DEVIKA PART 2

thanks buddies, to all of u who read THE FIRST PART and praised it in spite of its incompleteness...before you go further and read this final part of it, would like to clarify 

THAT THIS STORY IS ALL ABOUT THAT...BEING HONEST...

I HAVE TRIED TO RAISE FEW QUESTION THROUGH IT, IT IS NOT MEANT FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES....

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As they sat in car, Aakash, trying in vain to resist his teasing advances, placed a quick kiss on Devika’s cheek before starting the engine. Though it aroused Devika’s pulse and her heart leapt, she looked at him as if a toddler with severe burns looks at someone trying to tend him.

Aakash was shaken but he suddenly felt he loved her more than before. She didn’t need saying anything as he wanted to cherish her. There was something in her eyes as if they are only meant to keep a promise but the look scared him at that time.

As both of them were engrossed in these thoughts, a sudden blast of horn behind made him turn on the engine and they soon drove off heading towards their favourite restaurant, both of them embracing a silence with heavy heart. Devika’s mind was running back, every time she had thought she had found a rainbow, she had committed a mistake. Had she been colour blind?? How could she have simply forgotten the greys and blacks of her life.

What were these grey and black hues in her life which Devika wanted to share with Aakash?? Before she could think straight, she found the car stopped and she slipped in his arms. It seemed like a return, being installed in those steady arms. Suddenly, everything seemed so right.

Sitting there in the dark, listening to the crickets chirping, she told him about her being raised by an NGO who rescued her two years back from a group of "sex workers". She was an orphan raised by a maternal uncle who died right after she finished school.

Devika was forced to walk into a dark world anticipating no acquittal. But at that time, sex work seemed to be a smarter option than dying being raped by the mean wolves of the streets. A sudden relief came in form of help from the women’s home and later she had found her way to earn a respectful earning.

Aakash wished to hold her up, high up in his arms for the whole world to see that women like her existed and that he really adored her more for her strength and zeal for life. He looked at the distant moon as if mourning to him to shine so brightly so that no dark corners remain in their minds. He simply uttered, “Oh stars!! Shine on my queen as the way you shine on a desert too and make her happy. Devika, do you think they will listen to me?”

Are you sure?? Devika asked Aakash as if for what seemed the hundredth time to him.

He kept his cool and patiently replied once more, "Yes, Devika. I love you. There is nothing more important to me than marrying you."

They soon tied the knot, both were anxious and edgy but they both were brimming over with love. Devika already cherishing her first taste of family, simply yielded to him in every way she could think of.  She always thought life is a bitch, but now everything was rosy. Aakash too, fully high on his self exaltation and Devika’s total submission, felt too strong and blessed all the time.

Days turned into weeks and a month soon turned into two, sixteen months into that bliss, and the first nail was driven into the coffin of this relationship!!

It was Friday evening, a particularly easy workday and as Aakash sat there at his workstation, staring at his machine, lost in his fancies to spend another lovely weekend with Devika, a friend dropped in with a cup of coffee. Mundane talks soon changed into married life talks and as casual references and insinuation to sex with lots of backslapping are acceptable amidst friends, as he was leaving, he threw a crafty wink at Aakash saying, your love life, needless to say, must be great.

Aakash felt the laughter dying on his lips. His friend, oblivious to the harm he had done, walked away but he sat thinking. What did he mean? Did he know about Devika’s past?? As he entered his home, his mind still in fury, he carried an irritation that day with him. He was pensive and moody and as Devika looked at him, she just let her passion withered in her mind.

Soon lovemaking was erratic, warm smiles of Devika, started getting violent reactions from Aakash and whenever he looked at her, his brain screamed and Devika looked at her world crumbling down.

Something was gravely wrong in her life now, she found him now even incapable of enacting an interest in the act. 

Aakash had been suffering from an enforced impotency. The man who had felt macho marrying a girl of her stature to boost his own flaccid sense of self but was unable to support it with his own virility!

That evening, Devika stood waiting for Aakash. Tears escaped her eyes without any control and she wiped them away surreptitiously before turning towards him with the sternest face she could muster. Aakash could read a thousand accusations in her expression and he exploded. He rushed towards her and slapped her.

The movement was so sudden that Devika reeled back. She slumped against the wall and heard confused mumbling of her lover, her husband, her nemesis!

“Your impotency is your own brain beating you. Your desire to be superior to mere a human being has been your enemy. You married me for the wrong reasons and the macho thing would have been to accept the truth, come out in the open, and tell the whole world about it.”

“I am sorry to leave you but I tried to keep my promise and I loved you the most candidly I could.” For you I was all pure and virgin !!!

Aakash sat there crushing his thumbs. His rage swallowed by the shame he felt. He still didn’t have the courage to apologize, to tell this woman that he did wrong. In her eyes, he could witness “for the first time” a woman trapped in a body who felt used and humiliated.

He simply sat with his head hanging on his chest, all his false conceit flowing away with his tears as the one woman who could have helped him get in touch with his male core walked out of his life forever.

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