The Draped Assassin

Chapter 10

   I'm currently lying on the bed unable to sleep anymore. The clock says it's 6:00 am in the morning. It's been 36 hours since we arrived at Goa. And I've done nothing except for changing the bandages twice, how am I supposed to sleep? Even though Raghu's beach house was a dream place, I was bored. I wanted to visit the beach and sit on the warm sand.

    I spent another half an hour staring at the ceiling before deciding to wake Gopal up, whose sleeping like a baby beside me. Cute. I shook him vigorously, which ended with a sharp pain shooting from my shoulder to neck. "Ow!" And that was what woke him up. "Are you okay?" Gopal asked in his morning voice unable to open his eyes completely. "I'm hungry." I said. Gopal looked at me for sometime before setting his head back to his pillow and said, "You are just bored, Rani. Go back to sleep, you took sleeping pills last night, if you don't sleep well, you're going to have a really bad day." He said, before closing his eyes. I waited for few more minutes for him to say something, but he was asleep. Great! If he can't make me anything to eat, then I will make one myself.

      I made my way towards the kitchen by limping all the way, and using walls and furnitures as a support. Once I was in the kitchen, I made my way towards the cabinets, but it seems like my height wasn't enough for reaching the cabinet. I looked around and found a small stool lying on the floor. I placed it below the cabinet and climbed it up. Once I found the cup noodles that I want to eat, I turned around and everything went spining around me. Uh-oh. With that I fell on the floor on my side."Ahh...!" I let out a groan as I felt the pain was shooting through my whole body.

   "Rani! What the fuck?!" Gopal's voice reached my ears. Thank God. I looked up and said, "I feel like some bandages have opened up." Gopal then bent down, and picked me up, and set me down on the kitchen island. He then lifted up my top to see the bandages on my ribs were getting bloodied. He rush back to the bedroom and return with new bandages and the medicines. He helped me take off my top and started cutting the old bandage with a scissors. I looked at his hands and it was shaking, which wasn't a good sign. Gopal was pissed.
   
     "Gopal, you can go back to sleep, I'll do the rest." I said, unsure of his reaction. And he stayed quiet. Damn. I waited for few more minutes, and said again, "Gopal, go back to sleep. It's okay, I can do it myself." I pleaded. Gopal paused for a few seconds, balled his hands into a fist, and took a deep breath, then got back on working on my bandages. This isn't good.
  
   Once he was done, he got up and started leave, I caught his hands, which he just jerked away. I tugged his shirt again trying to explain myself, "Gopal, litsen.." with that a heavy slap landed on my left cheek. What just happened? Then I looked back at him, feeling the tears have already started to flow down my cheeks.  Gopal looked at me, and let out the fake laugh, "You are going to cry now. That's great, go ahead, nobody's stopping you, because it would be useless to do so. Nobody can put any word in the thick head of yours once you decide what you want to do." He shouted at the last part, making me flinch. He's the scary Gopal I don't like. "Gopal, please litsen to me, I didn't thought I'd fall down." I tried to say that between my sobs. "Of course baby, you didn't. Then why didn't you fucking litsen to me when I said you stay in bed! The situation that you are in right is the situation I've been in countless times." He snarled. To which I started crying even more. "Tsk tsk, what a pathetic child you are, Ranjana. You know what, I blame your parents for this, they gave you everything you wanted, you never had to hear a no. And don't look at me like you are surprised, you asked for it. Just because I'm considerate about you, made you think like you can do whatever the fuck you want and I'll let you go away with that. Tell me one thing, Ranjana, do you get any sort of pleasure creating troubles for me?" He said try to keep his voice calm. This was enough.
I wiped my tears away, and said, trying to get off the kitchen island, "You know why I'm like this, because doing shits like this makes me feel like I still have some control over my life. If you ask me, I've never wanted to be here on the first place. You should have killed me that night, it would have been way better. Trust me after they left me in the torture room, I felt like I will die, and I was so happy, finally, I'll be out of this mess. Their assault, their torture on me wouldn't have counted if I died that night. I regret waking up, and walking around like a fucking handicap, who even needs someone else's help to shower. And if you feel like I'm troubling you, feel free to kill me when I'm sleeping, because trust me I hate my life more than anyone else, but I'm too afraid to end it myself." With that I limped out of the room as fast as I can, and locked myself in the bedroom, before crouching down on the floor and breaking down on the floor.

   He was fucking right, I was stubborn, I was spoilt, but atleast I am more of a human than him. I would never get any satisfaction from killing people. He knew nothing about love and affection and warmth, he was born in this world, but I wasn't. I was born in a world of hope and light, and that's where I grew up. One that world of my was shattered and the I was dragged into his world. I kill people to ensure my safety, I get intimate with a man I know would never love me, why because he's the only one who still show me something near love. What have I become?

    After after an hour or two, there was a knock at the door. "Rani, open up. Litsen, I'm sorry. I don't want you to get hurt again and again." I didn't answered him. "Rani, I know this is very hard for you, but I don't want you to die. I can't see you in pain anymore." Gopal quavered. Is he crying? "I know I'm a monster, and I love what I do, I can't deny that. But I also can't deny the fact that I can't lose anyone anymore, I can't lose you. You mean too much to me." He's speaking the truth. "And for god's sake, Rani, I can never hate you. Infact, it's rather the opposite." He laughed at the last part. Please don't say it. A part of me wanted him to say the rest of it, and the other part wanted to stop him from saying it.

  "I'm in love with you, Rani."

With that I got up and open the door, to see Gopal sitting on the floor, with red eyes occurred due to crying. I crouched in front of him a looked into his eyes, deciding what should I do next. After few seconds I took a deep breath, and said "Ahh! Fuck it! I love you too!" With that I pulled him into a kiss. And he responded immediately after pulling me into his laps.

  Ma, tell me I'm crazy to love him.

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