Chapter 3 - Beeti hui baatein

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Sai: Ab kaisa feel kar rahe hai?

(How are you feeling now?)

Virat: Pehle se behtar hai (He said quickly)

(Better than before)

Virat: Humare love marriage hui hai? (Virat asked curiously)

(Did we have a love marriage?)

Sai was shocked.

Sai: K-kya?

(W-what?)

Virat: Nahi vo...mere parivaar thode purane khayalaad ki hai...shaadi ke baad humare ghar mein koi bhi aurat kaam nahi karte. Aur tum padhai kar rahi ho, doctor ban jaogi, kaam karegi...iss liye maine socha ki arranged marriage nahi ho sakte. Love marriage hi hua hoga.

(No well...my family is a bit old-fashioned...after marriage none of the women in our house work. And you are studying, you will become a doctor, you will work... That's why I thought that it couldn't have been an arranged marriage. It must have been a love marriage)

Sai remembered when Kaku and the rest of the family tried to stop her from studying and how Virat fought back for her. She started to get emotional again. But she also thought of what he said.

Sai (in her mind): Na hi humare shaadi arranged thi... aur na hi love marriage thi...zabardasti se kiya gaye hai...lekin main ye sab nahi bol sakti...Virat sir sawal poochenge aur main usse ye sab ke baare mein nahi bata sakte. Khaas daur pe Aaba ki maut ke baare mein...usse sadma lagega shayad.

(Neither our marriage was arranged... nor was it a love marriage...it was forced...But I can't say all this...Virat sir will ask questions and I can't tell him about all this. Especially about Aaba's death...he will probably be shocked.)

Virat wondered what was running through her mind, but since she didn't deny it, he assumed he was right...that it was a love marriage. Sai changed the topic. 

Sai: Aapko aaram ki zaroorat hai. Aap aaram kijiye. Main baad mein aati hun

(You need rest. You rest. I will come later)

Virat shook his head to say ok. Sai left to talk to the doctors about any possible treatment for the memory loss. 

Later that evening

Sai returned and Virat was sleeping. She looked at him and her eyes softened. But then she reminded herself of his betrayal and got upset again. She wondered about Shruti. If she knew...Sai then thought Shruti had a right to know, especially for Sahas' sake. While Virat was asleep, she took his phone and tried to call Shruti...but the number was unreachable. Sai was confused. She then thought about how Virat didn't remember Shruti.

Sai (in her mind): Lekin un dono ki shaadi to dhed saal pehle hui thi...mere aur Virat sir ki shaadi se pehle...to phir Virat sir usse kaise bhool sakte. Aur vo Pakhi didi ko bhi yaad nahi hai...

(But both of them were married one and a half years ago...before our marriage...then how can Virat sir forget her. And he doesn't even remember Pakhi Didi)

Sai (in her mind): Lekin...ye kaise ho sakte. Pakhi didi ko vaada diya tha Virat sir ne...uss waqt to vo Shruti ke saath to nahi ho sakte. Lekin phir Shruti ko kab mila, kab shaadi kiya. Mujhe kuch samajh nahi aara. 

(But... how can this happen? Virat sir had given a promise to Pakhi Didi... at that time he could not be with Shruti. But then when did he meet Shruti, when did they get married. I don't understand anything.)

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