With aggression visible in his demeanour, ABHIMANYU pressed the piano's keys, taking out all his frustration as he gulped glass after glass of whiskey to drown his pain
All the bad memories of his childhood roamed infront of his eyes
Those 4 years which he had spent in juvenile centre were nothing less than hell
Those were the years that killed the innocent Abhimanyu and gave birth to ABHIMANYU BIRLA, THE RUTHLESS ABHIMANYU.
Children used to mock him
Juvenile centre caretaker used to beat him, lash him, curse him
He was made to beg to get one time food
All because he was son of harshawardhan birla
Someone had said correct
Sins of father are paid by son
He didn't want his child to go through the same
He was a criminal,
He had done soo many crimes and sins that he had even lost the count
And there is no way he would let his child pay for all that
And the only way to do so is that his child never takes birth.
He would not let another abhi be born
He can't even imagine seeing his child bear all the tortures that were bestowed upon him once
He was about to pick up another glass of whiskey when someone held his hand
He looked up with blood red eyes to see his biggest enemy, his akshara's soo called best friend, standing infront of him
He was the last person he wanted to see right now
"Get lost reyhaan"
"Abhimanyu , look at yourself, I wouldn't have stopped you if you had been drinking in happiness of becoming a father,But look at you,It looks like you are the most unhappy person to grace this planet"
"REYHAAN"
Abhimanyu was about to walk away from there but reyhaan stopped him
"Abhimanyu , I am your friend
I understand your pain,
I can help,
Afterall thats what friends are for,
You don't want to be a dad,
Thats okay,
You don't want that child,
Then give it to me,
You live your life just like you want,
I will raise that child as my own,
I promise, i will be a perfect dad.
I have even started practicing ,
Today was akshara's sonography
You didn't go, that's why i went to give her moral support"
A dirty smirk lingered over his lips seeing the man infront of him....
Abhimanyu's eyes saw red hearing him about taking his child away.
How dare he.
He will never give up his child.....NEVER EVER
"Stay in your limits Reyhaan "
Raging with anger, Abhimanyu punched reyhaan hard across the face
Reyhaan's head hit the table making his forehead bleed....
His eyes shot up in fear seeing Abhimanyu's raging like a bull....if he didn't control the situation now..god knows what would Abhimanyu end up doing to him....
Standing up, he started laughing as he wiped the trail of blood from his chin....
"ohh hoo Abhimanyu ,I was just joking,
I just wanted to see that whether you care for the baby or not.
But see, as soon as i said i will take your baby away
You got angry,
An angry volcano erupted inside of you.
You do care,
Congratulations friend
You are going to be a dad"
Saying so reyhaan was about to walk out but Abhimanyu held his neck from behind strangulating him
"Akshara or us baby se dur rehna reyhaan
THEY ARE MINE
Agar tum ne un ke bare main socha bhi toh you can't even imagine the things I am gonna do to you"
Reyhaan gasped like a fish trying to catch his breath but in vain.....
Abhimanyu was choking him soo badly that he felt that he would pass out any moment
Pushing him harshly, Abhimanyu marched out of the study leaving a fuming reyhaan behind
Beaming with rage, reyhaan marched to his room and smashed everything that came in his way.
"I thought that Abhimanyu would agree to give me the child and i would record it all and show it to akshara.
In this way she would start hating him.
But he,He got mad like a bull hearing about his child being taken away.
No
I will have to do something fast
I can feel that Abhimanyu is hesitant now
But sooner or later he would accept this child
He is already soo possessive about the child
What would happen when he would accept it"
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"Mujhe toh isme bas ek dot nazar aa rha hai..."
Abhimanyu 's eyebrows scrunched in confusion holding the report his wife had handled him, trying his best to locate the baby but all he could see was a small blurry dot, as his wife chuckled at his remark
"Woh sirf ek dot nahi...hamara baby hai..."
His body went still for a moment as his wife revealed to him that the picture he had been analysing since the past five minutes was not an ordinary dot...rather their baby....
It was soo tiny and nothing like a human shape......yet an obsessive need to protect it with his life rose in his heart......
"Kehte hai ke kareeb 5 hafton baad baby ki heartbeat sunae deti hai...Kisi bhi couple ke liye yeh bhot special moment hota hai,Tum toh nhi the na mere sath aaj,Miss kr dia tumne....
Isliye main woh tumhare liye record krke lae hoon...."
Pulling out a pair of airpods from the side drawer she connected them to her phone and placed on of them into his ears.....
No...he didn't wanted to.....
He was scared....
Scared that if he would hear his baby's heartbeat his resolve would break....
But even before he could take the airpods off, his wife turned on the recording.....
Time seemed to have frozen in space as his baby's heart beat in synchronicity with his own making the tears, which he had been holding since soo long, fall freely, turning his eyes blood red, as his wife stared at him with her own tear tainted orbs....
Clamping her hand over his, caressing it gently, she closed her eyes, letting her tears fall......
In that moment, akshara and Abhimanyu Birla fell utterly and unconditionally in love with their flesh and blood....their baby....
THE SYMBOL OF THEIR LOVE......
To be continued........
