The Fault In Our Stars

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44. Incidents

"Oh, God. Stop crying, Ishaan."

Avneet who's busy rocking the hysterically crying Ishaan in her arms, groaned. "Why are you behaving like this? You're mumma's good boy, right?"

But Ishaan wasn't ready to listen. He cried more and shook his head stubbornly. "Dada!", he demanded.

Avneet sighed in helplessness and frustration. Siddharth was out for a shoot since yesterday evening, so it had been more than a day that Ishaan hasn't seen him.

The boy was getting restless, he just wanted his father who he was so used to seeing now as the first thing in the morning and the last thing before sleeping.

"He'll come soon, Ishaan.", she tried to pacify the boy. "You know he has work, right? Just go to sleep, he'll come in the morning."

"Why dad n-not come home?"

Avneet sighed. "He has work, baby."

"Wanth Dada.", the boy mumbled stuffing his face in his mumma's chest.

The older pursed her lips. What was she even supposed to do now? She even called Siddharth twice but he hadn't picked up, must've been busy.

"Baby, you talked to him in the evening, right? What did he say?", Avneet asked, now regretting not putting the phone on the speaker so she could know what they talked about.

"Dada love ishu."

Avneet facepalmed. "Yeah, okay? What else did he say?", she asked.

Ishaan thought for a long
moment before he said, "That Dada will come home at night." Then Avneet watched as his eyes teared up once again. "B-but he ish not hwome."

So Avneet just patted his back, while she rocked him back and forth. The boy sniffled in her hold, whining here and there.

Avneet dialed Siddharth's number a few times more, but the latter did not pick up once.

It shouldn't but it was making Avneet angry.

It was then when her doorbell rang. Avneet got up with Ishaan and walked to the door, opening the door to Siddharth who was ruffling his hair.

"Hey!"

Avneet clenched her jaw and glared at Siddharth. "Where have you been!? Huh?"

The older's eyes widened at Avneet's hostile tone and that's when he heard the broken voice calling out to him, "D-dada."

Siddharth's heart broke when he saw the red swollen eyes of his son. "Ishu, I'm so sorry, baby."

He immediately apologized before taking the boy in his arms and kissing his cheek. "Dada got stuck in work. Forgive me." This apology looked more for Avneet than Ishaan, who was now feeling embarrassed about shouting at him.

Ishaan simply mumbled some coherent sentences to him, Siddharth only catching the words 'meanie' and 'missh you', before burying his face in the crook of his father's neck.

Siddharth caressed his head and let the boy hug him while he gave Avneet an apologetic look. "I am sorry I didn't answer your calls, kinda fell asleep on my way back and the shoot got extended for two hours."

Well, Avneet could obviously see how tired he looked.

"It's fine. You don't have to apologize.", she assured hurriedly. "It's just Ishaan cried nonstop so I didn't know what to do. I'm, um, sorry for raising my voice just now."