Grossly Witnessed

Like every day I boarded on 21G to my office. You can conjure up how grueling to travel by MTC at peak hours. I was standing on the front-door facing towards the driver. Adjacent to me on my right there was a girl, age between 18-20, standing near me holding the pole and facing towards me. From my dimmed memory I can recall she was in white Tee and jeans suspending her bag belt on her left shoulder to right hip. Since we could see each other we never had an eye contact, I guess. As time was passing, the bus was rolling towards our destinations. Though I was looking out through the window shield of the bus of my left, I could view her through my peripheral vision of my right. She was texting and smiling mysteriously. She was comfortable where she was standing. Suddenly I sensed that she is not ease with something. she was disturbed and uncomfortable with something. As we all cramped inside the bus, why is she so embarrassed and uneasy? This question Aroused my interest to find out the reason behind it. My eyes gave a quick scan quietly. Oh, no. Its a guy behind her trying to molest her.

That was not a surprise for me, as perverts take advantages in the crowded buses often(I also humiliated many times. Doesn't matter if you are boy or girl). They never miss an opportunity or, if they are more desperate they start drooling at their victim and can create opportunities. Anyways, without describing their nature lets concentrate on this case only. I was observing. The girl was so pissed off and was trying to move from the place where she was standing but she was cramped on her place. she was totally helpless. Having mercy for the girl I thought to help. But how! I was with some kind of hesitation; if I ask the guy to give her space and the guy asks me "who are you to her? or don't try to be a hero. etc..!" then that will hamper my self respect. I was fighting with myself not to  showcase my bravery and be calm. My conscience was not allowing me to witness such kind of crime and be quite. I was also helpless but angry. There were lots of arguments going on my head. finally I couldn't hold myself and asked the girl, "why cant you just object him? If someone is humiliating you, why cant you yell at him?"

As I can understand, for a girl it is easy to hide and suffer than bringing the shameful truth go public. Perhaps, she was doing the same. But after hearing me asking she realized that other than her someone else is aware of it. controlling her agitation, her mixed emotions came out with few drops of tears in her eyes. Seeing her cry the lad moved away and got off at next immediate stoppage. Definitely, her day was spoiled by the incident, I can say!

Still I wonder why don't people react to such kind of gross wicked crime! If that girl would open up her mouth against him, I'm sure, that guy would have got a very good lesson and would think twice to repeat that again...