Kunj and Twinkle once again were left alone together in the awkward situation their parents forcibly set up for them.
Twinkle had realisations swirling around ever since the kidnapping incident, and thought this might be her last chance before everything became worse than it already was.
"Kunj?" She said softly. Kunj glanced towards to Twinkle, and wasn't sure if it was the pleading tone of her voice, or the vulnerability in her eyes that compelled him to almost forget why it was like this in the first place.
Almost.
He couldn't forget. Not yet, atleast. So he gave her his full attention, looking at her straight in the eye, with the utmost perplexity.
"Yes?," Kunj said watching her carefully. She seemed anxious he noticed. Oh God, maybe something had cropped up with Yuvraj again.
"I-" she hesitated.
How is miss Amritsar nervous now? Wondered Kunj. After all that's happened between us, this sure is an unexpected time to start.
Firm on her resolve, Twinkle continued," Kunj, I would've never agreed to this marriage if I wholly and truly believed that you had bad intentions towards me." Kunj flinched in suprise, when he saw nothing but sincerity in her eyes, and without interruption let her continue, his heart hanging by a thread. After all, this might be what he's been craving to hear for the longest time, and put an end to all this hurt.
"My heart believes in you so much, even you'd be surprised to know how much, but my eyes keep on deceiving my heart."
Kunj felt the hold on his heart grow stronger. She said my eyes are deceiving my heart, he thought. Not the other way round.
"And that's what hurts me most. My inner turmoil. My affliction.My inability..." A tear streaked Twinkle's face," my inability to believe in someone like you who's been nothing but good to me, the possibility, the possibility that my mind has created, that it could be true," more tears cascaded down her cheeks, "And that wretched part of me that is filled with doubt, that is neither judged by head or heart, but by hurt." Kunj swallowed hard.
Twinkle weeped silently, but recollected herself. She had to continue, no matter how hard it may be.
"And I don't know why it took so long for me to realise, that all the moments we spent together are far more credible to you than what I thought I saw in a semi- drugged and unconscious state. I never realised that you're silence was your disappointment and hurt because of me, not your cowardice. It took me so long, so long to realise that the proof I thought showed everything, was nothing infront of the proof I always had with me, which was you Kunj. I was just too wrapped in my own hurt to realise it."
The smallest tear had escaped his eye.
Filled with remorse, Twinkle kneeled to the floor," I'm so incredibly sorry Kunj, I know that you won't be able to forgive me now, and I wouldn't expect you to, but please forgive someday, even if it's on my deathbed."
Kunj kneeled down beside her and held her tight.
"Shh," he whispered," it'll be alright, everything will be alright."
And everything really would be, because even though he didn't know it before, Twinkle had been hurting as much as he had.