Short Stories

That One Night - Part 2

Shiva was sleeping beside her sitting on the stool holding her hands and keeping his head above their joint hands after crying for more than 4 hours.

His sleep broke as he feel some moments on his hand. He open his eyes and see her to find her moving her eyelashes. Slowly slowly she open her eyes giving shiva a little relief.

Raavi slowly open her eyes and blink it to adjust on the room's light.

She look around to understand her environment when her eyes strike at devastated Shiva. Before she could speak a flash of whatever happened flashed in front of her eyes scaring her. She slowly keep her hand on her abdomen and a lone tear escape from her eyes. She start panicking and taking deep breath.

Shiva got scared seen her condition.

"Shiva Shiva mera baby Shiva mera baby mera baby" she asked scared

"Raavi" he cup her cheeks.

"Shiva mera baby Shiva wo wo thik hai na wo mujhe chorkar nahi gaya na bol na kuch wo thik hai na"

"Raavi shhh kai nahi gaya baccha kahi nahi shhh kuch nahi hua" Shiva said but his eyes was conveing something else, fear, fear was clearly evict on his eyes.

Raavi take a deep breath listening that her child is safe unknown to the whole truth. She composed herself and look toward shiva and realizes what she did, she told him about her baby what must have he be thinking about her.

Shiva take a deep breath

"Raavi"

"Mera baccha paap nahi hai kuch bolne se pehle hajar bar soch lena" she told him actually literally ordered him. 

"Mera baccha hai na ?" He asked her but he hadn't had any doubt in that his voice was so confident like he knew that beforehand only.

Raavi get surprised by his question and nodded in "yes" and look down.

Shiva sit beside her in stool. She was looking down holding her abdomen while he was looking at her with a guilt. He hold her hand and she look at him.

"kya maine tujhe kavi force kiya raavi" he remembered some blur image's from the day when he was drunk but couldn't differentiate but he knew his raavi can't do any wrong thing can't cheat him can't be a characterless even though it was him who accused raavi in mandir he trust her"

"Raavi maine tujhe..."

She keep her hand on his mouth stopping him from ulter that nonsense.

"It wasn't you it's me, it was my fault, mai selfish hogai thi Shiva I am sorry."

Shiva look at her puzzled.

"Wo.. wo"

"Wo kya ?"

"Shiva wo usdin matlab usraat.... 

After finding Shiva reading her diary. Raavi get angry on Shiva and said things, Shiva also speak absent-mindedly and passed out.

Raavi angrily marched toward kitchen and burn that diary but save that one particular piece where her shiva's name was written.

When she come back she found shiva sitting on their floor bed staring at her. She ignore him and about to lay down on floor bed when he hold her hand. She looked at him at his eyes, there was something, pain disappointment longing hurt and and love she felt like there was love for him, her heart skip a beat but then she made herself remember that he hate her.