I Love Netra

Netra:
I asked Akshay to go out to take a rest. He went out, and I cried, breaking down at once.
I hate you, Akshay. You can never understand my feelings. Until now, you forced me to accept Jeevith just because I have married him. Now you made me divorce Jeevith as someone tried to blame me. When would you understand what my heart wants? Doesn't I have a right to choose a life partner? Until now, I thought only you could understand me, but now I hate you the most.
I cried a lot and then wiped off my tears and washed the face. I went to have lunch and pretended as if these incidents do not affect me. I observed Akshay's gaze at me with admiration and love.
I snapped my fingers at Akshay to make him angry because I know he is egoistic. However, he did not react in the way I expected and was calm and cool.
We went together to the press conference. The place was full of reporters. I know how excited people would be about the lives of others.
"Sir, is it true that your wife Netra was a prostitute and you both had an affair? As it was leaked on the internet, you both got married immediately, right?" a reporter asked, and Akshay smiled.
"Hello, everyone. Take a breath for a second, keeping your excitement and questions aside. Netra and I came here to clear all your doubts," Akshay said as usual in his sarcastic style.
Akshay looked at me for a while and then continued his talk. I could guess his words because Akshay never gets scared of speaking the truth out and escapes from the situation.
"Yes, my wife was a prostitute. We don't have an affair, but we always shared a great bonding and relationship. We call it friendship, and you are free to name it anyway because we bother the least about the opinion of others.
I married Netra because I love her. I want to be with her holding her hand in every situation, to give her confidence that I am there for her forever.
I am there for her doesn't mean I will make her a dependent on me. It doesn't mean I will clear her every problem. I wouldn't create a comfort zone for her by throwing away all the challenges from her way.
I mean, I would be there for her to lean on my shoulder when she wants to cry, letting out all the pain she hid in her heart for years. I would never wipe her tears away because I know that she is capable of doing it. She knows how to create her way by facing the challenges and crushing the problems in her way. I would be there with her enjoying her happiness and feeling her pain, which just means I want to share my life with her forever," Akshay said, making my eyes shed tears knowing how much he loves me.
I remembered Jeevith for a second. Today after the marriage with Akshay, I called Jeevith assuming he would be in pain, but his words as usual broken my heart.
"Netra, I had accepted you even after knowing your past as it was my mistake, but now I have no choice except to leave you. Because this entire world came to know your past and now my sister in law and their children have no one except me to help them. I should make my business succeed, and for that good reputation in society is a must. Having you in my life would ruin my reputation and business as well. I can't risk the future of my family for you. I am sorry. Goodbye," Jeevith said and disconnected the call.
However, I didn't want to judge Jeevith because he is correct in his way. Whoever or whatever breaks my heart, Akshay would be the heal that takes away all the pain. I wiped my tears before anyone would notice it.
Reporters became calm without questioning anything. Akshay asked me to speak as I decided to face the press today.
"Hi, everyone. The entire media is here today to know about me. No, No. To blame me and raise your TRP ratings, right?" I asked them.
"I respect the media a lot because it's very powerful. Powerful than any government, entrepreneur, or bureaucrat. So I decided to answer your questions patiently today.
Your first question is, am I a prostitute? No, I was a prostitute. Now I would like to tell you a short story. It's not a fairy tale or a story of a princess. It's a story of a common girl who went until death and came back to win her life.
A girl of 12 years lost her mother, and her dad decided to sell her off. But a kind-hearted person chose to get her married to his son to save her. She got married and stepped into her inlaws house in the age where she doesn't even understand what life or marriage is.
With a fear, she entered into that house, believing that her husband would save her from everything as her father in law told her. However, none in the family except the father in law accepted her. She was treated as a maid by her mother in law who was money minded. She was forced to do the entire work in the house at that tender age. Every mistake would get her punished by her mother in law severely by starving her for days.
However, she bore everything and never shared it with her father in law. But one day, her father approached her mother in law, making a deal to sell her. She accepted it as she needed money and also to get rid of her daughter in law. But she knows well that she couldn't do it unless she makes her husband hate her daughter in law. So, that mother in law made a plan with the help of her elder son.
Her elder son got close to the daughter in law. That little girl assumed him as her brother and became close to him, thinking that her loneliness would fade away. Without her notice, her mother in law polluted the mind of her father in law and husband saying that little girl was interested in her elder son," I said and took a deep breath.
Akshay took me closer to him, wrapping his hand over my shoulders. I wiped my tears and continued it.
"That little girl went one night to the room of her brother in law as he called her as a part of their plan. They had created a scene blaming that girl as she was interested in her brother in law. That girl was shocked and didn't even understand what they were talking about. Meanwhile, she was slapped by her husband, who never had a single conversation with her until then or tried to ease her pain, blamed her character. Later, her mother in law threw her out of the house and was sold by her father to a prostitution house.
She was forced into prostitution, and her body was used as if it was their possession but not a human. Every second she was tortured by lustful high profile people by using her sexually and giving steroids to her to make her look like an adult and impress the customers there. Customers used to harass her in many ways, such as burning her private parts with the cigarette, hitting her, sometimes using a knife or sharp objects to make her scream as it turns them on, etc. For almost seven years, she bore everything.
Then her best friend met her, who is her savior forever. He rescued her from a fire accident in the prostitutes' house and gave her a new face and future. He changed her life forever. He made that little girl or a prostitute as the Netra- a successful young entrepreneur in India," I said.
"And that friend who took a risk where he may even lose his life is Akshay."
I ended the story. I didn't tell the reporters that the little girl's husband was Jeevith. Jeevith never stood by my side when I needed him the most, either in the past or present. I closed my eyes, shedding silent tears, and was embraced by my savior Akshay into his arms to soothe the pain.