Loved the time spent in the mandir, the lines "the world moved on as if nothing had changed" touched a nerve. Life goes on around you while you are shattered and then comes the rage that you feel because of it. You move out of the realms of pain only when you overcome that rage which Arnav never did. The good that came out of their breakup is that he let go of that rage and came to terms with the horrific deaths. "Death was painful. Untimely death is mysterious and clawing-painful. To accept the unexplained and live with the agonising memoires would be the toughest task for children who survive such tragedies. Yet it needs to be done. There was no two ways about it."
Life has to be lived and there are no two ways about it.
Whatever monologues you've been giving Khushi after they've met again have been all to do with hardening herself and full of "khushisms" and did not even once let on about the enormous pain she must have gone through and that pain was accompanied by insecurities of having never been loved, been used by some one you love more than your life for just sex and being inconsequential to him. And then it all flows out like lava, her anger, the rage that she feels and that she'd never expressed loud out before and when she does verbalize it it's before the one who caused it.
How attuned is she to him that even during this most difficult conversation, she latches on to the things that hurt him and does her best to alleviate that hurt.
"I accept and I understand" -- she does truly have a very big heart, and honestly at this point after reading this update, I feel he doesn't deserve her.
Nandu is one big catalyst here, in one appearance he makes Mr. Raizada stop hiding behind the facade of "all that I do is for the good of others" and go back to being his selfish practical self who wants what his heart wants and the second appearance, not even in person, he makes Mr. Raizada see green which results in this catharsis as well as proclamation of love. Wonder what cataclysmic upheavals he's going to cause further😆
I agree with you Sandhya that this must have been difficult chapter for you to pen down. It had all.. maa, mandir, pyaar, dosti, gussa... 😆 You've done a brilliant job. I've said this earlier also, I love the way you pace your work, how it picks up crescendo and then slows down to taper off. And I love the vivid imagery, feels like I'm the backseat passenger, though I know its an convertible... no free ride here..😃
Edited by sheena29 - 11 years ago