Chapter 3

Rahul suddenly started to cry making Shreya confused, he just drank milk so that doesn’t mean he is hungry. Listening to the cries even the Priya started to cry making both the mothers confused. Sheela took Rahul in her arms while Shreya took her daughter. Then like magic, they stopped crying. Again, after ten minutes, they started to cry. This time, they again exchanged babies and they stopped crying. This made the mother’s laugh hugging their babies.

From that time there was a competition between them, it may be due to studies, getting love from parents, doing some mischief. Rahul always made fun of her while she always irritated him. She made him a villain in front of his parents, and he did in front of her parents. The parents knew about them when they realized about their competitive nature and it is seen especially when it comes to love from their mothers. They are possessive about their mother’s, if Sheela showed extra love on Priya, then Rahul would burst in anger and show many tantrums; the same is the case with Priya.

There was an incident that happened when they were eleven. Rahul was playing cricket with boys in the nearby ground, even Priya was playing some games there. Priya went near Rahul when he was fielding

“I will do fielding here for this one ball” she spoke while Rahul made an irritated face.

“No this is last ball stupid, if I miss the catch then we will lose so you can do for next match” he spoke looking at the pitch where the match is going on. The batsman hit the ball and it came flying towards Rahul. Priya saw this and came close to Rahul and pushed him when he was about to catch the ball making it a boundary and the opposite team win

“Why did you come in the middle if you didn’t come then I would have won easily” Rahul spoke to her with a frustrated look

“You didn’t give me a chance to field so even you shouldn’t also do it” she spoke and then moved away from there which made Rahul angry.

He moved behind Priya and held her hand, when she turned towards him, he gave her a little punch on her face which didn’t leave any marks behind but gave her a chance of complaining about him.

Rahul played for some more time and came home and found his father Shekar very angry with him. It didn’t take him much time to find out the reason behind his anger as he saw Priya beside him, Priya complained about him to Shekar who loves Priya very much.

Shekar also bet Rahul (to say just a light slap) for behaving rudely with her and Priya was very happy as her ego satisfied and now it was time for the next attack from Rahul.

Rahul then moved to Priya’s house which was in front of her house. He moved towards Shreya and hugged her leg making her smile.

“What happened?” she asked seeing the sad look on Rahul's face

“I don’t want to be in that house, no one loves me there” Rahul spoke making Shreya shocked because he never speaks like that. She made Rahul sit on the couch and sat beside him

“What happened?” she asked him again, Rahul told her about the incident that happened today

“Dad didn’t even ask me what happened why did I beat her and it is not even a slap because I hit her very lightly but he always listens to her and he doesn’t care about me” Rahul spoke with a crying look which made Shreya heart melt. She hugged Rahul tightly to her chest and kissed him on his forehead.

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