Unsaid

Adil and Ayesha 

had had an arranged marriage last week.

Now on their honeymoon in a hill station, 

they tried to fall in love. 

They spoke They confessed and They laughed about it all. 

However on their last night, 

Ayesha looked furious. 

"I gave you every chance Adil, to come clean.

I was ready to forgive, if only once you'd have stopped deceiving me. 

But you didn't."

Seeing his shocked face she explained,

'" Last winter, that night in Delhi, 

you were there with your friends 

trying to grab that poor beggar girl 

off the street. "

Adil's eyes had widened in bewilderment.

She continued,

"True, you had tried to stop them. 

But when they ignored, you didn't leave.

Instead, you chose to remain there and look. "

A pregnant pause.

No words came out of his mouth. 

A question, bulging in his throat, unable to come out.

How?!??!!

She spoke again,

"It was me driving the jeep that night Adil.

The jeep,

which kept coming back to you guys, 

until it chased all of you away. "

She had packed her bags already. 

Before leaving, Ayesha turned back one last time,

"The only question which keeps haunting me now is...

had I not been there that night, 

you too, 

would have devoured the girl, 

isn't it ? ".