The Painful Truth
“How’s everything at school, honey?” My mom was back from our first parents’ meeting. I thought she was going to kill me for getting only 43 for Maths. However she was not but she was in one of her “I’m worried about you” moods.
“Ummm…. Okay. Why? How was the meeting?” I asked without real consideration.
“Oh! It was okay. Mrs. Anjaa seems lovely. But there were some surprising things. For example, all the teachers knew who I was and they seemed so glad to meet me. I was treated like the President’s mother.” There was a pause.
“And I asked you about your special diet from your class teacher and she seemed positively unaware about it. You told me that your school wanted you to follow that diet Ish. So how come Mrs. Anjaa doesn’t know it?” My mom was curious, suspicious and worried now. But still I couldn’t tell her what I was because she’ll think I’m going crazy. I had to lie.
“Mrs. Anjaa doesn’t know mom. It was the Doc at the sick bay assigned me the diet.” But she was still not convinced. I could tell by looking at her expression. God protect me now.
There were times I actually thought of telling mom and dad about myself but they were not fantasy people. As every parent does, they wanted me to concentrate hard on my studies. But it was a bit difficult for me to keep up with my studies with Mind’s Eye training. Each time I discover a power within me, I collapse and it weakens my body. I had to endure great deal of pain when I use my powers. I sometimes felt lonely because I was different from others and I could not tell my feelings to my parents. All I knew was that, from now on, I had to be more careful. I was glad to return to school after a month’s vacation spent miserable at home.
“Can you imagine? It’s only three months for the 7th standard now and I already feel like I’m older to be in 6th standard. How was your vacation Ish? Not good?” Cher read my mind as usual.
I told her about mom being suspicious.
“Well, it’s time you are facing troubles at home. I mean obviously your parents won’t be tolerable about Mind’s Eyes and you can’t tell them who you are and how important you are. You better come up with a story to tell them. I mean a real convincing one. Look we all hate to lie to our parents but you can’t help it Ish. If you are afraid go to Ms. Cleanor and tell her. If not stick to a good lie or take a chance and tell your parents the truth.”
Cher was right. I knew my parents and they were not going to like the idea of me being a Mind’s Eye. So I thought to stick with a lie for the time being. My lie was that I was mutli talented at school and all the teachers couldn’t do anything without me. But that didn’t work out very well because, I started to get lower marks in the next term also so my mom threatened me to stop all the extra work or else she is going to complain the school. If she complains, I’m going to get caught that I lied and Ms. Cleanor won’t like it. So thinking that nothing could get any worse, I told my parents the truth.
You can imagine their reaction. First they thought I was losing my mind. Then they thought I was sick and about to puke. Dad said it must be the exam pressure with White Lotus being a very competitive school etc etc etc. But when I demonstrated my ability to send blue fire and made mom dance for a minute, they were flabbergasted. Horrified and devastated would be more appropriate. I told them everything I knew and they sort of believed me and next day they met Ms. Cleanor and cleared things out. But there were times that I wished I didn’t tell them the truth because they were afraid that something bad will happen to me and I’m going to ruin my life. There were times when mom was so pissed she would blame herself saying that she is the one responsible for all of this. All I could do is watch them in pain at such times and I wished I could let go of their pain.
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