---- Reaching me in two long strides he ces his palm on my head to whisper huskily.


    All that I promised you little rabbit? Wasn''t a lie.


    You will grow old and that too only with me.


    A littleplication or should I say addition...


    His fingers slowly trails down...


    my nose, my lips, down between the valley of my blossoms to settle on my naval.


    And my heart thumps in my chest.


    My child.


    Te is talking about my child.


    Can''t stop me.


    Prepare for the farewell ceremony.


    The gates open tonight.


    And just like that he is gone and I stagger back to look at his retreating back.


    My arms wrap around my belly and I lean down the table to drop on the floor.


    ---- eee Tam not leaving this ce of darkness.


    He will keep me here with him.


    But why? Why isn''t he leaving here? Why chose darkness.


    When you have a choice to live in the light.


    Everyone was enjoying, singing songs and dancing Adrian sat on a chair like a king overlooking everything while I was seated in the shadows Not knowing how to feel I was happy for everyone else but at the same time I also wanted to go with them.


    This feeling of left out was eating me from the inside.


    But when I look up at Adrian.


    Its like it didn''t even matter to him.


    Tt was just another night for him.


    ---- -_ The song suddenly changes and I see everyone hold each others hands, their feet were tapping in syne and they were dancing around the hall in a circr wave.


    Tt was a beautiful sight.


    When out of the blue I see a hand getting extended towards me and T look up to see Doradora offering me his palm.


    T don''t know...


    I.


    Come on! Comie! Everyone started cheering and I nod to ce my hand in his.


    Everything after was nothing less than a dream.


    I was smiling.


    ughing, singing and cracking up at my own jokes.


    Their smiles were contagious And I was living getting infected.


    Slowly I catch the rhythm of their tapping feet and I was doing it wlessly.


    Sil Si! Sil ---- Everyone was cheering and soon the hands holding me retreat.


    I] was in centre stage with everyone pping for me.


    I was twirling, my feet tapping in their home dance.


    Arms open feeling the open space Alive.


    T felt so much alive, that for a moment I forgot everything.


    And then it all came crashing down.


    The realisation hits like a nightmare.And it wretched my entire world within a second.


    A mere thought was powerful enough to murder all this temporary happiness.


    What am I even celebrating? A life in a prison..


    In thisnd of darkness with a man who is my mate yet not the father of the child in my womb.


    A man who promises to keep me bound to him till myst breath.