The guy on the top berth

She was busy today, her mother-in-law was coming to Bangalore for a visit. She was preparing a special meal for the family, frequently checking each of the rooms so that everything is in order and resolving a dispute for a teddy bear between Ananya and Sanya, her two lovely daughters.

Getting tired of all the work, she decided to rest down for a bit on the couch. Suddenly, she wondered where her husband was, who otherwise is always around to help when guests come or there is a lot of work involved even when he is so often at home due to his job.

She found him in his so-called library lying down on a sofa with a book in his hand. Her thoughts wandered on how she had left her work to take care of her girls two years ago and since then all she did was the household chores. She had not taken rest since the morning and there he was engrossed in his novel as if nothing else had to be done. She was not sure if she was really angry at her husband or not but she was definitely pissed off at something.

Suddenly she heard a chuckle — He must have found something humorous in his novel — she thought. And then she traveled back in time to the train journey 13 years earlier that had changed her life. She never had any interest in novels but there was this guy who was laughing while reading a book. There he was a 20-year-old guy on the top berth who caught her attention and there she was at the lower berth, attracted to the strangeness of the boy. 13 years later that incident and 3 years later of their marriage, nothing had changed still.

She loved him and he loved her and in any big or small trouble, he was always there.

And suddenly she realized that was more than anything she could ask for.