chapter-8 Beauty Life Turns Into a Nightmare...

She spoke the next morning she barely could remember what had happened to her she gets her self cleaned and goes to the living room to talk to her aunt but she was not there, Dharam comes out and tells her that he had married her and shows her the photos of the marriage and he tells her that her aunt had left to madras to see her father.

She sat down and was in a deep thought what was next now that she been married to him she was his wife she had to accept the facts, she was confused she spoke to him and he assured her that he not going to send her back and that he was there for her, not Dharam's nephew all that while was living with him in his house and they both were roommates he had gone to his native during this time, It took him a couple of days to return.

Beauty kept her self away from Dharam did not allow him to touch her when Dharam's nephew had returned he was surprised and shocked he had no words to say he was told by Dharam that he and beauty had loved each other and they been married, he immediately informed Dharam brother's they were in the army at Dehradun.

The next day early morning there was a doorbell and to Dharam surprise, he saw his two elder brother's standing in front of the door he asked them to come in. Dharam nephew came out of his room and joined them there was a big commotion, noise, arguments going on between Dharam and his elder brother's beauty was also there she hardly knew what they were talking very few words she could understand in Hindi as she only spoke in English at home, all she knew was that they did not except this marriage and Dharam was arguing with them he did not let his new bride go, he stood up and said at no cost was he going to leave her.

After a few hours by evening, they went away. The truth is that Dharam had already been married in his native and has had a daughter living with his mother. Beauty or nobody knew this other than his nephew if only his nephew had been there none of this would have taken place, it was beauty faith. Few days went Ann returned and she went to Dharam's house now she was relaxed she slowly told beauty to get dressed and pack her clothes and that she had come to take her with her.

Come on what was this? is this all a joke now she been married to Dharam and this is her new home and family her aunt insisted on taking her back when beauty confronted her and said she was married and could not go her aunt sarcastically said oh u think this is marriage this is only a gudia ki kale means [a dolls game] in Tamil it says boma kalyanam.

Beauty was angry and furious for the first time she put her leg down and argued with her aunt. She did not give up and her aunt had no other go but to return back disappointed. dharma did support beauty he was serious about his relationship with beauty. Beauty was only 16 years by then. Her aunt plot and plans had failed. Now that Dharam and beauty were living along with his nephew the house was too small they had to get there own place to live so Dharam searched for another house till then they shared the house with his nephew, dharma was working in another club as a manager so he went to the nearby area to look for a house it so happened that from where beauty had run away from her aunt room at Narayana he found her room there.

They vacated and went to live separate he did not want his nephew or brothers to know where he lived as he feared they could bring more problems for him. There was only a small room in the building no furniture's only a folding cot, few vessels, a pumping kerosine stove.

Now Ann did not return back to search for beauty and no did she give her belongings but beauty managed her life as it came few months passed beauty wanted to see how her father and granny were doing so she told Dharam to take her there since she was not going near him after that night's incident he thought he would tell her OK we will go to madras for our honeymoon [beauty smiled and nodded]

She was afraid to go near him she had gone through so much pain and the sad thing has she developed some kind of sickness she did not know in her virginity, a cist had formed and she was suffering from it. But she still kept her self physically away from him. He was a big womaniser and previously he slept with all the dancers and every woman who came in contact with him, beauty had not known all this.

They left to madras and went to beauty father's house. They couldn't do much but except them in, beauty once showed her self to her grandmother and told her about the cist her granny took her to a lady doctor who had known beauty from a baby she was surprised that beauty had married she was a little girl in front of her, she examined her and told the granny that it had to be cured immediately it was a very serious disease.

She was on medication but the poor thing had promised her husband Dharam that she will allow him to touch her after they reached madras but this did not happen and he did not force his wife beauty. Dharam had to return back to work so they spent a week at beauty father's house and returned back to Delhi. Now while he would go to work beauty had nothing to do but she started sleeping all day she did not know cooking whatever money Dharam was giving her for a day she managed.

Now Dharam was not getting a good salary he lost his job he told beauty to go back to dancing he told her to continue her Indian classical dance and there was a club strictly only for classical dancers she agreed and started work, as usual, both would leave he would drop her outside the club and return back at night 12 am to pick her up, one day there was a meeting in beauty club and everybody was gathered there at the office.

The meeting was going on and everyone was standing in front of the proprietor suddenly from behind there came a big noise [thud] beauty had fallen unconscious to the ground the next thing she knew was people was around her some were rubbing her foot some were put their leather shoes in her nose she regained conscious everybody was worried what had happened some said standing too long could have might make a feel dizzy or because she had not eaten that morning her pressure had dropped. Anyways they asked her to go back home and rest and if she felt better she could come back to work that evening.

Now Dharam had worked only in the evenings as he had been working in a hotel. It all started slowly when he found his wife was not going near him he started waking up early morning and told he had to go to work he began to avoid her slowly it did not upset her at all, she danced for two months and could no longer cope up with work she often felt tired weak and would sleep all day in her room there was nobody to see to her or her food Dharam would come home midnight and sleep he hardly spoke to her.

Beauty was going through stress and homesick she was very lonely. At times she could not sleep she went to her nearby pharmacy and told him she restless and could not get sleep so he gave her a pill she went back to her room empty stomach she took the pill after 20 to 30 minutes she dosed off to sleep, Now this went into a daily routine she would feel dizzy and only sleep she did not know that the pill was a sleeping pill.

Dharam would come and go but she was like this, one-day Dharam had brought a friend and his girlfriend to his house they had cooked lunch at Dharam house so they tried waking beauty up but she could hardly sit somehow they made her sit and gave her to eat hardly it was 20 minutes and beauty started vomiting she had brought out everything she had eaten and she collapsed again this time they had rushed her to a nearby hospital after 24 hours she regained consciousness and found her self in a hospital bed she asked them what had happened and Dharam friend told her that she had passed out as soon all she ate the previous day.

The doctor was furious when she learnt that beauty had not been eating for several days and had been taking this pill on an empty stomach. The doctor had called Dharam and asked him a few questions and then she told him that beauty was 7 months pregnant. No scan no medicines no diet no proper food was given to her all these days basically she was very young her age was 16 undernourished, not even beauty knew that she was going to be a mother...

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