"Karma has no menu, you are always served what you deserved..."
1 and half year later
Virk House
Fateh picked up the laptop from his lap and keeps it on the table and stretches, he then leans back on the couch and rubs his temples staring at the blank wall.
One and half year has passed since Tejo left and his life completely changed though no wonder he always wished his life with Jasmine the love of his life will be pleasant one as there will be some ups and downs but they’ll get through it like a couple but “Oh boy was he wrong”
It took only three months for him to realize that his love story's ending was far really far from “they lived happily ever again…”not that he knew of jasmine's possessive and selfish nature but he also thought she will eventually grow out of it or he wished “He still wishes…”
His life took a drastic change but what makes him feel guilty is that it wasn’t just his life that changed but also the life of people around him changed completely including his Papa Ji, who stopped addressing him since the day Tejo left. It was like His father lives pretending he was never there, most importantly He stopped meddling in any affair related to him, many times he tried to apologize to him but it is the same answer always “You should care about yourself and about the person you chose to be with when you didn’t bother about my emotions then what is the point of caring about them now…”
His family including his siblings life changed completely, Amrik and Mahi had to grow up before time to be the shoulders to their father and replace whatever the position he had in the house. Amrik started to take part in his father’s political party organizing rallies and handling all the matter along with running his side business and Mahi managed all the events along with her studies, He used to be inspiration to them but he lost that position too, may be because of that he has seen Amrik and Mahi grow close to each other many times he would find them sitting on terrace having tea or coffee sometimes Simran would also join them and they would have quality sibling time but he wasn’t part of that not that he never tried to be part of it again but whenever he joined it grew awkward and silent.
Since the day Tejo left he never saw her again, after three months when they both had to appear in court for the final proceeding he felt weird anxiety in the pit of his stomach about facing her “how is that she’ll behave…or how will he greet her or is that she might have forgiven him and they could be friends again or has she moved on…” and many other thoughts like that plagued his mind but along with anxiety he anticipated meeting her after whole three months but as soon as he reached court along with Jasmine, she wasn’t there. He heard jasmine's jibes “What she changed her mind again about giving you divorce, I knew she was playing with us, she isn’t that innocent, I will not leave…” before she could complete, he saw Abhiraj walking in along with the lawyer.
He stood there not sparing them a glance and his lawyer talking about something to the Judge and soon it became clear that Tejo won’t be coming as she wasn't in town and Abhiraj will be representing her side with the final decision from her side that said “She wants the divorce from her husband on the account of him cheating on her with her sister” the sentence when said it out loud felt like a stab to his heart, he immediately closed his eyes not wanting to see what people standing in the court held for him in their eyes, the lawyer forwarded to him an already signed divorce document and with an heavy heart he signed on it too.
Abhiraj collected the required documents and left before he even gets to ask anything about her. He would never admit it out loud but many times he wished she was still here because as soon as she left jasmine after sometime left the academy work to him telling him sweetly while batting her eyelashes at him “Fateh mujhe iski koi samajh hi nahi lagti na mujhe purane koi record samajh aate tum khud dekh lo na ise please mein apni parhai poori karlun tab tak…” and there he was left alone with his work not that he can’t manage but some help some great advice would have eased his burden, but he can only wish for that.
They both got married in very small formal gathering attended by only few people, his in laws, his father and his siblings weren’t the part of it not even his friend Buzzo only his mother attended but he could see she was very guarded and did this much only because she still loves him.
He tries to make it work with Jasmine but eventually there talks ends up in heated argument and then he has to make it up to her. He recalled Tejo’s words that his bubble of happiness will soon burst but he can’t accept that he can’t let her be right every time, he will make it work. He sighs remembering he has to take jasmine to dinner to make up for their yesterday’s argument and gets up to change.
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Jasmine sighs looking around the shops trying to find Sweetie and then she spots her as she waves hand from around the corner.
“Sweetie why so late yar, you know shops will close soon…” She whines walking ahead.
“Sorry I was busy with papa, you say what is up with this sudden shopping plan?” She asks trying to catch up to her
“Nothing, you know I saw this very pretty Sabyasachi’s new lehanga and Oh My God sweetie it was so beautiful, I can’t tell you haan then I thought I can’t wear a lehanga now but I can wear saaree so today I should buy some beautiful saarees …” she talks moving her hands in the air.
“Well you can wear lehanga at Abhiraj’s wedding you know” sweetie replies trying to get something out of her bag but her reply caused her to suddenly stop midway and turn around “Whose wedding ?” she asks again this time her eyebrows bundled together in confusion.
“Abhiraj’s your brother…”sweetie replies still busy with her bag
“Abhiraj is getting married” jasmine repeats to herself her tone causing sweetie to look up and see her face “Yes your uncle came to give card, he said they’ll marry by the end of month, you knew it didn’t you?” she asks and one look at her face told her she have no clue about her own brother’s wedding.
It has been one and half year since she last interacted with her family since than she never visited her house nor tried to keep any contact with them but does that mean they wouldn’t even inform her about her own brother’s wedding, she was angry with mumma and papa but why didn’t uncle or aunty or even Abhiraj told her anything about the wedding.
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Jasmine gets out car finally standing outside her home after whole one and half year, she eyes her house it has changed completely it looked well furnished.
She sees two cars parked outside in an open garage which also seemed new and wondered if there were guests inside. She walks in with bags in her hands containing expensive gifts which she thought might help to light down the environment, as she walks inside she realizes her house has completely changed, the rooms, the verandah everything was furnished the overall design was the same but remodeled, she wondered who put this much money on their house.
She walks in further, she sees the verandah was empty no one seems to be there, she didn’t see her mumma papa, Chacha Chachi, Abhiraj or even Tejo around. She steps in further when suddenly she hears a voice that halts her steps
“What are you doing here?”
She looks up and sees Navraj walking down the stairs along with Dilraj, her brothers looked all grown up.
She tries to smile “Wo…Wo…” she stammers “I came here to meet everyone by the way how are you and look at you all grown up”
Navraj folds his arms across his chest reaching to the last step and frowns “Oh spare me your greetings, no one is at home and if you dearly wants to meet them then come after three days when they’ll be back now leave…” he says raising his arm and pointing towards the door.
This angers her “Is this the way to talk to your elder sister han…” she asks walking up to him.
“Sister…” Navraj chuckles “Yeah right…” he shrugs his shoulder.
She huffs and looks at Dilraj who wasn’t even sparing her the glance and too busy with his phone. She takes out a box of expensive gadget from shopper and hands it to him “This is for you…” She smiles forcefully
Dilraj eyes the thing for a moment and then again becomes busy with his phone saying “I don’t want it…”
“Why?” she asks exasperatedly
“Tejo didi brought me a better one than this…” he replies in a bore tone
“Tejo… yeah right how can I forget the mahan Tejo, she spiked all of you against me na, she the Devi of all good where is she han let me speak to her…” She babbles her anger getting the best of her.
“Kanneda” Dilraj says eyeing her proudly
“What???” Jasmine's expression changes “Come again?” she asks hoping she heard it wrong in the first place.
This times Navraj replies “Tejo di is in Canada so is Abhiraj and so Chachu and Chachi and Mumma and Papa, they are there for Abhiraj’s Rishta soon they’ll be back and then you can come and continue your drama in front of them so please spare us…”
“How can Tejo be in Canada and how come papa is there papa can’t travel his passport…” she stammers in disbelief
“Tejo di took care of it... now if you excuse me…” and with that they both left leaving her alone.
She walks back to the car with staggering steps Tejo is in Canada, she sits in the car and with shaking fingers unlocks her phone and opens Instagram to unblock Abhiraj and there she sees it, his Instagram was the proof of them being in Canada, she clicked on the latest uploaded picture captioned “Familia” and there it was Tejo, Abhiraj, her mumma papa, Chachu and Chachi along with two other people standing, laughing with Niagara falls in the background.
Her family was living there ultimate dream of being in Canada but what about her, she is still here in Moga and her family, Tejo she was living her dream, it wasn’t Tejo’s dream to be in Canada but hers, She gasps with tears flowing down her face and drenching the phone screen.
She recalls how her dream of Canada shattered, and this time if was partly her fault, when an argument erupted between her and fateh over Canada it slipped from her mouth that she still has her Passport, she never burned it. It was before the three months for divorce were up, she could see the sheer anger that crossed his eyes as he started bashing her for lying to him and making a fool out of him and how she was so scared that he will go back to Tejo ,that she swore on him to never ever bring Canada in between them again and since then Canada was a long lost dream.
“This wasn’t supposed to be like this…no this wasn't suppose to happen, I was supposed to be there not her..." She sobs.
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