Three days had gone by since I had shifted to my dad's place. Amit never even tried to contact me once. It was my duty to give him time to heal and that was exactly what I had done. Instead, I took refuge in my books. I stayed in my room, away from the nosy neighbours. I knew that eventually I would have to come out; I was not ready for that yet.
I got distracted from the book I was reading when my phone rang. It was Amit.
"I called the pandit today." He said as I attended the call.
"Oh, I had not thought about that." We were to offer food to the poor on the twelfth day after the death of a family member.
"I also talked to your father today. We decided to offer food to the children of 'Little flower
Orphanage'."
"Okay."
"He said that he'll come there with you and your brothers. We will meet there."
"Okay. I will see you then." We both had nothing more to say to each other and so we ended the call.
My heart warmed up when I saw the kids at Little Flower. How could people abandon sweet kids like those? I could not stop thinking of my Rishi that day. If only he was there with me, I would not be in the pain I was in.
Days passed by and I was learning to live without my son. I also felt like Amit was trying to learn to live without not just him, but also me. It was as if he had forgotten about me, he never called. I had called him a few times and he gave me the cold shoulder.
"Hi" I spoke into the phone.
"Is there something wrong?"
"No Amit, I just wanted to talk to you."
"Well, if it is not something important, then I am going to end this call. I am in the middle of something here."
"Just wanted to know how you are? You know after all that has happened."
"Well, everything is happening for a reason right? I had better go now. I will call you later."
"Okay, take care."
He did not bother saying anything and cut the call.
That night I cried myself to sleep. What did I do wrong to deserve such a hard life? Wasn't losing my son painful enough that my husband had to start acting like this?
"How long is she going to stay here?" I heard my dad ask my brother.
"What is wrong in that dad? This is her house."
"No Karthik, I did not mean it like that. I do not have a problem with her staying here But.."
"But what dad?"
"People have started talking. Mr. Sharma asked me last day why she was staying here?"
"Since when do you care about what others think?
I felt like I should not be listening to them, but I could not move from the spot.
"I do not."
"And you should not. Coming here was her choice. If she has to leave, that should also be her choice."
"I get it son, but."
"No dad, we should not be even talking about this"
"Fine son."
Thankfully, both of them had not noticed me there. I decided to call Amit, again.
"What is it now Kavya?"
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