"You're not meho? You're not a boy? You're Sharon? A girl?"
Swayam questioned Sharon for what she had done. She had lied.
*
"Father, I have the right to study"
"No you don't. You are a girl Sharon, you won't be allowed to go to school."
"I will at my own risk"
she stormed out of her house with determination flowing through her eyes.
*
"I'm Meho. I'm new here. I hope I learn a lot from here."
"I'm swayam, I hope so too. Welcome to our school."
swayam welcomed the new student, his voice was in good cheer.
She had hid her identity, meho was Sharon. Sharon was meho.
Meho was a boy for the outside world, for swayam. Sharon was only known to herself.
*
"I had to lie. I had to do it for my rights."
Sharon re-covered her face in her veil and fled from the lake.
It was night, if anyone would have spotted them, they would have been put to death.
But he couldn't stop his rumination about those brown eyes.
*
"I'm swayam. I'm here to ask your daughter's hand. I want to marry her."
swayam begged sharon's paterfamilias
"That can not happen. She is getting married to Zhou. It is fixed."
was the reply he got. Swayam left the room. The sky formed disturbing clouds and it suddenly become dark.
*
Sharon sat in her carriage. Her mind only thinking about swayam. She had never given the slightest hint, what she felt for him.
But the truth was she felt only volumes of affection for him. She was passing the river which bordered the neighbouring village where she saw a group of people surrounding a body.
She got down to see what had happened. And then she too made way to the earth below.
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