The Wed-lock

7

We were having beer and it's my 4th one. I told mahanth and prathik  everything that happened between me and Anaya last night.

A punch landed on my face and it was given by mahanth. I got up and gave a punch back on his face. We were both fighting now and what's the reason ?

Prathik tried stopping both of us but mahanth is totally drunk and was not in a mood to stop the fight. He held my collar and started punching me in the face until blood came out of my mouth. prathik held him and pushed him away for me, leading me to fall down and groan in pain.

"You asshole. Why did you do that to her? You don't have any rights to touch her. Fuck youu man. You don't deserve her" he said pointing towards me with a loud voice and there were tears in his eyes. Why is he crying?

He held my collar again " you called her a bitch didn't you. You know what, there's no girl more pure and sweet than her. I don't know why she got married to you but I know she did that because she didn't have any other choice left. I know her. She can never do anything wrong. She is such an innocent girl and you are breaking her apart, you son of a bitch".

He started hitting me again while crying badly. I have never seen this guy cry soo much except one time for a girl he liked back in his college.

I pushed him away and started hitting him back  "She's my wife mahanth. She chose to be my wife. She wanted to be a slut for me. I will do what I want with her. And what did she offer you to be on her side now?"

This time prathik pushed me away from mahanth and said "Bro what is happening with you. You said she's your wife then why are you talking bad about her. At least respect her as a woman even if you don't accept her as your wife".

Mahanth wiped his tears harshly and lifted me up by holding my collar and said " I hope you experience the pain just like I did a few years back. I hope she leaves you. I hope you regret it just like I am right now. I never knew the person who is my friend could be such a gentleman. I swear if you utter any other word about her, I will chop your tongue off". Saying this he left me and went out.

I woke up with pain all over my body. I was lying on the floor. I tried getting up but instantly failed due to pain. I held my face in pain and I saw prathik laying a few inches away from me holding a beer bottle. Omg my head is bursting out due to a handover.

I closed my eyes again. But all I could remember was what Mahanth said last night. Why did he do that? Why did he hit me?

I looked at prathik as he was groaning loudly holding his head and he looked at me and asked "what happened? Why did you apply makeup on your face?". Here's prathik being prathik. He forgets everything if he is drunk until someone tells him about it.

"Shut up prathu and help me up". He got up and helped me up too. I washed my face and I could see how bad mahanth beat me up. My shirt was crumbled by his fist and my cheek is totally red and swollen due to his punching.

What did she do to even snatch my friend away now. Now nani and mahanth are totally on her side. She managed to break everyone apart from me. Now I hate her even more than I used to.

Prathik entered the washroom and gave me ice cubes and asked me to keep it to soothe my pain. "Bro what happened to your face? Wait let me call mahanth and let's go beat the shit out of the person who did this to your charming face" saying this prathik removed out his phone but I quickly snatched it away.

"Mahanth did this". Prathik was shocked.

"Mahi did all this to you?" And i just nodded. "No way mann. Why would he do that to you?"

"That bitch must've said something to convince him and make him go against me or why would mahi do this just because I told what I did to her".

"That Kushi bitch?" He asked. " No I'm talking about Anaya. The bitch who managed to destroy my life".

Prathik gulped a lump in his throat like he knew something I didn't, and said "what did you do to her?"

"Leave it. It won't make a-"

"What did you do to her nihal?" He asked between my sentence.

"I slapped her because she lied about why she got married to me and went unconscious and had a very high fever and I don't know what all I said about that bitch. Why did mahi hit me because of that?" I said kind of remembering what has happened.

Prathik quickly wore his shirt and left. What is wrong with these people. What are they hiding from me?

I went back into the room and searched for my phone. I found it under the bed so I took it and switched it onn. And omg there's like 100 missed calls from mom and dad. They must've been worried about me.

I tried calling them back but none of them were answering. Even nani is not. I need to go home now.

I quickly drove towards home and no one was in the living room. I went into all the rooms and they were nowhere to be found. I quickly ran into my room and saw nani sitting next to Anaya caressing her hair.

She looked at me and said "Look navya what your son has done to himself leaving his sick wife alone at home after torturing her"

My mom came inside from the balcony and came running towards me. "Nihal what has happened to your face? Who did this to you? Wait let me call the police. I can't let anyone touch my son" saying this she started crying.

"Ma nothing has happened to me and we were just playing around so it happened while we were drunk last night. Don't worry we will solve this ourselves so stop crying now". Saying this i wiped my mom's tears.

"What about Anaya. Shall we complain about it to the police too. Someone beat her up too. And navya, you can't let anyone touch your son but what about this poor little girl. Ask your son why he did this to her". Nani said more like taunting my mom and she was strict on her terms.

Ma just looked down shamefully. "Nani I did that because she lied to me and she deserves this. And why are you on her side now?"

Nani came towards me and gave me a tight slap across my face. "I never thought my grandson was this bad. She's your wife now. You need to respect her and treat her right".

Nani left the room and even ma did. I was now left alone with her who was laying on the bed covered in a bedsheet. She is sleeping soo peacefully like she didn't plan all this. I wish I could just kill her right now. This was the first time nani ever beat me and used such words.

Anaya's hand was connected to the IV drips. She turned and hissed in pain. She still didn't realise that I was in the room.

*Her pov*
I woke up with a sudden pain in my head. I felt something wet on my forehead but I couldn't move my hand due to pain. I slowly opened my eyes and saw nani sitting next to me with concerned eyes. I tried getting up but_

"Don't get up. Sleep. U need rest right now. And what did nihal do to you?"

Wait what. I think she saw his finger prints on my face and hands. What should I say now. I can't lie to her. But I can't tell what acutually happened too. So I choose to remain silent like I always do.

She was about to question me again but a women entered the room and started checking my temperature. She later attached saline to my hand and asked grandma to come outside to talk about my condition. Thankfully no one saw my wrist. I fell into a deep slumber and this is the best sleep i have gotten in years.

I woke up due to loud shoutings in the room. I slowly opened my eyes and saw nihal talking to someone on call really loud standing in the balcony. He looked tensed. He was walking in the balcony holding his hair in a fist.

He quickly came inside and saw me awake. He came towards me angrily and said "What did you say to mahanth, Anaya. What did you do to himm". Who is he and why is he asking me that question?

"Who?" I simply asked.

"Who? So you decided to lie again". He just went away when there was another call on his phone.