The Night Ordeal

She dreads the ordeal that she goes through every night. She requires an immediate relief. What she gets instead a reprieve. The relief tantalises her as it always culminates in a temporary phenomenon of a reprieve. On several occasions it has given her a long rope to consider it being a permanent escape from the mental trauma. She has often dismissed the hope of getting herself purged of the sin that she has committed without her volition. The night-ordeal has made the sin, of which it is only a by-product, nothing. She relives the moment of desolation and incapacitation far more, every night, in bed with her husband. Her husband is a good man under ordinary circumstances. He is an ordinary citizen of a nation who has found a fine job to sustain himself and his family very nicely. He has only limited goals. He is much pleased with the world and its people. He is comfortably settled with a fine job as a bank manager in a private bank in a metropolis. He married at a very right age of twenty-five and a woman of great beauty and intelligence. She too has not deprived him of any pleasure a man could get from a woman. He has been bestowed rather blessed with the title of 'father' by her with two beautiful children. He had been in cloud nine until the night that dreadful thing happened.

She is a graduate of considerable talent and knowledge in the subject of hers. She was working in a private firm before her marriage. She chose to stay at home after her marriage and until the kids had been born. She is a lovable mother and has devoted her entire time in raising the kids up. It was only after the second child had turned six, and she was thirty, she thought of using her free time productively by seeking employment. Her husband did not stand in her way and was always cheerful and encouraging. With her knowledge of English, she found a call centre job. It was tedious for her as it required night-shift stints once in six months. She thought of declining the offer initially as the night-work would deprive her of the time that she would spend with her children. She accepted the offer after discussing it with her husband and with the confidence that she would manage the short stint that happens occasionally.

She was good at her English and gained a very good name in a very short span of time. She was managing her kids in her home quite well too. Things had been fantastic. She was very happy and her husband too got quick upward mobility in the rungs of designation in his bank. It was at this juncture a very unforeseen thing happened to them. During night-stints, she was dropped by at the wee hours of the night at the entrance of the street on which her house stands. One night, as she was dropped by the taxi service that operates for her call-centre, she was accosted by two men and made her get into a cab that was standing near-by. She had no option as she was bidden at gun-point. There in it, she was brutally raped by a group of men. It was nightmarish and highly detestable. She was thrown out of the cab as the guys got exhausted with their energy, she lost hers much earlier and was in a faint. She lay motionless on the street until the daybreak and was found by the early risers of the street. Her husband was informed. He slept through the night of her ordeal as he had a lot of work to do, the previous day, in his office. She was taken to hospital and spent sometime in it. She was given counselling and her husband was briefed about her status. The husband of hers behaved gentlemanly as he accepted her with great love as he had always had for her.

She began slowly forgetting about her ordeal with the group of men. The husband of hers grew fidgety as he was deprived of his love-making for long. After getting ratified by a psychiatrist, he began the preamble of love making with her. As the closeness between them begin to get strengthened day after day, he has started talking about the ordeal that she was subjected to without her volition. He asks questions about how the men behaved with her, how they caressed her and how many were doing the act simultaneously and what was her reaction then, how she tolerated all these gagging and he is always reminded of the dastardly act of them, quite contrary to mental trauma as the victim limps back to normality the husband of hers has grown empathic. Day by day the questions turn into a tortuous grill and she even finds the traumatic night much easy one to tolerate. She hopes for a permanent solution to this interminable ordeal of hers.