𝓡𝓾𝓭𝓻𝓲𝓴𝓪: 𝓐𝓰𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓼𝓽 𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓞𝓭𝓭𝓼

15. Sach Ke Pankh

Chapter 15 Sach ke Pankh

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Author's POV:

After the moments of happiness and joy, there came the moment of revelation. Revelation of Shashwat's Past. Suharika's Past. Aryamaan's Past. And Rudransh's Present.

Aryamaan: Shashwat, this is the time, tell us everything. All of us are together, with you.

Aryamaan kept his hand on Shashwat's shoulder to comfort and assure him. The environment turned...silent.

Shashwat: Bhai... Do you remember that car accident 10 years ago?

Aryamaan nodded and Shashwat started narrating the accident which occurred 10 years ago.

Flashback:

Author's POV:

15-year-old Suharika and Shashwat were returning to Roy Mansion from a family function, along with their parents and Mama-Mami (Maternal Uncle and Aunt). They picked up their Baba(Grandfather) on their way. Suharika and Shaswat were sitting in the passenger seat, without their seatbelts. Their father was driving the car. In the middle seat, sat their Mama and Baba. And in the last seat, sat their Mumma and Mami discussing their new recipes. (They co-owned a restaurant chain.)

Suharika and Shashwat's lives were forever changed in a harrowing moment when their car was struck intentionally by a speeding truck. The impact was ferocious, sending them hurtling through the windshield and onto the rough grass of the nearby field. Without seatbelts, the force propelled their bodies into the unforgiving ground.

Their father's head banged with the steering wheel, blood oozing out of his head. Their mother and mami's head hit the back glass and they also started bleeding. Mama and Baba were safe until the truck driver again hit their car. The car was flung away into the fields, and Suharika and Shashwat were in a state of helplessness, injured, they wanted to help their family, but they couldn't even help themselves.

They saw each other covered in blood and their family members burning alive in the car that caught flame. Suharika took Shashwat in her arms and started sobbing silently. While Shashwat crying for his Mumma. Both of them lost their senses and after that day, they saw each other on Suharika's engagement.

Back to Present:

Author's POV:

Suharika and Sanyukta were crying hysterically, while Aryamaan and Shashwat came and hugged both of them, with moist eyes. They wanted to cry, but that was not the time. First, they ought to make their Superwomen happy, and then they could cry by laying their heads on their laps.

Suharika: When I opened my eyes, I saw Dadi, Nanu, Nani, and Maan bhai dressed in white, performing the (sob) last rites of Mumma, Papa, Baba, Mama, and Mami, and also yours, Shashwat. My heart couldn't believe that. I mean, I had my baby brother in my arms before I closed my eyes, how could he leave me. I had this faith, that he could never. He entered this world 9 minutes after than me, which means he can only leave the world 9 minutes after me. And, when I was there, breathing, alive, yet non-living, (sob) how could Shashwat leave the world?