The Avinash,Tara,Dhruv exercise..

She fiddled with Jojo...the teddy bear had been a gift from Avinash on their first anniversary.It was a plush vintage teddy with soft brown fur-the most delicate kind.tara had treasured it all along.But today she was in no mood to treat it kindly.She lay there,listlessly,plucking at its fur,which had now lost most of its lusture and had gone rough,as she pondered over how the years had passed by and with them how drastically her life had changed.Hers was an early marriage.She had thought marrying Avinash,her college sweetheart,also a Wharton grad,working with MerryLynch would be the answer to all her dreams.If only,there was a dime for everytime her hopes had crashed down !And now after Dhruv,it seemed like romance had flown out of the window.The night before was her last desperate attempt to keep her married life from being sabotaged.She had put on the black lacy gown,which had been again a gift from Avinash and one of his personal favorites and prepared all of his favorites-dhokla,kheer,rajma chawal and shrikhand for dinner.But he didn't even look at her twice.He ranted on about how stressful his office hours were.He had already had his dinner with one of his clients.That night she went to bed on an empty stomach,having lost her appetite for dinner.She suddenly felt sorry for herself.The mirror showed the wrinkles around the corners of her eyes.Her dresses weren't that perfect fit anymore.Impulsively,she scratched at the left eye of Jojo and managed to tear it off.She knew what she had done but what shocked her more was the lack of remorse or feeling of any kind for that matter.She threw it away ,in a fit of anger and started packing.She had made up her mind.She was going away for the weekend.She was still in her early thirties and she intended to make the most of it-with Roopak.