"What, what the bloody hell you are talking?" it did not take much time to Sanjana to digest what her daughter has said as she was in some corner of her mind expecting something like that from her but her putting it direct like that shocked her enough and that shock was amply reflected in her face also. "You are suggesting to me to kill your incoming sibling?" she relieved her hold around her daughter and relieved herself from her hold and stood up to her full height.

"Mom, don't try to create any sentimental feeling like that in me. I am just incapable to feel like that towards it whether it is a boy or girl." Sirisha slumped in her chair again and said with irritation. "Just think about what I have said. I came to know it will be difficult to abort a pregnancy at an advanced stage. If it has to be done, it has to be done at the early stage itself."

"It seems that you came to know lot many things!" For a moment Sanjana forgot that she was her daughter and her heart was filled with complete anger. "Just try to think what would have happened if I got aborted my pregnancy when you were in me."

"I need not have faced a situation like this now." The rancour in Sirisha was just so. "Do you have any idea what type of feeling I have when my classmates say to me that your mom still sleeps with your dad and got the pregnancy? How awkward it is if you go outside with a protruding belly which tells everyone that you are pregnant again at an old age like this?"

"Rascal! How dare you are to talk like this with me!" Sanjana slapped Sirisha on her right cheek with her right hand with all her might and instantly Sirisha burst into weeping cupping her face with both of her palms. "I kill you on the spot if you talk like this again."

There was silence except the slow sobbing sound of Sirisha until Sanjana broke it again.

"I am going to have this child however much you oppose it. Not just because your dad and I want it so much but because I cannot be a murderess. Killing a babe in the womb is not less than killing a human being outside." After saying that she did not say anything more and went fast into her bedroom and fell across on the bed bursting herself into weeping.

As Rakesh was not there with her to console her, she herself controlled her weeping. She expected some opposition, some unhappiness in Sirisha to have a sibling at present at the age of fifteen years but she did not expect at all that she would go to that extent to demand an abortion of her pregnancy! What the bloody hell the other things she has said? She could not bear when her classmates said to her that her parents were still sleeping together and caused a sibling to her. She could not understand how natural it was between wife and husband until she became a wife. She could understand how a woman would feel with her pregnancy only when she has become pregnant.

But what presently has to be done? Sanjana sat straight on the bed. It was appearing so that Sirisha never would accept the sibling whether it was a sister or brother to her. Putting aside whether she would accept it or not when it came onto the earth, if she worried too much about it and stopped studying and failed in her exams? She was studying tenth class, which was so much important period of her life, even she and Rakesh would not feel at all she herself would become too much upset if she could not pass her tenth class with highest marks. Sirisha was very much intelligent and studies were her top priority always.

But, could she do as her daughter suggested? She put her right hand on her stomach and the very idea itself was very much horrifying to her. How could she kill her own child with which she was feeling so happy now? Moreover ever Rakesh would agree to it? He was feeling more happy than her also to have another child.

God, god, please change the mind of our daughter and make her accept this sibling of her, she prayed intently after lying herself on the bed to sleep but for a long time she could not sleep at all.

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Sirisha raged a lot when her mom slapped her so and could not concentrate at all on her social subject which exam she has to write on the next day and her performance in that exam was worst as she expected. But it just made her anger on her mom even more rather than making her realise her fault. She knew that parents do have it together for a long time and if it has not caused that unpleasant thing to her, she would not have said so at all to her mom. But now the thought that her parents have it for pleasure and which created a thing to share everything of her causing lot of unhappiness in her and making her feel rage on so natural act of parents having it together.

"You are appearing more upset than before, what happened?" when they both came out of the examination hall, Chandana asked her.

"It did not work." Sirisha stopped and said looking into the face of Chandana who also stopped. "I asked my mom to get an abortion of her pregnancy but not just she did not agree to it but slapped me on my right cheek."

"There is no surprise in her feeling like that. Every woman feels like that towards her pregnancy. A woman feels just like that towards her pregnancy even she got it before marriage and in an immoral way." Chandana said.

"I just don't know what you are trying to say." With an irritating expression in her face Sirisha said. "On one hand you are suggesting that my mom should have an abortion and on the other hand....."

"On both the counts I am right!" Chandana interrupted her and said. "There is no wrong in your mom's feeling like that but if she gets an abortion it solves all your problems. It is your responsibility to make her agree to it in an amicable way without hurting her much."

"I just don't know how to do it at all." Sirisha's face was filled with lot of anxiousness. "She is feeling so much happy to have a child and she never would agree to lose it." She sighed heavily and said "If they both don't prefer to have it still, this complication would not have happened at all."

"In my opinion, there is no mistake in your parents at all for it. I said a little contrarily before that they have it together only to cause a sibling to you but I was wrong!" Chandana said. "It is so natural that parents do have it together and I know my parents are also having it. Generally they do take precautions if they don't want a child. But here.........." she paused for a second as if to reiterate whatever she was going to say. "...........as it has not happened for such a long time even they wanted it a lot, your parents did not expect at all it to happen now. So they have it together without any protection and caused that pregnancy."

"Alright. I agree with you." Anyhow what Sirisha has said then made the anger Sirisha was feeling on her parents lessened a little. "But I just cannot think at all how to make my mom agree to it. Moreover even my mom agrees to it, I just don't know how my dad would react to that." The anxiousness was increased even more in her face.

"First you make your mom agree to it and she takes care of the rest. If she insists for an abortion your dad cannot stop it."

"Okay" Sirisha nodded her head but still she has no idea how to do that. After the previous day's incident, she was feeling too much awkward even to look into her mom's face. She just did not know how she finished her breakfast, took the packed lunch box and came to the school. All the time her mom also tried not to look into her face at all. "Don't you come with me now? Until the unit text examinations are over, there will be no school to us in the afternoons." She said to Chandana.

"I have little work. Once I finished with it, I come. I don't want to make you wait. You please don't mind and move." Chandana said. In fact the work she has then was to find Sarath to talk with him. Where the bloody hell he went off after writing the exam, she could not understand.

"No, problem. I do wait." Sirisha felt very much surprise on hearing Chandana. It was the very first time that Chandana talked with her like that. "I am feeling very much uneasy and your company gives me some mood change."

That made Chandana feeling a sudden discomfort which she could not refrain from expressing in her face.

"Oh, I forgot. I have to prepare a lot for tomorrow English exam. Really I cannot wait! You may please finish your work and come when you can." Sirisha turned back and took two steps to go away from there. The sudden discomforting feeling in Chandana made Sirisha understand that she did not really want her with her then.

"Just a moment Siri!" when Chandana said that Sirisha turned back again and looked into her face. "I know that you finish reading your English subject in the classroom itself and you don't need much preparation for it."

"But it appears that you don't like me with you now." With gathered frowns on her forehead Sirisha said.

"We don't have any secrets between us till this moment. I don't want it also to be a secret." Looking straight into the face of Sirisha, Chandana said. "Sarath wants to make friendship with me. I am just trying to find him somewhere and talk with him."

(..........to be continued)

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