1 Her time.

I opened my eyes to see a different ceiling

Thinking " maybe i time travelled " muttering to myself , as i heard my name being called

" jeeeeeee how long will it take for you wakeup it's already 7:30 "

As i was plunged into reality that i didn't time travel but it was just that , we were at my grand mother house at village " I should stop reading so many fairytale story books " i chuckled . As i woke up from bed to wash up it was cold ....i was at my home town at countryside side and here in winters it's freezing cold the temperature was like 15°F .

But anyway's i kept walking to our wash room which was outdoor as in early days we didn't have a wash room / bathroom attached to our household as it was termed unhygienic . So anyway i went out there brushing my teeth and everything while admiring the morning view at our village which is was spectacular as you can see forest full of fog and grasses lane full of dew .

I took my time getting fresh up as i heard my grandmother yell "jee how long is it gonna take for you to fresh up mind you it's not match making you'r attending but your grand father funeral ... tsk , good for nothing coming here once in a blue moon only to disappoint me " . I on other hand remained silent as it was not ther first time grandmother has treated us with hostility whenever father is not around our grand mother act's like she is boss or head of the house hold .

On my way back to main house as the wash room was quite far i met my friend san .Mind you she is a girl despite her masculine name.

She said " i heard you came in town so i rushed to see you as soon as i got the chance , how mean you didn't even bother to send me a message saying you'r going to come i would have brought you you'r favourite noodles " .

" ahh.... i didn't even know we were coming here..yesterday night we arrived here hastily with grandmother yelling upon our arrival how we were irresponsible and didn't care for grandfather as he is no longer with us " i said

" we don't have a car or a good cellphone how does she expect us to know about our grand father demise when she doesn't take appropriate measure to tell us , she is the who delayed telling us prior to our grandfather death " i added with a tear full of eye's as i recalled days i spent with my grandfather although it was hazy but i knew for a fact grand father loved me dearly and now with him gone i was blank.

While chatting with san , i came to a realisation that i am getting late so i hastily waved her a good bye along with her promising she will come to help doing chores at funeral.

Then i walked into our main house ,with my two sibling moping the floor i was shocked and went there saying in an angry voice " why are you two moping the floor don't tell me grandmother is making you work." Then from somewhere corner i heard grandmother sneering and saying " yes it was me who let these two useless to work and you are in no postion of defending them , you out of all who was taking so long grooming herself who do you think is gonna look at a bastard like you " she added .

I was fuming with anger but what can a 10 year old can do . As i said to my siblings to just give their work to me as the water was freezing cold along with weather , I told them to sleep for a bit long as they were a bit under the weather as we came here in such a rush without proper preparation and moving directly from a hotter region to colder will ofcourse lead to illness.

As i began to mop floor i heard some loud footstep and i looked up to see it was my cousin liz she was 2 year's older than me and mind you when i tell she is a total brat.

she sneered at me while saying " aww cousin had i known you were coming i would have done all house chores prior to you'r arrival so you didn't have to work but i was so busy yesterday that i didn't have time". I without giving a slightest intrest in her was moping the floor as i was going to finish soon .No i would have finished it way before hadn't grandmother gave me more room to mop giving me an excuse saying , Many people are gonna come to attend funeral.. you don't want them to mock about how filthy the house of you're dearest grandfather is.

Me not giving liz any attention she stomped out . "Thank god" i thought to myself ws i saw my work finished and i looked at the time it was already 8:30 , i went to wakeup my mother as father is a bussiness man and works out of town all the time so mother along with me and my 2 siblings came to grandfather's funeral . On my way to mother's room wich was at 2nd floor i saw a family picture it was of my father's family , in a big frame there was my grandfather along with grandmother and their 7 children's , i took my time admiring their big family photo as i saw the younger version of my grandfather and father .

Then suddenly a loud bang startled me as i heard ruckus from downfloor.

TO BE CONTINUED.....