The empty chair

I received a friend request on social media. I read the name "Maya R". The name does not ring a bell. Then I proceed it to see the photo and it did bring back a lot of memories.

It was one of my colleagues Maya. She was with me in my first organisation. Free used to set next me. She had joined after me and I had the duty to mentor. She was smart but her entire attention was somewhere else. She had joined because her boyfriend used to work in our company. Apparently horror boyfriend was one of my friends. Maya always had one thing on her mind: finish the work at soon as possible and the instant the time with boyfriend. Everyone in our project new this about Maya.

Maya would always tell me that she comes from a very strict household. She used to say that if her dad or elder brother come to know about her affair then they would make her leave the job and lock her in their house. She was always portray herself as if she was the victim. But the reality watch something different.

It was a Monday and the chair next to me was empty. Maya had not turned up to the work that day. I assumed that she was unwell and had taken a day off. But she did not come the next day as well. She had taken the entire week off. This look very suspicious. Out of concern I asked my team leader about her. He said that they had received a call from her dad that she would not come to work for a couple of weeks because of the family emergency. I precuments that someone in her family was either critically ill or had died. Happy birthday I learnt the story it shocked to me to my core.

In the next week on Monday we had a visitor. It was Maya's brother. He wanted to meet the team leader. My team leader asked me to accompany him so that there will be a neutral party present in the meeting. I was not supposed to speak but be a silence spectator in the meeting. Har brother narrated the entire story to us which shocked us. He told us that he knew about Maya's wrongdoings. Maya was romanticly involved with a guy in her area. He k new that she was romanticly in world with another boy in our office. He was also dating another guy. All this was going on when her marriage was already fixed. Action as he learned about this they decided that it was in the best interest for her to stay home. While speaking her brother had tears in his eyes. He said, "as a family we failed to teach her the morals". After speaking with us her brother left and we never heard anything from Maya. I was disgusted with her behavior. She had messed up the lives of a lot of boys. My friend who was her boyfriend required therapy to get out of this mess. Apparently she got a married to the guy with home the family had fixed her wedding.

Today when I received the friend request from Maya all these memories came back. Maya hate destroyed lives of multiple boys. I had no idea why suddenly she had sent me the friend request. I did not want to stay in contact with such a messed up woman. I did not want to reconnect with such a vile woman. I went to my social media and deleted the friend request.