So there are three siblings, two sisters and a brother. The elder sister is two years older than the brother, followed by the younger sister, who is one year younger than the brother.
All of them are grown-ups now. There you will have the eldest sister standing in front of the window, looking over at the garden outside. A car had just gone outside and she had waved to the man. Now she is standing, pondering over some moment when a memory came rushing into her mind.
She could see the eight-year-old herself playing with her doll and watching her brother find something from his bag. His notebook had gone missing and he was supposed to finish his homework by the night. She could help him find it, but she can’t because she had just had a fight with him and now they are not supposed to talk to the other antagonist of the fight.
When he finally finds his notebook and gets onto work, he can’t figure out what is 54 + 68 – 21, but he won’t ask her because of the strains. There is a heavy tension in the room where the animosity is traveling through the silence. It is like a dug fortress, and both are waiting for the other to let go. None is actually ready to give up. She thinks that her elderness requires him to surrender and request her for help. He isn’t ready to let go of it, the ego, in any case, and wants her to apologize.
Nothing happened as none of them had thought. She was waiting for the slightest bit of a sorry from him, and he kept reminding himself that as soon as she’d offer help, he would immediately apologize.
The silent tension kept building on a high note until he heard that their eldest cousin had come outside. He could see for himself that help can be found from outside, so he rushes out to him with his notebook and pencil. She is left behind, sensing her agony that had the cousin not come, he was definitely going to ask her for help.
She can remember that feeling very well today. She also remembers how three days later, when their tension was resolved during a trip and they were both eating chocolates, she did not give him her favorite chocolate and he had not asked her for chocolate sharing at all.
Now she is just trying to figure out how things would have turned out differently in their lives if she had got up herself and told him that the answer is 101. If they had been more together in their moments. She remembers how her younger sister told someone that they weren’t really like close siblings, that they could never figure it out themselves who they were to each other. Now she has the answer for her actually.
She wanted to tell her that, “We were bad at looking in each other’s eyes, and that we always hide the good parts.”
