Chapter 4: Apple Of Their Eyes

After waiting for some time, he saw Rita come to the door with a box in her hand, his mother said something and both entered the room together. They both stopped in front of him.

Mary, who was Rita's instructor was not good at teaching even though she will doll herself using makeup but still lacked her skills. She thought that she could improve her make-up skills by teaching but it was worse than she thought.

Rita is not a good student either, she would not follow Mary every time and does her own things, which was ignored by Mary, after all, they'll be having fun every time.

Rita kept her things in front of the mirror, Mary knew her son wouldn't be able to handle their skills if he's kept looking at the mirror, so she turned the chair opposite to the mirror on which he is sitting.

Mary told her to use certain makeup tools, one by one, Rita made herself busy with the work of her art on poor Stanley. Mary told to stroke the brush lightly from lower to the upper side, but Rita stroked it harder that too from both sides. Mary sighed and looked at her poor son. Mary was satisfied by the work done but Rita was worried as something was missing from her perspective.

She took hold of the dark eyebrow pencil and started darkening his eyebrows, she even used it as an eyeliner as well as kajal.

'Earlier, before using the eyebrow pencil, he was looking ok, far more than ugly but after using it..... poor bro...is looking the ugliest one....' Miya thought and sighed lightly who was peeking through the door all the while

Mary who was looking at her son had an eyebrow raised and looked at Rita who was still busy and she didn't have the heart to stop her so she let a soft sigh which nobody heard

After completing Rita said

"done" as she patted herself on the shoulder

Mary took a photo of her son's face and dragged her out without looking back. Stanley who had closed his eyes quickly opened his eyes feeling no one around him. He turned himself to the mirror and was shocked to see himself, his face was full with heavy unevenly spread makeup, his eyes were so dark as if he had some disease and was not able to recover from that, his eyebrows were much thicker than his usual ones, he looked like some weird and very very ugly witch with a great sense of dressing.

He was shocked to see and couldn't recognise himself just as he was about to say something, he heard a loud laugh from the door.

Stanley turned to see his sister who is laughing like crazy and frowned, he quickly went to the bathroom to wash his face.

When he came out he saw his sister who was still giggling nonstop and threw the towel at her face. She slowly took the towel from her face, moved towards him and slowly rubbed clean the remaining makeup using the makeup remover as the dark eyebrow pencil was waterproof.

Just as she was about to say something, they heard a knock on the door. It was their cousin, Karl.

He came inside and hugged Stanley who too hugged him back. They are close to each other since childhood, when Karl came to know about his cousins return during breakfast at home with his parents, he didn't waste any time and came to meet him.

As soon as Karl and Stanley hugged each other without wasting time Karl fled away saying that he has some work and will meet him later. While coming and going out he tiptoed and saw that Mary and Rita were still in the kitchen, he slowly moved outside and quickly got inside the car which was parked outside the gate so that no one that is in particular two people should not know about his arrival by the source of the sound of his car. As soon as he entered the car and drove off, he left a heavy sigh, as he had successfully escaped from them without any notice.

Stanley was confused, as Karl didn't even stay for five minutes and ran away as if he is trying to escape from something. He looked at his sister who was laughing loudly holding her stomach as Karl went out, She knew something that he didn't. Stanley was enjoying his sister's happiness and also Karl's uneasiness when he was here, He too laughed along with his sister.

When he was about to move away from the room he was stopped by his sister, pulled towards the bed, made him sit on it. She moved towards the shelf and took an album still smiling widely.

She slowly moved towards him and sat beside him keeping the album on his lap and her head on his shoulder. He opened the album and saw some weird funny faces, he was shocked at first and looked at his sister confused

"What, do you know who that is?" she asked

He was so shocked that he didn't find any words to tell her so just nodded after some time. She took the album from him, sat straight and said

"Didn't you recognise who this is? this is dad!"

"What?!!!!!" he was shocked and snatched the album from her

"This... this .....is dad! how come, this is so ugly, as I know he is very particular about his looks, how did he agree to this?"

Miya left a sigh and said

"He had no choice, you know that he won't say no to mom and besides they won't hurt Rita, she's the apple of their eyes"

'Who exactly is this Rita and why does everyone around her behave like an idiot' Stanley thought

Miya continued "you know whenever she's here the atmosphere is very lively, and one-day mom was trying to teach Rita cooking, and dad commented that it was horrible that not even an animal will try to smell it"

Stanley could imagine how horrible the cooking could be but without breaking his sister's words he listened carefully.