Dichotomy of Love [an anthology] - 2nd installment [page 3]

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a/n: While the end game may be Aditya and Zoya, it wouldn't have ever begun without Yash and Pooja. This is my attempt at exploring, understanding and explaining the intricacies of these four flawed individuals. It will be an ongoing series covering different emotions that I will add to as and when something catches my eye. I hope you enjoy it.

dichotomy of love
[an anthology]

summary: one emotion, four people, hundred words. nothing more, nothing less.


index

i
portraits of melancholy

ii

quiver of fear



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Posted: 7 years ago
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portraits of melancholy


Aditya

They'd been friends for a long time. Back when she thought frayed slogan shirts were cool and never left the house without her big hoop earrings. She had fifteen pairs of those - he'd counted them. He was there when she'd joined art school and switched to khadi kurtis and big bindis. He'd watched her go from a meat lover to a vegan, a hoarder to a creator, an activist to an artist. He'd been her first kiss, first date, first everything.

He remembers it all. Except the last time she had reached out and held his hand that tight.


Pooja

Art is influential. It has the power to change moods, perspectives, lives, and even the world, they used to say in art school. She truly believed it. Believed her art could change lives. That she could be the change the exception to the rule. That nothing could hypnotise her the way colours could.

But it was only when he addressed her as aap first and then tum (when she'd only ever been a tu) shattering her walls and changing the semantics of her world with an everyday pronoun that she first realised how powerful words could be and how hazardous.


Yash

He couldn't decide who loved him more his mother and sister or his devoted wife. If he did, perhaps, he wouldn't feel so claustrophobic all the time. With his mother's hopes, sister's dreams, wife's faith, his own manly pride and their quiet confidence (barely masked expectations) pinning him down there never seemed to be enough room to rise.

He isn't ungrateful for the high pedestal they place him on; simply undeserving. But as he hears his wife's soft snores on the other end of the line, he feels less akin to a god, and more like the loneliest man alive.

Zoya

She spends the night trying on all her rings: the bronze one he'd gotten her that summer day they'd bunked college to visit the travelling fair (She's terrified of bike, but she had such a lovely time), the simple band he'd proposed with (She hates yellow gold, but she loves him, so she puts it on with a wide smile), all the ones he insisted she buy, and even the grass ring he'd tied around her finger as a joke that one time.

She puts them on, one by one and finds them uncomfortably tight.

(They actually all fit right.)

Edited by Couch_Potato - 7 years ago
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Posted: 7 years ago
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WOW! I really liked this!
A unique way of giving a character sketch👏

Can't wait to read the rest!😃
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Biwi, So I read this. It is strange how I do not break my promises to you, always read everything you write. Even when I know I have made promises to others and broken them time to time. I never break a promise to you.

You should know why that is. It is because I have this extremely deep realization that whatever you write will bring me copious amount of pain and in the end I am a masochist after all. I get hooked to your writing like an idiotic moth gets hooked to the dying embers of lit charcoal on a silent night.

I do not want a desi show in my life. I have made that abundantly clear from time and again because desi shows give frustration and heartache and I am too old for that kind of fanaticism. Yet, this measly piece of writing makes me want to watch the show. I think I have said enough. Write more, I will read.


Much Love.
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If you get me hooked to something again and leave me hanging Imma Sue you
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Originally posted by: SangRegal

If you get me hooked to something again and leave me hanging Imma Sue you



She has her way of disappearing in the most frustrating of manners. 😆
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Posted: 7 years ago
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Love this.
Please continue asap :D
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Nice concept.
Looking forward to further updates!
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Loving it
It's so different and nice
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Originally posted by: _SenbonZakura_



She has her way of disappearing in the most frustrating of manners. 😆


Dipping my toes in with trepidation after reading the above ;)

You have given a certain depth to each character which makes for a compelling read. Can't wait for you to explore this further :)

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