It was way past a year of Abhi and Pragya's wedding. Pragya had cleared all misunderstandings among them and Bulbul and Purab had finally gotten married. Unable to deal with the heartbreak, Aaliya left to the U.S. She had asked for forgiveness from Pragya and Bulbul and also her brother, she did a lot to spoil their lives, but most of all she was unable to look Purab in the face. It was unbearable for her to see hate in the eyes of someone she had once loved so dearly, so she simply left. Taanu was no where to be seen after bagging a role in Akshay Kumar's new production.Bulbul and Purab had moved into their new house recently and Daadi was gone on her long overdue Teerth Yatra. Sarla had finally breathed a sigh of relief after her both her daughter's weddings and gave up her hall to Puneet. She wanted nothing more than her daughters' happiness and they both were extremely happy...or atleat one of them.
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"And what am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're OK?"
"Pragya I told you - DON'T TOUCH MY CLOTHES!" Abhi yelled for the millionth time.
"Abhi, I was just-"
"Go to hell man! You've been spoiling my life since you came here."
This was nothing new for Pragya, she was subjected to this insult everyday and every night. She tried so hard to form a simple friendship with Abhi, afterall they had to spend their lives together...might as well get to know each other. But oh boy! She was wrong! Abhi had something rude and disgusting to say to her all the time. He was such a horror. A nightmare to be precise. He had gotten so worse after the last couple months of the wedding. At first she thought it was due to Tanu's departure, but when he constantly did it for months she knew something was wrong. Why had he developed this sudden hate for her? Something felt so wrong and Pragya just couldn't figure out what it was.
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"What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you?"
Abhi, still dressed in his suit, grabbed Pragya by her shoulders as he slammed her against the cupboard. Tears fell free from her eyes as she choked on her breath while clenching her eyes to escape the terror infront of her. Her long,dangling earring trembled against her ears with the force of his arms shaking her. Her golden pallu now had kundan pieces falling out left and right as he grabbed her with such force. Pragya had suspected something wrong when she had seen Abhi give her eerie looks during ther wedding reception as she was talking to her colleague Karan, the intern working under her at the university. Little did she know he had already made an entire story about the two in his head.
"Now I'm gonna ask you for the last time...Where.Did.He.Touch.You?" Abhi whispered in a detrimental voice.
His murderous lips so close to her quivering, innocent ones as he growled in an enraged tone throwing her against the cupboard one final time before leaving her at her God's mercy.
"HOW DARE YOU! HOW DARE YOU ABHISHEK! Did you just accuse me of being with another man? For God's sake he was my COLLEAGUE! He's interning at the university! You're so cheap and sick! I can't believe I'm married to a man as disgusting as you!"
Pragya yelled out in a voice that would later be giving her a sore throat, unable to contain her thoughts to herself anymore, she lashed out at Abhi throwing all her rage like a weapon of mass destruction towards him.
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"'Cause when a heart breaks no it don't break even"
"Baby, I told you - my wife's home , you can't come over now. I'll..." Abhi spoke in whispers as her help the phone to his ear.
Pragya was bringing the laundry into her room when she overheard Abhi's conversation.
She stood still, frozen in fear, her eyes with a blank expression and the laudry basker falling from her hands creating a loud noise causing Abhi to turn around. Abhi took a step advancing towards Pragya when she suddenly took a step back holding out her hand, indicating him to stop.
"Who was she?"
"Uh...just a event planner."
"Stop lying. Was she your mistress?"
"Why would you ask if you know?" Abhi replied heartlessly.
Pragya didn't have enough respect for him at this point to cry right now infront of this lying, two-timing, a** of a husband. She wanted to literally stab the fruit knife through his heart right now, maybe then he would learn, Maybe then he could understand how hard she was trying to make this marriage work. Maybe then he could understand how hurt she was. She had tried everything possible, but to no avail. She took his tantrums, his insults, his accusations.But , THIS.WAS.IT. What she couldn't take was her "husband" womanizing arond like a freelancer with a wife who had signed over her love,her life, and her care to him.
"Then so be it, I'm leaving." She finally uttered.
"Phew! Thank God!" Abhi mumbled loud enough for Pragya to comprehend.
Pragya finally left the Mehra mansion and immediately felt a weight lifted off her chest. She didn't know where she was going or where her life would take her, but she atleast knew she wouldn't be living in a pit of despair from now on.
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"One still in love while the other one's leaving"
"I'm sorry Pragya. I wanted you to hate me so bad, simply because I love you too much to put you through this."
Abhi clenched his teeth as the tears dripped at the corners of his bloodshot red eyes. He finally opened his eyes and looked at the file for the umpteenth time.
Patient Name : Abhishek Mehra
Diagnosis : Blood Cancer
Stage : 4 (Terminal - No Treatment Available)
"I'm falling to pieces..."
Major sorry if you were confused. Basically Abhi tortures Pragya so that she hates him and leaves, but really he has blood cancer and is expecting to die soon.
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