Chapter 30 – The Final Chapter
Read the previous chapter by Parul here
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost
Life goes on, come what may!
Shekhar
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
― Marilyn Monroe
Yes, Tara doesn’t deserve me, there was a rebuke in Shekhar’s thought. He knew he was not the ideal husband. He knew he went astray under the pressure of this undercover agent job but there was one thing he was ever sure of, Tara. He knew he fought with her but he knew she was there. Did he expect too much out of this relation? Wasn’t it just fair that she stood beside him when he was in the deepest shit? Isn’t this what love is all about?
Shekhar was aimless now. Insignia was over. His only one relationship was over. He never felt connected with Roohie and now after all this, he could fake no more.
He decided not to fake anymore. He knew it was life without pretences that he wanted. No split personality and no fake relationships.
He called his mom, “ Maa ammi badi aaschi” (Mom, I am coming home). One of the happiest moments ever, is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change. Hills were calling him.
Tara
Tara got a promotion almost at the same time when her personal life fell apart. The coveted promotion that she has been eyeing and working all through her life. It was there, sitting on the table, unopened, for now it meant nothing to her.
Aryan, whom she loved blindly was an imposter. Shekhar whom she thought she didn’t love was the only person she was reminded of when the worst hit. Probably while staying together and sharing life for so long she had developed a silent understanding and trust on him, of which she herself was unaware of till the very last moment. Or till the moment it was very late.
All her relationships were unsuccessful and this role as a mother she could not bear to fail. She knew Roohie will never be happy with her. An unhappy mother has no right to parent a child. Tara had to let go off Roohie. That was the only way to save Roohie. She had already dragged Roohie a lot in her complicated life.
Tara decided to stay behind, locked in her past thinking of what could’ve been.
Jenny
For the first time in her life Jennifer felt settled. She had led a nomadic life; chasing dreams, fighting hypocrisies, searching for an unknown happiness. But today, with Darius’s picture smiling from the bedside table, her camera sitting next to the laptop and she pretending to be asleep while Roohie secretly prepared Mother’s Day breakfast for her; she couldn’t have asked for more.
Jennifer had realized after years of wandering the truth in Marcus Aurelius’s words,“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Cyrus
The dream of that naked girl had stopped disturbing him.
He looked at the poster on the wall above his writing desk which read,
“A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.” – Mahatma Gandhi
He looked at Tina who was sleeping besides him covered in white satin sheets her dainty arms stoking his chest and her feet nudging the inside of his knee. Her hands were soft and velvety. He held them tighter and smiled. Together they were on a mission.
Roohie
“You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have” her role model Bob Marley’s words echoed in her mind when she decided to take the reins of her life in her own little hands.
It was highly unlikely for a child of her age to be so mature and strong but here she was. A passive sufferer of this entire episode Roohie couldn’t spoil her life further as is usually the case with children of broken families.
She choose to stay with Jenifer.
Jenifer respected her decision. Tara had no choice but to let her go.
“Morning will come, it has no choice.”
This is the last chapter of our story, Nights of White Satin.
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