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Part 2
Strolling into the house……….he felt a bit tired……………..His small little cozy house was looking like a dream to him where he used to live with Mia……Mia, his wife which later became his love and life……...........He hadn't step into this house from last 5 months and used to live in the apartment of his company nearby……….But today, he felt like coming here and remember her
"Armaan, put your shoes out of this house…………don't you know, I hate those mud stains" He felt like hearing her words, imagining her standing on the dinning, serving dishes while he used to enter home
He sighed and move towards the kitchen to feel her cooking his favorite Kheer while licking a bit from spoon to taste the sugar
"hmmmmmm, Mia you are too good………..Don't know how you get such a stupid husband" He saw her smiling at her thoughts and a little smile came on his face too imagining him after a frown
He kept back standing with the door of the kitchen a bit and then move towards the room upstairs while remembering, how he used to pick her up in his arms while she used to annoy him……………. Ambling to his room………he found her moving the curtains beside to welcome that sunny light which used to irritate him while sleeping, and this was the only weapon, she used to wake him up
He moan in pain as he sit on the bed with a bump and lay down, holding the pillow while tears ran down his face
"I can't live without you…………you should have thought about me once Mia…." He closed his eyes remembering the pain, she gave him
~~FlashBack~~
He entered the house to find it strange……….Strange because its not like usual…..Mia wasn't there preparing dinner for him and didn't even bug him to put his shoes out in shoe rack…………Removing his shoes, he entered and went towards the Kitchen, but she was not at her spot……………..How can she just miss a day from last 10 months not being there, niggling him……
"Mia" he shout to hear no response…………..He run up to his room and open the door to find him sitting on the ed, holding her knees and looking down…………..His heart skip a beat on knowing that something miserable is there, she faced alone
He went to her and lift up her face to see her red puffy eyes……….There was no shine in them as he used to see………….On seeing him standing beside her, she hold him from his waist and started crying out loud while he left startled
"Mia, Mia………..what happened baby?..........why are you crying?" He said stroking her hairs to make her calm and was distress to see her like
"I am sorry Armaan, I am really sorry………." Her words between her sobs made him angrier
"Why?.........Mia look up at me…." He sits beside her and made her look up at him
"Why are you crying?.........."But she kept doing that………..He started remembering the things she need to do today……….she told him the list of chores, she need to perform today last night and after going through them a minute, it struck him
"You had a doctor's appointment…..Right…?" Mia suddenly took a pause which made him right
"What happened?........What she said?" He can't hold seeing her like that anymore and want her to spill the beans fast and to get back to normal
"I can't be a mother Armaan………..I can never give you a child" She said a bit louder, crying while he felt like crying, not for himself, but for her……..as it was she, who wanted kids more than him…………….He hugged her tightly and let her take out all that pain, she was suffering from the doctors visit
He kept caressing her back till the time, she became silent……………he kissed her forehead lightly as he started
"Mia, don't cry baby……….I don't need one as it's hard to handle you than I think of a baby" He chuckled slightly to see her weak smile
He cupped her face and made her look straight into his eyes
"See, We can't have a child……….that's God destiny….There are many children who look up to the people like us who can cure them from this bad bad world……….We can adopt a child and I know, she or he will be as special for me than our own as I know, I can see your concern, love and your principles in her or him…..hmmm" He straightly gave her a way………She nod in agreement feeling blessed having such a caring and understanding husband…
Armaan hug her without knowing what was going in her mind
~~FlashBack End~~
He remembered how 3 weeks later, he entered the house to see it motionless again……..he went to the dinning to feel a letter placed on it……….He confused, open it to find her letter of leaving him………..The reason she wrote was that she can't look him in Mayank, the child they adopted 2 weeks back……She was getting into depression and for her, he adopted the child to make her get busy………….but that too didn't work….He shifted with Mayank to his company's apartment…………He came into this house, just wishing she will be back……..But she never, and one day……..Her suicide news approached him…….People told him that she got mentally unstable but no one knew the real reason of her state………..When people used to ask him he will straightly said that he was infertile………He can't gave her a baby and that what made her become like this so she will not get any kind of tantrums from people
But he was not able to save her…………..Crying he went to sleep
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"Shashank, why you accepted her stupid gift…………..I know you love her a lot but its about her life…………That man is already married and an impotent………Her wife suicide of her…….now do you want Riddhima to do same thing?" Smriti was tensed about her daughter…………and moreover was angry with Shashank acceptance
He smiled and turns around to hold Smriti from her shoulders and made her sit
"Smriti, calm down………….i accept it because I know it's not gonna happen…..You just wait and see" Smriti got feared by his actions
"But what……..if she really will get married to him?" Smriti came to the conclusion
"Then, she will see the life with her open eyes………and I just hope, she will not regret this" Shashank said worried about her daughter
She was apple of her eye………..his desire…………he felt like saying no to her is like saying no to his own desires he never fulfilled as a youngster……….His childhood was a really bad state……..His parents used to sacrifice things for him yet he never felt satisfied…….as he kept his wishes and desires hide from his parents………..thats why when he became father, he want to give his children whatever they wished and had a friend kind of relation with his children…………and now just pray that Riddhima willn't make a mistake
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"Hey, Thank you for your services………" She said sweetly to the owner after having a full Spa & Salon session
"Your Welcome" The lady said with a smile……..Being Shashank Gupta daughter, she everywhere got a special treatment but she was humble enough to say thanx
Wearing her goggles, she went towards her car………her skin was looking gleaming with the face polish and bleach……she got a full body massage alone with waxing and manicure pedicure……….She was concerned about her looks and that's what made her more appealing……
She opened her car door but someone hold her wrist………..she looked up to see the same guy who she hit in club few weeks back
"So finally, I caught you?" He said glaring at him while she just smile
"Looks like, you didn't got the lesson yet?.........Do you forget that Kick?" she said mockingly
"How can I? and today you will get your Lesson…..you Salli?" He said trying to dragger her to his car where she can spot a number of guys in it
"Leave me you Moron……….Otherwise you have to pay hard for it?" She said getting temper
"We will see who's gonna pay?" He said throwing her on the floor……….it was the silent parking area so no many people around there
She looked up to find those same blue pair of eyes who looked down at her and was burning with anger
"You stay out of it man?.........its not related to you?" The guy said warning him
"It is related to me, you chicken………..just wait a minute" He kneel down and help her get up……….she got little rashes on her wrist and knees while her head was bleeding a bit………He made her sit on a nearby car and put his blazer on her shoulders…….
"Are you alright?" As she nod, he turned while she kept looking at him……….
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She entered his apartment………..It was well placed and well managed area…….She put her high heels outside as of following him……The atmosphere of the house was very cool……….She can feel his cologne smell in it
"You sit here, I will get first aid" He went inside………..Seeing her hurt, he invited her to his house so she can't get any infection …… She looks here and there and spot pictures sting to a wall
She get up and went towards the wall………….the fluffy red color carpet was giving immense pleasure to her feet…….She noticed his picture with a lady in her tweenties, who used to hold herself so sweetly………She got that it must be her wife……Her eyes were about to move towards another picture when she return to the previous one with a surprise………..Did she really saw that or is it a imagination………..She looked carefully into it and got that she didn't missed this………..He had a breath taking smile……a smile in millions or say billions…..with a dimple………….She smiled herself seeing it………….she never imagine this dimple in her thoughts..
"Ahem Ahem" Armaan came back from the room with the kit and she came back to the chair……….she thought he would apply that but instead, he went to the front room door and knock………..a moment later, a aged lady came out
"Is he sleeping?" Armaan said silently
"Yes sir" She replied sweetly
"Ok Lizi, can you please apply bandage on her face?" Elizabeth look at the lady sit there and nod
"Ok, Let me check him" Armaan went inside the room silently while she came to her and after taking out the cotton and antiseptic lotion from the box, started applying on it
"Are you Sir's friend?" She said slightly applying lotion to her face as blowing it lightly
"No, he actually saved me today" Riddhima said lowering her eyes
"Ok, actually after Shaina Maam, you are the first lady I see inside this house?"
"Shaina?" Riddhima said inspecting her
"Yes, his best friend……." Being talkative, Lizi said out
"Oh, but who is inside that room?" before Lizi could say anything, she saw him coming out with a baby in his hands as he was smiling feeling him pulling his cheeks
"Are you ok now? Lizi, you done?" As Elizabeth nod, armaan came and stand beside her
"Uwaoon…..maaooooon" Mayank said in his baby talk while looking at Riddhima….Riddhima noticed the baby and see his blobbing out his salvia with a naughty expression
"Umm, he is a clute baby" She saw sweetly pinching his cheek
"Yes he is………" He said tickling his tummy as he giggle
"Baby, can you come to me….hmmm?" She said putting forward her hands and after a minute of looking at her………..he put forward his hands and land in her arms….
Armaan was surprised seeing him liking her
"Wow, he never even went into Shaina arms" He said amusing
Riddhima sit down with the baby and started playing with him
"Is he your son?" She asked hopping not
"Yes he is, actually I adopted him a year back…………and from then on, he is my life" Riddhima smiled knowing it and was happy……
After playing a bit with Mayank, She get up
"Ok then, thank you for your help…………I should leave now"
Armaan hold Mayank back in his lap and said
"Ok"
He came to see her off till the door……………….Riddhima wore her shoes and then turn
"If you don't mind, can I come playing with him"
"Mayank….." he said as ridz smile……….. "and you can surly come…………anything for Mayank"
Riddhima smile move up to kiss Mayank……
"Bye baby"
"Mayank, say bye to aunty" Armaan wave his hand infront of him and he too did the same as Riddhima smile and left
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Edited by cool_SK - 16 years ago