Chapter 5

You realise sometimes, months or even years after the break, that you, to a major extent were responsible for the end of a wonderful relationship. I have been in such a situation, many a time, when the very thought of how my relationship with Shvetha ended would give me a nightmare. To this date, the fact that I couldn't give Shvetha the solidarity she needed at that point of time could not be accepted by me!

She wasn't exactly the happy, bubbly Shvetha I'd once known now. She was evidently broken. My guess was she wasn't very happy with me around. Then she turned at me. I didn't want her to see the drops of liquid that had formed around my eyes. I looked around, as if I was searching for something. Then she spoke!

"You can't cheat me Dinu. I still remember you."

I turned to her, my eyes swelled up. She nodded with an understanding smile, and wiped the liquid off my eyes. Then she started speaking about her married life, frankly speaking, something I did not have any interest listening to. But it was her speaking, and I was not let with many an option.

She started telling me about she met her eventual husband Mr.Rakesh Goyal in a supermarket in Colarado. She liked him a lot in a few encounters, and when he asked her out, she agreed readily. Then they got married. But that was when the problem began. He was a drunkard, she said. She hadn't known this till she got married. All girls are stupid, I thought! Then, she tried to correct him, but neither did her attempts, nor did rehabs work. The entire tamasha around this issue reached a peak when he went missing. A few days later she got a call saying he was held in India and she could trade him for 25000 million US Dollars. Someone was definitely trying to set his life up, I thought! This, she courted as the reason behind her India visit.