His Indian Wife

Just like other days, everybody went to the breakfast table, but one person was missing. "Where is the little one?" A man in his thirties asked a servant while walking down the stairs. "She might be still hibernating. I will go and wake her up right now." One of the servants gave a small bow and rushed upstairs immediately. "Young Miss. It's me, aunt Diya.", The servant named Diya knocked at the door, but she got no response from the person in the room. She knocked again, but nobody answered nor anybody opened the door. "It's so strange, Miss usually wakes up at 7 in the morning… Young Miss?", Diya knocked at the door for the third time, but it was making her more worried as she heard no sound coming inside the room. She started having a bad feeling. "Sir…", Diya ran downstairs immediately, not wasting another second. In a panic, she snuck a look at the family members downstairs while gasping for breath. "What's wrong? Why is she not here yet?", the old man who was the head of the family asked in a harsh tone of voice. Everybody respected him, nobody ever did anything against his wishes. "Young Miss… I think she is… she…", Diya was hesitant to say it, but she panicked more. "She what?", the old man looked at her questioningly as he asked her. "She… I think she is not in the room. I've knocked at the door many times, but she didn't open the door. I didn't hear any sound coming from the room either." "What?" The color of everyone’s face was gone. They got up in their chairs immediately. "Kunal, Suraj. What are you waiting for? Go and see where your sister is. Go!", the old man shouted angrily. "Yes, grandpa.", Kunal ran upstairs forthwith and Suraj followed behind. Knocking at the door, Kunal voiced, "Sanaya, open the door!", Hearing no sound, he knocked again when he looked at Suraj as they heard no response. They knocked at the door one more time, and they heard nothing from the room. "Bro, let's break the door.", as Suraj suggested, Kunal nodded his head, and then they moved away from the door. Not having another thought, they broke the door and got inside the room. Both the brothers were taken aback as they found their dear sister missing, "Sanaya…" "Bathroom...", Kunal ran to the bathroom and his facial expression was full of shock. It was not locked from inside, after searching inside he saw nobody. Checking everywhere in the room, they could not find her anywhere. “Can it be that someone kidn*pped her?" Suraj suggested. “We are not a three-member family, if someone did that he would be in the hospital right now." “Yeah, you are right. If she is not here, where did she go?" When Suraj looked around worriedly, Kunal’s gaze shifted across the walls and suddenly, a letter caught his attention. “What’s this?" "Letter…". Everybody was looking at the letter in Kunal's hand. What could be written in it, they could not guess or rather say, they didn't want to. "Read it,'' the old man ordered Kunal. Kunal looked at his mother, and then he started reading it louder so everybody present there could hear it. “Maa(mother), Baba(father). I'm so sorry, I can't marry Virat. I want to do a job and live an independent life. Even if it is just for a short while, I want to live independently till I don't come back here. I am going to the USA. I will be back soon. Once I come back, I will do what you guys tell me to do. I will marry whoever you guys will tell me to marry now, I don't want to marry anybody. Sorry again… But I am leaving…” As soon as Kunal finished reading the letter, the old man sat on the chair. Nobody ever did something like that in the house but today, his granddaughter dared to... “How shameful!!!” He hit his hand on the table angrily and blurted out, "How dare she run away from home! Going to the USA? I will see how you will leave this country! Everybody, listen to me carefully. Sanaya must be back before tonight. Do whatever you need to do, but she must not leave this country. I can not lose my honour because of such a granddaughter, she must marry Virat. Go and get her here by any means!" Kunal smiled after reading the letter. Finally, his little sister took a step towards her future, for herself. For her happiness, she ran away from home. Though Kunal did not give her the idea of running away, he was happy that she took a step to fulfil her dreams. Since childhood, Kunal had wanted to protect his sister, Sanaya, but he could not help her to live in freedom. His grandpa was the head of the family and everybody in the family did what he wanted them to do. What he chose for them was considered as the best for everybody. But Sanaya mostly disagreed, and yet she never went against him. She always followed the path he chose for her but this was the first time she did something on her own, for herself. She did what her heart told her to do. "I hope you will enjoy your life. Live independently from now on, Sanaya. Spread your wings and fly like a free bird", Kunal looked at the letter and smiled, wishing the best to his beloved sister. ** "Run, Sanaya run! You can't waste even a single minute. Grandpa might have authorized my brothers to catch me and take me back with them as soon as possible. No way, I can not get caught…", A tall girl in her twenties was walking faster while dragging her luggage. Finally reaching the airport, she took a deep breath and patted her chest. Sanaya Roy Chowdhury looked back for a moment and closed her eyes. Sanaya did not know when she would see her city again as she had no idea whether it was going to be 2 years or 4 years when she would be back. From childhood until she got adopted she never knew she would have such a great family, loving parents, and the best brother in the universe like Kunal, but she was so happy. She got to be loved and have a family. She felt sad though because she was not going to see them for some years, and she was going to miss them, but it was time for her to live her life. She wished they would not be so angry at her for running away all of a sudden. "Time to go, Sanaya." Her grip on the handle grew tighter when she looked so determined.