Next morning.
“ Buddy get up!! Cold coffee with hot cheese sandwich is waiting for you.”, Anu enters to Dev’s room. She takes an eye tour of his room. Within a moment she understood that he did not sleep the whole night. He is setting on a rest chair near a window. Some burned cigarette is messed up around him. A broken wine bottle is also there. His red burning eyes are a witness for his crying. Even he didn’t respond to Anu's call for him.
Anu puts the breakfast tray on the table and pulls another chair towards him. She tapped on his shoulder. He was frightened of her tape. He manages to respond her., “ G…Gooo…Good morning dear!”,
“Good morning. You all right?”, Anu asked.
“Ya!! First-class.”, he throws a fake smile.
“That’s cool!”, She knows that he is lying.
“How’s Aksha?”, Dev asked.
“She is better now. Aarush messages me.”, Anu said.
Anu didn’t say a single word to him. She wants to support him. She wants to stand with him. She wants to agree with him. She didn’t want to advise him. As he has many advisers, but not any supporters. She wants to be that supporter.
“Sometime in life, we need a supporter, not an adviser.”
“Heey!! Do you want to visit Subban park with me today?”, Dev asked.
“Omg!! Seriously!! Are you asking for a day? My goodness!!”, Anu makes him laugh.
“No, I am asking for a week, a month, a year, a life…”, he replied in the same tone of humor.
Tell na.
“I didn’t mind going with you…. On a date!”, She said and leave the room.
“Listen…” Dev said. Anu turned. “You and me only”. He said.
“Ok boss! Finished your breakfast fast.” She gestured like giving a salute.
“Door is open. Come straight.”, Rishi said. When he heard a knock on the door. He is engaged with his book, physically but not mentally. He is thinking about Maher. He can get what’s happening in her life. She is married now. It’s a fourth day of their reunion, but she never mentioned anything about her husband. Whenever he asked about him, she refused to answer or she ignored. More on that, Rishi notice that Maher rejects call continuously. Even once, she puts her cell phone on airplane mode to get ride of calls. Something is fishy but he can’t get what was it.
“Sorry, I think u have some work.”, Maher is at door.
“Wait…No, I m not”, He stands up. He put his book aside.
“No, no, it’s ok!! I will manage my own. Nothing is urgent. You carry on”, Maher said.
“C’mon… tell me what’s not urgent. I am all free. Dear.”, he said.
“Actually, I want to visit the Balaji temple nearby. I think it’s better not to go alone. So, I thought to ask you if you want to join.”, She said.
“Ohh, my pleasure”, he said. Let me guess. It’s the same temple which we used to visit after our college hours?
“Ya, right”, she said.
“Give me five minutes. I will be ready”, he said.
“Ok I am waiting at downstairs”, She said and left the room.
“I think it’s the good opportunity to clear all doubts”, he murmured.
It’s near about eleven in the morning. Maher and Rishi left for the temple.
“I think you should talk for once with her”, Aarush is discussing with Aksha.
“No, I don’t want”,
“But it’s not the solution. You have to find a solution. I can’t see you like that.
“I don’t care”,
“But she was your best friend, once.”,
“it’s in the past dear. Now I am in the present.”,
“You are hurting your self. And others too”,
“No, I am not. I didn’t invite anyone to hurt because of me”,
“Now you are behaving nonsense”,
“Yea I am, I am nonsense. I am stupid. Do you want any more?”,
“Ohh, c'mon dear. Don’t go on the wrong track.”,
“You are right. You all are right. Ahana is right. Only me is not right.”,
“You know what. It’s better not to say anything to you.
“you better to be”, she closed the door with force and move towards the backyard in anger.
“I said I don’t want to talk to anyone. Leave me alone.please.”, Aksha said when she feels that someone is behind her. She is seating on the bench in the backyard.
“Don’t you get that. Stop to irritate me. I said, leave me……..”, she repeat. When she heard some voice behind her. She turned to look who is that? Her word stuck at her through when she finds Aahana there.
“Heey….,heey, listen. Please don’t go! Please talk to me.”, Aahana requested.
“Is there is anything to say now?”, Aksha questioned.
“I am really sorry. I am sorry!! Dear. I hurt you a lot”,
“You better to be. But it’s my fault that I trusted you.”,
“Please don’t say that. I need you.”,
“Where are you, when I need you?”,
“I don’t have my choice”,
“Now you have a choice to hurt me again?”,
“I don’t want to hurt you”,
“Then why you come? Hardly I moved on.”,
“I thought you will be pleasured to see me again.”,
“Why should I? Who are you to me?”,
“You are hurting me. Dear.”, Aahana’s eyes started to flow.
“And you didn’t hurt me?”,
“Beat me. Scold me. But please don’t hate me. You don’t know, what I go through.”,
“And you don’t know, what we go through. Ninja was completely broken. I m broken. Do you even realize that?”
“I am so sorry about that. I am guilty.”,
“And you think that everything will be alright with your hell sorry.”,
It’s not Aksha who is arguing with Aahana. It’s her frustration, her pain of long five years is delivering behalf of her.
“No, but…….”,
“You know what, leave it! No sense to discuss with you. You can’t understand anyone’s emotion. By the way, who are you? I don’t know you.”, Aksha said and headed towards house.
“Listen…… please.. Don’t go. Please talk to me. …, please, let your bitterness burst out.”, Aahana followed her and please her to talk to her. But aksha didn’t listen to her.
Aahana falls on ground. She is crying like a mad. Her legs are not supporting her. She is not breathing easily. Her activity is refused. Her moments are ceased. She is unconscious now.
