My family and I - Chapter 17

I tiptoed inside. Sona was sitting on the bed, with her back towards me.

“Let’s get one thing straight.” She started, “This here is my side of the bed and room. I don’t want any of your stuff in my territory. Get it??” She drew an imaginary line with her hand straight down the middle of the room.

I nodded, half a room was much better than what I had expected.

“Now get out..” she ordered.

“What?! Why?” I protested.

“I need to practice, I can’t do that with someone watching. Out!” She said plugging her guitar into the amplifier.

I didn’t think it would be wise of me to fight for staying there. Sona was good with the guitar, but after a few minutes my head started spinning with all the heavy metal guitaring she used to churn out.

I started to walk out of the room when Sona spoke to me again. “Don’t think I’ve forgotten what you did.” She warned me.

I stopped dead in my tracks. Maybe I could set it right, like, right now.

“Ummm Sona?” I stepped towards her side of the room gingerly.

She saw me moving towards her but made no attempt to take off her headphones, but as my foot crossed over the imaginary divider, she exclaimed, “Hey! What do you think you are doing?”

“Sorry..” I muttered, scrunching up my face.

She took off her headphones and regarded me for the longest time, “Go on..”

I cleared my throat, “I’m sorry about the whole Samrat episode.”

She put aside her guitar and glared at me, “Okay, so what were you trying to do there?”

I ran a nervous hand through my hair, “I don’t know, I was just trying to get out of a tricky situation.”

Sona stood up suddenly, forcing me to back into a corner. “How dare you! Do you know what you did? I should kill you for this!”

“Sona I’m sorry!” I said raising my arm while leaning backwards on the table behind me, anticipating a physical fight.

Unfortunately for me, I lost my balance and went crashing down, grabbing whatever I could to stop my fall. Of all the ruddy things I could grab, my hand hit a glass painting Sona had made. For a moment, I was afraid that it would fall on me. But after seeing the look on Sona’s face after the crash, I found myself wishing that it had!

“Mom!!!” Sona screamed loudly, “She’s already breaking my stuff!” She turned to face me, “I want you out of here, get it?”

Big tears rolled down my eyes as my mum walked in and inspected the sight. She saw me lying on the floor with the glass shattered around me and completely misinterpreted the situation.

“Sona!” My mom exclaimed, aghast. “Are you crazy! She could have been hurt!” My mum rushed to my side. “Are you alright Pinku?”

“Ma, this is all her fault!” Sona stood at the door, refusing to help me.

“That’s it Sona! You’re grounded for a month! No phone calls, no outings. Get it?” My mum said furiously.

“But I didn’t even touch her!” Sona protested.

“I don’t care. I don’t care what happened here, but this is not acceptable. Throwing things at each other? That too glass? U-N-A-C-C-E-P-T-A-B-L-E!!” My mum helped me out of the room.

I know I should have said something, but I wasn’t in the mood to be nice to Sona. She had been particularly nasty to me today. As though it was my fault that we had to share a room! I mean, I knew it was, but it wasn’t intentional.

 In fact, if I may admit it, it felt rather good getting her into trouble. Of course, I wasn’t going to let her be punished for a month, I’m not that evil. Maybe just for a week or two.

“Tell her!” Sona screamed at me as my mum lead me out.

“Sona! Stop harassing your sister! In fact I want you to apologize to her!” My mum pushed me in front of Sona and stood behind us, her arms crossed.

Okay, now mum was overdoing it! I saw the murderous look in Sona’s eyes and retreated immediately, “It wasn’t her fault ma!”

My mum shook her head, “You could learn something from Pinku Sona, she’s still trying to protect you!”

That was the worst thing my mom could have ever said!