Chapter 2

Gayatri

@Gayu_K

Chapter II

Dev's train of thoughts was brought to a halt by the screeching sound of the car coming to a halt outside his mansion. He realized that his mother and sister, who had gone out shopping for Neha's 5 year old daughter and the second to be born kid, had arrived home. Pushing aside his unpleasant thoughts he wiped off the tears that had by now started brimming in his doe-eyes and plastered a fake smile on his face to welcome the duo. Nikki was as usual busy on her phone telling her Riya di who was now married, about the shopping they had just done. What caused him to chuckle was his mother who seemed a bit worried, "what could be the reason of her sudden grumpyness", he thought.

"kya hua maa, aapki tabiyat to thik hai na? aap kahein to Dr. Sinha ko call karun?", inquired a concerned Dev.
"arrey nahi beta doctor ko bulane ki kya jaroorat hai. Main bilkul thik hoon bas thodi si thak gayi hoon. Yeh Nikki bhi na, pure mall mein daudaya mujhe yeh kehkar ki koi dress khareedni hai, maine kahan bhi ki agar who nahin mil rahi hai to koi aur khareed le par nahin, yeh mane tab na. kehne lagi ki maa meri friend ke paas bhi aise hi dress hai aur mujhe bhi chahiye, kaun samjhyaega isse ab", she tried to explain herself unreasonably much to Dev's displeasure.

Dev had understood that this was certainly not the reason behind his mother's unrest, but he didn't wish to probe further into it as this would add more fuel into the fire and his mother would end up getting even more infuriated. Deciding to let it go he got up from his seat all set to go to office, bending down he touched her feet to seek her blessing which had been his daily routine for years together. "maa main office jaa raha hun, sham ko lautne mein der ho jayegi, tu khana samay se kha lena". Saying so he walked off, taking the backseat of the car his thoughts once again trailed off to the most dreaded day of his life.

/*FLASHBACK*/

She had failed in all his attempts to reach out to him. He had not been picking up her calls for the past 3 hours. Something inside her told her that he was in some sort of trouble, he needed her badly, but he himself had cut off all the paths leading to her. She wanted to hear his voice for once but felt helpless for not being able to do so. Finally she decided to give up on calling Dev and tried calling Nikki who picked up her call at the first attempt. She sounded worried much to her inner turmoil, the information she gave Sona shook the floor beneath her feet. Dev's mother, her auntyji was hospitalized for an overdose of sleeping pills. How could this be true,  she was all ok when Sona had left for her home in the evening, then what happened to her all of sudden that she had to intake an overdose of pills. The first thought which came to her mind was that she had to reach out to Dev, he needed her badly in this moment of crisis, how could he not feel the need of calling her when she was the first person whom he would run to for any sort of emotional support. She informed her parents about the situation and quickly left for the hospital, on reaching there she inquired at the reception about Ishwari Dixit and got her room number, there he stood in the corridor, looking all pale and devastated. She ran to him and took him into her embrace, he looked like a troubled child, she needed to calm him down, but what earned her attention was the fact that he did not respond to her affection, she moved away from him when she failed to feel his hands curling around her waist. What had happened to him; has his mother's condition hurt him so badly that he failed to notice that his best friend and lover had come to be with him in this hour of distress.

"it's over", he said, "you and me are over, we will have to break up Sona, you were right as always, maa is not happy with our relationship, and I don't want to hurt her in order to get my wishes fulfilled, there's no future for the two of us together, its better we part ways right from this moment", his hearts pierced her heart like a sharp arrow. How could he even say this to her, after being in a relationship for 3 months, after making so many promises of being together  forever, all he managed to say to her was it's over. Was she only this important to him in his life, that all it took him to end their relationship was his mother's slight ignorance which had landed her in the hospital. Anger took over her mind as her love for this man got suppressed somewhere deep down in her heart, unable to take this insult hurled at her mercilessly she decided to move away from his life, and leave him to his destiny, never to return to him back again.

/*FLASHBACK ENDS*/

It had been six years, six long years but still the memories of that fateful night were still fresh in his mind, why did his fate had to be so bad that he had to choose between the two most important people in his life, both of whom were important for his existence.

DIXIT MANSION

Here Ishwari was busy pacing up and down in her room, Radharani was quite confused with her behavior, there was something that was bothering her, she had come across a particular person the mall a while ago who was related to a bitter memory of her past... who had almost snatched her son away from her... who had occupied her Dev's mind to such an extent that he had started skipping his office... he would come up with lame excuses of being at home...he would loiter around the kitchen unnecessarily much  to her displeasure. Why had she come back to this city...what did she intend to do... did she have a plan of coming into her son's life again... all these questions clouded her mind and she grew even more restless with the passing time. The worst thing was that she couldn't even speak her heart out to somebody... there was nobody in there whim she could express her fear to... what would they think about her... that she was over-possessive about her son... the fact that was well know to her but she did not want it to come to the fore to anybody else.