Chapter-12

Beauty has had so much to take in there past few days, now to add more was her husband's lover. She could not dare to question him or confront the other woman what was going on between her and her husband. Beauty remained silent and went through everything.

Sanjay understood what Dharam was doing to the beauty he sympathized at her and never bothered her in any way. That night Dharam and Sanjay were sitting at Sanjay garage in the back yard it was a very lonely quiet peacefully atmosphere beauty was alone in a room along with her daughter the child was crying and feeling hot so beauty brought the child outside for fresh air while trying to comfort the child skeeter walked around the back yard it was big it looked more like a farmhouse, suddenly she noticed 3 figures on a tree nearby, she just ignored it and kept walking around.

She walked toward Dharam and told him its almost midnight they should leave now go back to there room as the child needs her milk. But Dharam shoved her aside and slowly the two men while talking their talks began to arguments and then started fisting out each other in their drunken state, beauty heard them and came outside and believe me this was not a fiction or made-up story but a very true incident. What beauty had seen that night, she saw from 3 white figures from the sitting one of it was flying very much close and over her head and disappeared. She saw it so clear it was white in human form but no legs it had a bottom of a tail.

She just held on tight to her baby and ran in for cover, her body was cold she was trembling with fear she could not speak, she sat in a chair hold on to her child and praying by now she realized that she had seen a ghost or something horrible its hard to explain. All she knew she had to get out of there she tried to call Dharam to take her back but they were so drunk. she had to stay there till morning dawn.

Next morning when the men were sober she told Sanjay what she had seen it wasn't a surprise for him, He told her next to his garage there was a burial ground, she panicked and told him what she saw he immediately told her it might have been a good spirit who was near her and her baby or it might have come for her but her baby has saved her, As we all know children are gods children.

But then it came to her mind maybe her father would have come in that form to protect her. Then Sanjay told her that he and Dharam fight was that Dharam had planned to bring her so far to kill her and throw her away or bury her in the nearby burial ground and Sanjay was stopping him from doing this. Then he had tried to accuse Sanjay of her that's when the argument between the two grew hot.

But I think it was her kind heart and her nature that god loved her he was always there protecting her everywhere. The four of them got back to the room and freshened up and left back to Delhi, None spoke a word to each other in the car, Dharam sat behind with this woman holding her hand's while beauty sat in front while Sanjay drove back. They reached Delhi got back home Sanjay dropped them and drove away.

Dharam would not be in his house the whole day he would tell beauty he was going to work. One day the landlord happened to see Dharam entering that woman house so he came and told beauty about it. Beauty left her child in her landlord wife hands and wanted to see if it was true. But as she went out the main gates were put on locks so that she could not come out. It wasn't even night it was broad daylight so she faults something very unusual she climbed the big gates out and went to see if it was true.

She got there and no surprises Dharam was talking to his lover her mother and her younger sister sitting beside her hand to hand thy hold. She heard them plotting to kill her again. But this time he was planning to throw acid on her they had planned to do this while she was going out on her way to work, But beauty left the spot and ran to her house she was so helpless nothing could she do or call and tell anybody.

By now her sister was now married to the man she fell in love and was staying at her in-law's house, she had a big respected family living with her so beauty thought that she should not go and tell her or take help from her as her little sister had just settled down and on no account she wanted them to know about her problems.

She went that night to work at the club she was very friendly with everyone, one of the band boys was working in this club because he had a passion for music and he was more like her kind very broad-minded Tim [name changed] this was not his profession he worked during the day in a reputed company as a PRO she use to talk to him and she would explain the type of music she wanted for her shows.

Now Tim was also a good friend of Dharam too, he use to come and meet Dharam at his house they were good family friends. When beauty told Tim about Dharam plans from the beginning he assured her he was there to help her, he told her to go home and meet him the next day.

After the show she walked back home and rested next morning she awoke Dharam had just come into the house he did not look at her he ignored her and got dressed up and walked out before leaving beauty asked him for some money she told him she wanted to go to the bazaar but he denied her and told her she's not supposed to step out.

Until he would be back by noon and he was taking her somewhere they had to go now beauty remembered his plans the previous day but she kept still and said nothing. As Dharam had left she took her child with a basket and small bottle of milk in it with just two pair of dresses for the child she did not take another dress for her self she was afraid if Dharam had seen her on the way he would notice something was wrong so she just took a market bag with these things.

She managed to ask someone on the other side of the gate to hold her daughter and she climbed it and jumped to the other side very carefully, very fast she managed to get an auto-rickshaw to go to the place where Tim was waiting for her. Along the way she was feeling very uneasy and she started bringing out she puked all the way when she was there the auto guy came to the spot of Tim and he told him that sir madam was sick and been bringing up please I think she needs to see a doctor, beauty hated medicines or hospitals or doctor's but Tim insisted that she should go.

They went to the nearest clinic and met a doctor, what she told Tim brought shock to both of them. Beauty was pregnant for Dharam and she did not know. Now Tim was confused he asked her what she wanted to do. As he had gone this morning early to the railway station to book beauty ticket for the next day to madras.

In this condition was she able to travel what was to be done or after this did she want to go back to Dharam's house and live?. By no way did she want this she was willing to go back to her granny in madras. That day she stayed in one of friends house they asked her to stay while Tim left to his house he did not want it to look obvious if he had not been present at the club and beauty absence it would look obvious.

That night Tim went to work nobody questioned him or knew nothing about beauty absence there, neither did Dharam come and inquire about beauty at the club. Next morning Tim came from home he went to his friend was staying and met beauty they left to the station as her train was scheduled on time.

To beauty surprise, Tim had got himself a ticket to travel along with her to madras. He informed his parents that he had to go to an outdoor show. They travelled 2 nights 1 day ailing with the baby girl. Beauty was sick but thanks to Tim he was there helping her out.

He cared for the child and spent his money on them. Now when beauty reached madras they had nowhere about's of her grandmother, so she went to the old house. She was told after her father's death that her grandmother had moved away. She remembered one of her aunty houses so they went there luckily her aunt had not shifted.

She directed beauty to her grandmother's house and when beauty reached there she was shocked to see her grandmother living in a little hut house along with Ann's two sons, her granny was happy to see her and the child she took care off.

She was worried who this gentleman was along with beauty, then he explained that he just had come to help beauty to come safely back and he told the grandmother that she was pregnant and he wanted to help her. The next day Tim had left back to Delhi he did not go back to the club but worked during the day in his company, he kept writing letter's to beauty often and he promised her that he would help her to get a house for her and her child as there was no place in her grandmother's little hut, until then beauty adjusted there.

A month had passed beauty got a job in an exhibition she took the job and left the child in her grandmother's house, by now Tim managed to send her a few bucks to take a room for her and the child. Beauty would go in the morning to work and be back by 6 pm evening one day when she reached home she saw her grandmother's panicked she had prepared some soup for the child and without diluting it she gave it to her.

Now the child very thin high-grade fever vomiting and continuous motions she rushed her daughter to a nearby 24-hour care unit the duty doctor looking at the child did not start medication but sent them away to the government cholera hospital it was far and midnight they had found no convincing but beauty uncle Ann husband ran and carried the child on his back took his bicycle and went as fast as he could to save the girl beauty was walking in the middle of the main road like a madwoman sobbing crying for help she thought she was going to lose her child mentally she became and wanted to kill her self first before anything happen to her child, her grandmother held her hands not letting her go.

They came to a stand an auto was there they woke him up and told him to drive straight to the hospital. When they went the child was already admitted and was on I v fluids looking at this beauty passed out in the hospital, she had been at work the whole day standing and the exhibition was only there for one more day they had to pay her for the 15 days she didn't know what to do each time her child was vomiting she would take the child to the common bathroom it was dirty unclean and there was do many patients with the same disease.

It was so catchy and so infectious that anybody could get infected but beauty was close to her child praying on her whole night crying helplessly. Her grandmother and uncle did not leave her side. Next morning they told beauty to go home and freshen up for work she refused but still had to go if she didn't she will not get paid for all those days so she left to work.

Her mind was all on her child she was in some other world she could not concentrate on work she kept look at her watch she had not eaten since the previous night. Finally, the exhibition was over and as soon as she was paid she rushed to the hospital.

To her prayers and faith in God when she reached the doctors told her that she could take her child home they had taken some tests and the report was clear that her child had not suffered from cholera but food poison. She was so relieved and was so furious on that 24-hour hospital and that duty doctor for saying that and sending them away helpless.

After all her baby girl had gone through she saw how they were injecting the needle ever place in the child body even on her feet there was iv injected. All that mattered was her child was safe and took her back home. She thanked God for this miracle of saving her child and also her uncle and warned her grandmother next time not to give her anything out of the way.

Beauty had to look for another job she wrote to Tim and told him everything and now she needs to search for a job, for few months he helped her by sending a money order for her rent and rations. There always a true say if God is for you who can be against you if one door closes another door opens.

She was a god-fearing woman and trusted god. She looked for company KOB's and could find nothing she had to manage her expenses the child and give some for her grandmother. One of her old school friends met her in the market had offered her a job she told beauty that she could earn good money every day by only learning to massage.[Laughs]

Beauty went in the morning to her place she took beauty along with her to her massage parlour beauty had no idea of all this she didn't have experience of any of this and never heard something or seen. She was told it was more like an exercise been given to another person.

She was still so ignorant. Beauty had gone along and met the owner he immediate appointed her so morning had gone afternoon the girls had lunch together and the owner told her she could start from the next day. But before that to her bad luck, she was caught in a raid that day. All the girls were taken to the area police station beauty with her stomach big was kept into she called for her uncle Steve he came running there and told the cops that only today she went there and had no idea of the nature of the job.

But they beat the girls inside, because she was carrying she was beaten on her palms her hands were sore her uncle was there along till morning dawn and the goals were taken to a local court where they had to say they were guilty but beauty was always straight she did do nothing wrong and why must she admit to something she had not done, but the other girls told her to just nod her head when she was called in front of the judge.

She did as she was told and all of them was sent away home, her uncle took her home and told her never to listen to anybody again. It looked like where ever beauty went her faith took her in the wrong path. She had no experience she was innocent and trusted anybody...

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