"So you wont stop till I agree to marry Suresh?"
"No, infact with my one touch your MMS goes viral, time to decide chashmish"
"Go ahead, upload it." Said Pragya in an eerily calm voice.
"Are you sure?"
"Absolutely"
"Ofcourse, why will you care for anyone other than yourself, I am surprised you love your own self more than your own mother" responded Abhi, mouth dripping with poison.
"What, are you scared now? Or was it all in the air?" Pragya questioned back with hatred in her eyes.
"Fine, here you go" finished Abhi, breathing deeply.
"Now that you have done the worst you could do to me, I will have no regret in leaving you or hating you for the rest of my life. And now I will marry Suresh. Not because I love him, but because that is all I need to do to protect my reputation. But now that your career wont stand by you, you will truly see who are your close ones. This is the only way you will see the truth of how big a monster your sister and your Tanu are - I promised myself I will show you the ugly face of reality before leaving you - This is me fulfilling it - Now I will never return"
She leaves the house.
***
Three days later.
On the wedding day after Suresh and Pragya got married, she left the mandap and came to stand before the man who will be known as her "ex" from now on.
"See Abhi, I am married to the man of your choice now. And guess what? I am happy. Thank you for making me realize that when love breaks you, only true friendship stands by you and resurrects you. I will stand by him forever and come what may, will never leave his side." Pragya held Suresh's hand and left from his life forever.
Back at Tanu's.
"Hey Tanu, I have finally come to you without any restraints. We can marry now. I will honour our relationship now."
"Abhi, I have been meaning to talk to you for a couple of days now. Just the pressure of her wedding seemed to keep you pre-occupied, so I couldn't talk."
"What is it love?"
"Abhi, baby, I know whatever we shared was amazing, and I know you love me a lot, but----"
"but?" Abhi sounded perplexed.
"Baby, I am a super model. After the MMS scandal your reputation is at stake, and my association with you will pull my career down too. Abhi you know how important my career is to me nah? Instead of that behenji's MMS had our MMS circulated, I wouldn't mind - I mean it would affect my career positively. But Pragya having left you for someone else puts you in a not so manly light, and association of such an image with mine can in turn hamper my image. It's been a healthy journey so far Abhi, but I don't think I want to continue."
Abhi stared at Tanu. Hadnt he taken the pain to throw chashmish out of the house so that they could marry? Otherwise why would he contest daadi's decision to such a severe extent? True chashmish wasn't his choice, but he had learnt to live life with her, he needn't have thrown her out. Especially after she showed him the mirror that infidelity was all she received from the first day of her marriage. He could at least forgive her once. But he didn't - not only because her act infuriated him but also because it opened a window to throw her out of his house - for whom - Tanu. But today that very same Tanu is turning her back to him? Suddenly his definition for chashmish seemed to fit Tanu better - she was the true characterless gold digger.
At Mehra Mansion
Abhi went in search of Aaliya. His head was pounding in shock. But her room empty. Robin informed him that Aaliya had left for Australia, and handed a letter that she had left for him. Abhi opened the letter with shaking hands. It said that ever since the MMS was leaked, she was tired of answering the press regarding it - how did it happen? When did it happen? And most importantly why Abhi himself uploaded the video. She told Abhi she never supported his decision for uploading this video - now that he did, he will have to handle this too. Aaliya would only return when things were under control.
Robin further told him his daadi's cousins had left for Ludhiana and they took his daadi with them and daadi had vowed to never return.
A few days later Abhi released Raj from jail, but since Abhi hadn't showed faith in him in jail earlier, he decided to move out of Abhi's house with his family and parents and Aakash. When they were leaving, a guilt consumed Mitali bhabi left him a confession letter telling him the true MMS story.
***
Abhi stood in stony silenece in his balcony and saw the sun set behind his empty mansion. In his mind played one line "I promised myself I will show you the ugly face of reality before leaving you - This is me fulfilling it - Now I will never return"
***
The next days news headlines shocked the world.
"ROCKSTAR ABHI NO MORE. ANOTHER CASE OF A SINGER'S SUICIDE IN PERSONAL DEPRESSION"
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