Unconditional Love (Part- 2)

Chapter - 26

Third Person’s POV

Hearing Aniket’s shout everyone hurriedly came to the living room where Aniket was
standing middle of the room with a very angry face.

Mrs. KAPOOR : Aniket, what happened? Why are you shouting?

Aniket didn’t reply to his mother, he again shouted Anika's name.

ANIKET : ANIKA KAPOOR…come –

Before Aniket could finish his sentence, he noticed Anika was entering the room
behind Kritika.

KRITIKA : what happened Aniket? Why are you shouting Anika's name? What did she do?

Everyone else present in the room wanted to know the answer to this same question except Anika. Hearing her mother's question she lowered her head.

ANIKET : Ask her… (pointed at Anika angrily)

Mr. KAPOOR : Anika, what did you do? Why is your papa angry at you so much?

Anika didn’t reply, she didn’t even raise her head.

ANIKET : why are you not raising your face and answering your Dadu(grandfather)? You can’t even answer him? You decide to face the world alone when you can’t even face your own family members! Ohh no sorry sorry I shouldn’t say family members… because we are not your family members… right?

Mrs. KAPOOR : Aniket! what are you saying?

ANIKET : I am saying the right thing, Mom. She doesn’t think of us as her family members. She is ashamed of the surname Kapoor. Would you be happy to have your surname as Ahuja?

ANIKA : Papa…

After entering this room this is the first time Anika raised her head. Everyone now
could clearly see the tears on Anika’s face.

ANIKET : Don’t call me that…

More tears started to roll down Anika’s eyes. But she didn’t protest. Nitika and Anik gasped hearing this from their father’s mouth. Others were also shocked.

KRITIKA : Aniket!! Why are you behaving this way? What has she done? Anika, you answer
me… what did you do? Answer me Anika… or I will beat you.

Usha(Mrs. Kapoor) went near Anika and caressed her hair very gently she asked…

Mrs. KAPOOR : what did you do, sweetheart? Why is your papa so angry at you?

ANIKA : Today I… I have sent my resignation letter to papa's secretary.

Mr. KAPOOR : Why Niki?

ANIKET : Only that!!

Anika again lowered her head...

KRITIKA : Aniket you tell us…what has she done?

After looking sternly at Anika for some minutes, Aniket started speaking…

ANIKET : She has bought a ticket for London. She wants to go away from us. She has already talked with Gullu.

Kritika wasn’t much surprised as Anika has just told her this in her room but everyone
else was shocked.

Mrs. KAPOOR : you don’t want to live with us anymore, Niki?

ANIKET : let me finish mom, there is more…she has talked with Gullu but she is actually just using him to go away from us.

Everyone was now confused… even Kritika was also confused. Anika was standing quietly lowering her head.

Mr. KAPOOR : what do you mean, Aniket?

ANIKET : Dad, She has talked with Gullu to go to London. Gullu thought she wants a
change so she wanted to work in their company in London, so he accepted her
request. He has arranged everything. But do you know what she has done? … she
has actually applied for a job in a hotel… and in her resume, she didn’t mention
her surname… she didn’t even submit her any certificate … she doesn’t want to
relate with us…as she couldn’t able to provide any certificate… she has gotten
a job as a sweeper.

Everyone was shocked to hear all this.

Mr. Kapoor : Niki, why did you do this?

ANIKET : You don’t want to relate with us right? You don’t want my surname… fine.. Get out… get out of my house. I don’t want a daughter like you. My daughter couldn’t be selfish. You have hurt us with your
behaviour. Kabir is very disappointed ..gullu is very hurt finding out all this.
You don’t love us.....Get out of my sight. I don’t want to see you.

Tears were continuously falling from Anika’s eyes. She was sobbing silently.

Mrs. KAPOOR : Aniket, you are now angry son…don’t say such a thing. You are hurting her. She is crying. Calm down…talk with her calmly… she has done a mistake.

ANIKET : Mistake mom? You are telling this mistake! Why mom? How could she do such
mistake? She is selfish, mom. She doesn’t care about our love. She thinks of our
love as pity. Ask her mom, why she is crying now? Does she care about us? No,
she doesn’t. Was there anything missing in my love? From the moment I
married Kritika I never think that she isn’t my biological daughter….not
for a single second I think that. But look mom…after knowing the truth it didn’t
take her a few days to remove the surname which relating us legally. My love
doesn’t matter to her…if I were her biological father, would she do this? No…
the answer is no… she wouldn’t have done this. Today she proved blood relation
is everything. Why are standing still now… Get Out. (Shouted at Anika)

Anika shivered hearing her father’s shout. Aniket was going to hold Anika’s hand to
drag her out of the house but before he could hold Anika's hand Mr and Mrs.
Kapoor stood in front of Anika like a shield and Anik and Nitika also stood
beside hugging her.

Mr. KAPOOR : Aniket, you are not in your sense now. We will talk about this later. Kritika takes him to the room.

Aniket looked at Anika for some time before going toward his room.

ANIKET : you have hurt me… You have hurt me.

Tears were clearly visible in Aniket’s eyes when Aniket left the room.

Anika fell to her knees and covering her face she started crying loudly. She never wanted to hurt her father.

Kritika was looking at Anika with sad eyes. She didn’t understand whom to console first… her husband or her daughter.

But after hearing all this from Aniket and hearing Anika’s words today in her room, she realized they needed to talk with Anika. She (Anika) has taken this truth another way.
It has affected her differently. They needed to talk with her but first she
(Kritika) knew she have to tell Aniket all of that. She knew Aniket is more
hurt than angry… she have to pacify him first.