It all started with a NO!!’ She said and continued looking into his eyes.
‘For most of the girls, it’s really difficult to live in our society. From her birth they have to go through many challenges, she faces problems in many ways. Discrimination, love, lust, betrayals, s*xual harassment, acid attacks and many more. I’m one of them, an acid attack victim.’ She said stammering, in just one second her life got up side down.
–FLASHBACK-
1 year before!
My head was paining, I was having a burning sensation on my face. I tried to open my eyelids and did so but with many difficulties, I looked at my surroundings to analyze where I was. I found many doctors and nurses in that room where I was laying and then I realized that I was in a hospital.
‘Maa, Ragini di.’ I tried to call out and was about to get up from my bed when a nurse came to me and told me to lay down and don’t pressurize me.
‘Why I’m here in this hospital?’ I asked that nurse while she looked at me with sympathy look and kept her hand on mine.
‘You were attacked with an acid.’ She said giving me my life’s biggest shock and I reminded that incident.
‘I want to see my face.’ I declared to her and tried to touch my face only to be stop by her, I looked on as she nodded in no.
‘You have gone through 20 surgeries on your face because of that acid attack and now your face has been bandaged for atleast two week till then you can’t see your face.’ She said and walked out from their leaving me in tears.
Closing my eyes I let out my tears of regret to fall down. Kabir the so called love of my life was the reason of my this condition. When I refused to get intimate with him he tried to force me and he almost r*ped me but when I pushed him and slapped him hard on her face he looked at me with blood Shot eyes while I too looked at him with hatred and I regretted loving a person like him.
‘A girl’s NO is a NO Mr. Kabir. And you are no one to force a girl when she had refused to get intimate with you. You know What Kabir? Loving you was my life’s biggest mistake. And now I regret loving a person like you. And I hope that my this slap will always remind you how to behave with a girl.
I said and walked out from there but not before giving him the last glance full of hatred and disgust. After that incident we never meet for a week but one day when I was returning back from my college a gang of men surrounded me, I tried to walk out from there but they kept coming closer to me. Just then I was going to run from their, a man came in front of me, scaring me, Kabir!! I murmured and looked at him with red eyes.
‘Ohh, hi darling. Did you missed your Kabir, riddhima baby? Ohh how can you not miss me afterall I’m your love right?’ He said and I gave him a look of repugnance.
‘Kabir leave my way right now! Did you forgot that slap given by me to you, that’s why you are here in front of me.’ I said to him while he smirked evily.
‘Bhula nhi hun, bhula nhi hun tumhara woh thappad riddhima isliye to yaha hun tumhare samne, uss thappad ki keemat tumse lene aaya hun.’ He said and started coming closer to me while I kept taking steps backwards.
He forwarded his hand towards a man and he hand overed him a bottle while I looked at them confused and scared. Before I can understand anything Kab…ir.. splashed a liquid on my face which I later realized was ACID.
My face was burning and was melting like a plastic as I fell down as there was no energy left in me my vision blured, and before I got unconscious the last thing I saw with my half open eyes was Kabir & men with him laughing at my condition.
I was shouting in pain but there was no one who can help me among so many people who were surrounding me and was enjoying my condition. A man came forward and helped me out after I was totally unconscious, with no energy in myself to endure more pain.
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