#MeToo Staying away from home, late night travels during holidays have become usual and it didn't take much time to get used to it. Calls from mom while boarding the bus and then a call from me(after the person who is going to sit beside me for next 13 to 14 hours boards the bus) to inform her that its a decent person. Now,this night an uncle boards the bus and turns out that he is going to be the one sitting beside me and i tell mom that its an uncle who even asked the conductor for a water bottle on behalf of me while asking one for himself. She sleeps with relief at home and i adjust my seat at night and sleep like a baby( because ,you know, a “fatherly figure” is sitting just next to you ,what could possibly go wrong) until i feel a hand sliding under my waist. Before doing something aggressive out of impulse i look at his face and he seems sound asleep and i reassure the impulsive me that it is just an accident and is NOT intentional, i mean, it can't be (because you know “fatherly figure”). So i try to adjust myself a little away from the aisle seat and stick more towards the window seat and try going back to sleep. but i can't. All my head is thinking about is that what if i feel the hand again? what do i do? slap him?(no, that will be way too disrespectful) may be avoid him? or,may be i can shout at him and the whole bus is going to wake up and probably going to throw him out of the bus( because 'intolerance'). But what if the uncle is innocent and it is just an accident , may be when he sleeps he can't keep track of where his hand goes or slips for that matter(i know it sounds funny but i had to give the benefit of doubt to him because you know “fatherly figure”). He is gonna get thrown out of the bus because an impulsive girl without giving a second thought shouted at him for doing something which wasn't even intended by him. With all these thought i decided not to shout and tried going to sleep again, guess what, there it was again. Again i moved a little so that he gets aware of the fact that his hand is crossing it's line(literally). I mean, i tried to figure it out that hows it possible for a hand to slip all the way from an aisle seat towards the window seat and also not on the arm-rest but under other passenger's body for god's sake. In all this dilemma i tried to ignore it for next two to three times. As soon as i felt it, i moved myself and the hand would go back to it's place. i couldn't sleep for the whole night because, since the man couldn't keep track of his hands, i had to. After sometime the whole thing stopped and that made me feel like i could now go back to sleep and because i got motion sick this time(of all times) i was so drained out that i fell asleep. This time his hand had got enough time to slip under my wrist(which i intentionally placed as a barricade)to all the way under my waist again and as soon as i woke up i could feel his hands were still moving and were going further(as if it was some sloped surface). This time i pulled his hand out and threw it at him and said something angrily. It wasn't loud enough to wake everyone up but was loud enough for him to keep his hand where it belonged.and this little one-to-one interaction put an end to it. #MeToo -AY