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(Preethi calls her friend Manasi)

Manasi: Hello...., who is this?

Preethi: Hey Manasi, it's me Preethi here, how many times would I call you?

Manasi: Hi sweetie, sorry I started sleeping by 6 in the morning that's why I couldn't check my phone.

Preethi: Okay...check your whatsapp immediately

Manasi: Why?

Preethi: Just check it you stupid!!!!

Manasi: Why are you getting tensed, Preethi?

Preethi: Oh god!.. it's not time to ask questions....just cut the call and check your whatsapp immediately, you will be taken aback.

Manasi: Okay cool...cool... let me check it now

(After 10 minutes Preethi getting a call from Manasi)

Preethi: Hello Manasi..., Manasi... are you there? are you there? hey speak something.....Is it you in that video?

Manasi: Yes...yes... this idiot only...

Preethi: What the hell...?! When did you do that? I thought it was morphed.

Manasi: A couple of months back....

Preethi: Sweetie, make a promise to me.

Manasi: I know what you will ask me, don't get panic, my soul is still clinging to my body, but I don't know how long I can keep them together (both crying)

Preethi: Oh god, I must not have hurried, I must have reached before I told you. Dear, don't go to any extremes I am...I am just coming there I will be in our hostel in another ten minutes; don't cut the call till then.

Manasi: You are correct dear, he is a pervert........he is a pervert......I trusted him blindly, but....but.... he betrayed me...

Preethi: Dear, stop sobbing..., is there anyone around you now?

Manasi: No one is here expect me, you can't find me also when you reach here.

Preethi: Stop being stupid dear it's not your fault and it's not the end of the world.

Manasi: I know nothing is my fault except trusting him but how will I face my mom and dad, I don't know how to keep my body and soul together.....I am sorry sweetie...I am going...

(Preethi reaches Mansasi's hostel and knocks her room door)

Preethi: Manasi open the door, open the door please, I beg you please open the door...

Manasi: No sweetie, I can't... I am...I am filth now...., I.... I need to depart now, don't try to save me; I have lost the will to live. It will be hell if you save me.... please...

Preethi: God.....please open the door it is not you, it is he be ashamed of this, I know you have done nothing wrong, let's.....let's make this world aware of the fact.

Manasi: No amount of solace will comfort me, I am in a peculiar state of intoxication, please forgive me....,, tell my mom and dad that I love them and apologize them for my mistake....

Preethi: No dear that pervert has to be punished, but you deserve a beautiful life. Don't be foolhardy, take revenge on him, Mom and dad will understand it.

Manasi: I know dear....but I don't have the strength to face them....

Preethi: Sweetie I am here for you, we can come out of this, we can come out of this for sure, believe me...please open the door, dear, I have no one other than you...please...You are strong minded, don't decide anything out of impulse....You are controlled by adrenaline, just be aware of that, you will be alright.

Manasi: Hmm, let me try my best.....

(Silence prevails for few seconds and the door opens, Preethi and Manasi hug each other)

Manasi: I am sorry dear.....I am really sorry.....I should not have concealed certain things...

Preethi: You could have hinted me at the least; I thought that one day he would put you in such a situation like this, that was the reason I told you to avoid him.

Manasi: Nothing would have happened had you chosen against your onsite opportunity.

Preethi: I didn't expect that things would turn this ugly otherwise I would have stayed with you,I am just back from France, I wanted to give you a surprise but it had become like this. Why did you agree for such a thing?

Manasi: He persuaded me a lot, he promised to marry me and we exchanged rings indeed.....

Preethi: Was anyone with you when it happened? Do you have any proof for that? where did you do it?

Manasi: No, no one was there other than us, I don't have any proof, he took me to a resort and there we exchanged it.

Preethi: Are you mad? Would anyone do such a stupid thing?

Manasi: I am sorry dear; by that time he emotionally blackmailed me ...
Preethi: Ok answer me this, did you know that he was recording?

Manasi: No, Had I known it by that time I would not  have allowed it.
(She told gnashing her teeth). I did not sleep with a stranger for money, I am neither a prostitute nor I am notorious for one night stands. I trusted him completely but he betrayed me. I need to do something to correct this.

Preethi: Ok cool...cool...Did you have any quarrel with him?

Manasi: Yes, last night I argued with him over our marriage, he told me that he would talk about our marriage with his father but he didn't show any signs of it, then the talk turned ugly, he cut the call abruptly....but it was not the first time in the last couple of weeks.

Preethi: What if he is not responsible for the leakage of the video?

Manasi: I know for sure that he is the culprit, he revealed his true color last night...he must have made it viral through fake accounts in social media with his face concealed.

Preethi: What shall we do now? Should we convince him?

Manasi: That will be a futile exercise.

Preethi: Shall we register a complaint with the police?

Manasi: No, I am not going to do it.

Preethi: What else are you going to do now?

Manasi: What I am concerned about is my dad and mom; they have to face the wrath of the society because of my mistake.

Preethi: They will understand and support you, they are such a progressive minded people and they will understand the problems faced by the youth of today...

Manasi: I think they haven't heard about it, otherwise they would have called me, I wish they had never...

Preethi: I think so, but it will reach them anyway. But we can explain them before it reaches.

Manasi: Will you be my side whatever I decide, dear?

Preethi: Don't be silly, I am here for you and I will support you in all stages of your life.

Manasi: Now I am going to spread the video again with his face revealed and with a message that he was my lover and he had it recorded and posted in social media, but he wanted me to reveal his face on behalf of him.

Preethi: What?! Are you mad?

Manasi: No, that will be the apt reply for his male chauvinism. Now I am not going to kill myself for this. When he is not ashamed of it, why should I? When he is not scared to release this video in social media and the internet, why should I be scared? Chaste is for both, it is not limited to one gender. I am not doing anything wrong. It's my turn, the victim's turn.....

Preethi: Yes, you are correct....go ahead. Let's change the perception of the society.....

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