Anu's painting
Anu was so
happy when she won that drawing competition. She felt that finally her life was
on track. She was so sure that she could get right start in her life. She was
no longer doubtful about her future. She began to paint different scene which
would have pleasant feeling. She was painting different feeling that showed new
impact. But suddenly she sensed that her husband Dinesh was standing behind. He
was watching her painting carefully. She smiled towards him & she said
“What do you feel about this?” he kept watching her painting. He was observing
every corner of that painting carefully. He was acting so odd. He kept looking
towards those paintings. He was enjoying it’s beauty. But she felt that it was
odd he wasn’t looking towards her. He was lost in his own world. It seemed as
if she wasn’t existed in his mind. She called Dinesh. Dinesh didn’t look
towards her. She kept calling him when suddenly one voice entered. It was voice
of child. “Mommy whom you are calling?” She looked towards that girl in strange
way. That girl was her daughter Vinita. But she still didn’t want to recognize
her. She didn’t want to confess her mistake. She remarried to Pradip after
Dinesh since she wanted to start her life. Everyone was treating her
differently. She didn’t want to live a life of widow so she decided to remarry.
She was so frustrated since all treated like one who supposed to spend entire
life crying. Whenever she wanted to enjoy death of her husband kept coming. She
wanted to escape from situation so she selected Pradip. She wanted to get
married & live happy life again. Dinesh gave her such a pleasant &
happy life. She was so hopeful about life. But then one day Dinesh suddenly
complaint about pain. She didn’t understand what was cause. She thought that it
was just muscular pain. She suggested painkiller. Dinesh decided to take it. He took it &
immediately went away for office. It was important for him to go to office. It
was his big day. He was working for something. She didn’t understand his work.
But she always tried her best to act supportive to him. He admired her work
too. That day he went in office. Then she received call from office. They
called her to come in hospital. Dinesh was admitted. She called Dinesh’s
parents too. She reached to hospital. But it was too late already. Dinesh died
due to heart attack. Her in-laws cried but they all looked towards her with
concern. But she was biggest burden for them. She could live on Dinesh’s
investment & insurance. She might begin to search for job. But she knew one
thing that she was no longer welcomed in family functions in old style. She was
young widow. She was one person who would bring bad luck in their eyes. She
felt so sad & stressed by entire incidence. She wanted to get married
again. She didn’t get discouraged but her in-laws wanted her to marry rich
person. Her father-in-law said clearly “You can see our financial level. If you
marry rich man, we don’t need to give our house to you after us. We can give it
to our younger son. If you marry person with less financial status then that
one might want share of it too.” Her mother-in-law added “We might appear harsh
to you but we need to act practical too. Don’t we?” She immediately nodded. It
was clear that her in-laws didn’t want her to remain widow but they didn’t want
to share wealth. She agreed to it. Then she started searching. She finally
found Pradip on one app & she decided to marry him.
Anu told herself that she was remarried
with one daughter. She didn’t need to remember her last husband. She smiled
towards Vinita & said “You! You are only one in this house.” Vinita smiled
sweetly. Vinita felt so glad that her mom felt that Vinita was adult enough to
judge the painting. Vinit slowly went near painting. Then Vinita slowly pointed
in painting one small dot. Vinita asked “Who is this?” “Who?” Anu looked
towards dot carefully. Vinita was right that dot seemed so specific. Anu looked
carefully towards it. Anu didn’t understand that why she did that dot. Vinita
added “Mom you should have drawn that uncle in close up. He is so far away.”
“It’s for effect of painting. I am not planning to include human in this
painting.” Vinita looked towards canvas in odd way. “Mom this canvas is odd.”
“Why?” “Look towards sky!” Anu looked towards sky in canvas. She sensed that
she included some pink clouds. “I just imagined different cloud.” Vinita looked
at her in odd way. “Mom, I don’t like pink sky. Next thing will be blue ground
& green ducks.” Anu started laughing loudly. Anu said slowly “But there
aren’t any ducks in painting.” “But you can include if you want.” Vinita said
with serious face. Anu smiled. Then suddenly Vinita declared that she wanted to
go to play. Vinita ran out of house immediately. She screamed & asked “Did
you complete your homework & assignment?” “I will complete when I come
back.” Anu wanted to stop Vinita to complete her studies but suddenly Anu
looked towards painting & she sensed that this painting was truly odd. It
had odd sort of colour combination. She never painted any canvas this way. She
wanted to remove it & threw it. But when she tried to touch it, her hands
didn’t move. Her hands were not moving as per her wish. Her hands became so
heavy. It seemed as if her hand became of stone. She couldn’t move. She didn’t
understand what was happening to her. She wanted to throw that painting but it
wasn’t possible for her. She felt as if she was stuck with some unique power.
She kept feeling upset. Her hands were not working. Then she selected another
canvas & she began to paint. Her hands were working perfectly on this new
canvas. She was hoping to create different painting. But she had started to do
something unique. She began to draw one lady. She didn’t understand that why
she was working on next painting so easily & she couldn’t destroy her last painting.
She observed her new painting. It was no doubt but her face. She smiled. She
was doing her own painting. Soon she sensed that she was painting herself as
bride. She smiled. It was wonderful idea. But suddenly she sensed that it
wasn’t her. She smiled sweetly. It was her elder sister Sarika. She couldn’t
forget her. She missed her daily. Sarika was her best friend. She had little
kid when Sarika was in college. They had big age difference. She remembered
very well how did Sarika used to play with her. Sarika seemed so nice until
they fixed Sarika’s marriage & Sarika denied. Her father kept screaming
& abusing. Then her mother also started to get upset with Sarika. Finally,
one day Sarika ran away from home. They found letter. She didn’t understand
what was written but they didn’t file Police complaint. Her father told to not
mention Sarika. They never mentioned. Whenever some relative mentioned they
told them that she went abroad to study. Then lies continued. They told Sarika
got married there. They told all that Sarika was settled in abroad. They kept
lying & even today they kept pretending. When Dinesh died, all felt so
shocked when Sarika didn’t appear. In a relatives suspected something was wrong
between Sarika & her family. But they didn’t know that cause. Any way life
went ahead. She looked towards Sarika’s canvas & said “I hope you are happy
in your life.” Then she put all her work aside & went in kitchen for
cooking.
When Anu entered in kitchen, she
felt so strange in her mind. She felt as if someone was following her
everywhere. It was so odd. She was living in this house for long time. It
wasn’t possible that this house had something paranormal. After marriage they
shifted in this house. It was so upsetting to have this feeling. She began to
look carefully around. She didn’t understand what was going on. She was living
happily in this house so many days. Her life was so nice but now it was changed. Her
life took different turn. She was no longer happy with Pradip since he was
harsh towards her. He cared just about his business. He was not any more
interested in her troubles. She supposed to handle house. If she went with any
issue to him, he immediately declared that he didn’t have time to waste on
issues in house. He needed to concentrate on in his office work. So, she was
handling all by herself. She didn’t feel sure that she was doing it right. No
one was there to advise her. It was her second marriage so her family came to
marriage but they were not excited to take responsibilities. Anu didn’t
understand why did her family avoided Pradip. It was so odd. They kept avoiding
him. She knew that Pradip was nice person. But she was so nervous since she
began to see Dinesh this way. She was so scared. But today she decided that she
had to handle it. So she took appointment of psychiatrist. But she was so
scared. She didn’t understand what would happen if Pradip knew about it. She
was so confused where she could keep Vinita. She didn’t want anyone to know about. Everyone taunted
her regarding her second marriage. According to them widow must not get married
again. She supposed to live in memories of her dead husband. If she got
married, it showed that she never loved Dinesh from heart. If she could replace
Dinesh then she wasn’t honestly in love. In fact, they were saying that her
second husband would be surely worst. Pradip was not so nice but she didn’t
plan to confess it. She wanted to show world that her second marriage was big
success. She couldn’t tell anyone that she was seeing Dinesh. She took
appointment of that time when Vinita would be in school. She did all her house
chores & literally ran to clinic of Psychiatrist. She was totally panic
when her appointment started to take time. She wanted to go inside on time. She
kept asking receptionist when she could go inside. She began to tell about her
daughter & daughter’s school time. Finally, receptionist had enough.
Receptionist told her that she could talk to psychiatrist. Anu was so scared.
She was acting in wrong way. She slowly told all to Psychiatrist. Psychiatrist
said sweetly “You can bring your daughter here.” “Is it okay?” “Yes, I want you
to be relax during session.” She smiled & told receptionist all. Receptionist
nodded happily. She took Auto & went to Vinita’s school. Vinita was waiting
already. She took Vinita & came to clinic. Vinita didn’t feel nervous.
Vinita began to do her homework. She was so glad. Finally, her time came to
go inside. She was so nervous. But Psychiatrist smiled very nicely. She felt so
relaxed. Vinita was given one nice book & she sat in room. Vinita started
reading book. She began to enjoy it. Anu started to tell all her issue.
Psychiatrist “ I heard all. I got one feeling that Pradip isn’t romantic man
but whenever you got sick. He care, does he?”
She nodded. “So he is in love. Dinesh was nice husband in all ways. But
he is dead so you needed to replace. You done it. But people made you feel
guilty about it. This is happening due to it…” She began to listen. Slowly she
began to feel relaxed. Then she began her treatment. She went back after taking
next appointment. When she returned home, she kept feeling nervous. She was so
guilty. When Pradip came home, she slowly told everything to him. Pradip looked
towards her for some time. She waited for criticism. He just said “Take one
appointment on holiday. I want to come & discuss too. I also need to know
what’s wrong…& if you see Dinesh, I don’t think you need to feel guilty. I
see my dead parents too. Same way you see your dead husband. It’s not wrong to
miss him.” Then Pradip closed his eyes & went to sleep. She smiled. Pradip
was so different. He never got emotional but he cared for her. She closed her
eyes & began to dream about some picnic. In which she had every one her
both husbands & their families. Her life was complicated but she decided to
handle all. She knew that all would fine with help of psychiatrist. She would
learn to handle her past.
The End
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