Arakshi FF: Entwined Lives
Part 3 (Continued):
Flashback:
It had just been two days after her marriage had been stopped citing her betrayal. She was broken beyond repair as she could still not come to terms with the fact that the man whom she loved beyond everything could leave her just so easily. She had reached her house in Delhi and locked herself in her room. She was not willing to meet anyone nor did anyone in her so called family seem to care for her. It was Saturday and her step mother had organized her women group party in her house. Saakshi was feeling very thirsty and she could not find water in her room so she decided to go the kitchen to bring some water. Once she reached the hall, the people gathered there started speaking ill of her character stating that she was characterless and her child was illegitimate. It was the reason that her marriage was stopped. She could not hear anything more, tears started rolling from her eyes and she ran back towards her room and hit the bed and started crying uncontrollably. In the evening a maid came to her room and informed her that her father was waiting to meet her in his study and wanted her to come there immediately. She headed there with a faint hope that at least her father would believe that she was not tainted. She reached her father's study and found that every member of her family was assembled there.
Mr. Verma: Saakshi. I want to know to know the truth. Tell me just the truth. Whose child is this? I will make sure that he marries you. I don't want to hear any more lies from you. You have already harmed my hard earned respect and reputation a lot. Because of you our family name is ruined. People are pointing fingers at me. So just come out with the truth.
Saakshi (Crying): Papa yeh baccha uska hi hain. Trust me Papa. I am not lying and I know he will come back to me once he knows the truth.
Mr Verma: Fine. You are not ready to say the truth. Okay then tomorrow morning we will be heading to hospital and will get this child aborted.
Saakshi: No papa. I will not abort my child at any cost. She is my child and I will bring her to this world no matter what it takes.
Mrs. Verma: See what she says even now she is not a bit ashamed of what she has done and because of her my daughter will also not get a nice guy to get married. Just chuck her out.
Mr. Verma: Saakshi. I am giving you two options. Option 1. Get the child aborted and stay here as my daughter. Option2 : If you want to keep the child sign these papers that states that you are in no ways related to Verma group of companies or anyone in this family and will never in future stamp your authority on any of these properties. Just get the hell out of here.
Saakshi could never even think of abort the child who for her was the symbol of her love and devotion to him. So she was now left with no option but to get away from the so called family of hers. She signed the papers given to her by her father and left the house. She now had no one to call hers in this big world and was totally shattered. It was pouring heavily and she was walking along the streets without any destination in mind. That's when her massi maa had found her and taken her to her house. Saakshi had by then become a robot with no emotion left in her. If not for her child she would have even killed herself not able to bear the taunts this ruthless world bestowed upon her every day and night. It had been three months since her marriage was stopped and her family had disowned her. She was waiting with an unbreakable hope that one day he would come back to her and take her back into his world that they had once dreamt of. She would just spend her entire day hugging his picture and crying. But that day never came or he did. Her massi tried a lot to bring her out of the cat womb like existence but failed miserably.
Tumheen to pata nahi kitna mean roti hoon tum bin
Jaggati na mein na hee sothi hoon tum bin
Kaisse kahoon mein tumse Kaise mein zee rahi hoon
Tere tasveer ko pal pal dekthi rahthi hoon
Tum nahi aavoge mujhko tadpaavoge
Kud hee chali aavoongi...
At last she decided that she would prove her love and dedication to him even if it meant producing the DNA reports of her unborn child and bring him back to her. She soon went to hospital made the test and started going towards his house. She reached his house and found it decorated as if some function had taken place. She enquired the security and found that he had got married to his friend's sister couple of days ago. She felt as if the world had been snatched from her feet and the report she was holding fell from her hand. She could never believe that it was so easy for him to forget her and move on. Here she was a fool waiting for him with a hope that he would come back to her and take her back. She now started doubting whether at all he had ever loved her. If someone had told her he would betray her she would have never believed it. He believed the accusations and disowned her so easily. She had never in her life felt love and affection of someone dear. She had lost her mother early in her childhood and her father remarried. Her step mom never loved and neither allowed her to go near her father and feel his love. That was probably the reason she easily got emotionally attached to him when he loved her as if his life depended on her. Everything small actions of his would convey his love for her and make her feels very special and wanted. He had soon become her life from being a stranger.
Everything had changed now. He had easily forgotten their love, numerous promises he had given and married somebody else. She felt that the sole purpose of her existence was snatched from her.
Chod kar chal diya tume akela mujhko raahoon par
Meri har aans hain koyi nahi tere siva koyi
Kaise jeeyon ab tumhare bin
Mein royi bahoot royi...
Tootkar aaj mein bikari...
She started running away mindlessly without any destination in mind. She wanted to leave that place and forget what she had heard there. She was running so fast that she failed to realize that a car was zooming towards her and the driver was honking endlessly to grab her attention. The driver tried to slow down the car but it still hit her and she fainted.
But as they say some unexpected incidents turn your life upside down. That accident had once again given her new lease of life and relations that she would preserve and cherish for a lifetime. It was that accident that gave her a caring, loving and fatherly elder brother Karan Sharma who taught her fight against all the odds and live life as it comes. It was that day Saakshi Anand Verma had died or to say was reborn as Saakshi Karan Sharma. He never once questioned about her child but unconditionally supported her through the ups and downs of her life.
She came back to the present from the memories of the past. Irrespective of whatever had transpired in her past , she could not even hate him today. Even today she loved him even after what he did with her. Tomorrow was not only her daughter Chahat's birthday but also his. This was also one of the many things they shared in common. Like she had done in the past six years, she would go to the temple and organize a special pooja and pray for his well being. Even today she wanted his happiness even after all he had done to her snatching all her happiness from her. The tears she had been hiding from everyone started flowing freely and she once again had become broken and vulnerable.
Kyun kiya tumne aisa...
Kyun choda mera saath...
Kya kami thi mera pyaar mein...
Kyun Arjun Kyun...
Saying that she hugged his picture that was one of the few remnants of her undying love for him
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