Part 12
Their flight landed in Cairo , Khushi watched her wrist watch, it showed 1330 hrs. Almost 12 hours of journey.She took a look at the airport clock. Cairo is 3 and a half hours behind by time.
" Will you please set the time as per local time? Local time is 10 in the morning.."..Khushi informed her husband.
" Yeah sure..thanks.."..and he collected the prepaid token for taxi.
The driver looked at the token, it showed Hotel Nile Plaza...the usual destination of honeymoon couples, but they hardly look like that.
The roads of Cairo were nice, beautiful women, handsome men were passing by. Many women were wearing hijabs. But they were dressed in jeans, or formal trousers, formal shirts.Nice blend of tradition and modernity . Many women were not in hijab.
" They are not in hijab...but they look pretty too..."..Arnav said while viewing the road from the car.
" Not all Arabs are Muslims..but yeah..Arab women are really stunning..." ..Khushi said.
" Yeah..I can see.."
" Lebanese girls are the most beautiful among all Arabs..I know several girls.. while studying in US, I met many Arab ladies too.."..she said.
"You never met any Arab man?"..
"Yeah.."
" Are they attractive too?"
"Yeah...the sons, nephew of many Arab Sheikhs were in my acquaintance .."
" All students?"
" Some of them..many of them were my clients, while studying I practised under an American Attorney, Sheikhs have their business all over the world."
" Must be very rich.."
" Rich? Filthy rich..indecently rich..stinkingly rich.."
" How many wives usually Sheikhs have?"
" Many..I mean the newest one is supposed to entertain the Sheikh..other..older ones have their lives..do whatever they want, tactfully...of course.."
" How young the newest bride of Sheikh can be..? And the Sheikh ..what about his age?"
" Well..for a case, I had to go to Dubai,and other places..it was one month tour, during my LLM ...what I saw..the Sheikh is 55..newest wife is hardly 20.."
" Don't tell me.."
" Yeah...age is not a factor..I mean..if you have the fortune and connection..you can get anything..their palaces..cars..own plane..choppers..before that I used to listen..I thought storyteller was exaggerating , but when I was in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Jordan..I realised that he actually understated about everything.."
During the conversation Arnav purposefully dragged her closer to him, embraced by her shoulder.
" I heard they have cars made of gold...!"
" Yeah.."..Khushi supplied further.." One Sheikh..I saw there..he has a collection of Rainbow ..I mean 7 Rolls Royce of 7 colors..I mean vibgyor..huge collection of car..race cars..rally cars..just a separate palace beside his palace..only for cars ..they have horse business..and.."
" And..??"..Arnav clutched her palm with his palm..
" Rally cars..in fact after seeing the Dubai A1 Rally and Race, I took interest in car rallies.."
" A1??What's that.."
" New, but it's giving tough competition to F1 races..Dubai people has a plan to replace the F1, cutting the monopoly of America or Europe..people are actually liking this A1.."..
"Hmmm...interesting...tell me..55 years old Sheikh marries 20 years old girl.. how..I mean..the Sheikh has that..you know what I mean.."
"That is why the Viagra business is on high in this area..those who are rich..very rich..they can afford the doctors in their house..but any..not so rich..they need to go to clinic..take the dose..injection..then come to his wife..or..his girl..whatever the case may be..."
Arnav smiled, his wife is not that boring..she observes many things..other than litigation.
" So..that dose..how long the effect remains..?"..Arnav asked very innocently, he was having a hard time to conceal his smile.
" 2 hours, at the max..you see..someone takes the injection, and comes out of the clinic and had to drive for 30 minutes to reach his girl..and some major break drown in the road..serious traffic jam is there..so..."
" So?"..Arnav raised his eyebrows..
Suddenly Khushi looked at him, and herself. What the hell was happening?
" Nothing actually..Dubai roads are smooth..not like Bombay or Delhi...traffic jam is rarest of rare case..when will be in the hotel..I really need to stretch my back.."..Khushi said flatly, got herself freed from Arnav's hold...looked at the road.
Arnav gritted his teeth.
" Hotel Nile Plaza, Sir.."..the driver said.
" It seems you made all the arrangements..."..Khushi said flatly.
"You like the place..Alexandria is not far from here."..Arnav said enthusiastically
" The place of Queen Cleopatra..nice.."..Khushi said while moving towards the reception.
The pretty woman at the reception counter smiled at them.
"Welcome Mr. and Mrs. Rathore..your honeymoon suit is ready...will you please show your passport Sir?"
After signing the register Arnav collected the key and the bellboy followed them with the luggage .
"Here we are...thank you .."..Arnav gave tips to the bellboy.He left. Arnav locked the door.
" Can I have dress to change?"..Khushi said in a flat tone.
" Ohh..yes."..Arnav unlocked the suitcase. Khushi looked at the outfits..unlike her usual clothing, it was trendy, a bit revealing, some of them were transparent ..there were some decent dresses too. Khushi got ultimate shock when she saw the fancy underwear.
"What is this?"
" These dresses.."..Arnav pointed at the revealing ones, "for the hotel room, because I know very well that you won't wear them in public.."
" Not even in private.."..Khushi said angrily..
" Why..?"
"..I don't like to..these are for college going girls..young girls.."
" You are not young?"
" This is stupidity..I mean.."
" What are you saying..that is stupidity..I mean..you have very nice figure, all time, grey, black..white, mustard colour, monochrome..same style..wear them.. you will look good.."
"Please.."
" It will please me..."..Arnav requested..his eyes were having an earnest plea.
" Let me think..you take the bath.."..Khushi said.
*********
They completed their lunch in the room only. Khushi ate silently with her bent head.She was covering herself with a stole.
Arnav kept looking at her.When Arnav offered her to go out and take a tour of the nearby locality, Khushi said , " I should have brought my laptop..this hotel must have Wi-Fi connection..spending time without any work..."
Arnav pulled her towards himself.Touched her lips..said ," Why don't you relax? This generally doesn't happen..let's just enjoy this moment.."..
Khushi remained silent. Arnav was about to take off the stole...she caught his wrist."Don't.."..she begged.
" Why are you covering it? It is not your fault..Khushi..take it off..I said ..take it off..."..
" The scar ...Arnav..no..."..Khushi was begging and her husband just pulled it off..Khushi gave a meaningless try to cover it with her hair.Her eyes were flooding.She cried when her mother burnt her.After that she was crying now.She sat on the floor, cried loudly. All the tears which never got to flow, were flowing now. Arnav let her cry.
Her tears got a little slower, Arnav called ,"Khushi..."..she looked at him furiously.As if he robbed all her treasure, he made her cry, he made her weak. She rubbed her eyes vaguely and got up.Made her way to washroom, Arnav caught her hand. And she attacked him with all her wrath.She started to push him, scratch him, hit him on his chest...
" You won finally, you wanted this only..happy...was this necessary?"..she said and swore in several terms.
" I never wanted to do it..but you provoked me..you asked for it.."..said Arnav and lifted her in his arm and dropped her in bed and trapped her with his body on top of her.She was not ready for this kind of retaliation.She was dumbstruck..she gulped and saw his lips coming towards her lips like the previous morning.
Most pathetic part was she helped him this time by kissing him back.
The intensity of his kiss raised and she started to unbutton his shirt . Arnav smirked ..said ,"Not bad...you know litigation very well, you know fighting even better..I will teach you..to love...". and he pulled her one piece dress up to her waist.Then through her head, the dress was slipped and thrown away.
Eventually her undergarments were also thrown away.
First she felt a sharp pain, she gritted her teeth, " Relax, don't be stiff..relax..." ..Arnav said while caressing her hair...
" Yeah..I am relaxed..I just got carried away..I lost my temper..that time..I am sorry..."..Khushi said when Arnav continued the thrust into her.
" I knew that this will happen..I was tensed, trying to avoid this.." , she said while wrapping her husband's waist with her legs. Arnav was expecting something else.She continued ," This is my first time..you also..right..?"
" Yes.."..said Arnav.
" That is why..you also became hasty..it happens..it is called performance pressure.."..hearing this Arnav wanted to bang his head on the wall, but withdrawing was neither an option nor possible..he continued.
*********
Both of them were looking at the ceiling. Arnav was holding her hand.
" How do you feel? Rather how were you feeling when we were making love?" ..Arnav asked.
" Well...Sigmund Freud said in Sexuality and the Psychology of Love that the behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life."
That was it, Arnav was highly annoyed.He wanted to laugh, the way she was reacting during their encounter he actually had a tough time to suppress his laugh. He leaned on her and said ," Why are you trying to hide your feelings?" ..he asked directly looking into her eyes.
" I don't know what to say..how to react.."
" Everything will be fine..I know..it's not easy for you.."..
Khushi hugged him, suddenly a thought struck her..she became stiff. Arnav felt that, he said ," What happened to you now?"
" What if I get pregnant?"..she whispered in his ear..he made her face to face. Looked at her for some times.She could be, he used nothing for protection.
" On first chance..well..that may happen.."
" Then? What will I do?"
" What does that mean? It's okay if you get pregnant, what's wrong in that? We will have child within a year..so? Why are you being upset?"
"No it's just..can I have my glasses? I need to read the newspaper.."
Arnav slapped his head and gave her the glasses.As if one day she will not read the news paper, the world will come to its end.He saw his wife wearing the dress again, setting her hair, wearing the glasses and reading the newspaper with great attention.She looked exactly like a college student.A surge of pain passed through him suddenly.How little he knew about her when she was studying in college. How he insulted her.Then his eyes fell on the scar on her left arm, that night also he saw it, today it was open.He was insisting her to take this as a normal thing. The fact is that he , himself was not being able to digest it.Not for the scar of course. He could not digest it that any mother could be that much cruel or insane to hurt her child like this.
Thinking about that added something else.What Khushi apprehended that was not impossible.She could be pregnant by now. What will happen then? He has no problem with her pregnancy..suddenly a smile appeared on his lips. What book or literature Khushi will quote then? He married a living encyclopedia ,that was evident like the daylight.By chance,if they have a child, how Khushi will talk to him or her? Will she tell them case laws as bedtime stories? Quite possible.That time, Arnav may get posting in a forward area, in serious situation, he will not be able to keep his family with him. He felt deep sympathy to the child who was yet to be born. Poor soul, a geek mother could be the reason of him or her to freak out. Another part of his mind said something else. Khushi will never hurt her child.She knows what is meant to be hurt by own mother, not even the Stepmother. She will love her child with all her heart and soul.
" Why are you staring at me?"..Khushi's voice broke his chain of thought.
" Nothing, are you done with your newspaper?"
" Why do you ask?"
" Come to bed, let's watch some movie.Bring the remote..."
Khushi got up reluctantly and fetched the remote control. Arnav pulled her towards himself.
After 15 minutes, the TV was on ,of course..but they were not watching it. Arnav started to teach his wife about other details of love .
" Again, this is unsafe..", she complained.
" I don't mind making you pregnant...I have no problem in being a father.." ..Arnav replied and continued what he was doing.
Edited by yakkudimag - 12 years ago
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