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"Dard aur...Ant?"


After raining for whole day and night, finally it stopped and the dark cloud was gone allowing sun to brighten the new day, but there was dark cloud in someone's heart, the cloud which were raining anger, fury.
It was raining fire instead of water.
Anirudh sat there for almost a day, holding the body close to himself.

Even Saurabh came to him, but he glanced at him from far away and went back. He knew Anirudh needs a moment, with himself and her.
Whole night, he didn't sleep, didn't eat, didn't even utter a single word. He just sat there holding her close to himself, stroking her hair and remembering all the old memories with his friend, then wife, and then his life. There was nothing he can see, just her smiling face, calling him as Anirudh ji.

"Anirudh babu.?" Saurabh and Sampoorna comes to him. Sampoorna was too broken and she won't lie but she kept crying whole night while Saurabh tried to console her, but failed.
Saurabh approached shaking Anirudh, he was drenched in water and when he looks up, he got scared. His eyes were teary red, swollen. He hadn't slept whole night, there were tear marks on his cheeks, his face was flushed red and still there were few tears. But beneath those tears, sadness, there was rage, a spark, which can turn into fire anytime, the spark of revenge, loss..

"Sabko bulao." this was enough to tell Saurabh how much anger and fury was inside him. Saurabh nods and moves to the village to gather everyone. He knew there's no meaning in asking him any question. He don't know what's Anirudh was going to do, what's going in his mind, but he knew one thing, something terrible is going to happen....that spark is going to turn into fire and is going to be broken out...
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Everyone was gathered, questions in their mind regarding all of this.
Even Trilochan, Binoy and others were there. Trilochan still wasn't happy, he didn't want to come, especially between the villagers after what has happened but somehow, Binoy convinced him.

Everyone was wondering around when they saw a figure walking towards them, with a burned body in his hand.
Trilochan and Binoy looks at him, trying to study him, and for the first time, they saw him totally broken...

As everyone was looking at him, they felt like it was not Anirudh but someone else. As he comes and stops infront of them letting them see him clearly.
After a long time, there was no anger or hate towards him, but sympathy in their hearts.
His cloths were shrinked, hair messed up, face shattered with tears.

Trilochan and Binoy looks at the body and then him. He was standing there saying nothing and it was making them scared and scared. For the first time, Trilochan takes a proper look at others.
Seeing a dead burned body on his hand, it was bringing negative thoughts in their mind making them anxious. The questions of Neeya not coming home, girls getting brutally killed, everything was hitting their mind.

"Ye...ye kaun h?.." Binoy ask him in worry. But no answer came from him.
Binoy walks to him and asked again praying in his mind not to be what his mind was saying it is.
"Ye kaun h Anirudh?" This time Binoy ask lil loudly but in response, a muffle cry left his mouth and his hands squeezed the body tightly which didn't go unnoticed by Trilochan and Binoy.
"Nee....Neeya..."Anirudh cries out making Binoy and Trilochan shake up. They looks at him for a 'no' or something like that, but his face, his cries was enough as answer.

Trilochan stumbles back losing his balance and Saurabh holds him.
Binoy looks at the body, his mind praying for it to be false, for it not being Neeya, for not taking Neeya away from his Anirudh, from taking soul away from his son, happiness from their house.
"Nhi....nhi...Nee...Neeya.." the anxiety flooded in their body.
The others covered their mouth though few of them knew about it.

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