The Call of Destiny - AdiYa FF

Chapter 54: Encounter with Destiny

Aditya was lying on the floor staring at the ceiling with a worn-out look, while Arjun sat along the wall, with his head buried inside his closed arms. Nothing entered their ears. They were almost in another world, where they could just see doom and darkness on all sides.

Aditya's mind flashed all those memories which he always wanted to forget. That fateful encounter, and Zoya falling unconscious on his shoulder on the bus. He didn't understand why life had to play such a nasty game with him. He remembered how he got rid of his emotional clutches and finally lost his heart to Zoya; only to realize now that, he was the reason that beautiful soul decided to end her life once. He destroyed all her dreams just a day before her wedding, and now his dreams have gone to the dust before his wedding with her.

All his days with her flashed in his mind like a tribute video. The way he waited for her to fall in love with him and convinced her to fall in love again, their moments of emotional and physical intimacy, and that day when he accidentally predicted the future:

"What if...Yash was the one who got killed by me that day? Would you have still convinced me to take up my job again, by asking me to consider this an accident and a call of destiny? Whose side will you take in that situation?"

"Yash and you...you are two pieces of my heart. Whoever I am today...it's because of you both. And, if there arises a situation like how you said today...that I have to choose one among you both...I would not want to live to see that moment...!"

"I did everything to find out some clue about that person, Zoya...his family, loved ones, wife, mother...someone. But I got nothing...I know meeting them is not going to make a difference. He won't come back alive...But at least...at least...I can plead with them to punish me...or curse me to their heart's content...or even kill me...I would surrender myself at their feet..." Aditya plunged on the floor opposite Zoya, "...willing to accept any punishment..."

"I want you to promise me, Aditya...that hereafter, no matter how terrifying or intense it is, no matter how I get affected by it or intimidated by it, you will never hide anything from me or keep any secrets from me. Even if I take time to accept it, or even if I stay angry at you for a while, you will never cut yourself off my life...promise?"

"No secrets from you...no lies to you...it's Aditya Hooda's promise!"

Aditya chuckled, while tears flowed down his eyes. Arjun looked up at him. Aditya broke into a burst of laughter, while tears continuously drenched his face. He covered his face with his arm, as he laughed at the way Destiny finished him off.

"Bhai...bhai..." Arjun came next to him with a worried look, while Aditya sat up and laughed, trying to control his tears at the same time.

"Bhai, what happened to you?" Aditya laughed, as he looked at Arjun with teary eyes, "Arjun...I always mocked destiny and such. Now see..." Aditya laughed, "See the way destiny proved its existence to me...my life...my entire life has become a joke...my love...my future...my...my Zoya..."

Aditya laughed, while Arjun emotionally hugged Aditya, while Aditya too clutched onto Arjun, as his laughter slowly turned to an agonized cry.

"My Zoya...I don't even know if I can call her that hereafter, Arjun...it's all over...everything's over Arjun..." Aditya cried while Arjun comforted him, "No Bhai...please don't say like that. As long as I am alive, no one can snatch away your happiness."

"My happiness is already snatched away from me, Arjun...how will I face Zoya now? How do I..." Aditya broke the hug and looked at his hands as he said, "How do I tell that poor soul, that these hands...these hands she is about to hold and enter into a new life in a couple of days, are the same hands that killed her first love?"