Chapter - 12

Koi toh raah woh hogi

Jo mere ghar ko aati hai

Karo peecha sadaaon ka

Suno kya kehna chaahti hai...

Tum aaoge mujhe milne

Khabar yeh bhi tum hi laana

Bahut aayi gayi yaadein

Magar iss baar tumhi aana

Marjaavaan...

Marjaawaan...

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"What lie ? Aditya what are you exactly talking about ?" I asked him and he arched his eyebrows and said.

"Depression ! Suicide ! Your family issues ! I never knew you were hiding this much inside your heart !" He said and i looked straight into his eyes replying back.

"Aditya it's not as easy as it sounds ! It's easy to bury our problems rather than dig a grave for our own thoughts ! Those thoughts should be neglected and ignored before someone or something uses it against you !" I replied back still looking straight into his eyes .

"I get it now ! The question that always lingered inside my head whether if you were cold or just arrogant and rude ! The answer to that is none you are a sweet and kind person who has always been pushed down in their life ! Because of that negletence they forget that they have a life of their own ! A mind of their own and a sense of their own ! Don't let these things overpower you ! I know you are strong but every single rock breaks when any external force is applied to it ! Your family is acting as that force but don't worry i will always be there as a barricade no matter how big the problem is I will always be beside you to face it !" He said looking straight into my eyes.

"Don't do this aditya !" I said and he looked at me confused.

"What ?"He asked confused.

"Don't give me false hopes ! What justification will you give when you crush those hopes ! It was a phase or you did it all out of pity ! I don't want you to pity me !" I said and he left my hand and i turned back to leave when he said something that made me hault on my steps .

"Say what you really want to say ! You want to tell me that i shouldn't fall in love with you because you don't deserve it !" He said and i could sense his steps approaching me.

"That's not for you to decide gauri ! It's for me to decide and i have made my decision!" He said and i turned back only to find him so close to me There were just inches left between us.

"What ! What did you decide !" I asked him and he moved his hands to cup my cheeks and smiled before answering.

"That you deserve all the happiness in this world ! I promise i won't ever lie to you but i can't promise that i will never fall for you !" He said and i looked up at him straight into his eyes and said.

"Don't worry i will take care of that ! Aditya why are you not understanding i don't deserve you and never can ! You are too pure to start with ! I can't even compare myself with you ! Infront of your words my world is intensely small ! Where your world starts my world ends there ! My behaviour can never be better ! I am a monster and i don't deserve this ! Don't give me false hopes when you are going to break it !" I said with visible tears in my eyes so to not get him to notice my tears glincing eyes i just moved a little far from him.

"Yes you are right ! I know ! I know you may think that you are a monster but every villain has an origin story ! I want to know what they did ! I want to know how many times you needed me but i was never there ! A heart is a very unpredictable organ ! It can have a heart failure , a heart attack or beat fast when it seems the person it always desired for !" He said and i looked at him.

"What do you want to know ? My origin story ? I am not a bloody movie !" I said looking at him.

"I know you are not a movie but stop playing with other people's feelings ! When someone cares about you at least smile if you can't appreciate ! I don't even want your appreciation all i want is a smile on your face tell me how i can make that happen !"He said looking straight into my eyes.

"You think you wanna know everything ? Okay ! I will tell you ! But how do I know that after i tell you everything ! After i tell you what happened or what is happening you will not leave ? You will not pity me ?" I said in a sad tone and visible tears in my eyes . He moved closer to me and hugged me .

That was the moment i broke . I didn't want to but that hug . It felt nothing but warthm ! The warmth i always sought for.

"It's okay ! It's okay ! It's okay i am here ! Cry as much as you want i will stay up my whole entirety if i have to !" He said hugging me tightly as i snuggled more into his neck.

Aditya's pov-

"I can't do this anymore aditya . I have had enough of this !"She said crying and i felt like i had lost , lost in protecting her .

"It's okay ! It's okay ! I understand!" I said patting her back . After ten minutes she was still crying so i picked her up and laid her down on the bed and sat beside her holding her hand.

She cried ! A lot ! she cried for almost an hour ! With every single tear she shed it felt like my defeat . I don't know why i am feeling like this but i want to protect her . As long as i can till something parts her and takes her away from me .

Aditya what was my fault in all this ? I was a kid ! A naive kid who knew nothing ! I don't know what happened i was eight years old at that time all i remember is my mother fighting with my father and my brother stopping me from going out ! He beat my mother alot that day ! He even kicked her out of the house ! We were homeless ...

"All of our relatives broke ties with us ! That was when sakshi's mother ! My mother's friend Sonali aunty helped us ! My mother built the whole enterprise by herself for me and now they are even after that !" She said that in a faint voice drifting into sleep and after saying all of that she slept still holding my hand.

I stayed there holding her hand for as long as i can remember before sleep took over me too.

In the morning ~

Gauri's pov

I woke up before aditya and quickly got ready trying to escape from him . I realised what all i had told him it never bothered me about anyone's thoughts but it bothered me as to what he must be thinking about me .

The whole day aditya called me ten times but i muted his calls . My so called family members were again upto something and troubled me the whole day . They even filed a lawsuit against me saying that i was illegally taking over the company which should have been theirs .

I was so frustrated that i went and drank . I never drink but today I drank because i was out of my mind .

Aditya's pov -

I called gauri 10 times and she replied not even once .

I went to her office but she was also not there i asked the receptionist for sakshi's number because I know she is mostly with her only but sakshi said that she was not with her too . I was driving here and there when i saw her car parked outside a bar so i parked my car and went inside only to find her sitting alone on a chair with a glass in her hand .

"Gauri !" I shouted from a distance and she looked at me and smiled.

"Aditya !" She waved to me and i went towards her . She smelled of alcohol so i picked up her drink and smelled it and it was obviously alcohol .

"Gauri ! How long have you been drinking for ? " I asked her looking at her not believing her .

"I am not drunk ! Shut up ! Give me back my drink !" She said but i held it up my head and she stood up trying to reach it but she slipped trying to do so i caught her from her waist .

"Gauri ! Come on let's go home ! You need to sleep ! I said and she whined !" I picked up her phone and kept it in my pocket and picked up her heels and then her bag and then picked her up in my arms .

"You know aditya ! I wanted to tell you something!" She said as i took her out the bar to the car .

"What ?" I asked only to find her already sleeping in my arms . I kept her inside the car and then sat and drove the car . I left her car there because I had no other choice than that.

I picked her up from her car seat and took her upstairs while she was whining the whole time.

I laid her down on the bed but she held me from my wrist and mumbled something in her sleep that made my eyes widen in shock .

I wanted to tell you that -----------

Meanwhile somewhere ~

"Kill her !"

"What ?"

"Finish her ! I have had enough of her nonsense ! "

"But father we can't kill her like this ! She has to sign those papers first and that husband of hers what will we do about him ? "

"He doesn't even love her ! It was an arrange marriage! He would be happy if she dies ! If i would have killed her the day she was born then it would have never reached till here !"