Note: All the characters are fictional and above the age 18.
It was a hot summer afternoon for traveling but it didn't matter to Dipesh because he was traveling in an AC coach of a train with his Mom and Dad to their home village. It was supposed to be a long journey from Nasik and they had completed most of their journey.
"Only one more hour now!" said Mahesh when the train crossed a particular station which on which the train wasn't supposed to stop. Mahesh was excited to visit his home after a year. But not as excited as he used to be earlier. Now he had gotten used to his new home in Nasik in which he had moved in with his wife Rashmi after 2 years of their marriage.
Dipesh was used to visit this place once a year when he has his summer break going on. Then his dad, Mahesh would accompany them to Dipesh's maternal uncle Lalit and Dipesh and his mom Rashmi would spend 1 month of their summer there whereas Mahesh would leave just after 2-3 days as he had to rejoin his work and couldn't get more than 7 days of leave at a time.
Dipesh was keen on utilizing this summer break as much as he could. He had so much plans of chilling around and doing the stuff he loves.
Dipesh was 18 and was done with his 12th board exams and with his pharmacy entrance exams and he didn't know how the results were going to be. So, he knew that he had to enjoy as much as he could before the results are out.
Dipesh wasn't exactly keen on going to his father's home village but he loved staying at his uncle's place. And to get to his uncle's place he had to live here for his father's sake.
Anyways they reach their destination, hop off the train, he saw his father negotiating with 3 Auto-rickshaw drivers before they hopped into the 4th one.
"That guy was asking me 100 bucks to take us home, what did he think we are some newcomers here!" said Mahesh as the rickshaw passed through the railway station area.
Dipesh could easily sense how proud was his father of his hometown and why shouldn't he be, everybody is, almost.
The rickshaw finally pulled over in front of their house. Dipesh had few friends in this colony. They were nice and didn't talk about the same shit that his friends back in the city would talk about.
He didn't know he was good at playing marbles until the friends in this colony had taught him a few years ago. They also admired him, the same small town and big town differences.
This house had 4 rooms and a kitchen. One of the room was a big rectangular hall which led into one room at the left and one into the right.
The place needed no cleaning because Mahesh's younger brother lived there with his wife and they had left for Indore to attend his wife's best friend's wedding. Younger brother had left the spare key with the neighbor and that's where Mahesh had got it from before unlocking the place.
Dipesh listened Mahesh say that this place just feels the same. Although it wasn't. Dipesh had known from the photographs the place was shabbier than it was now.
It was evening already and they were relaxing after they freshened up. Then Dipesh's mother Rashmi, unpacked the dinner they had packed and brought here from Nasik and then they had dinner.
Given that it was summer it was quite hot. They had the cooler but it was only one. Which was placed outside the Hall's window facing inside the hall. Which obviously decreed that they had to sleep in the hall.
This wasn't new to Dipesh they did the same every time they visited here. And that was how most of the people slept during summer, some houses had AC in only one room so whole family slept there. That kind of thing.
Dipesh helped his dad putting down the mattresses on the floor just in front of the cooler so they could have most of the cold air coming onto them. They had 2 mattresses which were pretty big. So, they joined this 2 mattresses and made a sleeping space for 3 people just as they always did.
The heat was more, so much that the cooler couldn't completely soften it. Mahesh stripped down to his underwear to go to sleep as he always did back home.
Dipesh also thought that would be a good idea in such heat. But his father was in his late 40's and won't have an erection problems where as Dipesh in his teenage could have erection for nothing.
And having an erection while just being in an underwear would be embarrassing for him especially in front of his mother.
So, he decided to go shirtless but keep his knee length shorts on. He hit the just made bed like that.
"Why don't you also sleep in your underwear?" asked his mother, Rashmi, normally.
"Yeah, yeah son you should do that in such heat, c'mon" added his Father to that.
Dipesh didn't want to but they insisted him and he gave in. Dipesh removed his knee length shorts and put them aside on the floor.
But he had to get up again to fetch the prickly heat powder. He had a very itchy back problem and today during the whole journey his back was against those seats of trains and thus he couldn't skip it today.
Back in Nasik, his mother would put this powder on his back and give it a rub once in two days. So, he asked his mother for the same now.