Hi everyone... this is a true story.
I am a typical Indian girl and have been brought up by well to do conservative parents. This incidence is about when I was in tenth grade. I had just had my eighteenth birthday a week ago. I had summer vacation those days and was staying in house contemplating the exams that lay ahead of me.
I was just whiling away my time reading textbooks, novels, watching movies and gardening occasionally. I didn't have a very close friends' circle and none to accompany me in those vacations. Dad and mom are both working in government jobs and leave house at 9 a.m in the morning to return late in night around 8-9 p.m. except on Sundays and national holidays.
We have a lot of relatives, both from my mother's and my father's side and not having any other siblings, I had grown close to my cousins and looked forward to meeting them whenever the chance should come. I have a cousin brother named Vishal who was three years my senior and had just written his higher secondary exams and was preparing for his professional courses entrance exams.
One fine day, dad announced that Vishal's dad had called up and that he was to come over and spend the summer with us so that he could attend a coaching program in our place. I had always looked up to Vishal
bhaiya
(brother in Hindi language) and adored him as he was considered a genius who always used to top his class. He was very knowledgeable and funny too and time used to fly whenever he was around.
So it did. He came home and settled down in a couple of days. We were meeting after a gap of three years and there was some breaking of ice required as both of us had grown in the last three years having left the years of childhood and entered the turbulent years of adolescence.
But once we had spoken and laughed our guts out on each other all that ice melted fairly quickly. He had grown to be a flirt and kept on passing occasional comments on how beautiful I had grown to be in the last three years. He too had been working out and looked the part of a commercial model. We kind of grew close and he started helping me out with studies occasionally. His classes used to wind up by 3 p.m. and we used to spend a lot of time together, mostly chatting. He used to flirt incessantly and I used to brush him off. He however was occasionally rather blunt and I had gently rebuked him too.
One of those days, about a week after his arrival, he came back from his classes at 12 p.m. as his biology teacher hadn't turned up on that day. As usual I was alone at home and was just about to have lunch.
I was glad that I won't have to eat alone and served for both of us. While eating we chatted away about things in general when he suddenly stopped and asked me if I had had a boyfriend at school. I was shocked at the sudden question and replied in the negative. He seemed pleased and said he that he was. I asked why and he shrugged off saying that he felt free to discuss 'things' with me now. I asked him-