I stumbled upon a book called 'A Loan Of Five Rupees' by
The book was the most simple and sweet love story I've read so far <3 I throughly enjoyed reading it ^_^ If you want to refresh yourself with a simple love story then do check out her book.
P.s the picture in the media is actually a rabbit made by my second daughter on wattpad @Felicity014

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"Nathalia" I felt someone sit beside me. I didn't turn around to face the person next to me.

"Don't worry I won't judge you. I am special after all; I know how it feels when someone judges you. People judge me all the time. It used to get hurt at first but then I don't feel anything. What I came here to say is not to make you stop crying but to let you cry as much as you can."

I looked at Nivea through tear stained eyes to see if she was joking with me but she snatched the handkerchief in my hands.

"Crying does not mean you are weak, it proves that one has strong feelings. You are a very strong girl but sometimes crying makes one feel better about themselves. All your bottled up feelings come out but then there will be a point in your life when you muster up so much courage you just don't cry anymore."

I waited for Nivea to continue but she just gave me her signature blank look but then a tiny part of her lips lifted up to form a crooked smile.

"Sorry if you are expecting a hug because I don't do hugs. I can only talk to you because I am good at talking."

I managed to laugh at Nivea's comment. She seemed like a really nice person who gets misunderstood by people soon.

"If you ever feel the need to talk then don't come to me because I never allow anyone to talk. Talking is my profession so anyone who is next to me can only listen but not reply as I don't give the other person an opportunity to open their mouth."

Nivea kept rambling but immediately shut up when Ankit shoved a lollypop in her mouth.

"I know you are feeling down and all but please go back inside. You haven't met your dad yet."

What was this idiot blabbering?

"You met uncle Nitesh. Uncle Shahid was inside his room when you rang the door bell." Nivea spoke while sucking the lollypop in her mouth.

Wait wait wait, so there was a look alike of my dad?

"Come on hurry up." Ankit pulled me up so I followed him inside the house.

A house, whose owner had shut the door on my face.

When I entered inside I was met with a grinning Rajiv, confused Lee and a sad Bobby.

Why the mixed reactions by these people?

"Where is my niece?" the person who had shut the door on my face walked into the hall, he was poking his walking stalk everywhere while making his way over to me.

"She is here Papa." Ankit pushed me to my new uncle who threw his walking stick on the ground then caught me in his arms.

He began to run his fingers over my face. It seemed like he was trying to scan my features but he stopped moving his fingers above my eyes.

"I wish so badly that I could see you. I have to bend down to pat you so that means you are really tiny. Why couldn't you get a good height like your old man aye? He is 6'6 and you are like only 5'5."

I chuckled when he bent down to lay emphasis about my height.

"I just hope you haven't inherited any trait from your mother. No offence to any ladies out there but that woman has damaged my nerve cells but your dad keeps saying that she is a nice woman who is misguided. Misguided my arse! My brother is the most stupid man on this planet if you ask me."

Before I could respond we felt another presence in the room.

"Ulla da patha, kisko mere bare mein baat... GUDDU?!"

"PAPA"

I couldn't run into his arms because uncle had tightly wrapped his arms around me.

"I just met my niece for the first time. I am not going to let her go anytime soon. She is your seed; you waited for a few years so a few more minutes won't do you any harm." Uncle spoke while trying to drag me back.

"Somebody please pinch me." papa was intently looking in my direction like he couldn't believe it was me.

"OUWH!" he screamed in pain when Nivea pinched him while sucking a lollypop.

"You are not hallucinating. The girl before you is indeed a full grown tree from the seed that you had implanted in another lady's vagina. Nathalia is not a product of your imagination, she is actually here. You feel that your eyes are playing tricks; your mind is not fucking you up but I think the pinch you needed has made it clear." Nivea rambled while papa gave scowled at her.

"Ha ha I love this kiddo so much. She always makes my day with her ramblings." My uncle had loosened his grip on me so I managed to run away from his arms to run into the arms of the person who used to be my hero.

There was deadly silence in the room with an occasional sobbing noise from me. I felt my shoulders getting wet; I looked up-to see papa's eyes red with tears. He gently cradled my face in his hands. My cheeks were puffy but I was so happy to feel the warmth of his hands around me.

I never needed a knight in shining armor. All I wanted was to feel at home and right now in my papa's arms, I was finally at home.

"You...you are really here. Tell me I'm not dreaming." He hugged me tightly again.

I was actually here, right in his arms. Everything had faded into the background. I had become a little girl again who was craving for the love and affection that I always wanted, NEEDED but was denied of it. Everything is finally alright. I won the race of life to the edge of happiness.

"How dare you both leave me out of it?" My uncle threw his arms around us then one by one Ankit, Rajiv, lee and bobby surrounded us with their hugs.

"You can also join us kiddo," Uncle spoke while trying to feel the presence of Nivea.

"Join us kiddo. Join us kiddo. Join us kiddo."

There was a fluttering noise followed by the presence of a parrot inside the room.

The parrot landed on Nivea's head. It tilted his head and began analyzing everything.

"New humans, New humans, New humans." The parrot spoke out three times.

"I was happy to embrace the golden silence in the room but greenery had to interrupt it with its annoying parroting habits." Ankit pulled away from the hug while trying to catch hold of the parrot that began to flap his wings above Ankit.

"You idiot, You idiot, You idiot."

"SHUT UP."

"Shut up, shut up, shut up."

"Greenery, behave!" Nivea clapped once and her parrot immediately flapped its way back to her.

"Today is a wonderful day. You finally got your daughter and tomorrow is Holi; Double celebration time in Aashinaya!" Uncle tried to hoot but his walking stick hit lee on the butt so he yelped while falling to the ground that made hammy lose his balance. Hammy was about to fall down but Nivea caught my baby on time.

"Dost, Dost, Dost. Mere naya janwar dost" (friend, friend friend. My new animal friend)

Greenery pecked on Hammy's nose as a sign of friendship but hammy fumed out because of the harsh impact of greenery's beak on his nose.

"Everyone calm down." Rajiv yelled out but he got elbowed by Ankit who fell down again.

I was clutching my dad who tried to push me away from my uncle who was shoving his stick in the air. Hammy was trying to tackle greenery to the ground while Nivea fell on Lee's groin.

"I AM PREGNANT" Bobby yelled. She successfully made the chaos to stop.

"Mein papa banne wala hoon?" (I am going to be a dad?) Lee asked Bobby in a horrific expression.

The chaos began again for an hour or so till all of our energy had been drained out.

No one disturbed me and my dad inside our room where we tried to catch up with our past. He asked about Zara, Farah and about his new grandson Hammy and my new friends. Never did he once ask about my mom. Though I was itching to ask him about everything I didn't open my mouth to ruin our peaceful moment.

"Are you both inside? Never mind, this is my house so I won't bother about asking permission." Nitesh Uncle pushed upon the door and made his way onto my dad lap.

"Get your body away from my butt." Nitesh uncle tried to shoo my dad who slapped him on his head while sitting on a new chair.

"Cut to the chase already ok? Why don't you tell your child about what happened all those years ago? God knows when the woman will get back to us for your daughter so tell her everything."

My dad looked at me then at his brother. He opened and closed his mouth again and again but no words fished out. He looked very apprehensive so I got up and shut the door of our room.

"Please tell me when you are ready." I clutched his hands tightly but his hold on me had loosened.

"Ca.. Can you tell her everything Nitesh? I don't have it in me to reply the incidents."

Nitesh uncle let out a huge breath of air. He murmured a prayer then motioned for me to move closer to him.

"Your dad here never knew about my existence. I knew about your dad but had never met him until three years later after you came into this world.

Shahid got switched at birth so it took me a long time to trace him down. The people who had taken in Shahid were kind enough to inform me that they took care of my brother when they found him on the streets. The people who had bought him from the hospital had thrown him out when they got a child of their own."

My hands were fisted at my sides. How can people be so cruel? Papa faced so much in his early life. I didn't know anything about his past. All he told me was that he had struggled hard to reach where he was now.

"Shahid was working four part time jobs because he wanted to repay back to the people who had given him so much. Your dad felt that he was in dept to the people who had saved him. One of his jobs was as a waiter at a bar and that's when he met Kria."

I could already guess where this was heading too.

"She was infatuated so much with your dad. She tried to make so many moves on him but she failed to mark him. Your dad is a one man woman person but she didn't seem to understand that.

She somehow managed to woo your dad and got married to him.

She... she..."

Nitesh uncle clutched his head between his head. He looked so broken, so much torn. What had my mother done?

Dad saw that his brother couldn't finish the story so he began to tell me everything without looking at me in the eye.

"I thought I was married to your mother but she only wanted to sleep with me so she had a fake marriage with me. You were never in her plan but I had convinced her to keep me in her life so that we can be a family and start new.

I tried to convince Kria to get married to me but she didn't budge. She wanted to abort you but I didn't let that happen. I thought that everything will be fine between us, I wanted to make things work between us but that's where I went wrong. Kria
wanted me out of her life, she was ashamed of me, said I was equal to a speck of dust under her foot who just got lucky with her.

Kria began going out with other men but I ignored everything. You were going to turn 5, I was so happy that we had somehow managed to make it through for five years but a day before your birthday your mom asked me to leave.

She tried to harm me with the things around her. She threatened me that she will call up people and say that I kept raping her for so many years, she almost picked up the phone but I swatted it down so she hit me. Blow after blow till I lost consciousness.

I found myself in the hospital next day with Nitesh who wanted to rip Kria's throat but we couldn't do anything. Your mom had sent me a note saying that if I had ever tried coming between you both she would call the police and lodge a fake complaint that I abused her, made her stay with me by force.

I was scared. I didn't know what to do to protect myself but I knew your mother wouldn't do anything to harm you as you were already under the eyes of the media. No one knew me. I was her dirty little secret. She was a perfect single mother in the eyes of the world so she happily enjoyed the light showered upon her.

For years I kept trying to get in touch with you, I tried to talk to Kria but she threatened to harm me and Nitesh. I lost hope that I could ever get in touch with you."

By now a lonely tear had managed to fall out of my eyes followed by so many more tears that blurred my vision.

Can any person ever be so cruel? I wish that no one ever undergoes that would scar them for life. I knew my mother was evil but after hearing this I don't think I ever knew anything about my mother. What was her problem with me dad? He was ready to stay by her side for God's sake.

Though my eyes were blurry I managed to see my dad wiping his eyes claiming that specs of dust were the cause of his eye irritation.

"Your dad is not a superhero. He is one coward who ran away. I'm sorry that I couldn't be there for you."

I went and hugged him tightly. What was his fault here? I don't know much time has passed by but I managed to fall asleep while half limping on my dad.

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I let out a big yawn then jumped out of the bed when I came face to face with a pair of brown eyes staring at me.

"Nitesh Uncle had asked to me to look after you when you fell asleep 4 hours, 35 minutes and 10 seconds ago so here I am, laying on the bed right next to you looking after you. Don't worry you can go back to sleep. I will see to it that you don't disappear out of my sight. You will be right under my eyes until I am asked to stop looking after you." Nivea rambled when she saw me peeking at her from the corner of the bed.

"Good morning, good morning, good morning." Greenery flew over Nivea till it landed over my fingers.

"Greenery is female."

"I am a female. I am a female. She, woman, female." Greenery parroted that made me chuckle.

"Greenery is looking after me, who is looking after you while you are looking at him. Isn't this an interesting loop?"

"Rise and shine maladies. It's shopping time!" Lee barged into the room followed by Rajiv and bobby.

I didn't wash my face, there were crinkles all over my saree and there were sleep marks all over my hands yet I was dragged out of the house by these three hyper energetic bunnies who had managed to drag Nivea and Ankit along.

"Girls go to your left, we boy will go to the right." Lee took Ankit in a head lock while Rajiv followed them quietly.

"Let's buy more of dry colors and less of water balloons for tomorrow." Bobby lopped his arm while we mindlessly walked to the street.

Everyone was giving us weird looks. Nivea chuckled when she noticed the horrific expression on my face.

How the hell were we going to cross the damn road? There were so many vehicles that were zooming past us. We were going to die.

"Watch it you dimwit," Bobby yelled at the biker who increased his speed rather than slowing down upon noticing us trying to cross the roads.

After 10 agonizing minutes, we had managed to cross the roads safely.

I was alive! I made an achievement of crossing the road! I Should have snapped this moment.

We bought various dry colors and a handful of water balloons. Bobby sneakily bought a few permanent colors.

"Ai chori ati kya khandala." A rowdy looking man laughed in our direction. I felt really uncomfortable under their gaze.

Nivea asked us to ignore those people and move on. Bobby was raising her fist but I calmed her down.

"Tu toh badi mast item hai. Angrez hai kya?" a guy sneered a comment on me which I couldn't understand mush but I knew it wasn't something good.

The shop keeper motioned for us to leave soon. We turned again but was held back when Nivea stopped us; there was a dude standing behind us with a lazy grin on his face.

"How dare you? KUTTA KAMINA INSAN." Nivea launched herself on the man who circled around her and managed to pinch her ass.

Another guy joined him and tried to cup her breast but he was knocked to the ground by a punch thrown in by Bobby.

The other two men were angrily approaching Nivea and bobby so I ran to the shop keeper who handed me a thali filled with red powder.

I threw the powder in the eyes of the men which made them let out a girly scream.

"Haye mirchi." The chili powder had managed to burn their eyes.

"Besharam, ladki ko chedta hai." The shop keeper came out with a stick and hit the other two men on the head.

A munchkin boy folded his hands and dragged his half limping backs to the jeep.

Bobby took out her chappal and threw it at their retreating figure.

"Are you all alright?" I looked-up-to the shop keeper and gave him a grateful smile.

At-least there were some nice people out there who don't just sit and watch the commotion happening.

"Shukriya." We thanked him again for his help while making our way back to the house.

Bobby didn't show any expression even-though her left foot had become sore from walking barefoot in the hot sun on a stony path.

"What happened to you three?" Rajiv bent down to inspect Bobby's foot while Ankit hurriedly got a first aid kid while Lee was trying to kiss bobby's feet to make her feel better.

Bobby jabbed her toe right into Lee's nose so he backed away from her while giving her a glare.

"Hello, honey."

A voice that I could never forget spoke up from the open door way of the house.

A lady in a white shirt cuffed till her elbows with a jacket resting on the side of her shoulder and a black pencil skirt stood before me with a synthetic sweet smile.

Everything froze in that moment.

The person who I was running away from was here.

My mom was here...

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HELLO XD I want to ask you all something so scroll down to my question if you don't want to read the top part of my ramble: p

Was the chapter short? Did I rush things?

Next part is the climax followed by the finale. I can finish this book by December but I want to make the last two chapters perfect so please bear with me if I don't update it soon.

I can't believe this book is nearly ending. I am excited to start Nivea's book.

There's a 50:50 chance that Nivea's story will be the last story of mine on wattpad.

I need a few suggestions ^_^ Nivea's book will be like a diary of some sort. Nivea is going to talk about all dirty secrets, strip the mentality of the people, shame a few things, discover and explore the people around her etc... The book will probably end when Nivea reaches her destination. Running away is a novella with a few issues in brief (if you were able to identify the things I wanted to point out) Nivea's book is going to throw light on a lot of things.

(It will be a short book only) I will post the blurb immediately after this book is marked complete.

SHIT! I JUST NOTICED SOMETHIG *GASPS*

The name of the heroine in SLBAIS was Natasha, for MBFIW its Nikita, for Running away its Nathalia and for the next new project it's Nivea.

Everyone's name starts with 'N' and they all own pets xD Ahahahaha unintentional jinx *pats myself*

The next two chapters are going to be shorter than the usual chapters :) I just hope you guys don't hate me when I post the next chapter *runs into hiding*

What do you think is going to happen? Has Kria come to India just to celebrate Holi? Is Nathalia going to run away ?

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