RishBala FF: Broken Ways - Part 22 - Page 6 - Page 3

This FF has also come to an end now! Thank you all for liking this as much as you did. I will definitely miss writing on RishBala and miss reading all the wonderful comments you left for me...

Chapter Twenty-Two - The End

Three weeks. I spent two weeks in the hospital and then the last week at home. I finally got the energy to stand on my own without feeling pain and decided to head up to RK's room one evening. Yes, he had me stay in my own room, but this time for my well being. He had put Neha on nurse duty for me and knew if I had been in his room I probably wouldn't have felt comfortable.

I didn't bother knocking upon reaching his room door. Sure, it was ten at night, but I knew RK well enough to know that he was not asleep. I headed into the room slowly. I came to a stop in my steps as I saw him sitting in bed staring at a picture. Then I began to near him. As he heard my steps, he looked up in my direction. He quickly put the picture upside down on his side table and stood. He rushed towards me and took a hold of me by my shoulders lightly.

"Madhu, do you need something? Should I call Neha?"

"No...I'm here to talk to you."

I noticed his eyes flicker away for a second but then back at me. He placed an arm around me and then directed me towards his bed.

"First you sit down."

He set up the pillows on what used to be my side of the bed and then had me sit down and lean my back against the pillows. He lifted my legs and placed them on the bed as well and then pulled the covers over me. To see him taking care of me in that way was slightly shocking.

He then came to sit on the edge of the bed beside me. He faced me and placed a hand on top of mine.

"I don't know what you want to talk about but there's something I've been meaning to tell you for a few days...or rather, weeks."

I was confused, but I wanted to know what he had to say, so I took a hold of his hand and smiled. He began speaking, unable to look me in the eyes for the first moment.

"I never truly loved you."

My smile disappeared. I let his hand slip free from my grip. He looked down at his hand and then up at me with remorseful eyes.

"Please listen."

Tears were already forming in my eyes as he continued.

"I used you. I pretended to love you so that you'd do whatever I said."

"Y...you what?"

"Please just listen Madhu."

"Did you not think I'd do whatever it was to get revenge? You put up an act of love."

"Madhu..."

I fell silent. A tear escaped my eye.

"You had tried to kill yourself, remember? You had asked me for a reason to live...you needed reason to live...and at the time I gave you one. Me."

"So...it was all a lie?!"

He tried to place his hand on top of mine but I pulled free, disgusted.

"Not entirely. Everything I've said until this point, I unconsciously meant. I love you. I didn't know it until I saw you get shot. I didn't know it until I put my own life at stake to save you. I didn't know it until I spent days watching you sleep in the hospital, waiting for the moment you'd wake up so that I could tell you how I felt."

Though I was angry, his story was kind of heartwarming. Knowing he truly loved me now gave me a good feeling. I knew it was slightly my fault for demanding a reason to live in the past, but faking love was a terrible thing to do from his end.

He took a hold of my hand, and this time I didn't pull free.

"I love you. I never knew what love felt like until you came into my life Madhu. I've never felt this way before about anyone. I never thought I could love anyone...and I was always afraid to get attached to anyone, ever since I lost my parents. I thought that I'd lose whomever I love. So, when you woke up in the hospital, I wanted to tell you right then...but I couldn't. I feared losing you. It wasn't until you were brought home that I decided I'd risk everything, just to tell you that I do love you."

My tears had turned into tears of joy by this point. I wanted to smile but held back. Then through my tears, I asked him a question.

"What if you never fell in love with me...?"

He was silent for a minute, he had his eyes down, and then he looked into my eyes and spoke passionately.

"You're my Madhu. I was destined to fall in love with you."

He made his love sound so pure and beautiful that even if I wanted to be angry at him, I couldn't be. I burst into tears, and pushed myself into him for a hug. I grunted in pain as my chest hit his.

"Madhu! Be careful!"

He caressed my back for a second.

"Just hug me, stupid."

I heard him chuckle and then he finally wrapped his arms around me. I closed my eyes, suddenly feeling all the comfort in the world as I sat there in his arms.

"I love you RK."

"I love you too Madhu."

"But you owe me..."

"I'll give you the world if you ask for it."

I smiled, snuggled closer to him in the hug, and finally felt at peace with my life.

It was a long, rough journey...but it was all for me to find my true love, Rishabh Kundra.

A couple months passed when he finally decided to propose to me. We held a small court marriage and then made our first night the most beautiful night in the world. Two years later and now we're expecting a new member to the family.

I couldn't be happier with my life.

Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them. We want to question everything but sometimes...sometimes it pays to just have a little faith.