It is just another day in my married life, where I woke up early and prepared the breakfast to my husband and sitting in the balcony thinking about how my life has turned into a 360 degrees.
A lazy smile formed on my lips when I looked at my reflection in the mirror adorned to the wall opposite to me.
I can hear lazy footsteps from the stairs adjacent and I prepared myself to witness another impassive look from my husband. Even though our marriage happened all of a sudden, I am giving all my heart and soul to stay in the marriage but I can't see any efforts from the other side.
"Ramu kaka, where is the breakfast? I am getting late for my meeting" is what I heard when I stepped into the dining room.
The expression on his face changed immediately as he looked at me, as if I am some creepy creature. I don't know why he dislike me so much. He never spoke to me when we are alone other than those which I listened after our marriage took place.
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One year ago
When I was getting ready to go to my office, my father called me and announced "Moksha you're going to get married to Suhas Raj. The marriage will take place in a week, please take leave from the office for the same"
Our family is old traditional family, where we still abide to whatever our Parents wish for.
All my life, I have followed whatever my Father and Mother want from me. The only wish I have in life is to chose my profession, my life partner and my home.
I still remember how upset my father was when I told him that I want to pursue Chartered Accountancy. He is so upset that he still won't talk to me like he used to talk to me before.
With all the efforts and dedication I put in, however I have completed the toughest course I feel and secured a job in one of the Big accounting firms. Everything is going on well in the life suddenly I had to hear this from Father.
But if I think wisely, due to all the time spent in books, I don't have a boy in my life whom I can show to the world as my "significant other". So, if my parents want me to get married, I am fine. I just want to meet him once in person to understand. It is not like I don't trust my parents but I just want to know that he is not forced to marry me.
When I tried reaching him, he is unavailable the whole week. But I received a mail from him that he is awaiting for the marriage and happy to marry me.
With his mail, I felt relieved that I am not going to be any burden in his life.
A week followed we got married in court with immediate family members including My Parents and Brother and His Parents and Brother.
Once we got married, we were forced by both the families to go spend some alone time in Maldives.
I had a sick feeling that I did some mistake as I started receiving cold looks from my husband. I tried smiling at him whenever our eyes met. I felt like, all this marriage is big thing and he is tensed or something of that sort, so left the issue.
Once we checked into our suite, I just wanted to talk to him freely asking him for some time to understand him, be friends and then fall in love with each other. Because I believe, for a true relationship and a family, trust and understanding is required and friendship and love are the ingredients.
When I turned to look at him, I observed him taking the glares and his eyes are blood red.
He immediately pinned me to the wall behind and shouted "WHY? WHY DID YOU MARRIED ME? DON'T YOU GET A HINT THAT I DON'T WANT TO GET MARRIED TO YOU, WHEN I REJECTED EACH OF YOUR MEETING INVITATIONS? YOU PROVED ME WRONG. DON'T EVER TALK TO ME. WE ARE STRANGERS WHO ARE GOING TO LIVE UNDER ONE ROOF. REMEMBER THAT."
