A PIECE OF LOVE (RIKARA SHOTS)

Piece - 6

Omkara was born into a wealthy family inheriting fortunes one would need an entire life to even calculate accurately. Just like the saying, he was "born with a silver spoon in his mouth". But unfortunately, happiness is not always associated with money and assets. It's rather connected with destiny and to his knowledge, happiness was never engraved in his destiny. Otherwise why does God always take away everything that he cherished? He didn't have a single memory of the mother who gave birth to him, his father surrounded by his own sadness couldn't give him the love he deserved and when Rudra took his last breath, he took away the love Jahnvi had for Omkara as well. In the end Omkara was all alone with no one by his side, facing hatred and ridicule of the world. But even in this pitch black darkness he never lost his humanity, and the reason for it was just one person...

(FLASHBACK)

Omkara was a 18 year old young boy with short hair and clean face when his grandmother Kalyani Singh Oberoi was about to take her last breath, miles away from their home, Oberoi mansion, in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh.

Kalyani was living the last phase of her life in her hometown Bareilly where she used to live before she was wedded to Prithvi Singh Oberoi, Tej's father.

It was a huge haveli her father made, a place filled with all her childhood memories. Where her parents used to live before they went to their heavenly aboard passing the heirloom house to her.

She was a stubborn old woman who refused to forgive her son for neglecting his first born. Tej on the other hand couldn't forgive his mother for forcing him to marry Jahnvi. In the midst of all those events, an unbreakable wall was built between the mother and son. Kalyani was a prideful woman so she decided to spend the remaining years of her life in her paternal home in order to keep herself away from her emotionally wasted son.

"Omkara I don't think I can argue with your father to go there... But I want to stay with her in the last moments... Your Dadi always treated me like her own daughter, I could never let her die there all alone. Her caretaker informed me, there's not much time left. You, me and Rudra are going to Bareilly." Jahnvi told Om with tearful eyes as she took a small luggage and rushed out of Oberoi mansion with young Rudra. Omkara was following them when suddenly his eyes fell on his father standing by the stairs quietly. Their eyes met and for the first time Tej didn't look away from him.

Omkara stopped on his track and  for some reason decided to say something to Tej before leaving. He didn't try to stand right in front of Tej but was at a minimal distance from where Tej could hear his voice.

"You should come and see her... There would be no point in coming once she's gone, you're her son, let her see your face before she goes" said Omkara before he walked out of Oberoi mansion to join Jahnvi and Rudra to the car. Tej kept looking at his back till he slowly disappeared from his sight. He felt as if Om could read what was happening in his mind, he sighed before making his own decision.
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Jahnvi along with Om and Rudra reached the airport and took an emergency flight to Bareilly, it took almost 4 hours for them to reach Kalyani's haveli.

"Mom... You and Rudra go inside, I'll help the driver with our luggage and join you" Omkara said. Jahnvi nodded and went ahead along with the 14 years old Rudra. Om helped the driver with the luggage and entered the house, he used to visit his Dadi during his middle school summer breaks so he knew exactly where her room was. He stepped into the room where the old woman was bedridden, he could see Jahnvi's back as she was sitting quietly near her bed with a numb Rudra. As he came closer, his eyes fell on the other side of the bed where an unfamiliar girl in her teen was sitting, holding a book in her hands. She was reciting the contents of the book in her mild voice.