Wow… It is a wonderful Sunday morning. The weather is so nice, and the bed is warm; I don’t want to wake-up and let me lie down for a couple of more hours. I have warm kisses, must be my wife…
“Honey, let me sleep for more time…”
Oops… This is our baby doggie, Mickey. Thank God I didn’t kiss her back! I love my doggie, but my kisses are not for her.
“Baby, where is your Mom?”
My baby just sat down without any hints. I think my wife is making tea for me and some nice breakfast in the kitchen. I think Mickey is here as she is not allowed in the kitchen when she cooks.
It’s an hour already, where is she? There is no breakfast and tea. So far, I just got kisses from Mickey; it looks like this Sunday will be a terrible one.
“Jubu… Jubu…“ I called her name several times, but she did not respond. It’s definitely the time to get up from the bed.
She is not in the kitchen, living room, and even I checked a couple of drawers. No time to be funny!
“Where is she?”
Let me try to call her.
“Hey! Her cell phone rings in the bedroom.”
She has not taken her cell phone. Did she go for a morning walk for a change, though she prefers a walk in the evening?
I checked all around our apartment, and she is nowhere. Let me go back to check whether she is back at home.
“No, she is not at home.”
Now, I started worrying, and tension is rising. Ooh… I am sweating as well.
“Let me call her friends and check whether she talked to any one of them this morning…”
It looks like she did not talk to anyone. My tension is rising high, and not sure what I should do next.
Let me ask Micky whether she can give me any hints. Micky is looking very relaxed; am I the only fool in this house? I can read from Micky’s eyes that she is fine and not far away. Have I checked the Patio?
“… Oh!… Here you are? Relaxing on the Jhula, and I am sweating to death for you! I love you, darling, why were you not responding to me? I have called your name for a long time and was looking for you in the entire world (I wanted to say entire apartment, but sometimes it’s good to exaggerate in front of the wife).”
She held my hand and said, “Please sit down near me. I need to talk to you.”
Does she want to talk to me? The last time she said this, we had a big fight about something, and we did not talk to each other for two days. Oh… God, history is going to repeat itself. What happened now? Everything was so good and fine. I started wondering what would be the topic of the new faith. Gosh… I wished to have a good time this Sunday, and everything seems to be shattered now. Anyway, I will not speak a single word and let her say whatever she wants to yell. If the mistake is not mine also, I will keep silent and admit everything. This is the only way to save an innocent Sunday and me.
Like an Oscar-winning actor, let me deliver few dialogues, although I am trembling from inside, “Honey, my sweetheart… please tell me what you wanted to discuss (the word ‘discuss’ was chosen intelligently though I wanted to say ‘yell’).”
“When is the last vacation we had?” she asked.
“Six months back, honey, in Goa,” I replied.
She said with a strong voice, “I won’t call it a vacation; you promised to take me Bora-Bora, and finally, we landed at Goa.”
“Honey, I did not have leaves and thought to combine it with my next overseas assignment. See how smart I am…”
She looked at me angrily, and I realized my last statement was a Poor joke 🙂
“Tell me, what is the best vacation we had ever in the last three years?”
“Of course, the Hawaii one… It was a seven days relaxation, and the best holiday I have ever had.”
“I thought you would be saying the Ooty, one month back. We spent three days just talking to each other, campfire, you sing out of rhythm songs and warm teacups in the chilled winter”.
“Well… Honey, believe me, even I thought I would say the Ooty, one was the best vacation ever we had (it is also better to lie sometimes in front of the wife)”.
“Then, why did not you say that?”
Ah… I am trapped. “Honey, if you did not like the last Hawaii trip, then we can plan it again… And, I bet it would be our best trip ever, and you will forget about Ooty.”
“I don’t want to forget about Ooty’s trip, and I won’t go on anywhere else with you.”
Did I hear it right? “Hey, are you saying you won’t go with me anywhere?”
“Yes, I won’t go with you anywhere. We will have no more vacations…”
What happened to her this morning? “Sweetheart, are you alright? Please tell me if something annoyed you. I am sorry, baby, and I will not let it happen again. Tell me what have I done wrong?”
Now her silence is also killing me. She is not saying anything… I asked, “Tell me, baby, why are you behaving like this?”
“I never thought I would say this… But, I won’t stay with you in this house and am going to my parent’s house…”
“What!?… What am I hearing?” Something terribly going wrong, it seems. I tremble now with shock, stress, and anxiety. I am almost going to jump from the patio thinking about what has happened. My life is totally changed, and I don’t know what is happening and what to do now. I always believe in my wife and my love for her, but today a big question came to mind. “Does she not love me anymore?” Completely broken is the only closest word to describe how I am feeling right now.
I am almost crying right now and could only say, “I love you, honey, please don’t go!”
After a few seconds of killing silence, a reply came from her, which will change my entire life.
“We won’t have any more vacations, no good time, and even I will leave you and move out to stay with my mom as it is required for someone else.”
I almost decided that I am buying a rifle from Walmart, and after shooting that ‘someone else,’ I will return it. And, I still could not believe that someone else could enter into our happy life. This must be my fault; I probably could not make her feel that she is always loved, cared for, and looked after. She is the one and the only one.
Controlling all my emotions, I asked, “what is his name?”
“She does not have a name yet, and I think you should name her as it is the Father’s Right!”
The entire world is spinning around me. Huh… it is the best news I ever heard. My brain started kicking out all the negative thoughts accumulated in the last fifteen minutes, and it took no time to fill with the right thoughts of utmost happiness. There are very few milestones in the journey of love which has no destination. I hit one such milestone today.
And, something else hit my head as well. Oh, it is my roommate hammering my head to start for office as we are getting late.
I discovered two things when I woke up from my best dream, that – it is not a Sunday morning and I am still single 🙂
