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When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a man!!
That kind of love for Yash is what sets Aarti apart from Ishita. Aarti treated Yash like a human being with feelings right from the beginning and not an object to be healed or cured or brought back into the land of living by putting her designation as his wife in good use...She understood him when his family didn't...she understood his needs, his pain, and his fears. Even when she fell in love with him, she worked within the boundaries that were comfortable to him. She drew him out of those past-laden dark limits by being herself and not by pulling him to her for her needs. Yash never realized when his universe had shifted and he had stepped out of the Arpita-filled black hole and created a separate space where he wanted Aarti. Aman was the catalyst in many ways. His mere presence threatened to destroy Yash's new-found world...a world whose existence he hadn't even consciously acknowledged. It's only in a drug-induced stupor that he found the hidden courage to accept his need of her and that too tentatively and only after he was sure that she too wanted him. Arpita or Prashant were nowhere in there thoughts that night...That night was a revelation in many ways, the suddenness of which upset their equilibrium for awhile in the aftermath because their perceptions about it differed. It was a beautiful night of love because even in an inebriated state, they both were drawn toward each other...and not away.
A stark difference from tonight when Yash pushed Ishita away whenever he gained a fraction of consciousness...constantly chanting Aarti's name. Ishita had drugged him and controlled his physical mobility, but she could not control his senses and his needs. She had never tried to understand the essence of Yash. If she had, she would have understood how wrong her thinking about him was. He had let Aarti all the way in because she respected his sensibilities and emotional make up. Though she tripped at times, Aarti soon realized that Yash cannot be pushed to do anything. The more he is pushed, the stronger his will to defend becomes. Aarti learnt it the hard way when some of her actions made him step back because he thought she was trying to take Arpita's place. Tonight Ishita objectified him and tried to possess the object she had deactivated...Her intentions and her actions were all wrong. She obsessed about erasing his twice-over rejections of her by forcefully claiming his body. Her explanation being..."If you can forget Arpita to accept Aarti, you can accept me after leaving Aarti." It didn't matter to her that the body that she was caressing so lustily had not responded to her even once...In fact it annoyed her that even when she had his body under her control, he still thwarted her. Even her lusting being could not make a half-conscious Yash want her.
Yash's reticence and silence has always been misunderstood and made people think that they can run his life for him. He would let them do that for awhile because he is by nature not a man who opts for confrontation. He tries to avoid it because of the feared backlash ensuing a disclosure...especially where a woman's honor is concerned. He didn't let his family know the reason of his violent anger against Aarti because he knew they wouldn't understand...wouldn't understand that her denial of their union had disappointed him and made him feel as if she mocked their coming together. Similarly, he tolerated Ishita's advances because the disclosure of her cheap actions meant a break in the family and his brother getting hurt. *Sigh* He and his Aartiji are so alike in their thoughts...soul mates in every sense. Ishita blundered in mistaking his discretionary reserve for his weakness and may even have taken it as an encouragement. Her demented mind made her believe that he wanted it too...Therefore, only he could have given her a reality check, and none other. In the end that is what exactly happened. Ishita was so sure that she had Yash within her grasp that his opinions and his wishes didn't matter...He was not against their union, Aarti was...so she fought Aarti. All of Aarti's moralistic words had no effect on her. She came to her senses only when Yash stopped her physically and literally slapped her out of her delusion. That made her illusory world break to pieces and she saw the truth in its starkness.
That's it friends. Have a nice day.đ
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