Monday 31 August 2015

The Last Surprise

She was in a relationship with him for two years. Despite inter caste relationship the couple was happy but not their parents. Her parents always opposed her relationship yet she tolerated because her immense love towards him made her withstand even the offended nature of her parents. Both had a good time watching movies, sharing umbrella in the first showers of monsoon, eating ice cream even on chilling days, celebrating each other's birthdays. The time fleeted whenever she was with him. She was heartbroken when her parents decided to marry her against her choice as they were strictly against inter caste marriage because doing that would have ruined the prestige of the family. She was married with the choice of her parents but not the choice she made. Her husband loved her so much but she never accepted him as her soul-mate because for her the only soul mate was the one whom she loved with whom she had spent the most beautiful phase of her life. Those butterflies in the stomach whenever her boyfriend touched her, those hugs from behind her back, those winters that they spent together throwing snowballs at each other, that romantic date in the first snowfall when they both walked across the road while holding each other’s hand were the sweet memories which she could not forget and move on. She continued to meet her boyfriend even after two years of marriage. Her husband had no idea that he was being cheated. He always assured himself that she was sad because of being married forcibly and tried to uplift her mood by his constant efforts by taking her out to dinner, gifting her favourite dresses and rings but all went in vain. Her husband had a great loss in his business that year and they had to cut short their expenses to have a decent livelihood due to which there were constant quarrels and misunderstanding between the two as the husband was not able to fulfil her demands. Since he loved her so much he saved every single penny to make her wishes fulfilled but she didn't understand and always pierced his heart by saying that he was worthless! His only mistake was he waited patiently for he believed that one day she will understand him and will accept him completely but for her it was something else. Since her boyfriend was extremely rich so she spent most of the time with him after her husband went to work. He fulfilled all her desires of having expensive jewellery, designer dresses and having lunch at five star hotels which her hubby could not afford that time. But there was a girl in her boyfriend's life now and she was worried that whether her boyfriend will care and love her in the same way as he used to or he will change. The thought that her boyfriend will change and eventually leave her made her insecure as she didn't want to lose him. She could do anything to get him back. The thought that her boyfriend might be with her new girlfriend was burning her heart and to have him back in her life there was only one option left- to leave her husband. One day when she returned home after meeting her boyfriend her husband saw them and asked her about him. She irritatingly replied that he should not interfere in her life and he was her best friend. Days passed and there were often heated arguments over the issue of her meeting with her boyfriend and one day when her husband came home she murdered him and called her boyfriend to meet her. She sat in the Starbucks cafe, sipping her coffee and staring out of the window. The blood stained knife lay next to her handbag, covered with her blue silk scarf. Her boyfriend came and she said now she was free from all the constraints and obligations of marriage since she had killed him and asked her boyfriend that now they both can start a new life and told him to marry her. Her boyfriend was shocked to know that she even killed her husband for him but since he loved someone else now so he refused to marry her and told that she shouldn't have done this crime and now they can't be together because he is going to marry his beloved. She was shattered to hear that news and told him that he can't do this to her. He said he also had to move on accepting the fate that she was married to someone else and they couldn't be together again and now he simply can't marry a criminal and break the trust of her beloved. She was agonised and heartbroken due to her breakup and came back home repenting what a serious crime she had committed. Every single gift kept in her wardrobe given by her husband made her guilty and took her back to the time when her husband gifted her everything with full of emotions and love. Every single thing placed at home reminded her of constant fights and quarrels with her husband over silly useless issues. She now realised how much pain her husband had undergone when she constantly rebuked him and did not even care for the savings he made just to see a single glimpse of her beautiful face. Her heart was burning and she could do nothing except to cry on her unforgivable deeds. While watching the belongings of her husband she saw a diary. It was the diary that her hubby used to write daily. She opened it and started reading. It contained every single detail of her relationship from the day he saw him to the present time when they were together. It contained his immense and unconditional love for her in the form of beautiful expressions-short poems, notes about how he felt when he saw her for the first time, his patience to have a single look of her becharming and serene face, how he felt when he gifted her the things she said, how many hardships he had faced at his workplace when he suffered loss but never let her wife to bother, how the single smile of her wife made his day. With every single page she turned tears constantly shed from her eyes and she thought how one could love someone so much that despite of other's reprimanded behaviour there was no change in the care and love of her husband. She reached the dairy entry of yesterday's date where her husband mentioned that he was going to give a surprise to her the next day that they have become extremely rich and he has got new job because he saved the life of a billionaire in a road accident that took place some days back. She remembered about that incident as she read that in a newspaper and her husband told that he saved someone that day too but she was way too busy in her boyfriend’s life that she did not remembered that. While her husband was coming back to home he saw an accident took place and there was nobody to help the man who was badly injured so he gave him first aid and took him to the hospital and finally he was out of danger after an operation. To show his gratitude the billionaire contacted her husband called him in his office thanked him for saving his life and made her husband his business partner of his new real estate business and soon they were going to shift into a new house and her husband wrote that he was extremely excited to see the expressions of his wife after hearing that good news and now they will live happily and he will fulfil all her desires and keep her ever smiling. She was stunned reading that and recalled when her husband came today and told her that he will give her a surprise, she didn't listen to him and murdered him cold-bloodedly. She realised the meaning of love and thought she had wasted her life loving the one just for materialistic things. She was unable to sleep that night and next day she told everything to her parents. Her parents were shocked to hear about the brutal murder of their son in law that too committed by their daughter. They cursed her and told that she has lost the right to call her their daughter after this inhuman act. This monstrous act made her away from her loved ones be it her husband or her parents. She surrendered herself in police station and admitted the crime she made and was punished. Her life would have taken a whole new turn if she hadn't betrayed her husband and accepted the choice of her parents then they would have lived happily. Often in life we fall for materialistic things and forget what true love means, we forget the emotions of the ones that care for us because we are too busy in acquiring the things which please us, same happened with the girl because she thought she would be happy with the one who was rich but in reality there are many things beyond money which are love and care which she ignored and paid the price for it.