Problems of a Young Widow

Hi, Ritik Singhal here.

We moved through the stoned path way and went towards the other side of the park where the aquarium was located.

It was a big building with a dome shaped roop with big bill boards hung outside on which all kinds of fishes were drawn. All and all it was a big building where all kinds of fishes were kept. One just had to buy ticket and go inside to look at them.

There was a big line of people outside. We joined the line and waited for our chance to come. Natasha also put me down as it was hard to pick up a 5 year old boy for such a long time. I started looking around the line as it was boring to just stand there and wait for our chance to come.

Suddenly I saw a good looking boy standing on one side of the line with some other boysccame near us. He came and stood beside Natasha.

He was tall, about 185cm and looked even taller with his slender but good looking physique.

"Hey girl, came to look around the aquarium", he asked Natasha.

Natasha was also looking at him when he came near us but when he asked Natasha about her visit her body tightened lightly.

Even if she always acts maturely but after all she was still 21 years old and recently entered her youth. She started doing work at a very small age and married even younger thus her days where she should experience the taste of youth was wasted on me so she still felt awkward when a guy asked her out.

Also, this was her first time talking to other man in front of me so it may had been quite an awkward situation for her.

"Ye.. yes, we were just going to look around the aquarium", she answered as she took my hand in her hand.

" Oh! you came with your brother, let me show you around here", he asked her with a smile.

"No no, we will just look around, we don't want to disturb you, we will only be wasting your time so you should go ahead and enjoy your time, thank you", she also had her own skills after taking care of the nursery for 2 years so even with the awkward first moment she took care of the next sentence and denied him respectfully.

"No, how can there be anything wasteful in helping such a beautiful girl as you look around, I know a lot of beautiful fishes around here, can I have a chance to be your tour guide in this aquarium", he said with a cheeky smile. He looked confident in his charm in front of Natasha.

"He's my son and he wanted to just have a look at the fishes inside so please you'll just be wasting your time so please let us move forward and you should join your friends too there, after all they are waiting for you", she again tried to deny his request.

" Don't joke with me, how can you have such a big boy as your child, even if you had to lie to me you should choose a better one", he again replied with a smile with an expression of as if he had caught Natasha telling a lie.

"No, he's really my son....", she got flustered by his reply, after all she really looked too young to had a child like me.

I, who was looking at the situation from the start was getting angry albeit slowly but when I heard him saying that I was not her child made me really burst from inside. It was as if both of my life's memories triggered something inside me and I felt something which was very dear to me getting stolen in front of my eyes. I really wanted to beat him to a pulp but I knew I was unable to so I thought of something.

" Mumma, pick me up", I asked Natasha politely.

While being flustered she heard my request. Not knowing what to do she picked me up.

"Come here uncle", I called that boy near me.

" What happened cutie, want some chocolates, I'll give you ice-cream if you leave your big sister to m...", he brought his face near mine as he said this.

Slap***

A little sound came as I hit his cheek with my full force of a physically perfect 5 year body.

It should be nothing for him other than the slight hot feeling on his cheek but the humiliation that it may had brought him made him stunned for five seconds.

"Listen, idiot brother, don't try to come near my mother or else I'll call the police and let them treat you in a much better way than mine for harrassing my mother",I said this and looked at my mother.

He was still stunned looking at me standing there dazed from the reply of a 5 year old child.

"Let's move mother, the line has shortened from the time when this big bad brother came", I told Natasha to move forward.

" Oh! OK, I'm sorry for the kid, he just gets jealous easily whenever someone tries to come near me", she bowed to him saying sorry and carried me while moving forward in the line.

"Oh oh.. It's nothing, he's just a kid, nothing serious haha..", what can he say, he just smiled saying all that while still holding his hot cheek.

As we moved forward I saw him gritting his teeth while his friends which came afterwards making fun of him and laughing while surrounding him.

The people around us also had a little smile on their faces as they looked at the whole farce. It should be quite amusing to see a child resolving adult's problem and that too with force.

After moving a little forward in the line Natasha looked at me and scolded me saying,

"you stupid kid, what did you do to the brother there, what if he got angry and hit you in reply", she pinched my right cheek as she said this while holding me by her left hand.

" No mumma, I'm not wrong this time, he was the one who asked us at first and even after you've rejected his offer he still insisted on being our guide, I don't like him and his way of talking, humph... , you always treat me as a child even after I've told you that I am a big child and I'll help you in anyway I can", due to her pinching my cheeks and my emotionally imbalance state from looking at the boy teasing her made my eyes teary.

Looking at my teary eyes her face turned worrisome, "Ritu, I know you want to help me but it is very dangerous to hit a stranger so you should keep that in mind after all we are the only ones for eachother in the world, if anything happens to any of us, how will the other survive so please dont cry, mumma is sorry to scold you, you did a good job helping mumma", she hugged me and patted my back while consoling me.

"No mumma, I'll never be aggressive, I'm sorry", I too hugged her back and we both consoled each other's hearts while moving forward in the line.

After about 5 minutes our turn came and we moved forward and went inside the acquarium building while Natasha was still carrying me.

"Let's enjoy the rest of the trip, the thing's over mumma", I told Natasha with a smile.

" Yeah, I also want to do that", with those words we went inside the building.

After entering I saw a hall to walk straight while glasses on both left and right side where one can walk straight while looking at all kinds of fishes inside the glasses.

The fishes were kept inside those glass containers present on each side of the straight hall.

I took Natasha's hand and ran to the nearby glass chamber and saw a big catfish swimming around while some other small fishes were also swimming in that chamber.

All the details of the fishes were written in front of the glass chamber on a wooden board.

Natasha also looked at the fish and smiled as she saw me smile while looking at the fishes.

After that we went to other chambers looking at all kinds of fishes from small to big ones like gold fishes, clown fishes, angel fishes, white sturgeon, crown fish etc.

After looking at them we came out from the backdoor of the aquarium which the hall leads to.

As Natasha was still worried that the tall boy could create a problem on our way so she decided to return while the sun was still not set.

Thus, after moving around the park we came back home at 5:00 p.m. I wanted to enjoy the rides but the mood died down from Natasha being worried about the tall boy so we came back without riding any of that but still I enjoyed that day a lot.

After coming back we ate the food that Natasha purchased on our way back and after which we did not talk much and just hugged each other while watching the t.v. and slowly we went asleep while being in each other's embrace. That night I felt the worries and tensions that Natasha fights while she took care of me.

Looking at her like that made my desire to protect and cherish her even more.

She never said it but I knew she was afraid.

Afraid of the retaliation of the boy, afraid of me being hurt, afraid of her being alone and afraid of leaving me alone. I knew her worries but at that time I could do nothing about it other than consoling her by hugging her so that night I hugged her and patted her back until she fell asleep while embracing me tightly.

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