Matsya

Chapter 10

The cold nights didn't bother until I felt some warmth now a thought of it's absence makes me shiver .

Savitri -  Have a seat , let me get you some coffee .

Sanidhi - Aunty no need of that can we just talk please?

Savitri - Why this restlessness Sanidhi? I'm not going anywhere .

Sanidhi - It's just that I want to know .

Savitri - Hmm why this sudden curiosity about Manu?

Sanidhi - I was looking at his old album and it confirmed my doubts .

Savitri - What doubts ?

Sanidhi - All this time with him he was so hesitant before and to see him now and those photos , He wasn't always like this was he?

Savitri - He was nothing like this , how I wish to see that kid be happy again .

Sanidhi - What happened? Where is his family? Why does he live alone ?

Savitri - I've known his mother Shobha since a longtime we went to the same school ,same college that's where she met Dwarki .

Sanidhi - Mr Dwarkanath vasitha?

Savitri - Yes a quite soft spoken man , Manu is a spitting image of him but his heart it comes from Shobha . People envied this family.

Sanidhi - What happened then ?

Savitri - The thing is Sanidhi Worst things happen to good people, Dwarki's business started to take a hit his partners left him which made it's effect in his personal life .
He became very serious and lost his cool at simple things , Shobha was like a rock but even she had her limits and eventually they split .
Shobha had fought with her family to be with Dwarki and her guilt didn't let her go back to her family , but the one who was punished for no fault of his was Manu .

Sanidhi - Why did they have to take such a harsh decision was their really no other way .

Savitri - Circumstances brings out the worst in us , both regret what they did , but honestly there's no answer to what it could have been .
From then it was just the Mother and son in their world , Shobha raised a good man and Manu always gave his best to make her happy , He used to tell her every detail about his day .

Sanidhi - Used to? You mean ?

Savitri - Few months ago Shobha wanted to go on a trip and they were ready to go but Manu had to cancel last moment due to work, He forced his mother to carry on without him .
I still remember how she ranted to go without him but he wouldn't let her cancel, Manu was so happy to send his mother on that trip but fate was never kind to him .

The cab Shobha was on met an accident and she lost her life, that shattered Manu completely .

Dwarkanath, Shobha's family everybody came that day but Manu never felt them as his own

On one end was his father who left him as a child on the other was his Mother's family who she kept aside Manu became very lonely .
And since then Manu has shut himself from the world he lost the only person who meant the world to him .

Silence covers the room, Sanidhi tries to process the events of Manohar's life .

Savitri - It's been long since I've seen him happy , but after he met you he's slowly getting back .

Sanidhi - I don't know about that aunty but I'll try to help him as much I can .

Savitri - I know you will, always did .

Sanidhi - Always?

Savitri - Ever since the day I saw you , I had a feeling you both were alike world may say otherwise but you my dear to carry a burden much like him .

Sanidhi - Aunty how did you?

Savitri  - I don't know what waits for both of you ahead but I wish you see your bright days again , now tell me about yourself .

Sanidhi - Aunty please don't tell anyone what I'm about to tell you .

Savitri - I won't tell a soul, you have my word .