Chapter 20

  The following month, Amilda sat back listening to some music in the living room when her mother angrily walked to her.

"Amilda!" Sumitra called her daughter.

"Yes, Mom," Amilda said.

Sumitra looked at her daughter angrily and pulled her up.

"I know we promised not to ever stop you from doing whatsoever you want," Sumitra said and her daughter nodded.

"Yes, Mom, but why do you look so angry?" Amilda asked and her mother dropped the newspaper that was with her on the table.

"Here read this," Sumitra said.

Amilda took the paper and read it looking at her picture.

"Mother, this is a lie." She said not wanting her mother to believe it.

She felt that it was too early for her mother to know that she was having sex with various men.

Her friend Suomi tried making her stop, but she wouldn't, telling her that it was too late to stop, and this made Suomi distance herself from Amilda.

Amilda hated the fact that Suomi had to distance herself from her, but there was nothing she could do.

Her mother looked at her and shook her head.

"I am sorry for believing what is here. I should never have believed and should have trusted you can never do that." Sumitra said and Amilda smiled.

"I am glad that you believe me. I can never have sex with a married man. My loyalty is to Aayan." Amilda said.

"Aayan!" Her mother called.

"Yes, Mom," Amilda said.

"Aayan has been dead a long time ago," Sumitra said and Amilda stood up.

"I will be leaving to my room." She said and left to her room.

Getting to her room, she locked the door and walked to her bed looking up.

"I have begun to forget about you. I think this is your way of telling me to move on." She said to herself.

She looked up and smiled as she remembered how Aayan touches her.

"I should not go out today as Mother will be suspecting my movements, so I should only go to worship." She said.

She had an idea of calling Suomi so that together they could go to worship but later thought against it as Suomi had distanced herself from her.

She got up from the bed and went to the place where she kept her money. She picked one of the money and kissed it.

"I love this money and will try to get enough before going to school." She said to herself placing the money back into the bag and covered it.

She walked to her bed and laid on it to rest a bit.

After some minutes, she walked to have her birth.

Immediately after taking her birth, she walked to her room to get herself dressed.

Seeing that she was perfectly dressed, Amilda walked to get herself a meal in the kitchen.

"Why are you dressed?" Her mother asked. Immediately, she got to the kitchen.

"Nothing mother. I just feel like dressing myself up for worship now." She said and her mother nodded.

"I would like to follow you to worship." Her mother said and Amilda nodded.

She smiled as she knew that her mother would keep an eye on her because of what she saw on the paper. She wants her mother to be proud of her and counter all that is being said against her.

" Alright, Mom. " She said as she took her meal and ate.

Some hours later, it was time for them to go to worship so Amilda immediately put on her veil while her mother got dressed. They both left the house with Sumitra locking the door.

They walked to the place of worship and worshipped after which they said their prayers.

Amilda used the opportunity to shake hands with a girl, telling her that they could be business partners one day, and the girl smiled, nodding her head.

Amilda smiled as she got up and followed her mother back home.

On their way home, Sumitra looked at her daughter and wondered why she wasn't going to her business.

"Why aren't you going for your business?" She asked and Amilda smiled as she thought of that.

"I am not going now until I am being called, whereas the girl I greeted at the place of worship is a business partner," Amilda said, and her mother smiled.

"Alright, I love that," Sumitra said and Amilda smiled.

Few minutes later, they got home and Amilda phone rang.

She picked it up and immediately disconnected.

"Why did you disconnect the call?" Her mother asked.

"It's a customer who owes me," Amilda said and her mother nodded.

"Alright." She said.

Amilda walked straight to her room and locked the door.

She leaned on the door and placed her phone on her chest.

"That was very close." She said and dialed the number again.

"I won't be coming today as I don't feel fine, and I am too weak to go out." She said.

She smiled immediately after ending the call as she remembered when the man's wife was angry that he slept with other girls. He tied her to a chair that day and gave her some spanking.

" Wicked man." She said to herself smiling.

The money is all she loves and she doesn't care what or how she gets the money.

She got up from the bed and walked out of the room to the living room as she took up her phone. She sat on the couch smiling as she looked into the phone. Her thoughts went straight to Suomi.

"Why should she just move away from me like that?, What I do isn't actually wrong." She said to herself as she folded her hand.

Her mother walked to the living room looking at her and she feared that her mother had heard her speaking with herself.

Her mother sat down on a couch staring into empty space.

" What's wrong, mother? " Amilda asked.

Sumitra looked at her daughter and smiled.

"Nothing much. I am just thinking of the way our society is." She said and Amilda hugged her.

"Everything is fine," Amilda said.

Immediately she made an end to her statement, a knock was heard on the door.

"Oh my, I locked the door," Sumitra said and immediately went to open the door.

She looked at her husband who angrily looked at her and shoved her to a side before entering the house.

Sumitra shockingly looked at her husband and immediately closed the door.

Yash walked to his daughter and slapped her.

Sumitra looked at her husband shocked.

"Why the slap?" She asked her husband holding his hand as he was about to slap Amilda again.

"Do you know what you have caused?" Yash asked making his wife confused.

"No father," Amilda said.

Her father looked at her angrily and shouted.

"You are a whore." He said.

Sumitra looked at her husband and shook her head.

"My daughter isn't a whore." Sumitra said.

"Leave me alone, woman," Yash said and pushed Sumitra away from him, making Sumitra shocked.

Amilda held her mother and looked at her father who brought out a newspaper from his bag.

He turned to a page and showed Amilda.

"She told me that it is a lie, and I can't believe you took it to heart," Sumitra said, and Yash gave her an evil look.

"I have evidence to prove this." He said. "I have been relayed at my workplace, never to come back."

Tears fell off Sumitra's face.

"For a single lie," Sumitra said.

Her husband looked at her and shook his head.

"Woman, I just said that I have evidence which proves that this is right." He said.

Amilda tried going into her room to show that she was angry, but her mother stopped her.

"Let's see the evidence," Sumitra said, and Amilda shook.

Yash brought out his phone and played a video of Amilda prostituting herself. He played another, which left Sumitra dumbfounded.

"Amilda!" Sumitra called looking at her daughter.

Amilda also looked at her mother and smiled.

"That's who I am." She said.

This word got Yash angry and he slapped her.

"How did this start?" Yash asked.

"Since the death of Aayan, if only you had listened to me when I told you about Aayan always getting his way into me, I wouldn't have fallen in love with him, and his death wouldn't have affected me." She said. "I love him and miss his touch so I try getting it from others."

Sumitra touched her daughter's face.

"Amilda!" She called but Amilda ran away.

Sumitra looked at her husband.

"How.., what is going to happen now?" She asked.

"I do not know what you want to know but I don't think I will be employed by any organization as I am the father of an whore." Yash said and Sumitra bowed her head.

"My sister is better than she is." He continued. "She was killed for her actions..."

Sumitra cut in as she got angry.

"Your sister is dead, and she was a murderer, but our daughter who is living isn't a murderer," Sumitra said.

Yash looked at her angrily and slapped her then walked into his room.