"No, no, NO! You cannot do this to me." cried Pragya as she tried to move as far away from Karan as possible.
"Don't resist me baby. It's absolutely fine dear. We are married now. What do they saw it, yeah, pati-patni. I'm your pati parmeshwar. You can't oppose me like that.
He went near her, pulling her dupatta off her.
No matter how much she tried to resist, he kept forcing himself on her.
Pragya was an unfortunate victim of marital rape.
*~~*
Next morning...
Pragya woke up, with clearly visible scratches and bruises on her forehead and arms. She remembered the happenings of last night and begun crying bitterly.
She got up, washed her face and went for a shower. She could feel the itchiness on her body as the cool water trickled on her body. She couldn't control her tears now. She hadn't wanted to get married to him. Her marriage had been planned with Abhi, Karan's younger brother. She didn't know how Karan got in the groom's place instead of Abhi, her first and last love.
She was disappointed. Not with Abhi, not with herself. But with their love, who failed them and separated them from each other.
Abhi was in a dilemma. He couldn't understand why he was sleeping on his bed, before he got the news of so-called fake Abhi and Pragya, his Pragya's marriage.
Their love had failed.
*~~*
Pragya wore a stunning red coloured saree. She knew this was Abhi's favourite colour but she didn't care. She was angry with Abhi and she hated him now for letting her marry some other man, that too his OWN brother.
She went outside the room towards the kitchen. Abhi was just returning after getting a glass of water from there. Abhi saw her.
"Who did this?" he asked.
"What?" Pragya asked in confusion.
"Do you think I'm blind? No tell me, do you think that I can't see anything."
"Arre, what have you seen?"
"These bruises, scratches on your forehead and arms. Who did this to you? Tell me and I'll kill that person."
"Th..these. These are nothing. I just fell in my room and got hurt with the table."
"Really? You will lie to me? To your Abhi?"
"I'm not yours Abhi. I'm a married woman now, and I'd have given you the right of questioning me if you'd have been in that mandap, not your brother."
"OK calm down. It wasn't my fa..."
Before he could complete his sentence, he was cut off by Pragya.
"Yeah..It wasn't your fault. It was my fault that I fell in love with you, and thought that we could live a happy life together. Maybe, we were not destined to be together." she cried.
"TO HELL WITH THIS DESTINY! You're mine and you'll always remain mine."
"NO!"
"Just tell me, Karan physically abused you, right?"
"He didn't..."
Pragya was cut-off in between by Abhi.
"Just tell me YES or NO!"
"YES, HE DID! YES, he abused me, happy now? Now leave me alone." she yelled and ran away from there.
Pragya's harsh words lingered in her ears. He was now fuming red with anger.
He thought, "How dare he touch my Pragya and abuse her. I'll never spare him for this."
He quickly changed his clothes and went to his car, asking the driver to rush to Karan's office as fast as possible.
*~~*
At Karan's office,
Abhi went inside Karan's room and clutching him by his collar, he said, "How dare you touch my Pragya, huh?"
"She is my wife now and I have the legal right to do anything with her." he replied coolly.
Yeah, you do but law doesn't permit physical abuse."
"That wasn't any physical abuse, it wa my suhaagraat."
"NO, that was marital rape. Can't you get that shuck thing inside your bloody hole?"
"Stop swearing." he said, now getting angry.
"Guards!" he called out.
The guards took Abhi and threw him out of his office.
*~~*
That night...
Karan returned home and went to his room. There Pragya was reading a book, sitting on the bed. He went and snatched that book and threw it on the floor.
"What happened?" she asked.
"You told Abhi that I physically abused you." he asked.
"N..no." she stammered.
"Achcha..Then how come Abhi knew about it and came to my office to talk about it."
"I didn't tell him anything." she yelled.
"How dare you yell at me, huh?" he said.
Karan held her by her hair, and took him to the main hall, dragging and Pragya screaming.
Everybody gathered in the hall hearing Pragya's screams.
He left her and she went hitting the ground, hurting her on the head.
"What happened Karan puttar?" asked Dadi.
"Ask that from your bahu na, who is having an extra-marital affair with my brother."
"No dadi..It's completely false." Pragya said, pleading for everyone's belief.
Abhi also came down.
"What's going on here?" he asked.
"Karan bhai is claiming that Pragya bhabhi is having an extramarital affair with you." said Aaliyah.
"WHAT!?That's extremely false."
"NO, it isn't Abhi." said Karan.
"I'm going to call police to get you arrested." he said, dialing his phone.
"Tu kya police ko bulayega? Main hi bula leta hun na, for physically abusing her." said Abhi.
Everybody was in shock.
Pragya pleaded, "No one shall call the police. Yeh ghar ka maamla hai, isse ghar me hi suljhate hain na. Dadi, kuch kahiye na."
"Dadi kuch nahi kahengi, ab jo karna hoga, voh Abhi hi karega." said a lady, who was none other than Abhilasha, Karan's ex-fiance.
"Abhilasha, you here?" said Karan.
"No, that's my ghost, right? What you are seeing is a phantom of me. Stop asking such silly questions."
She continued,"Abhi, call the police."
"No wait." said Pragya. "Please don't call the police."
"No Pragya. I can't afford this disgusting ex-fianc of mine ruining my best friend's life."
"She is right." agreed Abhi.
"Please Abhi, Abhilasha. For my sake, please?"
"Okay fine. This time we are sparing you, but next time, if you do such a cheap thing again, I'm gonna call the police and get you executed myself." said Abhilasha and left.
Everybody left to their rooms, leaving a crying Pragya behind. She too wiped her tears, and went up to her room.
Abhi and Abhilasha sweared that they won't let Karan destroy Pragya's life.
*~~*
Yeah, I know this was short but next one will be bigger with a big twist. 😉
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~Sanny 😳
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