I was so upset for leaving that building, that house. But ‘jisne bhi ye kaha hain, bahut khub kaha hain’, ‘jo hota hain, woh achhe ke liye hota ...ain’.Dad bought the house from some SHARMAs as they moved to Delhi. It is a hell of a place, the new house, bigger rooms. Repairs, painting, was done, but the workers didnt clean the house properly so everyone was supposed to clean their respective rooms. While cleaning my room, I came across a small cavity, which was covered by a same colour cardboard. “OK, Mitch (Mom’s nickname for him),” she hesitated a moment, “Are you all right?”“Yeah, I just need to talk to my son for a minute, OK?”Caroline just walked in, and Jennifer said, taking her by her arm, “The men have got to talk.”The ladies stepped out.“Richard – listen to me very carefully ... don’t talk until I’m done, please? I should’ve brought his up before, but now is the time.”He was getting very emotional, I could tell by his demeanor.“Son, a few years back, with the help of a friend,. I began chewing the cubes. They are hard little bastards and took a lot of chewing to break down. Even sipping the yellow liquid, which was not quite so salty this morning, didn’t help to soften them down. I only had ten minutes and there was just no way I would be able to get all these cubes chewed before he returned. He had ordered me to finish them before his return and the last thing I wanted was for him to think I had disobeyed. So I only chewed enough to be able to swallow, I know he had. The clothes she was wearing now was what I had ordered her to wear minutes before."No thanks grandma. Mom?"Mother was open mouth looking at her parent in such a foreign garb - and do you know why, the older woman looked good.Finally mom nodded negatively, still staring.Grandma was slowly turning red from the scrutiny of her daughter before her lover. It was obvious where we had just come from - what we had been doing. Even if mother had not been waiting almost twenty minutes and had to have.
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