SS Manvi and Virat from the beginning part15,16 - Page 22

Before letting me speak she started with her usual tirade. Looking towards my dad she complained, "Do you see this? How irresponsible can she be? Instead of repenting she is all set to go out with her friends again."

Like usual dad was busy typing up patient history or whatever it is that he does on that laptop of his. Lets save him the trouble from having to miss his darling work to answer mom. "Lady stop blaming me without hearing me out."

"I'm your mom. Talk to me with respect." Wow she can never stop, can she?

"Whatever. I have to work on a presentation for English. If you don't want me to go and fail then fine by me." I'm not disrespectful, I just like to live life on my terms. I swear when anyone tries to impose something on me it automatically triggers me and I end up doing the exact opposite of what they want. Unfortunately for my mom, she is a complete control freak and tries to control everything. This always works against her. If she'd calmly handle the situation then I wouldn't be so rude to her but she can't make me call her mom. From today onwards I'm calling her lady and everytime she opposes, its going to get worse.

*Yawn* family drama seriously bores me. I was about to go back to my room when 'lady' stopped me.

"Fine go do your presentation. I'll drop you and then I'll pick you up." Hitler(mom) ordered.

In the car I tried to listen to some music but she turned off the radio. Whats up with her man? Why is she hell bent on getting on my bad side? I'm not going to ruin my day arguing with her. I took out my iPod and put my headphones on. She glared at me and then continued to drive.

"So you don't have to work today that's why you decided to be my driver?" I questioned.

"If you don't know how to talk with respect you are not getting any answers from me."

"Fine by me. But when you ask me anything don't expect me to reply either."

I was in for another lecture but luckily we reached my school. "I'll pick you up at 5 pm sharp." Hitler ordered.

"Awww I love you too." I said sarcastically and slammed the door shut.

There leaning on his car was Mr. Casanova. UGHHH. I put on my shades and walked towards him.

"Was that your babysitter?" Asked Casanova.

I swear if he doesn't lose his smirk he is going to lose a tooth for sure. I looked around him and asked, "Where are your ermm friends? You look different today." Pretending to think I continued, "It is probably because this is the first time I'm seeing you without any girl stuck to your body."

He gave me a fake smile at my snide comment, "You want to stand here and discuss about my friends or you want to work on the stupid presentation?"

Placing my finger on my chin I answered, "What should I choose worse or worst? I'll go with worse, lets work on the presentation."

He let that comment slide and walked behind me towards the library.

On the way we met Jeevs. "Manvi? I can't believe your mom let you leave the house. After last night didn't she ground you for the next century?"

This girl has a great timing. Why the hell did she have to blurt the story of my life in front of Casanova. Now Casanova will annoy the hell out of me with this topic. Screw you Jeevs.

Like I'd expected Casanova laughed heartily and inserted his 'expert' and unwanted comment, "So I was right. You are being babysat. Should I call your mom and tell her you are still in the school premises and to not worry about you?"

Yeah right. "You want to call my mom? Go ahead. No go ahead, call her." I dialed my mom's number and like I'd expected her secretary answered the call. "Hey Stacy this is Manvi. Your boss's daughter. You know sometimes I wonder if I am her daughter or yours. I mean I talk to you more than her anyway. Infact you come to my school to collect my performance report or for parents teacher conference. Right?" Oh shit. In my anger I just showed the idiot a side of me only Jeevs knew. Dammit Manvi.

I quickly hung up the phone and walked ahead of him. "Jeevs I'll talk to you later. Don't stop by my house otherwise hitler will kill you."

Virat's side of the story

After what happened at the party last night I don't want to even see her face. She is such a brat. Manvi you will have to pay for this. I mean common what have I ever done to that girl to earn those insults she threw at me? Sure I fool around with girls but so do other guys so why does she call me a Casanova? True I get a lot of attention from the girls. To tell you the truth I never enjoyed it but sooner or later you learn to live with it. I believe in making the best of what you have. If girls want to throw themselves at me then it is not my problem. But who is going to explain all this to the psychotic cribber.

No Virat you are not calling her. She knows we have a presentation due soon she will call you. Anyway girls are usually more responsible I'm sure she will call you. Girls, right. But Manvi isn't any other girl. Her party last night showed how much responsible she is and she never acts like a normal girl anyway. If I want to graduate on time and not be held back due to one stupid presentation I need to call her. Arghhh I hate this girl.

"Virat baba sir and madam are calling you." Chaiji came to call me.

I'm not in the mood but let me give you a short introduction of my family or whatever it is. The lady that came to call me, grandpa sent her from India to look after me. Don't ask me how she got her visa, grandpa is a big lawyer in India so I guess he managed something. But I call her chaiji, she worked for grandpa before and now she works for us here. She is basically like a mother to me; she brought me up. What were my real parents doing? Divorcing each other and building a new family I guess. Long story short, mom and dad got divorced because dad fell for another woman during his trip to the U.S.

Dad got my custody so I moved to California with him and mom stayed in India with dad's family and my elder brother Viren. As a kid I visited India over every summer. As soon as I turned 16 though I put my foot down and refused to go to India. I'm not going to go someplace where I'm unwanted and lonely. Sure mom says that she loves me and bhai equally but please I'm not some uneducated fool. If she loved me she'd fight for me and not leave me here with step mom and dad. Whatever I don't care anymore. The only person I'm close to from my family is bhai and he is the only one that understands me. Bua and dadaji (my dad's sister and my grandfather) think I'm way too Americanized and they have tried several times to discipline me during my short trips to India. *rolls eyes* Haven't they heard that Virat will do exactly what you ask him to not do?

There I gave you a sneak peek into my so called 'family.' Now lets go see what chaiji's sir and madam want from me.

"You called me?"

Sir looked up from his paper and signaled me to sit down.

Looks like it is going to be a long conversation. "I don't really have time. I need to meet up my group partner for a presentation." No need to tell him that I still need to call her and fix up a time to meet. Even the thought of calling that cribber gives me a headache. I hate her.

Oh shit I totally missed what he just babbled. Arghh it is Manvi's fault. Concentrate Virat or he'll give you an hour lecture about how you need to be more responsible.

"Are you listening Virat?" Shouted Mr. Grumpy aka Chaiji's sir or err dad.

"Yes sir." I saluted and did a march past.

"You will turn 19 soon but you still behave like a 5 year old. When will you ever grow up?" Blah blah blah. Dude I think I'll fall asleep. Have you ever seen anyone sleep while standing with eyes wide open? You might just see it.

"Varun calm down." Spoke Chaiji's madam aka step mom.

Let me clear one thing, she is not like a typical step mom. I mean she has nothing against me but she doesn't love me either. She is indifferent towards me. I on the other hand hate her. She is the sole reason why my parents separated and for that I can never forgive her. Our relationship is very formal, we have probably spoken once or twice and we hardly address each other. She can never have kids so thankfully I don't have any step sibling.

This is my 'house'. All three of us are always in our own little world; dad travels all over the world for his work, his wife is usually busy with her kitty party and social work and I, well I do what I like which is usually partying and hanging out with friends.

"Have you thought about where you want to go to college?"

"No." I answered truthfully.

He was about start with another session of his lecture but I interrupted him. "Can we continue this later? I gotta go finish up my presentation first."

Before he could speak further I grabbed my car keys and left the house.

Time to call Ms. Cribber now. Nightmare begins.

This girl even picks up her phone with an attitude. Whats her problem with life or people?

Queen Manvi agreed to come meet me outside school. I hope we get done with the presentation today so that I won't ever have to see her face again.

I stood outside the school and leaned against my car door waiting for Queen Manvi to arrive.

Wait a minute, is that Manvi and who the hell is with her? Ms. Cribber looked rather annoyed with the lady that dropped. She even gave the lady a fake smile and looks like she said something sarcastic to the lady because the lady looked pretty pissed off. Why do I have a feeling that this lady is Ms. Cribber's mom? I mean they both have quite a temper and they both wrinkle their nose the same way when they are mad! Dude why the hell do you care?

Queen Manvi put on her shades and walked towards me. I decided to annoy her a little so I asked her if the lady was her babysitter. She wasn't too far either and she asked me the usual question, where are all my 'girlfriends'. Whats wrong with this girl? Why is she so worried about who I hang out with? God, if I didn't know her well I'd think she was jealous or something. But knowing Manvi, she just needs a reason to pick up on people.

From Jeevika's talks it sounded like the queen got in trouble with her mom because of the party. Good.

Right when I was about to tune her out, she said something that changed my entire perspective on her.

Oh boy I wrote this part in a very short time, 20 minutes probably so I didn't really get into details. The story is moving forward, finally. I decided to add in Virat's side as well.

After PMing 150 people, I have barely 20-30 comments and 49 likes. It is so disappointing. If this continues I will delete more than half of the people from my buddy list or open up a private blog and not post anything on IF.