LoveRides (Edited)

10. Revealing the past

When you truly love someone, then one second without them becomes one decade spent alone on a Island.

Payal's POV:

After studying, I went downstairs. I hugged mom from back.

"Payal, did you send your scooter for repair?" She asked me.

"No mom, not yet!"

"Send your scooter for repair soon!"

"Chill mom! I will surely send it!" I said.

"Come beta, sit near me!" She said while making some space for me in the couch.

I sat there.

"You wanted to tell something mom?" I asked her.

"Are you involved in any kind of relationship?" She asked me and I froze at that moment.

"I am asking something!" This time she said in a higher tone.

"What? No mom.. are you crazy?" I said inspite of the fact that I have a crush on a gentleman.

"Good! Never involve yourself in any such kind of relationship! They are very bad!" She said.

"Mom, did you and dad had love marriage or arrange marriage?" I asked her.

"I know beta that during all these years of our relationship, we never open up about it. Well me and your dad had love marriage." She said looking down.

"Then why are you advising me to stay away from relationship as you and your dad had love marriage?"

"I am saying this because, relationship are all fake!" She said and started crying.

"Mom, stop crying! I am your daughter. You can share anything with me!" I said consoling her.

"When we were about to marry, your dad promised me that he will always make me happy and will never make me cry, but he was the only one who made me cry!" She said and I was shocked. I had always considered my dad as a good human but never in my dreams, I accepted this kind of behaviour by him.

"After our marriage, he used to lock me in a room and beat me until my body got brasses. After returning from office, he would be very much angry and to relief his anger, he would beat me. I had never seen this kind of behaviour of him.

If I would get to know about his true colours, before marriage then I would never agree to marry him. Even I had seen him with other women making out. When he returns, and I asks him about this kind of behaviour, then he would again beat me up saying that I am no one to interfere in his life." She continued and I was not ready to accept it.

It is true that sometimes, dad used to hold mom's fist tightly and would take her to their room, but I never expected that they were doing this in their room.

"Mom, for how much did you knew dad?" I asked her.

"We met during a road trip. On the first day of trip, we got to know each other and on the second day, he proposed me. I said yes as he was talking toe nicely.

When we returned back from there, my brother got to know about our relationship, he asked both of us to marry each other. He said yes, but I could see that he was not interested in this marriage.

After a few moments, when I asked him that why was he sad, then he replied that he was the most happiest person in this entire universe to marry a women like me.