Sujata, My Mother & My Wife

[desiaks]

"Mohan I want a baby."

"That's impossible ma."

"Why? Don't you love me?" Her voice cracked as she asked me.

"Ma I love you ma and I will continue to love you till the end of this world."

"Then Mohan please make me pregnant I want your baby inside my womb. I want to be a mother again, Mohan please make me pregnant I promise I will take care of our baby like a good mother please Mohan please?"

"Ma I know you are a good mother and you will take good care of the baby but this is just not possible."

"But why?" she asked in despair.

"Ma the whole world knows us as mother and son, how we will hide your pregnancy?" I said as I kept both my hands over her shoulders.

"And even if we could, how we will hide our baby? How our baby can call me daddy and you mommy in front of everybody? In the birth register how I will put your name as mother and my name as father. It's very difficult ma, it is impossible."

"Mohan I always wanted more kids but your father's financial condition was not good so we could not go for more than one," she said.

"I know," I said.

"But now the situation is different. I am still young and you can fulfil your ma's dream if you wish, you can give me the ultimate gift of my life."

"But ma.." she stopped in between.

"We are already living like a husband and a wife. You make me pregnant I will bring our baby in this world and our family will be complete," she said and paused for a while.

"You don't know Mohan how it feels to be a father; you can't imagine the joy when you will hold your baby in your hand."

"The baby will look just like you and me."

"But ma this is not going to work this way."

A few minutes of silence. Then:

"I understand it Mohan. I was fool to think that we can start a family. I realize I am old now and soon grow older and you will need a young woman, I am not going to last for you forever." Her voice cracked and she was now almost about to cry.

"Ma please don't get me wrong."

"I love you and I can't think of any other woman and who told you that you are old?"

"If you have a baby now, you will be still 58 or 59 when the child will turn 18 and that's not an old age now-a-days. It is just the legal problems which I must think about."

"Mohan do you love me?"

"C'mon ma what sort of question is this, you still have doubts?"

"Mohan keep your hand on my heart and say you love me."

She pulled my hand and placed my palm on her left breast.

"Ma I love you and I will love you forever."

"Oh Mohan" tears rolled down her cheeks as she started sobbing. She then came close to me and hugged me tightly. I also started moving my hands over her back comforting her.