"I was on scholarship Tyndall. If I drop my per time jobs ,how will you two go through school without dropping out. I don't want that" she said rapidly.
Somaria smiled. "See, there are lot of things we can do to support. School isn't that cumbersome that we can't get a per time job and moreover they offer student loan in our school without interest. That alone will do".
Melissa's brow twisted. "I don't want you to get a job that will affect your studies" she said palely.
"That would never happen!" Tyndall exclaimed.
"Ok I will reduce my per time job to three......."
"One" Tyndall interrupted.
"I can't do one. How will we survive. I still have to pay......"
Somaria raised a hand that silenced her unknowingly. "Let's share the duty" she suggested.
"Duty for what?" Melissa grimaced.
"Melissa, let me finish talking before you interrupte please" she said waiting for her acknowledgement. Then she continued when Melissa nodded reluctantly.
"Tyndall and I can get a student loan which will be easier for us to pay and we will use our income to settle that while you use your money for food and other bills. By so doing you will be able to save up for yourself" Somaria explained.
As she talked Melissa shook her head continuously.
"I don't think I want to agree with that" She said cussedly.
"Big sis I don't think there's anything too hard in what she said" Tyndall protested.
"You two think it's easy to get a job that pays well enough for you to be able to cover that loan? Not that only. Those so called bosses do kick someone out of the job without a second thought. To get a job is not only the issue but to sustain it" she preached.
"Before we ever thought of putting this in front of you, we contemplated on it very well and we've made sure we are going to be fine" Somaria assured her.
Melissa shook her head stubbornly. "I can't just accept because you two said it will be fine".
The ladies sighed heavily. They know that the lady they are dealing with is as stubborn as the rock but they themselves has equal stubbornness to counter it.
"Big sis, don't make us into selfish clowns" Tyndall snapped.
Melissa frowned.
"I'm sorry" she apologized.
"To put your mind at rest, we've gotten a good job that won't only pay our student loan as directed but also leave us with extra cash" Somaria boasted.
Melissa looked at them in disbelieve. She thought they were trying to cajole her into accepting.
"She's saying the truth" Tyndall asserted softly.
"So you went ahead to search for a job when u squarely forbbid you not to?"
She was almost bawling at them.
"You are barely in your early twenties, we couldn't allow you to work yourself into looking fifty age twenty. If you die won't we live? But we don't want your death Melissa, we love you too much than to loose you. Come to think of it, I'm twenty, Tyndall is eighteen and you are not so older. You also need your youthful life to explore too. Don't behave as if you are a hundred years older".
By the time she was through speaking, she was screaming and tears was rushing to her very blue eyes.
The girls never talked back to her not to talk of screaming. With that she knew she lost the battle. She was dumbfounded that she didn't know what to do. She was in between the dilemma of anger and love. She never knew that her sisters cared so much about her wellbeing. She has was giving them everything so that they won't complain but they still took time to think of her too.
"I'm sorry" Somaria said when she saw the sad look on her sister.
Now Melissa's anger shifted to herself. She felt so selfish for not taking their advice. She felt like a tyrant by not allowing them to help. She felt like she kept them imprisoned.
Melissa pulled her sisters closer.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know you care so much" she was sniffing trying to avoid the stubborn tears.
"You know we do love you than anything in the world" Tyndall said amdist tears.
They cried for sometime and after, they looked at each other smiling.
Melissa cleared her throat. "So where's this job?" She asked smiling.
Tyndall bolted with excitement.
"You have to guess that" she jubilates.
She has been dying to tell her sister about their new job and all that surrounds it. Somaria who knew her plan eyed her for her uncalled for excitement.
Melissa laughed. "You know I suck at guessing. Just tell me".
Tyndall shook her head. " It won't be interesting " she laughed.
"I don't see the reason for this unnecessary frivolity now. Job is job" she hissed.
"I think there's something interesting behind this job. Isn't it?" Melissa asked grinning herself.