A Writing Prompt - Part 1

This piece is my effort to describe a scene as per the requirements of an assignment. 

Assignment:

Write a scene (in not more than 500 words) based on the following outline: Wife is at home. Husband enters. They have not been talking for some days. One of them tries to cajole the other. The other withdraws. The first one goes back to doing what he/ she was doing. The other comes to the first one and kills him/her. Please note that the scene cannot have any dialogue. So you can only write the scene-description.

The doorbell rings. The wife opens the door. He finds the husband standing there. He is drunk and losing control of his body. His shirt isn’t tucked in, the coat is in his hand and the tie is loose from its knot. The wife doesn’t make any eye contact with the husband, leaves the door half-open, and heads back into the bedroom. He steps inside the house, latches the door, hangs the key on the key hanger and sits on the sofa in the drawing room. He unties his shoe laces, takes out his socks as he glances on the wall-clock in front of him. It’s 11 pm.

 He looks toward the bedroom anticipating some response from the wife. But there is none. He nods his head in denial and moves ahead to freshen up. He walks to the wash basin, washes his hands and splashes some water on the face. He wipes his face down with a towel and looks at the dining table.  The table as usual, is neatly set for the dinner. He opens the lid of a bowl and smells it. He loves the aroma. He takes a morsel of bhindi-roti and tastes it. His attention goes to his wedding pictures hung on the wall. He gets closer to the wife’s photo and touches her lips with the morsel of food.

He now picks up the plate and move toward the bedroom. The curtains on the entrance of the room are drawn out. He moves the curtain aside and enters the dimly lit room. The wife is reclined on the bed and looking into her phone. As he enters the room, the wife sits back and keeps herself busy with the phone. She ignores his presence totally.  The husband sits by her side on the bed. He takes a mouthful of food and gestures her to eat it. The wife refuses to open the mouth. The husband tries again. She looks sideways. He again gives it another shot. But she now moves to the other side of the bed.

The husband gets impatient by this time. He keeps the plate on the table. He moves near the window of the room and looks out. His eyes are misty. The city is flooded with the night lights of a typical busy metro.  He can see a couple in one of the storey’s, in the high rise building in front of him, dancing together. He looks at them and smirks, pitying his situation. He gazes into the eternity from his window and she is typing furiously on her phone. Suddenly, his vision starts getting blurry. He turns back and stares at her, his eyes wide open. He tries to find a support to stand as everything fades from his eyesight. Swati is now looking at him. He falls on the floor like a log of wood, foaming in the mouth. As Ramesh lies dead on the floor, Swati types a message on her phone.

‘Game Over’ followed by three-four heart smileys.

The close up of her WhatsApp screen shows the name of some other man.