By now, you must be wondering what my intentions were. Why was I hiding my mother’s truth despite having proof?
Simple.
I didn’t want my nuclear family to break apart. I always had parents who had little time for me, and I don’t blame them, they were working their bones off just to ensure me with a comfortable and secure life. Believe it or not, but there wasn’t even a single day in the week when all three of us were at home. Pops had to work on Sundays and Mom on Saturdays. That’s why, I'd try and enjoy whatever little time I got with them.
I won’t lie; I had started to resent my mother. I hated the fact that she, of all people, was lying; that also to me. I slowly started to realise that she was devoting the time she used to keep for me to him. He was occupying all the space in her life rapidly, like a malignant tumor.
She had stopped sharing stuffs with me. I'd hear her talk softly into the phone deep into the night. Then came the lies.
My mom, who never went to watch a movie, had suddenly started to go out with her colleague- Ritu. Incidentally, one Sunday, I came to know that Ritu auntie spent her weekends in Baharampore, where her husband worked.
Yet I chose to keep mum.
Why?
I love my Pops. And I knew that if this nice ‘truth’ came into light, I'd lose both my parents. Pops is a man of action, which were hasty and often wrong when he was angry. I knew he’d kill either Mom, or himself or both- so much for pride and honor.
I was at an impasse and my inability to function frustrated me. All of that frustration came out at dinner and after sometime, I'd just eat in my bed.
Little did I know that Pops had started to guess something, and he was hiding it from me.
He knew my anger too.
But there was one thing both of us were unaware about.
My mom wasn’t dating Kunal uncle anymore. She was in love. Crazily, utterly, and madly in love with a far more important person, who, somehow happened to be indebted to my father.
Who also happened to be the only prospective step father I'd come to approve of in future.
Who was actually the beginning of the end.
Little did I know.
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