Chapter 8

Sunday

Maya wakes up with a pained groan, she had accompanied Aman on one of the raids on Saturday, it was one of her case and although she was off duty, she wasn't going to let Aman go on his own (she means without her, even though Aman had two other officers as back up). 

The situation had gotten out of hand quickly as they hadn't known there would be 5 people inside the warehouse instead of 2, all of them had weapons, she had gotten one to drop his gun with a kick and thn had face planted him on the floor but accidentally his elbow hit her on her ribs which kind of got bruised up in the process. 

She lits up a cig while laying on her bed, 'ringring' she checks her phone and sees an unknown number, "hello?", "Hi Maya, kesi ho?", "how many times have I told you not to call me Sanjana?" Maya angrily sits up, "I just wanted to share something with you, I am pregnant Maya!", "is it my kid?" Maya says drily even though she can feel storm brewing inside of her, "nai na? Toh go and tell your husband this 'good' news-", "Maya its been two years now, why can't you be happy for me?", "are you f*cking kidding me rn? You left me after being in a relationship with me for years just because you didn't have the guts to be with me, because you were a coward who didn't want to take a stand, neither for yourself nor for us so spare me this melodrama" Maya shouts angrily. "Maya my parents forced me, I couldn't go against them and what future would we even have had?", "They drugged you and made you marry him? Nai na? You didn't even tell them that you didn't want to be with a man Sanjana, we could have had any future you wanted, we could have settled down in a foreign country if you had so wanted to get married but nahi tumhe toh mahan beti banna tha na?" 

"Maya please I didn't call you to fight with you-", "Thn why did you call me?" Maya retorts back, "I just wanted to share one of the most important phase of my life with one of the most important person in my life Maya", "Kar liya na share? I am happy for you, thats what you want to hear right? I am happy that you are living the lie, happy that you are forcing yourself by sleeping with that lovely husband of yours on daily basis, happy that you are going to spend the rest of your life trapped in a loveless marriage, I am real happy for you Sanjana, please don't call me again." Maya hangs up the call and throws it away, breaking it. 

Maya stays in bed all day brooding over past and at night goes to a lgbt club and hooks up with someone in the washroom and thn gets drunk. "Maya itni kyun piti he tu, halat dekh apni" Aman says after picking Maya up from the club, he carefully makes her sit in the passenger seat, after making her wear her seatbelt, goes and sits on the drivers side. "Aaj kyun pi itni?" He asks while driving, "Call aaya tha uska, pregnant he" Maya says looking out the window, a tear rolls down her cheek, "fu*k, why is she still calling you? Itna kuch kiya woh kam tha?" Aman says angrily.

Maya laughs, "Why do you still let her affect you so much Maya? Don't tell me you still love her" Aman says, "Its not about love Aman, its about the broken promises, the broken trust, the broken heart" Maya says in a drunken voice and thn closes her eyes and falls asleep. Aman looks at her with tear filled eyes, he hates seeing his best friend hurt and he hates Sanjana for breaking her heart in such a way that Maya might never trust another person with it again.