u r lucky

walking back from school one day, hop skip and jump. Excuse moi can u please tell me this address. A slip of paper a bag in hand, formal clothes. Why not lets give it a shot.
Walk up to him, inside the building. On the staircase, curiousity? Belief in humanity?
Stand straight, put your water bottle down.
Weird but why rub your crotch against mine? Are u going to be sick? And is that a bile rising in my throat?

Why r u crying? Nothing. You can go.
Home, question... did he remove your clothes, no did he remove his clothes no... Thank god? Its ok dear happens to all women at some point in their lives.. But i am just a girl!
Don’t go to school for a few days.

Does it really happen to all the women in the world? N o sometimes its much worse.
"a guy thrust his thumb in my groin and he had a 2 inch long nail"
"my uncle had just gone thru a divorce, we were alone in the house, he kissed me"
"my tutor would touch me in private places"

but then.... u r lucky u didnt get raped. it happens to all the women at some point in life, some get even some don't.
But it happens. Just like menstruation or menopause.
Just like freak accidents
just like birth and death.
It happens and u r lucky u didn’t get raped...

memories r of 2 kinds, some are like the first rains that not only soak up the parched earth but give a new lease of life, and leave behind greenery freshness and hope
and then there are others like the plastic bag clinging to your leg when u walk through knee high water in Mumbai floods

born
lived
but how?