Renaming Destiny : Apsara To Myla

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Apsara's POV

Hushed whispers from outside kept me wondering what was going on. I was not allowed to go out of the room as my mother had ordered for it. The door to my room was locked from outside and it had been that way for a week after the party. I sat near the foot of my bed like I had since 2 days with knees pressed against my chest and head on it. I wanted to cry but my eyes were red and puffy already after everything. I had banged on the door all afternoon two days ago and at night they took mercy on me and opened the door. I tried to talk to my father but he was not ready to hear me out. Their room was converted for his treatment and everyone in the house looked at me like I was the reason for that. They were not wrong and that killed me each second. 

I spoke to my father and apologized for being stupid. I even fell to his feet and begged for forgiveness. But he did not even look at me. It then dawned upon me how big this was getting. I felt my stomach twist painfully reminding me that I hadn't eaten anything in a few days. I sat and then fell back on the bed and looked at the ceiling as tears rolled down my temples. My eyes burned painfully but my tears did not stop. That is when I heard someone unlock the door of my room. I sat up straight and saw my mother's sister Karishma Bose Moretti walk in. I was surprised to see her there as my father never liked her because she had wedded a foreign man. 

As soon as her eyes fell on me, she walked to me with a sad expression and hugged me. I don't know why but I let out the sobs I was holding back and hugged her as I stood on my knees at the end of the bed. "Shhh.... I know. I heard. I'm here now. Ok? It's all going to be ok", she said rubbing my back. I pulled away and cried, "Nothing will be ok, aunty. Nothing! I spoilt everything for everyone. How could I even think someone like him would like me!!! God!!? Why was I so stupid!!", she kept rubbing my back for a few minutes until I calmed down a little.

She pulled away and wiped my tears. "I got to know about everything after coming here. I was in India for a business trip and decided to meet your mother but then learnt about what happened", I sniffled and sat down on the bed. Just then, my mother walked in with two helps and I saw them place three suitcases in my room. I looked at my mother and stood up. "Ma? What is this?", I asked. "Before you kill my husband and destroy all of our lives, I am getting rid of you", she said and walked away. I tried to run behind her but someone locked the door from outside. The helps had started to throw my things in the suitcases and I collapsed on the floor feeling immense pain take over my form. 

I cried loudly as I felt my aunt wrap her arms around me. "I am sorry! I really am! I will never talk to him ever again in my whole life! Please forgive me, Ma!! Pappaaaa!!!!!", I cried but I got no response. "They are throwing me out, aunty. Where am I supposed to go now??", I cried in her arms. I looked at the helps who had almost cleared out my closet. "Apsara, your mother thinks you will worsen your father's condition. So, she asked me to take you in just for a while. We will come back to India after your father gets well and gets ready to forgive you. Even the doctors think your cries and screams will weaken him", she explained. 

"I will not utter one word, aunty. I will pretend to be dumb. I will not go out. I will not look at anyone. I will do anything they ask me to do. But I will not leave them, aunty! Please talk to them. I can't live without them, Oh God!!! What have I done!!", she rubbed my back but nothing could make me feel better about what was happening in my life. My father was always a strict man but that never made me love him any less. My mother was my everything. And Varun! How could I stay away from him? I got up again and banged on the locked door while crying for my mother who never came.  

The helps opened the door with the key they had and took my belongings out and I ran out of the room as soon as the door opened. I ran down the stairs to my father's room and barged into the room and saw Adarsh and his parents sitting on the couch facing the bed. I looked back at my father who had widened his eyes angrily. "Pappa!", I ran to him and held his feet, "I promise I will never do anything like that again. Please, Pappa! I will listen to you and do as you say. Please don't send me away. Please! I can't live without you. Please, Pappa!!", I begged him. His bodyguards pulled me away from him but I kept struggling to get to him again. 

"SWAPNA!! I HAD TOLD YOU I DID NOT WANT TO SEE HER FACE EVER AGAIN!!", he screamed at my mother who looked at me with disappointment. "Take her away", she ordered and the heavy men pulled me out of my room while I cried loudly to make my father change his mind somehow. They left me in the hall and walked back to close the door of my father's room. I sat on the cold floor and cried loudly cursing at my fate and stupidity. 

I felt my aunt hold me by my shoulders and help me stand up. "We will be back after they change their minds. Give some time for this to settle. Come with me now", she said. I looked back at the closed door of my father's room and let out another sob. I shook my head and screamed, "I'M NOT GOING ANYWHERE!!! MAAA!! PLEASE JUST LISTEN TO ME ONCE. I PROMISE I WILL NEVER EVER DO ANYTHING LIKE THIS. I WILL OBEY YOU EVERY SINGLE TIME AND LIVE THE WAY YOU BOTH WANT ME TO LIVE. PLEASE DON'T SEND ME AWAY!!!". Suddenly my father's bodyguards held their earpiece and muttered a "Yes, sir", and walked to me to grab my hands. They made me stand up and walked out while I struggled to get out of their holds. At the same time, Varun walked into the house and as soon as he saw me, he looked away angrily and tried to walk away. I held his hand and stopped him but he yanked his hands away from my hold and looked at me angrily, "If anything happens to my father, I will not spare you, Apsara!"

"Varun, I am very embarrassed about what I have done but-"

"Good! I hope you die from that embarrassment", he said and walked away angrily.

My aunt pulled me away from the guards and out of the house and asked me to sit in the car in front of my house. Her bodyguard opened the door for me and I looked back at the house I grew up in one last time as tears flowed down my eyes. Just when I was about to sit in the car, I heard someone call my name from behind me. I turned around and saw Ashwin running towards me. I ran to him and hugged him tightly as he panted heavily. "ASHWIN!!", I cried in his arms. "I came as soon as I heard. I will speak to them and bring you back as soon as possible, Apsara. I promise. Remember to call me as soon as you land in London. I'm booking the earliest flight tomorrow. Ok? ", he looked at me for a second as if trying to take a picture mentally and placed his lips on my forehead. I closed my eyes and let my tears fall. 

I nodded and pulled away from him to see his red, teary eyes. I walked away from him as my heart broke into a million pieces. I sat in the car and kept looking at him and the house I grew up calling mine until it was completely out of sight. The last thing I saw was Ashwin fall to the ground while clutching his chest. We reached the airport and by my rotten luck, the paparazzi were there as some actor was arriving at the airport. I heard them call my name but I covered my face and ran inside the airport. We found out that we had to wait another hour for the flight and my aunt made me eat in the airport restaurant in that hour as she was worried about me being starved for two days. I sat in the airplane and wiped my tears. I did not know when the flight had taken off and when we were in the air flying to London while each second I wished for all that to be just a bad dream and expected to wake up in my bed in my room in my house.

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It was tough for me to write this chapter. I almost felt like crying while writing the part where she cried for forgiveness.

The chapters are short, I know, but gradually they will grow trust me.

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