15 Hours To Stay In Love ✅

C.8. Eleventh Hour

"Sana, it's 7 a.m. already, please go home and take Maa as well. Get some rest. I will stay back with Papa", suggests Sidharth.

"I am surprised Sidharth. You didn't say we shall hire a nurse to look after him. Anyways, you will have to go to work as well, I am anyways jobless so I will stay back. If it's not too much to ask, can you please drop Maa home on your way?", Said Sana.

"Hmmm..", he mockingly smirks for his past behaviours which had made her say those words. He had learnt it a hard way, after loosing his love of life, that people need their loved ones more at their low then anyone.

About the work, he hadn't been able to work since past 13 days. 13 days were passed, that means there were just 2 days away to end their relationship. When he initially agreed to give 15 hours to her, it was to make sure here life was better when they seperated.

At Geeta's clinic, he was guilty for losing his unborn child which he had learnt only that day. He still is but over the period, he witnessed depression, nightmares, anger, anxiety, possessiveness and jealousy. All those which came due to the fear of losing Sana.

Sana, his wife, his love and his life. Which he realised when he still got that feeling of tingling sensation when she gave him the hug just like the time when they newly fell in love. The feelings which never died, but he had failed to notice and ignored it since he assumed that she would be just there where he had left her.

He had taken her for granted not understanding that even if you own a beautiful garden of love, you still need to take time to water it, provide nutrition and remove weeds else it will wither over time.

"Bye Maa.. grab some rest and don't worry. Papa will be fine. Here is your food.", Said Sidharth as he pulled the car infront of her house.

"Sidharth, can we speak for a while?", Asked his mother-in-law.

"Sure Maa.", Said Sidharth. They both go in.

"Tea?", She asked.

"No, you shouldn't strain yourself.", Said Sidharth.

"But I want to have some tea. Do you know how to make one?", She asked.

Sidharth nodded in denial feeling embarrassed and Mrs. Saxena chuckled.

"You can instruct me.", Suggests Sidharth. She agrees and he pulls a chair into the kitchen and the mother-in-law & son-in-law duo team up to prepare tea.

"You know my son, Mitesh and I are married for 33 years. Unlike yours, ours was an arranged marriage. I married a total stranger. When we learnt Sana was in love with you, the first thing we did was to ponder as to when Mitesh and I fell in love.", She chuckled while Sidharth smiled listening attentively to her.

"Instead of thinking of Sana's decision to marry you, I complained to Mitesh that he never proposed me. The day you proposed Sana on your knees, Mitesh too went down on his knees that night, though privately infront of me and I couldn't keep myself from melting and blushing.", She smiled reminiscing the moment which Sidharth quietly observed reminiscing his proposal yet again.

"Thank you son! Your love gave us that special moment. But now it breaks my heart to think that you two are taking the decision to break that love.", She said in a heavy tone. The beautiful smile on her face was replaced with pain. His face mirrored her emotions.

"Mitesh and I have been thinking about her eversince she took the decision. We were hoping for some miracle to happen when we learnt that you both would get 15 hours to spend together. But the past 5 days crushed all our hopes because y'all just didn't want to meet each other. Perhaps among the two of us, Mitesh's heart seems to be too weak to handle this. That stupid bugger loves his daughter more than his wife I guess. How would I have stayed without him if something had happened to him? I am not as strong as you and Sana, to stay without him. I love him.", She choked as a stream of tears kept flowing from her eyes.