Here presenting you a TS (two shots). The story was meant to be an OS, but many people appreciated the first part and adviced me to continue with a second one where Swara and Sanskar realize their feelings for each other. The first part is below, will add the second and last part in a few days.
In the first part Swara will leave the MM and Sanskar. Sanskar will miss her and feels some emptiness in his life. Swara on the other side misses Sanskar as well, because in this short time span they lived together they've become best friends, or something more. Both are confused souls right now.
He traced her lips with his fingers, her smile was meant only for his eyes, he traced her cheeks and her hair, he graciously caressed that warm shoulder, but then, with a sigh he put the picture aside the bed again and went on, yet another day, without Swara.
It has been 4 days since Swara left, but for him that 4 days were equal to 4 years. No matter how hard he tried, he just couldn't get her out of his mind;he felt a distinct emptiness in the chest area which made him feel more dejected.
He missed how she used to make him laugh and make him smile with her silly jokes, her naughtiness, her pagalpaan, the way she used to argue with him for the AC. He tried to cherish the good moments shared with her so that he could bring a smile on his face. But it was not easy.
A tear started flowing from his eyes. He was missing her, but couldn't tell her. He knew that sooner or later she would have to go as their marriage was a fake one, but he didn't know that this would have happen so early.
It was thanks to Swara that he became a different person. He knew the best from of himself. And then out of nowhere.. he wasn't himself. Suddenly, he became someone that he wasn't familiar with. Since Kavita's death he never felt so good with someone apart of Swara, he never found himself laughing on some 'stupid jokes'. Swara was different from all the girls. He wanted to stop her, tell her to stay, for HIM, but with which right?
He was just her best friend, nothing more.
He was living a moment of vulnerability, a moment of fear. All he wanted to do was crying and hoping that someone will come to help him find where he belonged.
He looked at the bed where Swara used to sleep peacefully like a small child, the safest place for her where she could forget her pain. Now that bed was empty. In these 4 days he slept on the couch, to reassure himself that Swara was sleeping there, he slept without the AC 'kyun ki Swara ko AC se thand lagti hai'.
He missed the times he had shared with Swara and the way she made him feel. He shared with her a lot of happy experience with her and he beginned to associate Swara with that happiness. Almost as if she was a direct link to his private source of happiness.
Muskurane ki wajah tum ho
Gungunane ki wajah tum ho
Jiya jaaye na, jaaye na, jaaye na..
O re piya re..
Jiya jaaye na, jaaye na, jaaye na..
O re piya re..
'Everything happens for a reason' he tried to convince himself, but dil hai ki maanta nahi.
He never thought that he will get attached to Swara in just few days, never thought that she will change him and make him a better person,will forgive him so easily after he tried to separate her and Laksh.
He kept on fighting with himself for some days that what's the reason for missing Swara. 'Kya mujhe Swara se pyaar..?' he wondered. 'Nahi, that's not possible, i can't love her' he objected.
'Dooriyaan' bhi kya ajeeb feelings hai. A feeling where you go to say the name of the person you miss, but she isn't there. A feeling where you make a funny joke, but no one gets it and you realize ''if only that special person was here''. A feeling when someone becomes a part of you in a way, and you want their presence and there's so many reminders of them or how they are around you when they aren't near you. 'Kya special baat hai Swara mein?' he wondered. That girl was unique,a special one indeed.
If he could describe himself in one word he would have said i'm LOST.
On the other side Swara was not the same as before. She should have been happy as she is is now back at home with her Maa and Dida, but something was missing. 'Sanskar? Am i missing him?' asked to herself. 'IMPOSSIBLE' she stated. But Sanskar's memories was taking a control over her, she couldn't stop thinking about him.She was missing him but wasn't ready to admit it. 'Why should i miss him?'
Shomi noticed it, she wasn't the Swara everyone knew. The chulbuli, naughty, happy Swara. She was changing, since she came from MM she didn't see her laughing as if she forget her smile there.
'Is everything okay Shona?'
'Of course Maa, mujhe kya hoga?' with a fake smile.
But she wasn't fine. The feeling of emptiness was just expanding in her.She felt like a part of her has been torned from the heart, like some outside might was depraving her of all the energy, and an endless number of memories was playing in her mind recounting every moment she had with Sanskar.
She never thought that the man who tried to separate her and Laksh would have become so important in her life. She didn't fear to believe him, she trusted him more then herself, she knew that he will be always by her side, he will support her no matter what.
None of them was ready to accept that they were missing each other, they just kept cherishing the good moments spent together, their nok-jhoks that were enough to bring a smile on their faces for a while before the feeling of emptiness again filled their minds.
Kaise batayein
Kyun tujhko chahe
Yaara batha na paayein
Baatein dil o ki
Dekho jo baki
Aake tujhe samjhaein
Tu jaane na aaa..
Tu jaane na
Tu jaane na aaa..
Tu jaane na