The Innocent Mistake

The Innocent Mistake - 5

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He lifted his head to look at the computer screen. She was gone offline but not before leaving him another message.

Don't worry, I haven't told my parents about you. My father would have killed you. Enjoy your life and my part of life as well. You are fortunate that you don't have to go through the consequences.

Those words ran like daggers on his heart. If anyone could see his heart right now, they would have seen it bleeding severely.

He took the printout of his ticket and for some unknown reason, he even took the print of the ultra sound picture, which Sana had sent him, before leaving the cafe.

He boarded the bus and reached back to the place where it all began. Earlier, he was finding reasons to run away from her for the fear of facing her but now he wanted to see her. Alighting the bus, he went straight to her house. He rang the doorbell with his shivering finger and waited for the door to open.

"Yes?", He was met with an unfamiliar face.

"Huh?", He looked around. It couldn't be that he had forgotten the address of her house. They've spent their life together playing and running around each other's houses.

"What do you want?", Asked the person.

"Sana?", Sidharth said gulping his saliva.

"Sana who?", The person asked yet again.

"Sana Kapoor?", He said.

"We bought this house from Rajiv Kapoor a couple of months back. If you are talking about the same Kapoors - him or his family members, then they don't stay here anymore.", Said the person.

"What? Where did they go?", Sidharth asked.

"I don't know. Nobody knows.", The person said before closing the door on his face.

Sidharth was tensed. She was pregnant with his child. Her parents sold off their home suddenly. It wasn't a rocket science anymore. He added two plus two and got his answer. Basically, he was the reason they eloped the city. He felt even more crushed and guilty for his act.

Where are you Sana?

Buried in his thoughts, he sat on the bench in the park. He had no interest in going to Shashank's apartment after his tiff with his brother. But on second thought, he feels that probably his parents might be aware of Sana's location because they were family friends with her parents. There were good chances of Sana's parents attending Shashank's wedding as well. Maybe he could learn about her then.

Unwillingly, he started walking towards Shashank's apartment. Just before climbing the stairs, he halted in his trail. Something flashed in his thoughts. Dropping his bag behind the staircase area, he scanned through it and pulled out the black and white picture of sonography which he had printed out at the internet cafe. After putting a little stress on his eyes, he read the text written in tiny black font in the corner of the page.

"Crystal Diagnostic Centre, Victoria, Australia"

"Huh!!", He gasped realising that she was over seven thousand kilometres away from him.

What was he going to do now?

Haunting thoughts engulfed him once again as he dragged himself on the stairs leading to Shashank's apartment.

"You? How many times do I tell you not to call me?", Sidharth froze at the very first step of stairs hearing his brother's voice. He quickly hid himself behind staircase because he wanted to avoid their encounters as much as possible.