Part-2
It was 10.30 and Ahem was still in office, but he wasn't working. He laid slumped on the chair after drinking bootlegged Vodka...Yes!! Ahem drank alcohol violating the prohibition in the state. He thought that he could drown his sorrows in it...He had been cheated and he couldn't come to terms with it. Gopi told the whole world that she is in Haridwar - how could she lie like that? He had seen her in Rajkot, clandestinely meeting a guy. That guy didn't seem to be Gopi's type..(but do I really know Gopi to know her 'type'). He looked like an intellectual...one of those eccentric scholars. What business does Gopi have rubbing shoulders with people of that kind? Ahem would have kept quiet if it was just rubbing shoulders...he saw them greeting each other with a hug and a peck on the cheeks.
Ahem screamed "how could you do this to me Gopi? Why did you do it? why?". Ahem knew it was the only place where he could shout it all out without anybody hearing him. His heart broke into a million fragments and each fragment shouted "why Gopi? Why". Ahem had the habit of jumping to conclusions without asking the other party for explanation----he did the same now too. Moreover he thought that cornering Gopi is useless as she will now become alert and hide secrets and make more excuses.
Ahem was stung by her rejection.his love was no longer his. /things would have been different a year ago, but now that he is in love with Gopi, unreciprocated love was killing him.