Chapter 13: chapter 13

Jamuni woke up next morning in the arms of Jogya,She saw that they were lying on the same bed.True love never believe in taking advantage of someone's vulnerability, that is why Jogya did not wake her up from her sleep. He waited for ages to be reunited with his true love but could not even suggest something like this to his true love Jamuni.She decided to tell him about herself so that he could guide her to take the right decision about herself.She was thinking about all her mistakes in life which were drowning her in the ocean of guilt and regret!Suddenly, Jogya woke up and kissed her forehead by wishing her,"Goodmorning Sunshine! I had the best nap of my life, as I slept with my true love last night!"Jamuni teased him by saying,"Please don't say such things in front of my ex-husband and son, otherwise they might feel embarassed once again because of my never-ending mistakes in life!"Jogya told her,"Then let's go and meet your family! I would love to meet them, personally as I want to see the other side of you, in which you were tough like a fighter who never gives up in life!"Jamuni told him,"That would be great as I always wanted you to meet my family!""You have to promise me something before I take up this journey!" Jogya laid his condition in front of his childhood love."Yes, definitely and I have one condition too!" She chuckled."I am serious, Jamuni!" He spoke in a serious tone of voice.Jamuni said, "Me too!"Jogya asked her, "What is your condition, tell me?"She lowered her eyes as she told him, "You will marry me!""What....what did you just say?" Jogya expressed his surprise."Now you tell me about your condition?" Jamuni insisted like a little girl."I will leave this world after solving all your problems!" Jogya told her."Wh...what did you just say, Jog! Are you planning to die!" Jamuni expressed her shock mixed with concern for her friend."I mean to say that I will leave this material world and will go to Himalayas for meditation!" Jogya clarified."That is impossible, Mr. Jog! You can't go anywhere as I will not let you go anywhere as I want to stay with me till my last breath!" Jamuni told him assertively."You said that you have to go somewhere, maybe to a foreign country, so how can I come with you, as I don't want to leave my country in order to live somewhere else forever!" Jogya told her about his condition."I am not going to a foreign country, my love! I am going somewhere else, where my parents went away after they died!" Jamuni finally revealed her future destination to Jogya.He became overwhelmed and hugged her as he asked while fighting back his tears,"What are you saying, Jamuni? Please don't say such things in jest. You know that I can't even live for a single moment without knowing that you are happy and healthy, my dear!"Jamuni cried as she told him,"I am going to die very soon as I am suffering from a brain tumour. Doctors have asked me to say goodbye to all my loved ones, so I came here to meet you for the last time! I have always loved you and one day when I went for a past life regression session, I found out that we are soulmates. In every life, we could never marry each other. In one of our past lives, I had saved your life when an elephant attacked you and I pushed you away from his path. As I died and left my body on this earth, you promised me that one day you will save my life!"Jogya was spellbound by her disclosure and could manage to say to her,"Yes, I saved you from tiger but could not save my own mother that day!""Jogya, please tell me what happened on that day, I always have nightmares and I am unable to sleep as I keep thinking about that incident!" Jamuni told him."Please don't ask me about that incident as  I had promised before my village deity that I will never share that incident with you. I can't break my promise as it is forbidden to do so. Please consider it to be like helping a friend, a friend who is my one and only true love in this whole world!" Jogya confessed to her."Father, what about me? Have you forgotten about your one and only daughter on this earth? I will also come with you as I don't want to live here anymore! I don't believe anyone here as they all say bad things about you and Jamuni Aunty" Jogya's daughter Jamuna said to her father while crying.Jogya said to Jamuna,"Don't cry my sweet daughter,  I know that you care for me so if you want to come with us, I will not stop you. Have you taken permission from your mother, my dear!" Jogya asked her."Yes, father! She asked me to go anywhere as she never loved me as I was a girl and she wanted to have a boy who could help her in farming!" Jamuna cried."So, unfair Jogya! How could Jhilmil say such things! She is also a woman and she humiliates her own daughter for being a woman! I will adopt Jamuna and will give her best education so that she become a strong and self-reliant person in her life! Jamuni told him.Jogya felt happy that her daughter could become a strong and independent person like Jamuni who could take her own decisions in life just like her. He knew that women used to face a lot of difficulties in villages as they do farming, cooking while suffering from the never-ending torture of their husbands and  Mother-in-laws as they always pressurized her to bring more dowry from her parents.He wanted Jamuna to be mentally strong as well as educated so that she could be a shining example for all the girls in her village as well as around the world!