. We need to try at least once before asking for help." " Then why you are not one who is trying?" " Since I am in office and you are staying in home." " And taking care of our kids. It is not easy. You have not kept babysitter." " But we have maid and cook." She was so angry. They had two servants but half days one of them was absent. Sometimes they both took vacation and she needed to handle all. But Prakash never understood importance of her work. He never understood taking care of small kid was not easy job. She sometimes wished only if she could force him to stay at home at least for one day. But she knew that kids would never agree to that they would start crying. Many times she regretted her decision to take second chance. Now she had two responsibilities on her head and it was not easy to handle them. It was so hard. She worked hard every day but she was never appreciated. He just kept talking about help which she got but she never thought about work she had to do. Those servants were not permanent one. They just did their work of those hours and vanished. She had handle entire household whole time. Even now at this moment she kept her son in neighbor's house. If she didn't went back quickly, her neighbour would never help her again. She was about to tell this to Prakash when suddenly her neighbour called. " I need to talk to Prita." " Why? I want to discuss.." " It can wait. This might be emergency since I kept Raju with her." " Ohh take call." She could clearly hear Raju's crying in background. " Hello when you will come back?" " I am just catching auto." " Thank God. Raju is screaming so loudly that taking entire house might fall. I am not sure about strength of structure." It was clear taunt. Priti was very angry. " Don't worry. I am catching auto." " I hope you take away this ..soon." Priti was abusing her son. She was so upset. She just closed that flat and ran to catch auto. During her entire journey on auto she was tense. It was so frustrating. She wasted her so much time on that house while it could have done by little money. But Prakash didn't value her time so their son was hearing abuses by their neighbours. She felt so guilty. She began to feel that she should have brought him with her. When her auto stucked in traffic, she clearly wanted to scream on people. Then she saw Priti's number. She took call. " Where are you?!!" " I am coming. I just stuck in route." " Which route you took?" She explained it. " My God!! you took wrong route. Now you will remain stuck for half hour. Now I needed to handle this.." Rajani was so frustrated. Priti was cursing her son and she couldn't stop her. Since Priti did a big favour by keeping her son for few hours. " Can't you take u turn?" She looked behind. Many cars were behind them. " Impossible!!" " Then stay there for at least half hour." Priti disconnected call. It was clear keeping Raju with Priti was biggest mistake. She started to take deep breath to control her excitement. She knew that she had to wait for half hour. She knew that Raju was little stubborn but not naughty. It had to be Priti's mistake which created chaos but she didn't dare to say it until she didn't reach to her son. It was so frustrating. She needed to reach home. She started tell auto driver to take her as fast as possible.
Raju was crying loudly. He always played with Mom at this time. But today his Dad called his Mom. He was so scared when he heard that phone. He shivered with fear when he heard it. This happened every time when his father called. Last time he called. Mom left him with a old grandmother. He kept telling him that she had to study hard. He didn't understand why she kept telling him. He was always good boy. He did his school work in perfect way. She kept asking if he stood first in class. He told her that they had grade. He proudly said that he got A. She gave a smile which told him that he was less. She said " If you stood first it will be known. You are studying less. Did you help your Mom in house?" " No. She never ask me." " What about your sister?" " She help Mom with cooking when cook didn't come." " Yes she had to do it since she is girl. Life always do injustice with girls. Boys like you never need to work. Life of woman is so hard." He was so upset. He didn't help in cooking. He decided that he would help Mom with cooking. He told it to that old lady. She didn't believe him. But after that he started to help Mom. Soon he sensed that she didn't like it. Mom " Why are you running around kitchen?" "To help you like Didi did?" " Who Nisha? Your Didi?" She started laughing. " She didn't help me. She just did juice for herself or make shake for her. Since she wanted it for herself and she just make what don't include gas like sandwich. Because she didn't want to wait." It was so wrong. He was blamed without cause. He sensed that no one was helping Mom except cook. It was so upsetting. " Mom I don't want to stay with that old Auntie. I want to stay with you. I will keep quiet. I will not irritate you." She nodded. " Don't worry that Auntie will not staying here now. She is going back to her village." He felt that it was over. But suddenly on that day his Dad called again. His Mom started to talk about going out. He started to shiver. He began to feel so scared. But his Mom told him that she would keep him just for some time. They went in big Bangalow. It was wonderful. He began to feel little happy. At least that place was nice. Then his Mom told him to sit corner. He sat there. Then he saw small doll. He asked a woman who was cleaning " Can I take it?" She nodded. But he didn't sense that in few seconds she left house. He kept playing while keeping faith on her. He heard his Mom leaving. But he decided that he would keep playing with doll like good boy and hours would vanish. He was playing when cap of that doll it came out. He started to try to put it back. He felt that it could be done in few seconds. He used to do it with his dolls in his house. Then suddenly Priti Auntie came from behind. Priti screamed on him " Ohh my God!! You have broken my such a costly show piece. It is from abroad. You don't afford to buy such thing. Your Mom couldn't afford to replace it." She snatched it from him. Her nails managed to hurt his hand. He felt pain and then he started to cry. He wanted his Mom to console him. He was hurt and insulted. He looked around. He started to tell Priti that maid permitted him. But Priti didn't believe him. She started abusing him. He was so angry. He started crying loudly and screaming. He could see little blood on his hand. He sensed that she managed to hurt him. He started to showing it. He wanted medicine. Mom told him that he must apply medicine if blood came out. But Priti didn't give him any. He didn't want to fall sick or die. He started screaming loudly. Soon all family members came out. They started blaming Priti for keeping him. It was so wrong. He was just asking for medicine and they kept cursing him. He ran towards window while holding his finger. He was so scared. He kept waiting and waiting. One Auto stopped. He jumped with joy. He thought that it was his Mom. He started calling her. But another woman came out of it with her daughter. He felt so sad. She was kissing her daughter and admiring her as his Mom did. He wanted to return to his Mom when Priti came from behind and said " Don't worry your mom will not come so soon. You have lot of time to take things and break them. You are such bad manner boy." Then she called his Mom. He wanted to talk about his finger so he screamed. But she didn't let him take mobile. She was abusing her. Finally she disconnected call. He went back to window after that he didn't went away from window. He kept waiting. He didn't move from window. Finally he saw Rajani. He ran towards door. But Priti screamed on him "Stop there. You can't open door." He knew that was true so he stood on corner. When Rajani came inside, she immediately took Raju in her arms. She hugged him. She kissed him. Priti showed her that doll. " He destroyed it." " Sorry. Can I compensate? I mean it was mistake of my son." Raju felt so sad when his Mom started apologizing. He said " Mom it was not my mistake. That Auntie who was cleaning floor told me. It was okay. " Priti started talking with anger. " It is not about this show piece. No. I bought it from abroad and it is unique. But still I can understand kids do such things. But he is not accepting his mistake. You have managed to spoil your son. " Then she kept lecturing his Mom how did she supposed to teach him to act in right way. Finally when they came out, Rajani was so angry. " Mom Priti Auntie hurt me." Rajani hit him on back in anger. " Stop lying." He was so shocked. He pulled his hand out of his Mom's hand and started running away. He didn't sense when he reached road. He was just about to hit car when driver stopped it. Driver " Why are you alone on road? For God's sake where is your Mom?" Rajani came running after him. " Sorry..sorry." " What kind of mother are you? Letting your such small child to run on road like that. Don't you feel concerned about his life? Why you give birth to kid if you don't care for them?" Rajani apologized and took Raju in arms but she sensed strange feel in his body. He seemed so rigid. But she felt that it would vanish after sometime.
After coming in home Raju went quietly in room. He searched for medicine. He knew where his Mom kept it. He took it out and applied it. He sensed one thing today. He was alone in this desert like world where he could not find way towards water. He felt so lonely. He was little kid. He didn't need to think so deep but still he kept thinking. He kept feeling so lonely. He kept sitting in corner. Finally Nisha came after sometime in room. She was so confused that her little brother was so quiet. She went near him. "What happened?" He showed her little red mark of nail. It was nothing but she knew that it was big issue for him. Dad created unnecessary fear in his soul about infection in wound. Actually he needed to take injection and he was not ready. With view to convince him they showed him scary pictures of titanus patients. They were truly scary. They even managed to freak out her. But then Mom told her that those were severe cases. Then she took breath of relief. But no one mentioned it to Raju since his injection were still remaining. But today she felt that she had to tell him truth and set his mind to rest. " Don't worry. It will not hurt you that much." " But Dad showed pictures!!" " Yes..yes but they were not of such small cuts. They were of big accident." He was so angry. " So Dad was fooling me." " No..no it could have happened if you have not taken that injection." Raju understood. He needed to take injection so Dad showed him those pictures. He knew importance of those injection now so he decided to take it in good way. " I can understand. " " But how did you got hurt? Fall on something?" " No..no Priti Auntie did it." Nisha started laughing. She clearly didn't believe him. " And when did she come here? Whenever she was planning to come Mom keep house clean like some hotel. " " She didn't came here. Mom kept me there." Nisha was shocked. " Why? " Raju started crying after seeing sympathy in his sister's eyes. Raju " I asked a lady who was cleaning floor can I play with doll and she said yes." " And you believed her. So did you broke that doll? Not fully just cap came out!" " Ohh!!" Then he told her entire story. " My God!! I hope you are not hurt. That car didn't touch you." " It doesn't but Mom kept screaming on me." Rajani came in room on that moment. Rajani sensed Raju was telling entire incidence to Nisha. She was so frustrated. Rajani didn't want to look bad in her kid's eyes. But it was upsetting. She smiled and told Raju " I made your favourite sweets do you want to eat?" Raju " No until you don't promise me that you will not left me in other people's house again. " Rajani was so tense. She knew that she could not promise like that. Her life was easy when her mother-in-law was alive. Whenever Prakash started to tell her to go somewhere. He began to scream. She used to take care of Nisha. But when Raju was born, she was already died. Rajani's parents didn't stay in that state so it was not possible for them to babysit. She knew that Prakash was not going to listen to her. But she didn't want to see Raju upset but Nisha came to rescue. Nisha " Come on Raju. You are not small kid any more. Soon you will sleep alone and go on school trips without Mom like me." He smiled. He wanted to go on school trips like his sister. He said " Fine but next time I will go to Krishna Auntie." She was Rajani's cousin. She was reliable but she had small house. Still she nodded. She didn't expected Prakash to demand it so soon. When Prakash came back, she tried to explain him her situation. Prakash " Enough. I keep two maids to help and now I expect you to do all work needed inside house and keeping that rental house is part of it too. If you wish then you can take Raju with you too. He will enjoy it." Rajani was confused but she nodded. Prakash " From tomorrow tenants are going to come to check out our flat." She was so shocked. " I can't go every time like today. I have two kids to take care of. Don't you remember it? You kept maids not baby sitter." " Fine what is big deal keep baby sitter too. I never object their expenses." Rajani knew that Prakash never told her to reduce servants. He just wanted his work done. He could spend more money for it. But it was not question of money she needed trustworthy person too. " I can't just phone and keep babysitter!?" " Why not? You can call some reliable company and fix it." " No I don't trust them. I will take Raju with me." " Fine I just want you to handle it. I don't have time to spare." She nodded. She knew that life was going to be hard now. She needed someone in home. She thought about calling her mother but then she decided against it. Her father would come too and he was too irritating. He kept arguing everything. Prakash hated his attitude and truthfully she wouldn't blame him. But when Prakash saw her tense, he came back and said " You can call your parents.." " But Dad?.." " He is elder we can ignore his taunts. This happens at old age." " Now that is lie for defending him. He is like that from young age. He is always acted like that." " Relax. We need to adjust with him. We must understand that Raju needed his grandmother." " He needed his mother." Prakash started to look angry. " So what did you want? I should sit in home and take care of kids with you. Frankly I don't mind it. I like to do with you too. In office I miss you and kids too. But still we all know very well that we can't survive on just rent." " Fine. I will handle it. I will call my Mom." She called her Mom but that idea proved useless. Her Mom was having cold. She just chatted and required about health. She didn't mention her trouble. She didn't want to increase her tension. Prakash asked " What happened?" " She is not feeling well." " Any serious!!" " No..no she always catches cold in this season. It will vanish after medicine but she can't help us." Prakash took deep breath and said " What about my brother?" Rajani shivered " No way. He is so strange." " But do you see option?" Rajani agreed. But truthfully she was scared by this idea. She heard stories about her brother-in-law Jay and they were not pleasant. He was fine until his wife was alive. After her death he acted so strange. But she knew that she needed to try. Prakash " Don't worry he is fine now." Rajani nodded and gave forced smile. She had to agree.
Next day Rajani started her work in normal way. She knew that she was not going to get tenant so soon. She started to feel relaxed. Raju was doing his homework. He had just returned from school. She sensed that Raju was not normal. He was not smiling as he normally did. He was clearly tense. Rajani smiled at him. " What happened honey? Did teacher got angry with you?" "No I am good boy. Teacher never blame me or punish me. I am good boy." This strange outburst of her son shocked her. She didn't understand what was wrong. He was acting like some elder who was hurt. Truthfully he was imitating some elder. She didn't understand cause behind it. " I know you are angel. I was just asking you why you are so upset." " Nothing. I am studying don't disturb me." She was so confused. But she sensed one thing that her son was totally upset about something and trying to hide cause. " Is it about incidence in Priti Auntie's house?" " I don't want to talk about it and I don't want to see her face again." " Now this is too much. You can't cut your relations on such small issue." " Small issue?" There was tears in Raju's eyes and he was trying to hide them. Rajani " Okay..okay I will keep Priti away from you." In her heart she knew that Priti would reciprocate feelings. He destroyed Priti's precious imported item. Her entire family was upset by her decision to keep Rajani's son. She felt for long time she would not talk with Priti. She was not even sure that their friendship would survive. Then suddenly her mobile rang. Raju started to scream " Mom my stomach is paining. " "What?" He started to cry out of fear. " Mom my head is paining." She was so shocked. She put her mobile on side and ran towards him. " Mom I am so scared. What is wrong with him?"said Nisha. " Nothing honey. It might be virus." She was so confused. Her son was perfect few moments ago. She was so scared. She slowly took him in her arms and took purse. Then she just closed her house and ran to Doctor. He kept sleeping on her shoulder. His heart was beating so fast. She began to shiver with fear. Something was totally wrong with her little son. She had to show him to Doctor as soon as possible. She took him and ran towards auto. Luckily her neighbour saw her and offered her lift. Then her mobile started to ring again and again. Raju was screaming in pain. She saw that it was her Mom. She decided to ignore. But then she took call. " Mom Raju is sick I am taking him to Doctor. I will call you later." Her Mom disconnected. Her neighbour " Put it on slient. We reached to Doctor go..go hurry up." " Thanks." " It's alright. Call me when Doctor tell you." She nodded. Then she took him in arms and went in clinic. Raju was breathing so fast. She insisted on emergency entry. Now Raju started to face difficulty in breathing too. He immediately take inside. Doctor checked him. Doctor " Are you scared?" Raju " No..no I am brave boy." Doctor smiled. " Now relax and go to sleep." Doctor gave him some medicine. Rajani was so scared. " Did something happened?" "No." " Did you scream on him or got angry?" " No." Doctor was so angry and irritated. " Stop lying. This kid is scared to death. You must have screamed on him. Otherwise why he felt so scared. Why don't you understand parenting in proper way is essential. You must not hit your kids without cause and even if you find some cause. You don't need to act so harsh. You need to behave gentle way." She was so upset. " I don't do anything. I just kept consoling him about yesterday." " What happened yesterday?" She explained all. " Then never keep him with that woman!!" " I will never dare again." " Now just wait outside. Can you take him in arms then you can sit outside on couch with him? I need to take number. I can call nurse but I see he might upset by unknown touch. Kids feel safe in Mom's arms." " No problem Doctor." " When he wake up,we can see if he show anxiety. If he is fine then you can take him home." She nodded. Then she sat outside. After sometime he woke up, he was perfect. Doctor " Now tell me what happened before you fall sick?" " Mom's mobile rang." Doctor told Rajani to call him. His mobile rang. Raju smiled and said " Doctor your mobile is ringing." Doctor nodded. Doctor "This is strange. Any way you can go home now." She took Raju with her in home. She was confused when her door bell rang and she found Jay outside. She was scared of him. But she knew that she had to open door. She opened it. Jay gave warm smile and said " Can I come in?" " Sure." He was looking kind and normal. Raju came out. He smiled. " Actually Prakash was calling you. But you don't seem to take call. How is my angel!" He gave nice toy to Raju. Then he started playing with him. She slowly went to corner. She called Prakash. Prakash " You need to go to flat." She explained all to Prakash. Prakash " ohh my God I told Jay to babysit Raju. Any way he was planning to take him to some mall. I think I have to cancel." " Yes. Raju can't go to mall with Jay." She said it with determination. She couldn't trust mad man with her kid. " Okay fine." But when she returned in hall, Raju was already determined to go to mall. Rajani was so upset. She didn't want to Raju to go there. She was so upset. She was about to tell him something when her mobile rang. Raju started screaming again. She was so scared. But Jay took him in arms and said " Let's go." Rajani was so scared. It was Prakash again. She started crying on mobile. Prakash " What happened?" She told him all. " Give phone to Raju." " He can't talk." He screamed " Just do it." When she went outside, she was shocked. Raju was perfect. He took call and said " Can I go to mall with Jay Uncle?" " Go." Raju jumped with joy. " I can go.. I can go." Rajani nodded too. She sensed one thing Raju was happy with Jay and she must trust Prakash's judgement. She went inside and gave few things of Raju. Then Raju went away with his Uncle happily. He didn't look sick at all.
Prakash was so tense. He didn't understand what was wrong. On one point his wife was crying due to his son's sickness. On other point his son was talking happily. He didn't understand what was wrong. He decided to call family Doctor. He was lucky that Doctor took call. Doctor was busy so he told him to call after an hour. It was worst hour of Prakash's life. At home Rajani was tense too. Her neighbour came to talk about Raju's health. She told everything to her. " You saw him. He was so sick." " Yes." " But now he is perfect. He get suddenly sick then suddenly perfect." Her neighbour " May be you need second opinion?" " Regarding what? He look normal when he didn't have that attack. Neighbour gave her number. "Take him to this Doctor. He will cure him." She nodded. She immediately took appointment. By that time Prakash was talking with his own Doctor who told him that everything was happening because his wife could not able to control anger. Prakash was so upset. He took leave from office and went home early. Rajani was planning to go to specialist when Prakash came home full of anger. Prakash " Did you scream on Raju and thrown fit of anger on him." Nisha was doing her homework in room. She came out due to screams. It was frustrating. Rajani " You are the one who is throwing fit of anger not me." " Then why did Doctor said this to me?" " Since he can't able to find cause so he is blaming everyone." Nisha " Mom is right. Nothing like that happened. " Prakash argues for sometime but then he sensed that Doctor was wrong. Prakash " Priti seemed like nice lady." " She is nice for picnic or parties but not so nice when it comes to help. It was just for one day but she took it in her head I will do it every time. Truthfully I was searching for some nice baby sitting place." " Forget it. We need to solve this problem first." They kept discussing. Finally Raju came back with Jay. He was on top of the world. It was clear that he was happy and willing to stay with Jay. Then he went to Rajani. " Mom will you change your ringtone. I like twinkle twinkle. Just like Jay Uncle." Jay explained how to do it. She did it immediately. That day Jay was invited for dinner. Their house was small so Jay went back to his flat. Soon Rajani understood that Jay was doing business. He was happy with life. She didn't find anything wrong in him. In fact she was acting more abnormal than him. Slowly she started to feel relaxed with Jay. Soon she began to drop Raju in Jay's shop. Nisha even started to go in his shop. She soon learnt to manage it in his absence. Rajani also started to help him with shop. One day Prakash suggested that they should invest in shop too. She agreed. But she kept feeling curious how did Raju never suffered again. One day finally Prakash asked " Jay what magic you used to cure Raju?" First time Jay looked nervous and tense. Rajani sensed that something was wrong. All wrong thoughts started to enter in her mind. " Come on tell us truth." Jay " I don't do anything. Actually I many times chat with my counselor on hangout. I am fine but still it helps when I get tense about some business matter and my dead wife enter in nightmare due to it." Rajani " It's okay. We all get nightmares." "Well during it by chance..just by chance I talked about Raju. " Then he kept quiet. Prakash asked with anger " So you took Raju to him." " No..no he visited our shop. He just chatted with him few times." Jay sensed that Prakash and Rajani were not happy about it. Jay stood up and said " I did what I feel best for kid. Sorry if I hurt you." Rajani " Don't come again. My son is not mad like you." There was clear tears in his eyes. Then Jay stopped coming. They didn't permit kids to go there. One day finally Raju asked " What's wrong Mom? You are angry with Jay Uncle because he took to Doctor who cure me?" Rajani was shocked and confused. Prakash was doing his work but stopped in track. Nisha added " And stop from keeping you in house of that horrible rich woman?" Rajani "Stop it!!Give respect to Priti Auntie." " Then why don't you give respect to Jay Uncle too." Prakash " Go to your room." Kids went to their room. But their question kept hanging in air. It soon started attacking her consious. She began to feel so guilty. Jay once had mental disorder but it was over. He helped her son and started nice life with her family and she destroyed it. When Priti never showed affection towards her son. She forced her son to adjust with her since she thought his uncle who showered affection on him was wrong because he had some mental disorder once. " I am sorry." Rajani said and Prakash smiled. Prakash " Can I invite Jay tomorrow?" " He will come." " Of course. Only one condition you will not mention argument." She smiled out of tears and nodded. When Jay came every thing became normal again, kids showered extra affection on her. Finally when kids went to sleep, she asked him " What is wrong with my son?" " Nothing. He was just showing anxiety regarding separation from parents. But it connected in strange way to mobile ringtone since I think you send him to some place when Prakash called. Counselor first broke that connection then reduced Anxiety." Jay smiled and showed off that it was easy thing but she knew it was not. She knew number of times Jay took Raju with him. She didn't say anything but she just said "Thanks." Jay smiled and said " It's alright." And happily took next bite of dessert and began to talking about something else.
The End
Rajani started to cleaning flat. She began to arrange flat. Old tenants went away. She had to clean flat for new one. She didn't understand why didn't leave people house at least okay. This time old tenants managed to destroy flat fully. Their kids damaged colours of walls too by painting on them. It seemed as if those kids didn't have paper and notebooks. They painted on walls and also wrote on wall. It seemed so hard to rub them. When they were staying here, they needed to take care of property. But it was not their own so they didn't care. She was so glad that she charged large rent but it was not enough to do painting again and still earn large profit. She had to clean walls. She started trying hard. But finally she sensed that it was useless. She knew that with rent she could cover it's cost but she didn't want to waste money everytime when she needed to change tenant. But it just kept happening. Last tenant was such careless man. He had worst habit of drinking. They kept receiving complaint every time. After him she had to clean house and she expected it to be in worst condition. But that man wanted to clean his every crime so house was shining like new one. But after that society insisted that they must keep family so they kept. This family managed to damage their house in many ways. She felt that drunker was better tenant than kids. But she didn't dare to voice her thoughts since she knew every one would disapprove her thoughts. Kids were innocent angels while man who drank daily and bring new woman on each day was not good person. She didn't knew what kind of crime he might be doing in future. He was evil for entire society. But she knew that such label were given to just few men while other people who were favourite among crowd were permitted to do all. She always felt society should judge all with one scale but it never happened. Any way that last man was wonderful tenant who cleaned their entire house. It was return to them in condition which was looking just more new than they had given. But then she started to ashamed. She began to think that this man might be using house in wrong way. Kids might be naughty but they were not harmful. Soon she sensed that they had to paint it. She called her husband , Prakash " Hello if we want to rent it then we have to paint." " No..no keep it this way. We will reduce rent little someone will take it." " But I can't clean those walls." Her fingers were paining due to work. In fact few fingers were already hurt. She couldn't do more so anger clearly entered in her voice. " Relax. No need to get so excited. I will call my friend and we will handle it." " Really!! If it is possible why you wasted my so much time." " Come on. We need to try at least once before asking for help." " Then why you are not one who is trying?" " Since I am in office and you are staying in home." " And taking care of our kids. It is not easy. You have not kept babysitter." " But we have maid and cook." She was so angry. They had two servants but half days one of them was absent. Sometimes they both took vacation and she needed to handle all. But Prakash never understood importance of her work. He never understood taking care of small kid was not easy job. She sometimes wished only if she could force him to stay at home at least for one day. But she knew that kids would never agree to that they would start crying. Many times she regretted her decision to take second chance. Now she had two responsibilities on her head and it was not easy to handle them. It was so hard. She worked hard every day but she was never appreciated. He just kept talking about help which she got but she never thought about work she had to do. Those servants were not permanent one. They just did their work of those hours and vanished. She had handle entire household whole time. Even now at this moment she kept her son in neighbor's house. If she didn't went back quickly, her neighbour would never help her again. She was about to tell this to Prakash when suddenly her neighbour called. " I need to talk to Prita." " Why? I want to discuss.." " It can wait. This might be emergency since I kept Raju with her." " Ohh take call." She could clearly hear Raju's crying in background. " Hello when you will come back?" " I am just catching auto." " Thank God. Raju is screaming so loudly that taking entire house might fall. I am not sure about strength of structure." It was clear taunt. Priti was very angry. " Don't worry. I am catching auto." " I hope you take away this ..soon." Priti was abusing her son. She was so upset. She just closed that flat and ran to catch auto. During her entire journey on auto she was tense. It was so frustrating. She wasted her so much time on that house while it could have done by little money. But Prakash didn't value her time so their son was hearing abuses by their neighbours. She felt so guilty. She began to feel that she should have brought him with her. When her auto stucked in traffic, she clearly wanted to scream on people. Then she saw Priti's number. She took call. " Where are you?!!" " I am coming. I just stuck in route." " Which route you took?" She explained it. " My God!! you took wrong route. Now you will remain stuck for half hour. Now I needed to handle this.." Rajani was so frustrated. Priti was cursing her son and she couldn't stop her. Since Priti did a big favour by keeping her son for few hours. " Can't you take u turn?" She looked behind. Many cars were behind them. " Impossible!!" " Then stay there for at least half hour." Priti disconnected call. It was clear keeping Raju with Priti was biggest mistake. She started to take deep breath to control her excitement. She knew that she had to wait for half hour. She knew that Raju was little stubborn but not naughty. It had to be Priti's mistake which created chaos but she didn't dare to say it until she didn't reach to her son. It was so frustrating. She needed to reach home. She started tell auto driver to take her as fast as possible.
Raju was crying loudly. He always played with Mom at this time. But today his Dad called his Mom. He was so scared when he heard that phone. He shivered with fear when he heard it. This happened every time when his father called. Last time he called. Mom left him with a old grandmother. He kept telling him that she had to study hard. He didn't understand why she kept telling him. He was always good boy. He did his school work in perfect way. She kept asking if he stood first in class. He told her that they had grade. He proudly said that he got A. She gave a smile which told him that he was less. She said " If you stood first it will be known. You are studying less. Did you help your Mom in house?" " No. She never ask me." " What about your sister?" " She help Mom with cooking when cook didn't come." " Yes she had to do it since she is girl. Life always do injustice with girls. Boys like you never need to work. Life of woman is so hard." He was so upset. He didn't help in cooking. He decided that he would help Mom with cooking. He told it to that old lady. She didn't believe him. But after that he started to help Mom. Soon he sensed that she didn't like it. Mom " Why are you running around kitchen?" "To help you like Didi did?" " Who Nisha? Your Didi?" She started laughing. " She didn't help me. She just did juice for herself or make shake for her. Since she wanted it for herself and she just make what don't include gas like sandwich. Because she didn't want to wait." It was so wrong. He was blamed without cause. He sensed that no one was helping Mom except cook. It was so upsetting. " Mom I don't want to stay with that old Auntie. I want to stay with you. I will keep quiet. I will not irritate you." She nodded. " Don't worry that Auntie will not staying here now. She is going back to her village." He felt that it was over. But suddenly on that day his Dad called again. His Mom started to talk about going out. He started to shiver. He began to feel so scared. But his Mom told him that she would keep him just for some time. They went in big Bangalow. It was wonderful. He began to feel little happy. At least that place was nice. Then his Mom told him to sit corner. He sat there. Then he saw small doll. He asked a woman who was cleaning " Can I take it?" She nodded. But he didn't sense that in few seconds she left house. He kept playing while keeping faith on her. He heard his Mom leaving. But he decided that he would keep playing with doll like good boy and hours would vanish. He was playing when cap of that doll it came out. He started to try to put it back. He felt that it could be done in few seconds. He used to do it with his dolls in his house. Then suddenly Priti Auntie came from behind. Priti screamed on him " Ohh my God!! You have broken my such a costly show piece. It is from abroad. You don't afford to buy such thing. Your Mom couldn't afford to replace it." She snatched it from him. Her nails managed to hurt his hand. He felt pain and then he started to cry. He wanted his Mom to console him. He was hurt and insulted. He looked around. He started to tell Priti that maid permitted him. But Priti didn't believe him. She started abusing him. He was so angry. He started crying loudly and screaming. He could see little blood on his hand. He sensed that she managed to hurt him. He started to showing it. He wanted medicine. Mom told him that he must apply medicine if blood came out. But Priti didn't give him any. He didn't want to fall sick or die. He started screaming loudly. Soon all family members came out. They started blaming Priti for keeping him. It was so wrong. He was just asking for medicine and they kept cursing him. He ran towards window while holding his finger. He was so scared. He kept waiting and waiting. One Auto stopped. He jumped with joy. He thought that it was his Mom. He started calling her. But another woman came out of it with her daughter. He felt so sad. She was kissing her daughter and admiring her as his Mom did. He wanted to return to his Mom when Priti came from behind and said " Don't worry your mom will not come so soon. You have lot of time to take things and break them. You are such bad manner boy." Then she called his Mom. He wanted to talk about his finger so he screamed. But she didn't let him take mobile. She was abusing her. Finally she disconnected call. He went back to window after that he didn't went away from window. He kept waiting. He didn't move from window. Finally he saw Rajani. He ran towards door. But Priti screamed on him "Stop there. You can't open door." He knew that was true so he stood on corner. When Rajani came inside, she immediately took Raju in her arms. She hugged him. She kissed him. Priti showed her that doll. " He destroyed it." " Sorry. Can I compensate? I mean it was mistake of my son." Raju felt so sad when his Mom started apologizing. He said " Mom it was not my mistake. That Auntie who was cleaning floor told me. It was okay. " Priti started talking with anger. " It is not about this show piece. No. I bought it from abroad and it is unique. But still I can understand kids do such things. But he is not accepting his mistake. You have managed to spoil your son. " Then she kept lecturing his Mom how did she supposed to teach him to act in right way. Finally when they came out, Rajani was so angry. " Mom Priti Auntie hurt me." Rajani hit him on back in anger. " Stop lying." He was so shocked. He pulled his hand out of his Mom's hand and started running away. He didn't sense when he reached road. He was just about to hit car when driver stopped it. Driver " Why are you alone on road? For God's sake where is your Mom?" Rajani came running after him. " Sorry..sorry." " What kind of mother are you? Letting your such small child to run on road like that. Don't you feel concerned about his life? Why you give birth to kid if you don't care for them?" Rajani apologized and took Raju in arms but she sensed strange feel in his body. He seemed so rigid. But she felt that it would vanish after sometime.
After coming in home Raju went quietly in room. He searched for medicine. He knew where his Mom kept it. He took it out and applied it. He sensed one thing today. He was alone in this desert like world where he could not find way towards water. He felt so lonely. He was little kid. He didn't need to think so deep but still he kept thinking. He kept feeling so lonely. He kept sitting in corner. Finally Nisha came after sometime in room. She was so confused that her little brother was so quiet. She went near him. "What happened?" He showed her little red mark of nail. It was nothing but she knew that it was big issue for him. Dad created unnecessary fear in his soul about infection in wound. Actually he needed to take injection and he was not ready. With view to convince him they showed him scary pictures of titanus patients. They were truly scary. They even managed to freak out her. But then Mom told her that those were severe cases. Then she took breath of relief. But no one mentioned it to Raju since his injection were still remaining. But today she felt that she had to tell him truth and set his mind to rest. " Don't worry. It will not hurt you that much." " But Dad showed pictures!!" " Yes..yes but they were not of such small cuts. They were of big accident." He was so angry. " So Dad was fooling me." " No..no it could have happened if you have not taken that injection." Raju understood. He needed to take injection so Dad showed him those pictures. He knew importance of those injection now so he decided to take it in good way. " I can understand. " " But how did you got hurt? Fall on something?" " No..no Priti Auntie did it." Nisha started laughing. She clearly didn't believe him. " And when did she come here? Whenever she was planning to come Mom keep house clean like some hotel. " " She didn't came here. Mom kept me there." Nisha was shocked. " Why? " Raju started crying after seeing sympathy in his sister's eyes. Raju " I asked a lady who was cleaning floor can I play with doll and she said yes." " And you believed her. So did you broke that doll? Not fully just cap came out!" " Ohh!!" Then he told her entire story. " My God!! I hope you are not hurt. That car didn't touch you." " It doesn't but Mom kept screaming on me." Rajani came in room on that moment. Rajani sensed Raju was telling entire incidence to Nisha. She was so frustrated. Rajani didn't want to look bad in her kid's eyes. But it was upsetting. She smiled and told Raju " I made your favourite sweets do you want to eat?" Raju " No until you don't promise me that you will not left me in other people's house again. " Rajani was so tense. She knew that she could not promise like that. Her life was easy when her mother-in-law was alive. Whenever Prakash started to tell her to go somewhere. He began to scream. She used to take care of Nisha. But when Raju was born, she was already died. Rajani's parents didn't stay in that state so it was not possible for them to babysit. She knew that Prakash was not going to listen to her. But she didn't want to see Raju upset but Nisha came to rescue. Nisha " Come on Raju. You are not small kid any more. Soon you will sleep alone and go on school trips without Mom like me." He smiled. He wanted to go on school trips like his sister. He said " Fine but next time I will go to Krishna Auntie." She was Rajani's cousin. She was reliable but she had small house. Still she nodded. She didn't expected Prakash to demand it so soon. When Prakash came back, she tried to explain him her situation. Prakash " Enough. I keep two maids to help and now I expect you to do all work needed inside house and keeping that rental house is part of it too. If you wish then you can take Raju with you too. He will enjoy it." Rajani was confused but she nodded. Prakash " From tomorrow tenants are going to come to check out our flat." She was so shocked. " I can't go every time like today. I have two kids to take care of. Don't you remember it? You kept maids not baby sitter." " Fine what is big deal keep baby sitter too. I never object their expenses." Rajani knew that Prakash never told her to reduce servants. He just wanted his work done. He could spend more money for it. But it was not question of money she needed trustworthy person too. " I can't just phone and keep babysitter!?" " Why not? You can call some reliable company and fix it." " No I don't trust them. I will take Raju with me." " Fine I just want you to handle it. I don't have time to spare." She nodded. She knew that life was going to be hard now. She needed someone in home. She thought about calling her mother but then she decided against it. Her father would come too and he was too irritating. He kept arguing everything. Prakash hated his attitude and truthfully she wouldn't blame him. But when Prakash saw her tense, he came back and said " You can call your parents.." " But Dad?.." " He is elder we can ignore his taunts. This happens at old age." " Now that is lie for defending him. He is like that from young age. He is always acted like that." " Relax. We need to adjust with him. We must understand that Raju needed his grandmother." " He needed his mother." Prakash started to look angry. " So what did you want? I should sit in home and take care of kids with you. Frankly I don't mind it. I like to do with you too. In office I miss you and kids too. But still we all know very well that we can't survive on just rent." " Fine. I will handle it. I will call my Mom." She called her Mom but that idea proved useless. Her Mom was having cold. She just chatted and required about health. She didn't mention her trouble. She didn't want to increase her tension. Prakash asked " What happened?" " She is not feeling well." " Any serious!!" " No..no she always catches cold in this season. It will vanish after medicine but she can't help us." Prakash took deep breath and said " What about my brother?" Rajani shivered " No way. He is so strange." " But do you see option?" Rajani agreed. But truthfully she was scared by this idea. She heard stories about her brother-in-law Jay and they were not pleasant. He was fine until his wife was alive. After her death he acted so strange. But she knew that she needed to try. Prakash " Don't worry he is fine now." Rajani nodded and gave forced smile. She had to agree.
Next day Rajani started her work in normal way. She knew that she was not going to get tenant so soon. She started to feel relaxed. Raju was doing his homework. He had just returned from school. She sensed that Raju was not normal. He was not smiling as he normally did. He was clearly tense. Rajani smiled at him. " What happened honey? Did teacher got angry with you?" "No I am good boy. Teacher never blame me or punish me. I am good boy." This strange outburst of her son shocked her. She didn't understand what was wrong. He was acting like some elder who was hurt. Truthfully he was imitating some elder. She didn't understand cause behind it. " I know you are angel. I was just asking you why you are so upset." " Nothing. I am studying don't disturb me." She was so confused. But she sensed one thing that her son was totally upset about something and trying to hide cause. " Is it about incidence in Priti Auntie's house?" " I don't want to talk about it and I don't want to see her face again." " Now this is too much. You can't cut your relations on such small issue." " Small issue?" There was tears in Raju's eyes and he was trying to hide them. Rajani " Okay..okay I will keep Priti away from you." In her heart she knew that Priti would reciprocate feelings. He destroyed Priti's precious imported item. Her entire family was upset by her decision to keep Rajani's son. She felt for long time she would not talk with Priti. She was not even sure that their friendship would survive. Then suddenly her mobile rang. Raju started to scream " Mom my stomach is paining. " "What?" He started to cry out of fear. " Mom my head is paining." She was so shocked. She put her mobile on side and ran towards him. " Mom I am so scared. What is wrong with him?"said Nisha. " Nothing honey. It might be virus." She was so confused. Her son was perfect few moments ago. She was so scared. She slowly took him in her arms and took purse. Then she just closed her house and ran to Doctor. He kept sleeping on her shoulder. His heart was beating so fast. She began to shiver with fear. Something was totally wrong with her little son. She had to show him to Doctor as soon as possible. She took him and ran towards auto. Luckily her neighbour saw her and offered her lift. Then her mobile started to ring again and again. Raju was screaming in pain. She saw that it was her Mom. She decided to ignore. But then she took call. " Mom Raju is sick I am taking him to Doctor. I will call you later." Her Mom disconnected. Her neighbour " Put it on slient. We reached to Doctor go..go hurry up." " Thanks." " It's alright. Call me when Doctor tell you." She nodded. Then she took him in arms and went in clinic. Raju was breathing so fast. She insisted on emergency entry. Now Raju started to face difficulty in breathing too. He immediately take inside. Doctor checked him. Doctor " Are you scared?" Raju " No..no I am brave boy." Doctor smiled. " Now relax and go to sleep." Doctor gave him some medicine. Rajani was so scared. " Did something happened?" "No." " Did you scream on him or got angry?" " No." Doctor was so angry and irritated. " Stop lying. This kid is scared to death. You must have screamed on him. Otherwise why he felt so scared. Why don't you understand parenting in proper way is essential. You must not hit your kids without cause and even if you find some cause. You don't need to act so harsh. You need to behave gentle way." She was so upset. " I don't do anything. I just kept consoling him about yesterday." " What happened yesterday?" She explained all. " Then never keep him with that woman!!" " I will never dare again." " Now just wait outside. Can you take him in arms then you can sit outside on couch with him? I need to take number. I can call nurse but I see he might upset by unknown touch. Kids feel safe in Mom's arms." " No problem Doctor." " When he wake up,we can see if he show anxiety. If he is fine then you can take him home." She nodded. Then she sat outside. After sometime he woke up, he was perfect. Doctor " Now tell me what happened before you fall sick?" " Mom's mobile rang." Doctor told Rajani to call him. His mobile rang. Raju smiled and said " Doctor your mobile is ringing." Doctor nodded. Doctor "This is strange. Any way you can go home now." She took Raju with her in home. She was confused when her door bell rang and she found Jay outside. She was scared of him. But she knew that she had to open door. She opened it. Jay gave warm smile and said " Can I come in?" " Sure." He was looking kind and normal. Raju came out. He smiled. " Actually Prakash was calling you. But you don't seem to take call. How is my angel!" He gave nice toy to Raju. Then he started playing with him. She slowly went to corner. She called Prakash. Prakash " You need to go to flat." She explained all to Prakash. Prakash " ohh my God I told Jay to babysit Raju. Any way he was planning to take him to some mall. I think I have to cancel." " Yes. Raju can't go to mall with Jay." She said it with determination. She couldn't trust mad man with her kid. " Okay fine." But when she returned in hall, Raju was already determined to go to mall. Rajani was so upset. She didn't want to Raju to go there. She was so upset. She was about to tell him something when her mobile rang. Raju started screaming again. She was so scared. But Jay took him in arms and said " Let's go." Rajani was so scared. It was Prakash again. She started crying on mobile. Prakash " What happened?" She told him all. " Give phone to Raju." " He can't talk." He screamed " Just do it." When she went outside, she was shocked. Raju was perfect. He took call and said " Can I go to mall with Jay Uncle?" " Go." Raju jumped with joy. " I can go.. I can go." Rajani nodded too. She sensed one thing Raju was happy with Jay and she must trust Prakash's judgement. She went inside and gave few things of Raju. Then Raju went away with his Uncle happily. He didn't look sick at all.
Prakash was so tense. He didn't understand what was wrong. On one point his wife was crying due to his son's sickness. On other point his son was talking happily. He didn't understand what was wrong. He decided to call family Doctor. He was lucky that Doctor took call. Doctor was busy so he told him to call after an hour. It was worst hour of Prakash's life. At home Rajani was tense too. Her neighbour came to talk about Raju's health. She told everything to her. " You saw him. He was so sick." " Yes." " But now he is perfect. He get suddenly sick then suddenly perfect." Her neighbour " May be you need second opinion?" " Regarding what? He look normal when he didn't have that attack. Neighbour gave her number. "Take him to this Doctor. He will cure him." She nodded. She immediately took appointment. By that time Prakash was talking with his own Doctor who told him that everything was happening because his wife could not able to control anger. Prakash was so upset. He took leave from office and went home early. Rajani was planning to go to specialist when Prakash came home full of anger. Prakash " Did you scream on Raju and thrown fit of anger on him." Nisha was doing her homework in room. She came out due to screams. It was frustrating. Rajani " You are the one who is throwing fit of anger not me." " Then why did Doctor said this to me?" " Since he can't able to find cause so he is blaming everyone." Nisha " Mom is right. Nothing like that happened. " Prakash argues for sometime but then he sensed that Doctor was wrong. Prakash " Priti seemed like nice lady." " She is nice for picnic or parties but not so nice when it comes to help. It was just for one day but she took it in her head I will do it every time. Truthfully I was searching for some nice baby sitting place." " Forget it. We need to solve this problem first." They kept discussing. Finally Raju came back with Jay. He was on top of the world. It was clear that he was happy and willing to stay with Jay. Then he went to Rajani. " Mom will you change your ringtone. I like twinkle twinkle. Just like Jay Uncle." Jay explained how to do it. She did it immediately. That day Jay was invited for dinner. Their house was small so Jay went back to his flat. Soon Rajani understood that Jay was doing business. He was happy with life. She didn't find anything wrong in him. In fact she was acting more abnormal than him. Slowly she started to feel relaxed with Jay. Soon she began to drop Raju in Jay's shop. Nisha even started to go in his shop. She soon learnt to manage it in his absence. Rajani also started to help him with shop. One day Prakash suggested that they should invest in shop too. She agreed. But she kept feeling curious how did Raju never suffered again. One day finally Prakash asked " Jay what magic you used to cure Raju?" First time Jay looked nervous and tense. Rajani sensed that something was wrong. All wrong thoughts started to enter in her mind. " Come on tell us truth." Jay " I don't do anything. Actually I many times chat with my counselor on hangout. I am fine but still it helps when I get tense about some business matter and my dead wife enter in nightmare due to it." Rajani " It's okay. We all get nightmares." "Well during it by chance..just by chance I talked about Raju. " Then he kept quiet. Prakash asked with anger " So you took Raju to him." " No..no he visited our shop. He just chatted with him few times." Jay sensed that Prakash and Rajani were not happy about it. Jay stood up and said " I did what I feel best for kid. Sorry if I hurt you." Rajani " Don't come again. My son is not mad like you." There was clear tears in his eyes. Then Jay stopped coming. They didn't permit kids to go there. One day finally Raju asked " What's wrong Mom? You are angry with Jay Uncle because he took to Doctor who cure me?" Rajani was shocked and confused. Prakash was doing his work but stopped in track. Nisha added " And stop from keeping you in house of that horrible rich woman?" Rajani "Stop it!!Give respect to Priti Auntie." " Then why don't you give respect to Jay Uncle too." Prakash " Go to your room." Kids went to their room. But their question kept hanging in air. It soon started attacking her consious. She began to feel so guilty. Jay once had mental disorder but it was over. He helped her son and started nice life with her family and she destroyed it. When Priti never showed affection towards her son. She forced her son to adjust with her since she thought his uncle who showered affection on him was wrong because he had some mental disorder once. " I am sorry." Rajani said and Prakash smiled. Prakash " Can I invite Jay tomorrow?" " He will come." " Of course. Only one condition you will not mention argument." She smiled out of tears and nodded. When Jay came every thing became normal again, kids showered extra affection on her. Finally when kids went to sleep, she asked him " What is wrong with my son?" " Nothing. He was just showing anxiety regarding separation from parents. But it connected in strange way to mobile ringtone since I think you send him to some place when Prakash called. Counselor first broke that connection then reduced Anxiety." Jay smiled and showed off that it was easy thing but she knew it was not. She knew number of times Jay took Raju with him. She didn't say anything but she just said "Thanks." Jay smiled and said " It's alright." And happily took next bite of dessert and began to talking about something else.
The End
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