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INAYAT
"Inayat, where are you?"
"Agastya, is everything fine?" Why does he sound so tense? It's 7:55 in the morning, it better be important.
"You're in Mumbai, right?"
"I am leaving for Berlin at 3pm. I told you before-"
"Can you please come to the City Hospital?" His voice was concerned yet wavering.
"Hospital?" Why is he asking me to come to the hospital? Did something happen? Mitansh? Did something happen to him? Why Inayat, why were you ignoring him for the last two weeks? If something happened to him, will you be able to forgive yourself? Will you?
"What happened?" My heart beat started to escalate.
"Nothing serious. Everything is fine. I just need to confirm one thing. So can you come, please?" Confirm? Just for his sake of confirmation he made me worry about 'nothing'?
"Don't scare me Agastya. There must be a reason, why hospital?"
"Ahaana-" The grip over my phone loosened a little and I looked down. That girl again. Why god, why is she overpowering my world? I had nothing to do with her, no hard feelings, no hate, no revenge, yet she is everywhere.
"What happened to Ahaana?" Even if something happened to her, why is he calling me at the hospital? There is no sense in me meeting her. Also, what does he need to confirm?
"Actually, I don't know. But first tell me, Is everything fine between you and Mitansh?" Mitansh... Ahaana... Now I get it. Is Agastya trying to show me that Mitansh is trying to cheat on me while following him to the hospital? Is he trying to spy on him and catch him red handed? Obviously, that's what he sounds like!
"Umm.. I-" What should I tell him, when I myself have no idea?
Should I tell him that everything is Fine? Wait, what does fine even mean anymore?
"You don't need to say anything further. Just come to the hospital. We'll talk there!" Did he get it? Did he understand my feelings, my silent words?
"Agastya, I don't think that there is any need for me to go to the hospital.." How can I tell him that I already know it? That I don't need to spy on him. That I'm the one who is not ready to accept it and is running away from reality?
"What?"
"....Nothing. I'll be there in 20 mins." The whole universe is telling you to move on now! It's a clear sign. Just go to him, confront and then dump him. It's easy, it's simple. Right?
'Even after knowing everything, why was I keeping a hope that he'll return to me? That he'll love me, the way I love him? That he'll hold my hand and never let it go? Why am I such an idiot?' I unconsciously gripped my thumb from the fingers of my both hands. I wanted to talk to him, but still... I'm continuously fighting myself. Over and Over.
"Okay." Agastya hung up the call. I looked at my phone's screen and then placed the phone on the center table in my living room. I took a deep breath and looked outside the sliding window. My fist was still clenched and my heart, it felt heavy. After so many years, the house again felt like walls made up of bricks. A cold construction, just a regular building.
I could see the garden outside the room but my mind was lost somewhere else. There was so much going on inside my head that I was not able to concentrate on one aspect. I took a deep breath and relaxed all my muscles.
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