"Bhaiyya could you please help me with my school project? It is due tomorrow and I just forgot to complete it, just a small model of a house, it would not even take an hour of yours, you are so good at handicraft" little Rudra had just woken up his brother and was requesting him. All he wanted was some help or at least a reply, he got none, the other person just got up from his bed and walked away. But he definitely did not know what Rudra was, stubborn to the extent others could not even imagine, he followed his brother and said, "Bhaiyya I will fail if you don't help me" the innocence and love in his eyes could have melted the hardest of rocks, but then this was not just a rock, it was rather the protective layer a volcano, melting of this layer meant all the molten materials inside him would come out and destroy everything around, and Omkara could just not let that happen. "How many times do I need to tell you that I am not your Bhaiyya? If you can't understand this simple stuff after repeated reminders then there is definitely no one who could be more stupid than you, you would definitely fail." He replied in the harshest tone he could, Rudra got scared just at the sight of his brother, no not brother whoever this person was. "And about this school project of yours, I am sorry but I cannot help that person build a house who broke my home. Just get out of my room and dare not enter it again" Omkara said while throwing away the chart papers that Rudra had brought.
Rudra's eyes were all wet, the five year old child picked up his chart papers and rushed towards his room. He did not understand the anger of Omkara, but his heart understood that there was something wrong, "Why did bhaiyya, no I mean he ask me to leave his room?" little Rudra thought to himself, he was so afraid by Omkara's scolding that he could not even gather courage to think Omkara as his brother "Priyanka enters it whenever she wishes, Shivaaye bhaiyya spends half of his time in that room, so what was the problem if I was there. He does not love me for sure and if he doesn't love me, I wouldn't love him as well" There was absolutely nothing that Rudra could have done to convince himself that he will not love Omkara any more. But intelligent as he was, he quickly found a solution, he took his drawing book, there was a sketch that he had drawn yesterday night when dadi told that both Shivvaye and Omkara are his brothers and he should always stick to them, the picture was of two big boys each holding one hand of a small boy
"What was my fault in it?" thought Rudra to himself, "Dadi told me that he is my brother and a good boy should always obey the elders" he started sobbing. He then took out his eraser and tried to erase the picture of one elder boy, "What on this earth are you doing Rudra?", he heard a sound from behind, his face immediately got lit, it was that of his Shivaaye Bhaiya, he could have recognized this voice in a million. "I am trying to erase this, but am not able to do that.", Rudra replied. "Oh wow!" exclaimed Shivaaye, "So intelligent of you, you are trying to erase the pen marks with a pencil eraser?" " I only had this", replied Rudra in an innocent voice, "at least I am trying" "But this drawing is pretty good", said Shivaaye, why are you trying to erase it?"
"I am not rubbing the complete drawing", he replied pointing at the drawing "I am just trying to rub him off." For a moment Shivaaye got a cold shudder, He knew Rudra was young, but not that small that he couldn't understand the difference between different feelings. He calmed himself and asked "Why so?"
"He scolded me, he said that I am not his brother, so why shall he be in my drawings?" replied the little Rudra. Shivaaye smiled, "Oh Mr. melodrama you and your logics are just great, so tell me what if I scold you? Would you remove me from this drawing as well?" Rudra did not reply to this question. "I mean", Shivaaye continued, "I often scold you, hit you and irritate you, so why did you put me in this drawing"
Rudra had no answer for this question, this is true Bhaiyya often scolded him , he was infact even afraid to say anything that Shivaaye did not like, but he also knew that the scolding of Bhaiyya was not like that of him. Everytime Bhiayya scolded him, he used to jump onto bhaiyya and all his anger would just vanish, even if bhaiyya would hit him, he would embrace around him to protect himself, but he couldn't do anything like that to him, there was definitely some difference between the scolding of Bhiayya and him but his little mind could not explain this difference.
"You are my bhaiyya and I cannot even think of standing straight without you, I know that brothers are the only source of unconditional support and love", he replied. Shivaaye had tears in his eyes, in any random family a child relies unconditionally on their parents, but this was their family probably the most unique family in this world. He now understood the carving of Rudra for Omkara's love, brotherly affection is the only kind of love he had ever known. But then Shivaaye could not even blame Omkara for his anger, his hatred for Rudra, he daily sees his mother breaking down because of this child. Rudra was atleast small enough to say everything to Shivaaye but Omkara, he was carrying all his anger, all his sorrows in his heart, he had no one to pour out his sorrows on, or had he? Suddenly a smile appeared on Shivaaye's face. How could he not understand that Rudra was the only person in this entire house to whom Omkara actually showed his wounded side, so what if that came out in the form of anger but at least it came out. Dadi was so right in saying that hatred is also a relation. And here it is so much more when any hatred is the only means of one's survival the relation is not of mere hatred.
"You know he asked me to never enter his room", Rudra was slowly becoming his normal self. "So what would he do if you disturb him daily while he is sleeping?, Shivaaye tried to be normal, "Don't you get time to speak to him while he is awake?", "I like him when he is sleeping", Rudra grinned, "It is the only time he doesn't scold me, I am not afraid of him when he is sleeping, you know while he looks so cute while sleeping that I feel like getting into his blanket and sleeping in his arms, but I don't do that as he might get angry, and I don't like him angry" Shivaaye could not control his laughter at the innocent reply of his little brother. "So you like you chhotte bhaiyya?" he asked, "He is not my brother", Rudra replied firmly, "But I don't know why I always want him to be happy, many times I have seen him crying all alone, the only time he seems to be happy is when is making handicrafts or drawings, I don't like it when he is sad, you know I had actually made this drawing for him, I felt he would like me if I go to him with a drawing. But he doesn't care"
"Take this house and submit it as your school project", Shivaaye heard a voice before he could have answered. He turned back to see Omkara who had a beautiful house made out of cardboards with him. Rudra's eyes glittered at the sight at the mere sight of the house, "I would surely get an A", he exclaimed. "You cannot always depend on others for your work", said Omkara curtly, "I did not want the name of our family to get ruined in your school and therefore completed it, but please dare not come to me for anything else" "The lines coming from the great Omkara",Shivaaye thought to himself, "who does not believe in family name". "Thankyou bha..., I mean Ooo", Shivaaye's thoughts were interrupted by Rudra's voice "What?", asked Omkara, "I want to thank you", replied Rudra innocently, "I know I am not your brother and shall not call you bhaiyya, but your name is very complex I tried but couldn't pronounce it" A smiled appeared in the face of Omkara at this answer, though it was only for a nanosecond, but it couldn't remain unnoticed by Shivaaye.
Shivaaye saw both his brothers, he was seeing them in a very different light today, he understood that the relation of Omkara and Rudra is very deep rooted than what an outsider could ever understand. He always thought he has to do a lot to bring these two together, but now he knew that he needn't do anything, he just has to introduce Omkara to his actual feelings
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