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I am Amal. And most of you will know me as the writer of 'Yet Another Sunset' and few one shots. So this is my New AR Mini FF. Its going to be a short FF of probably 6-10 parts. I haven't done the proper calculation as yet. I just wanted to write it, now that I am free of my examinations. I wanted to experiment on a new theme, something I haven't seen before anywhere. Chapter 1 does not reveal it. You will have to wait for that one. I will be updating both of my works simultaneously. The title. I don't why this one came up. It was the first thing that came to my head when I was thinking about this story. Hoping that you guys will enjoy this one. <3
Love and prayers,
Amal
"Dad, what do you mean by a girlfriend?" his nine year old asked him and he choked on his coffee and spilled them as his boy gave him an innocent look.
"What?", he asked in disbelief, hoping he heard it wrong.
"Girlfriend, Dad. What is it? What do you do with it?," he repeated.
Armaan thought he would have a heart attack just then.
"Where exactly did you hear this from?" he questioned Ryan, bringing him closer by his shoulders.
"Everyone in school was talking about gf gf gf and all the awesome times with them. And I din't understand a word. So I asked Dave. He laughed and told me it means girlfriend and he laughed at me for not knowing it. So." he answered with pure impeccability.
"Okay.Umm. See its when. Mmm. Its when you have a girl as a person who is close to you." Armaan phrased his explanation as simply as possible.
"Then I will have more than 10 girlfriends right. Sneha, Tessie, Irene, Janet, Lucy, Jenny-" he tailed off to remember more names. His father slapped a hand on his cheeks, wondering how to close this topic.
"Ryan. Its not having so many people. It's just one person. Someone really close. A girl you can share everything with.Okay. Now go and change. Dad needs to go for work and you are coming with me, today. Okay."
"Mmm. Okay Dad." His little head hadn't understood the exact meaning. But his dad's orders weighed more and so he went to his bedroom to dress up. He had his vacations now and since his dad din't like baby sitters, he took him along to his work.
"What are you thinking, Ryan?" Armaan asked at his unusually quiet son, on this other side of the car.
"Nothing, Dad", he answered moodily.
"Okay." Armaan said, knowing well that Ryan would come to him if there was anything bothering him.
"Dad," he called after minutes of silence as Armaan stopped the car at the red signal.
"Yeah"
"Can we call mothers girlfriends?" His voice sounded strained.
Armaan suddenly found himself at a loss for words. What was he supposed to say to his son, who had grown without a mother for most of his life?
Gathering up courage, he replied honestly, "Yeah, something like that."
"So, that's why I don't have a girlfriend, right?" Although he voiced his doubts confidently, Armaan knew his little boy would burst open any time soon. He would sleep on Armaan's chest after crying out his heart's content, tonight. He knew it. Knew it well.
"It's not like that, Ryan. Your mom will always be with you. Okay. Just that you can't see her." he whispered, softly.
Ryan nodded.
"Dr.Armaan, I have a patient in ICU. I want you to give a consult." Rahul said, walking upto him.
"Yeah, I am coming" answered Armaan shortly.
Rahul gazed at his colleague cum friend and realized that Armaan needed a moment.
Armaan looked at the image of his sister and his jeeja ji, smiling. He reminisced everything. It wasn't blurred at all. It came to him in a flow. How their death in his 2nd year of medical school shattered him and his family. How he agreed to be like a father to his nephew. How he agreed to be the life time guardian to his sister's only son. It hurt. Now he knew that his for long son was missing his mother, just like he was missing his sister. What could he do? Deep down he knew the answer. But it wasn't that he wasn't ready. No one wanted to marry a man who already had a kid to raise, nowadays. He had wiped the idea of it long before itself. He got up, leaving everything to fate.
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