Self Respect

He was very worried since this morning. His mind was bursting at the thought that his truth had been revealed. He could no longer fool Romi in love. One by one, his whole identity was being revealed in front of Rumi. It was Rumi’s love that she would always forget everything and fall under the illusion of his love again, but this time the limit was reached. This time something was wrong that he was finding it difficult to convince Rumi by giving an explanation. Time was running out, soon Romi was going to be in front of him and he didn’t understand how to convince Romi of his fake love this time. And then a few moments later Romi entered the restaurant. Seeing Romi, his face turned white. Rumi came and as usual very respectfully asked him for an explanation but he was silent he had no answer to anything Rumi said because he was a liar and he knew it very well himself. He couldn’t understand how he could get rid of Romi forever and then suddenly his evil brain had a flash. He smiled inwardly. No one could have thought of a better way to get rid of the honorable and noble Rumi. So he shouted.
“be quite”.
His voice was so loud that Rumi as well as the rest of the people sitting in the restaurant became silent.
“Why did you come to me? Have you seen your role? You are in contact with men and have come to tease me. Get out of here.”
His appearance was surprising to a simple Roman. She staggered and stood up without saying anything. His lover was his real enemy, he found out today. For the chaste, beautiful and narcissistic Rumi, the blame on the character in front of everyone was unbearable. She came out of the restaurant and sat down on the ground helplessly and started crying. He never thought that his self-respect, love and loyalty would be crushed by this cruelty. For which he had received opposition from all over the world, today the same person had done away with it.
Rumi barely gathered her shattered self, wiped away her tears and walked away, deciding never to come back into his life.

By Falak Zahid