" Arnav Bitua, how can you marry Khushi Bitiya?" Mami questioned curiously while Arnav couldn't get the point she was trying to make.
" What do you mean how, Mami? Just how usually marriages happen." Arnav answered in a calm and composed manner while Mami and Nani exchanged serious looks to each other while Nani began speaking,
" Chotte, Manorama is trying to say that Khushi Bitiya is a rape victim, we are not saying she is at fault but how can you marry her?" Realization finally dawned upon Arnav, as he realized how true Khushi's so-called parents were about him realizing it one day that he was wrong.
" You know Nani and Mami, Mr and Mrs. Gupta told me that one day I will be shown how wrong I am. And you did it today. You showed me how wrong I am to expect that people have changed, they evolved to be more broad-minded and they have changed their views. But the fact is still, our society looks down on rape victims and now I feel that more than Mr and Mrs.Gupta, it is the fault of people like you both who are causing parents to do this. I can't marry her, why? Because she is no longer a virgin? Excuse me, she was forced in the most brutal way possible. No one cares for that but cares for the so-called damn dignity which apparently lies in between a girl's thighs according to this society.
But the fact is, purity is a state of mind not a bodily state, Mami and Nani. Whether you accept this marriage or not, this marriage is happening because I cannot let one more brave girl who won the war against the death itself to lose in front of this society's stupid thoughts especially if that girl is Khushi, whom I began to respect and love more than I ever did in my life and now certainly more than you because of your amazing truth of the society."
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Too big a teaser! How I wish that there were people like Arnav in this society!
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