MISSED YOU

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Raghav Rao, Don of Hyderabad, Owner of Jayati Jewels, is sitting in the chair of his workout area, pinching the bridge of his nose. Lost! Feeling like a dead person, he pours another peg of whiskey and gulps it. He goes into his washroom and washes his face for the nth time and looks into his reflection. He remembers the flashback 15 days ago

A slender figure was waiting for him to end his call as she wanted to talk about something important to him. He doesn't care or bother and continues the call seeing her there, after waiting for 20 minutes she leaves the room. He sleeps for the night and wakes up to an empty room the next morning. He brushes away the weird feeling of something missing and goes downstairs.

A: Raghav, Pallavi Kolhapur subah 8 baje ke bus se chala gaya

R: kya?

A: aise kyu behave kar raha hai jaise tujhe nahi pata, kal tujhe batane toh aayi thi na tere paas

Raghav then remembers her waiting for him.

R: kyu gayi kolhapur?

A: Arey, uski bhabhi ko breast cancer detect hua Raghav and surgery scheduled hai, aur Uska bhai akela hai na, koi aurat nahi hai dekhne ko isiliye kuch din ke liye gayi hai.

R: acha...

He silently has his breakfast, he never cared for her as it's a contract marriage of 6 months for him as he wanted his mother and sister to live with him. It has been 4 months and he is as cold as he was from the very beginning. He never gave her the importance of a wife, he didn't have any expectations from the marriage as it is going to end in a few months. But as much as he tries, something pricks him in the corner of his heart.

Hot tears scorch in his eyes as he sees his reflection, dark circles, disheveled hair, contorted face, he feels like shattering the mirror seeing his reflection. The pain he has been through for 15 days, the craving for her, the need for company, the hatred for not even treating her like a person, the urge to die, everything was hitting him all at once.

He never knew she would become a part of him, though she is no one for him, they share a room and are not even proper roommates, he has seen her trying to communicate but dropping it. He knows in the initial days of marriage, she had the urge to kiss him on his forehead while sleeping as he could sense her proximity but he ended up warning her to stay away from him.

The emptiness in the house started to haunt him, the loneliness started to eat him up, he couldn't even sleep on his bed instead used to sleep on the couch which she used to sleep on, he could smell her fragrance on her pillow and could finally fall asleep for a couple of hours. He got used to hugging his own frame which she used to do at the window every night, he understood it was because of loneliness.

And he was done, he wanted to die, he couldn't take it anymore. He just needs her, Her. he slept on the couch, his alcohol taking a toll on his sleep.

Next morning

He heard a ring of those anklets, and his eyes fluttered open, he could hear and indistinct conversation and as he adjusted his eyes to the sunlight, he saw Pallavi, Amma and Keerthi talking

A: Raghav, tu couch pe kya kar raha hai?

R: nothing Amma, neend aa gayi yahi pe

K: dekh, teri biwi aagayi... finally

Pallavi passed a smile to keerthi and looked at Raghav, she noticed something was wrong, he looked like someone who had lost someone to death and was trying to cope with the loss.

P: Aap theek ho?

She is not someone who generally interferes but this time she really felt bothered by him,

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