Origins: The Ruby Iyer Diaries (Many Lives Prequel Book 1) by Laxmi Hariharan

Author:Laxmi Hariharan [Hariharan, Laxmi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

This is the street, there are no rules.

I hold up my arm, ready to take guard and then making a fist strike away the hit from my opponent. She is almost five-feet-ten-inches to my just about four-feet height with broad shoulders almost double the width of my narrow fledgling ones. Oh! And she has rather wide knuckles. I know because right now I am taking the brunt of her hits. It hurts! With every thrust of her arm, each of which carries the full weight of her nearly sixty kilograms, my slender forty kilograms of body shakes. But the more she tries to get me, the more adamant I am to hold my own. I just have to don’t I? I can’t back down. I do enough of that at home. Keep my tongue tied while my Ma puts me in my place.

Who wants that dull and boring life they are trying to get me to lead? No, actually it’s not that Ma leads a dull life. Far from it.

It’s more that she’d rather not have me around at all. She regrets I am the one who survived instead of her Krishna. Now, she’s at a loss with what to do with me.

It doesn’t matter really. None of this does.

All that is important is that I hold my own against this big bully of a girl. I may be just fourteen, but already I know that she is only the first of many challenges I have to overcome.

So, I stamp my feet on the ground, anchor myself and defend, though with every hit now I can feel my bones protest. Yet, they hold, they don’t break…Thankfully.

I know I am supposed to just keep practicing my defense, but she is not playing fair. For, with every hit, she continues to put her entire body weight behind it, leaning on it, trying her best to shove me to the floor.

If you get hit, it’s not the end of the world.

Do you know that in jiu jitsu a smaller, weaker person can successfully defend against a bigger, stronger assailant by using proper technique. All you have to do is hold your own ground, and then apply joint-locks and chokeholds to defeat the other person.

I know now, because that’s what I did. Funny how when your back is to the wall new ideas just pop into your head. Like when someone holds a gun to your head, you forget your name, but can suddenly remember that complex, mathematical equation your teacher tried to make you solve in class. I have no idea how prophetic these words are too; for it a few years I’ll have a real gun held to my head. How will I react then?

I can tell she is growing lazy, relaxing into the uncertainty that I am just a skinny girl: a pretty, young thing. I allow myself to slacken my defense, seeing a smile come to her face. Her moves are totally lackadaisical now as if she is only half present in the room with me.

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