“I can understand your feeling completely towards me. You have to put indeed an effort to come to my home like this and talk with him. I am extremely sorry what I did to her on that day and thank you that you ultimately decided to come and see me.” Once Anirudh on the bed and Chandan in the chair opposite to him nearby to the bed settled, Anirudh said. That chair was folded and in a corner in that room before Chandan came into that and Anirudh unfolded it and laid it for him.
“That was an old story, an incident took place and cannot be undone. Anyhow amends has been made to it and the parties to it are at peace. I am not intended to talk about that now and I have no anger on you also. In fact.....” Chandan paused for a moment as if to reiterate whatever he was going to say. “...........I wish a very happy marital life to you and my sister.”
“Thank you, thank you very much!” Anirudh’s face was suddenly brightened with a happy expression. “I never have expected that I can hear something like that from you.”
“But .....” the sudden serious expression on the face of Chandan made Anirudh alert. Then he remembered what Chandan said. He said that he wanted to have some private and confidential talk, what that could be? What that could be that he did not want even his sister to know? While his heart was with a sort of fear Chandan was saying. “.........I came here to talk something very important and serious.”
“Just express yourself with a free heart.” Trying not to show his inner fear on his face, Anirudh said. “It appears that you are feeling anxious for something and I expel your fear just in seconds.”
“I wish and hope that it would so.” Chandan said. “I come to the point straight. How much of control that rogue Tarang wielding on you now?”
“What does that mean?” Anirudh knitted his brows together.
Chandan got off from the bed, came near to Anirudh and looked straight into his face.
“I know that Tarang has been helping you and you always feel obliged to him. I think because of that, in obligation to him, you have participated in that horrendous activity on that day. Is it is just so now also?”
“I agree with you on one thing. That Tarang used to have control on me and in fact he forced me to rape your sister on that day. That was such a moment I could not think straight and I must be frank your sister beautiful naked body created an uncontrollable desire in me also. There was fault on my part also and I am also as much guilty as the other two. But....” Chandan knitted his brows together. “.....once the full import of sense came to me and I understood to how much dirty and disgusting thing I have become a partner, I started feeling hate on myself and put a full stop to the friendship of that rogue. Luckily I have got a job and now there is no necessity to me to depend on that Tarang. Even I have not got a job, I never do go to him for anyhelp and he never can be a friend to me again. He is not yielding any control on me now and he cannot make me a partner in any disgusting and horrendous acts.”
Chandan did not say anything, went near to the chair and slumped himself in that again.
“Now I understood that you came here particularly to ask this. I don’t know how to convince you but what I have said now is the absolute truth.” Anirudh got off from the bed, came near to Chandan and put his right hand on his right shoulder and Chandan looked into his face. “May I know why do you want to have a clarification like this from me?”
“You should know and I tell you.” Chandan got off from the chair looking like that into the face of Anirudh. “In the afternoon of this day, while I was going to my friend Ratan’s home that rogue came across me.” Then in a measured tone he explained to Anirudh what Tarang said to him and by the time Chandan finished that, Anirudh’s face filled with an angry expression and Chandan understood that he was bubbling with anger.
“Scoundrel! How dare he is to talk like that?” Anirudh’s voice was with utmost force and anger.
“I think you can now understand why I have asked you like that.” Chandan said sighing heavily.
“So you thought that I am still under the control of him and I give my wife to him to fuck if he wants!” Anirudh did not think that he could get angry like that on Chandan.
“You fucked her just because he forced you to do that. What is the surprise if you agree to his that nasty wish also?”
It was like a whiplash to Anirudh and there was deep hurt in his face. “I agree with you that I was under the control of him then and without his force I would not have committed it on your sister on that day. But.......” he nodded his head with a helpless expression in his face. “..........I don’t know how to convince you. I simply kill that bastard if he ever comes near to me and say such type of a thing!”
Chandan did not say anything but remained silent still looking into the face of Anirudh. The expression in his face was appearing quite genuine and he understood what Anirudh said, he meant it then.
“In fact I love and like your sister and many a time I wanted her to become my wife. But I never have thought that it would happen in this way. She is like an angel to me and my thinking is all the time only one now, to keep her happy! I just cannot bear even a thought like that, give her to that bloody bastard Tarang. If anyone ever tries to do any harm to her, I just simply kill him.” Anirudh was very much vehement.
“Alright then, I believe you.”Then Chandan did something which he never thought that he could. He hugged Anirudh and kissed on the right cheek of him. “My sister Charita is so much precious thing to all our family also and we all just want her to be happy. I say I am feeling confident on you hearing and you expelled my fears. But.........” Chandan paused for a second and now there was a sudden fearful expression in his face “..........that Tarang is indeed a bad fellow! He is rich and capable! If he really wants to have it with my sister again, he can have it.”
“You need not feel fear like that.” Relieving himself from the hug of Chandan, Anirudh said. “His marriage is settled with a very rich girl and he is going to marry her very soon. It is just because of your sister as she did not to file a complaint against us. If she filed a complaint, his father never could even dream to settle that girl to his son on which he has lot of hopes. In fact it was he who was more desperate to hush that issue then. If anything nasty he does and it goes into the knowledge of that girl’s family, his marriage would be off and he and his father also cannot afford that.”
“But what if he tries to do something undesirable after marriage?” Chandan knitted his brows together. Even though he was relaxed by hearing that from Anirudh but there was still some fear in him and that was reflected in his face.
“It does not happen like that. So far as per my information his would be father in law family is not only rich but famous and reputed also and his would be wife also clever and intelligent! She would have such hold on him that he cannot dare to do nasty things. Even that nasty thing also if ever comes to her knowledge it would be very bad to him and it will be just so if he commits any bad things in future that come to her knowledge. You feel just relaxed!”
“Okay!” Chandan was completely relieved from his tension and a small smile was forced onto her lips.
“If Tarang says any nasty things from now on to you, you tell him that you would tell that to his would be wife.”
This time Chandan could not remain without laughing. “Oh, certainly I will do so.”
“Now we go out of this room. I don’t think it is better to let your sister think that we have bene sharing too many confidential and private issues.”
“Alright.” Chandan nodded his head but suddenly there came a serious expression in his face. “You please don’t let any of this to be known to my sister!”
“I have that much of common sense. You need not tell me about that.”
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It was very much puzzling to Charita what her brother talked with Anirudh in private like that. That Chandan in between the guy to her and Sailaja, three years young to her and two year older to her sister but the sweet brother to both the sisters. He loved them and liked them in the equal measure that they would do them and in fact he was calm and thinking personality also. His only close friend was Ratan whom her sister and her also knew about and in fact he was a friend to them also.
She knew how much Chandan was affected when he came to know about her gang-rape and in fact she has to come out of her anger and hate and has to pacify him. He herself could manage to change her mind and agreed to marry Anirudh but he was not! He felt the same anger and rancour from that moment till now and he never even tried to talk with his brother in law and he did not give him a chance when Anirudh tried to that. But on this day what really changed him that much he came to her home to talk with Anirudh? That too privately and confidentially? What could be that?
On that day also Charita snuggled into Anirudh while he was trying to sleep on the floor leaving the bed for Charita. Even though on just yesterday he had it like that with Charita, Anirudh was not hoping to have it on this day also and his heart was filled with intense pleasure! Luckily he got some condoms ready and he could use them to see not to get her pregnant. He just wanted some more advancement from her side to put himself into action. Yesterday’s experience gave lot of confidence on himself that he could do it perfectly and he was waiting very much to have that pleasure again.
“What you and my brother have talked in the evening?” he could hear her saying and it irritated to him. That was not he wanted and expected from her.
“He said it was private and confidential, did not you hear? If it is something you also can be known, he would have allowed you also to hear that.” Trying not to show his irritation in his voice, Anirudh said.
(……….to be continued)
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