Creative Writing: Nursing Home

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Yeah, so life hated me. Don't worry, the feeling was mutual. Having a wet butt was apparently not as significant of an issue as a slap. "You do not slap guests!" Lola snapped. "He made me wet!" I said defensively, not caring how awful it sounded. After Aryan sprayed me with water, I had no other choice than release my anger. By slapping him, of course. The unfortunate aspect was Lola catching me at the moment. No one really got a chance to react except for the murderous glare Aryan threw at me before getting rushed out of the building by Lola. Aryan, Arnav, and Krishna were escorted to the small house across the street where they were staying. Since the roads were narrow, the distance between their small lodge and the nursing home was …show more content…

"I didn't," I said. "But you slapped him, Chahna. Now, you're in charge of getting this entire place cleaned up. If you fail, I won't let you to see Mr. Chawla before you go tonight." Lola's firm look told me she wasn't kidding. How could she deprive me of meeting my own family?! Well, not my own but close enough. Lola left to prepare dinner while me and Rohini exchanged remorseful expressions. We didn't think this through. I looked super weird with a towel wrapped around my lower body as if I was hiding a period accident not a water gun one. I wonder which one is worse. Having no time to ponder over that, we began the clean up. Exhausted from the exercise, the oldies didn't care enough to help out. My friend and I tidied the floors while playing antakshari (singing game). Popping all the windows open, I allowed cool ventilation inside the small building. "The guys were good-looking," Rohini said randomly. "Until you you saw their character," I said dryly. I bent down and looked under the sofa for the traces of popped balloons. Finding some yellow ones, I plopped them in our bucket. Rohini was moping the wooden floor. "Maybe you're judging too quickly," she …show more content…

"It's obvious how they're . . . typical, obnoxious guys. Wimps, specifically. We're supposed to take care of the oldies. They didn't care. They failed initiation. Aaya bada Captain Aryan (he thinks he's all. Calling himself Captain Aryan)." Rohini chuckled. "He was something," she agreed. "Let's see what his true nature is in the next few weeks." I wasn't really looking forward to that. Nevertheless, we resumed our game, singing continuously in our not-at-all melodious voices. Almost towards the end of our cleaning, Lola entered and seemed impressed, once her checking was completed. "Good job, girls. Now, was that too hard?" Yes, it was. "Go clean yourselves for dinner." Lola smiled. Though Lola wasn't always strict on us, whenever guests were involved, she morphed into this evil-witch type warden. We gave her a thumbs up and flexed our sore muscles. The dinner was a silent event because I spent hardly two minutes hogging up the food. The "guests" were supposed to be coming over. I dropped by Mr. Chawla's room before heading out. Because he was fast asleep, I didn't disturb him and rushed out of the old-age home. In my haste, I didn't realize people were also entering while I was leaving. I kind of got squished in the doorway with another

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