OS: The Truth He Told & The Decision She Made

ONE SHOT: THE TRUTH HE TOLD & THE DECISION SHE MADE

PART 1: THE TRUTH HE TOLD

"Enough." She jerked back hearing her own husband's voice. She rolled her eyes towards his family who were standing in front them with rage filled faces. She watched him as he began to move forward, then stopping in front of his nani before he began to speak in low deadly voice, "I had enough of this."

He paused for a moment, controlling his rising temper, before he continued in steady voice "whether you all like it or not, she is my wife. I want you people to love and respect her just like you love me. I can't understand you people. You always wanted this. But now you act like you don't want this. What do you expect from me?"

Nani got hold of his shoulder as she spoke "I have to ask you this question, chotey. What do you expect from us?" she shook him as she repeated her question "What do you expect from us?" before letting him free. He tilted his head towards kushi as he said "accept her."

Nani took a deep breath before she began to talk "she is not the problem, chotey. You are the problem." He looked at his nani trying to study her as she continued "you said you don't want get married, we accepted it. Then you brought a girl to house saying that you are in relationship with her and we accepted it." He looked at his grandmother without breaking eye lock.

"One day, you said you want to marry her and we were on cloud nine. Next day, you said you broke up with her and we accepted it. All of sudden you married kushi and you are asking us to accept it. Then after six months, you will divorce her and will say she is no more your wife and we must accept it. Is that what you want, chotey? Accept whatever you do? Is that?"

She turned towards him in shock after hearing nani's words. She observed him as different emotions played on his otherwise expressionless face. First shock just like her, then hurt, then guilt and finally pain. Nani's voice brought her back to the world "if that is what you want from us, then forget it." There was stubbornness in nani's voice which reminded her of him.

Anjali, unable to control her sob, quickly left the place. Nani pointed towards Anjali and said "see, what you have done to your sister." Kushi blankly stared at Anjali's retreating back until his voice caught her attention. "Whatever I do is only for di's happiness, nani. One day or other you will understand it." Having said so he left to his room.

Kushi barely noticed when payal said something to her. All she could her was 'Whatever I do is only for di's happiness, nani.' She looked at her sister in shock when she shook her. Without acknowledging her sister, she made her way towards his room slowly digesting the truth. Once reached her destination, she locked the room and moved towards him who was sitting on bed.

She took a deep breath, preparing herself for what is on the way for her, she said "so that's why you married Me." it was statement rather than a question. He looked up at her with questioning look. She folded her arms as she spoke in confident voice "you know about me and shyam. And that's why you married me."

She saw him froze for a second. Then he composed himself as he stood up and walked past her. She closed her eyes to control her rising rage and turned towards him as she yelled "how can you even think of that?" he stopped and turned towards her as she said "how can you even think that I will betray anjaliji."

He gaped the distance between them in a second, almost making her to fall back, but he held her firmly by holding her shoulders. "iam not going to fall for your innocent act this time. I saw it with my own eyes and heard it with my ears. You asked that ba***rd to leave my di. Don't ever try to deny it." He freed his grip making her to fall back on the bed.

He almost reached the door when he heard her voice again. Her trembling voice made him to stop in his track. "Okay. You saw me with that creep and heard a part of our conversation. You thought I will spoil your sister's life and to prevent that you married me. Fine. But in this whole process, didn't you ever felt that I must be given a chance to explain myself?"

He suppressed his urge to turn back, after hearing her pain stricken voice; he quickly grabbed the doorknob only to turn back when he felt her hand on his. She was standing so near to him, hurt evident in her eyes. "Even now you don't feel like giving me a chance to explain myself." Though her tone was confident, he could still feel pain in it.

"Why?" she asked. "Because I am not ready to buy your lies." He replied. "You are a fool." She shot back as she stepped back. "Even if anjaliji had witnessed it, she would have handled the situation much better unlike you." She came near him and held him by shoulders, like he always does, as she shook him "look at me arnavji."

She began to speak again when her eyes held his. "You know me, don't you? Do you really think that I will do something like that to you and anjaliji?" the innocence in her eyes proved her purity. He lost in the depth of her eyes which told him to believe her. After few minutes, she whispered "trust me, arnavji."

"No" he turned his head to other side breaking their eye lock. "I don't want to trust you." He looked at her as he said "I don't want to trust anybody anymore. I had enough trusting other. ten years back, I trusted everybody." He moved little more closer to her as he continued "do you know what I paid for that mistake? My mother's life."

"What did you say? Fool. Yes, I am fool to repeat my mistakes. I should have learnt from the past. But I repeated my mistake and almost lost my di. I am not going to do that mistake again." He stepped back and turned to his left as he ran his fingers through his hair, then whispered "I should have not done this. I must have not believed you; trusted you; loved you. It's my mistake."

She stared at him unbelievingly. She started to step back as he moved forward. "You made me to believe in things that I don't believe. You made me to fall for you." He pinned her to the closet. ". I trusted you. But you made me to pay well for my mistake. You broke my trust. You broke my heart."

"You are the one who made me to feel all emotions. But now all that I could feel for you is just hatred." She immediately looked up at him. Pain and hatred was evident in his eyes. He left the place leaving completely shattered kushi behind.

PART 2 : THE DECISION SHE MADE.

She stood near the pool hugging herself with her hands. She blankly stared at the evening sun which was ready to set. She didn't move an inch until darkness engulfed the whole place. Her eyes were red and devoid of tears. Her mind was tired after thinking continuously about her husband's words.

'I saw it with my own eyes and heard it with my ears.' Her memory flew back to the day when la hugged him in front of her eyes. Then she thought about the fateful diwali night. How broken she felt even though she was not sure of her feelings towards him. How he must have felt seeing her hugging some other man, after all he too loved her.

'No, he didn't love me. If he had loved me, then he would have trusted me; He would have understood that I don't love anyone, except him; He would have never hurt my feelings by doing all these things. How love can be there when there is no trust? He doesn't love me.' argued back some sensible part of her brain.

'I loved you.' His voice echoed in her mind. She closed her eyes and gulped. 'He loved me and not loves me.' she thought. 'I too loved him, before he broke my heart with his action; before he forced me into this cheap contract marriage; before he made me to sleep on the ground; before he hurt me with his words. I too loved him once.' She concluded.

'But now all that I could feel for you is just hatred.' She felt sick thinking of his actions for past four days. He had completely destroyed her feelings. She was tired of his rude behavior; ongoing war inside her; She was tired of everything. She felt like she can't take it anymore. All she wanted to do is run away from this place and hide somewhere. She felt like she will die if she stays here anymore.

Not sure whether she made the decision or not, she ran into the room. She wanted to run from here as soon as possible and never wanted to return back. She quickly shut her mind off when it started to think about raizadas reaction. She knew that when she thinks about them she will lose it and will stay here. She had already lost many things and she cannot afford to lose anything more.

She quickly opened the closet only to get shocked and then she laughed at her own stupidity. Only three days had gone after marriage and she is already behaving like typical wife who after fighting with her husband, packs her bag to leave to her parental home. How she wished her life was like that; like a typical house wife who was loved by all. Alas, now she doesn't even have home to go.

She turned to look at her reflection. The sindoor and mangalsutra cannot change her. She will never allow them to change herself. She caught hold of her mangalsutra and thought 'I hope he won't mind if I take this with me.' she ignored small voice from her head which said 'what is it mean, if he doesn't mean anything to you.'

Then she saw the bangles in her hand which he made her to wear to escape mami's suspicion. She smiled sarcastically while she removed it. She almost placed it on the dresser when box in the corner of the dresser caught her attention. She opened it and saw a paper in it. She placed bangles inside it and almost closed it when something told her to check what was in the paper.

'To my dear daughter-in-law' the letter started. She sat back on bed as her knees got weak. 'chotey is very short tempered. But he is very good at heart.' She wiped her tears and said "I knew it maa. He is good at heart. He may even have solid reason to behave like this. But I had enough. I cannot take it anymore, maa. Can you understand me? May be this letter is not meant to me."

'Manage his anger and give love in return.' How she wished to do that? But will he accept it? She held the letter close to her heart as she cried her heart out. She placed the letter in the box and turned hoping that his mother will forgive her for being so selfish. "Why did I saw this letter when I decided to leave from his life? Maybe it is meant to me?"

She once again took the letter and asked "do you think I can do it,maa? I don't want to do it when I know I will lose it. At the end, I will be the one with more hurt, maa. Didn't you see his eyes when he said he hates me? It was full of hatred. He hates me, maa. He hates me. He hates me from the day he saw me." she began to sob.

'Yes, I fell in love with you, kushi kumari gupta.' She opened her eyes suddenly "wait. He hated me from the start. But he do fell in love with me." she looked at the letter again and said "may be I could try it for one last time; Only for you, maa. I will continue if I thought I could win it. But how to handle him?" 'Manage his anger and give love in return.'

She sarcastically said "give love in return! He will throw me out of this house, maa. You must learn more about him. He is not the one who falls for lovey-dovey actions. He is a rakshas who should be handled in his own ways. Wait; maybe I know how to handle him." she looked at the letter with an evil grin spread across her lips.

He opened the door of his room, half expecting his wife to be ready to leave the house. He checked the time and thought maybe she must be sleeping outside. He looked at her when she entered the room from pool. He immediately opened the laptop clearly indicating that he was not in a mood for any conversation.

She asked innocently "so you have work to do? Iam going to sleep. Iam very tired." He didn't even acknowledge her words. He turned to see her making bed and then settle herself. "What are you doing?"He asked as he moved towards her. She replied "I told you; going to sleep." She yawned and immediately closed her mouth when she saw his angry face.

"oh, I forgot to tell. I had enough sleeping out there. Today whatever happens iam going to sleep on the bed. Can I sleep here or I should go to guest room?" he came close to her "are you blackmailing me? Just get out and sleep at your respective place. Or else I don't know what I will do. Don't make me regret my actions."

She yawned again before saying "okay, as you are busy talking some nonsense, I will select the place. I will sleep here." Having said so she turned only to turn back again to say "and I won't mind if you sleep on that side of bed." he shot back "in your dreams."

Before he could say anything more, she said "then I don't mind if you sleep outside, near the pool." He looked at the pool where she had pointed and turned to see her already settled on his bed. She pulled her blanket to cover herself and suppressed her urge to laugh when she heard 'what the?'

He shouted "you cannot order me what to do and what not to do? This is my damn house." Seconds later, she felt him on the other side of bed. Next five minutes was pure torture for kushi. She wanted to turn and see him. How stupid of her to think about leaving him when she cannot tolerate for five minutes without seeing him. She slowly turned her head without making big movement.

He had his backside towards her, just like she thought. Still, there were distances between them, but does it matters when he is in her heart. She smiled over her first victory. With his mother on her side, she felt undefeatable. "You are going to lose it, mr.Raizada. Just wait and watch."

thanks for reading...hope u liked it...keeping my fingers crossed...this is just os...iam not going to continue this...but i may change my decision if this also reach ff section😉...so pls comment