Cutting the Cord – A Short Story
Mita to her mother: Mamma, Ronit proposed me – he likes me a lot and I am also very fond of him!
Mother – Who is Ronit? Someone in your college?
Mita – oof no! Ronit, our neighbor, Shikha’s brother.
Mother – Gosh! That scandalous family!? Are you out of your mind! Both his mother and sister are horny harlots of our locality – we have even heard that mother and daughter even share their sex partners!
Mita – They may be just rumors – do you have any proof that they are like that?
Mother – of course, we all saw it happening! Ronit’s mother Shelly was literally beaten in the middle of the road by her best friend because she was having an affair with her husband…
Mita – So that is not her fault! Who asked her husband to come to her?
Mother – Mita, don’t be so naïve! She made herself easily available and majority of loser males will take advantage of it!
Mita – She has a beautiful fit body and the guts to go ahead and have multiple affairs -you or your kind of dull women will not attract any male’s attention …even if you danced naked….
Mother slapped Mita – How dare you say such things to your mother….I had asked you not to mix with Shikha – and now I see she has managed to ruin you completely with her cheap ideals!
Mita – Truth is very bitter mom – I know that….
Mother – Shut up! Shelly took her daughter to clinics to inject her with hormonal injections so that she develops earlier and looks like a woman ….so that she could make her a model and later some actress…..but Shikha’s face is rather ugly – so she never got a chance on screen – off screen, both mother and daughter became escort females! Goodness…why am I having to say all this also! Are you out of your mind that you want to fall in that dark dungeon!?
Mita – How is Ronit to blame in all this? What is his fault?
Mother – Ronit has grown up with cheap females …eventually he will expect you to be as cheap as them – turn you into a sex worker…..and make money…like his father did to his mother! Of course she was a cheap female and that’s why he married her but he started beating her when she asked for expenses and account details – that is the time she decided to kick him out of her life and keep all the money to herself….her husband used to drink and waste the money on himself…..gosh! please Mita – do not ruin your life by getting married in that family! They are wicked, evil and downright cheap! People in the locality laugh behind their back….
Mita – So what! They are enjoying their life – they go for foreign vacations…
Mother – That is not vacation…they are hired as escorts to entertain the pervert pigs…don’t you understand!?
Mita – oh yea! I understand nothing – you understand everything…probably the reason why dad left us – who would want to live with your kind of a dry woman…
Mita’s mother ran towards her to slap her again but this time she caught her hand.
Mita – Don’t you dare raise your hand on me ever again – I am an adult and I will do exactly what I like!
She pushed her mother away much to the shock of Priya (Mita’s mother).
Priya called up her friend and lamented that her daughter had taken after her father – shameless and sex-starved!
Sneha (Priya’s friend) – Priya – she is an adult and you just cannot keep interfering in her life – just let her be!
Priya – I did not call you for your great universal advice – you are lucky that you have a son – they can ‘fill it, shut it, forget it’ – but I am a mother of a daughter – if some di*khead humps her – I will have to run around to get her aborted and then there will be a lifelong trauma…
Sneha – Mita does not belong to our generation……I am sure she will have the brains to use a condom…
Priya – Shut the eff up Sneha – are you even listening to what you are saying!
Sneha – Well…you only started with saying she will get laid and you will have to run around to abort her….I was just helping you to see that maybe you will not have to run around after all…
Priya – Its ok Sneha – I know I should not have bothered calling you – it is my bad karma that I got married to a d*ckhead who left me for his 20-years-younger-to-him secretary and now – like father, like daughter – she wants to eff around available males…..bye..
Sneha – But I….
Priya had already disconnected. Sneha pinged her ‘Take care’.
After two weeks, Priya was waiting for Mita to take her out for dinner. It was Mita’s birthday and Priya had taken a half day’s leave from the bank she was working in.
At 9 pm, Priya called her but the phone kept ringing. At 9:30 Mita’s phone was switched off. Priya got alarmed. She started calling her college friends. No one knew her whereabouts.
She asked her friends if she should report the cops. One of her neighbors was in the Police Force. She took his advice and reported a missing complaint. Usually, the cops start searching after 24 hours but because her neighbor was a higher official, they started to look for her.
Meanwhile Mita was getting drunk and having sex with Rohit at his friend’s farm house. The cops found out and told Priya that she was in a farm house some 20 kms away from city. Much to Priya’s embarrassment, she apologized from the cops and her neighbor for making them look for her at midnight. Mita woke up at 10am and Ronit blasted her because her mother was looking for her at midnight and the cops had called his friend and he felt harassed.
Ronit: if I had known that you are still a minor mamma’s girl, I would never have got you here! What the hell is wrong with that dumb mother of yours? You are 19 years old not 9 – just tell your mother to stop being such an uncouth worrisome bitch!
Mita was seething with anger – her mother was responsible for Ronit’s misbehavior with her.
At 12 noon, Mita reached home and before her mother could say anything – she started screaming at her. Priya got up, took out the birthday cake from the refrigerator, and threw it in the dustbin right in front of her.
Priya : Get out of my house – NOW. I will not tolerate a thankless uncouth bit*h like you in this house – I should have kicked you out along with your father – the nubile bit*h would have made a better mother for you – she would have made you like herself and today, even you would have been enjoying life with some 52 plus years old sugar daddy!
Mita screamed back saying she had anyways decided to leave her for good as her conservative and orthodox ideals tortured her!
Mita packed her bags and left the house to live in a mess. She was working in a call centre already and could pay her rent. She started partying hard and enjoying life to the fullest. After 7 months, she got pregnant and broke the good news to Ronit. Ronit asked her to abort and refused to even go to the clinic with her.
Ronit: You are doing night shifts at the call center – what is the proof that the baby is mine – just eff off ok!
Mita aborted and was heart broken for a day or two….although even she was unsure whether Ronit was the father…because she had a fling with a trainer who had visited their call center just a month ago! She had other males who would readily dive on bed with her. She then seduced the 39 years old Senior Manager, slept with him and got transferred to Mumbai.
Once in Mumbai, she had all the freedom she ever dreamt of! As a side gig, she became a stand-up comedian and most of her jokes were on failed parenthood and how conservative parents can ruin your life completely! Mostly her audience were the porn addict perverts and they loved her because the frustrated losers were actually watching a live female claiming how females want to get laid – anytime, every time but the dumb orthodox parents (mothers especially) ruin all their plans to have fun!
Sneha showed Priya the Instagram account of Mita. Priya heard her make fun of her. All her colleagues knew about the sad life of Priya! They sympathized behind her back – about her debauch husband who left her when Mita was only 9 years old, her thankless sex-starved shameless daughter – for whom Priya and taken loan from the bank so that she could teach her in the convent school – yet Mita severed all relationship with her!
Often Priya would just lie down and wish that Mita had died in her womb so that she would not have wasted her entire life bringing up a thankless, uncouth DNA extension of a debauch male she unfortunately married…..she even cursed her own parents ….for not doing a proper background check before wedding her off to the debauch!
Sneha watched Priya slipping into deep depression! Priya shared her morbid desires to destroy her own life and destroy everything because she was nothing but a failure!
Sneha – Priya! Just stop self abusing yourself! You are Senior Manager in a Multinational Bank – does that mean nothing to you!?
Priya – No…it means nothing! Look at my personal life damn it – complete failure – whoever said that sacrifice is rewarded and all that blah blah – how did my sacrifice reward me? I entire life went in taking care of that shameless and thankless daughter of the debauch – I should have just given her custody to that beep and moved on in life……what a waste of life and time!
Sneha – You could not have done that – and the girl child’s custody comes to the mother after separation! Why can’t you just let it be?!
Priya – I can’t – I need answers – what have I achieved in my life?
Sneha – You are financially independent – you have 30 people reporting to you and you may even be promoted to the senior most position in the bank if you don’t screw up things for yourself because of your personal depression!
Priya – I was working like a donkey to give the best of everything to my daughter – but what did I get in return? She is mocking me in front of everyone – I am nothing but an object of ridicule…..you see my personal life is full of toxic elements….how can money erase that toxicity huh?
Sneha – Disown her – get rid of her….like you divorced your husband – disown her and make it known in your personal groups/ forums about your decision of getting rid of toxic narcissistic personalities from your life! Set an example for the world to see – dare you do that?
Priya was surprised for a moment – Sneha had as if dropped a bomb on her!
Sneha – what happened? You anyways imagine that you had better aborted Mita and not let her see the daylight here on planet earth – why can’t you just disown her? Disowning is nothing as gory as murdering someone – is it?
Priya went completely silent. She started thinking about it seriously.
Two weeks later, Priya got a newspaper clipping that announced disinheritance of all her assets by Mita!
Sneha – Oh My – that was fast! Did you forward this snapshot to Mita?
Priya: No, I am not in touch with her. I have just joined Instagram and making good morning motivational posts – soon I will be dropping this snapshot there – with an article of ‘How to get rid of toxic elements – even if they are your own flesh and blood!
Sneha – Love to see you back in action my dear! I could not see you depressed and sulky all the time!
Priya – Yea! Thanks to you Sneha – for standing by me and showing me my worth! Why the hell should I suffer because of my decent, sober and modest nature – on the contrary, they should suffer who are opportunists, shameless, selfish with zero gratitude!
Someone tagged Mita to her mother’s announcement about discarding toxic elements from ones life. Priya continued writing new articles regarding how one should not tolerate thankless nincompoops and kick them out of their lives at the slightest opportunity! Initially Mita ignored her mother’s Instagram account and articles…….she even made a joke of it in one of her comedy performances – but she did not realize that it would badly boomerang at her!
In couple of weeks, Priya had over 2 million followers and likes…..Priya became a more famous influencer than Mita could ever think of!