Magical Star Entertainment Company, or MS Entertainment Company. A company that deals with different actors and actresses and media.
However, here the most hard work is to deal with the actors and actresses. They have to have a healthy life. So, there are some rules that need to be followed by them. For example, no alcohol, no drugs, maintain a healthy diet, and exercise. And once in 2 weeks, they all will be treated with whatever they want to eat. However, that Donxi company's president wants to take over our company. After all, he is using his son as bait to get close to my father and me. But never a chance again!
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'Rina…' called father.
'Yes!'
'Today you will go to the company office with me,' said father.
'Me? Okay! But why?'
'What do you mean, why? You have to take over our company! How long do you plan to roam around like an idiot? I gave you the permission to study whatever subject you like. Now, you have to become serious, Rina!'
'What do you mean by that, Papa? I have wanted to become a pilot for a long, long time. I studied hard for it. I am working hard to achieve it. It is my dream. And I will never allow myself to walk past my dream.'
'What do you mean? I worked hard for your family. I worked hard for providing food to your mouths. And after all this, you are disobeying me!'
'Why don't you give your other child or my elder brother, Rachel, the company?'
'Don't even talk about him in front of me, Rina.'
'Why? Only because he was—no, he is gay!'
My father slapped me hard for the first time which broke my heart.
'Hmmpp! Don't even try to talk back to me. Just who do you think you are? Huh! Eating away all our money! Don't you feel shame eating food with our money. Don't you feel ashamed for getting everything you wanted without you telling. Don't even have any capacity to earn! First earn, then talk back to me! Otherwise get out of my house! I don't want any dirty girl like you who wanders around the streets without earning any money. I raised you because I have higher expectations from you. Otherwise, you are just worthless to me. What! Do you also want to end up like your brother? Do you even know how ashamed I felt for your father.'
'Papa, how could you tell me this? Have you ever asked, "How am I doing?" Have you ever asked if I am feeling okay or not? Have you ever asked if I am feeling nervous or tense or not? How much do you know about me? Do you even know what my age is now? Did you even ask whether everything is okay at school? You know... I was bullied. Do you know that? Na! Your only question is how much I got in exams. Did you even understand anything? Or do I have to tell it in other languages? If I somehow fail or get bad marks, then your care for me starts to increase towards me. You tell me that it's okay to fail. I can succeed through failures. However, each time I was failing or couldn't reach your high expectations, you and my mother started to compare me with others. And many more. You know what? I am tired of all this too. If you are saying that our mental issues are nothing but excuses, then what about yours? You always complain about how frustrated you are from your work, and me too. Am I being given food only to hear your issues and problems and bear the side effects of your issues, father? And father, I just wanted to have communication, which you tell as a key to any problem, with you? But, you! Looked like you only see me as a puppet. My brother Rachel, you just tossed him out like a chess piece. If you ever thought of him as your son somewhere at a point, then why society matters more than him, father?'
I went upstairs, took my hourglass, and left the house for good.
'Hey! Where are you going? How dare you defy me?' yelled father.
'How can you tell all of this to your daughter?' asked my mother in anger to father.
'Areh! If I don't, how will she come back to her senses? She should know that being a pilot means nothing at all. Everything goes well if you have power.'
'No! It is her dream. She wanted to become one from when she was just in KG. She was fascinated by the sight of the plane. This was never expected from you.'
'Don't worry, she will surely come back. How can she strive without money and your homemade food?'
12 hours passed... 1 day passed... 3 days passed by, but neither Rina nor I ever went back there.
'What did you do? I told you not to tell these things to her. She didn't even take any money with her or her suitcase for clothes.' My mother cried in pain at losing me.
'I don't care. If she doesn't come back, from today onwards she is not our daughter.'
'Then from today onwards, not your wife. Die alone, you bastard.'
She went back to her maternal grandmother's house. And with this a family breaks apart....
Later in all this pressure, father searched for me. And found out I am still going to school, but I ignored him.
When he asked, 'Where are you living right now? Please, come back for your mother's sake.'
'Huh! Isn't my mother in Grandmother's house?'
'I—'
'Father, remember you once told me something. Think before speaking. Our words are powerful weapons to mentally hurt a person and it even makes everything hard for that person to forget those words. Father, have you read that dialogue given by Portia in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare?
"The tongue is quick to preach, but the heart is slow to practice.
What value has advice if the one who gives it cannot bear its weight?"
How funny, right? After a long time my literature subject chapters are of some use. Don't worry father, I will make sure to give back all the money of yours that I wasted staying in that damsel. Don't approach me or my mother. And oh! Yes! One more thing! I will prove to you how my dream of being a pilot doesn't make me worthless or powerless.
(To be continued)