8th August 2015, Kolkata
At my home.
We went to our bed as usual expecting a good night’s sleep. She had already lied down in the bed. I came next, closing the door behind us. She was typing on her Microsoft Lumia Mobile Phone. Out of a husband’s curiosity, I tried to peek into her phone. She was chatting in an online group. Shreshta, I saw a name in the chat list. I asked if she was using hike. She replied in positive and complained that Whatsapp is not working on her phone for some days.
Who is Shreshta? Her friend must have come for the wedding. I was trying to recollect fast. Is she the girl talking the most on the day of Bashi Biye? It dawned upon me that she was the one who decorated my face before Bashi Biye. I took a deep breath of respite that she is chatting with her friend’s group. Shaoni had told me that Shreshta is part of her friend’s circle which started from their regular visit to the gym.
Should I interrupt? Her husband is lying next to her and she is chatting with her friends? Oh common! There was a nice full day to chat with her friends.
I said to myself “Let me wait for sometime as her conduct over last few days was abnormal.”
While chatting with them, she was getting messages from someone else too. I could not resist my curiosity at this point of time. I enquired her about this new person. She showed me the chats from a boy. She said that he had proposed her. I asked, “How do you know him?”
She said, “The tuition classes I went, had boys studying there too.”
Even though, the answer was not definitive, I decided to not dwell into it. I was of the view that she should disclose more to dispel any negativity or doubts in my mind. After all we just started a new relationship and I am not that nagging.
“He had proposed me.”
“Let me see his photo”, she gave me the phone and I checked his photo. “Were you in a relationship with him?”
“I said no to him. He is dark and looks alright. But he is doing business. I would have never married him.”
She had told me she likes dark guys. I wondered what made her decide if he is not the guy she doesn’t like. Is it his looks or profession?
“Why are you chatting with him now? Doesn’t he know that you are married?”
“I didn’t invite him. I replied because he pinged me.”
How does it matter if anyone pings or wants to talk to someone if that person is not interested? Well, the underlying point is if the person is not interested. So, what about the person who says she is not interested but is replying to the messages? Is there nothing called priority in life? If we talk about manners then, she could tell him nicely, look I am married now and not interested in you. As a husband, I would surely mind my wife keeping in touch with her ex-boyfriend. Pardon me if I took the liberty to call him a boyfriend but he tried to be one.
She kept getting 3-4 pings from the boy after this. She replied to the messages. Post that, she just checked messages in her friend’s group. I wasn’t really happy of her chatting with the boy but I didn’t want to express my feelings. She can act strangely when anxious and tensed but I am a different person. I want to know the truth and for that I can suppress my feelings.
She kept aside her phone and I went closer, put my arms around her and there we go!
*Bashi Biye is the next half of Hindu Marriage which generally happens in the next day. A religious wedding is considered complete only after this custom.
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