Part 7
I needed to tell him the reason for my refusal. I needed to tell him everything. This was what I had come up from all the crying of last night. I needed to know what he thought about me AFTER he comes to know of me and my past. I didn't want to keep him dark all the while and be with him. That would be deception. So I had asked Meera that I wanted to talk to Maan but she said that his cell phone was turned off. I didn't wanted her to think otherwise so I didn't bug her into doing it. I was avoiding going to his house which was right across the road. I had seen him many a times coming out from his house.
I was hesitant in going to his place but I wanted to talk to him. I met Daadima, the lady who had come to see me when I had no one with me to take care of me. She was the one who had nursed me and looked into my needs. It was then I realized that it was Maan after all who had been nursing me, it was his care which cured me, it was He who had sent Daadimaa to me. I couldn't help but smile at the care and affection of the man who knew nothing about me and yet had done so much for me. Daadimaa told me that Maan had gone to office and would be back at night and she would tell him about my visit.
I was waiting for Maan to come and meet me. I knew that he would come straight at my place when he gets to know about my visit and the fact that I wanted to meet him. I was happy as well as miserable. Happy for the fact that someone in this world cared for me. And sad; thinking that I was using him because I knew he would come to me the moment he gets to know that I was there to meet him. I was feeling guilty for that.
A few hours seemed like ages for me. I knew that he always comes late at night. But I also knew that however late it might be, he would come to me, to check on me just like the day I was sick.
I didn't know when I fell asleep waiting for Maan, when I woke up sun was up already. Tears blinded my sight thinking that I was wrong about Maan. He didn't come!
I didn't know when I got tired of shedding tears and my closed in exhaustion only to be woken up by the sound of the door bell.
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