Infidelity

Adela and her demons

Adela sat quietly wondering about the twin she almost forgot. It was not by any plan or desire. She simply got busy in her life and would contact Adela when required. She always showed up like the noble one she was, just as her mother mentioned. That comment about her not being noble cut her deep. Yes she was not noble. Nobility was for fools. She barely kept in touch with her family not because she did not love them. But because like a well functioning machine they were always there. Specially Aline.

Now she was not there. She was not there for s****l excesses done on her by someone perverted. Someone at work. Yet Adela knew someone at work who like excesses at s*x and that including b*****e and all. She looked at the image of her and her boy friend and briefly touched the light good chain round her neck. Very few understood what it meant. But to one who knew , they called it a collar. One of the reasons why she left home was when Alan had almost walked in on them. At a club they were discussing visit an underground s*x club before she took a much needed loo break. When she returned the environment of her table was quiet , serious. Her brother sat looking strangely at her partner. He had overheard some conversation and thought her boyfriend Keiran, wanted to go with the other boys. Even when she walked in from the loo break, never added the two together.

And it was not because Adela acted pure or untouched. It was because of Aline. Aline 's constants failures at love menat the family thought the twin Adela to be naive too. Ofcourse when they managed to think about her at all. May be that was one of the reason she was the last one her father called to give the news of Aline. That Aline was no more and thought aloud she must have felt it as she was a twin!

The thing was she had not. She and her boy friend had drank too much to celebrate his return from his visit to his head office just that afternoon. They had s*x, the usual kind, ot the kinky one they both loved. He was tired and at her insistence of some b*****e said softly that it was time for them to park that. Cut the collars and get them a ring and permanency. Adela was emotional and Kieran looked pleased.

The next news she knew was the insistent ringing of her phone that woke her from a deep sleep with a bottle of beer infront of her. She saw it was her father and was too drunk to take a call from him. She glanced through the w*****p and saw it said.. It's anburgency about Aline. Come immediately.

May be because she was drunk, she had slept off. Internally she knew she was happy and did not want it to be dampened by Aline's heartbreak, which she was sure, it was . But this was no heartbreak as Kieran insisted she call back. He was usually handsoff her family. Few years ago, Aline had met Kieran first in a club . They had talked and somehow the conversation had moved towards work. Bottomline was that Aline referred a job to Kieran who got it. They liked eachother and started tentatively dating. Then Kieran met her at an underground club with a few friends. He initially had thought her to be Aline , though they were not so similar. But then the confusion got cleared but they realised they were both two sides of the same coin.

Kieran did not stop going out with Aline but started including other friends with the hope that she would notice his friends. Adela had insisted ,"Tell her or let me."

But he had not. She was noble was all he said. Ofcourse Aline came to know . She was heartbroken and yet she hid from her parents. She did not want her parents to think less of her twin sister.

Oh Aline.. Adela cried out. You broke my heart.. she howled safe in the knowledge that no one will hear her.

Kieran stood near the door, reflecting on the glass of her notepad. Adela caught the glimpse of him looking strangely worried. Or was it guilty.

Adela wiped her tears slowly and observed the image. Kieran was shifting from foot to foot. His big handsome frame looked shrunk in a day. She raised her hand and tore her chain, yet Kieran never seemed to notice. He was biting his lips.

Kieran did you meet Aline when you were in town to visit your office.. she asked.

He looked up and said,"I wished I had. I wanted to. But you become a wreck. So I just dropped her a message. I told her, I was at her old office ."

He looked up at her face filling with anger, " well if you are so angry now.. where were you for that one week, when I was away ?"

" Do not act surprised Adela . I know you were not home. I called the neighbours and they said. You and their son was doing some small field trip to cover some geography project. When I touched you after return I knew you had not stayed faithful. You are so desperate for new partners that you will even mould a young boy to suit your needs. "

Adela said quietly , " First, it has nothing to do with Aline. We can fight as much as we want over apparently young boys and my infidelity. But you can not distract me from the fact that you were there, right on the crime scene with all ability of contacting her, gaining her trust, doing the things you wanted with her, even against her wishee.. all the excesses. May be the person whom she loved or liked were you? Or you just stepped in..? You just had to know she will not implicate you and break our relationships. But you should have known of her weak heart. Did you ?? Did you? Hurt her..? "

Kieran held his head in his hands and said. " I am not sure what you are playing at Adela. In our intensely physical relationship have I ever given you an indication of hurting you? Even when you demanded some hurt.. I was the one who made it minimal, even risking our relationship. And you sister? She was an angel.. who would hurt her.. I..I loved her..."