SAVIOUR ✅

16: Nightmare

Siddharth sees an intoxicated Darshan mumbling something.

"Hey, hey, Darshan....Darshan"
Siddharth sits beside him and calls him.

"I.....I..fa..failed......I l..lost......I am......w..worst.....I I...ne...need y-youu Diksha"
This is what Darshan mumbles, before he looses his consciousness due to the excessive alcohol consumption.

Darshan is not someone who drinks often. So after seeing him drunk, Siddharth is scared. He is not able to think what he could do inorder to help him. Instead he goes to Darshan's father and asks him, "uncle, I think things are getting out of control. What shall we do? I don't think Darshan is fine."

"Call her" is what Darshan's father replied.

<Darshan's point of view>

I was cycling on an inclined road. Diksha was with her bicycle. The place was so surreal. Everything was surreal. I looked around and saw sunrays falling on beautiful mountain peaks. Suddenly I lost control over my bicycle while witnessing the heavenly sight. Suddenly the speed of the bicycle increased. I stumbled upon a rock and fell down. I looked behind and saw I was hanging from a cliff. If my hand slipped I would fall down and that would be the end of my life. My palms were cold and sweat covered my face. I panicked and screamed, "Diksha please help me. I want to live. I don't want to die. Please help me. I don't want to die..I want to fulfill our dreams. Please save me"
I saw Diksha coming near me. I smiled after thinking that she would help me and I won't fall down the cliff and die.
But she whispered and said, "Darshan I know you will manage. I am with you Gabbu. Be strong"
And she walked away!
I was shocked. I called her name again. And maybe that was the last time...my grip loosened and I fell. I was falling down...several feet down...I could feel clouds beneath me. But...my vision blurred..I don't know what was happening. I could feel I was drifting into deep sleep and maybe I would never wake up again. I could no longer think properly. I felt I was going away from Diksha.....and then my head hit on something very hard- maybe a rock...and then everything went black. Maybe that was the end of Darshan Raval, no..... Diksha's Gabbu.

<End of Darshan's point of view>

"Nooooo"
Darshan almost screams after waking up.
He became unconscious after consuming excessive alcohol. So he woke after an hour.

Suddenly he feels someone hugging him. It isn't Divya, it isn't Siddharth, it isn't his dad. It is Diksha.
"Calm down Darshan. I'm here"
He immediately recognises voice. It is the voice which he has not heard in the last three years.

Darshan immediately hugs her back and starts crying.
She further says in a soothing voice, "stop crying. Nothing will happen."
Suddenly Darshan moves back and breaks the hug. His eyes are filled with tears, his vision is blurred. But he continues, "So you..you saved me. I-I did not fall down from the cliff. But I remember I fell down...so I...you...how am I alive after falling down from the height?"

Diksha understands that he must have dreamt were he fell down from a cliff.
It was a nightmare. But whatever was happening in Darshan's life was to reason why he dreamt of something scary, like falling down from a cliff.

Diksha interlocks her fingers with his and says, "Gabbu see, it's your room. There is no cliff here. It was a nightmare. Nothing happened. It's all good. Everything is okay. We're okay."

"Maybe that was a nightmare. But what happened today is not a dream. It was a reality..you know what happened today?"

Tears rolled down his eyes and but Diksha hugs her again.

"I know what happened. But it's not your mistake."

He continues to cry and said in between his sobs, "I failed Diksha. I am the worst son, worst husband, worst father. I d-don't know anything. I a-am.... a s-stupid. You know what..I deserve a bad life. I-I deserve hatred..I don't deserve to be loved by anybody.... but you know what....."

He paused a bit, and Diksha questions softly "what?"

"...I can't do anything without y-you. Remember that day you told me...I..I will manage everything...that same thing came in my dream today. I was hanging from a cliff...and you said I w-will m-manage...ev.. everything but...I couldn't. I saw I fell down...and I died. Maybe that was a dream...but see today in real life...I was ca..careless...I was about to lose our...our angel.... our Divya. I can't....I can't handle things. I don't have mom beside me...you were not there...I can't manage. I am....I.. remember in college you helped me to study. And before one exam you didn't teach me, and I failed in that exam. See... everytime you left me..I failed. I...I...I need you Diksha. I need you"
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