Rain Flower
Kotra Siva Rama Krishna
“Are you confident that by your hypnotizing and programming I can remember everything?” Williams asked her.
Rose smiled and said. “I am hundred percent confident. I can make you remember everything of your past. I willfully did not choose to do this until this moment.” She said.
Williams nodded his head but did not say anything.
“But I want to say something to you here Will… …..I am saying this to you also Jasmine…..…. Whatever you both are coming to know now is not at all going to be something good. It may be something that you both never wished to happen. It may be something that you cannot bear in your dreams also.”
“Why……...why you are saying like that? You are making me unnecessarily anxious.” Jasmine angrily said.
“My intention is not at all to make you anxious. Just to make you prepare for this.” Looking into her face, Rose said.
“John did it until this moment. You need not do it anymore. I shall remain calm and unaffected whatever I come to know. Please go on with whatever you want to do.” Jasmine irritatingly said.
“Promise that to me, Jasmine…..… Promise that to me…..….” Opening his palm before her John said.
“What the bloody hell I have to promise to you?” Jasmine even more irritated.
“Just what you have said now. That you remain unaffected and calm even after you come to know about that particular thing.”
“What all this is? What the bloody hell that you people are going to unearth for?”
“You are my life Jasmine…….. I cannot live without you………You are everything to me……….If you are also feeling like this, make this promise to me.”
“Alright……..…” Jasmine breathed heavily and put her hand in his hand. “I shall remain calm. I shall remain unaffected whatever I may come to know.” Then she removed her had from his hand. “Now you may please continue.” Seeing at Rose Jasmine said.
“Can you also make such a promise to me, Will……...” Placing her hand before him Rose asked.
Williams kissed on her hand. “Take it I made my promise.” He laughed. “Please go on with it, Rose.”
Then Rose looked into the eyes of John and Swaroop. The matter was heavily discussed the night before between the three. John and Swaroop nodded their heads.
“One….two….three….go.” Swaroop said.
***
Margaret started in her car driving herself from that house. Even Rose did not tell her what she was going to do, she could guess what was happening in Williams’ bedroom then. Rose and Liza did not know that she overheard their conversation. But she did not want to interrupt it at all. They have a right to know about the truth. It not only would make her world upside down but burn the psyches of Williams and Jasmine. But it has to happen. They cannot escape from it forever. Sooner or later they need to know about it. Moreover it could not be put under cover forever.
It took her less than the usual time to reach that old house. She opened the doors, entered into it and straight went into that bedroom. She sat on the bed there and closed her eyes. In this very bedroom her dearest son turned mad. In this very bedroom her husband came to know the ghastly truth, suffered heart attack and died.
Her mind was in turmoil then. This time not unintentionally but willfully she started trying to remember the incidents that took place between her and her lover Stuart.
They discussed about many times and all the time Stuart was forcing her and trying to make her agree to that.
“I am feeling tension. I did not expect this to be happened like this. Now he wanted to marry me.” Margaret said anxiously. It was not the first time she expressed herself so at him.
Margaret joined as an assistant at Stuart’s boss. Stuart said it was just to supplement their income.
“What a good news it is! Raja Pratap wanted to marry you! After marriage you can become the richest woman in the country!” Stuart was excited to the maximum. It was not the first time he said like that to her.
“But it is you I always wanted to marry. What happens to our love after my marriage with Raja Pratap? How can I share my life with a person other than you?” Margaret was becoming emotional and raged.
“Margaret, try to think. Just try to think. Try to be reasonable.” Stuart made his voice low and calm. “Just try to remember what your mother and grandmother made you do for money. They made you do prostitution. You have to give yourself to rogues and they raped you in the worst way possible. It is neither your mistake nor your parents. The poverty is always like that.” For a long time he was saying in the same lines to make her agree to that.
She did not say anything. She could not even think about anything.
“Money, money is most important. With our meager earnings we also may have to force our children to do the same thing.”
“It never happens so. It is exaggeration of the situation.” Margaret angrily said.
“It may be exaggeration. But I don’t want to live a poor man life. If a chance comes into my way to become rich, I don’t leave it. It is a god given opportunity to us and I cannot afford to lose it.”
“But what happens to our love after the marriage?” with a worrying expression on her face she asked him.
“It continues my dear. It continues after the marriage also. You know that I am living in that Raja Prathap’s house itself. We can meet everyday, talk and do everything. I can manage that all.” There was happiness in his voice as if Margaret almost agreed to his proposal.
She desperately wanted to say a no to that proposal, but she could not. She knew how much Stuart was loving richness. How much he hated to remain poor. As he said it was a lifetime chance for him.
But not just that stopped her from saying no. She knew very well what would happen if she said ‘no’ to him. He would go away from her or kill himself because he was obsessed that much to become rich. Her heart filled with that much of love towards him and she just could not live without him at all. Her decision was to retain him at any cost.
But immediately she did not agree and he has to coax her and intimidate her also. During that process she came to know a ghastly truth! In fact Stuart planned all this. With an idea to make her the wife of Raja Prathap, he made her join at him as his secretary. He expected as she was very much beautiful, Raja Prathap sure would fall in love with her and want to marry her and it happened just like that. Raja Prathap believed him with whole of his heart and even all alone he was fleecing a lot from him. Once she became the wife of Raja Prathap, it would become even more easy to him to steal from that man.
After knowing this, Margaret’s love on Stuart turned into hate and disgust. After thinking a lot, for one reason, only one reason, she agreed to marry Raja Prathap. She wanted to make him understand what a cheater this Stuart was and how he was betraying him. Talking like that with him and making him understand the betrayal of Stuart was possible only if she became his wife. It might break his heart but as she would be with him, she could save him from that bereavement.
He kissed her perfunctorily and made brutal sex to her after she conveyed her full consent to his proposal. He stopped being gentle in sex with her as he used to be in the beginning. His animal desire was disgusting to her but it did not change the love she has on him until the moment she came to know his betrayal to Raja Prathap. Before leaving her house on that day, he said to her.
“In that Raja Prathap’s house don’t call me ‘Stuart’. Everyone there calls me ‘Dibbu’. You also call me so and treat me just like a servant all the time except when we both are alone.”
***
“Now you are feeling very much relaxed Will….. You are not feeling any tension… you are not feeling any anxiety…..you are feeling and hearing only my voice.”
There was absolute silence then. Rose gave stern directions to everyone there not to talk anything, not to make any disturbance. All of them witnessing what was happening there with a bated breath.
“You do believe whatever I say Will….…. Your body and mind completely obey what I say…..….”
Not just Williams, but the other three there also felt as if they were also being hypnotized.
“Now I am going to count five. By the time I reach five you will go into trance. Be ready to do anything I ask.”
There was unbearable silence before Rose said….”one”
“You are completely relaxed….. you are going into trance where you obey my every command……..two………”
There was change quite noticeable in Williams. His face became calm and peaceful.
“You don’t fall asleep. You remain awaken but in trance……....three.”
There was no change in Williams.
“Four………..”
Williams’ face became even more peaceful.
“Five. Now you are in the way I want you.”
There was no movement in Williams and he was like a rock in the chair.
“Now I am taking you back in your life Williams. You can remember everything. You can remember everything I ask you to remember.”
There was only silence.
“Do you have any girlfriend in your childhood Williams?” Rose asked him
Immediately there were frowns on his forehead. “No. I cannot remember anything.” He said.
“No, Will. You very well can remember. Your mind just obeys my commands. Now you are going to tell me the answer, tell me do you have a girlfriend in your childhood?”
There were again frowns on his forehead. After few seconds those frowns cleared and he said. “Yes, I used to have a girl friend in my childhood and her name is Rita I think”’
Rose looked triumphantly into the faces of the people there.
“Can you say anything more about that girl?” Rose asked him again.
There were once again frowns on his forehead but just in few seconds those frowns were cleared and he said. “Yes, I can. She made me have sex with her in their storeroom. She might have aged just sixteen years or so by that time.”
There was an instant uneasy expression on the face of Rose. There were small smiles on the faces of Liza, Swaroop and John. There was no change in the expression of Jasmine. She was just feeling anger and frustration.
It was just a test to him to see whether her hypnotism was working or not. It was working. She decided to continue.
“Now you are going to say to me about you. Who you are and what you do?”
There was silence for sometime and everyone was looking at Williams expectantly.
“My name is Williams. I am the managing director of Mammooth.”
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