I got out of bed and stood up after seeing the water pooling in the balcony due to heavy rain. Leaving the cup of tea on the table and walking towards the balcony, his eyes were fixed on the north window. Heavy storms and rains. Along with lightning flashes. A shadowy figure moved violently in front of my eyes from the front of Rupa Pagli’s shack. No electricity, dark all around. Sometimes the light of lightning is shining all around. However, I searched here and there with a torch light to understand the matter. But I did not find anything.
Rupa Pagli is a girl from our village. He has no father, mother, brothers and sisters in this world. He grew up on the streets since childhood. If someone gives food, he eats, if he doesn’t, he doesn’t eat. If someone gives you an old cloth, it is immediately wrapped! Even on hot days, he always has five or seven clothes on. Bathed in sweat but without feelings!
My groom is UP member of this area. So the shelterless Rupa made a small shack out of eight tins in a corner of the house. Rupa sleeps there at night and roams the streets during the day. I sometimes call him to eat rice. These days there is no attention paid to silver rice. As soon as he saw the rice, he covered his face with a cloth and started walking. I have asked several times if you vomit when you see rice? Rupa doesn’t answer. Ha…looks at the face. The small whole mangoes falling from the tree in the heat of the sun are chewed and chewed without washing.
These days quite a physical change is being observed in silver. How heavy does health feel? I did not find it very convenient. So without telling anyone, one day I took Rupa to a gynecologist. He checks and says Rupa is four months pregnant.
I didn’t know what to do. Rupa is a crazy girl. She doesn’t understand her own good or bad. Even if he is forbidden to go out, he disappears when he gets a chance. Who did the girl’s destruction! What will be the future of his child! Thinking seven five my head was not working at all.
Then again such an event! So what I saw wrong! Everything is wrong in my mind? Thinking, I went towards Rashed’s room. Rashed is my groom’s name. Rashed has to tell the matter today. If he can solve something.
But I was more surprised when I went to Rashed’s room. After a heavy downpour, it was around eleven o’clock at night. But Rashed is not in his room. I thought maybe it was in the bathroom. But I didn’t find it there either. Rashed is always busy with some paperwork so I don’t come to his room much. Come only when he calls of himself and not otherwise. Where can he go at night? How my insides twisted. Rashed entered the room while wiping his head.
When I realized that the door of Sayla Rupa’s room was blown away by the wind, I fixed it a little. Girls, sleeping in the open all night does not look good. When the days are bad then a problem can happen. I left Rashed’s room with just a hoot. He took a glass of water in his hand and started gulping.
Rashed and I have been married for almost 28 years. But till today I could not gift her a child. Rashed once spent a lot of money on me hoping for a child. But the doctor has made it clear that we can spend money for self satisfaction. But it is never possible for me to be a mother. I requested Rashed many times for a marriage but he never agreed. On the contrary, I understand that if it was not your problem, if I had a problem, you could leave me alone? I can’t live without you just like you can’t live without me. So what God’s command will be.
After that, I never told anything about marriage to Rashed. Now Rashid is forty eight and I am forty five. I couldn’t believe that Rashed could do such a thing with a knee-aged unbalanced girl after walking so much of life together.
Since that day, I have been secretly guarding Rashid. Not from a whim of doubt. Out of responsibility. Rupa is a stupid girl. It seemed to me again and again that it was my moral duty to find out whoever the father of her child was and explain his responsibility. A few more nights later, I saw Rashed coming out of Rupa’s hut. When the keeper is the eater, I have to do something.
I know Rashed will not admit anything on his own. So the other night when he entered the silver room, I followed him. He was very nervous to see me. Tried in vain to make various excuses for a while. I stopped Rasheed and said there is only one way to atone for what you have done and that is marriage. You will marry Rupa tonight. Rashed did not agree to anything. Finally, I was forced to say, if you don’t marry Rupa, then I will leave your house right now. I will never come back, not even if I die. Rashed finally agreed to the marriage to calm me down.
Rupa has a handsome son. He calls me mother. Named Prince. With the prince in my bosom, I bury my loneliness. Ado ado bully and mother call on her face adds to all my pain.
Rupa is now fully healthy after receiving proper care and treatment. A new guest is going to come across his lap again. Rashed was happy before but that happiness had no life as it is now. Rashed is now very happy to have Rupa and he has no more imperfections in his life.
Meanwhile, I also got the fulfillment of being a mother by having a prince in my breast.
