Chasing butterflies …….
(A spicy hot romantic and suspense thriller)
By
Kotra Siva Rama Krishna
They were all at the dining table then and food was arranged quite neatly on it. The specialty in it was Sukanya helped her sister in preparing it. She looked at the people around there with a proud feeling in her eyes and by the expression in her face and the way of her behaving they already understood her hand was in the cooking on that day.
“I did take lot of care in preparing this food especially the chicken. You all must taste particularly that dish on this day.” She announced with a sort of authority in her voice.
“Spare me from that.” Looking fearfully at the chicken plate there Susmitha said. “I cannot eat chicken.”
“But why? That is what I have cooked with special care. And you are the person I want to eat my dishes particularly on this day since everyone else has tasted the food cooked by me at one time or other.” There was a sort of irritation in her eyes.
“I shall eat everything without any objection. But no chicken please…” Susmitha was troubling a lot to express her view freely.
“Sukanya, Susmitha is a Brahmin girl. She never eats meat, chicken like things. Please don’t compel her to eat those.” Madan said.
“I know Brahmins who eat chicken and meat so freely. Why not our Susmitha eats?” Sukanya knitted her brows.
“They may be. But I don’t.” Susmitha murmured. For the first time she did get angry on Sukanya. Why she was troubling her in this way?
“I would not allow it. Our Madan eats all birds and animals’ meats and products very interestingly. You too…” looking at Susmitha meaningfully Sukanya said.
Susmitha looked at Madan pleadingly. Madan was helpless then. They all knew about Sukanya and one thing all they detest much in her was her adamancy in some matters. Sometimes, in some matters, quite illogically and unreasonably she would be adamant and stubborn even they were not concerned to her at all. Madan knew Sukanya would not leave Susmitha without eating chicken on that day. There was no way that he could stop Sukanya then and he hated himself to turn his head cruelly to some other direction.
“Let me serve food first to you. That surely includes chicken. I assure you that it would be quite enjoyable to you.” Sukanya stood up and came near to Susmitha. She started serving food into her plate and Susmitha remained watching with horror and disgust as Sukanya served chicken pieces into her plate.
Susmitha closed her eyes helplessly as she could not look at chicken in her plate. She was almost ready to burst into weeping. She had got lot of anger on Madan as he was playing only a spectator role there. Her father and mother never ate non-vegetarian foods. So she too never ate them at all.
“Just open your mouth and invite this piece into it. If you manage to eat a little morsel of it you eat the whole chicken without leaving any of that to us. Come on …. don’t delay. We are all just waiting that you give a start.” Taking a chicken lump to her mouth holding it with her hand on the end of it Sukanya said.
Susmitha realized that she could not escape until she ate chicken. Reluctantly she opened her mouth and Sukanya put that chicken into her mouth and asked her to bite on it strongly. Susmitha did so but her heart cringed for the sin she was committing and using all the force in her body she stopped the tears from flowing down.
“That’s a good girl. Now chew it and tell me how it is?” With a sadistic happiness in her face going to her chair again and adoring it with her bulk Sukanya said.
Susmitha had got an instant vomiting feeling on eating that chicken piece. It was not because of that food was bad but it was the revulsion she had got on eating that. She had to do lot of effort to gulp down the munched chicken piece.
“You did not tell me how it is?” a sort of winning proud was in the voice of Sukanya.
“Of course. It is nice.” Susmitha murmured.
The other person who had struggled as much as Susmitha there was Madan. He had got lot of anger and for a moment he thought that he did a mistake by inviting Sukanya into this house.
“Now we start our eating.” Sukanya said and served the food in the plates of all those people.
Even she was distressed a lot as she was forced to eat chicken so, Susmitha felt relaxed as she was not further forced by Sukanya to eat any more of that. She started eating the other food but she could not enjoy it at all as she was disturbed a lot.
“You have shaken poor Susmitha a lot. I never have seen her this much upset until this moment.” Jayanthi angrily said. In these few days itself Susmitha had become quite dearer to her. She did not like at all the way that Susmitha was forced to eat chicken by her sister.
“I am sorry. I could not think that she would take it this much seriously at all.” there was remorse in Sukanya too. She could understand by her facial expression that Susmitha has become very much upset
“Ever you have taken anything seriously?” There was anger in Pallav’s voice too. “You have no right to compel her to do something she does not like.”
“So sorry. I am very sorry.” There was now worry and sorrow in her voice. “Then why I have not been stopped while I was trying to make her to eat chicken?” she asked
“Because we all know your nature very well.” Madan said with a disgusting and irritating tone. “You would not come back from doing what you intended to. If you have been by force dragged back you shall become upset and mad. So we have to remain in silence making innocent Susmitha a victim to your actions.”
She leaned back in the chair, closed her eyes and said. “Why sometimes I behave like this I cannot understand myself.”
“As a psychologist you should not talk like this at all.” Pallav said.
She opened her eyes and nodded her head helplessly. “I am not deserved to be a psychologist. I cannot understand my mind itself.”
There was no talking from anyone. Susmitha appearing as she was completely unconcerned to whatever was happening around.
“I am so sorry Susmitha. Please forgive me.” With a small and feeble tone Sukanya said as if she had understood what mistake she did.
“I sure do forgive you. But on one condition.” She perched up her head and said while looking into the eyes of Sukanya. Her eyes were plain and there was no anger or hate in her face.
“Tell me. What it is?” with an interesting tone Sukanya asked.
“You must never compel me to eat which I don’t want to eat.” With firm voice Susmitha said.
“Alright” Sukanya nodded her head.
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That ear shuttering scream made the peaceful night environment in that palace at once filled with cacophony and quandary. Everyone in that palace at once emptied their beds and used their legs as fast as possible to reach into the room of Susmitha with posthaste. Even they have expected something unpleasant in her room, the scene they had seen in it then made their hearts filled with horror. Susmitha was fallen flat on the floor lying face upwards. Her eyes opened but she was not recognizing any and the blank look on her face made her all even more fearsome.
Without making any delay Jayanthi sat beside her and took her head into her lap. She gently slapped on her cheeks and called her name. In the meanwhile Sukanya went down and came with water in glass. She took the water in to her right hand and sprinkled it on the face of Susmitha. Then Susmitha blinked her eyes and came into this world.
“What happened? Why I am lying down here in this way?” she sat up and looked around. There was an instant confusion in her face.
“That is what we are all quite eager to know. What happened to you? Why did you have screamed like that?” looking into her face Madan asked. His heart was pounding faster and louder. He relaxed a little seeing Susmitha came to her sense again.
“Did I scream? Why did?....” then suddenly some recognition came into her face. She came out of her confusion and a fearful look came into her eyes. “Now I remember….” She said with a small shivering tone.
“What did you remember?” Jayanthi asked her gently putting her right hand around her shoulders.
“First we better take her onto the bed. It is quite inconvenient to her to lie like this on the floor.” Sukanya suggested. Then all of them got her up and made her laid gently onto the bed.
“Now tell dear. What happened?” with a smooth and softening tone Jayanthi asked her again.
“She has come.” Susmitha’s voice quavered.
“Who is she?” Madan asked but he already guessed who it might be. “It is Mamatha. Is it is not?” his voice already filled with irritation.
“Yes.” She did not want to look into his face. How he would feel at her answer she could understand.
“What did she do to you? Why did you have screamed and fell onto the floor like this?” observing the irritation in the face of Madan sideways, Sukanya asked.
“She entered into my body.” Susmitha’s voice quavered again.
“What!” all of them at once yelled.
“Do you know how much rubbish it is? How Mamatha could enter into your body?” the irritation in Madan reached its motto.
“Yes, I am telling you the truth. She suddenly appeared before me. I was stunned and became aghast on seeing her in this room. She fastly came near to me and entered into my body. Then I yelled and have fallen on to the floor.” Looking uneasily into the face of Madan she said.
“Are you feeling anything in your body now?” Sukanya asked her.
“No. Not at all.” Susmitha nodded her head in negation.
“Then how can you say that Mamatha entered into your body?” she questioned again.
“But I have seen her entering into my body. So I have yelled like that.” There was irritation in Susmitha’s voice too.
“Did Mamatha talk anything with you?”
“No, she did not.”
“She just silently entered into your body?”
“That is what I am saying. If you people don’t believe me I cannot do anything at all.” she said despairingly.
“Don’t worry, we believe you.” Sukanya said. “For the present take rest. We shall talk about this early in the morning again.”
“I cannot sleep alone at all.” Madan indeed felt pity momentarily forgetting the irritation he was feeling seeing the fear in her innocent eyes. “Please one of you does stay with me.”
“I shall be with you. No problem.” Squeezing her shoulder with her hand Sukanya said.
“Thank you. Thank you very much.” Susmitha murmured.
“You need not thank me at all. Your company is always quite enjoyable to me.” sitting beside her on the bed and putting her hand around her shoulders Sukanya said. Everyone relieved on seeing that so.
“You guys better go and resume your sleeping. Your Susmitha is in the safest hands now.” With a smile on her lips Sukanya said.
Leaving them both in that room one after one, all those went to their places.
Looking gratefully into the eyes of Sukanya, Madan as well left that place.
(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 it)
