“I am so happy that you came to our home again. But I don’t like John did not come with you both.”
In the evening of that day when Rose reached her home, Jasmine and her one year or so aged son Rohan were present. Rose was expecting John, husband of Jasmine also with them and indeed felt happy seeing them in her house. Even from the moment of her marriage with Williams itself, Jasmine and Rose were very good friends. They both supported each other on many occasions.
“He also so much wished to come but you know his business obligations. He has to go suddenly and he promised me to come here straight once his business work is over.” Jasmine said.
“That would be indeed nice!” Rose laughed. “John is a good friend not only to Williams but to me also. He is such an amicable and agreeable person.....”
“I must agree. John is indeed good! In fact his good nature and good character made me fell in love with him. But you know one thing?” Jasmine paused. “John said the same thing about you also. In fact he impressed very much about you. In his opinion just because of you that my brother could become his usual self again and in fact that is my opinion also.”
“Both your brother and you have strong will power. That is what made you go against the odds and won over the circumstances.”
In fact Jasmine also was as much affected as Williams when she came to know about the ghastly truth about her mother. If it was not for John and his profound love and affection on her, Jasmine could never have become her usual self.
“It is still very much disgusting and upsetting to me to think.” Suddenly Jasmine’s face was with full of disgust.
“I am sorry. I should not have said it like that.” With a regretful expression in her face Rose said. “It seems that I made you remember something troubling which you have forgotten.”
“I never have forgotten about that and I never can.” Jasmine took the right hand of Rose into her both hands and squeezed it gently. “And I just cannot bear that you feel sorry for anything.”
Quite automatically Rose remembered what Williams have said. Jasmine was the daughter of Dibbu and if one observed her minutely it could be known. Till then Rose could see only the beauty of her mother Margaret in Jasmine. But remembering what Williams have said Rose could see some resemblance between Jasmine and that Dibbu. Then could it be true that Jasmine was the daughter of that Dibbu and a bastard?
“What you are thinking Rose you suddenly fell into thinking like that?” breaking that silence Jasmine said.
Rose startled on hearing that and immediately she did not know what to say. Anyhow saving her from that predicament Liza entered into that room.
“It is very nice that you came! Indeed after a very long time I am seeing you.” Liza said.
Jasmine got off from the chair, went near to her and kissed on her right cheek before putting her right hand around her shoulders. “I am feeling so happy to see you. In fact after Williams’ marriage we both did not meet at all. But I still can remember your enjoyable presence then. As Rose quite often says that you are indeed an impressive character.”
“Not so, not so I must say.” Liza relieved from her hold, went near to the bed and slumped on the edge of it beside her sister Rose. “I am just an ordinary character but you both are very impressive women.”
“Alright, alright. Enough praise!” Rose laughed. “If you too also feeling hungry, we go and start our supper.”
“It is not my supper time yet. Cannot we talk some more time?” Jasmine asked.
“I have no objection if waiting some more time for supper does not bother my sister.”
“Both your husband and my husband also are out with our children. It is better that we do wait until they come.” Liza said.
“Alright then” after saying so Rose looked into the face of Jasmine again. “By way of your saying, I understood you want to talk something particular with me. Whatever it is; just express yourself freely.”
“If it is something confidential and you don’t want me here now, I go away from here and come after sometime.” Liza said.
“Of course, it is sort of confidential but I have no objection by your staying with us. In fact I want you also to be with me. You have become a good friend to me by that simple association at that time.” Looking into Liza’s face, Jasmine said.
“Alright then. Pour your heart and let us both know whatever you want to say.” Rose said.
“How is my brother now? Is everything alright with him?”
Frowns gathered on the forehead of Rose and before the other two of them said anything she said. “I cannot say everything is alright with him. It is just six months that he came out of his shock and you know how worst he damaged.”
“It is just because of the thing he had seen is like that.” Jasmine said “Even I have not seen it with my own eyes, whenever I think about it I do feel I may become mad. He has seen it with his own eyes and what is the surprise his psyche damaged to such extent?”
“Of course, yes.” Rose nodded her head with a smile. “But the good news is he is recovering and becoming his complete usual self! Slowly and slowly he is getting back his past memories also. Very soon he would be a perfect person.”
“Is he is getting all his past memories back?” suddenly there was uneasiness in the face of Jasmine which Rose could not understand.
“Yes, in fact that is what has become little problematic also. Some of his past memories are not good and he is getting disturbed by them.”
“My god! What should we do then? Would he become mad like that again?” the expression in Jasmine’s face turned into fear.
Rose got off from the bed, went back to the chair of Jasmine and put her both hands around her neck. “Don’t forget that your brother is now in the hands of a competent and skilful psychiatrist. It is my promise to you that I shall see that there would be no problem to him at all and become his usual self as soon as possible.”
Jasmine slowly got off from the chair she sat, put her both hands around Rose’s neck and looked into the eyes of her. “I don’t need your promise for that. I know it shall be so. He will be safe and alright all the time in your hands. But......” she paused for a second before saying again “........he is the very dearest to me and I always feel anxious about him. So I asked.”
“I can understand.” Rose made her sit on the edge of the bed and sat beside her. Then Liza moved herself into the chair vacated by Jasmine.
“If you don’t mind one intimate question.”
“I never mind however much intimate question that may be.” Rose laughed. “Shoot it out.”
“How is your sexual life with him?” once again there was uneasiness in the face of Jasmine.
“Need you ask? If it is not perfect how could I give birth to little Emily?”
“Just becoming pregnant and giving birth to a child not at all a sign to perfect sexual life. Just by a single unmindful sexual intercourse also one can become pregnant.”
“It is perfect. It is just perfect.” Rose said. “I am so happy in my sexual life also with him and it is the same to him also. You just don’t worry.”
“I already got this clarification from her and she gave the same answer to me also.” Liza intervened. “Anyhow why did you want to ask that question?”
“After coming to know about mom’s sexual affair with that bloody rogue Dibbu, I got a sort of aversion and dislike towards sex. He has seen their sex with his own eyes and what type of effect it would have on him? Can he feel in the same positive way about sex after seeing his own mom’s immoral sexual intercourse like that?” Jasmine said that looking into the face of Liza and then looked into the face of Rose again.
“Things don’t affect all the people in the same way Jas. He too has been affected by what he has seen but in a different way. I don’t say he is enjoying that memory but remembrance of that is creating more sexual urge and rage in him and I am the target to it.” Rose smiled. “I don’t know whether I can say this or not but sometimes my experience in his hands is worse than gang-rape.”
“I am sorry, I am indeed sorry.” Suddenly anxiousness jumped into the face of Jasmine and she put her right hand around the shoulders of Rose again. “Is it is really like that? I just cannot believe my brother who appears always soft and smooth is behaving like that!” looking into the face of Rose, Jasmine said with shock.
“Your brother is smooth and soft there is no doubt.” Removing Jasmine’s hand from her shoulders, Rose said. “But the incident he has seen on that day sometimes making him very much violent and he shows his full vengeance and rage on me during sex. But the positive thing, it is working! Both my psychiatric treatment and his having sex like that with me also are giving positive result.”
“But you have been suffering! Even he is my own brother and I have lot of love and affection on him, I can understand! Your suffering has just become more once you became his wife. Now you are suffering because of his odd behaving during sex also.”
“But where there is love, the suffering also does become sweet.” Rose laughed and put her both hands around Jasmine’s neck. “I know why it has started in me but the love feeling towards your brother has started in me on the very first day of my meeting with him. However much big mistake your mom did in her life, the one great thing she did was; selected me as the wife of your brother. I must be frank......” Rose paused for a second before saying gain. “.......of course I suffered and still I am suffering occasionally but I never regretted marrying your brother and he is also so happy with me always. You just stop worrying for anything and be happy.”
Jasmine was about to say something more but then, Williams and Swaroop entered into that room with their respective baby girls in their hands.
“I am very happy that you came!” Williams face filled with happiness and he came near to his sister Jasmine and looked into her face. “Where are John and Rohan?”
“John is out on a small business work and comes here straight just in two days. I made Rohan sleep in the other room.” Then she got off from the bed she sat and said. “Better I go and see what he is doing now. I put him into sleep there more than an hour back.”
“Then we shall go and finish our supper. I am also feeling hungry now.” Liza also got off from the chair and said.
Rose also got off from the bed and all of them went out of that room then.
(……….to be continued)
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