"Mummy where are my basket ball shorts!" Dhriti exclaimed digging up her cloth wardrobe like a miner in a deep cave.

"Wear these lowers" Dhaani spoke softly.

"What did you do to my shorts?" Dhriti spoke as suspicious rose in her mind sensing her mother's extra sweet tone.

"These are better,Sun will tan you in those shorts.Look this has pockets as well" Dhaani spoke out ignoring the question asked.

"Mummy!Where are my shorts!" Dhriti exclaimed losing her temper.

"Keep your tone down, I am not your servant,Don't disrespect me for those filthy underpants!" Dhaani shot back angrily.

"Those are my favorite sport shorts not underwear. Gosh I know what happened to them!" Dhriti exclaimed decoding what fate would her shorts met.

"Oh No !" Dhriti accurately spotted the shorts in the kitchen sink. The poor shorts now got sacrificed to work as new dusting cloth of the house.

"Fuck my....Mummy!" Dhriti shouted loudly.

"What happened? Are you okay? Did you got burn ,show me " Kaashi came rushing to the kitchen.

"No papa,I didn't get hurt.Mummy spoiled my shorts" Dhriti whinned like a toddler.

"I will get you a new one" Kaashi spoke out with a assuring smile.

"You are the best dad"Dhriti hugged her father affectionately.

"You are spoiling her, I won't be responsible if she ruins her life" Dhaani entered the kitchen.

"You overthink a lot,Dhaani" Kaashi tried to be a bridge between his daughter and wife.

"Already all girls of her age are married.Some are even having babies, if you still that's okay then this girl will never get married like your sister Sarla" Dhaani spoke sharply.

"Don't drag Sarla's name here" Kaashi hissed.

"Why shouldn't I mention your sister. That woman ran on her wedding for her lover and even that romeo ditched her. She after a week,God knows what all she did in that week ,with whom she spent nights..." Dhaani spoke without thinking much.

"Mind your tongue!" Kaashi gave a tight slap on Dhaani's face.

Silence flocked the room. Dhriti looked at her parents in shock,she wasn't expecting Kaashi to slap Dhaani but then Dhriti also knew her mother had crossed limits.

"That day I married you was biggest misfortune of my life. Lord take me up soon or rather I will poison myself" Dhaani sobbed.

"If marriage is such a tragedy why my mother wants me to tie nuptials, hypocrisy at it's best"Dhriti thought to herself.
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"Bro,eat this laddo (sweet)" Satish spoke out sharing his favorite sweet.

"No,I don't like laddo" Krish denied.

"Shaadi ka laddo is necessary" Satish jibbed at Krish.

Shaadi ka laddo as One liner means the person who got married regret doing marriage and those who are willing to get married are also regretting by not doing so.. End result is Regret.The one's who've not married imagines Marriage to be a great thing. But after marriage, feels greatly regretted.

"I need to buy groceries,help me out" Krish spoke out ignoring Satish's hidden satire.

"One bottle of virgin olive oil" Krish spoke out to the grocery shopkeeper.

The bald shop keep scratched his hair ,looked a few racks and then spoke," We don't have it.People don't buy it so we don't keep it in the stock".

"Let's go to another shop" Krish whispered to Satish.

"Bro,you are obsessed with virginity.We should take you to a urologist or a better a Psychiatrist" Satish spoke ridding back home.

"Why do you say so?" Krish laughed.

"You are eating a virgin oil,that's too much bro" Satish spoke worriedly.

Krish laughed hard,"Satish tell me bro what do you think that this virgin oil is?".

"I know...this oil made from a virgin woman..." Satish stuttered, trying hard to think more.

"The word "virgin" indicates that the olives have been pressed to extract the oil; no heat or chemicals have been used during the extraction process, and the oil is pure and unrefined" Krish explained suppressing his laughter.

"It's means same bro,untouched" Satish spoke out not showing his embarrassment.

Krish gave a hard punch on Satish's back in his laughter fit, the latter lost control and both fell of Satish's bike.

The Luna bike grunted and stop to work.

"Today it's your turn to push this bike " Krish spoke removing road pebbles from his elbow.

"No,you made loose my balance.Henceforth you will drag it home" Satish declared.

Satish returned home sweating and huffing.

"Hey what happened?Did you got into accident, my boy. You are bleeding " Nandini cleaned Krish's scrapped bloodied elbow with corner  of her cotton saree ,slowly blowing air to it.

"It's a small cut only,don't act your son got a bullet shot" Krish's father Ravi spoke out with bored expressions.

"Look at the blood, you are acting like he is neighbor's son" Nandini spoke annoyed.

"Probably" Ravi replied shrugging his shoulder.

"What!" Nandini exclaimed.

Krish bursted into laughter," Baba you are original meme maker" he spoke in between his laughter.

"No dinner for both of you tonight" Nandini spoke faking anger.

"Krish order veg briyani" Ravi spoke teasingly.

"Who will pay?" Krish continued the banter.

"You both will pay" Nandini ran after Krish and Ravi,with slipper in one hand.

The house got filled with laughter,jokes and a lot of mischief as both the men kept joking and running around the courtyard of the house followed by a panting  but over enthusiastic Nandini.