Split Personality
A romantic, paranormal and psychological thriller
Kotra Siva Rama Krishna
Before entering into the house Sailaja looked at her left and right sides quickly to know if anyone was observing her. She sighed heavily, closed the doors and latched them again.
“You just be relaxed in that chair, I get some coffee and snacks for you in no time.” He tried to move away from that place.
Still looking into his face she nodded her head and slumped in the chair nearby and the thrill in her heart was increased even more by the time he returned there with coffee and snacks.
“You are more beautiful than in the photo. You worth one lakh rupees. Do you want the payment before or after?”
She almost chocked on the coffee she was sipping when he said those words to her. “Do you really to pay that much amount to me?” she was really not hoping that he would pay that much amount. She was expecting a bargaining either before or after the adventure and she was ready to agree to any amount.
“Of course, yes.” He laughed. “I have had enough and I can afford that amount. What I cannot afford is this is the only time I have got in my whole life and I don’t want to lose it. I really felt very much worried thinking whether you come or not but you came.” He sighed heavily and said. “If want, I give even more. But I just want this day most memorable in all my life.”
“I try to make this day most memorable in all your life.” By that time the excitement in Sailaja was settled and she came to understand his position a little. “I want to be frank with you. I did not come here for money. I came here for that experience. Even with bald head.....” she smiled. “.........you appeared handsome and experienced and I thought my experience with you would be like the experience with my commerce lecturer. So I have come.”
“I thought you are not a regular prostitute.” That man said. “But I expected this! It is quite unusual now a day girls without having experience with other guys also before marriage.”
“You are appearing experience not just in that and in many other things also.” Observing him keenly who sat opposite to her in the sofa then, Sailaja said.
“You are right. I have experience in many things in the world. I hope I can make you have it in full and I am just waiting for an opportunity to make a girl full happy with my skill in that.”
“Then I am so lucky” she smiled and the confidence in his face made her understood that he meant it. “I just try to be so you want me.”
“I want not just the sex pleasure from you....” he leaned back in the chair and adjusted himself for more comfort. “.......I want something more.”
“Something more, I just cannot understand!” she stooped forward in the chair “I am curious to know what that something more and if it is in my power I sure give that to you.”
“A friendship, a friend! A mate to my heart. Can you be also that for me?” he was looking straight into her face just from the position he sat in the chair.
“Sir, what you are talking?” she laughed and leaned back in the chair. “The maximum time we can spend together would be six hours or so. I don’t hope that we can ever meet again. How can I be even a friend to you not to say heart mate?”
“If we really try to understand each other, is it is not possible in that little time?” he knitted his brows together.
“I don’t know. I have come here, to put it bluntly, to have some fucking pleasure. I felt happy when I understood that you are serious in making the payment of that promised huge amount also. I have no objection to try but I am not confident its possible.” She sighed heavily and said.
“I liked the frankness in you. You are just pouring your feeling and have no idea to hoodwink. I must say you have character! I really want you to be my best friend and its certainly possible in this six hours or so of time.”
“I am flattered! Just think I am your close friend and pour your heart. Tell everything of you to me and I do the same to you also.” She dragged her chair nearer to him and took his right hand into her hands and squeezed it gently while covering his face with her gaze. “So far looking at you I can make some wild guess of the situation. You have got material success! But you have no success in the family. You have a wife probably not very much beautiful and not respecting you much also. You have children also who are also not respecting you much. You have no person to understand you and share your feelings. So you want someone so desperately to do that mainly.”
“Are you a psychology student? How nicely you put this all?” there was amazement in his face. “Everything is absolutely true in what you have said.”
“No, I am not a psychology student and I have not much knowledge in that also.” Sailaja sighed heavily and leaned back in the chair relieving his hand. “I made a wild guess and it came true.”
There was sudden despair in his face. “Yes, I have material success and earned lot of money but it is all through my uncle’s investment. It was my uncle who sponsored my education also and he took a promise from me before doing all that, I would marry his daughter and I have to keep that promise. Even it was not just because of my uncle’s investment I got success in the business my wife never agrees so. It was just because of her father’s investment that I am in this position now. I am just like a slave to her and she never respects me and you are right about my two daughters also, just like her and follow her suit.”
“Indeed very much pathetic I must say.” Sailaja shifted herself from the chair beside him on the sofa and put her both hands around his neck. She did not know how she was doing it like that but her heart then was with no other feeling except friendship. “It is quite better to remain as a common man rather than suffering like that as a rich a man.”
“You are absolutely right” there was a pathetic smile on his lips then. “If I have foreseen a situation like this, I never would have agreed to that sponsorship for my education and investment for my business by my uncle. But I did not think then that the situation would be turned out like this. She just insults me and tortures me all the time and I have to bear that without a murmur. If I want I can quarrel with her, argue with her and can take even divorce also. But I am thinking about my daughters also and even they don’t like me and respect me, I cannot put their lives in jeopardy so I have been suffering all this without a murmur.”
“You are indeed a great man! A great man, I must say!” she put her both hands around his neck and kissed on his right cheek. “There are couple who take divorce with ego problems without thinking anything about their children. But you are thinking like that about your children mainly.”
It was not a kiss out of sex feeling but a kiss from his friend with love. The feeling in him was also just like that he was in the hands of his close friend rather than in the hands of a prostitute.
“You understood me and I can say that by looking into his face. That is enough to me.” There was sudden happiness in his face.
“You are quite genuine in your words and expression and anyone can understand you.” She hugged him and kissed on his other cheek. “Are you feeling awkward because of my kissing like this? I told you that I came here for some experience and doing this to instigate you for that fast?”
“No, of course. I am not thinking like that.” With gathered frowns he said. “I can see the worry and sorrow in your face. I already have become a good friend to you and you are feeling too much for my pathetic situation.”
“You are right!” Sailaja left him and adjusted herself in the sofa for more comfort. “What I am worrying even more is; I can be a good friend to you for these six hours or so and what’s next? You may feel even worse with that torture after having this comfort in my hands.”
“I keep the memory of these six hours forever in my heart and that is enough!” with full confidence in his face he said. “I can live so happily with the rest of my life with that memory.”
“But tell me one thing frankly and just like you I also love frankness” she paused for a moment before saying again. “Are you really thinking that a girl who came to you just for that experience can be a good friend to you and even worth your friendship?”
“Your asking like this proves that you worth it” he said that with a smile. “My deep inside feeling is that you worth it.”
“Alright, no botheration!” then her laughter was mellifluous even to herself. “We both have become friends what just remains now is to share our feelings and everything with each other.” Suddenly her face became serious and she said. “Did you find something quite surprising? We both have become good friends but have not exchanged our names yet. My name is Sailaja whether it is sweet to you are not. Tell me your name?”
“My name is Anurag. You say it is certainly sweet.” He laughed.
“It is certainly sweet Anurag.” She laughed. “I am just too curious to hear more from you. You have educated at the expense of your uncle and started your business at his investment and because of the promise you made to your uncle long before any of that, you married his daughter. There is no surprise that your wife has no respect on you and there is no surprise at all that your children also are following her just because children just follow her mother. Now tell me what your daughters are doing now.” She remembered then that he said he has two daughters.
“My both daughters are studying medicine, first daughter final year and second daughter second year. I told you that I have earned enough and there is no problem to me with money.”
“I have completed my degree just three months back and now preparing for competitive examinations.” In fact she was not serious for preparing for the competitive examinations either. She knew her parents were searching a groom for her and ready to perform her marriage and settle her in her life if the guy was appealing to her also.
“That means you are aged just twenty one years or so and one year or so young to my eldest daughter also.” Suddenly there was regret in his face. “Can you guess, I am fifty four years aged now! You are thirty three years young to me.”
“What does that matter? Can age will be an issue between two people to become good friends?” Sailaja knitted her brows together and she could not find anything awkward in that.
“There is no problem for friendship. But I cannot do that to someone who is that much younger to me.” The regretful expression was just so in his face.
Sailaja laughed loudly on hearing that. “What your exact idea when you phoned to me after finding me in the website? You could not guess my age at all then?”
“You are just beautiful to me and I have that idea also besides the main idea to make friendship with you and share my feelings. But I did not expect that you are this young!”
(I hope that you enjoyed upto here. I shall publish the next chapter as soon as possible. Please don’t forget to rate and review.)
