Scenario: Aakrith and Vatsal get scolded by their eldest brother Kabir for sneaking out at night
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Aakrith and Vatsal get scolded by their eldest brother Kabir for sneaking out at night
“Vatsal, come on, let’s go.”
I whispered to my brother as I shook him awake.
He groaned and turned his back to me.
“Vatsal, wake up,” I said a little louder.
He turned to face me and whispered, “What are you doing?
It’s the middle of the night.”
“I know,” I said excitedly.
“Come on, get up.”
“Why?” he asked, rubbing his eyes.
“Let’s go explore the haunted house near the lake,” I said.
He shot up in bed and looked at me with wide eyes.
I nodded and he got out of bed quickly.
He was always up for an adventure, especially if it involved ghosts or spirits.
We both tiptoed out of our room and made our way to the front door of the house.
Just as we were about to open it, we heard a voice behind us.
We both turned around to see our eldest brother Kabir standing there with his arms crossed over his chest.
“Um, nothing,” I said with a guilty smile.
Kabir was the authority figure in our family.
He was strict and responsible and he made sure to take care of my brother and me.
He always worried about us and protected us, whether we wanted him to or not.
“Don’t lie to me,” he said.
“Are you two up to something?”
Vatsal and I looked at each other and then back at Kabir.
“We were just going for a walk,” Vatsal said.
Kabir raised his eyebrows.
“I just wanted to see what it’s like outside at night,” I said.
Kabir shook his head and walked over to us.
“You two should know better than that,” he said, putting a hand on each of our shoulders.
“It’s late and it’s not safe for you to be outside.”
We both lowered our heads.
“We’re sorry,” Vatsal said.
“Yeah, sorry,” I agreed.
“Come on, let’s go back to bed,” Kabir said, leading us back to our room.
I was always getting into trouble with Kabir, but it didn’t matter to me.
We were brothers and that was just how it was.
Besides, Vatsal always bailed us out of trouble when Kabir found out we were up to something we weren’t supposed to be doing.
Vatsal and I shared a special bond because we were close in age.
I was the youngest brother and the mischievous one, while Vatsal was the middle brother and the more sensitive one.
He was tall and athletic, but I was short and rebellious.
I loved to do things that would get me into trouble, but I never meant any harm by it.
I just wanted to explore the world around me.
And as much as Kabir tried to keep us safe and protect us from harm, he had three brothers who had minds of their own.
And sometimes it was hard for him to get through to us that what we were doing wasn’t safe or smart.
Kabir was standing there, his arms crossed over his chest, his eyebrows raised.
“What are you two doing?”
he asked in a deep voice.
I stood there silently, unsure of how to respond.
“We were just going out for some fresh air,” Vatsal said.
Kabir looked at me and then back at Vatsal.
“It’s the middle of the night,” he said sternly.
“We couldn’t sleep,” Vatsal said.
“And you thought going outside would help?”
Kabir asked.
He sighed and shook his head.
“Do you two have any idea how much trouble you could get into if you went outside this late at night?”
he asked.
“We’re sorry,” I said.
Kabir looked at us both closely and then said, “You two are supposed to be taking care of your younger brother.”
“I know,” Vatsal said.
“I wasn’t thinking.”
I looked up at Kabir guiltily as he scolded us for trying to sneak out of the house in the middle of the night.
“You both know better than to do something like this,” he said.
“Do you have any idea how worried I was when I came out here and saw that you were both gone?”
he asked.
“We’re sorry,” I said again.
“Don’t apologize to me,” he said.
“Just make sure you think about these things before you do them next time.”
We both nodded silently as he continued to scold us.
Vatsal’s eyes were filled with disappointment as he looked up at our brother.
I could tell he felt guilty for trying to sneak out of the house.
But a small part of me wanted to tell Kabir that we weren’t little kids who needed a constant eye kept on them.
We were young adults who could think for themselves.
I leaned over to Vatsal and whispered in his ear, “We’re not little kids who need someone watching over our shoulder all the time.”
“Shh,” he said.
“We don’t need a babysitter.”I said with a huff.
“Just let it go,” he whispered.
I sighed loudly as Kabir finished scolding us.
“I want you both to go back to bed right now,” Kabir said.
“We will.” I said.
“Good night.” He said.
We both replied in unison before heading back to our room.
I turned around one last time before going inside and saw Kabir standing there looking at me with his arms crossed over his chest again.
I knew he was disappointed in me for trying to sneak out of the house, but a part of me wanted him to understand that we needed our freedom too.
Vatsal and I were still young adults who wanted to experience life on our own terms, without someone always watching over us telling us what not to do.
Vatsal glanced up at him a few times but quickly put his head down after he noticed that he was staring at us.
I could tell by the look on his face that he was not happy with us at all.
And I knew that he had every right to be upset with us for trying to sneak out of the house like we did, but I hated the fact that he was the one who always had to play the role of the strict parent.
As the oldest brother in the family, it was always his responsibility to take charge of things when our parents weren’t around.
But I was sure it wasn’t easy for him to play this role all the time either.
“No more sneaking out of the house,” he said sternly as we walked past him to go inside.
“I don’t care if you’re the middle brother or not.”
I felt a sharp pain in my chest when he said those words to me.
It was true that I was the middle brother in the family, but I never thought of myself as being any less important than Vatsal or Kabir just because I was younger than them.
I tried to shake it off as we headed back inside to go to bed, but I knew it was no use.
Kabir’s voice was still stuck in my head as we went back to our room and closed the door behind us.
And even though I knew he was right about what he said, a part of me still felt guilty about trying to sneak out in the first place.
As we sat down at our desk to go to bed, I thought about what had just happened and how stupid it was for us to try sneaking out of the house like that without anyone knowing about it.
But I also thought about how disappointed Kabir was when he scolded us for doing such a thing too.
He always had such high expectations of us because he knew we were capable of doing anything we set our minds to if we wanted to do it bad enough.
And even though he never said it out loud, I knew he only wanted what was best for us too because he loved us more than anything else in this world.
But sometimes I felt like he was just being too hard on me because he didn’t want me to make the same mistakes he did when he was my age either.
I sighed again and put my head down on my desk as we went to bed.
Even though I was sure Kabir was only trying to protect us from the dangers that lay ahead in the world, a part of me felt like he was always suffocating us with his strictness too.
And even though he was only doing what he thought was best for us, it still made me feel like he was treating us like little kids who didn’t know any better sometimes either.
But then again, maybe he was right when he said that we weren’t little kids who needed someone watching over our shoulder all the time either.
Maybe he was right when he said that we needed to think about these things before we did them next time too.
Maybe that was the reason why he was always so hard on us because he knew that if we didn’t learn how to make the right choices and decisions on our own, then we would only end up making the same mistakes he did when he was our age.