Merlyn’s POV


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    “Merlyn, get up fast my Angel, it’s already 8:00A. M. Don’t you have to go to the school?” My mother’s amplified voice resonated the silent walls of my dark bedroom. I slid off my covers in a swift movement and red at her with my eyes getting to slits in steeping annoyance. Last night I worked tillte in the night as I had a project to be submitted. “Mom, why is it always necessary that everybody in the house has to maintain military discipline 24/7 and get up before the clock strikes five in the morning? Why can’t rules be rxed depending on the situation and circumstances?” I stand up from the bed squaring her with my lips formed in a thin line.


    She smiled at me acting innocent and moved to slide the curtains of the window for let the sunlight peep into the room. “Keep those beautiful ring eyes for the man of your dreams and start getting ready for college. For today, your dad will drop you as you are alreadyte.” Those radiating silver and blue optics is the most beautiful feature I inherited from mom. Rolling my eyes at her untimely sense of humour I went to the closet to bring out a face towel. “Mom, the hell wouldn’t burst up if I skip the boring business lecture of Mr Ramon.”


    Her bright features instantly turn glum. “Okay, tell your dad everything you just spoke to me. Actually he was the one who told me to wake you up this early in the morning.” There was a hidden irritation in thest five words of her sentence.”Shit! I messed up even before hitting the target.Listening to the lecture of Mr Ramon is much better than to hear the lessons of dad,my prudence intervenes giving a timely warning. stering a fake smile I turned back and spoke too sweetly to her surprise. “Mom, I will be down within the next ten minutes.”


    “Good, you are a very intelligent girl.” She pats my head but looks at me in an interlocked warning.


    Ten minutester…


    “Merlyn eat your breakfast and don’t you dare to skip it.” My dad beckoned standing a few steps behind while I was trying to escape the distasteful pudding.Fuck! Why has this day started so difficult for me?I gulped my breakfast at my dad’s orders within 5 minutes and was all set sitting in the car waiting for him toe and drop me in the college.


    I am really frightened of dad at times though all of us love and respect him for things he does to us. We are a middle ss family but my parents never let us run short of anything in life. My dad works as a manager in a private bank and my mom is a home manager. I have a younger brother who is still in his schooling.


    Hey… Hey… my friend Anshi jumped beside me and smacked my back “Are youte to the school again?” I shake my head looking morosely towards her. “I got upte and invoked the irritating attitude of my mom followed by the threats of dad for trying to skip breakfast.” Anshi looks at me with her best pitiful looks and suddenly bursts to augh. “I am sorry, I couldn’t control myself.” She squirms a little in trying to escape my hits. “There is no soul yet born in the world to remedy you, Merlyn James.” I look at her prating my fake anger and she smacks my arm yfully. “The science professor Mr David was asking for you today morning when he came to our ss on rounds.”Oh my! What better exnation can I give him now?


    “Anshi, I can’t find my exercise ss work for my first year. I think I misced it somewhere. Mr David had been asking me for it since our college re-started after the winter vacation but regretfully I have no idea where I kept the book.” Anshi holds her jaw open and smacks her mouth with the palm of her hand. “That old man is dangerous. He is for sure going to have your brains for his next meal. He already looked impatient searching for you in the ss a while ago.” Anshi tells me in a forewarning and I was on the verge of having my first panic attack.


    Throughout my education I worked hard and topped my college getting distinction marks in all my subjects. So generally all my professors insist on my ss works for theirter reference. I had been a student of St Xavier’s college, one of the best colleges in Newyork for science stream since my 11th ss. Now I am in my second year of graduation. Like any teenager, I have big dreams. I want toplete my post graduation in physiotherapy to be a physiotherapist and one day make my parents proud of myself.