chapter 24

Everything ended peacefully last night. People truly fell for my fake love story. Now no one doubts us. From today onwards I'm a good and sociable person who have a good relationship with her neighbours. I have family and friends to invite on every festival, my kids also made many friends. Now they won't feel lonely in school and also in outside school. I think I took a reasonable decision after a while. I have a stable, small and profitable business by which we won't starve and I can afford our basic needs also I can provide every facility for my kids.Also now I have a complete family  where I have two little kids and a handsome husband. So what if it's all fake but the work I have to do as a wife and a mother is real. Now, I feel like I have been scammed by these three. In place of two now I have to look after three persons. Kids are kids but with them I got a big kid who have more demands than kids. He used to help in chores, I thought taking Shiv into my family would help me but now he looks like a demon. I have to clean whole house because of the mess they are making while playing games, each person's demand in food is different, instead of supporting me I felt they are taking revenge on me for kicking Shiv out from home. I prepared kids for school and then I had to prepare myself for work but before that I would have to look after Shiv. As his hand was broken I fed him food and helped him other things.Shiv used to help me before but for his broken hand I had to do everything.After kids are gone to school,  I took Shiv into the bathroom to help him in taking bath. But look how stubborn he is and making a fuss over it."What's wrong with you! Unbutton your shirts right now and I will help you" I said. "No.... No need I don't want to take a bath now" he replied."You didn't even take bath for two days, how could you stay in this state? I even feel germs are dancing on your skin... Look... Look" I said. "Ha ha ha! Not funny at all. Do you think I'm a kid or something and I would fear after hearing your words" he said."If you are not a kid then as a admirable adult take a bath right now, because I love cleanliness" I said.I started to unbutton his shirt myself. He pushed my hand covered his body by his hand and said "don't touch me, how could I take my shirt off infront of an woman!"he said. "Don't worry I won't even flinch if you stand naked infront of me. For me there is no difference between you and Ayush" I said."Really! You heartless wife... Still I don't want to take bath here and that's final. If you still bother me for this then this will be sexual harassment"he said."What! Sexual harrasment! I already told you I have no interest in a weakling like you" I said. "What! What did you say! Weakling!" He got irritated with my word and grabbed my waist with his one hand and pulled me towards him.I was surprised from this act of him. His grip was very strong and tight that I couldn't release myself from him. I looked at him with surprise and asked "what are you doing!" "Why! You can't even release yourself from one hand grip of a weakling!" He said and teased me."Ha! You are unbelievable". Just do whatever you want" I freed myself from him and pushed him away then ran away from bathroom.After that day I didn't force him in anything and he started to take bath in our inn. Where our male workers helped him in taking bath. When they asked why was he taking bath there regularly! he replied it was because of he didn't want to bother his wife.As I was doing all housework and then took care of those three then I came inn for other work, so he want to support me while doing such small things on his own here. Others thought he is a thoughtful man but I understood he is becoming a good liar. But this is the lie we started together. Our family may be fake but everything feels real day by day.I understood one thing while living with him that he is not a bad person. Sometimes he act like a crazy person but he always respected my wish and my thoughts. Anyone who will see us would say that we are made for eachother.Later stage I discovered he is a business genius. He gave me some ideas and it worked well for my small business. I thought if he would help me like this then may be my small business would develop into a large scale business. Slowly I'm starting to doubt his actual identity. Everyday his strange behaviours, his intelligence and his small gestures making me curious about him. Who is he and how did he end up here! Is it for good or bad!Sometimes it feels he knows me better than I do. He acts strange somedays it was like he is hiding something from us. He lost his memory so he didn't know anyone but I felt he was using children's phone to talk with someone. I thought he was talking to someone but he said it was just a prank for children. When I checked phone there was no number, so I felt he was right. But I saw him from a distance and he was quite serious while talking on the phone. He had no where to go but these days sometimes he goes missing without telling us. Later he always gave us an undeniable excuse for going missing. I think I'm interfering too much in his life and I shouldn't look into his privacy after all we are a fake couple.