Punguzhali Pov:
I looked back, there he stood.
"Thiraviam you don't know what they actually did. This woman who is so called your wife actually a barren." his mom said.
He looks at me.
"We were asking her to get out of the house. And also asking her to sign the divorce papers which we will be sending soon to her."
He walks towards me and stood beside me.
And grabbed the bag from my hand.
"When one didn't did any mistake he/she shouldnt be crying. Haven't you read about it?" he asks me.
I didn't replied anything.
He just wiped my tears.
I looked at him.
"Thiraviam what are you doing with her?. Leave her, ask her to leave the hou...." his mom started.
"She will not be going anywhere." this time he said.
"Thiraviam she is not suitable for you. Besides they all are lied..."
He cut her off.
"She told me everything about her syndrome. Am aware of everything." he shouts.
"But why thiraviam?. Why did you married her then?. What..."
"Mom, I prefer speaking in private instead of speaking in front of all the people about our family issues." he says.
"But mapilai, we were just telling for your goodness." my dad's sister again started.
"Oh really, thank you so much for your concern. I will handle my family matter well, so please will you get out of my home?" he smilingly asked her.
She looked shocked at him.
"What she has done to you thiraviam?. Why are you supporting her?." his side relative asked him.
"Aunty, I think uncle must waiting in home. So will you please...." he trailed off.
"I think I clarified everyone." he shouts this time which made everyone to leave the house.
My parents are all there.
"We can't have here as the daughter in law." his mom started.
He sighed.
"Look mom, she explained everything about her syndrome to me beforehand. Even she doesn't knows that you guys don't know about it. I knew it, upon knowing only I accepted for this marriage."
"Thiraviam are you out of your mind or what?. She is nothing but a barren wom..."
"Stop calling her like with that name. She has a name so call her as punguzhali or Mrs. Thiraviam. That's it." he shouts back at her.
I looked at him.
Why?
Why he is supporting me?
Even he didn't leaved his hold on my hand.
I looked at mumma, who is smiling with her tears.
"Thiraviam, we wanted you to have a good life. We won't allow you to have her as your wife. She can't even sati... S.. Satisfy your needs." his mom said.
I looked away.
"Mom will you stop speaking about my private matters in open?. Did I ever said anything about my wife?. No right. You wanted me to married, and now am married that's it."
"But son..." his dad started but he cut him off.
"Enough is enough everyone."
"No one. I repeat no one should disrespect or speak ill about her in this house." he hsiuts.
He then turned towards my mom.
"Your daughter is my wife aunty. You can go to your home. Don't worry she will be treated with utmost respect. And am sorry for whatever happened here. " he says with that he started to walk and grabbed me along with him.
I kept looking at him.
I turned away and looked back at everyone. Everyone is shocked but my mumma alone is smiling.
As soon as we reached our room. He locked the room and left my hand. Then he entered into the bathroom.
After sometime he walked out in a fresh clothes.
Then he wlkaed out of the room.
What is it happening here?.
I just grabbed my head and kept processing all the happenings. Without knowing my tears wer kept rolling down my eyes.
"Here" I heard his voice after some 10 mins.
I looked up.
"Have your coffee." he says.
"It will ease your headache." he says.
I kept looking at him
"Why are you supporting me?" I asked him.
"Because you are my wife" he says.
"Is it to avoid another marraige?" I aksed him.
"Well you got it really quick" he says.
Atleast he accepted.
"I don't prefer having a conversation at this time. Better take rest now,but before that change into some comfortable dress." he says while taking out his laptop.
I kept looking at him.
"I know am handsome, but you know looking at someone for this long is really a bad manner." he says.
I glared at him.
"Who said that you are a handsome." I retarded at him.
"Now that's the punguzhali I know" He says with a smile.
I looked shocked.
What?
Without saying anything I just lied down on the bed after changing into a normal chudidhar, and slept by turning away from him.
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"Mumma how will be the period experience?" I aksed mumma when I was on my 1st semester holiday
"It will be a horrible pain" my sister says.
"Oh" I says.
"It's not like that ammu not everyone is same right. So the pain will also vary, some will experience so much of pain. Some will experience a less pain." mumma says.
"But you are lucky akka. You are not going to endure that pain ever. You will be happy, because you are not going to bleed in your lifetime." shivani says.
"Shivani, go and fold your clothes." mumma shouts at her.
"Look ammu, go and study. You have to be a strong woman ammu." she says to me.
Its her who wanted me to be a independent woman.
I entered into my room only to cry.
"I wanted to experience it. Why everyone is saying that am lucky?. Only if they knew. I too want to be like a ordinary girls. I don't feel myself as a woman. Am not a woman. Am not. "i says manically.
After that incident happened in my school, everyone stopped speaking with me. And am glad on it.
"Akka athai came" my sister calls me from outside.
After washing my face, I walked out only to meet her.
"Have this Shivani" She says to shivani while handing her a chocolate bar.
I walked towards my mumma.
"How are you Punguzhali?" She asked me.
"Fine athai" I says.
"Soon she will finish her studies, then how we are planning to marry her off Anna?" she asked my dad.
"No one will accept her for sure." my dad says.
My heart hurted.
"But I think we can marry her off for second marriage or something. The groom who is already having a children and who wanted a wife only to take of his child not as his partner. Since punhuzhali can't even satisfy any man's needs. " she says.
"Anni will you stop saying like these?" my mumma shouts while closing my ears.
My tears started to flow down.
I hugged mumma tightly.
How many flaws am having?. What is this now?.
My lips started to quiver.
"Mumm.. Mumma" I cryingly says.
She took me inside my room. I immediately lied on her lap as soon as she sits.
"Shh ammu, you are my love right. Look my punguxhali is a strong girl, she will not cry ever. What did I said to my ammu?. That everyone around us will only to try to pull us down. But a strong girl will always don't give any heads up to other's words right?. And what did I told to you?. "she aksed me.
" I has to be a independent girl" I says to her.
"That's my daughter."
"What my daughter want to become?"
"Nurse"
"Good girl." she says. She kept running her fingers until I slept off on her.
Now I want to sleep on your lap mumma. My tears were kept rolling down my eyes.
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"Punguzhali" I heard his voice. I immediately wiped away my tears.
Then I looked back at him.
"Come let's go" he asks me.
I confusedly looked at him.
"What are you looking for?"
"Where are you asking me to come?" I asked him.
"Trust me, I won't leave you in some abondaned place. I needed you, so that I won't get married for a third time right" he says.
I glared at him.
"I don't want to come anywh...."
He just grabbed me.
"Arghh" I squealed.
"Come let's go" with that he grabbed me out of the room.
"Atleast let me allow to change in some cloth. "
"This attire is the perfect"
"Atleast let me grab my phone." but no he didn't gave any heads up to my words instead he took me along with him.
I looked at the clock only to see the time as 12 clock in night.
What?
"Where are we going in this midnight?" I asks him.
But all he did is grabbing me along with him out of the house. Once we reached his car, he stopped.
"Am not going to come" I shouts at him.
"Wait here. " he says and runned inside the garage.
"What bike?" I asks him
"Yes, hop on it" he asked me.
"Tell me where are you taking me?"
"I asked you to trust me right?" he says.
"I don't trust you. " I says to him. But in deep down I trust him, when he didn't leave me, as soon as his family asked me to leave him.
"I know it." he says to me.
"But will you please hop on?" he asks me.
Without saying anything I hoped on the bike.
"Thank you" he says before riding.
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"Why are we in beach?" I asked him.
"Mmmm" he hummed and asked me to get down.
He took the helmet and grabbed my hand and starts to walk to the beach.
"Anna, two sweet corn" he asks a uncle who is still present here in the beach who is darling the corns.
I looked at the beach properly. Mm still few couples were in beach.
"Thank you" he says to the shopkeeper and pays.
"Why are we here?" I asks him, as he made me to sit on the sand near the water.
"Have this. " he ayas while showing me a corn.
"Am not in a mood to have any..... " before I says, but he just stuffed the corn on my mouth.
"I know you are hungry"
"Am not. " exactly at the moment my stomach growled.
Shit.
"I said right?" he smirks.
"Eat" he says. Without arguing with him, I started to eat the corn.
"Isn't is taste soo good?" he asks me.
"Mmmm. " I hummed at him.
"Why did you took me here?" I asks him.
"This is the place I usually comes whenever am not feeling good." he says.
I looked at him.
"To feel good. " he added.
"Why did you helped me?" I asked him again.
He didn't replied anything.
"Look. First am sorry on behalf of everyone in our family. Partially its my mistake is there for marrying you without letting them know, even after getting to know that they aren't aware of it. " he says.
"As I said earlier you are my responsibility. True I won't love you or accept you ever. But I did married you. It's not like you married me without letting me know the truth right?. Instead you informed me everything."
"If I didn't stepped in there, then am not a human being at all. Am sorry again for watever happend. As I said earlier I thought you will be the perfect to share a life atleast on papers, since you are not wanted to get married, and the same goes for me. That's why I married you without informing my family about this anything even after kowing that they aren't aware of your syndrome. "
I didn't asked him any further.
We both sits there for some time.
"You can share me whatever is making you feel bad. Am a good listener." he said.
I looked at him.
"I can be a good friend too." he says.
"I never seen your friends in this 6 months." I aks him.
He laughed.
"Really you did asked me this question?."
"Yes, you were saying that you can be a good friend. But I never seen any of your friends ever." I aksed him.
"They are in other countries" he says smilingly.
"Maybe I can do one thing" he says and turned towards me.
"Hy what are you doing?" I squealed at him as he just turned me to face him.
"How about we both become a friends?" he asks me.
"Are you sure you didn't got into any accident in this 3 months of your visit on London?" I asks him.
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