Tarini Verma- 25- year old architect working for one of the best architecture firms in Mumbai. She moved to Mumbai for college and has been living in the city since then. She is passionate about her work and painting. Her vibrant passion for design...
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Chapter 9,10,11,12,13 is published on webnovel
I picked up the phone ready to listen whatever is going to be thrown at me
"Hello" I said while taking a seat on the couch because I know its going to be long
"When were you going to call, you're mature enough to know you should call and check up on your parents, your bua called a few minutes ago complaining about how you don't know to call your relatives and see how they're doing, is this what we taught you" My mom lashed out
Bua= dad's sister
No hi, hello, how are you, I don't even expect anything, this is how it has been since forever I just kept the phone on speaker and sat back with my legs propped up on the coffee table, it's the usual so I'm immune to it I don't care anymore
"I was busy" I said with calmness
"You were busy? That's your reason? So what are we? We are just sitting doing nothing, we have thousands of work yet we make time for people to talk to them. You are putting a bad image in front of the relatives, what might they be thinking? Just because we sent our daughter out of city for work she got wings" She said, I know she was pacing around the living room while my dad sat on the couch
"I'll call bua now" Saying that I ended the call, I didn't wanted to hear any more complains about how I am a bad daughter
God now I have to call that witch, I sighed and dialed her number hoping she won't pick up, after two rings when she didn't pick up I ended the call, atleast I can tell that I called but she didn't pick up
Now I hope she doesn't call back , but of course God wasn't on my side, she called back after 2 minutes
I took a deep breath and answered the phone
"Namaste bua" I said with fake nice voice
Hello aunt
"Ha ha hello, itni badi ho gayi ki hume bhul gayi?" God now she won't stop
You grew so much that you forgot us?
"Aisa kuch nahi hai I was just busy with the new project" I told while rolling my eyes, not like she could see me
Nothing like that
"Of course you're busy, you're talking as if we never worked, during our time we used to work and we used to also maintain a good relationship with our relatives, but you kids don't even appreciate us for everything we do for you" Everything in the sense taunting me every chance she gets, sure
"How are you?" I said while changing the topic, I don't want to say something that will make my parents more against me
We talked for a few more minutes, well she complaining about stuff while I hum to whatever she was blabbering, I absolutely loath this where I have to be nice to people who only know to put people down
I ended the call saying I had food on the gas
I hate talking to them all they ever do is point out all my mistakes. I am a human I am allowed to make mistakes, just because I'm the elder child doesn't mean I don't have feelings
All they ever did was dump all the responsibilities on me, because I am the elder chid and was expected to behave like an obedient child
I always tried to make my parents proud but they only cared about my younger siblings because apparently they are small they need to be taken care off
I have two younger siblings, they both are twins, Yash and Yashvi, they are in their 2nd year of college, my parents were the best parents before my siblings were born
But after that they started paying more attention to them, of course I understand that they were kids they needed more attention, I thought when they will grow up I will get equal attention but it never came
After few years I stopped expecting anything from them, I thought they will realise their mistake after I move out but alas it never happened
After my college I decided to work in Mumbai I didn't wanted to go back to Jaipur to listen to how much of a disgrace I am to the family
Not like they haven't stopped telling me now that I am here it's relatively less because they only call when they want to complain about something
I started having a headache after this so I skipped the food and went and changed into my night suit and went to bed, I slept while looking at the moon thinking why I couldn't have a good childhood instead of being the elder child who's being dumped with all the responsibilities
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