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CHAPTER-10
Shiv reached Suguna's house. The moment he reached he asked how Anandi is, Suguna said that she forcefully woke Anandi up and made her drink a glass of milk and is sleeping now. Shiv is tensed and is worried and asks suguna's mother is everything okay coz she has been sleeping for a long time now. Suguna's mother states that may be she is too tired and might not had slept well at all and hence she is overdosing on her sleep. Suguna's father adds that once she is awake from this sleep, they will not let her sleep and will keep talking to her for a longer time so that she will not fall asleep soon and that they can know more about what had happened and accordingly move ahead with the necessary steps. Shiv agrees to them.
Suguna then asks him what happened at his house. Shiv with moist eyes says whatever has happened. Everyone feels sorry for Shiv and encourages him to be strong enough and that they are always there with Shiv and Anandi till their last breath. Shiv is overwhelmed with Suguna's mother's words and he hugs her tightly. After about two hours Anandi again screams in her sleep "please Jagya do not do it again. My body is paining badly. Leave me for some time. I might die now. Please spare me for at least some hours." The whole family is alerted by Anandi's cry and they rush to her.
Suguna reaches Anandi and lifts her from the bed with the help of Shiv and makes her head rest on the headboard of the bed and hugs her tightly. Anandi again cries loudly and Suguna just hugs her tightly as if to confirm her that she is safe now and nothing will happen. After crying for about 30 minutes Anandi calms down and looks around and it is then she notices that she is not in her in laws place, but she is in her friend's house. She then hugs Suguna and cries loudly taking Suguna's name. Shiv is very happy with this change of Anandi coz in the past 10 to 12 hours since they reached home, this was the first time that Anandi came back to her senses and noticed her surroundings. She was crying very loudly then she held Suguna and asked her why God punished her like this. What wrong did she do. Why is it that she had to suffer at every stage of her life. Suguna was speechless.
Suguna's mother came to her and asked Suguna to move. Suguna's mother hugged Anandi and said she will get all her answers and they all are ready to speak to her, but before that she has to freshen up and have her dinner, only then they will answer her questions. Anandi hugged Suguna's mother and cried and said that her body is paining very badly and that she just wanted to rest and not eat anything. Suguna's mother said that u can rest, but only after eating. The whole family is waiting for u to have ur dinner so that we can have our dinner along with u, saying so she supports Anandi to get up from the bed and takes her to the washroom. Suguna's mother could feel the pain in Anandi's body and knew that Anandi needed a support physically, emotionally, and mentally as well, so she assisted her to the washroom to freshen her up. After about 15 minutes, everyone including Anandi joined in the dinning room and the servant brought the dinner and Suguna and Shiv served dinner for all.
Suguna's mother made Anandi to eat her dinner. Anandi had drops of tears shed from her eyes by this gesture of Suguna's mother. On asking why she was crying, Anandi just hugged her tightly and said that this is the first time in her life that she was fed by someone. Suguna's mother asked her to stop crying and to eat else she will not feed her. Anandi simply obeyed her and wiped her tears and ate the dinner and so did the whole family. After dinner everyone moved to Suguna's bedroom. Anandi was in the middle with Suguna and her mother on either sides of Anandi and Shiv and Suguna's father sat opposite to them.
Suguna's father asked Anandi to trust them completely and that she is in safe hands now. He assured her that nothing will happen to her and that she will get complete justice in all the ways possible and also happiness in her life. Anandi laughed at this sarcastically and said that happiness is a word that she knew the meaning only through dictionary and not in life at all. He said that if she trusts him like a father then she will have happiness and only happiness throughout her life not just in this birth but in all the births that she is going to have. Anandi was overwhelmed with this and hugged him tightly and cried and was talking in between her cries, why was I made a prey to difficulties and sufferings since birth, why don't I have the liberty to speak my mind or speak my opinion, why am I existing in this world. Suguna's father hugged her and caressed her back and then after sometime, broke the hug and made her head rest on the headboard and spoke softly. Beta, u r GOD's favorite child. God was just testing u, how much patience u had to tolerate the pain in this earth, and u proved him that u r the most strongest human on this earth, who fought every situation, though u could not fight back physically, but emotionally u beat everyone and hence u r here with us with the brightest future that any human can get.
Anandi was feeling very nice hearing those words and she asked him is this true uncle. Suguna's father said that it is true. I would say u more about all this and what u r capable of but before that I want to know something from u, can u tell me all that I ask u honestly without hiding anything. Anandi nodded saying that whatever she remembers she will tell the truth. Suguna's father then pointed her to Shiv and asked her do u know who this person is. Shiv at first was shocked on hearing this question, coz he was not expecting this, he was expecting that Suguna's father might ask about Anandi's marital life and the tortures to her, but this question never was expectd. Anandi looked at Shiv for a long time as if trying to remember where she has met him, but Anandi states that she has a blurred image of his face as if it is seen, but does not remember when and where.
Suguna then helps Anandi to remind her about the intercollege science fair that was held when they were in their intermediate. Anandi then remembers it and states that yes she remembers him now and that he was Suguna's partner in that fair. Suguna's father then pats Shiv on his back and tells Anandi that he loves her a lot since he met her for the first time in the fair, but could never gather the courage to express it to anyone, but suddenly Suguna corrects it stating that Shiv had expressed about his feelings to her and asked her opinion, but coz she knew about Anandi and her family and coz the age was not appropriate for love and since they were not settled in their career she advised him to back out of this love, but Shiv hid his growing love for Anandi in his heart and never expressed it to anyone. Suguna then goes on saying that when Anandi's marriage was fixed, she said about it to Shiv and that he cried very bitterly for a long time irrespective of the surrounding and was numb for a longtime not knowing what to do, but when he felt that may be this marriage might bring happiness to Anandi's life, he too felt happy and let his love go. Suguna even added that Shiv had attended the wedding secretly and was crying all his pain out seeing his secret love getting married to someone else. Anandi who was listening to all this could not do anything but just stare at Shiv with tears rolling down from her eyes continuously, as if some stream has been set up. The tears were rolling continuously and was not at all stopping. There was silence in the room for about 10 to 15 minutes, coz no one knew what to speak after the confession of Shiv's love from everyone except the person who really had to confess it. Suguna's mother broke the silence by asking Anandi to speak something. Anandi just looked at Suguna's mother with a blank face and big tears rolling down her eyes. Suguna then shook Anandi and said that Shiv still loves you and wanted to be with u until ur last breath. Anandi again stares at Suguna with tears. Suguna's father feels that its better to leave the couple alone for sometime so that they can talk freely and decide their future together. Everybody was in agreement to this and everyone left the room leaving ANSH alone.
Shiv went and closed the door from inside because he felt that he would not be comfortable to open up to Anandi scared of Suguna and her parents intervention. The moment Shiv closed the door and turned to Anandi he was shocked at the sight. Shiv saw that Anandi got herself from the bed and was undressing herself. Shiv felt embarrassed and disgusted and hated himself for being so helpless in this situation. He immediately ran to Anandi and stopped her from undressing, and fixed the zip of the dress which she had opened up. Shiv then held Anandi tightly and said that he is Shiv and not Jagya and he loves her truly and that his love is not lust for her body but a mark of divinity to the soul and heart. Anandi could not understand anything of what Shiv was saying. Anandi just spoke one line, "whenever u feel u want me u please wake me up, but please do not beat me and force me, I will surrender myself to u, but don't hurt me please." Shiv was so taken back with these words, he felt as if he had faced death innumerable times in these 10 minutes that he had spent in the room alone with Anandi. All he could do was just hug her tightly. For the very first time Shiv hugged a girl other than Suguna, and that too the girl whom he loved unconditionally, but this hug was not out of love or affection or care or lust, but this hug was for him to be strong, coz he himself felt so weak and worn out at his knees that he wanted a support to stand still and the only one present at that time there was Anandi, and unconsciously he hugged Anandi very tightly for about a couple of minutes and left the room with tears in his eyes. Suguna's parents were surprised on seeing Shiv back to the living room so soon and asked if Anandi is asleep, but to their shock what they saw was tears in Shiv's eyes. Suguna's mother was concerned and she asked him the reason, he hugged her tightly and said that "I cannot take this anymore aunty, I lost everything in my life. I am a failure. I could not protect my love, my life from the devil." Suguna and her parents asked him the reason and he told them what happened inside. Everybody was shocked. Suguna's parents went to Anandi and suguna stayed with Shiv in the living room consoling him but in vain. Shiv, a very handsome man of about 24 years of age, but at this very moment was crying like a kid who lost something very expensive. Suguna was shocked to see Shiv crying such badly. She never knew that Shiv was so brittle when it came to Anandi. Suguna and Shiv were sitting in the living room and suguna's parents were with Anandi. Suguna's mother asked Anandi what happened. Anandi replied nothing. There was complete silence for about 15 minutes and then Anandi spoke, aunty you have brought me here I am thankful to you, but I do not want to be a burden to anyone now, and I will leave this place tomorrow. Suguna's mother asked her the reason for this decision. Anandi replied that she has been, was, is, and will be a bad omen for everyone and that she does not want that her best friend be affected in anyways and that she will leave this place tomorrow. Suguna's mother said that she will not stop her from going anywhere but where is going to go. Anandi replied that she will go to some orphanage or somewhere as she nothing to lose now. She is not courageous enough to take her own life hence she will be alive, but will never bother anyone. Suguna's parents were very unhappy hearing this and was even angry on Anandi for speaking in such a way, but could not show that they are angry coz they truly understood that Anandi was not in her right wits now.
Precap: ANSH start their new life together. Edited by Kurup - 12 years ago