The Scariest Part
Sometimes, she would laugh at his fondness for her. Proud, happy, and ecstatic deep inside, she would outwardly ridicule the way he claimed her love and attention. She would make fun of the cheesy lines he spoke, she would call him ‘drama queen’ when he role-played Devdas and Romeo, and she smiled smugly when he told her that he would die if they parted. But she cherished him more than her own life, and everything he said or did made her love him more than before. Every time a meeting plan failed because of something at her end, he would joke, “I’ll give you a phone-call after your husband comes home…” and she would say the same when the story went the other way round; and then they would laugh out hard. Their love was intense and deep… though it was extramarital and illicit and forbidden and adulterous to the world. But for her, it was pious and true -in fact essential to her life. . It was telepathic … soul-quenching! She was not dramatic or filmy, when she said, “…the scariest p