Emotional Manipulation

A guy was leaning on the wall with his one foot on the floor and the other foot on the wall forming a horizontal ''V'' shape on the corner under the shade of the tree listening to all the commotion going on,

bro seems that chick is a dump, its easy to pay her back, said another guy to the guy who was leaning on the wall,

I don't know if she's a dump but what I know is she is innocent and careless which is a dangerous combination for the owner of such characters, which is even more dangerous for her than being a dump, the guy leaning on the wall said to his friend with a smirk on his lips.

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The car stood in front of a large house painted in white with, glass wall covered by wooden borders, the extremely beautiful house didn't bring any sort of joy on the beautiful face of the girl, all xi did was sighing and got out of her car lazily,

There was no one to welcome her, as her mother was busy in the kitchen, after removing her shoes and socks she went directly to her mother who was busy cooking dinner, that too it was the favourite food of her father, and xi went straight to the kitchen sat there on the lapse of the kitchen and started narrating her mother the events happened in her day at school and on the car were she was so silent till she reached her house, including her embarrassing movements with the guy and her carelessness throughout the day after that

All her mother did was miming at last she said

what were you doing when he came close to your ears and what were you thinking that hard at this age making you this much careless, (there was irritation and disgust in her mother's face for some reason xi didn't know why ) as she started scolding her daughter to which xi said,

How would I know if anyone was standing back if I was turning back,

you should know, because your a girl and being a girl you should be extra careful, said her mother and started scolding her

Mother stop scolding me, if I didn't say any of these things, you won't know that such things happened, you have to thank god that I am telling you everything,

Everyone says those things, you will only know if you went to their house said her mother,

How would they say if they love a guy or girl, will they say of course no mother, so they won't say anything to their parents, said xi.

whatever, go change your uniform said her mother to which xi obediently went,

Still now bing could remember how xi's mother would cook food according to her father's liking which is too spicy for the soft tongue of the little xi , but all xi did was hissing like a snake while eating , the poor little thing didn't even realize that her food was according to her father's taste on the maximum times and the minimum times it would be xi's favorite , the little thing even if she liked something others bought and offered her she won't get it instead she would ask her mother about it or she won't even speak about it most of the time giving reasons like you would put on weight if you eat potato french fries but will eat her mother's potato spicy gravy ( xi's stupid logic ), which her mother's one of the signature dish and even xi's father liked it very much , as for xi she didn't have anything favorite , not only because her mother is a good cook because it was her mother who cooked daily , for some reason which no one knows, her mother never allowed anyone even servant to cook and as for xi , she would eat anything her mother gives including poison at that time bing knew it all she sometimes want her friend to have her own favorites and want to tell xi that her mother only cooks her father's favorite food but restrained herself from doing so , because she knows it would be words on deaf ears , she also know the possible reply like bing my mother likes me more than she likes my father so she's cooking according to her wish and not my father's favorite because mother knows I like everything she cooks because , you know what , my mother is good cook , of course bing knows that, as to why xi would share her lunch with her but won't get anything from anyone , and here after don't say anything about my mother or else I will say something bad about aunty will you feel good no right , so don't do that because even I will feel the same , thinking about her foolish bragging about her mother without knowing that it was all her delusion , bing didn't say anything her friend was not only innocent but also an emotional fool , also bing don't want her friend to be distant from her parents this was also a reason for her restraining to talk about these things to xi .

FLASHBACK BEFORE THREE YEARS OF THE PRESENT FLASHBACK WHICH IS ABOVE WHICH IS IN BING'S MEMORY ( note the difference in xi's character). .. .. .. .. .. .

Things not known by bing only xi knows it ( OF COURSE READERS DO )

Xi, went to her room and started removing her uniform suddenly after narrating her school day's story to her mother who was cooking in the kitchen, as she always does for years she didn't know when this habit started,

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa , screamed xi

her mother came running to the young girl's room

why are you screaming as if your mother died asked her mother to the little xi

to which the shivering xi, raised her little shivering hand and showed her a little thing sticking to her wall.

So for this, you screamed like a bitch . . .

Xi blinked in her shivering state confusedly and asked her mother, mother what is a bitch

Bitch are persons like Mercy,

The little xi started crying, boohoo, boohoo; boohooooo

Close your mouth: /, said her mother,

to which xi covered her mouth while catching for her breath,

Why the hell are you crying asked xi's mother,

why did you say that I am like mercy said xi still catching for breath,

I will say it if you cry or scream again because only a person like her will do those things,

Then, I won't scream seeing a cockroach again mother said xi,

then her mother took a stick and tapped it on the cockroach but it flew grazing on the bare shoulder of the young xi she was stunned and started a light scream but seeing her mother's displeasing or disgusted look, she swallowed it wholly, and that stupid cockroach fell graze passed her foot, this time xi didn't scream the only feeling she had was horror, her heart . . . she can't hear her heartbeat .. .. things stilled for the little girl, her surroundings were suddenly pin-drop silent, her eyes darkening with little sparks as if she came out of a bloody sunny day and her mother went without caring or she didn't even notice to be more precise .. ...

Her body relaxed and she could feel an itchy sensation on the places where the annoying cockroach grazed her . . . .

Mother shall I take bath an asked xi

Why, is it because of the cockroach asked her mother coldly,

there was silence for a moment and then xi said, mother, it is itchy there, where the cockroach grazed past.

Oh when did the cockroach grazed passed, asked her mother, and even if so it won't be itchy said her mother

but it is itchy mother, said xi,

so, glared Ziyi, I don't know how many times to tell you that only bitches will be scared of cockroach, only those girls like mercy will do those things taking bathing or creating a scene because of a cockroach,

Mother I am not taking bath, said xi

xi went to her room, while the girl fully changed her cloth, but those place where the cockroach grazed her was still itching so she went to her bathroom and only washed her shoulder by taking a handful of water and rubbing it on her shoulder,

But when her mother came to know about it when xi came out of her room, she asked,

Did you wash it because of the cockroach

no mother, when I went to the washroom I fell accidentally, god knows it was a big fat lie and how stupid it was that by just one hearsay you know it is a lie, so did xi's mother,

I won't scold you, tell me the truth said xi's mother Ziyi,

yes mother, said xi looking to the floor with guilt,

Even after saying that only a person like Mercy would do such a thing you went and washed said her mother to the already guild ridden xi, who became even more guilty as if she killed someone,

sorry mother, I swear to god that I would never do it again said xi,

Don't swear only bitches do it said her mother,

Now the guilty xi lifted her face to look at her mother . . . .

Then how will I make you believe that I am saying it genuinely asked xi,

see now your talking against your mother just like mercy that snake said Ziyi

sorry mother I swea . . . she swallowed that word, I won't do it again and will listen to you hereafter, said xi

and went into her room fully with guilt covering her, if only she knew she doesn't want to be guilty and what her mother did to her was called emotional manipulation things would have been different but the poor innocent xi didn't know it and fully believed her mother, so she could only be guilty even though doing nothing wrong.