Our Hill of Stars

REYANSH X ARADHANA

✨ Sweet Cuddles ✨

Prompt : Set in their dating phase when Aradhana comes to know about the secret of her parents.

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Aradhana's POV

July was one of the most beautiful times I had in those six months of working and knowing Reyansh.
He was exactly what you call an enigma. Reyansh Lamba, the man who, I allowed to break me, was actually the one, who helped me grow as a person in the toughest phase of my life. He was the one who held my hand, and actually lived by his promise of loving me, until he couldn't anymore.
I and Reyansh had begun dating when I came to know about my parents' reality and how they lied to me all this time. It was least to say that I was disappointed and heartbroken. I didn't deserve the lies, I was served with all my life. I still remember when Reyansh came to know about my truth, he engulfed me in his protective arms. Eh. How much I miss that comfort and warmness I found in him! Unimaginable!

He had hugged me tight and I was living again. I breathed again, or may I say he gave life to me. I never had thought while joining his office, that there would come such a moment when 'the' Reyansh Lamba would become my life, my everything. Nothing mattered to me, more than him.

"Main ghar chhod rahi hoon." I told him as he brought me a sugar free ice cream, and he dropped his ice cream spoon in astonishment. I remember him jumping and saying "Are you mad? Pagal vagal ho gayi ho. No matter what hain to vo tumhare parents hi."

"Reyansh Lamba ke muh se ye baat thodi ajeeb nahi lagti?" I chided and we fell into laughter. It was all so easy with him. Handling the trickiest situations of life, be it getting our best friends married in hiding, be it lying in the whole office about our relationship, or sneaking out of house in midnights to have our time, it was always easy with him. I never feared in his presence.
But I was unaware that he won't last long in my life. Wish I did.

"See. I have no problem with your decision personally but tumhe samjhana mera kaam tha." Rey licked his ice cream cutely.

"Reyansh all I need is some space. Mai abhi gussa hoon, shayad dhang se kuch soch na pau, isliye I have planned to move out. Mai unhe samjhna chahti hoon. Main apne parents ko maaf kardena chahti hoon." I wiped the extra cream that covered his face and told him. Reyansh always listened to my chatter carefully.
All I mourn is that I couldn't realise when he stopped listening.

"You know what. I understand. There was a time I used to think exactly like you. Ghar se bhagna chahta tha and you know the reason." He added.

"I know." I held his hand with all the love I had in me for him. Because he was an emotional mess and I had promised myself to never let him break himself into pieces.
And now, I don't even get to touch the dust of him.

"- And dad didn't let me. Vo nahi chhod sake mujhe. Aur phir sabne to unhe akela chhoda hua hai, mai kaise apni Maa jaisa ban sakta tha. So here we are. Surviving in the same house as her." I felt sorry for him. Rey was what he was, because of his parents. His father never divorced his mother, his mother never wanted him and her father and lastly they didn't even give Reyansh, his deserved space and time to heal. Though I was proud of him nonetheless.
Rey was mine, and I was his, with all our imperfections and abilities.