A love story went wrong

“But you said you love me?” she said.
He clarified, “Ya, but that was some two days back.”
She questioned, “And today you don’t love me?”
He said, “See, change is the law of nature. Day becomes night and so. You change your clothes. You change your food etc.”
She looked into the eye, “What do you mean? Come clear.”
He answered without looking, “I loved you two days back. And two days is a long time. Now I don’t feel the same.”
She was shocked, “Whaaat? But I brought all my stuff to live with you and I have nowhere else to go.”
He was furious, “Did you ask me before doing all this?”
She was confused now because she never thought that things can change so much within 48 hours. And here she was feeling just the same for a very long time.
She was lost in a plethora of emotions. Too confused to know whether she should laugh or cry. Lost in her own thoughts, she could feel his arm shaking her and asking, “Now, where do you want to go? Tell, me and I can drop you.”
“But I want to stay with you, why anywhere else?” she responded. He was equally adamant that she has to leave. He kept insisting that he doesn’t want to stay with her. Moreover, it is his life and he has every right to decide what he wants.
“Leave me alone,” he shouted. He has a life. He wants to be with other women and has no place for this particular woman, someone he knew too long.
“Come on, isn’t spending the last 25 years with her enough?” he justified.
After all a man doesn’t need his mother so what if a boy does. He is a man now and not a ‘mama’s boy’ anymore. He drove her to an old-age home he knew and never looked back.
Since then she kept waiting for him. A son whom she conceived with great difficulty and sacrificed three daughters before him in her womb. She produced him to insure her old age because that’s the way this system works. Mothers take care of son till they are old and the role-reversal when mothers get old. How can you expect anything from daughters? After all daughters get married and move to other families. She too was a daughter, long time back. Her parents married her off and neither did they or she looked back, ever since.
“Why go through so much trouble to have a son?” she kept asking herself. Still she kept hoping that he would come back, one day.
He didn’t prove her wrong. He did come to see the end of her lifeless body, long after she was gone.


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