Chapter 6: Bitterness of Unrequited Love

4 years ago

Elvish_Hobbit

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No one had seen the cruelty of unrequited love like he did. Pain! So much pain that an agonizing death appeared a better option than life at times.

Hope and hopelessness: two sides of the same coin blended steadily into one and turned into the most unpleasant of the consequences was his destiny. Cruel, cruel destiny! Bitterness of life had to end someday so that the sunshine of happiness could penetrate through the thick walls of the ruthless darkness about his heart. But, no. It was too easy of a corollary of his love that neither had any reasoning nor an end: it was simply meant to go on until death engulfed him in its eternal essence from where there would be no turning back. It was like drinking a bitter tonic that only could keep him alive to feel himself die all the time.

Why couldn't he stop loving her? Why couldn't he stop thinking about her? Why couldn't the feel of her comforting touch ever go away? Why her kisses still felt as real? All was a lie! Why her cruel words still affected and daunted him so heartlessly? He didn't love her. No, he didn't. Not after what she did today. Why didn't she let him die at once on the road right away? He was her servant, true! But he loved her and became who he was today for her. That didn't matter to her. He must hate Ishani... after having destroying all the souvenirs of her presence in his life, he must hate her.

For the first time in the night tears burned in Ranveer's eyes, and with the most intense of the assurances, he bitterly whispered to himself, trying to silence the echoes of a beautiful lie his heart so graciously bestowed upon him.

"I don't love her anymore."

And the way he said 'her', explained it all.