He raised his hand to the door to knock, but it opened before he reached it. His daughter walked by him without even looking at him and said as she walked to the kitchen, “I heard about the family meeting in the kitchen.”
Nandan felt some relief as he noticed her. ‘My daughter couldn’t even stand to look at me, ‘ he thought to himself as he headed for the kitchen feeling like the worst father in the world.
He noticed his wife was back to her normal self. At least that was how she portrayed herself as she spoke. She said all the possible sides about that horrible thing that happened to them. How they would get through that and not let this moment define the rest of their lives or their relationships with each other.
Her husband and daughter followed her lead and pointed out the politically correct things. At last they all agreed that they would not let this change in the family and that Rajnandini’s fiancee Akash, must never know about what happened. They would keep this as a top secret and only speak of it during counseling, which they all agreed unanimously.
They all hugged when the family meeting was over and put on their best faces and tried their hardest to get through the weekend. Unfortunately, none of them really believed in their hearts that they were going to be the same family ever again.
Nearly three months had passed since that tragic night. It had been a very difficult time for the family. In the meantime, Rajnandini was struggling through her filmy career for last few months and absorbed herself only in Kader’s film-shooting. She blamed on the seniors for not getting further chances in other’s film, but her parents knew what was really troubling her.
Indrani and her husband were struggling too. Though they were getting along fine in the everyday aspects of their marriage, they had not been able to have sex once during that time. They had tried a few times, but neither of them were able to get into the moment enough to get beyond foreplay. That was a big change from once a week they normally had sex. They simply could not find a way to connect the way they used to.
However they were all seeing counselors on their own as well as a semi-monthly group session. The counseling was helping, but it was a very slow process. They realised that the slow process was due to the fact….. they were all lying to themselves or one another about what happened that night.
Indrani finally admitted to her counselor that she had really enjoyed having sex with the two intruders in front of her daughter and husband. And she even suspected the same thing about her husband and daughter. However they weren’t admitting their true feelings about that night either, at least not in the group sessions.
In the meantime, Indrani became busy with her new film in which Nilay worked as a director and one day they decided to discuss about her screenplay in her house. At one time, both her daughter and husband felt themselves boring as they went to their respective bedrooms for sleeping.
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