The Wedding Alarms

It always seemed like a weird and strange and excruciatingly painful practice, common at my in-laws' place, in which husbands attended the party without their better halves and wives stayed at home and waited for their husbands to return, as it occurred in ancient times. Even then, I considered that they enjoyed more power and liberation. At the very least, they were informed of their husbands' impending arrival. I had plenty of time to believe I was nowhere but in prison. I was saying it was wrong. Actually,

"A prison will be a better place to reside. Here I am in complete confinement. I have nothing to do here all day long but wait for the husband when he gets back from the office and climbs on me. He just considered me an "unwanted possession."

I was not allowed to peer down through the window to see if my husband had arrived or not. It was not enough. I was supposed to remain in my room, 24 by 7, locked from the inside, waiting for the knock at the door. I would have to pay heavy repercussions if I failed to open the door between the three knocks. And there was no one to rescue me.

In fact, the very thing delighted their mood to the extreme. The very next moment, my mother-in-law turned up to soothe her eyes to see my body laced with bruises all over, and a wicked smile appeared on her face ear to ear. Then she delivered a sarcastic remark,

"A degraded girl like you deserved this sort of treatment."

By saying so, she bled my heart a little more. And then I shedded some more tears and cursed myself for my wrongdoing and wrong thinking.

Repercussions could be anything from threats to release of anger, thrashing, taunting, bullying, and everything too. That depended on the mood of their husbands and how long it took them to open the door. Therefore, in order to avoid punishment, I had to sit against the door. It did not make any difference at what time he came back. A number of times, he did not get back to his room throughout the night. But being a wife, I could not make the mistake of taking a nap. And at the same time, I was not allowed to make him a call in the middle of the night and check by what time he would return from there.

They kept me in confinement as an accused because they were worried that I would not take much time to deviate from the others if I let it be like that. Anyway, I did not come to the party along with Anirudh that night as usual. And that bloody decision was declared to me by none other than my dear husband. Despite being aware of the fact that I was a party bird. And as a good housewife, more than that, as a feared wife, I was supposed to follow him silently, else I would have got ready to pay heavy. Many times, I used to think

"Why does he not try to get the small thing that no wife can love her husband who terrorizes his wife? Such a wife lives with her husband under compulsion only. "

Yes, once I mustered all the bravery and hostility to his call and started to raise him to require Pine Tree State with him. His mother was additionally standing there agape and appalled. How might I challenge her son's decision? However, she failed to intervene in the matter. He got furious at my constant demand and dragged me with my hair. He threw me hard on the bed mercilessly, whipped me continuously, and then ended up rapping me repeatedly, keeping the door open as if he wanted everyone to witness everything. It was my mother-in-law who came forward and shut the door. However, she did not try to stop her son from trying to commit atrocities against me. In truth, she was speaking louder,

"A lady like me deserves to end up the same way. And it is critical to make such a woman fully realize her place in the first place, or else she will begin to dance over her husband's head and set an awful example for other ladies too."

I had heard,

"A woman is a woman's worst enemy"

By saying so, she proved the statement correct. Plus, I was awarded punishment that I would have to go without clothes for another three days or he would make me parade nude around the house. I was left with no strength to stand on my own feet and close the door after he left.

I remained to lie there, absolutely knackered and exhausted, sobbing uncontrollably bitterly. After a short while, a maid named Malti silently walked into the room. My body was unable to respond, but I could hear her feet stepping closer to me. She had some ointment on her hand. She applied it to my bruises, which reduced the stinging. I was overwhelmed with the feeling of shame when the pain subsided and a maid witnessed my bare body.

I was groaning in severe pain. Even then, I could feel she was running her hand all over my bare back and trying to touch me all over my body and feel me. I was feeling uncomfortable with her actions. Then, all of a sudden, she started kissing and licking me all over my body and stroking my hair. Yes, she had switched off the light and bolted the door from inside so that a false impression could be given to the family that it was only me inside the room.

She gave me medicine to pop in. After half an hour, when the medicine began to have an effect on me and the pain subsided, I tried to get up to wear the clothes. She asked me to continue lying like that on the bed in a soft but firm voice,

"There is no use in stopping me from making love with you. My eyes were on you from day one. You do not know how to

I pine for grabbing you in my arms and playing a naughty game with you. Do not worry, I will not hurt you like your husband. "

Thereafter, she ignored my mild protest and gave me a smooch on my lips. She undressed in no time and then, thereafter, she played with me wholeheartedly throughout the night without any intermittence and I let her do it reluctantly. Perhaps I knew somewhere she was not going to stop from my stopping and I would create some more problems for me to raise my voice. Yes, that day, a maid imposed herself on me. And like that, I had become the object of lust for an ordinary woman too.

I was the victim of Malti as well but my mind was thanking her and was not ready to accept that she was guilty and she was awarded punishment. What about Ravi law had sanctioned him to keep a physical term with me but not to thrash me.

She considered my position inferior to her as if I was nothing more than a prostitute whose job was just assigned to satisfy the physical needs of everyone. I had no right to my body. Perhaps my condition was worse than the hooker's and so she also victimized me that day and other days too. Without a doubt, the medicine worked wonders on me and it abated my pain in a couple of hours. Before leaving the room, she helped me to wrap my body in some bed sheets in the wee hours of the morning.

I got a hint of a few things. First and foremost, she was well aware that Anirudh was not going to come back home that night. Then, Anirudh was gone throughout the night. She had a good hold on my in-laws. It meant she could be useful to me. It was hard for me to accept and forget what she did to me the previous night. But it was also important to me that I maintain a good relationship with her.

The other morning, when Anirudh came back from the party, a little tipsy, he was trying to snatch the bed sheet from me and passing lewd comments on me,

"Do not act like you are still a virgin. What are you hiding from me? I see you stark naked almost every night and give you a good screw every day. So drop the bed sheet right now and show me how to do a parade in the room. Do not forget that I got married to you, going against my parents' wishes just to satisfy my physical hunger. I do not intend to hang around with you. "

He was bossing around on me. I was worried that with his louder voice, he would draw the attention of everyone toward the room and, indeed, his mother would get into the room, if not anyone else. At the same moment, Malti got into the room abruptly and gave the false impression that she had entered the room by mistake. She made the excuse that she had come over here to give me a good bath so that her master could have a gala time. I couldn't believe how candidly she spoke to Anirudh with a naughty smile on her face.

I protested taking a bath with her, but she insulted me, saying,

"Why am I acting so much? God has bestowed upon her the same things in abundance as I have. And you can check with any male of the palace? "

I was shocked to see her audenticity, how brazenly, after all, she could speak before her master. Even then, I was reluctant to budge. In the meantime, Anirudh spoke to Malti,

"Give her a good bath and spray some good fragrance on her so that I can enjoy her to the fullest. You have no clue. I have already spent enough on her. "

When Anirudh found that I was showing a little disobedience, he did not hesitate to snatch that bedsheet from me and make a lousy remark,

"Malti, go and whiten her for me. And I will assign you one more task every day: you will deck her up for me from now on. "

She took me to the bathroom, taking advantage of me, and I failed to restrain her by doing so. What I could have done after all. Thereafter, it became her daily routine to get me in my room with the excuse that she had to give me a bath, and in the name of giving me a bath, she made love to me.

In customary law, he had never been interested in taking me to a party or anywhere with him ever. But yes, I had heard him talking to someone laughing once that I was dead against attending night parties and all. And I loved living my life on my own terms. In the beginning, he tried his best to change my mind, but later on, he stopped when he found I was not going to budge from my decision and that putting pressure on me could create a tiff in our married life. Because of that, being a nice and liberal husband, he did not want to make me do anything against my wish and spoil his evening, so he opted for the middle path of going there alone and leaving me to do the stuff I enjoyed. And so, he projected my image as a strong-headed lady before the public. But I was not sure how much he could succeed in convincing the crowd with his fake statement.

According to him and his family, I was desperate to attend the party so that I could entice the other men with my beauty and sleep with them. I used to get offended and broken from the inside out. But I knew my feelings had no value among them. And so, there was no benefit to it in the manifestation of it.

I was aware before the marriage that this chap was going to turn my life into hell, but I had never thought that I would be raped by a maid too, at his place, and my position was so feeble that I would not be able to restrain her. Yes, I became the wife of a business tycoon of the city, but just for my namesake. In reality, I found I was the poorest lady in the world. I prayed to God to forgive me, but I was not sure he would hear my prayer.

Anirudh had multiple personalities. I was shell-shocked to hear that he represented me before her friends as an alpha wife who lived her life on her own terms and conditions. And she was least bothered by her husband and his commitment. He did not mind putting me in the wrong picture of his friends. I literally felt atrocious about his false statement, but I found myself too feeble to argue with him.

It was not enough; even if he threw parties at home, I was not allowed to attend those parties. Actually, he did not want to make me introduce myself to his crowd. I could not come to know the actual reason behind it. There was no one with whom I could garner any information regarding it. And there he would give the bullshit reason to prevent me from attending those parties would be that decent ladies avoid attending those sorts of parties. His wish was everything. So, according to his wish, I was left with no weird option other than to sit in my room all day till the party did not wind up.

And I got my food to eat there only. I was not served any party food. In fact, I did not know what the menu was. He did not bother to discuss me, and likewise, they did not bother to serve me. I could hear the giggling and all the noise of the guests. I could listen to the music as well, sitting in my room. But I could not think of joining them and doing the same.

Once, Anirudh caught me peeping through the window. Whenever he threw a party at home, he took all my clothes and locked them inside the cupboard. I was left with not even a single piece of clothing on my body. Plus, he darkens the room. There was one of his maids named Malti, who took advantage of that situation and played with me all the time. No matter how hard I tried to stop her, she did not stop making love with me forcefully.

Malti and Anirudh, both of them imposed themselves on me. They forced themselves on me and bore their atrocities on me. But yes, Malti seduced me too. Anirudh thrashed me and Malti applied ointment to those bruises. She kept me up to date with the outside world. She was the only one who talked to me in the entire house. and brought me good food to eat. But I felt uncomfortable when she made weird demands on me, like keeping my eyes open while making love. She did not like the way I protested sleeping unclothed next to her when Anirudh was out of the station. And many times, she demanded me to take a bath with her in the middle of the night. After that, sometimes she began to approach me during the daytime and the frequency of lovemaking with me increased too. She demanded I wear her some gaudy and revealing dresses and put on makeup too, the way I prepared for my bloody husband. She loved to watch porn movies with me. And reluctantly, I had to do everything for her.

Malti's husband was drunk and she had two kids with him. He was twenty years older than her. He bought her when she hardly approached her puberty age and his own biological son was almost her age. She did not enjoy sleeping with her husband much. She got that pleasure from me. According to her, she was the man of the house because she made money and ran the house, and her husband was good for nothing. He just thrashed her black and blue and asked her for money for drinks. She could not leave him because society would not let her and her kids lead a life in peace. But yes, she always wished, deep down inside, for his death.

And at the same time, she threatened me that I would never dare disclose to anyone what happened between us. These people would turn my life into hell if I tried to complain about her. According to her and what I could perceive, she was their confidant. And they would never trust me over her no matter what. I knew she was not boasting about anything. It was a painful truth. What to talk about? I was dead sure that even Anirudh would not count on me.

I felt awful, but I was left with no other option except to make a friendship with her. Her friendship proved useful to make my life easier. She always tried to bring some good food for me to eat. She knew I wanted to witness the lavish party. To make me feel good, she managed to get some clothes for me when Anirudh threw a party at home.

Out of curiosity, I certainly tried to see the view of those ladies so that I could gauge where I stood before them. But there was no chance to get their view. But through their voices, I could certainly tell that they did the same sort of talking, more or less, as middle-class ladies do. Yes, they certainly use fancy English words while talking in Hindi, and they did not forget to argue in English. They did not bring their children along with them. Most of the time, he preferred to throw the party outdoors at some fancy hotels. At those parties, a couple of dances happened.

It was true that Anirudh and Malti were both exploiting me physically and mentally. And I was helpless to raise my voice against them. As a result, I began to despise myself thoroughly. A number of times, I tried to kill myself, but I could not gather the courage to extinguish myself and ended up before their demand. But at the same time, I used to get two different sorts of treatment from both of them. One thrashed me and satisfied his lust, and the other one applied ointment to my wounds and satisfied her physical need. But what about me?

By and by, Malti was getting possessive about me. She did not like how Anirudh touched my body or screwed me. He gave me an elaborate bath after he left and used a lot of cuss words. I could see her eyes reddened with anger when she saw my body covered with bruises. But her obsession with me created a ruckus in her life.

One day, she could not help herself and held the hand of Anirudh and snatched the belt from his hand when he was whipping me with the belt. Anirudh did not utter a word and left the room immediately. Perhaps she knew that she would not be able to come to see me again after that misadventure. That's why she told me to take care of myself further and left.

And the other day, I found some other lady coming to serve me food. She seemed to me emotionally less. Even after that, I tried to have a word with her to find out what happened to Malti, but I could not gather any information regarding her because she was deaf. And in that way, the chapter of Malti came to an end in my life abruptly. But I could get the picture that she would have been fired from the job for showing audacity.