Chapter 19 19. What, that can’t be true

Third person’s point of view... Late in the night that was howling with the chirping of night insects, surrounded with huge long trees and a graveyard in the north, the church glistened with the lights of the ceiling and the candles. It was peaceful, anybody could meet their satisfaction. Indeed, a church is a place that is not only the house of the God but also a shelter for all those lost people who are looking for a way to go on in life. Something of the same kind was happening with Raven. He has lost his path, although it was right across his eyes just the thing was that— obstacles were too many and time too less. And after being not able to go for the path he chose he came up to the God’s house to look for some signs, some help from the almighty and see, not even few hours have gone by, and he found what he was looking for. Kiara. She softly muffled lowering her head. Her wrist was still under his solid grip. It was obvious there was no way she could struggle, fight, try to shove him away in any way for he was strong and as they say ’A man with a broken heart is more powerful than a pride of lions’ henceforth it was useless to counter, and so she kept rooted in her place unmoved. Sporadically she cleansed off her tears unable to suppress her emotions. After I broke up with her and left the college, I moved in with Shania. In two months of dating, I was sure she was the girl I was looking for. We’ve become a good couple. We would hang out together, go on dates and frequently go on dinners with each other’s families. She has become my ideal attraction. The lump in her throat irritated her. Only she knows what the time has been and how ungrateful the world seemed after he left her. And having him describe the undescribable pleasure he had with her, every cell of her body ached. It was as if he was not actually narrating why have he become like this but actually sprinkling salt on her old paining wounds. We were liked by everyone and after we finished the first half of the year in university, I proposed her. He smiled serenely while gaping her pallid face from the corner of his eyes. It was not hidden as to what was her condition while he was gone, His friends who stayed in the same city as hers over that time would frequently talk about her every time they had a conversation. But the fact that when she was suffering there and here he was enjoying his life with somebody else was something he felt bad for. Ohh that he had realized this three years ago then surely they would have been together and Billy, he would have been their happy kid. Mom, dad and Girard were against my relationship with her. They claimed they have seen something much more in her which I have failed to notice. They claimed I was blindfolded by her love that I could not see how insane she was. They said she was lunatic! She stuck her lashes together not wanting to listen it. Was she mad when she had once told him that ’Raven, Shania is not what she pretends herself to be. There is something which we can’t see!’ at the time when once they were sitting in the college canteen eating their favourite momos stuffed with mozzarella cheese and flavoured capsicum and cabbage mixture. However, like every time, he preferred to ignore her. Definitely, his parents must have seen something too! After the first semester examinations were done, we realized we can’t stay away any more from one another and thus decided to get married. The more further he revealed the difficult it became for her to breathe! She had freaking imagined to have practised everything he just mentioned! She wanted to go on dates, family dinners with him. She desired to have him propose her in a filmy style by sitting on his knees and pulling out a ring box to her. She had wished to stand in the white wedding gown with him and stand on the altar in front of the priest while he’d read out all the vows to them. But no, fate had other plans. Or say, he had other plans, why blaming their fate? Girard tried to give me some piece of his mind. He warned me to think about the marriage one more time, it was about my life but (sardonic laugh) I was too mad to wait. Very slowly the grip around her skin began to go firm, yet he made sure to not leave her hand. He could not trust her, he had way too many things to put forth before she could make her mind up for any decision. Her muscles were all tensed, she was sitting on the verge of the bench. All she waited was for a chance to have him loosen the grip on her hand so that she could escape. She does not want to hear that at all. Right within the sixth months of their break up, he was in the church getting married while back here, she was passing her days crying bitterly and nights with insomnia engulfing her. She had had hungry weeks of no food, eating nothing but few pieces of bread for breakfast, lunch and supper to keep living every fucking day. She had nothing, no money, no strength to work, certainly nothing for a year. She had to borrow money from the owner of her apartment who helped her as long as he didn’t know that she has broken up with Raven but when she failed to make payments, he kicked her off from his apartment for the guy who would pay her bills and provide for her meals was no more her companion. It was Raven who had found her shelter. Somebody who had let her stay only because she was the girlfriend of a rich guy. Yes he was heartless to ditch her, but he did something that was not pleasant though at least something you can expect from a spoilt bastard son of a rich father— he left a big sum in her back account. Some lakhs of dollars as compensation. Some help because he knew it will be difficult for her to find a job so soon so till that time, it could be helpful. Needless to say, she was orphan, Yes; but not a beggar! Kiara never touched the money he left her but preferred to die out of hunger for a year until she found herself a pleasing job of a waitress at a small club till she finished with her studies and when they were done, she got a good employment yet not a big hit to make a healthy living. Anyway, recalling the last again made her eyes to bleed with tears. Kiara now let them recklessly smack down on her lap wetting her trousers. She need not tell him anything coz he does not deserve it, but he ought to tell everything for she was his wife. That wife, who she desired to become just for a reason. And the reason is yet to be unveiled! We shifted here in this bungalow only. Where we live now. It was a shock again! I debited my two years salary in advance from my father’s company and bought this for us. It was an ideal abode that I bought for me and my family. I was determined, I would make the best of memories in this house with my wife, my family. Damn it! She passed two days of her married life in their bungalow! That bungalow which he bought from his advance salary for his wife and his family. Now Kiara began to get a feeling of being a trespasser! She trespassed in an abode that was supposedly made for somebody else, but she lived there. And unexpected as it was, after some two months she announced She was pregnant with my baby. He said, her nails dug in her palm soon as he finished it off. She does not have no more strength to listen to this shit further until his next statement left his stunned, But you know what Kiara, as it is globally believed that ’Karma is a bitch!’ and you get what you have done back— guess what, I was slapped by my karma. (pause) May be because of what I did to you! He smiled finally looking in her eyes, giving her goosebumps. She gulped the lump in her gullet locking her pupils with his moist ones. Why would he say that! Tbc...