Chapter 1

This story starts when I was 18+ years old. There are three members in my life, I, my dad, and my mom. We were well-to-do, with dad having his own business in partnership with two of his friends.

Everything was going well, but suddenly one of his partners died due to a heart attack. A week after his death my dad, Ramesh’s other partner backstabbed him and threw him out of the business, and took over the entire business.

My dad got depressed. He tried to look for a job, but since he was 45, and he didn’t want to do menial jobs, he could not find any suitable job. Since he had his own business earlier and was the owner, he wanted a somewhat similar position which he wasn’t getting. He didn’t have enough savings to start his own business.

We sold our house and moved to a smaller 1 BHK. I used to sleep in the hall with mom and dad taking the bedroom. We had enough money now. But my dad’s depression increased. Even to start a new business, he became hesitant. All this led to alcohol abuse.

He started drinking daily. By this time, I got admission in an engineering college.

My dad started getting angry towards my mom, whenever she tried to advise him to give up alcohol. With dad not earning, my college fees and his alcohol drinking started to make a dent in our savings.

Then, my mom started going to work. She had done fashion designing, but that was 21 years ago when she was 21 years old.

She knew tailoring and joined a textile company as a tailor. Dad’s alcoholism increased so did his anger. He had started arguing with my mom over silly things and shouted at me as well.

One day, I was studying in the hall. Dad came home drunk and sat opposite me.