Welcoming Tiny Feet!

I seek for a dwelling, Don't kill me because I am a girl swirled with dreams and feelings...

"Hey sweety! What are you doing here and that too at 3 am, are you okay?"

A rigorous voice making Ruchi out of the trance.

"Nothing Tushar, I was feeling suffocated so just came outside to get some fresh air" Ruchi whispered hiding those surreptitious thoughts which were ubiquitous with her every time.

Tushar took her along with him to the room and cuddled her into his arms just to comfort her and to make her feel good.
Still, Ruchi was in her deep thinking. As they say, some thoughts cannot be flushed that easily.

 Both immensely in love with each other, decided to get married after a relationship of 5 long years.

Yes, indeed its was going to be a love marriage and this  wasn't easy for them to elicit their relation in front of their families, but fate played its own game and things fell into the proper place.

And then corollary edify their relation into a life long relation bound with 7 vows of 7 births, tying the pious thread made up of beads promising to be with each other in all the deeds, owing Tushar's name and finally she was now Ruchi Mukherjee to Ruchi Tushar Mehta.

Days passed and so did years and the void entered into their life. Love did exist, but something was loosing the charm of the relation.

One fine monday morning, while preparing the breakfast, Ruchi rushed to the basin and started puking... it was equivocal yet esoteric.

Somewhere down the corner, she had a idea of what was happening to her yet she wanted to be sure. And the two red lines on the pregnancy kit too confirmed it.Now her mind started planning, how to burst out the joyous news to Tushar, that soon a sugar voice will be calling him Daddy.

She started planning how to make that quixotic moment, before she could reveal it to him- THE SOON TO BE  PARENTS tag, and then the idea of a moon light dinner at their terrace clicks her mind where both the  love birds can spend some quality time away from the regular hustle.
That night, they re-live those old memories yet again ... recollecting their special moments as the moon shimmers its light upon them.
Post dinner, when they are back to their bedroom,Ruchi finally decides to burst out the golden news but waits until he comes beside her to the bed.

"Honey, you dint sleep yet.. I thought you must be snoring by now" and winks at her comforting himself on the right side of the bed.

'' Can you feel something???'' asked Ruchi sitting besides him placing his palm on her stomach.

Tushar  being a gynaecologist immediately got her act. He sprung up like a spring on the bed with an intractable joy and impetuously called up his mom saying that a baby boy is soon coming.

'Baby Boy'

"Tushkii, how can you be sure that its gonna be a boy and not as a girl ???" Ruchi forbeared.

"Okay fine baby! you need a girl, no problem, but I wish to have a baby boy, even mom too wants baby boy"

"And what if we have a girl?"

"Please Shona, we are not arguing on this matter further, what's more important is we will soon become mom and dad."

"Hmm"

"What hmm, fine I will be equally happy if you give birth to a girl"
Smile now.....
Tushar, got frenetic with Ruchi on this girl-boy topic, and so he decides examing her himself to check whether she is conceiving a girl or a boy.

 THREE MONTHS LATER....

 One evening Tushar calls  up Ruchi to visit his clinic where with the help of sonography, he could easily know about his own child's gender. He cogent her saying it as a normal checkup to which she agreed.
The gel was spread around giving ice to her spine, the hollowed neck tube ran in a circular motion making some autopsy out of the breathe.

"Damn, she is conceiving a baby girl, and that too twins."

 The celerity of baleful act stuck his mind, because he strongly had a desire for a boy. Coming from a conservative family, even his parents wanted the same. He was daunted and finally the same night he decided to kill the girl in the womb itself. He mixed Mifepristone in her milk which caused a chemical abortion. The pain arouse tearing out the blood cells killing her baby inside. Ruchi was clueless about this uncertain mishap.

She started wondering how she can be so irresponsible towards her child, she was bequeath. While the composure of extricate chucked Tushar's face. He somehow managed  to get her out of this trauma, but having a child in their life was imbue. He allowed a hiatus for a year, and approached Ruchi to plan for their next baby
"I don't think I would be able to..." He stops her words.

"Don't worry this time I'll be more careful, I'll take care of you both, you just get ready will have some parental test for our next baby" and kisses her forehead making her more strong.

He himself takes her for the test and checks the report, and it stated that,
'The womb is preventing ovulation and this is obstructing the sperms from reaching the oocyte (prevent fertilization) by thickening the cervical mucus.'

 In a nut shell, stating that Ruchi won't be able to conceive anymore.
The words in the reports were virulent. The turbulence of his past deed came acquiescently. He was cloister from the greatest happiness.

The guilt started engulfing him from the core . The decadence arose and then finally he confessed that he is responsible for the audacious evil he had done.

" The act of insanity is carried by the doctor himself!!!

 How can you even think of doing this to your wife and your babies???

 You mixed the Mifepristone in my milk, I would have been more happier if you have had mixed some poison and have killed me

 How you even dare to cheat your own profession....

 what else can we expect from other whose desires are much more important than an innocent baby who is still not out to the world.''

 Ruchi filled with temerity turning out vicissitude.

"Please dear, try to understand my situation too, I never imagined even in my worst dreams, that this pill would create such a havoc to our lives!!

Firstly I married you against my parents will... Later if you had given birth to our baby; that too twin girls... they wouldnt have taunted us all our lives..

 Tushar justifies himself as an impeccable.

"Today, I feel ashamed of myself that I fell for a man who doesnt mind cheating his wife, his profession, his own principles and above all staying with a person who is a MURDERED of his own child....

From this very moment I set you free.You can live with your parents'' Ruchi getting provoked tied up with slander words.

"Love, please don't leave me, I promise I will pay up for all my deed" he begged.

His act not only killed a woman but also killed a mother keeping a wife alive.
He realised his mistakes but it was too late, he understood the importance of a child no matter girl or a boy, can fill in the voids of the relation.
Ruchi lost all her charm, passing each day as a harm. The relation had almost come to an end but then a saviour came to them.

Tushar adopted a two months baby from an orphanage, and there came a new dawn to their lives.

Welcoming Tiny Feet!.....

Trisha, came to their life, like a morning dew drop freshening the darken dusk with the new dawn of new hopes.

Ruchi was getting out of the trauma while Tushar joined various NGO's promoting saving a girl child.

Its Always good to have something than to have barren hands. Ruchi was back to her normal life, but that glass of milk was still obsequious to her......