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Life Always Pays Back

by Rathin Bhattacharjee
(Kolkata, India)

Nita never spoke anything good about her parents to anyone. When her mother would berate her for all the things she shouldn't have done - her father, an effeminate spectator, stood by and kept quiet!
“All these late night parties, drinking sprees, monkeying with the boys - will change. Take it from me you’ll mend your ways in due course...” she uttered between clenched teeth, rubbing the blood off with the ball of her palm.

In a fit of anger, Nita had flung the steel laddle from the kitchen cabinet at her mother. Luckily, Sneha had removed her head just in time to escape from being hit around the right eye. It’d struck her around the mouth instead.

Nita, not surprisingly either, ran away from home to marry her Prince Charming, Manoj, against her parents' wish.

During their honeymoon in Manali, a mountainous city known for its scenic beauty, Nita got the shock of her life on finding out that the Receptionist, a strikingly attractive lady and Manoj, were childhood friends, engaged once, met frequently. (Jumped off the sentence. Andrew)

“You assh—-, two-faced pimp,” Nita, having lost her cool, started calling him names back in their hotel room. “You must have picked it up from your fuc—g parents.”

Manoj, a hairy, heavy-set man, lifted her up by the throat against the wall before smacking her hard across the face. He coulda killed her that night.

That’s the moment everything changed. Nina, still shaking in her roots, called up her Mom’s words.

That's when a life of unbearable torture began!

The end

THE PROMPT
Write a story in fewer than 250 words. Somewhere in the story use the phrase “the moment everything changed”