The Imperfect Couple (Complete)

Chapter 12

"Your beautiful eyes show me the door to heaven on earth. The soft red lips are like rose petals.. your face shining with the light of its own. I wonder if I even deserve to be in the vicinity of this unearthly beauty," Romeo said, holding the hand of Juliet in her balcony of the huge white palace of hers.

Turning crimson with every word, Juliet lowered her long eyelashes, smiling blushingly and gazing lovingly into the eyes of her beloved, asked softly. "Really?"

But her eyes widened in disbelief as her love-struck Romeo started transforming into a huge horrendous demon laughing evilly at her sorry state. The devilish Romeo laughed at her foolishness, "But you'll deserve me soon. I'll turn you into the ugliest witch ever". She closed her ears with her hands in frustration as he laughed and laughed and laughed. She shuddered as her beautiful face started changing into the most horrible imagination ever.

"Nooo" her eyes shot open with the painful shriek of Juliet. Controlling her thudding heart she sat up on the bed. It wasn't real. She sighed in relief as she touched her face in front of the mirror.

"Charu ma'am, Adi sir has sent your lunch," a maid said, keeping a tray on the table.

Charu turned at her sudden appearance and nodded slightly. After her lunch, she went out of the room only after checking her reflection almost ten times. Each time she stepped out of the room she rushed back to confirm she was still the same and hadn't turned into an ugly witch.

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Sarojini helped her to get in the car and then sat beside her son.

She had never expected this in the wildest of her imagination. Renuka would have been her own daughter's age if she had any and was suffering from such terrible disease, stomach cancer.

When Sanjay had informed her about Renuka's health condition, she had never expected this could be so terrible.

Their family doctor informed Sanjay in whose hospital Renuka worked as a nurse. And almost immediately they followed the doctor's advice and brought her to the best specialist. An operation was advised, but the doctor said there was some hope but no conformity.

Renuka's feeble voice broke her chain of thoughts "Sarojini Ji, there's one request. Please say nothing regarding all this to Charu."

Sarojini looked at her for a moment uncertain of what to say but the silence was broken by her son "Renuka Ji, she has all the right to know about her mother's ill health."

"Yes, you are right. But consider it my selfishness; I want to die with the same smiling face of my daughter in my memory. I won't be able to see her broken," she completed with utmost effort to maintain her own tears.

"Nothing will happen to you, Renuka. Don't worry," Sarojini tried to pacify her.

Renuka smiled at her weakly and the said, "Maybe. But Charu won't be able to handle such things. Please."

Sarojini squeezed her hands assuring her and nodded in affirmation.

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As she moved slowly towards the masculine physique facing outside, she stupidly wondered if he was the same Romeo devil of her imagination. But her baseless wonderings were soon shut off when he turned around. It was Aditya! Hmm... Charu wasn't a vindictive girl in particular. But right then she silently wished if he would have turned into an ugly devil. Not that she found him very attractive or something right then. But yet she would have felt much better if he would have been a little uglier. Well, he deserved that for abusing her in the first place. She smirked in her mind evilly as she imagined what would have been his so-called female fan following's reaction then.