Olaa peeps!
Thanks soo much for all of your kind words and pms, I had two ideas to go further with, in the end I've decided to go with the less exciting, but easier for me to write option. Hope you guys will like it, there will be another 2-3 chapters, I will TRY to update daily, or else once every two days.
Love,
Sakshi
P.s. I am really really sorry, I can't thank all of you individually, as my lappy is still broken and I even wrote this chapter, and the last two on my phone. When it's fixed i will try and reply to each and every reply.😳
Sakshi was keeping distance from him for the past few weeks now. When they had returned from the cremation 2 months ago she had been normal, but slowly he had started seeing changes in her. At first she stopped waiting for him to give her a ride home. Then slowly they didn't have their Saturday luncheon together and now she would only call him if it was related to a case. He had tried to see the situation from her side, but wasn't she the one who'd said that the one night they'd spent together wouldn't change anything between them? Wasn't she the one who'd said that he shouldn't complicate things?
But now she had been outright ignoring him, even Shree and Ayesha had noted now. They'd asked if everything was alright between them, and of course he'd said that all was well. He didn't want anyone elses intrusion in their personal matters. And now he had gathered up enough courage to just face the music. He had just entered the empty conference room to talk to her when he saw that she was sitting with her head in her hands. The moment he saw her like that, all anger was forgotten. He had to know why she, miss happiness herself was sitting like that.
"Kya hua Sakshi?" he asked her, closing and locking the door behind himself to keep unwanted people out of there. She looked at him with a teary face, red eyed and his concern for her grew tenfold.
"Main doctor se milne gayi thi Arjun, meri tabiyat kuchh hafto se kharab chal rahi hai, mujhe lagga ke shayad main.." she couldn't finish her sentence as tears had formed in her eyes. Closing her eyes and taking some deep breaths she again looked at him.
"Calm down Sakshi, take a few deep breaths, abh batao kya hua hai."
"Arjun, main pregnant hoon." she said, looking him straight in his eyes. "Almost 7weeks now." she said, trying to see if he would connect the dots.
Here Arjun was feeling as if all air had been knocked out, but atleast it wasn't some dangerous disease of which she couldn't heal.
So putting up a happy front he said "Wow! Congratulations Sakshi, so tumne Vishaal ko bata diya?" Arjun asked her with a forced smile on his face. Sakshi just looked at him disbelieving, the great ACP could be so dense sometimes!
"maine socha ke bache ke pita ko pehle batana chahiye, after all, we do have to decide how we're going to proceed from here. And I'll tell Vishaal after he returns from his businesstour, on which he has been gone for three months!" she saw Arjun 's reaction, finally it had gotten through to him what she was trying to say. "Maine socha ke agar main usko call karke yeh kahun ke 'Hey hunny, M pregnant and guess what, the child is Arjun's' it wouldn't go down well with him. And what should I tell him? When he told me he doesn't like how close we are I said we are just friends? I feel like the biggest gadhi in this world!" she said panicking again. Arjun pulled her into his arms, trying to calm her down, he had done this so many times that he didn't even have to think about it.
"Bas bas," he said while holding her, trying to, and succeeding in calming her a bit.
"abhi hum kya karen ge Arjun? I refuse to abort my child, you decide what you want to do?!"
"Sakshi, tum mujhe kya bas itna hi samajh payi ho? I would never ever ask you to do that. I am not sure ke main..." when he saw her face fall he gave her a gentle squeeze. "Sakshi, you know I am alway honest. I wasn't expecting you to tell me that you were pregnant. And this doesn't mean that it's bad news, it just means that I need some time to let it sink in."
When she nodded her head he gave her one last squeeze and left the conference room. Leaving behind a dejected looking Sakshi, she'd known that he wouldn't be happy with the news, but she had never thought that he would need time to decide whether he wanted to be part of her childs life. She had known him for 6 years now, worked with him for 2 of those years and if anyone ever told her that Arjun Suryakant Rawte wouldn't take responsibility for his child she wouldn't believe that person, and she would make sure to find out any and all dirt on them, to publish it in the newspaper. But now she herself was wondering,
had she ever really known Arjun?Rubbing her belly she walked through the room, repeatedly whispering to herself "Sab theak hai, sab theak hai."
~*~
Sakshi had managed to get through the week, surprisingly it wasn't all that difficult, although Arjuns rejection hurt her, she knew she had to get through it. Arjun hadn't rejected to be part of their childs life outright, but he hadn't talked to her on the topic either. He was more kind towards her, asking her if she had eaten, if they had to work late he would make sure she got some sleep on the couch in his office, but still there was a void between them. Sakshi didn't pressure him though, he had to decide whether he wanted to be a part of the babys life. Even if he refused, she would raise the child with all the love and care she could give it. She refused to stress on things she couldn't control, she had to think of her baby. She had decided to tell Vishaal of her pregnancy, she was just waiting for him to meet her in her small cabin.
There was a knock on the door, telling him to come in she stood up and waited for him to enter. Opening the door he entered and before she had the chance to say anything he kissed her. Usually she would feel elated when he kissed her, but today she felt even more stressed.
"Sakshi, you know maine tumhe kitna miss kiya?"
"Vishaal, woh.." she started to say, biting back the tears forming in her eyes, "I am so so so sorry"
Vishaal looked shocked when tears started to flow from her eyes. "Kya hua Sakshi? Tell me sweetheart, whatever it is, we can get through it." he asked her, taking a deep breath she started telling him what had happened two months ago.
~*~
Arjun was sitting in his office when Shree and Ayesha came in. "hum lunch karne ja rahe hain, aap bhi challo saath," Ayesha said.
"Nahi, maine Sakshi se kuchh baat karni hai."
"Haan, maine usko poochha nahi, I saw Vishaal entering the office, so I thought to leave her alone." Shree said, looking up from his phone for a few seconds.
"woh aagaya waapis?" Arjun asked shocked. He quickly went to her small cabin.
"Haan woh..." Shree stopped mid sentence when he saw that Arjun was gone.
"Abhi indono ke beech mein kya chal raha hai?"Liza asked as she saw Arjun leave his office in a rush.
~*~
Arjun walked to Sakshis cabin, and heard Vishaals voice.
"Tum mere saath aisa kaise kar sakti ho?"
"I am so sorry Vishaal, yeh hogaya humara aisa irada nahi tha." he heard a crying Sakshi reply.
"Aise kaise.." he was replying when he found himself hitting the wall. Arjun had quickly entered the cabin when he heard Sakshi cry, and when he saw how Vishaal was twisting her arm he had to push him away from her.
"Tum pagal hogaye ho?" a roaring Arjun asked him while pushing him even more into the wall and intentionally hurting him by twisting his arm behind his back.
"Arjun, chhod do usse, I am not hurt!" Sakshi said while trying to pull his arm away. Looking at her he slowly let go of Vishaal, who in turn stared at him, shocked and frightened.
"Waise to I never liked you, but even you should know that one doesn't ever hurt a woman, and surely not a pregnant woman." Arjun said angrily, his chest heaving up and down heavily in anger.
"Maine to abhi tak bataya nahi tha ke main pregnant hoon,"she told Arjun.
"Kya? Tum pregnant ho?" an excited Vishaal asked, but his smile fell as soon he remembered something. "The child is his, isn't it?" he asked accusingly.
"Haan." Arjun said. Even though he was angry at him he also felt very sorry for the man in front of him, he wouldn't want their places to be ever exchanged, he saw Vishaals heart break.
"Kitni der..?"
"Almost 8 weeks," Sakshi said. Vishaal shut his eyes, his last hope was crushed. "I am so sorry Vishaal, I do love you, ."
"You love me?" Vishaal asked getting angry, but controlling himself when he saw Arjun getting ready to protect Sakshi.
"If you loved me, you wouldn't have done what you did. I was going to take you out tonight, ask you to marry me. I don't get it, agar tumhe mujhse pyaar hai, to tum aise kaise kar sakti ho mere saath? Kya main tumhare liye bahut nahi tha, agar tumhe mujhse pyaar hi nahi tha, fir why did you tag me along? Why Sakshi?"
"Nahi, Vishaal, woh it was just a ..."
"Just a what? Just a mistake?" he asked her.
"Nahi. It can not be a mistake, if it was a mistake my child would also be called a mistake. I will never ever call my child a mistake! I love my child more than anything." she said, while lovingly rubbing her belly. "I don't care, if Arjun accepts this child as his or not, I will make sure that this child only knows love." she added as an afterthought.
Arjun stared at her, becoming ashamed of himself, ashamed for the way he had treated her he came to know that she was pregnant.
"Joh uss raat mere aur Arjun ke beech mein hua, I can not change it. I am only hurt that you are hurt, but I can not be sorry for what happened, I conceived that night and I can't feel sorry for that. I want to try and work things out, but that is all up to you."
"Kya? Tum chahti ho ke main kissi aur ke bachche go apna naam doon?" Vishaal asked shocked.
"
My child will not carry your name!" Arjub said, while looking at Sakshi, she was shocked that he called their child as his. After a week of not talking about this topic he brought it up like this?
"Mere bache ko mera naam mile ga. I will be there whenever my child needs me." he said looking at Sakshi, making her get tears in her eyes.
"Achha, mujhe lagta hai ke meri abh yahan koi zarurat nahi hai." Vishaal said, while walking to the door.
"Vishaal, please, main nahi chahti hoon ke hum aise end ho. I don't even want to break up at all.. I do love you... Can't we talk? Please?"
"I don't know Sakshi, give me time to think." saying so he opened the door and walked out. Sakshi was left looking after him, just when her legs gave out Arjun was beside her, holding her, preventing her from falling apart.
"I am sorry Sakshi, I am so so sorry," he said as he held her and sat with her on the ground. He gave a small kiss on her forehead. Intending to hold onto her until she stopped crying.
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