Characterless

 She was walking through the street without realizing that people around her are looking at her breast.  There was a medical shop next to her rented house where she had shifted recently. 

When she reached at the counter of the shop, three men were standing near the shop. She waited them to move aside but they did not until the owner of the shop asked her what she needs. A packet of condom , she said.

Two more men have joined the group near the shop. When she left, they looked at the woman walking alone. There was no one with her.

From the glass window of the shop, her back was fully visible. She was wearing a jeans that her father had gifted when he had come to this little hilly town for a job.

“She is a bomb”, one of the men in the group said. ‘She is already sleeping with someone,” the owner intervened.

 “ Such girls are good for one night stands”, one of the men said, chuckling. The three men chortled, sending echoes in the  street.

The next day she came again to the shop at the same time. Those men were also there in the group standing exactly at the same place.

“We are offering discounts on all medicines. Would you like to share your mobile number?”, the owner asked. Without waiting for her to respond, he continued, “What’s your name by the way?.”

She raised her head, smiled a bit, and said, “No bhaiya. Thank you. I don’t need any discount..”

The owner felt insulted and did not ask anything after that.

 When she left the shop, the men in the group stared at her.

“She is characterless, must be a dhande wali”, the owner of the shop said.

 “Can you find out her rate tomorrow”, one of the men asked.

The next day, everyone in the street waited for her to come. 

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