"Ummeed"

The Expectation (Ummeed)

On reaching the entrance, she quickly swiped her I Card, without bothering much to see that it wasn’t accepting. She tried once again, but failed. As she drew herself nearer to the access machine, a refulgent face gazed at her through the other end.

Indeed it was he, with those innocent reticent eyes. Moments were reminiscing back to their past young office days and present seemed stagnant. Swiping his card, he opened the door and extended his hand as if to embrace her. His possessive sight depicted his hope, love and care for her even today. But paradise reformed to reality, as he lowered his sight from beautiful pink lips, towards her slim neck, amidst the pallu of her sari, lay the pure, mangalsutra

To his astonishment he uttered “You got married?” breaking his past sixteen years reticence. As usual, she nodded, and looked up to him raising her eyelids to question. “I am a divorcee”, he replied.


By Aapki Parwaaz