I too turned my tone serious and said “Harini, will anybody play in such sensitive topic? I’m 100% sure and correct that they are swapping their wife with other friends. Give me a minute I will prove it to you”
She became curious once I said “I will prove it to you” and she started looking at me to see what I’m going to do.
Without talking much I pulled my cell phone and I gestured her to be silent. I turned on speaker mode and made call to Rajesh
As this call is preplanned one, I know how Rajesh will respond/react.
Phone rang and after few rings Rajesh picked the phone and yawned naturally and asked “what is the matter”
After a formal “How do you do” talks I started asking him “Hey in our office Ashwin is there righ t? He is swapping her wife with other collegue in our office right ? With whom he is sharing his wife ”
Harini unbelievably watching my casual conversation with Rajesh asking him just like that this question
Rajesh responded “mm Ashwin right? He has swapped his wife Reeta with Varun of HR department ” He responded very casually and authentically
And Rajesh continued “ In turn Varun’s wife Pooja is with Ashwin ”
Harini is ultimately shaken with the proof as Rajesh casually confirmed this as truth
I don’t want to stop with this single proof, and as I want to pass a strong message about the swinging to her I continued talking about other couples as well
“Oh is it Rajesh ? Ok then with whom our office colleague Swapna is sharing her husband ?”
Rajesh replied “ Oh you are asking that finance dept Swapna ? She is sharing her husband with receptionist Meena, Meena’s husband Mukesh is enjoying Swapna and Swapna’s husband Rahul is enjoying Meena ”
Harini is listening the whole conversation with intense shock, she opened her mouth wide open in shock and closed them with her both hands
Like auction, we randomly used lot of couple names and authentically discussed about their swap partners
Harini is hearing the whole conversation over speaker phone, and at the Rajesh’s end Swathi started talking from the background which we could hear,
Swathi started talking to Rajesh “ Rajesh, if you correctly remember the detail provide it to other, and if you don’t know, don’t mislead Vinod”
Harini is little bit surprised to see Swathi is interrupting Rajesh at her end
Swathi continued to talk to Rajesh in background where we could hear their conversation on phone “Rajesh, don’t give false information, I’m also friend of your office colleague Swapna, she is not sharing her husband with Receptionist Meena, instead she is sharing her husband with wife of her manager Ram, so don’t give false information”
Harini is now more shocked as Swathi is talking about this and has some understanding on these stuff. To avoid further discussion I casually put the conversation to end.
Rajesh questioned me “Ok what happen to you ? Why all of sudden you are calling me to ask this detail in this night time ? ”
Rajesh asked this to make this conversation too authentic and natural
I responded “Nothing Rajesh, I’m planning to visit one of the couple during week end, so just want to ensure if they are with which partner, so that I don’t disturb them unnecessarily”
Rajesh responded “Yes it makes sense” and formally disconnected the call.
Harini couldn’t believe what she heard in all the conversation so far and said “Oh my god., it is too wild and couldn’t believe it at all., but it seems it is true whatever you said ”
I nodded my head “mm Yes” and she continued “oh my god it seems Swathi is also aware of this as she is correcting Rajesh in background?”
I continued “yes I learnt from Rajesh that Swathi knows all these. You know very well that Rajesh and Swathi are very open and close couple, so Rajesh tells everything to Swathi so she knows it. I too thought of telling you, but I know you will not believe it, so I never told you. Today got a chance to tell you, and you didn’t believe it and I had to make this call to make you believe it”
She was completely shocked, to keep it simple and not lengthy I’m not writing the complete conversations and questions from Harini to me. She asked several questions time to time about this. I could sense that she is shaken by this news. Even in one of the mid night she waked up me and asked questions. She is shocked up to that extent.
Her questions are around “Why they do ? How they do ? They don’t fear god ? How others /family friends around them will react ?
Will the society not look them bad ? How office colleagues will respect them when they know that they are swapping their spouses, and more and more questions around this ”
Not all the questions in a single day, she continued asking time to time for next couple of days. I patiently answered them without too much of advocating or supporting tone, I conveyed my responses as news reader without much establishing as my personal views.
The summary of my answer to her questions is “Swapping or not swapping is up to the partners, there is nothing wrong in it as both the partners are going to enjoy, and there is no concept of betrayal. Betrayal is only in case of one of the partner cheat other. This is modern culture so other colleagues in office won’t consider it as bad thing. More over as almost everybody does it there is no question of who is good or bad”
She started slowly digesting this. I started admiring the plan of Swathi, I know all these are completely false statements and we are using the ignorance and innocence of Harini to prove her that everybody is swapping their partners.
Harini started slowly believe this and started slowly recovering from the cultural shock and finally she got a smile and said “mm It is kali yuga, swapping can happen with Indians too”
Mm It is big success for me in the overall plan, so now she is completely familiar to the concept of swinging and started believing that most of the people do this. One day when I took her to shopping she got to see one of the couple where I used their name in the fiction swap couples. I was bit worried if she is going to react to them, without any hesitation just she smiled at them and casually said “hai, Hello” which consoled me that she is not looking them bad.
Her belief went to extent that when she see any Indian couples outside, she almost started thinking that they are with their swap partners.
Days passed like this, now it is time to open the fourth step of the drama