Dry Leaf-3

He walked to her room, like everyday, with a hope to see her…but no one was there as usual…! Not even a single stuff used by her…! How could be all those there…he had only instructed to throw out all those…

Still he remembers the day when she had come back from UK after getting the news of her sister’s elopement…tried to console her parents, my parents and most importantly my fifteen days old son Ryans, absorbing all the sorrows within herself, without expressing a single on her face. Had taken care of everyone, forgetting that she had left a very promising professional career behind in UK, where she had to return…but who would take care of all, if she could have left…!

She had to accept everyone…

With this, he opened the photo album having his marriage photo with Sia…She was extremely beautiful, very smart and stylist…not only he but also every other man would like to have a dream to get her and he was so much lucky that he had have her as his wife and but….! He was not that much happy…he was not able to accept her completely, because each time he was feeling of missing something in his life…instead of being be thankful to Ria, who had arranged this marriage, he had started hating her….! He didn’t have even any reason of this hate…

“You have come to this house only because of Ryans…so be in this house being only his mother…not in any kind of other relationship” -was his words to her in the first night of their marriage…

“Accepted…” -a very innocent voice had not only reminded him about the days of his conversation with her, but also it had melted his heart, giving a feeling someone of his own…

But he could never accept her as his wife, because don't know why....Sia left him...! She was the only reason because of who even though he had got his dream girl, but could not give her time and that was the reason why Sia lost her interest on him and eloped with her former boyfriend...In this situation, he cannot excuse himself and also cannot accept her as his wife, because of whom all this had happened...

Ria started taking care of his entire family from the very starting day, without letting everyone feel that she was not only a daughter or a daughter-in law, but a son for her parents and her parents-in -law and a very caring mother of Ryans...she started a new business, utilising her parents properties, for which her parents were really happy and proud of her. She had forgotten herself..what she liked, how she looked...and when she needed rest...All the day, just working...This had made her the dear of everyone...starting from her family to society to all the workers of her factory.

"All these for Ryans.."- was her answer when one day Mama had asked her about why so much of her work...Yes, she was working hard to accumulate enough wealth for Ryans...don't know sometimes she was trying forget all the sorrows that she had kept herself hidden...I remember she liked kids and she might have also a desire of becoming a mother of her own kid...!But that was not possible...as I did never have accepted her as my wife...!

Could not realise when the time passed by so soon and Ryans left for his higher education to UK. After his leaving, there was no-one at home..only she and he, as all the old have left this World.

He was getting breathless during her presence in the house, while in the absence of everyone...after these many years also, he was not able to accept that she was innocent in leaving Sia's his house...

One day, I had become so rude to say - "Now Ryans no more needs you...so you can leave this house".

"Ryans will be always a kid for me and I will always be with him till my death" - she had answered very calmly while leaving for her work.

I was never able to tolerate by having her so much of right in my house...and ordered her employee to shift all of her stuffs to her parental house.

My days became peaceful, with a feelings that I had done justice with Sia by throwing Ria out of this house, who was responsible for Sia's leaving this house.

But don't know why after few days I felt that my life was nothing without her...!

My profession, my sports activities and my social recognition...everywhere she had a hand...which had stopped after her leaving this house. How was she managing everything without exchanging a single word with me...!

She was aware of my likings and unlikings and had always made my days comfortable. I started missing her presence...! But I would never call her back...!

Time passed by...I got my first Cardiac Arrest the day when I saw the news in the headline of the newspaper "Demise of Entrepreneur Mrs. Ria." I could not even do last right...its not because of the reason that I was not well and was under heart treatment in hospital, but its because of the reason that she had sent a message to donate all of her organs, tissues and blood cells to others and the left overs to the dogs who might be pleased after having a food of fresh flesh...! She was like that... always made everyone happy in her life...so, why she would not leave anyone at the bed of death...!

I could not even see her...neither I had kept any photo of her...hardly few times I had seen her face during 20 years of staying together under one roof...before that only in a black and white photo...but still her face always comes to my mind...

Even if without seeing her I remember her, but I need to see Sia's photo always to make me remember her face....! Strange...what was this...?

He had realized that inner beauty of Ria was the only one which had made him remember of her while the outer beauty of Sia was not much impressive for him...

But time had lapsed...he had lost her with the tide of time...

The time when he realized there was nothing...

Sometimes, We realize Someone’s Worth Only After We’ve Lost Them Forever....