"We are not going to take too much time in the lawyer's office. If we become late our parents at home will feel worry about us." Mounika said.

"Nothing happens if we become little late on one day." Jasmine said. "Anyhow we do try to finish our business as fast as possible there."

They reached that place soon. Luckily lawyer Mangal Rao was in his chamber and he looked both the girls without any delay as there were not many clients were waiting at that time.

"Who you both and what you want from me?" looking inquiringly into the faces of both girls he asked.

"Did a couple by names Sudhakar and Prameela met you for divorce?" Mounika asked him straight.

He pondered for sometime as if to remember something and then said, "Yes I remember. They both met me together. They want to take divorce by way of mutual consent."

"I am their daughter Mounika. Did they say anything about me?"

"What?" Mangal Rao startled on hearing that. "Yes, they said they have a daughter. That much I remember now."

"Yes, I am that daughter." Mounika nodded her head.

"First of all what do you want?" he asked her straightly.

"I don't want them to take divorce. I want them together all the time."

Mangala Rao laughed on hearing that. "I also just want that. I don't see any reason for their taking divorce like that. There are no serious accusations whatsoever between them both. I just don't know why they are that much desperate to be separated."

"Have you prepared necessary papers for their divorce?" this time Jasmine asked him.

"Not yet. They met me only once. I said to them to think once again deep and meet me again. If they meet me again and still on that decision to take divorce, I cannot help it. I have to prepare papers." He paused for a moment and then asked again. "Anyhow who are you?"

"She is my close friend Jasmine. We both are classmates and studying ninth class. She gave me the suggestion to meet you." Mounika said.

"Yes, I promised Mounika that I do see that her parents not to take divorce. You very well know how much children will struggle if their parents take divorce." Jasmine said.

"You promised her that?" Mangala Rao laughed again. "How you could promise like that?" looking amusingly at Jasmine he asked.

"I just cannot bear if my friends suffer for anything. So I made a promise like that to her. Now I am moving heaven and earth to keep it." Jasmine said.

"I must appreciate you. How nice it have been if I have a friend like you!" he paused for a moment before saying. "Yes, I know very well how much children would struggle if their parents divorced. But it is happening quite often that parents who are having children are taking divorce."

"Is there any way that Mounika file a petition in the court restraining her parents from taking divorce?"

"No way like that. But she can have the choice in deciding at which parent to live with."

"It is just like choosing one of my eyes." Mounika said

"You are right. But I don't know how to help you in this. Your parents are so much desperate in taking divorce. If they come to me with the decision to take divorce, I cannot stop them at all. If I say a 'no', they do go to another lawyer." Mangala Rao helplessly said.

"Please don't say a 'no' to them." Jasmine hastily said.

Mangala Rao and Mounika also looked at Jasmine surprisingly.

"What should I do then?" looking curiously at Jasmine, Mangala Rao asked.

"Delay the proceedings as long as possible." Jasmine said. "In the meanwhile we try to find out a way to stop them from taking divorce."

"Good idea" Mangala Rao nodded his head.

There was some silence then. "After preparing the divorce papers will you show them to me? We may learn something that we don't know yet by reading them and that may be useful in someway or the other." Jasmine asked him.

"I shall show them to you." Mangala Rao nodded his head. "But when the couple is taking divorce by way of mutual consent, they need not provide all the details. You cannot learn much by reading those papers."

"Alright" Jasmine disappointed on hearing that. "But I still want to read them when they are prepared." She said.

"Sure, I show them to you. Even it is against professional ethics, for this girl's sake I do that." Mangala Rao said.

"Thank you very much" Mounika said.

"They are beautiful couple. I am also not much liking their taking divorce. I too try my level best to stop them from taking divorce." Mangala Rao promised.

"Once again thank you very much sir" Mounika said.

"Will you please keep this as a secret? Mounika's parents must not know that we have visited you in this way." With a pleading look Jasmine said.

"You need not tell me about it at all." Mangala Rao smiled. He took out a card from a box nearby and gave it to Mounika. "Keep it with you. You can call me at any time. I do post you with the latest information regarding your parents' divorce."

Then they both came out of his office.

"What he has said is true. Your parents are beautiful couple. They both are educated and gainfully employed. I cannot see any reason for their hating each other like that." While they both were walking towards their homes Jasmine said.

Mounika was listening. She did not know what to say to that.

"What I indeed want to say is they are not expressing, but there may be a strong reason for their hating and despising each other like that."

Mounika stopped suddenly and looked into the face of Jasmine. "What you are saying?"

"Yes" Jasmine breathed deeply and hissed out. "There sure may be a strong reason for their behaving like that and in their strong decision to take divorce."

"What else it can be if it is not their love on someone else?" a frown gathered on the face of Mounika.

"That has to be dug out. That needs to be known. If we want them not to take divorce, first we have to know the reason for their decision to take divorce. The root cause for it must be found out and destroyed. Then only you can not only stop them from taking divorce but also live peacefully with them. If it is not so even they don't take divorce, you cannot live happily with them."

"You are absolutely right. But I just don't know how to know about it."

"Search. Try atleast." Jasmine said. "Either of your parents has a habit of writing diaries?"

"No, neither of them has such type of a habit." Mounika nodded her head in negation.

"Then search the whole house. Try to ask your relatives without the knowledge of your parents. Try to know about that even from your parents also without their knowledge by asking clever questions. I am very strongly feeling that there is a reason for their decision in taking divorce and by knowing that reason it can be solved."

Mounika clipped her inner lip between her teeth frames for few seconds and then said "Alright, I shall try."

Then they both separated as Mounika chose the way to go to her home and Jasmine chose the way to her home.

***

"I am feeling happy that your students are enjoying my meditation classes. So you want me to continue like this?" Niranjan asked Mrudanga Rao.

Mrudanga Rao, all the teachers and Niranjan were assembled in the big hall where they do have their meetings usually.

"Absolutely" Mrudanga Rao said. "In fact not only our students but we also do want to have your meditation and teaching classes. I read your essays in the news papers and magazines. They are quite useful."

"Yes, we are all of the same opinion. On one day in a week, you conduct meditation class to us also." English teacher Manorama said.

"I really enjoy teaching meditation to anyone. Till now I travelled in the country and out of the country also and spread my teachings and my meditation techniques. Money is not my concern now as I have earned enough. I have no objection to conduct meditation classes to you people also if you want."

"We absolutely want. As our English teacher said weekly once is enough." Social teacher Pradhan said.

"Alright, alright." Niranjan nodded his head "Then we are going to have it every Sunday and we are going to have it one hour at ten in the morning on that day. Is it is agreeable to you all? Or are you going to feel a disturbance to you on a holiday?"

"None of us do feel like that. It shall be an enjoyment to us" physical training teacher Mani Kumar said.

"In fact" Niranjan said after some seconds pause. "The high school students do need not just meditation classes, they do need more guidance. High school stage is a very important stage. Very crucial changes start taking place in the body and mind also especially from eighth class. If we want their lives better, if we want they don't spoil their lives, sex education is must."

The principal and the teachers looked into each other's faces.

"Are you thinking like that?" Mrudanga Rao asked him.

"Yes, I am thinking like that." Niranjan nodded his head. "We think that they don't know anything, they are going just in the way we want, that they don't do mistakes. But it is not true. Especially from eighth to tenth class body urges for sex a lot. The urge shall be so strong that they don't hesitate to satisfy it providing there is an opportunity."

All of them were listening with rapt attention what he was saying.

"It is our nature that we do take sex as a common thing, something that does not need our concentration. But in fact, that strong sexual urge in opposite sex at high school level, creates immature love and infatuation in them. So it is important to make them know that it is quite natural to subject themselves to feelings and urges like that and no importance need to be given to them."

"But it is very difficult to teach about sex to the children at that age. How can we do that I cannot think" English teacher Manorama said.

(..........to be continued)

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