59. Short Story : Moving On.
There was water dripping from the tap and he was looking at it for last fifteen minutes. Mother shouts at him, “What are you doing inside for so long”. He has no answer. He cannot tell her that he himself doesn’t know what he is doing inside. He is young, his mother must be thinking that he might be jerking off. Otherwise why would he take so much time inside? He moved towards the bucket which was half full. He had this ritual where he would always empty all bucket water before filling it again with new water in it. May be it was his another technique to take a bath or may be he just needed some alone time. He remembered how when was he was a kid he used to stall getting a bath during winters and never liked it. When he grew up came a time when he wouldn’t start a day without getting water on his body first. His mother started calling him pandit and he hated that. But suddenly something changed in him. He got rude to everyone. He wouldn’t get haircut. He wouldn’t remain clean...