When Love Conquers [COMPLETED]

CHAPTER 6

"FREAK!!! You call me a FREAK. Then what are you! And you! And you! And you! You, you, you, you, you." It was Amaya. Rama turned to look at her as she stood on the corner of the bed, as she took support of the side table. Everyone stared at her as Mantu was about to touch her head, "Amaya, let's..." "No, don't tell me what to do!! It's my life. I will not listen to anyone EVER AGAIN! Even if it's you. I don't want to trust anyone. I was not like this, but you all turned me into this one huge mess or in your words - A FREAK. My own mom, so-called nanaji, my dear husband and his amazing maa.", clapped Amaya as she saved herself from falling. "Amazing!!! First ruined my life, ruined me and then accuse me of reacting bad to your ill treatment." She continued clapping as tears fall from her eyes and she was laughing at the same time. Chaubeyji lost his cool as he started, "WE DID..." "You all call me a freak. When you all are evil. Pure evil. You, who calls himself my... You turned your back to me when I said I don't love Rama, and that I want a divorce. I... I gave my whole life just to save your pety, so-called honour. I lied. I cried. I slept empty stomach for nights. I gave EVERYTHING. I betrayed my own sister, I lost Mantu. The only person, who made Banaras worth living for me, who gave me what I cared the most, his love, I betrayed him...he is still standing up right with me. He fought with his best friend today, because of me. He lost me and I... I lost everything. And you didn't even acknowledge it.", said Amaya as she stood in front of him and clapped on his face. "Amazing work as a Nanaji, Mr. Gajanand Chaubey. I'm glad I didn't know you from the 1st 23 years of my life. I am so glad. Now moving onto this gorgeous, beautiful, selfish, and mean woman, who says that I'm her daughter. Now disowned by the way. I was disowned because I hid her dirty works. I hid her mistakes. A daughter hid her mom's mistakes and was punished by that same mom. How great is THAT. Isn't that supposed to be opposite 'mom'. Huhh... Let's start, shall we. You lied to us for 25 years and still wanted to lie forever. She stopped my only source of happiness... YOU STOPPED MY SISTERS FROM MEETING ME. You kicked me out of her family because... because... I brought disgrace to the family! Urghh!! So what's the difference between you and your mahaan Chaubeyji... Nothing because you both are same. Ditto. You both are nothing but completely selfish, mean, manipulative and evil human beings, nothing else.", said Amaya as she looked at her mom, straight in her eyes. "I so wish, you would have died in place of my Superman. I so wish that. Then, I wouldn't be in such a filthy position in my life as I am today.", said Amaya bitterly as she swiftly changed her gaze towards Sumitra. "You purposefully ruined your son's wedding and life and then blamed everything on me. Insulted me infront of the whole banaras, whole family, everyone. Even slapped me once in the market. Digged a grave, for my self respect and did everything in power to finish me, how can a women be this cruel to a women. Of course, your whole team is for this, bully innocent women so that they silently walk towards that grave. You all made sure that I sleep in an old, stinky dungeon with rats and no light. Made me work 20 hours, 20 hours a day with one tiny meal and no rest. And and when uncle, when he finally wanted to take a stand for me, you even insulted him. And you all call me a FREAK. I AM NOT A FREAK. I AM NOT.", said Amaya as she took a breath in and was continuously stumbling. Tears streamed down Mantu's eyes, as he tried holding her. "That's enough for today... Please rest... Please...", murmured Mantu as he grabbed her shivering body from the shoulders. She shuddered as she jumped away from him in fear and when realised it's Mantu, calmed down. "Fine, I'll not touch you. I'll not touch you. Just please sit. Please." Amaya looked at him, as she walked towards the bed's corner and sat on it. Mantu quickly filled a glass of water for her and handed her. "Please drink some." Tears fell down from her eyes as everything from Mantu's proposal, to her marriage with Rama, to Rama's mom slapping her, to her peaking from a window for just a single glance of Mantu, to her sleeping in the dark dungeon, to rat biting her toe, to her crying in the corner, when truth came out in front of everyone, when she thought she will run to Mantu's house to tell him everything, to her family turning their back on her, to Rama's mom being completely evil, to Rama's back-to-back screaming, yelling, shouting and beating. The glass of water fell from her shivering hands as she closed her ears from stop hearing everything. "NOOOO!!! NOOO!!!", screamed Amaya as she fell to the floor, curling into a small ball. Mantu fell on his knees, near her as he held her hands and forced her to open the eyes. After a few minutes of struggle, by Mantu, Rachita, Jazz, doctor and nurses, doctor quickly gave her an injection which calmed her down. She was in Mantu's arms when she came out of her trance. Amaya was breathing heavily. She looked at Rama but Mantu realised that she was not that afraid anymore. She tried standing up with Mantu's help. "Amaya..." "I'm fine, Mantu... I'm fine. I'm just as fine as Rama used to be after beating me to sleep. Remember Rama... Remember.", she said. "Remember me crying to sleep with all the bruises and pain you gave every... every single night. Remember me saying that just because your mom bears all your tantrums, doesn't mean every woman will. I meant it. Remember me saying, just because your world revolves around your mom and her's revolve around you; doesn't mean that the whole world revolves around you and your wants. I meant it. I meant every single word I said to you, when I brought those divorce papers, a week ago.", said Amaya as she stumbled again because of the injection. "Amaya, you are not fine. Please stop it.", begged Rachita as she helped Mantu to support Amaya. "No! I was quiet for months di. I silently suffered everything just for these stupid people's happiness. I should have left the day you knew everything, that was my mistake. But not today, I'll speak until I drop.", said Amaya as she looked at Rama with disgust. "You are a 26 year old monster, who is even worse that Ravan. And...and the irony is you were named after the God who defeated him. Hahahah. A 26 year old and still never earned a single penny in your whole life, still make your mother feed you from her hands and YOU ARE A FAILURE. YOU ARE A FAILURE. And you thought I'll love you. You! I loved a man (pointing at Mantu), after that you are a total disgrace. You thought, just because I'm learning how to cook, I want this marriage to work. Ahh! I did it, because your mom blackmailed me. I learnt how to cook, not because I wanted this marriage to work, but to see my di happy. I never even got a single slap from my father but I got myself beaten up from you, your belt, your vases, your hands, your chain, your stick, your every possible thing you could see in that room, to keep my family happy. And somewhere because I thought I deserved it, as my karma of betraying Mantu. You were never a type of guy I could fell in love with, because you are a selfish, obsessive, crazy, maniac person who is nothing more than a disgrace as a man. I have worked more in my life, even though, I was a pampered child of my Superman, I lived all alone in a foreign land and came back with stardom. I earned my 1st paycheck when I was 15! And when we lost everything, I was the one who got the job first. I earned more than you until you asked me to leave my job. How pathetic. That's who I am and not a freak. You know who is actually a freak. You are because you thought, beating your wife is MANLY. You thought, not speaking up for your wife is right. You thought, coming home drunk and cursing her in the night was right. You thought, abusing your father mentally was right. You thought, locking her in a dungeon for 2 days without any food or water was not cruel. You thought pulling her hair till I bleed was right. You thought of forcing me to hide each and every scar you gave me every night and work all day only to get beaten again, as if nothing happened was my duty. You thought forcing her to sleep with you is right and justified.", screamed Amaya at the top of her lungs as she stumbled again. She was shivering but she knew, if she will not say anything today, she will never be able to move on again. She will stuck here on this incident forever. She knew, that if she will not say anything then something like this will happen to someone else and she can't let that happen. Goosebumps crept along Mantu's body as he heard everything. Every single one was silent in the room, as if they were not even breathing. Rachita was horrified and devastated as she sat on the hospital bed as Amaya's bruised hand was in hers. She wanted to reset everything back to her wedding. Or if possible when her dad was alive. She finally knew, what made her sister, turn to stone. Jazz tightened her grip on Mantu's hand as her specs got blurry with all the crying. She never respected Amaya the way she respected Rachita and always considered her the most selfish one, but oh boy! she was wrong. She observed how thin and weak her sister is now. Bones were popping out of her body. Her eyes were bulging and she was a mess. Sumitra rolled her eyes as she said, "Everyone goes through something or the other in a marriage, we never made an issue out of that. Anyways, now that you are not a part of this family, are you done with your speech, so that we can leave." Rachita, Jazz, Mantu, doctors etc. looked at her incredulously as Amaya smiled a sad smile. "You are right, something or the other does happen in a marriage, and 2 people work it out. But the truth it, this was never a marriage, I was a part of a deal, I was an object in this marriage. And look you won. See, what you turned me into. You did turn me into an object. You made an ambitious, chirpy, bubbly, always smiling, positive; super dad's supergirl into.... into a woman who doesn't even have a single tiny, teeny desire to live, forget ambitions or a smile. I am dead. I'm gone and you know; I will. ", said Amaya as the latter part came as a whisper. She broke the mangalsutra from her neck as she walked towards Rama as placed it in his pocket. He looked at her as she rubbed the sindoor of her maang (how much little it was). She takes a deep breath as tears run down her cheeks. She looks at Rama straight in his eyes as she says, "Now that we are on our seperate ways. I am saying this to as Ms. Amaya Mathur. Don't even dare to harm my sisters or any other woman, otherwise, your eyes will taken out their sockets and I MEAN IT." And with that, Amaya walks back to the corner of the bed. Her heartbeat was so high that it was drumming in her ears, but she knew she had to say this last thing as well. "Now that the thing of me being dead is established, please don't expect me to fulfill any of your selfish stuff. I'm stupid, dumb, useless and a freak so you don't need me anyway. So the thing is, you all will never ever see my face again. I'll go away, I'll leave. If I'm a shame, I'm... I'm disgrace, so I'll leave. So that you all live together happily, and I can do whatever I want to do with my life. Stay happy or kill myself, anything. Any... Anything.", said Amaya as she lost her balance and fell in Mantu's arms. "Amaya... Amaya.." screamed Mantu as he patted her cheek. "Everyone just leave the room, please. Everyone, expect Mantu.", said the doctor as Mantu quickly placed Amaya on the bed. Rama left the room in anger followed by his mom and one by one everyone left, last being Jazz and Rachita. Only Mantu and Amaya where in the room with the doctor. Doctor was checking everything as Mantu stared at her scars. Some were new, some were old. "She is fine, she just dozed of because of her high dose of medicine, that injection will help her sleep as deeply as possible.", said the Doctor as she removed her stethoscope while the nurses covered Amaya with a blanket. Mantu nodded as doctor walked out of the room. He continued staring and crying at her scars, until he too dozed off with her hand in his.