Chapter-18

Beauty did not feel good she felt her life was also going she felt so uneasy, after a while, her mom told Irfan to take beauty home because if she here she feels depressed so took her to Irfan house, she could not sleep nor did she cry she was still in a shock till the next morning.

Morning came they had to go to the grandmother's funeral beauty did not want to see her grandmother's body go, she requested them to leave her alone but it was too risky to leave her like that so they took her along. When they reached the granny house beauty just sat near her and gazed at her grandmother body, all her relatives neighbour's everybody came and saw the deceased person prayed and made there last visits.

But beauty still sat very quietly. when they were taking her and put the body into the coffin she saw everybody crying loud she looked around and stared at her mother then Irfan told beauty mother it's not a good sign like this please make her cry she is still in a shock. Her cousin came in with his wife as soon as she looked at him she held him and she burst into tears. It was only beauty and her cousin whom the grandmother loved very much.

They had buried her and got back home beauty was not her self for more than a week. A few months later Irfan and beauty went to beauty's mother's house, now the topic was to remove the child to have an abortion and this made beauty very angry. She refused to do this, That was cruel of them to force her to do, More and more misfortune began into her life, She went through so much trauma to add more was to become.

A few days later Irfan took her for a road trip they had gone to Bangalore, Mysore then he took her tracking to a beautiful place called Mudumalai it was a beautiful place with wildlife bonfire in the evenings during the day they went tracking into the forest they rode on an elephant and went deep into the woods they were not alone there were other foreigners as travellers along as they rode deeper suddenly the elephant stopped and could not go further because it spotted a black leopard sitting on a tree.

They had to return back to the camps at nights the villagers would beat the drums and dance around the fire, they had a wonderful time beauty loved nature she did not feel like going back to the life she came from, but nothing permanent. The next day that visited the Mysore palace of Tippu sultan his tomb and later that evening they had to catch there train back to madras.

When they got back Iran got a letter from the government his student visa was expiring that was bad news for both of them Before that Irfan had gone to London to do his play exam to complete his MS. He had gone and returned, Irfan had to breaker the news to her that he had to leave the country for good.

He wanted to see beauty safety and comfortable he had bought her the latest phone which first came out in India, he told her that she could talk to him any time she wanted. He also shifted his house near to her mother's place so that she would not be alone. Beauty was going into a depression she did not know what she would do without him.

Days passed she started feeling sick and in secured but Irfan would console her and say that he will come back for her soon and not be worried as he will always be there for her. On 17 December 1997 Irfan had to leave the country beauty had gone to the airport to see him off. It was a very sad moment for everyone they bid goodbye and went there ways. Beauty was not her self she was so depressed she heard from Irfan after 3 days he had called her.

She felt a little relieved after hearing from him. They had met in the year 1993 and their relationship went on till 1997 four years was a long time and were not easy for beauty to forget him. After he had gone he kept calling her once in 3 days then it went to once a week.

Slowly he stopped calling her she would go to her mom's place to ask her if there was any message from him but they said no. Actually, he had been in touch with her stepfather but they did not inform her. She once tried calling Irfan's home landline number but his mother picked the call and spoke very rude to her.

After few days she got Irfan on the line and spoke to him his voice was very faint, she asked him if there was something wrong he then told her he would call her to Iran but on one condition that she was to come alone and forget her two girls if she wanted him. It took her by the surprise of course not was her straight answer she told him "straight I'm sorry Irfan I can not do this for you or me I love my kids and I can get many men in my life but I can not get my children which is my gift from God I'm sorry I lost my mother in a very small age I can not make my kids go through what I had gone in no way I'm dumping my children for you".

That was the last they ever spoke to each other. A couple of months later one of Irfan's friends met beauty and told her he had news that Irfan has moved to the states and had has married a divorcee with two kids and settled down, her heart sank with sadness...

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