Suffocating Silence Chapter-5 hey gyzzz I know... I M like super late with the update this time... But just to mend I wrote a very long piece this time..
I hope you like it... 😊😊
Anika's POV
i came out of the house running...i couldn't stay in front of him...
it was cold out here in the streets of Liverpool... i was shivering and tears were not stopping to flow from my eyes... I went to my hotel and entered the room with a thud breaking down on the bed!!
I hugged a nearby pillow and don't know when I felt asleep with dry tears on my cheeks...
next morning...
my head was aching really bad that time and even my eyes were paining giving the utmost pain... I went in the washroom and took a quick hot water bath!! I came out and was getting ready just then my cell started ringing!! I saw it was shivay's number and ignored the calls... after a few calls I picked the phone up
"why the hell weren't you picking up phone got dammit!"
I was shocked to hear words from him in this tone..I thought for once that he might again start chanting his sorry if I pick up the phone but what the hell he was doing...he shouted on me...
"come to home..right now...please be fast!!"
yaa right I am angry on him but the way he said please this time made me afraid..his voice was trembling...
"shivay,is everything OK?" I asked him with concern in my voice..
"woo..wooo... riya...ummm tum pehle ghar aao"
I was damn afraid now... riya!! what the hell was shivay speaking!!
before I could question him he just hanged the phone up!! I without wasting time in any other thought ran out of the hotel to his home grabbing all my important stuff in the messed up purse!!
I was in my way to his home and was continuously trying his phone but he wasn't picking it up!! I for a second thought that it was something serious!! my condition at that time was completely filled with horror...I was afraid of loosing riya!!
I reached his home in few minutes and just went inside shouting his name
"Shivay!! Shivay!!"
"sshhh!! Anika plzz be quiet" he said coming down the stairs..
"shivay riya...ri... riya...ko...ky..kya?"
I asked him trembling and holding his one hand!!
he cupped my face sensing how afraid I was
"shh!! riya abb thik hai..." he said consoling me to a great level just by looking in my eyes I was lost in his eyes that moment!! the same moment I hugged him and he too tightened his grip around me comforting me in his arms!!
that moment felt like an eternity to me...I couldn't tell how relaxed I was feeling just by being in his embrace..at that time I felt that I was the same old anika who loved shivay from the core of her heart...the same old anika who would smile and blush just by thought of shivay being close to her... but no I was not the same anika... and the reason for this change itself was shivay!! I slowly separated from him realising my state.. I was feeling awkward at that time
I went a few steps back looking down and he kept his hands in his pockets trying to be a bit normal
I then directly went up climbing the stairs fastly and entered riya's room and saw her sleeping peacefully with a handkerchief on her head and a bowl of cold water kept on the table
I stood on the door while shivay went inside and removed the handkerchief from her head and dipping it in cold water kept it back on her forehead!!
"shivay riya ko kya hua hai?"
I went and sat on the opposite side of the bed which was empty..
"WO aaj subah jab mai room mein aya toh Maine dekha ki riya bed pe nahin thi!! she was there in the balcony sleeping under the sky with this pic in her hands" he said mentioning the pic kept on the side table...it was the same pic which featured shivay and anika with small riya!!
"jab Maine isse uthaya toh I felt her very warm and shivering..."
all she was chanting was "mumma"!
Maine tab doctor ko bulaya and he said me to call you!! riya ko bahut tez fever hai...ummm...104.5 is her body temperature right now!!"
my eyes widened listening this from Shivay's mouth
he said all this with guilt clearly visible in his voice...
I was or should I say we were feeling really bad that it was us because of whom such a small child was suffering...our silences were affecting our daughter...today she was lying on the bed unconscious of her actual senses just because her parents were not happy together and the return of her mother made nothing but just tears to roll out of all of their eyes!!
i kept my hands in her hairs and slowly creased them!! riya shifted in her position and in not time she pulled me close to her on the bed hugging me by my waist...
"mumma" she mumbled in her deep sleep
i couldn't help but just smiled with teary eyes!!
then i again changed the handkerchief on her forehead and made her lie down on the bed with me beside her...she was still hugging me!!
shivay was sitting on the sofa and was watching us... he came close to us on the bed and slowly removed the handkerchief saying it was not needed now...he went out with the bowl
i was looking at riya...she was looking extra cute in her sleep and the way she was cuddling in my arms made me feel like eternity...all i wanted that time was to stay here forever and be the same way...
don't know when but i too felt asleep sitting their with riya...
Shivay's POV
i went down in the kitchen and placed the bowl in sank... then i saw my phone which was kept on the dinning table..i went there and picked it up i saw 27 missed calls.. out of them 16 were of anika...she might have called me on her way to here i thought and when i saw other 11 calls i was a bit shocked...ummm..they were from Om ..he was in London handling the branch of our dance academy there and he would never give me so many miss calls...it was not for the first time that i have not seen my phone for long but getting 11 calls from him was shocking as he knew about my habit of not checking the phone when in tension...i tried to call him back but all it gave me was more tension as he wasn't picking my phone up and not picking my phone up was something which he rarely do... after a calling session of approx 20 minutes he picked up my phone...
"hello..shivay listen!!" he spoke with utmost tension in his voice
"yaa...dude pehle toh cool down ho jaa...kya hua hai?"i asked him
"wooo...gauri..abb..mujhe teri help chahiye" he answered my question this time in a relaxing voice but yet a stammering one!!
"what gauri?" i thought smthn really unusual and asked this question to him with a smirk forming on my face
"wooo gauri .ummm...Gauri ne...ne..ne"
i could clearly sense that he was blushing yet with tension after all he is my best friend
"are...kya ne ne kar raha hai...bol Gauri ne kya kiya?"
no wonder it was just that Gauri would have done some blunder in Om's life giving him a lot of happiness with tension...after all Mrs.Gauri Oberoi is Om's dearly wife and loves to create trouble for him!!
"shivay...Gauri ne aaj subah mujhe bataya ki..."
"Om sun!! tu pehle deep breathe le...ok!!"
he took a deep breathe and then said all in a single line
"Gauri ne mujhe bataya ki wo PG hai and hame twins honge!!"
"what!!" i exclaimed with utmost joy in my voice
"Om congratulations!!!"
"i know..." he said plainly making me a bit doubtful about what tension did she gave him
"hey...kya hua?"
"shivay!! isn't it surprising that she told me she is PG in morning with a news that there will be twins..."
"ohhh!!... is it?" i at first exclaimed in a way that i understood his point but than my question made him realise that i was just trying to be a bit hilarious and i didn't really understood...
"shivay this is not actually hilarious...the thing is that she is one month PG and she is telling it to me now.."
all i did was giving him a sigh!!
my swayu is the most stupid yet sweet person of the world
"Bachuu." i was about to speak something but he stopped me
"stop!! u have lost the right to call me that"
he spoke this in a stern voice making me realise that yes it was not the same equation we were sharing now... It was anika who would call om as bachu whenever she wanted to talk smthn serious to him..
Om at times told me that i was forgiven by him but in all i knew that i was not actually forgiven for my grievances by anyone in our group!!
"ok ummm...om look i know Gauri ne tujhe nahin bataya but tu uske point of view se sooch ek baar!! tu bata om wo pichle ek month se kaha thi and wo london kab aayi?" i asked him trying to avoid the pain i was suffering from right now because i didn't really wanted to tell him that anika was back in my life...
" wo ek month se mumbai mein thi and london toh wo aaj subah aayi hai" om spoke all this realising what shivay was trying to tell him
"right!! sooo..." i said
"soo...iska matlab ye ki wo mujhe ye sab directly milke batana chahti thi and most importantly mumbai se door aakar!!"
Om was senseless when he spoke these lines as i knew he was realising that his tension was useless but it was then i felt hurt when he mentioned that Gauri wanted to tell him about this news after coming far from mumbai...
"shivay!! umm i m sry"he said with a soft voice...m sure that my silence on phone after his exclamation about being far from mumbai would have hurted him as he is excellent in realising his mistakes
"sry for what?" i asked to him..trying to be a bit jolly
"umm...for two things pehle toh for giving you so many useless miss calls and second for...for speaking about mumbai"
i was crct he realised that he has hurted me by speaking about Mumbai but its ok because right now i have anika in front of me which is something far more than enough to make me remeber what all happened in mumbai
"hey..umm its ok Om...by the way tum aur Gauri Liverpool wapas kab aa rahe hoo?
"Tomorrow evening!!" he told me and hanged the phone up!!
i was feeling a bit afraid now...i cant hide hide anika from them..the time time they will enter here they will surely know about her..
i am afraid of the outburst of emotions which i may get tomorrow... what about riya!! and what about Gauri...she might take tension which is surely not good for her health!!
trying to escape from these thoughts i went upstairs as i opened the door i could not help but smile at the sight in front of me
riya was in anika's embrace and sleeping peacefully with a pout on her face while anika too was sleeping with a cute smile on her face!!
maybe at the moment she was feeling the love of her daughter which she failed to experience since last 4 years i went near them kept my phone on the side table and sat there on the bed!!
my hand at first went straight in riya's hairs i smoothly creased them and then i kissed on her cheek!!
i couldn't help but then went near anika...my face was dangerously close to hers at that moment i went a bit up kissed her forehead... a tear drop formed in my eye but before it could fall on her face i stood up and went out of the room!!
Anika's POV
sensing someone's breathing on my face i opened my eyes and to my surprise what i witnessed was the soft touch of shivay's lips on my forehead within no second i closed my eyes i was able to feel his every movement..he came down again this time his breathe was touching my lips...he in a way was seducing me...i soo wanted him not to aim at my lips or cheeks or even eyes because if he do so then for sure i won't be able to control and open my eyes with tears flowing out like river!!
then i sensed his breathe getting hotter it was clear indication that he was about to break at that time even my eyes were burning..he got up and left from there as i could hear his footsteps i opened my eyes slowly with a single tear rolling down my eye...
why is he doing this? this question is continuously haunting up my mind...why the hell is all this happening to us once again!! is this all destined to repeat once again? but why?
i sighed and took a deep breathe...i then noticed my daughter sleeping in my arms.. she shifted a bit and then opened her eyes...she slowly separated from me...i could see she was still weak, she passed a smile to me..to which i responded by giving her a kiss on her forehead i went off the bed and picked up the thermometer...i kept it in riya's mouth and creased her forehead...she was staring at me with wide eyes i dont know why..in a minute or two i removed the thermometer and checked her temperature it was 99.5 now i once again creased her forehead to which she gave me a weak yet beautiful smile
i was about to stand when he entered the room..he stopped at the entrance and our eyes met for a second or two he gave me a weak smile and came to the side table of the other side of the bed..
"so kaisi ho meri baatcutter?" he asked enthusiastically making me a bit shocked i was thinking who gave him the guts to call me by that name
he looked at riya and gave her a big smile
I was watching him with wide eyes and he was just looking at me in a way that he did no crime
Shivay's POV
I looked at anika normally but she was watching me with wide eyes as if I did some big crime...I really can't understand her at times was all I admitted to myself..leaving these thoughts I tried behaving a bit more normal
"baatcutter...bolo kaisi ho tum?
"I am better dad
I saw anika's eyes wandering in the room with a lot shock and uneasiness
"baat.. I was about to speak something to riya when I realized what a blunder I have made here...i was again and again calling riya baatcutter unaware of my actual senses...after anika left I started calling riya with the name baatcutter because she inherited the same traits as that of anika..she too exactly like anika always cut my words in between and start speaking her own story!!
I looked at anika and saw her shifting uneasily...the next moment I saw her she was exiting the room when riya stopped her
"mumma aap phirse mujhe chod kar jaa rahe ho? she asked her with tears glistening in her eyes
"noo..wo mai...wo neeche tumhare liye soup banane jaa rahi hoon
She said and went down
"papa mumma mujhe chod kar nahin jayegi naa?
"bilkul bhi nahin jayegi I said assuring riya or maybe just assuring myself
I too went down and saw anika in the kitchen cooking soup for riya
As she saw me coming to her she wiped her tears and pretended to be busy in cooking!!
"anika...please thode din yahan par ruk jao..please riya ke liye...aur waise bhi 1 week baaad ham sab ko india jana haiI said pleading her
"shivay..mujhe meri beti ki aapse zyada chinta hai...mai yahin rukoongi...maine servant ko appne bags lane ke liye already bhej diya hai she replied him plainly and was about to go taking the soup in her hand
"anika ek aur baat hai
"bolo
"kal Gauri and Om aa rahe hai...
I could see anika freeze at her place...I guess she was thinking on how would she face them or how would they face her
"and Gauri is pregnant
Anika smiled wide...it was her real smile...the smile which came from her heart..i was happy that at least Gauri and Om wont have to face her angry self...
"wow she said squeaking in happiness
I couldn't help but smile at her aww so cute childish behavior even when she had her own 5 years old daughter!!
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This was it with the chapter-5...
I just want to say something... I do a lot of hardwork in writing it all.. editing it.. but the response I am getting is very less... I feel like there is barely anyone out there who likes to read my story...
I know it's kind of sad story... But this it's genre... If there is an issue with it then please tell me... 😊😊
Edited by vidhu1 - 8 years ago
