Chapter 11 Don't Fall Asleep

• Almost at the same time she let out a scream her hand also got released from her steering. She was approaching the bridge she knew from the sound of a train nearby and was aware that if she failed to stop the car now it would either fly into the railway track running parallely or go crashing into the river below. She tried hard to take her foot off the accelerator but her limbs had gone numb.
• She knew this was going to last for sometime. And within this time she had to manuovre the vehicle to save it from swerving left or right. Fighting her innermost fears for survival was a trial she had been subjected to many times before, a curse she had been suffering since childhood. But it was not the cosy comforts of her home. Again on second thoughts, where was the difference ?
• Till her parents were alive, she didn't doubt about her safety. She knew she could always fall back on them in her miseries. But now who bothered whether she lived or died ? With Upendra away from home most of the time she was left to look after herself. She couldn't blame him either. God had not gifted her with complete womanhood. There was nothing with which she could hold her husband back at home. If she would've been a mother, she could've passed the rest of her life watching her child grow. Her child could've been her shield to all those ridicule, hatred and indifference she was subjected to since her marriage.