The Fault In Our Stars

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27. Make it right.

"Baby, get up.", Avneet whispered to her sleeping son as pats his head. She lets out a small smile as she sees him whine and push her hand away blindly as he turns around to snuggle to the pillow kept beside him.

Ishaan had his cheek squished to the pillow as he lay on his stomach.

Avneet's eyes water as he recalls how Siddharth used to sleep the same way unlike Avneet who sleeps on her back.

Another trait he got from his father.

She recalls her son's teary eyes as he got to know that Siddharth was his father. The way he had instantly hugged him tightly, burying his face in his father's chest while he cried letting out little heartbreaking sobs.

Avneet had never felt guilty, stupid enough - she did not realize that ishaan needed his  father, not till now when ahe saw how Ishaan was so upset. Being blinded by her own ego, she had forgotten she had a child, a little boy who yearns for the love of his other parent.

"Your other father loves you too, ishu. He'll come back someday. He is just a lot busy."

Was what she always told her chil- their child whenever the little guy asked about it. The boy didn't say anything after that, he never did but that did not mean that it didn't bug his little brain.

He always believed in what his mother said, never doubted his own mother but always used to think - why didn't his other father never come to home? Why didn't he bring him to school like other parents or his mumma? Why did he never tell him any bedtime story? Why he never received a goodnight kiss from his father?

Why hasn't he seen him?

Why did he never meet him?

The boy was already too much attracted to sid, his favourite, he loved him. To know that the boy almost didn't really believe her at first when she told him that, broke her already hurting heart.

Avneet always feared what will happen when her baby got to know that sid, who he calls his favourite, his superman is actually his father!

Avneet had been selfish. She now accepts.

And somewhat wrong too...

She saw how broken Siddharth looked yesterday. He was sobbing nonstop along with his son while he had him pressed to himself.

Avneet felt like the most cruel person alive when she saw the interaction between the Siddharth and their son.

How could she keep him away from his own father?

How could she keep
Siddharth away from his own son?

Oh Avneet, how selfish and petty have you been.

But isn't this a little too late for this realization? A voice inside her taunted.

Just because Siddharth had said things in the spur of moment in the past that he didn't mean, didn't mean that Avneet could push him away from his son.

He could've been angry with her after telling him that she was pregnant. They could've tried co-parenting.

She had no right to do what she did.

Separate a father and a son.

Snatch the shadow of his own father from his child.

And Siddharth had came back after two days, didn't he? Just like he had promised.

He was even ready to talk about their child, was he not?

But what did she do? Just screamed at him, broke things with him and told him she aborted their child- killed it?