Toh Phir Tune Badli Kyun Ada

Humari Adhuri Kahani

The porter escorted a disheveled Ishita into the ice cold mortuary where Raman's dead body lay on the stretcher; his lower lip ripped and bruised, blood stained. His neck evidently showing the brutal stabbing he endured. The white cloth covering his naked body filled with his dark blood, chest down.

The happiest day of their life had become their biggest nightmare. The day they had united in holy matrimony, with love bursting in their hearts for one another, had also become the day he had mercilessly been snatched away from her, exactly a year later.

She had pleaded him to stay by her side, with their babies expected to arrive any moment but his father's order had compelled him. Their very final moments together had been filled with making love till they lost their breaths. He had filled her heart and soul with so much love that she could sustain the long months without him but an entire lifetime... That was impossible.

He had left her forever but a part of her was content because two parts of him existed within her womb. She took his ice cold hand and rubbed it against her bulging baby bump and the kicks she felt against her ribs overwhelmed her to the point she fell back on the chair kept behind her, howling as the porter attempted to take her away.

Something within her did not let Ishita move her body an inch. Using the support of the chair, she got up and bent to indulge in a deep, unrequited kiss on Raman's lips; trying to absorb the last of him. Her tears wet his chest and she looked up to his face for a final glance; angry he would take his last farewell looking so highly unkempt with his thick beard and overgrown hair. Her lips uttered "Ramann" in a moan for the final time as the porter wrapped Raman up in a fresh white cloth and took him out into the ambulance.

Their journey in this world may have ended and he would never see their babies growing but Ishita believed that they would reunite up in heaven, never to separate again.

Wrote a little something yesterday. Hope you all like it. The tone is a little sombre, I know. ❤️