Rohan and Swara sat in silence for a while. “I
always knew you were a strong girl Swara. But I underestimated your past. I’m
glad you let it all out, and now you can start afresh. You drowned yourself in
work all these years, now live a little sweetheart. You never know when life
will pass by you, and it might be too late by the time you realise it” he said.
Swara turned to him “You have played a huge role in keeping me strong Rohan and
I can’t thank you enough for that. The reason I let out all this is because I
want to leave the past behind. Meeting Laksh after years made me realise how I
sacrificed my happiness for because of the guy who hurt me. How much I have
hurt people who love me, and I’m tired now. Tired of running, feeling this way,
tired of hating him so much that it consumes me”; “I want to be free now Rohan,
free of all my baggage. I want to be me again” she said with tears in her eyes.
“I don’t want to be consumed with the hatred that I have in my heart”; Rohan
hugged her “This is a start honey, everything will be fine. You’ll be happier
than you ever imagined” he comforted her. “So Rags and Laksh are married? It’s
funny how I never got a chance to meet my childhood friend’s husband all these
years” Rohan said while laughing. “You hardly met me and Rags while we were
Mumbai, how would you know about her husband, you didn’t even come to weeding
even after she invited you” Swara taunted him. They both laughed “I still
remember how out of the blue you got in touch with me during my final year. My
destiny brought you to me when I needed a friend the most. And no matter how
many times I say this, I can never thank you enough” she said. “Now that it’s out, let’s leave the past
behind Swara, we’ll never talk about it again. Deal?” he said. She smiled and
nodded. “Let’s go to sleep now, we have a meeting tomorrow” he said. “I’m going
out with Laksh tomorrow after work. Is that okay?” she asked him. “Why are you
asking for permission, idiot. I’m glad you’re meeting him. Have fun” he said.
They retired for the night.
At Sanskar’s Apartment
Laksh came home to find Sanskar waiting for him in
the living room. Sanskar looked at him and was about to say something when
Laksh cut him off “Do not say a word. There is no excuse for what has happened.
You and I are aware of how much you have hurt her, and it has taken me a long
time to forgive you for it, because I saw how much you love her even today. And
I know that she loves you too. You are also aware of the fact that Ragini
hasn’t forgiven you and the chances of that happening are very bleak. The past
cannot be erased by one sorry and you have to earn back every bit of trust from
both Ragini and Swara and it might take a while. I’m advising you not to rush
it, what happened today will not happen again” he warned Sanskar. Sanskar
sighed “I am aware of each and every thing Lucky. I also know the main reason
why you have forgiven me is because she had given you her promise. There is no
excuse for the mistake I made, but I never wanted to hurt her. Because of mistake
I lost Ragini too. It hurts to see my best friend and not being able to talk to
her. And I deserve every bit of pain I am going through. If going through this
pain will bring her back to me, then I am ready to suffer ten times more than
what I am suffering” he said in a quivering tone. “I can’t say that I know what
you’re going through, but I’ll help you get through it. I know for a fact that
even she is suffering and I want her to be happy now” Laksh said. “Go to sleep
now, you have a meeting tomorrow” he said to Sanskar; “BTW, I’m going out with
her after work tomorrow” he informed Sanskar. Sanskar nodded and went to his
room.
Gadodia Industries
Sanskar arrived at office to find Rohan and Swara
already there. He saw them laughing and talking. Seeing her laugh, he felt his
heart flutter; it had been so long since she had laughed heartily laughed like
that. Rohan saw Sanskar approaching them “Good Morning Mr Maheshwari” he
greeted, “Good Morning Rohan. Please call me Sanskar. Mr Maheshwari is too formal”
he smiled. “Good Morning Mr Maheshwari” Swara greeted him, “Good morning Swara”
he replied with a smile. For a moment Sanskar could not believe his ears, she
had greeted him today; he saw a change in her expression. Something had
changed. She wasn’t as cold as she had been until tomorrow. He wondered what
had changed. “Shall we start the meeting Sanskar, the investors are waiting for
us” Rohan said. The three of them went for them meeting.
After the meeting ended, they got busy with their
work. “Let’s go out for lunch?” Swara asked Rohan. “I’m too exhausted to go
out, let’s order in please” he said. She agreed and he turned to Sanskar and
asked “Sanskar, would you like to join us?” he looked at Swara to see her
expression, “Sure I would love to” he replied. Sanskar noticed that Swara
hadn’t denied him from coming nor did she react in anyway, he felt strange. The
three of them were having lunch and casually discussing about work. Sanskar had
noticed how Swara had not tried to avoid him, even though she restricted her
talks to business related stuff, he was happy that at least she had started
interacting. This was a win for him.
The day had passed by and Laksh came to office to
pick up Swara. “Hey man, how are you? He asked Rohan. “Doing great” Rohan replied
with a smile. “Ready to go?” he looked at Swara, “Give me five minutes, I’ll be
done with this” she said without looking at him. “Your five minutes will never
come” Rohan said while snatching the file from her, “You leave right now. I
will take of the paperwork” he ordered her. Swara sighed and said “You always
forget I am your boss Mr Sharma”. He laughed and said “Shut up and leave. Have
a great time”, she narrowed her eyes and picked up her bag, kissed him on the
cheek “We’re going for dinner to that Chinese restaurant, I won’t be late. See
you”. Laksh saw all this and thought there
is something different today. When they were leaving from office, the came
across Sanskar, he smiled at her, she replied to his smile with an
expressionless Good evening. “What time will you be home?” he asked Laksh, “No
idea. I’ll call you” he replied. They said their goodbyes and left
Laksh and Swara reached the restaurant, and sat at
their table. “Tell me something” he said; “Tell you what?” she asked him. “What
is different today?” “I noticed you spoke to Bhai and you seem a little less
cold towards him. Change of heart?” he asked. She frowned and said “Don’t read
too much into it. The only reason I am acknowledging his presence is because
it’s exhausting to constantly hate someone. I don’t want to waste my energy on
someone who doesn’t matter to me” ; “Shona –“ he tried to say something, she
cut him off “Lucky please, I don’t want
to spoil our dinner”, he nodded unwillingly. “BTW, you were supposed to
give me a surprise today. What is it?” she asked. Suddenly his eyes went wide,
“Oh no” he said. She looked at him “Laksh are you okay? What happened to you?”
she asked. Someone spoke from behind Swara “He will not remain okay for a long
time. He apparently forgot to pick his wife up from the airport”, Swara turned
around to see Ragini grinning at her, she couldn’t believe her eyes “RAGINI”
she hugged her. “Surprise Shona” Ragini said while kissing her hair.
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