The Revenge

It was some years back when I ran into trouble. I was back in my village and the biggest day of the year when they put tikas and receive blessings from their seniors, I had a nasty brawl with a notorious bully of my village. I was never wrong and just couldn’t suppress my anger. He lost his conscious due to our severe beating. Later when he came to normal, he lured me by saying if I apologized to him, he would not case a file which I did. But he did not keep his words.

Looking back at those moments, which was the only time in my life when I really fulfilled by promises. When I was in the sixth standard I went to my village for the very first time. It took us six and a half day to reach home after getting off the bus. In between the journey, a guy mentioned about my father almost being killed by a group of thugs who beat him mercilessly. My father being a high school teacher might not have been that bad to get that beating. Those bullies in my village were the big shots then and they had the village moved according to their wish. At that very moment I promised that when I grow big, I’d fight that dude.

Later when we reached home, I encountered him and my fellow whispered the name of that bully. Back then I was so scared of him that I’d take the other path if we were about to get near. After sometimes I came back and used to think of that guy so much. Just thinking of him would startle me. Many years later, I went back to village, I did not get the opportunity to have a fight with him and I don’t remember, but it was in the Dashain I had my revenge. We don’t celebrate Dashain and the incident took place. After that incident, we all flew off the village and ran refuge in Bhojpur.