chapter 36

I entered my home and then to my room. I closed the door and exploded into tears, “Divya, what have you done? How could you do that? Why did you ruin your life? When you slept with Vicky, it was still fine because you loved him. But what you have done today, you will never be able to forget it. You will never be able to forgive yourself. You committed a blunder, Divya! You have hurt your soul this time!”The next day, I took a leave from school. I said to my mom that I wanted to study at home. My mom agreed. But the real reason was that I was mentally extremely hurt. I wanted some time for myself.At home, to make my mom believe that I was really studying, I kept a book open on my table. I sat on a chair and kept on looking at the book, sometimes flipping pages. She really believed that I was studying. At times, she prepared coffee and tea for me so that I would not get tired. Time passed. I looked at the clock. It had struck five p.m. A few calls and messages of Sahil also came before. I neither picked up his call nor replied to him. My mobile phone rang again. I looked at it. This time it was a call from Vaishali. I picked up her call. She said, “Hello Divya, how are you?”Divya - I guess fine.Vaishali - Why didn’t you come today? I said in a dull weak voice, “I was not well.”Vaishali - What happened? Are you okay? I said honestly, “No, I am not okay.”Vaishali - You didn’t pick any call from Sahil. He also called you.The tears started rolling down my cheeks, “Vaishali, I need you. Can you please come to me?”Vaishali - Now?Divya - Yeah, I really need your help right now.Vaishali - Can we meet tomorrow? I am busy now. I cried, “Please come na. You are my friend. You should help me in my difficult times.”Vaishali - But what happened? Tell me something about that. Divya - I can’t tell you on the phone. Please come. She agreed, “Okay, I am coming.”After about thirty minutes, she reached my home. No sooner did she enter my room than I hugged her tightly. My tears started trickling down on her shoulder. She was taken aback to see me in such a condition. She said, concerned, “Hey, what happened to you.” I tried to tell her but my emotions got the better of me and I broke down.She encouraged me, “Don’t worry. Everything will be alright. I am with you. First, tell me what happened.” I cried, “My life is over, Vaishali. I am finished!”Vaishali - But what happened? There is nothing in the world that can destroy your life. She comforted me, sometimes acting like my mother and sometimes like an elder sister. She took about ten minutes to successfully calm me down. When I got fully relaxed, she asked very nicely and affectionately to tell her my full story. I narrated my full story to her. Vaishali - Oh no, it’s really very sad. Divya - Finally, he made love with me. I wanted to stop him. I wanted to slap him but then I remembered your story how he hit one boy with a baseball bat, I remembered how ruthless he is. I also remembered that he could ruin my face by acid attack. I got scared, I mean very scared. I could not muster the courage to mess with him. I had to succumb to his lusty desires.She was stunned to hear that. I felt her body froze because my story was very tragic. I waited for about three minutes to hear her. But she was still sitting still like a statue. Divya - What happened to you? Why are you not saying anything? She said, her voice wavered, “Divya, I want to say one thing to you.”I felt as if she was about to disclose a secret, “What?”She said in a timid voice, “Promise me, you will not feel bad after hearing it.”Divya - I am not getting. What are you saying? She insisted, “First promise me.”Divya - Okay, I promise.She quickly said, closing her eyes, “I was just kidding you about Sahil. I haven’t heard any such stories of his. I thought I would tell you the reality later on. But I didn’t know my little prank would end in such a tragic way!”Now, I was shaken up to my spine. My full body got paralyzed for a couple of seconds. Her eyes were still closed. Perhaps, she felt that I was going to slap her but I didn’t. She slowly opened her right eye looked at me. I had become a statue. She became a little confident to see that I didn’t react aggressively. She opened her second eye also, caught her ears and said, “Divya, I am extremely sorry. Please don’t feel bad. You already promised me that. I really didn’t know that it was about to end in such a tragic way.”I was still a statue. I felt as if my full body and mind went into a coma. She added, “Don’t worry. Sometimes, these things happen. I promise you, I will throw him out of your life forever. He will not even look at you, let alone disturb you.”My mind had become overcrowded with thousands of thoughts, “I simply slept with him. There was no reason to fear him. I could have easily slapped him. I could have easily saved my body. I let him do whatever he wanted to do. There was no reason at all. Just because of her stupid prank, I lost my pride. Now what to do? Whatever should not have happened, has happened.”She took a risk and shook me by my shoulders, “Are you alright, Divya?” I answered with an expressionless face, “Yes.” She thought, “Thank God, she is alright and has not turned aggressive.”(It will be so nice of you, if you leave at least a single word comment and please don't forget to follow me and become my superfan. You will be able to read all the locked parts of all my series for free and you will also be able to chat with me and my superfans directly.)