' Unveiling half-truth '
Adhya sat slumped on her seat, her tears weren't ceasing with the emotional whirlpool she has been through the day. Flickering her lashes for over times, she tried to usurp that blurred vision of her but with every tear she was getting even more vulnerable. Her senses were skimmed with the out bursting light over the heads; as she shut her eyes closed in dismay. "Abhi..." she whispered in her strangulated voice, that stayed guttural deep down her throat.
She could feel her body shivering with the lenuga that stood erect. Adhya clasped her head in morose, shaking her head sideways in denials, to her bleak theories. Within seconds, she clenched her fist trying hard to push her tears back and darted her eyes to the gracious solitaire in her slender digit. Adhya's feet shook in rhythm, teardrops lingered her lashes for slightly longer this time, without dissipating to her cheeks. The lump rising at interjacent of her tonsils stayed firm, unmoved even after her numerous of attempts to swallow it. At the back of her ear drums, she heard the frolicking heart; all set to escape her thoracic cavity. For her, the bleak thoughts were so prominently making a space in her mind that even after her attempts to not think about it that way,she was freaking out from her inside. There was a silent voice from within her being, calling her and cajoling her to believe every negative her mind was revolving around.
However, compelling that situation be, she tried to stand firm on her toes with those surging fears. "Where can I find Dr.Brijesh, oncologist?" she asked in her daffy dialect, her fingers knotting into each other in impatience as the receptionist watched her with some unsaid strain.
The receptionist was chaotic of the way Adhya slumped on her seat, a jittery vibe of craziness permeated through her, her fly away wisps engraved her madness further. And if there was only reliable source for her to realise Adhya being genuine , was notably her crumbled uniform attached with official grade stars and badger.
"Room no.204,second floor at the right."she mumbled hastily, watching that unhesitant movement in Adhya's body.
With her feet on the rush, Adhya literally swept passed the crowd in her trembling limbs. That rush accelerated the rise of adrenaline in her blood, paleness resurfaced at the apex of her facial features whilst, her finger punched in the button for second floor;in the elevator.
" What do you discovered?...Is she worth it? Or-"
The anxious vocals from another end resonated avidity compelling Krishna's lips to stretch in a smirk,"Well, Nivaan sir, she is the one. Nobody could be such an idiot like her. I am sure,she would never get the things and end up with problems so unmistakably all the credit for this case would be on your name and she would be at the sideline."
"Krishna, I don't want her to be that stupid but I expect her to commit silly mistakes before we really proceed ahead. Anyway, she is on for the case now."Nivaan said, from the other end of the call. His voice was easied out with evident relief
"Ahh..."Krishna hissed in pain as the bandage was wrapped around his foot and the blazing boils itched with soreness.
"Easy,madam...easy-"he spoke the attending nurse who rolled her eyes off him.He could evidently hear Nivaan's down throat chortle which was shushed lately,"Too dedicated for the task. What did you do now to get access to her?!"
"-Erm... Nothing much of that sort but a pretended accident with her car. And I got my foot some boils and a bleeding mess."
"Krishna,dude you are something!...Trust me!"said Nivaan in his amusement that was palpable through his fruity voice . Krishna had his smirk attached throughout; an uncanny whim flashing with the glow on his cheek bones. The nurse stretched the sterile bandage piece out to wrap across his burn when he took it as a chance to decline the call.
"I will- ah..."he hissed at the girth of cloth that was clutched to,"I will talk to you later."Krishna mumbled and slipped the cellphone inside his pockets. As he turned his hand up,he noticed his bruised and bleeding knuckles. The blood percolated in drops frozen at the junction between his fingers. He eyed them keenly, before rolling his eyes off.
"How much time would it take to be fine?"Krishna enquired, grabbing a wet cotton dripped in the tincture,to clean the wound.
"Sir,you cannot get the cotton like that. I am here for your dressing."the nurse chimed in her strict professional voice while her skillful hands worked on the knotting the bandage.
"Uh-sorry!"Krishna spoke in amusement and shot the cotton in air,into the dustbin placed next to the dressing bed he was seated on.
"It was still unused!"she eyed him disgustingly,shook her head and levelled on her heels. She picked another cotton ball,clutched his forearm and cleaned up the dried up blood followed by dressing it with another small roll of sterilised bandage.
"It's done,sir!"she tried to speak politely but her gritting jaws were prominent, " you may pay the bill at the reception,now."
Krishna stretched a sarcastic smile, as his inner peace bloomed in multiple folds annoying her more. " Ma (mother), don't grit your teeth so hard or the day won't be far when you would hold them in your palms."he leaned on the exit, craning his neck to the side as an opprobrium smile fawned on his lips.
"Shut up!"the old lady yelled, her voice boomed in the corridors. However,Krishna walked away in smiles least bothered about the consequences.
She loitered into the passage, as soon as the elevator door flung open, her feet restless with the groping fears. ' To the right.' Adhya reminded her,turning sharply for she moved in the wrong direction,at first. Unknowingly, her step unwantedly dragged and heavy with mind fears stricken. Her body continued quivering in the daze affecting her demeanor more.
"Two hundred one...Two hundred two...Two hundred three...Two hundred four...Two hundred four...", and at the very spell her breath hitched to her throat turning it dry. She had to twirl her salivating tongue over her chapped lips, pushing her apprehensions behind.
"Sorry, ma'am! You cannot go like that. Everyone has a defined appointment and it works accordingly." She heard a raspy call from behind,the nurse stood holding a bundle of registration receipts tugged in a board.
"Is Mr.Abhimanyu Sharma's confusion with appointment cleared?"Adhya enquired instantly, realising her to be the same nurse whom they met downstairs, near the entrance,before he progressed for the appointment in jiffy.
"Oh yes! It's clear. He was little confused with doctor's name but had applied for an oncologist,only."the nurse passed a coy, grimaced smile not understanding what was transpiring between the two, Abhimanyu and her.
"An on-oncologist?" Her breathe sucked out in flow, with her mouth partly open. The fact has unexpectedly charmed her into dizziness, with migraine playing an helping hand,the cold metal clutched into her sweaty and shivering palms when her hand outstretched for support. The nurse supported her in hold while the other patients too rose from their seats in favour.
"Wh-wh-where is Abhimanyu?"she mumbled, her heartbeats paced up as the nurse tried to make her sit on the waiting chairs placed next to the door. "Please,call him!"her lashes fluttered in tears and her face flustered in agony.
"Wait!"the nurse supported Adhya's head to the head rest of the chair, as her senses danced to dizziness. She was loosening her hold on her and stood at the instant to call for Abhimanyu,who was inside the doctor's cabin for the appointment.
"I don't want her to go through, so much of pain. She is-"Abhimanyu's words were cut short with the intrusion in the room, as the nurse barged into the cabin, and eyed him empathically,"Excuse me,sir!The woman with you previously, has fainted and calling out for you. Please make a way to."
It took him few seconds to process her words,and when he actually did, he didn't wasted a second further and grabbed the file from desk before his talipes followed the suit in brisk. "Where is she?!"he whisper-yelled in astonishment,and ran out of the room not realising where to move ahead to. The call from behind stopped him from moving further, when he turned he was frozen seeing her laid down on the cold metal seat, so senselessly.
The droplets of sweat made an effervescence on his forehead, noticing how near she was to the room that confined his secret. He walked over to her,clutched her cold and shivering palms and wetness of it equally matched on both'.
"Call for the doctor!"he slurried, bending his knees on the floor and acquiring a space in front of Adhya's seat. He clenched her frail fist even tighter, rubbing her hands more in an attempt to generate the warmth. "Adhya...Adhya...Adhya...wake up baby!"he held her from the nape, scared to death but continued rocking her head to-and-fro,he patted her cheeks but nothing seemed fruitful. In the chaos, Dr. Brijesh himself came out of his cabin watching the scene unfolding.
"Mr.Abhimanyu,side please."he squeezed Abhimanyu's shoulder in assurance, asking him for the side that he clearly give away in the instant, still clutching on Adhya's palm in his hold as the doctor felt her pulse rate going dim.
On the other hand, Krishna walked over to the reception enquiring for Adhya," Where's the officer who brought me here?".
"Well,sir,if you are talking about the lady officer then she has left to second floor for Dr.Brijesh's cabin."she told him, and shrugged her shoulders to enter the details about the patient standing before. "Sir,you can have a seat and wait for her,if you want to."she added further,seeing him leaning on the desk and not giving space for the people and pointed to the bench, placed on the opposite side of the wall.
Krishna acknowledged her command, and silently acquired a seat fidgeting with his fingers for sometime which were eventually replaced by his cellphone,lately. A while later,he noticed two men dressed in amber uniform of Indian police and straighten his posture, sliding the cellphone in his front pockets and stood up to greet them.
"Sir?"he called out to inspector ahead,followed by a constable as they stop and turned to him.
"Krishna?"Inspector asked sternly and nodded seeing him bob his head in agreement. The sharpness of Krishna's enactment was so keen that nobody could really doubt him, be it those painful gruffs or that slight glint of mirth when he was asked for his name. He was ardent with his every move; judged by himself in the prior before he really execute.
"Yes sir! Ma'am told me to wait for you,to drop me home. Can we please proceed?"he beamed in an innocent cheer, stretching his lips to a limit but the vile expressions struck deeply from beneath; maintaining his facade.
"Raiturkar,you get the details about his residence and take his bike to the place. I'll be right back."he instructed the constable next to him. And walked away to the cornered entrance to call his senior, Adhya, in order express for the order they followed. The phone rang continuously, unanswered at the first time but the inspector in-charge tried for it again or would move ahead as instructed earlier, and can be proceeded ahead without informing before hand too.
"Hello?"
"Hello! This ACP Adhya Sharma's contact number; if I am not wrong?"he asked in confusion listening to the strained male voice from the other end.
"Well,yes. I am her husband, Abhimanyu Sharma. She cannot take your call now. She is not well and is currently in doctor's observation."
With the rush and drowsiness in his voice the inspector could easily make out the fact was a truth,"Sir,I am sub-inspector Randeep Bhalla, just wanted to convey that I am taking the road accident victim, Krishna with us. As she told."
"I would settle the bills accordingly,too."
"Okay!... Anything else?"
"No sir!"
And the line went dead the next millisecond.
Abhimanyu stood in a dimly lighten room, hiding in the shadows of the cupboard frames, his hands dipped into his personal drawer fetching out an inert material from the contents. His grim easied down as the plastically confined cellphone came into his sight. He peeped by the edge,to notice an unconscious Adhya laid across the bed, sedated with drugs. He skillfully unzipped the packet, fished the cellphone out, scratching the edges with his short and defiled nails he tried to open the back cover of the android,restlessly.
His scratching digits went cold when heard her adenoidal voice booming in the air; calling out for him," Abhi... Abhi..."
"Coming Adhya!"
He slid the cellphone inside the respective packet again, sliding the drawers sufficiently soundless for her to listen. His body stiffened in frustration and his nerves of the wrist seeped in green prominently with his harshly clenched fist, for his not viable ordeal.
Adhya's Perception
My head throbbed from within, as if an unknown resource hammering into shreds, there was a reluctancy flashing in my immune when I tried to uplift my lashes. I drew in few deep breathes, till the quivering waves of
giddiness diminished to lesser.
"Abhi...Abhi..."I called out to him, pivoting my elbow for support and staged my sore body to the head rest at behind. The corner of my eyes slightly teary, filled with some burning sensation all over my face, and the dimly lighten room added scrunch to my brows for a clearer view.
"Coming Adhya!"
I heard him say, not realising the source of his voice, my eyes fluttered in heaviness as my fingers pressed the temples to ease. The next time I opened my eyes, his concrete outline was visible to me in the golden lights from the ceiling that glazed the ambience into an exquisitely aesthetic aura of romanticism. But the air was too dense to give away what ambience contented of.
"Abhi-"I stretched my palm out to him,for him to hold and squirmed at my spot to make space for him.
"When do we reached home?"I asked him stuttering, clasping our palms together and rubbed in symphony.
"Um...Your blood pressure deceased to be extremely low that you felt dizzy. Fortunately, I was there and the doctors injected you the sedatives and vaccine regarding."he spoke, his freed knuckles caressesing my scalp, with my eyes closed I felt the softness he hugged his fingers into my hair with.
"Nothing more?"
"And yeah, though, you were asleep I got your gift."
My eyes flew open at his words, glinting in confusion for what he wanted to convey. For a while,I literally thought of having a short term memory loss but it's actually the throbbing headache not letting me remember things. Moreover,the day flew by with rushing into things and to an extent it felt expanded up to no limits.
"What gift?"
"The red velvet cake and the cuisine you ordered for us, today and placed an early order yesterday itself."he smiled drawing patterns on the back of my palm," You know momentarily, I thought it to be a misunderstanding but was so hungry that I planned to get it, anyhow. And then, I noticed that delivery message on your phone about the order and I realised it wasn't a serendipity. Gosh,that guilt I tell you! It was the only thing that kept all of the food spared from my hunger pangs. I was guilty for letting my already-lean-girl sleep with empty stomach and was waiting for you to wake up and we could cut the cake together."
His cheer had a latent roughness into it, I could visibly notice the way his adam's apple protude while he spoke. The way Abhimanyu's tongue twirled out on his lips was an evidence to his dried up mouth. There was something so unstriking about the events, I grappled his palm in mine, as hold on it grew tighter with dactyls intertwined.
"Abhi-", I heaved a sigh, darting my eyes intently into his,"Are you fine?" my voice ultimately low and rugged. He was confused initially, his brows wriggling in curiousity, before he really realised and swung his head into a positive bob. My heart thumped against my ribs, there was a strange ticklish feeling, which probably wasn't good at all.
"Hey,you relax! Let me get the dinner for us;okay."he squeezed my palm, before removing his fingers from my hold. I sat numb with my eyes twisting to watch him take a step back, away from me.
"Did Dad have his dinner on time? And the meds?"I enquired when he stood up to leave.
"Well,I have already served him what you've ordered. He had his medicines an hour back and must be sleeping now, or studying the account details about NGO. "he spoke hastily,as if avoiding me. He craned his neck towards me, with our eyes centrifuged to either's , leaning on the door subtly, he told me "Uh...some sub-inspector Randeep Bhalla called up when you were in doctor's observation. He told me to convey about...Krish-krishna;right?...yeah, that he would drop him home and settled the bills."
It was then it struck me how the events have been. I heard Abhimanyu's rapid steps resonating but at that moment, I zoomed to insensate feelings. My throbbing headache went silent, in front of the question stuck to my mind; sucking every bit of it's peace out.
How could I miss such an important detail?
Shit! Shit! Shit!
A lone tear cascaded down, I knotted my fist in fear, the sweaty hands trailed with breathes getting loaded. I don't have strength to face it, I CANNOT if by any means it's, true.
How am I really going to ask him when I, myself don't have strength to?
"There could be other things too. Yeah, it's not always what we feel."I murmured to myself, in taking deep breath in an attempt to silence the devil inside.
"Here comes, the food!"he entered, dipping his nostrils slightly above the platter as his expressions turned voraciously mirthful. He forwarded the cake in other hand and clutched to the plate. "So, where you want to have it? On the coffee table or the bed?"his eyes oscillating between the me and the coffee table placed at the extreme corner of room near the door. And that's when he noticed my lashes lingering with teardrops.
"Adhya, what happened? You're crying?"his concern evident with the way his lips twitched in sourness. He just stared into me, questioningly.
"Erm, nothing. Just the headache, it's migraine,I guess so-you know sometimes eyes becomes teary."I tried to cover up, brushing away the tears and passed a coy smile when from inside I was shuddering in apprehensions.
"You are sure?"
"Yeah,yes!"
"Tell me, where you want to eat this?"
"Anywhere, you choose.", I dipped my head little low trying to push back the resurfacing tears. My body felt weary as if every tiny cell of it was cracking from inside. This isn't the situation to fall apart, but I couldn't hold myself either. At end of the day, I am a human, who fears. I cannot be supremely strong, I have my own limits to accept things, and I pray to the it's not one among those unacceptable reality.
"Alright, make space for me. I will feed you the bites."he smiled, and I knew it was forceful, somehow I could predict it didn't reach his eyes. He walked over to me. I shifted a bit making space for him, the aroma of honey chilly potato dazzled in the air as he neared, my lips quivered to fake a smile. I felt so delicate at the instant that any unexpected truth could really shatter me into pieces. He kept the cake at the night stand and acquired a seat next to me.
"Yummy!"he chimed like a baby, flashing his teeth he forwarded the noodles wrapped around the fork. I didn't had the strength yet slurped it inside my lips.
"Wifey pampering time! Hastag first anniversary. Hastag one year of togetherness."he glorified with his cocked eyebrows trying to reflect amusement. I know he was failing and my heart twitched everytime he enacted strangely. He looked so strange to me, right now. I can't claim if I really know this man before me. He never hide things from me, no matter how much hurtful they have been.
"Was the confusion about doctor's cleared?"I asked him taking another bite of noodles he forwarded. His lips quivered and eyes lost its glint though, a fake one I realized. Unknowingly his head dug to the sides, it was for my hawk eyes observing every bit of him or I might have missed it for it lasted for infinitesimally.
"Uh-yeah. It was cleared, that's how I could find you on time."he cleared his throat, twirling the fork into noodles to have a bit for himself.
"Abhimanyu, what do you think of me?"I enquired controlling my rage, shutting my eyes closed and clenched my fist.
"Wh-what do you mean?"he stuttered, with the noodles plopped in his mouth. I flinched apart me lashes to witness his widened eyes.
"Mr. Abhimanyu Sharma, I am not a fool."my vocals ditching me in between, words came out too breathy to match the level of a groaned whisper.
"Adhya, look I am not getting to you."
"Will you please stop your lies? For heaven's sake, Abhi!"
He kept the plate aside, moving forward to cup my face when I jerked his hands away, drawing a distance from him.
"Don't you dare touch me till you spit the truth!"my vocals brutally dried up, at this moment I could really not muster up my voice, I failed to. The apex of his nose reddening, I could see the tears brimming up in his eyes but I was so detached from the illusions. "I know you were acting in front of me. I saw the name on the file, it's initials were ' A ' clearly not what Vijay stands for. I even followed to Dr. Brijesh's cabin and discovered you inside it. You had an appointment with an. . . oncologist, only! Then why the hell you pretended something else. Why you lied to me? Have we become so strange to each other that you didn't feel it right to tell me?"I cried my heart out. He sat numb watching me brush my team taking in my hurls at himself.
"Are you fine? Please-please tell me! It's not you; right?"I clutched his shoulders, coiling my arms around , his dripping tears pinched me but I wasn't in a rational view of, what to do or what not to. I wasn't fine. " I seriously can't live without you- Abhi! I will die." I clenched his t-shirt rocking him to myself. He sat numb, not even reacting to my touches and his arm stayed unmoved clenching the bedsheets.
"Speak up Abhi! Please!"
I was shivering in fear, sucking the mucous, nuzzled my nose to the edge of his jawline but nothing helped, at all. "Abhi please, please-"I pleaded to him numerous of times but except for his rigid body I couldn't feel anything. His warmth was missing I needed it as a must.
"Please-"he jerked me away, his eyes blazing in crimson as the capillaries rimmed more. I know I have hurted him but what he was doing, is actually suffocating me to death.
"I need time."he mumbled politely, before standing up on his feet. I clenched his palm moving forward trying to pull him to myself. I couldn't let him go like that, not anymore.
"Abhi, please don't leave me! Please-"
"Oh just stop it, Adhya! Will you?"
He ransacked his fingers through his hairs, turning his back to me. I was literally a broken mess and couldn't be blamed for more if he continued to be the same arrogant jerk. It's not my fault. He was the one who hide it first.
"No, I cannot. I only have you, for God's sake, why don't you understand?!"I countered in a fiercy tone as my hold on his grew stronger. My sob echoed in the room and he was least bothered about it.
"I love you, idiot!"
I heard him say, closing my eyes I let the tears flow in symphony to my frozen heart beats. I felt his fingers rippling in my neck, moving in a swift to held me tight, a gasp escaped my wobbling lips when my head fitted in his nape. His cold fingers brushing my back to shush me down but I felt so absorbed in my own misery. I held the his hem of his collars, crushing them in my fist to the extent I felt it was over; maybe everything is fine.
"It's not me!"he drew the breath inside, when I retracted a little eyeing into his hazel orbs.
"Then?" I whispered, shivering with the intense gaze he hook me to. A film of tears sizzling in his eyes too, "Do you remember I told you about the luncheon with the client?"he whispered , cupping my face. I bobbed my head in acknowledge, remembering about message he sent me. " The reports were regarding the case."he added further.
"Why did you hide it from me then?"
His body turned stiff, I could feel it with the head effervescing from his muscles at the biceps, I held on to. " I have signed the bond with the client to not reveal about the details to anyone. It's really confidential. And moreover, the case is little risky too and I don't wish to keep your life at stake by any means."he confessed, jerking me to himself he wrapped his arms around me tightly.
"Abhi, you could have just told me like before. There were many cases previously too where things were confidential but you shared it with me. Like I do.", I trailed a sloppy kiss to the sensitive skin of his neck and heard his soft chuckles with the tingling sensation he must have felt. A smile graced my lips too, with tears drying up on their own accord.
"I could have but not every case has same leniency. This case is a bit more risky than others. It can even effect our lives, all I want is your support through this."he said, his shivering voice made me realised it's way more serious than I thought it to be and to a greater extent realising that his life is in danger, I was moved. I was stunned and my insides churned with the thought of severity it held.
"Abhi, please...please, take care of yourself. I don't want even a scratch on your body. You know, I have only you and can't afford to lose you for any stupid case of yours."I mumbled, getting hold of my uneven breath which I felt he noticed too as my vocals turned hoarse. "You know what? You should better leave this stupid case, I totally believe it has distanced us. It has made you to hide things from me, which you never did. This-this case is really stupid, leave it. It is a danger to your life and I cannot live in the terror, anymore. You have know idea how betrayed I felt when I discovered about your play at the hospital."I continued, reflecting how much I despised the case he is working for currently.
"Unfortunately, I cannot! I have signed the contract."
"Stupid, why couldn't you ask me about it before you went ahead with this. I SERIOUSLY hate you!"
I landed a soft punch at his chest, he groaned and turned his mischievously daring eyes to me. I know he was upto something but what exactly is, I can't make out. He rubbed his slightly stubbled chin over my cheeks poking me with his beard, thus annoying me more.
I was already in the mixed emotions, not knowing where this ruckus of life is leading us to. I wish to give everything he demands for, this time it was my support, but internally I wasn't prepared if I could really.I already live in terror when it comes to the intensity and complications of his job. And I know he too experiences the same regarding mine.
There's something dark about us, a dark love story people might admire from far. But living the reality has it's own horrors linked. Sometimes, all we want is freedom was this. Freedom of our apprehensions, if either is fine or not. Everytime, it keeps our hearts at stake with the fear we might not be together one day when we walk out. And everytime, we have to hide this truth from each other, as if faking things is the raft out of this whirlpool.
He waves me a bye with gracious smile and so do I, but behind that smile I have seen his wavering lips too. That synchronises with the horror of losing me. And might be, he saw mine too yet we potray to play the same, all over again. A game of masquerade, showcasing an enchanting delusion when all we hold is an ugly truth, from inside.
Sometimes we know, we aren't meant to be yet at the same time;we are together. There's still a probability of present more than a future and we keep holding it to life, till it leads us to the present. And I want us to be the same, with our presence next to each other, in the present.
"And I hate you more now! Shoo-shoo!"I moved backward sliding on the bed as my knees gave away, they have been holding my weight all this while I sat erect on bed hugging him so close. The dried up tears stains made me cringe at the stickiness and the fresh set of tears were pushed back again. He desires for my support and I will grant him that,wholly!
"Ow! You hate me,now?!"
"Yes!"
"Listen?"he called me, extending his hands to catch me but I escaped.
"Say!"I responded giggling at his scrunched up nose over that failed attempt.
"Do you still want to see the name on the file?", My giggles died in my throat. I didn't know what to answer him right there, I was confused but chose what could be the best of all, "No! I trust you!" His lips leaned flat initially, but quirked into a grin just a second later , compelling my face to reflect same.
"Aww, I am so fortunate to have you!"he fluttered his lashes playfully and I squirmed to the side laughing at his enactment when something stuck my butt cheeks, a fork.
"Shit!Shit!Shit!"I chanted at my misery, watching my black hot pants turned into the white with sesame seeds stuck and noodles crushed. I landed my butt into the plate we were having dinner from, just few minutes ago. Undoubtedly my hands flew for a facepalm and the chamber echoed with his undeniable giggles.
"Shut up!"
"Looks like you wanted another reason to cry upon such an AUSPICIOUS day. See God gave you one more!"
I passed him a strong glare, rolling my eyes in disgust. I stood on feet, craning my neck to watch the bizzare view at my behind and then the gaze followed to the sheets that were red with the honey chilly potatoes, another facepalm for me. My gaze turned to Abhimanyu, he was staring back at me with same intensity. His dimples deepen while he looked to me, his hand twirling me around placing a chaste kiss in my hair; " Don't worry. I will change the sheets and comforter. You go and change first." I turned to face him, pulling him closer in a hug maintaining enough distance to not spoil his dress too, like my have been currently.
"I love you, hubby Abhi!"
"I love you too, Adhya!"
"Don't cry so much. It hurts me."he spoke with withering voice. I knew I have hurted him a lot today, first in the morning and then, now. But I couldn't hold the fears I was succumbed to. I needed him to know, I needed to vent it out or it could actually suffocate me.
"I am sorry! For whatever stupidity I did today, like, I don't know what has happened to me. The more special I wanted our day to be the more stupefied it happened to be. We cannot spend this day together, we fought thrice in the day. What more disaster could I expect today." I complained, I really felt guilty of the circumstances we fell pawn to.
"Nothing much. You should be happy to experience new things in just one day. I mean, we seriously fought thrice today. Wait-when exactly we had third fight by the way?"he cheered.
"A few minutes back,I guess."I asked confusedly. It was a--sort of fight only.
Yes it was, answered my brain; working efficiently.
"Then when happened the second one?"
"When I called you from the office, remember when I--shit! Office!"
"Office,what now?"
"I am gone,Abhi! I just left office without taking permission for a half-day."
"Congratulations, Adhya! How many more blunders you did today?"
He clapped his hands sarcastically. I closed my eyes in fear as the image of the dark room flashed across my subconscious mind. "Abhi-"I stuttered holding on his forearm, a shiver ran down my spine with those inner voices torturing me again.
'Adhya,go away from this hell. He will destroy you.'
'Go away!'
'I can't! Granny...I can't.'
'I can't! Granny...I can't.'
'I can't! Granny...I can't.'
'I can't! Granny...I can't.'
"Abhi-Abhi-Abhi!"
Adhya's Perception
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Before you jump to conclusions, let me confess that I am seriously playing with the character's brain. It's not what it appears to be, there is so much more into it than you realise. I would rather ask you to be patient and let time take the lead, there is so much more to unfold and cherish. It's just the beginning to feel what it factually consist of.
Hope you like the transition of situations in the chapter and it wasn't confusing. If somehow, it was let me know so that I can keep a check on next updates. Don't forget to share your views about this chapter. I will be awaiting for it excitedly.
PS: I cannot proofread chapters now, please forgive. I would edit all the chapters once my exams would be over.
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Precap: Adhya's vulnerable past to dig out.
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