Split Personality-86
A romantic, paranormal and psychological thriller
Kotra Siva Rama Krishna
“You scoundrel! How disgustingly you are talking!” Sailaja got off from the sofa, went near to him and slapped him with her right hand on his right cheek with all her might. “She let them do it so to her? Bastard, how can you say like that? She is all alone and quite less in strength than even one of them. They were three, each of them quite stronger to her. What she could do when they overpowered her and committed that atrocity? To be frank, I am feeling more disgust on you than those three guys also.” Sailaja never has become that much angry.
“Its alright, Sailaja. Someone would have said something derogatorily to him and he got angry.” Charita sighed heavily. “I can understand a brother’s situation and it is just out of frustration. I know how much love and affection he has on me.”
“You are absolutely right sister!” Chandan cupped his face in his both palms and broke out. “They said you knew that they would come there and only to get something like that to happen on you remained all alone in that place. If you want you would have escaped from them but to get all these benefits you let them do that to you. The retaliation on your part was just nominal and you just did not mean to fight against them for preventing it.”
“Scoundrels! Who are those? Tell me first.” Sailaja still was very much angry.
“Don’t ask about their details dear” Charita said, came near to Chandan and put her right hand around his shoulders. “Don’t worry yourself with what they said. The present option that we have is; we have to make terms with the past and go ahead in our lives.”
“Sorry, sister. I am very much sorry. I just could not control myself and said that like that to you.” Looking into her face, Chandan said. “I really like you a lot and you too know about it.”
“You need not tell me about it as I myself know it very well.” She put her right hand fingers in his hair and ruffled it. “Just feel happy that our problem solved. Now both you and Sailaja can do whatever you want. In one way what those people said also is true. We have benefited by my gang-rape.”
“No, sister. Please don’t talk like that.” Putting his right hand across her mouth Chandan said.
“Its alright.” She removed her hand from his shoulders and looked into the face of Sailaja. “Now I want to go to my friend Malathi’s home.”
“Did I hear it right! You want to go to that Malathi’s home?” Sailaja’s face was filled with shock and Chandan also was just in such condition. “Her brother Neelan is one among those three rascals!”
“How does that affect my friendship with Malathi? You know very well for how long we both have been good friends. I just want to go and talk with her.” There was a fixed expression in the face of Charita.
“But she did not come to our home even for once after that incident.” Sailaja said again.
“She just could not. She has been feeling very much guilt as her brother is one of the gang-rapists against me so she cannot dare to face me. So I myself have to go and talk with her.” Charita determinedly said.
“I just don’t know what type of remarks you have to face if you go like that to his very home.” Chandan said reluctantly.
“I don’t want to bother with the remarks made by the people who have no work but to make unnecessary remarks. I want to go to my friend’s home, I shall go.”
“May I also come with you?” Sailaja asked her.
“You need not. There is lot of work to do in the house, please attend to it.” Moving away from there, Charita said. But before she crossed the threshold Babitha entered into the house and Charita stopped.
“Sister wants to go to her friend Malathi’s house.” Sailaja said.
Babitha looked into the face of Charitha with a shocking and surprising expression and Charita nodded her head. “Yes, mom. I want to go and talk with my friend. I want to get a change in me as that psychiatrist suggested.”
“Its alright dear. But please don’t be too late to come to home.” Babitha suggested to her.
“I shall be in the home before dad comes. You don’t worry.” After saying so Charita crossed the threshold and moved away from that place.
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“Don’t you want your close friend to come to your home? What is the problem?” looking into the shocking expression of Malathi, Charita asked her with a smile on her lips.
“I just.....” Malathi did not know what to say “.........first please come inside.” She gave her the way to come into her home as she did not know what to talk with her.
“Who it is Mala? One of your friends?” Malathi’s mother Annapurna came there and her face also was filled with shock as soon as she saw Charita.
“I just cannot understand why you both are feeling shock like this! Is it is the first time I came to your home like this?” Charita asked looking into the face of Annapurna while continuing the same smile on her lips.
“It is not at all so dear.” Annapurna came near to Charita and hugged her. “I never have thought that you can pardon and come to our house again.”
“What you both did to me that I have to pardon you?” mocking a surprising expression on her face Charita said.
“Its alright, mommy. We both go into my room and talk there. You take coffee and snacks for us both.” Malathi took Charita’s right hand into her right hand and led her from there into the room nearby.
“Where is Neelan? Is he is outside?” once settled on the edge of the bed in the room, Charita asked Malathi.
“Don’t ask about that rogue. I stopped thinking about him.” Malathi said angrily. “After his doing such a thing on you, my real feeling is just to kill him and I am feeling very much guilty as I cannot do that.”
“He is not the only guy who did that so to me and one of those three is my husband now.” Charita smiled. She was feeling surprise as she was not feeling rancour on those three guys as she used to “I am myself trying to forget that episode and excuse those three guys and my coming like this to your home is just a first step in that. I can understand how much you do like me but your feeling angry like this on him does not help the situation.”
“It is just your greatness you can think like that Charita.” Malathi paused for a second before saying again. “But you just don’t know from how much of a big problem you saved us! If you have given a complaint against my brother, those people just have broken the engagement and I don’t know whether any other family comes forward to make me their daughter in law knowing what my brother did.”
Malathi’s marriage was settled just two months back and her would be husband was a bank manager. Malathi and he talked together on two or so occasions once the engagement function was over and they liked each other very much also. But the only problem was; his family was an orthodox family and they wanted the bride’s family without any besmirch.
“It is for all our good, is it is not?” Charita laughed and said. “You can marry that guy and be happy with him and I can be happy with my husband. All my family problems also have been solved because of that atrocity on me.”
“Are you really feeling like that? Can you live with that guy happily?” Malathi freed the chair in which she sat, came near to the bed , slumped on the edge of it before putting her right hand around the shoulders of Charita. “Just look into my face and say that.” She held her chin with her right hand, turned her face and looked into her eyes. “Is it is possible to you to do so? I want it to be hundred percent so but I want to be frank with you. If I were you, it would be very difficult to me to do so.”
“I am also feeling like that but what would be the use if I develop only hate and anger all the time? Something has happened, something else also has happened compromising that and whatever has happened cannot be undone now. Is it is not better that I do change myself and lead a happy life?” without trying to relieve her face from Malathi, Charita said.
“What you have said is absolutely true, absolutely true.” Annapurna came there with two coffee cups and biscuits in a tray there. “Anirudh is a very good guy and intelligent also. He has no vices like my son and that other dirty bastard has. I don’t want to comment on why he did it so to you on that day but if you change yourself your life would be hundred percent alright.”
“I am thinking that there is meaning in what mom said.” Malathi took a coffee cup from the tray and gave it to Charita. After Charita took it and started sipping the coffee, Malathi also took a coffee cup from the tray. Then Annapurna dragged a table near to them and put that tray with biscuits on it.
“If we have not been thinking to perform Neelan’s marriage with my brother’s daughter for a long time, we would have no objection to make you as our daughter in law.” After slumping herself in the chair there in which Malathi sat before, Annapurna said.
“As you said Anirudh is a better guy than our Neelan mom. He is intelligent and educated! I am sure that he prospers a lot in his life.” Malathi took a biscuit from the tray and started munching on that in between her sips of coffee.
“I am feeling happy that you are thinking like that” looking into the face of Charita, Annapurna said. “You and Malathi both are just the same to me. I did not feel happy just because you people have been compromised like that and we prevented you from giving a complaint against us. But now after hearing your thinking so, I am really feeling happy. I hope and wish that you start living with Anirudh as soon as possible and both of you will be very much happy.”
“I do try aunty. I hundred percent do try. I know it is very much important not just for my sake but for the sake of my family also.” Sighing heavily Charita said.
“In fact Anirudh’s mother shattered after that episode so. She has become a widow when Anirudh was just four years old and everyone knows how much she struggled to look after that guy and made him educated. Two days back we both met in the temple and she said to me how much she wished that you do change your heart and come to their home to live with her son. She also felt so much relived when you have decided not to give complaint against those and agreed to marry her son.” Annapurna said.
“She tried to talk with me after the marriage but I did not give her a chance at all. I just could not do that with the bubbling anger in me. Now I sure try to do that.”
“Please do that. Put that poor lady’s heart at ease fist.” Annapurna said and got up from the chair she sat. “Just remember! Our family is always ready to do anything for you if you want. I know you from the very moment you took birth and I feel with you as I do feel with my daughter.”
“Thank you very much aunty. I do remember what you have said to me.” Nodding her head Charita said.
(I hope that you enjoyed upto here. I shall publish the next chapter as soon as possible. Please don’t forget to rate and review.)
