Call Me Wicked

8. Stolen Fruit Part 1

"Hello Anu?" Meera called
"Yes, what happened?" Anu replied
"Please Anu come to me. I can't bear this anymore."
"Okay, okay, I am coming. Don't cry."

It's been 12 days since Meera is released from the hospital. Almost everyday Meera being frantic calls Anu to come to her place. Chinmay, as the child is called, has started growing two front teeth. His growth is abnormally fast and Meera worries about it too much. There is a certain nurse who lives with Meera to take care of the baby. The nurse is too much sceptic of the childs growth but she stays silent because of Chirag. Chirag pays a visit everyday and even proposed to quit the case. He is willing to accept Meera and Chinmay. But this time Meera is reluctant.
"But why? You still love Chirag and he is the person who makes you happy. Then why aren't you going back to him?" Nabanil asked.
"Its because he only loves Chinmay not me. And I think its better to stay than surviving in an unloved marriage." Meera replied.
Abhay is aware of his baby but he never came to look at it. He is better off without his responsibilities.
On the day of the hearing the judge again asked Meera the same question.
"Mrs Meera, your husband wanted to accept you again then why did you reject him?"
"Your honour if I feel that his love for me is back, I will be definitely back then."
"And Mr. Chirag, why are you willing to adopt the baby and accept your wife?" the judge asked to Chirag.
"Well your honour I know that nothing is gonna be the same again. But still Meera is the women I loved once and maybe at some corner of my heart I still love her. And I cant see her child growing in a fatherless atmosphere. I just want to give that innocent life a family and an atmosphere that he deserves. That's it." Chirag replied.
The relationship at one point when Chirag was trying to repair, Meera was reluctant to go back. Chirag considered it as a sort of Meera's intrigue but there was something else going on Meera's mind.
Chinmay's abnormal health and hunger gave rise to suspicions in Meera's brain which lead her to a research. Meera knew from her birth that she was born sick and her parents to avoid knowing her sick never clicked any pictures of her until she became 6 months old. Meera, with the help of Anu went to the hospital where she was born and discovered something horrible. Meera was also born abnormally big that her growth was also remarkably fast. And that the when she thought she became 6 months, she was actually 15 days older. But the hospital has no information of how she regained her natural form.
"Could you just not ask your mother about it?" Anu asked.
"I don't know. When my parents got this information that I am pregnant with Abhay's child they disowned. I really don't know what to do?"
"Atleast call her once. Ask her." Anu again said.
Meera called her mother and what she, discovered shook her head.