"Mom, I missed my periods." On the night of that day while her mom was all alone in the kitchen, Sirisha went near to her and said with a voice that could be hardly audible to her feeling lot of tension and uneasiness in herself.

"Are you trying to say something to me?" Sanjana turned her head and looked into the face of Sirisha. "If it is so just say it little loudly."

"Mom, it is one week after due time for my periods." Even Sirisha was feeling fear a lot, she made her voice louder audible enough to her mom.

"I already told you sometimes we are irregular in that." Once again putting herself into her work Sanjana said. "In one or two days you do have it and there is no necessity to feel tension."

"But I am not thinking like that mom. I am not feeling it is just an irregularity. I never have been delayed this long in having my periods." However much tried Sirisha could not refrain little shivering in her voice and she just did not know how to say that to her mom.

"Sometimes there is an irregularity with that much length also. You don't feel unnecessary fear. We wait for another one week or so and by then also if you have not got it, we sure do go to a gynaecologist." Sanjana still did not bother with what Sirisha has said and the little shivering in her tone could not get the attention of her mom.

"I think we have to go to a doctor as soon as possible mom, without any delay." This time also Sirsha's voice shivered and this time it attracted the attention of Sanjana also. She left the ladle in the pan, turned towards Sirisha and looked straight into her face. "Even after my assurance also, why you are feeling like that?"

"Just because I am feeling fear that I am pregnant!" Sirisha did not how she has put that out so.

"What, what the bloody hell you are talking?" it took some seconds to Sanjana to understand what her daughter said and the shock she felt then was amply reflected in her face.

"Yes mom. I became too much angry on you as you were stubborn to keep your pregnancy. I just wanted to hurt you to the maximum and I thought it was the best way for it. So I have sex with someone without any protection." Sirisha forgot all her fear and just decided to tell her mom everything.

"You rascal!" immediately Sanjana slapped on Sirisha's right cheek with her right hand with all her might. "Do you have any idea at all what you did? However much hate you might have felt on me, how could you do it like that?" Sanjana was yelling.

"Mom, I know that I was wrong! I should not have committed that wrong at all. But I was mad, just mad at that time so I did not think anything else at all." Sirisha burst into weeping. "Sorry mom, I am absolutely sorry."

"My god! What should we do now?" Sanjana went near to a chair at the dining table, dragged it and slumped herself in that. "What we can do if you are really pregnant?"

"Mom, please don't say like that." Sirisha's weeping was intensified even more.

"What can I say then? For the first time I am feeling bad that I have become pregnant again. I did not feel bad for my second time pregnancy even then when you opposed it so much. I have some hope sooner or later that you do agree with it. But now..........." Sanjana paused for a second. ".............if I did not become pregnant you would not have committed this wrong at all."

"Mom, I am promising you I never do commit this type of wrong in the whole of my life again. But please don't feel regret for your pregnancy now when I also do love a lot my incoming brother or sister." Somehow Sirisha controlled her weeping.

"Its okay but what we can do if you are pregnant? Can I take you to a hospital and get your pregnancy aborted without telling this to your dad? I just don't know how your dad would react if he comes to know about this."

On hearing that Sirisha's face also has been filled with a horrifying expression just like her mom. There was painful silence between them both for sometime during which Sanjana digested what she heard and broke that silence after coming to a decision.

"Alright dear. First we have to confirm ourselves whether you are pregnant or not. Why do we unnecessarily break our heads without knowing about it." Sanjana got off from the chair she sat and said. "I go out and get a pregnancy testing kit. You too don't worry unnecessarily. You may not be pregnant at all now."

"I am sorry mom, I am absolutely sorry." Sirisha strongly hugged Sanjna once again and burst into weeping. "I don't know how to convince you but I never do this type of wrong again."

"You need not dear, I am convinced." Sanjana kissed on the head of Sirisha and relieved herself from her daughter. "First let us over with it. We need to be convinced that you are pregnant before deciding what to do."

Sirisha remained silent while her mom was moving away from that place but after walking until the doorsill there just like a lightening Sanjana got that thought only then, she turned back, looked straight into the face of her daughter and asked "Who is that guy Sirisha?"

"Mom........." Sirisha also was expecting that question but relieved till that moment as her mom not asked about it.

"You heard the question clear Siri, I know." Sanjana came near to Sirisha still looking into the face of her daughter. "Who is that guy took advantage of my innocent girl?"

"Mom, no one has taken advantage of me and I am not innocent." Sirisha felt surprise for the firmness in her voice. "With the idea to become pregnant I made him to have it with me."

Sanjana once again became very much angry but before she said anything Sirisha said.

"I want to be frank with you mom. There is no mistake on the part of that guy. I almost coerced him to have it with me. I was that much angry with you and want to become pregnant." The firmness was just so in the face of Sirisha.

"Still I want to know who is that guy?" Sanjana's voice also was as much firm as her daughter's.

"Manoj mom, it was Manoj.........." Sirisha mumbled but her voice was clear and audible to Sanjana. Sanjana turned and went away from that place without saying anything.

***

The relief the mom and daughter felt when it was known that Sirisha was not pregnant by the pregnancy test was abundant! Sanjana hugged her daughter and kissed on her both cheeks while tears were flowing down on her cheeks.

"I am so happy now. You are not pregnant." Sanjana was exclaimed and her voice was also with happiness.

"Mom, are you sure absolutely? For more than one week I missed my periods and it is very first time like this in my life." Sirisha was also feeling as much happy as her mom but still was feeling some suspicion.

"This pregnancy kit never tells wrong dear. Both the times I was pregnant I have checked myself with this and it proved right." Sighing heavily Sanjana said. "Sometimes we do become irregular in periods this long also and you just stop feeling fear."

But both the mom and daughter felt fear that the pregnancy test might be wrong till the night of that day when Sirisha got her periods and whatever little tension and anxiety they were feeling upto then was completely vanished.

***

"We share everything in between ourselves from scratch, are not we?"

On the next day when Sirisha got her periods and Sanjana and herself were completely relieved from their tension, Rakesh came. When they both were all alone in the bedroom, Sanjana said that to him.

"We were the lovers, before becoming wife and husband" Rakesh laughed. "That might be the reason we don't keep anything without telling to the other. From scratch it is like that."

"That is why I want to say it to you." Even in the beginning she did not want to tell this to Rakesh but ultimately she came to the opinion to say about it to him. "It would not make any difference even I don't tell you about this now but I want to tell."

Only then Rakesh noticed the serious expression in her face and understood the matter was not something easy. "I am all ears dear. Just tell me what it is?" a curious expression filled his face.

Then in a measured tone Sanjana told him what their daughter did feeling too much hate on them, how they both felt tension thinking that she might be pregnant and how they both have been relieved absolutely after the pregnancy test and her periods. She explained everything she knew about it.

"My god! Is it is true?" Rakesh sat bolt straight with absolute shocking expression in his face. "Our daughter could do like that?"

"Our daughter could do like that." Sanjana nodded her head. "Because of the immense hate feeling towards me just because I did not agree for the abortion, she wanted to hurt me and has it with that Manoj."

"That rascal Manoj! He always appears like a good boy and he took advantage of our daughter like that!" Suddenly Rakesh became angry.

"He has not taken advantage of our daughter Rakesh, our daughter is not a fool to let someone take advantage of her." Sanjana said. "Unless with that hate on me, she never would have even thought about it."

Rakesh remained silent as he did not know what to say.

"She said she coerced him to have it with her and there was no wrong on his part and I do believe in that hundred percent. If a beautiful girl like our daughter advances herself, who remains without putting himself into action?"

"But that rascal our daughter.........." Rakesh once again became angry. "...........however much anger she felt on you, she should not have committed that wrong! Don't you know how much big mistake that is?"

"Rakesh, even by the time of our generation itself youth have changed a lot. There is no necessity to say about the present generation. All the time what the parents of the girls are wishing is that they don't get pregnancies and diseases. It is somehow surprising that our daughter did have it at her tenth class itself but not very much surprising and not as much bigger mistake as you are thinking."

"Are you supporting our daughter having sex like that?" Rakesh knitted his brows together.

"I am not supporting or discouraging anything. I just want to say something; that is we cannot escape from inevitabilities and have to understand facts. Just think seriously and tell me is it is that much unnatural and unusual to have sex in the youth? Even we were not sure that we could marry, how many times we both have..........."

"You are right I agree." Sighing heavily Rakesh said. "But I am feeling very much uneasy thinking what our daughter did."

"Our daughter promised to me that she never would commit that wrong again." Sanjana put her both hands around his neck and kissed on his right cheek. "She is very much serious to become a doctor and you too know about it."

"But once having the taste like that............" he knitted his brows together and gave a little pause "...............you know it is completely different after having the taste of it. Are you sure that our daughter can manage herself without having it again?"

"I am not sure but what I can do except doing what a mom has to do? I just have to advise her to have protected sex preventing pregnancies and diseases if she cannot control herself and I would do it for the first opportune moment itself."

There was some silence again until it was broken by Rakesh. "I am feeling envy on that rascal Manoj who could have the pleasure of having our beautiful daughter at the expense of both of your tension and anxiety!"

"It is not just he who has that pleasure but our daughter also." Sanjana laughed and said. "But I am sure it worths the tension and anxiety we felt later."

"But dear one thing here........." Rakesh's face suddenly became serious again. "............she went to the extent of having it with a guy to become pregnant because of the hate feeling against us as we did not agree to the abortion. It was just because she hated her incoming sibling also that much! Do you think all that hate disappeared in her and she can love her sibling in the same way all the time?"

"Yes, Rakesh! I am just thinking like that." Sanjana nodded her head. "The transformation that has taken place in her is absolute and complete whatever might be the situations forced it. You yourself saw how much she was agitated with the fear I might have got my abortion. Moreover I have been observing her for the last few days and she has been feeling just love and affection on her incoming sibling."

After her saying so, he nodded his head happily and they both hugged gently and kissed each other on the faces. They both want to have it so intently but thinking it might not be better to the kid inside, they refrain themselves from having it. Their love and affection towards the incoming child could not make them dared to have it despite the doctor's saying that there would be no danger in having it in a gentle way.

***

After the due time, in a natural and uncomplicated way, Sanjana gave birth to a daughter and Sirisha did not think that she would feel that much happy looking at her little sister. Just like Mamatha's parents, Sirisha's parents also gave her the liberty to name the child and give party to her friends on that naming occasion. With the same enthusiasm Sirisha did the both, put a name to her sister as Mandakini and gave a grand party to her friends on that naming occasion. Chandan and Sirisha were still close friends and Sirisha took the help of Chandana also to name her sister.

Sanjana advised her daughter what precautions she has to take if she could not control herself from having sex with a boy. Even it was a little early to say that to her daughter, as she has it already like that, Sanjana thought that it was important. But Sirisha said to her mom that never such a situation would arise and never she would do that wrong again! Her whole concentration was on her aim that was to become a doctor!

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