PART 1
A pleasant evening at Mumbai. It's nearly half past four and the city is in a rush with students and the working fleet returning home. A very well furnished flat in Mumbai illuminated by the shining sun. Roli's eyes are bloodshot after the endless tears that have been shed lately and are still flowing down her cheeks. She rests her head on the glass table in the living room meanwhile some visuals keeps running on the latest model tablet kept on it. She tries to hold her sobs and ignore the visuals but it just forces her to take a look again. She looks at the video tuning on YouTube for the umpteenth time that day. Her heart weeps one more time as she spots her husband Siddhant slouched on a comfy couch with a daringly dressed girl near him leaning on his arm. Their closeness kills her insides yet another time. Is he being infidel? Probably not. In his language, it is just a professional photoshoot with Lara, one of the most leading models in the present day fashion world. But for her, a common girl hailing from a village, it is much more. Yes, she agrees, it is his profession, their source of bread and she had always tried to support him in that regard. But today, for the first time in a year of her marriage with Siddhant, she feels depressed, disappointed and most of all very very heartbroken. It is the first time he is doing something like this. Most importantly, it is the first time after their marriage he is doing a project without her knowing about it. Usually he discloses everything, every single thing related to his work to her, sometimes right after being back from work, sometimes at midnight in bed cuddling to her lovingly. But this time, he didn't even mention. Is it like this, he didn't want her to know about it, she doubts. No it can't be, she teaches her mind the next moment. She takes another close look on the video running on YouTube. There are few more close-up shots between him and the girl. More than the visuals it is the near slur commentary that hurts her. 'Seems that Siddhant Bharadwaj is over his wife and wooing Lara James' the reporter declares, hurting her again. The media has literally turned the photoshoot from professional to a personal one. She just closes her eyes with her palms and tries to compose herself. Come on Roli, just control yourself, he is your Siddhantji and it is just his work. He cannot even think about a girl other than you, she mutters to herself. She tries to pacify herself by recalling the moments they had shared. By remembering how he has fallen with a village girl like her who had came to city for a job last year. Back then too, he had lot of admirers; lot of stylish models around him waiting to get so much as a wink from him. He was ruling the commercial ads world as a fantastic model and art director then too. But he chose her, a simple girl. He gave her a life and has loved her so much that she felt jealous of herself to have him. That Siddhant can't be close to any other girl in real. But the next moment, the images come in to her mind again. Tension and insecurity strikes her again. May be she is not the only woman who is close to him; maybe she is not the only woman who has been so proximal to him, maybe...her mind doesn't dare to think more. She opens her eyes and looks at the video that had come to an end. Just then her eyes fall on another video titled 'Hottie Siddhant Bharadwaj gets naughty with Lara James'. What it is now, she thinks with a bated breath, anxious about the contents of the video. She clicks on the link with shivering hands. The video opens in matter of few seconds starting with a few shots that she has seen already. Following it, the video leads to an interview, of course of Siddhant and Lara. The duo are sitting on the couch close to each other, but this time she agrees that it has nothing intimate in it. She sighs in relief and just looks at the video. "So Mr. Siddhant, what do you have to say about this 'hot hot' photoshoot of yours and Lara that has got all of us on fire?' asks the reporter. Roli gnashes her teeth in anger in a mood to even eat up the reporter if she gets a right chance. Yet she suppresses her anger and watches Sid. He chuckles making her to forget everything for a second. How she gets lost in that mesmerizing smile of his. But her relief doesn't last longer. "arrrmm...like all of you, I'm on fire as well..Like, this has been one of the greatest experiences ever for me and I too feel that it is unbeatably hottt..' says Siddhant taking a look of Lara. Roli's heart falls again. What did he say just now? ' Greatest experience' 'hot' Did he feel great cuddling to that skimpily dressed girl, she thinks as tears line up in her eyes, ready to burst out at any moment. "So Lara...now that you got to say about working with Siddhant?' asks the reporter. What would she feel obviously good, remarks Roli as her temper builds up. Lara giggles angering Roli and begins in her English accent. "Obviously like Sid said, I too felt it an as out of the world experience, we were both having good fun throughout...It never felt that we weren't so close before the shoot...We managed to create a lot of chemistry just in a little time..' she says and brushes Siddhant's hair. Roli is just all frozen at her move and as Siddhant smiles and gives a funny hit on her head. "no
!!!' she cries and in one go throws the tablet to the granite floor. Bang!!!! the tablet lands on the floor cracking its screen guard in to pieces. same is the condition of Roli's heart, it is also broken in to million pieces.
Edited by RoshniMenon88 - 8 years ago
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