Chapter-3
Meera gets shocked to see this. She returns to her room and his father calls her, ’Meeru come here I want you to meet aunt Supriya’. I am busy dad some other time she replies in a choked voice and looks at her mother’s smiling photo hanging in the drawing room. Yes, she always smiled it was her nature. After half an hour Supriya leaves their house.
After few minutes Rani serves dinner and they both begin to eat and he notices Meera not eating. Her hunger is gone. She eagerly waits for her father to finish his dinner so that she can ask him about her mother. Phone bell rings and he immediately leaves dining hall to attend the call. Yes, Supriya! I have dispatched the papers. Hearing her name again she bursts in anger. She rushes to her father’s room. What happened Meeru? Why didn’t you eat nicely? he asks. Please take care of your health. Dad, you do very nice things she taunts him. What do you mean beta? Is that true my mother committed suicide.? Jitender gets astounded to hear this? Who told you this? No one. I heard your conversation with Supriya. Meera, that was not a suicide in fact she took an extra dose of medicine due to illness, depression without realising what she was doing. Who is Supriya? Are you having an affair? What! No. she is a good friend of mine and your mother. My mother didn’t have a friend like her as far as I know. It seems she is only close to you. I saw you embracing her. I think mum caught you both together and feeling of betrayal made her do this.
Meeru, don’t plant your own stories. It is not true. Your mother was suffering from depression due to her illness, please accept it. Dad, I notice that you are not missing my mother and your wife at all. Do really love her? Of course, I do, that’s why you were born. By giving your sperm doesn’t prove your love for a woman. Meeru, hold your tongue. You know I love you more than your mother. She was the one who send you to a boarding school at the age of fifteen. I respected her decision. I think you should concentrate on your speech which you have to give as cultural and heritage head of the country. You are a gold medallist in Indian cultural and you are going to represent your country. So, concentrate. You need to fulfil your mother dream and mine too. So don’t stick on to this topic. He completes his sentence and cares her cheek and goes to the bathroom. Meera, understand there is nothing to talk.
Mumma,’ why are you sending me to boarding? I don’t want to go’. Meeru, you need to make your life and trust me you will never regret going. I will call you every day darling. Meera remembers her mother words and switch off the light and tries to sleep because in her dreams she wanted to see and ask her was she really sad because of her illness that she took her own life.
