Night Changes

CHAPTER 30

Hot tears flowed down my cheeks. How could I make up for making Jassi's nightmare come true? How could I pay for hurting him so much? He came so prepared, he wanted to make me his. And all I did was push him away, like an idiot. How could I win my love back? Will Jassi ever trust me again?

Think Aly, think. There has to be some way out. If he doesn't listen to me, he has to listen to someone.

Rohit.

Yes, he can help me. He's Jassi's best friend, he most definitely can help me. He's my only shot at the moment.

I ran over to Rohit's room, and knocked. To my surprise, I found Ritz and Rohit arguing.

Something I never saw in all these years.

"Aly..you..what are you doing here?" Ritz asked me slowly.

"Uh..I..I came to talk to Rohit,"

I looked over to Rohit just to find him looking at the floor, his face clearly irritated. He didn't even acknowledge my presence.

"Ro, at least listen to her once?"

"What is there to listen, Ritz? You tell me! What can explanation can she offer me after all this shit!"

My eyes widened in surprise.

"I..it isn't the way it looks, Rohit,"

"I. Don't. Care! Do you have any idea how difficult Jassi can be? He always has this burden in his head and he still tries to live with every challenge life throws at him-and all you did is just increase his suffering to a level where we can't even help him!"

I fought back the tears the threatened to flow. I swallowed hard. Hold your shit together, girl.

"Ro, I understand. But..please calm down, we can discuss this," Ritz said softly.

"I told you there's nothing to discuss! My friend's broken now, Ritz, you try to understand! Life's hard enough for him, she didn't need to make it any harder!"

Rohit now looked at me, rage clearly visible in his brown eyes.
"If you had to hurt him in the first place, you could've just stopped after Jassi didn't want anything from you! Damn, he was RIGHT! He KNEW all you were gonna do is break his heart!"

"It really wasn't intentional! I never really liked Shreyas and it was a mistake that I didn't break up with him before hand, but ask Ritz, I really tried to do that! I never meant to hurt Jassi!"

"Well it's not Jassi's fault that you aren't self aware! He's never at fault, still he's the one who suffers!"
Rohit yelled and stormed out of the room.

Me and Ritz just stood there, tongue tied. I never saw Rohit this furious, and the way he yelled at me was least expected. But he's right. If only I knew I never loved Shreyas, if only I was self aware, none of this would've happened. Jassi would've proposed me by then, and we would've been laughing and probably playing with Sam. He would've been by my side.

"I'm sorry, he's just worried about Jassi," Ritz said as she slightly squeezed my shoulder.

"It's okay," I said and slowly nodded, wondering what could I do next, now that even Rohit isn't by my side.

Yes I have to get cured, so that I can resolve next time you both fight.

I heard this only this morning, seems like such a long time ago.

I rushed to my car.

..

I was silently praying Jassi wouldn't be here, or he wouldn't let me meet his mum. Though he always runs to his mum when he's in distress, so I wondered if I could get lucky or it was just going to be another addition to this bittersweet day.

As I reached the hospital cabin, I scanned around for Jassi, or Juhika, or her husband, but found none.

I slowly pushed open the door.

Thankfully, nobody was inside, only Jassi's mum seated comfortably, peeping out of the window, her gaze static on the birds that were seated on the wall nearby.

"Hello," I said and she slowly shifted her gaze to me.

"Jassi's even more hurt than before," that's all she said in a soft whisper.

I closed my eyes and sighed.

"I'm so sorry, this was completely unintentional, please give me a chance to explain?"

She pointed to the chair beside her bed.

I slowly seated and thanked her, as I began to tell how I was with Shreyas, but I never liked him, and it took me a long time to realise that. How I decided to break up with him the moment I knew Jassi was the man for me, how circumstances didn't help me and finally how he exposed me as he saw me with Jassi.

"My biggest mistake was that I should've just ended things with Shreyas over phone itself, and I should've told Jassi in the first instance. But I swear I would've come clean to Jassi, but before we get even a considerable amount of time in our relationship, this woe befell on us,"

She sighed and looked out of the window. She no longer had that happy mood I saw in the morning, she had paled and her face contained a soft sad expression, probably because of worrying about her son.

After a long silence, she finally spoke,
"Love is a complicated one, my dear. Heart heals and breaks in love. A very natural phenomenon in love, heartbreaks are just a part and parcel of a love life. But the issue with Jassi, has in fact, something to do with his nature. He isn't that boy you see in the movies, all tough and never crying type. No, he's more the type who cries when he feels like, he's sad and broken when he is supposed to be. And today, I knew by the look of his eyes, he was broken,"

"He told me everything, and sure enough, now really believes that he can never find someone, that he will die alone. His insecurities have creeped in again. I want him to be happy, to find the woman he loves. He has always been a loner, you know? Again he never took his father's death or my ailment easily. It had been so long till I saw him genuinely happy this morning. I want his happiness to live long,"

"I swear to never break his heart again, if only he gave me one last chance,"

"Never,"

Jassi replied as he stood near the door.

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