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Hello people..
A very Happy and Prosperous Diwali to all of you.
So this a one shot I wrote on AbhiGya. It is about Diwali.
A warning though it is a bit sad.
I will post the second part in the next post.
Enjoy the first one. hope you will like it.
Do like and comment.
Love
Nitya
The whole Mehra mansion was decorated like a newly wed bride. The happiness and joy of the festival of lights was contagious, and it spread around the house as Diyas, fairy lights, candles and so much more but there was one person in the house whose smiles were fake, her happiness was made up and even the glow of Diwali couldn't mask the sadness and exhaustion on her face. It was her seventh Diwali in the house, she had been the daughter in law of the house for more than seven years and everything was still the same. Her husband didn't even bother to look at her now, unlike initial days when he would at least annoy her. He would just look at her with a strange look in his eyes which now she was sure was hatred. If she even dared to ask him anything he would blow a fuse and create a scene in front of everyone. "Taayi Jee, I am hungry, can I take a Laddoo from there", Samarth, Rachna and Aakash's seven year old son said to her. He was her only reason to live these days. He was the only one in the house who didn't pity or hate or mock her, he just loved her for who she was and that somehow gave her strength but soon she would be deprived of this as well. His daadi, her Taayi saas had decided that he and his parents need to move to the USA with Mitaali Bhabhi. She made all sorts of excuses like they need a better standard of living, that schools here weren't good enough, even that Abhi's popularity wouldn't let him have a normal life, but she knew why she was doing it. She had heard her telling Mitali Bhabhi on the phone that she didn't want her Grandchildren anywhere near a "Baanjh". She wasn't shocked really. She knew. She has often said that to her face when no one was around. Even though the jibes hurt she would never say anything to her. What could she even say? That she wasn't infertile? That her husband of seven years won't even touch her? That she was a 32 year old married virgin? No,that'll just make things harder for her. So she kept mum. Like she had been for all these years, like she had kept mum when Abhi had told her that Tannu was pregnant with his child, like when he told her that she aborted the child as it would meddle with her career and so he broke up with her and she will have to stay in the house until he figured out what to do next, like when women asked her to leave her sister's baby shower as it was bad omen and no one, not even her own mother had came to her rescue, like when he would come home drunk and then throw her out of the room saying she didn't deserve to be there, she just kept mum, all these years of silence was finally getting onto her, she had started to look and feel exhausted all the damn time. She had given up on her life and now all she did was fulfil her responsibilities of being the daughter in law of the house. She had stayed in the house despite everything, the taunts, the jibes, the mockery, all for her love for Abhi but now it all seemed pointless. Then, she thought that her love will be enough for both of them but now she realised that it is not and it never will be, she could feel her heart bleeding every second of every day and there was not a thing she could do to fix it. She was so helpless and vulnerable.
Daadi came down to see Pragya talking to the Samarth, she was just about to give him a Laddoo when his grandmother, her own daughter in law came and took him away saying too much sweet isn't good for him. Of all the people in the house Daadi was the only one who truly understood what she was going through and she felt guilty of destroying an angel's life. Only if she had known earlier,she never would have allowed for the alliance. She could not believe that her own blood had teared her apart. Abhi didn't know that she knew the truth about their relationship and that hurt her all the more. Her Abhi was lying to her for the past seven years and there was not a damn thing she could do about it other than lending Pragya a shoulder to cry on. There were days when she would come to her room, put her head in her lap and cry for hours and she would just pat her head until she fell asleep. The sheer helplessness that she felt on such days was eating her from inside. She wanted to talk to Abhi, reprimand him but Pragya had made her swear on her not to ever tell Abhi anything. She would just stand there and look at her getting more and more vulnerable day by day. Pragya just wouldn't leave, no matter how much she forced her to, she'd say that she had nowhere to go, that she wanted to be able to cry her heart out and the only place she could do that was her lap, no other place was left for her. Nobody would want her now except for her and that she didn't want to burden anyone now. She just sighed looking at her saddened state and left.
Pragya saw Abhi come into the house with gifts for everyone and just looked away. For some reason she couldn't ever bear to look at him today, she felt too raw, as if all wounds, old and new had opened up and she didn't know if she'd be able to take another one so she had been avoiding him all week long. She'd even moved out of his room last week so she could have some peace. She was tired and any more cruel jibes or even stares would break her and she just might fall to his feet beg him to give her whatever leftovers of his love for Tannu and she would live a lifetime in that.
Abhi looked at her turning away from him and felt another part of his existence turn dark. He just couldn't bear anymore of her pain now. He knew marriage to him had only brought her pain and agony but he wanted to give her all the happiness in the world now. He had avoided her for so long thinking that she might leave, that she will go back to her family and lead a life free of the pain but she didn't. Initially, after he found out that Tannu was pregnant he just couldn't believe it. He was ashamed of himself. Here she was, fulfilling her responsibilities of being his wife like she was made for it and he was cheating on her. He was having kids with other women? What was wrong with him? He'd decided that he would divorce her. She didn't deserve this. But when he found out that Tannu had aborted her child he was too scared. He couldn't bring a woman like that to his family so he broke up with her. He just wanted some time to come out of it so he decided that he would ask Pragya to stay. He knew it was selfish but he couldn't let her go then. He needed some moral support so he decided he will ask her to stay until he decides what happens next but gradually he became used to having her around so he never told her what he felt for her. But then things started getting out of hand. People were continuously questioning him and Pragya regarding kids and he flipped. He'd just lost one baby and having another one now would be out of question. So he did what he thought was best, hide. He stopped going to family gatherings or functions. He worked day and night and before he knew it, they were already married for 7 years. He started wondering what was going on. He saw that Pragya had also stopped going out. She wasn't even meeting her mother. She just stayed in the room and look out the window for hours. He was getting scared for her. She had this glassy look in her eyes like she was dead inside and that was when he started noticing that she looked like hell. He decided that he needed to make her come out of it so he started bickering with her but it didn't have the effect he wanted. He was the only one fighting. She would just cover away and this wasn't right. Then he thought maybe he should take things up a notch and he started to yell and scream in order to get a reaction out of her. But the result was the same. This continued for a few days until she completely moved out. He panicked. He knew that the step he took was wrong.he just had to talk to her and things would've been sorted. Why did he have to be so stupid? Things were starting to get out of hand now. He had to come clean. It was now or never for him. He had seen Taayi jee take Samarth away from Pragya and felt a pinch. During the one week she had stayed away from him he had talked to Aakash, Rachna and Bulbul and actually got to know what was going on. He had no idea that his irresponsible and selfish behaviour had caused her so much pain. He'd seen her with the kids in the house, she was a natural with them, and kids take a liking to her immediately and she was being kept away from them because he refused to touch her? How was he supposed to fix that?
He went outside to bring gifts for everyone. He bought a beautiful red saree and a lot of jewellery for Pragya. He knew Pragya wasn't into these things but he had to start somewhere. He looked up to her again and saw her go upstairs. He face fell, she wasn't gonna forgive him easily, he knew that but what he didn't know was that she wasn't even going to let him ask for forgiveness.
Continued Below.. 😳
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