The baby was crying and wanting to get on the lap of his mom .But Linda did not pick up him on lap.
Linda was standing against the wall, her bewildered face was distorted utterly with contempt and helplessness !
Linda :( now she clapped dramatically)
" Wow, goo-d Samaritan; then like vomit she emitted, ff uck, you fake Shame- ari- tan !"
(The baby was crying....)
( Kausik came towards her ; picked up the crying baby affectionately, to hand over Linda .)
Kausik:
"He is hungry ; please. feed him !
(Linda turned her face to the baby looking vacantly, as if, to some creature never seen before)!
Then glanced at Kausik deeply with her stunned. and tearful eyes, for few moments .
{ Both fixed their eyes on each other with their mouth little agap, like still-image ! their untold speech was conveyed through gazed eyes ! {(Perhaps all the past moments of last fifteen months flashed in lightening speed in their minds like some snap-shots-!!}
Linda. took the baby from kausik in her lap and went to the bed- room silently.)
Kausik; ( rested on the sofa-cum bed, quite exhausted; it was mid-night As he switched off the light, a deadly silence swooped down, pervading all around Just as in war field , at the end of battle !
Kausik lay down on the sofa. ..... amidst the silence he heard the baby was enjoying breast-milk from Linda with sweet sucking noise .....chuk, chuk ....chuk. Aah!Aah....
He felt into deep sleep with that lullaby ..chuk,chuk..........
( In early morning door-bell and also the ring-tone from land phone puzzled sleepy Kausik. He struggled to get over from sleepy bewilderment ... With drowsy eye he opened the door ; his sleep evaporated to see two cobs with uniform, standing behind the security guards of their building who looked pale, terrified.
Police:
You have to come down with us in the back yard of swimming pool..
Kausik followed them in his bewilderment without questioning
Outside the indoor swimming pool there was a open place surrounded by some tall tree and swimming chairs to relax under open sky .There was a crowd of several cobs, concierge, two three staffs of the apartment ,The police stopped near a body covered by white sheet. One cob lifted the white cover.
Police:
"Do you recognize. this woman?'"
Kausik : nodded his head .
"What is her name?"
Kausik :
"Linda, my wife".
Police. :
"When did she came here?"
(Kausik nodded his head again.)
Police. :
"Why was she out of apartment at mid-night?"
(Kausik nodded his head , confusedly.)
The cleaner of swimming pool was the first to see her body hanging from a tree of this garden.
Kausik : (looked at her wide-opened sea-green eyes fixed at the grey unclear sky and protruded tongue, as if, to mock Kausik !
(Kausik asks silently: What are you searching with such penetrating look at the sky , Linda? fault of our stars?
He wanted to ask the cob to shut her eyes and insert her tongue inside; but nothing came out from throat .)
Two cobs in white robe with the concierge came to Kausik.
" Sir, we need to take look of your apartment; please accompany us "
Kausik followed them like puppet.
The cob took multiple photos of the whole apartment . They discussed among themselves in low voice while taking ..the cracked wedding photo In the bed room they picked up an. open envelop. from the baby-cot.
The three cobs leaned over the piece of paper to read .
Police :
"Sir, you have to go to the police station with us .
There are two lady cops to take care of your baby".
Kausik followed the cobs;
Coming near the elevator as he turned back abruptly towards the door of his apartment , he visualized his father standing, waving his right palm.
Taking seat in the police Jeep car Kausik covered his face with two palms; he apprehended his father passed away; his berieved mother would be looking for him to come; his only descendant Badsha,the 7month's baby-son, left under the caretaker of two unknown lady cobs, and he is on the way of police station ,perhaps to be prisoned !
How a life can be be turned to polar distance by fate only in couple of hours!
The cob patted him softly and assured,"It is just formality's sake; nothing would happen to you, sir ; he gave the note from the envelope to read :This is her suicide-note, written at 4: 15 AM,
'Nobody is responsible for my suicide; it is my Own decision.
Kausik, my husband, is innocent !'
Linda. Srinivasan
NB:
"I want to be loved and live in your heart ; true love never
dies, isn't? xx
"Only yours Linda".
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