And yes - Res for Part 2
Unres for 2
Lucky,🤗🤗🤗
It was beautiful, the way you wove in the idea of the bet - fits in with the theme of them being college students.
So though Swara started off her "friendship" on account of a bet, she forgot about in halfway or maybe even earlier. 😳 She completely fell for him much before she surrendered herself, I would like to think that when she got upset with Sanskaar for his makeover, she was genuine and already in love with him.
But then one has to pay the price and it was a heavy one - she paid it for her silence (she should have told him but then she must have thought, 'I love him now and what difference does it make as to how we started our journey?') And we know how that was misinterpreted - Laksh and Kavita, both selfish and jealous people, who twisted the truth for their own reasons (baseless and spineless). In the video clipping which Sanskaar saw, the one he hears her say " Woh mere layak bilkul nahin hai" I am sure there was the continuation, as to how he is too good to deserve someone as deceptive as her.
Quite cleverly they manipulated both - Laksh does know his cousin quite well - or so he thinks . I hope he has the mobile with Sanskaar's sim in it, the one he used to ensure that the two of them never met - people like him would obviously keep trophies, and Ragini (appears to be positive) would somehow lay her hands to in(I leave it to you.)
And so he waits, to make her his and then starts his revenge - I guess the confrontation in the study is the prologue - where she truly learns his intentions.
In this situation, I like Swara's quiet acceptance, which did serve to actually soften Sanskaar a bit, at least confound him - he is a very different person now broken by her betrayal (As Albert Camus said " Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love").
Though somewhere, deep down he is still very much in love with her, as he himself admits. And she does know him too, so though she accepts his hatred as a fitting punishment for her "sin" she understands the agony he has gone through and realises that quiet acceptance would not heal them. (AP is quite the protective mother here, and it is her words that let Swara know that extent to which Sanskaar had broken). And she begins her mission (some things never change) - and he does fall asleep peacefully in her arms albeit a bit reluctant, initially😉
But then she would be able to win him over - he has to be convinced of the truth - that she had a bet was only a fact, not a truth. Only this time it is a difficult way ahead, in the first case it was only dry parched earth that his heart was, now Sanskaar's heart is a bed of thorns, both will bleed before they heal.
And I guess they still have Laksh and his jealousy to deal with. (He will never learn, will he - despite his father's very astute observation about both him and Sanskaar)
I love you so much for this story and the amazing way it flows.
love,
Nyna
Edited by Nynaeve - 8 years ago