#1 [Tied to You] : his to love

28. [The Havoc Inside]

"She's fine... Nothing happened to her." She caressed his back.

" Wh... what if some...thing happened to her... Mai... nahi je... jee pata is baar... Rumika.. mai nahi... jee pata.... Mujhe mein aur.... himmat nahi.. hai ... "
(I can't able to live this time... I don't have the courage anymore)

His tears smudged on her shoulder. She broke the hug and cupped his face wiping his effortlessly flowing tears. His eyes were red and puffed his lips were trembling. Her own tears were threatening to flow but she controlled them. She had to.

"Yug look at me.." She titled his face making his eyes look into hers. "She's fine. Nothing happened to anyone. You heard doctor n.. He said n that she is fine nothing to worry about and because of the high dosage to make her heal fast it would take two-three days to gain consciousness.. " She spoke forcing each word to fit into his mind." Trust me everything will be fine. She'll be fine. "

" She... she's is cursing me Rumika... I.. I wasn't able to pro.. protect her... I wasn't able to... save her... Because of me.. she's died... she's died....you don't know.. but she's died..."

" It was an accident.. " She tried to say knowing it was not about Anjali but he shook his head and held her hands.

" No.. no ... She died because of me... She was scre...aming for help but I wasn't able to sav.. save her .... She was asking me for help Rumika.. she...she was crying looking at me...but I wasn't able to save her... she died."

Rumika could understand the depth of his pain. Coincidentally she was in the same profession. To save lives. She had seen doctors traumatize whenever they failed. She heard them crying and cursing themselves in a corner. Her blood turn cold whenever she thought what if she failed.

"Anjali has...had a twin sister..."
Yugant suddenly spoke with an emotionless face.

Rumika intertwined their fingers passing him courage. He needed to pent up the havoc inside him and she would be there listen to him all night.

"Our families were not only business partners but very close family friends as a result we all hopped each other's house all day and night.. "

Rumika remembered that night when Akshita told her everything. "Bhai was the eldest one in all of us and he used to look after us like a second father."

" We all go to the same school same bus...we sit at the same place to study... Me Atharv Akshita Arnav Anjali Diya.. "

His grip tightened around her fingers.

"We were in different standards but our gang was famous all over the school... never hidden anything between us six...we all used to mess around every time and Bhai used to take care of after mess...." She remembered Akshita's words.

"Her name was Diya.. " He said.

"Despite being best friends with the sisters Diya was little much closer to Bhai than Anjali and Anjali hated that closeness. She had a crush on Bhai it was clearly depicted in her eyes but Bhai sees both sisters as his best friends his sisters but with time that crush grew in madness." Her mind recalled what Akshita told her.

"We all had gone to a hill station for holidays.. Dadu Dadi Mom Dad Chote papa Choti Ma her parents everyone. We were all in joy not aware of the storm coming towards us. "

She caressed his thumb with her thumb pad as he continued.

"Next morning we went trekking. We six like always running jumping chasing each other and didn't realised kab hum sabse aage nikal gaye... "
(When everyone was left behind. )

He lowered his head but lifted when Rumika lifted one of their intertwined hands and kissed back palm of his.

"We reached at top and I was chasing Diya and didn't realised kab hum sabse aage nikal gaye and she hid... There were tall trees bushes big stones I searched everywhere but didn't found her and suddenly I hea..rd so.. someone's... l.. lou.. loud ... screams.. "
(When we both ran far away from everyone).