"Di! I have to buy some stuff for Purab. So, I'm going to that shop okay?" I asked pointing towards the shop and she nodded.
When Di turned back to talk to Reena and Vivan, they were gone!
We had come for shopping and Vivan had joined Reena as they had to shop for their family. So, Di was alone standing outside the lift. She started wandering here and there when her eyes fell on a sherwani.
'Papa is upset with me. So when I go back maybe I could gift him something which would make his mood light.'
She started off by checking the designs of some shirts and sherwanis when she heard a familiar voice.
"Vivaan, I messaged you 15 minutes back and you come now! Anyway," He said and Di turned around to see the owner of the voice, "now you have to tell me which one to buy. And, don't tell me that I'm a Rockstar so I can buy both. Of course I can but I can't wear 4 shirts on your marriage!" And he turned around to realize that Vivaan was nowhere near and Di was standing behind him.
She smiled and went to look at the shirts he'd selected as Abhi went on staring at what she was doing.
"I like this one, and maybe..." Selected Pragya thinking which color would suit him the best. When she saw another shirt nearby, "This one!" She decided showing it to him. " I think this would suit you the best." She smiled.
"Yeah." She smiled. "You know you can try, right?"
He took the shirt and went to the trial room.
"Pragya " he called and Pragya, who was going through the shirts turned to him hearing her name, "Nice!" She smiled "You look good."
Now, Abhi wished he could start doing bhangra there. Till now many people had complimented him, but Pragya. It was something different. Something really different.
Soon after Abhi bought his shirt, he helped Pragya select a gift for her father.
"Pragya, what is your father's favorite color?"
"Oh-okay. So maybe we could select something in blue? I saw a shirt there," he said pointing towards left "It is quite simple, maybe he would like it?"
"Here, this is your coffee and.." said Abhi as he sat adjacent to Di giving her a cup of coffee and one for himself. "... and this one for me."
Di broke her chain of thoughts as she heard Abhi's voice.
"Oh Thanks" she smiled. Would you mind if I ask you something?"
"Ahan" he murmered sipping his coffee.
"Abhishekh, What is love?"
He nearly choked on his coffee hearing the word 'love'.
"What do you think is love?" He looked at her in confusion. She repeated her question as now Abhi answered, "Love is the best feeling one can feel. When someone loves you truly, he or she will be by your side always. No matter what the situation is, be it good or bad." He had tears in his eyes as he looked up at Pragya, "I used to think like that" He completed.
"But no! I was wrong" he said, barely in a whisper, looking down. "I was wrong. There is nothing called love. People just simply write novels about love, make romantic movies. The definition of true love is only true in books but not in real life." A tear rolled down his cheek as he finished.
She looked at him shocked. She hadn't expected this answer from him. The Rockstar who usually sings love songs. He believes that love doesn't exist? And seeing a tear roll down on his face, she felt extremely sad to have asked that question.
There was silence between the two. And then finally Abhi broke the silence.
"I want to tell you something. Something I've kept inside my heart for so long" and Pragya looked up at him.
"Tanu. Tanushree Mehta. I loved her. Loved her more than anything in this world. She too said that she loved me. But she hadn't taken it seriously. I kept on talking to her about our marriage. Finally after months of convincing, she agreed. We planned to keep our marriage private. We had planned Tanu, Me, Daadi and my family members. But.." He stopped. Now, tears were uncontrollably flowing. Again, he choked on his voice as memories flashed back. "But then, she didn't come. She didn't come for the marriage."
"And then, I received a letter. It was from her. It said that she never loved me. She loved some producer, and would get married only to him. I was heartbroken. The girl whom I loved more than anything in this world, the girl for whom I had even gone against my own Daadi betrayed me. She just left me"
He was crying and Pragya went to him, and he hugged her. He tightly hugged her as if she would also leave him and go. He cried his heart out. Soon, he broke the hug and that's when he saw that she was also crying, crying silently. She wiped her tears and says, "I'm sorry. I shouldn't ha-"
"No Pragya, I'm actually glad that you asked me, and now after about 5 years I shared what I went through to someone. I had not even talked to my Daadi about it. But I finally shared my feelings!" He paused, "I feel, I can blindly trust you. And that's why I told you everything and I want to tell you something again. I don't know what you will feel, or think about me but..." He stopped and looked right to her eyes.
"But now Pragya, I think I've fallen in love with someone."
Pyaar Kii Ye Ek Kahaani
Kabhi Neem Neem Kabhi Shahad Shahad
Shiv Shakti
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