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As the autumn leaves cascaded between our floating emotions, there were only two things that I could focus right then.
The mundane sky above me and his pale eyes staring back at me, staring back at time. and sadly I couldn't hold the time together, the void was spaced and huge. It was eating me up inside only if I knew it before I would have left soon.
Our life was quite different back and today the it has turned too suffocating, almost toxic, if I could say loud.
Marriage was a simple word between two people, but the actual thing inside was killing me slowly like a poison. His words were only venoms dripping from his lips, and his looks were the stare of an eagle, I was his only prey.
"You see. You were a good girl back then but now it seems you totally don't listen to me", his eyes were Crimson red and legs shaking terribly like a maniac. A drunken maniac.
And I was ready for it, his huge hands coming in contact with my cheeks, my eyes tearing up, bleeding lips and another scar to my already bruised face.
But I was used to this, used to his after 'love you' when he stops with his act.
And there was me before this dawn, struggling hard with my emotions if I should let go or not.
"You have to understand him", my mom used to say me several times over the call as I would cry my heart out.
But not anymore. It was enough for me now. This dawn was a never ending one and the only solution to it was getting out from it, letting the after happen.
"Yes, I am a bad girl now. I do not listen to you anymore. You know why? Because I can't and I am not listening again", I stammered a lot between my words facing him with a strong heart.
Eyes pouring out the rivers down, but I continued with it
"I- I can't do this anymore Veer. Y-you were my love. But now I can't just tolerate your merciless tortures. I am done with it. Just let me go", my lips curving out in a pale smile knowing it was a final good bye. Knowing I was ending this, the marriage, our bond, everything.
His face suddenly turned white like of a ghost, eyes sparkling with unheard emotions, there he was. A worried Veer Rajput, my husband, my abuser.
"N-no you can't do that to me Sonakshi", he said with a gloomy voice almost breaking at the end. I knew he was fearing but I had to leave anyway.
"I can. And I will do it", I said sobbing harder. You can never let an abuser bruise you with your Already scarred soul. My mind started playing the lines I read that morning
Before the Dawn, I left the house with a fearless smile hoping for the after to happen.
