A Short Story - Part Fourtyseven

Sekhar was very happy... the fear of having to report to principal and to have to get his parents to meet him again, had infact stopped his crying.. he was jumping on cloud nine when the school staff had asked Raghu to take away Sekhar back to home.. 


It then that it struck to Sekhar, on the way, that Raghu had infact slapped him in front of his school mates to stop him from hitting.. He definitely wanted to share this with his mom..


Back at home, the school buses had left quite a while back, but Sekhar had not yet come home.. So Kokila was bit tensed.. She came down to the road and was waiting for Sekhar to come... It was then that she saw Raghu and Sekhar coming together and Sekhar with blood stains on his white uniform shirt.. Upon seeing Kokila, Sekhar began to weep...