8 months after I changed schools, my family was visiting my home town. The prestigious boys school I attended earlier situated there. Also my Grand parents and uncle Devinda , lived there.
You would think, why does it took whole 8 months to visit my old home town. But mind you , it was 418 kilometers away from where we live now.
Uncle Devinda , youngest brother of my mom, was only 12 years older than me. He gave more of an older brother aura rather than an uncle .
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I've heard he has a girlfriend , but seems like no plan to settle down yet.
He had this group of friends, formed as an organization and time to time actively get involved in crazy projects like cleaning beaches , protecting wild elephants and adopting stray dogs.. Yep, despite being a music teacher in a leading school he lived a life in his own terms.
Yet he was my mom's darling little brother .
But I don't think uncle Devinda and my father were in very good terms.
My father always considered his friends are a wierd lot and thought uncle Dev is a man without a goal or a proper future . He always kind of looked down on uncle Dev. Uncle Dev too kept his distance from my father .
In that evening , my father was having a conversation , more like a world political analysis with my grandpa with CNN news on tv as background noise .
I was idly lying down sofa playing a video game .
Uncle Dev came from his room cladded in a tracksuit.
" Ayya, I'm going for jogging, and will take Shane with me" he said to my father .
" ok, but where do you go ? To the playground down the street ??". my father asked .
" nope . To the jogging track near the lake. It's only 20 minutes drive "
" hmm.. Alright ". Father agreed .
I was still lying on the sofa.
" Shane, Come with me". Said uncle Dev.
"Nah. I'm good . You should go". I said , being bit too lazy.
" come on dude. It's a fine evening "
Indeed, It's a fine evening to reach next level in my video game. " nah. I will stay here"
" Shane, come with me" uncle Dev' s tone was bit demanding . And his eyes had this expression I couldn't decipher .
Still reluctantly I got up from the sofa. His shoulders visibly relaxed .
" I"ll get you a pizza" he said smiling ..
While he was driving , we talked casually about school and stuff. But I found something off. Why he demanded me to join him today.
He had never forced me to do anything before, if I said 'no' once.
