Metaphysics - Men Stray.

"Why don't you stay back here till Monday?"

"Why do men stray, Nancy, I had a bad phase for three years, but with birth of Simi, I was happy again, we bought Nitin back too. Simi and Nitin must have taken away all of time, may be that's when Atul strayed, I have always blamed myself for it, I still am not sure of it, why."

Nancy could not believe on Tuesday that Lata had delayed her flight back on Monday not because of school leaving certificate, that she acquired on Saturday afternoon itself, but because she wanted to open a fixed deposit account in the joint name of hers and Megha in the local bank. Megha now had an fixed deposit maturing after eighteen years of Rupees two lacs, that would be enough to take care of her studies etc, when she would be eighteen.

Nancy sat alone in church that afternoon praying for Lata. Her tears would not stop as the tree that held the strings on which she and Lata used to swing stood still  as if they had never let the girls go outside their shade.

The girls were still there laughing, swinging, singing.

She sat there for a long time.

"Where were you," Biji was stroking Megha to sleep,"she has had her fill and has been washed."

"sorry, got carried away in memories, the child in us may be asleep, but it never leaves, when it wakes up, it never lets us sleep."

Memories - Always zeroes itself to tell you about the child in you.