Part 5: RAMAN

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I lift the photo frame as soon I enter the office.
There you are, in a selfie of ours.
In your favorite navy blue Kanjeevaram saree, you  look so radiant, what adorns you most is the white gajra on your head that I had brought for you that day.
I stare at this picture every day when I'm in this office often forgetting that I am in this picture too, happy and complete.
I never get enough of your pictures, the only memories that are left of you today.

How could I have said to you that "you do not deserve to be a mother and that's why you have always remained a barren woman and can never become the mother of my children."
How could I have said that Ishita, how? Why did you not slap me or scold me, why? I remember your facial expressions at that moment how shocked you were, how pained, how broken, but I...

Your death has broken our family. The day when ACP Abhishek came with the news that the plane you have boarded has crashed, a part of all of us died with you.
Our family can never be complete again, never.

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