The friend ??? ( Part 10th… ) —

(Recap – In the last part, we came to know, how the childhood friend of Tarun ji whom Dubey ji nick named as Uncle Sam succeeded to entangle Tarun and his wife into his enticing trap….)

Dubey ji kept on continuing the story, “Any how, Tarun got entrapped into this spectacular scheme of his friend Uncle Sam. Following the suggested plan of  Uncle Sam, Tarun clandestinely filed a “divorce petition on reciprocal consent” in the neighboring district’s court. For the purpose, both the couple mentioned the false temporary local address in the filed petition in that district court, in their petition.   It took  six months to obtain the decree of divorce. On receiving this information, his friend Uncle Sam revisited the India. At this time, he was on a short visit. He landed here, got his marriage registered in the Court of marriage sub- registrar with the divorced wife of Tarun and flew back to America along with wife and minor children.

There he kept pending the plan of permanent settlement  of his newly wedded wife to be entitled for the citizenship, on the basis of her being the wife of  a green card holder. To make this pending, he already had had so many, so called legal excuses in hand. But one thing was true about him; he had a well off standing and set up there. I mean, whatever bragging about his owning house, cars and good job, he had loudly spoken of, everything he owned there. The luxury, that could be achieved after long years of hard working in USA, Tarun’s Ex wife was enjoying there in hand freely there.

You know Prakash! She was a highly educated lady and knew, this luxury was in deed the out come of long hard work of Uncle Sam. And if she was to begin her new life with Tarun as per plan, it might take a good deal of long time to come to this level. Further, if we talk of vouching of Uncle Sam before Tarun, to treat his wife as a sister, that all was ” empty talk” to impress Tarun momentarily. This Uncle Sam, now made his this legally wedded wife to understand, if she concedes to enjoy the real status of his wife in bed room, he was ready to treat her both children as his own. Not only this, he assured her, out of this marriage, he doesn’t need any child in future.

Dubey ji alias Rishi ji again took a little pause and plunged into some thoughts, as if, recollecting the left thread of story and after a short while began, “In total, he captured the mind of ex- wife of Tarun and she surrendered to the whim of her newly wedded husband. You might give it any name as the biological need or ” greed ” on her part as well or the revenge she had fostered against Tarun by remembering her past affair. When I am talking of remembering her past affair with Tarun, here I am connoting, she had already grievances for Tarun. Grievances in the sense, Tarun had befooled her by showcasing his surreptitious well off standing at the beginning of the love affair.” The rest of the story is very depressing and offending as well on the part of Tarun.

When ever, Trun tried to ring on his friend from here, hardly his this friend Uncle Sam received his phone call. Whenever, he received the phone call, he already would have some false excuses in hand about delay in getting citizenship to his wife. Not only this, he would  assure Tarun consolingly, not to worry, since the procedure of getting the citizenship was in conduit. Here, Tarun kept on dreaming the dream to become an American National. Whenever, he asked his friend Uncle Sam to put though his ex wife on line for conversation, he would again be not allowed. As far as making phone call by his ex wife was concerned, it seemed, she had made her mind not to make any contact with Tarun.

When, Tarun used to insist to put his ex wife on line for conversation, this Uncle Sam, as usual would have had excuses in hand. For example, she is sleeping a deep sleep or she got a job and is in office etc. Tarun was a helpless creature now. Besides being a husband, he too was the biological father of his two children and his heart cried for them either. This separation was gnawing his heart. On the other hand, children when migrated to USA were little one and now they were acclimatizing to take this new man as their father. Look Prakash, in this filial relation ship of parent and children, two types of attachment exist.  One was of the kind, Tarun had had for his children who were staying at abroad. It was a cordial bond on his part only.

Second, on the part of children,  they would have continued to feel the same attachment, had they been in constant touch with the biological father.They were little one, but with the passing of time growing up and now were inclined to accept this new step father. In between, a shocking incidence occurred with Tarun. His ex- wife visited back the India to see her parents. She halted at some hotel. There, she managed to see her parents and family members only. But, somehow, this information leaked to Tarun. He insisted upon his In- laws to arrange his meeting with her. Upon their insistence, his ex- wife conceded to see Tarun.

Though, it was agonizing for Tarun, his ex wife visiting the Parental house but not inclined to see him. Despite being fraught with some unexpected fears and her resentment, he reached to see her in the hotel room. He arrived there with expectations that she was to receive him with warm welcome and children too were to cling  him taking as daddy. But here, he was received with cold shouldered by ex-wife and children hardly could recognize him as father. He was awe stricken. He tried to make his ex- wife recall about the future plan, upon which she furiously assailed him by saying, ” What do you think of me? You planned a foolish plan, in which you used me as bet! For how many times in life, I am destined to marry, then to divorce and again marry and to divorce again and remarry? Am I a whore Mr Tarun? “

This all was enough to make Tarun speechless and he as a defeated soldier retreated. He knew, now he had a bleak future in hand. He was robbed off every thing. His entire being was shattered and for long days to come he wasted himself in the drinks. In that span of frustration, under the spell of heavy drinks, he had related me this all incidence.” After that, Dubey ji again took a long pause. ( End of the Part 10th. Cont’d .) Penned by — Vinay Pharasi —–