The Gift In Return

Rajibh was working in his laptop sitting on the bed when a sudden electronic beep made him look up at his digital table clock. The time was 12:00 am and it was the hourly beep. He was about to get back to his laptop screen when something suddenly caught his eye. The date. And with the date came a flood of memories.

It was on this day, exactly a year back, that Rajibh and his wife had parted their ways and put the last nail on the coffin of their three year old marriage. Yes, this was the day when Rajibh had finally got his freedom from Mousomi after several tormenting months.

What not she had done to make sure that Rajibh realised every bit of his mistake of marrying Mousomi. She had sent him to jail for a couple of days, make him pay a huge sum as alimoni, took away his mansion and even sent his ailing mother to jail. What a lady! Not lady but a bitch she was. And what was his mistake? Just to complain about her flirting nature with his friends. She had found the clue in it to divorce him. What she failed to see was his unconditional love which was the reason of him being so possessive about her.

Having all these thoughts spiraling, he was in no mood to work. Rajibh switched on his desktop and opened up the special folder he had made in which all their special moments were stored in the form of photos and videos. How long had it been since he last went to this folder. Almost ten months before or so. That was before his mother’s death. And now, he is back again over there feeling a strange mix of sadness and joy.

He was browsing through all the captured happy moments when a special video file suddenly caught his eye. It was the video of their honeymoon in Goa made by his then newly bought handycam. It contained scenes of their wanderings in Goa, their bathing in the sea, ball dances in their hotel room, and many special private moments. But the video also contained a special scene in which Rajibh is seen making love with Mousomi. To shoot this scene, Rajibh had tied her to the bed with a cloth tied over her eyes to blind her, convincing her that they were trying bound sex. What actually he was doing was capturing their love making scene in his camera to be enjoyed later, probably in his olden days. He had blinded Mousomi as she always refused to be naked in front of it. Mousomi was completely oblivious to the fact that she had been recorded having sex even to this day.

As the video was playing on his monitor, a pain gripped him in his chest which almost seemed to crush him. He stopped the video, unable to bear the pain anymore. He put his hand on his temple, massaging it, to stop the throbbing inside. And then, suddenly, an idea of revenge hit him. Reluctant at first, he thought there was probably no other way better than this to demoralize Mousomi and break her down completely.

Energized all of a sudden by the idea, he set to work immediately forgetting all about the time and headache. Rajibh had learned a lot about video editing in his college days as he had wished then to be a film director. Little had he known then that he would put his skills to use in this way someday.

Within twenty minutes his work was done. The clip of their love making was extracted from the other scenes, Rajibh’s face was blurred throughout the video and his job was half done. Now the ultimate task remained, uploading it to the internet. He opened up metacafe, dailymotion and a few porn sites and started uploading it. As the process of upload was in progress, Rajibh drowned in his thoughts, trying to justify his act as unethical but thinking of cancelling the upload process but the pain soon gripped him clouding all his judgments. The upload process was soon completed and he went to bed feeling a strange relief and light hearted.

Over the next few days, he saw his video getting more and more views earning a lot of popularity. But Rajibh wasn’t satisfied. How would Mousomi get to know of the video and people enjoying her naked body, her grunts, sharing her pleasure of sex? Rajibh was quite sure that she never watched porn and even if her colleagues got to know about it, they may not inform her about it. Therefore to let her know of the video, he opened up a email id with a false name and sent her a mail with the video as attachment and the links to the video in the different sites. He also made sure to send her some screenshots of the stats of the video. But Rajibh didn’t stop here. He also sent it to all the colleagues of Mousomi whose email id was saved in his contacts. Finally, he had given her a perfect gift to her in return to her gift a year back sent to him, the divorce notice.

The next week, Rajibh was given some assignment from his office for which he went off to the US and was supposed to return after six months. In the mean time, over here in India, the video had quite an effect over Mousomi. She had become the topic of discussion over lunch for all her colleagues, her neighbors got to know about it and whispered to each other as she passed by. Even Sourabh, the person whom she was supposed to marry next month, dumped her and cut all contacts with her when she needed his support the most. She found it difficult to cope with her environment. After a lot of thinking, she decided to move back to Rajibh. She wanted to go back to him, plead him to forgive her, though she doubted on that, and finally ask him to set the things alright for her. But when even her ultimate hope was shattered, a strong woman like Mousomi failed to find any reason to live anymore.