Who Is He?

Still Not Forgotten

In the dark room of Sai and Virat's kids, three kids were sleeping and their father was standing in the room balcony staring at the sky above.

His young wife slowly let her arms wrap around him which brought a smile on his face. "You are thinking about her right?" She asked.

He nodded as his smile fell. "Today is the same day we met each other twenty three years back", he said. "the power bank girl", he mused.

Sai made him turn around to find his eyes lost in memories of that incomplete love story he once had. "I failed her badly", he said.

"It's not worth it pondering over it Virat", she stopped calling him sir when he told her to do it. "It's been twenty two years since she went".

"Time flies but memories remain", Virat said wiping a lone tear. "Especially the ones tainted by themselves", he continued.

Sai stood quite as he turned to face the sky again. "It was always me who was a coward. It was always me who made the wrong decisions", he said.

Virat looked at the ring he had secretly stolen the day Pakhi married Samrat. It was on her table. "She told me to say the truth", he whispered.

"But you didn't say it", Sai said sadly smiling. "And you regret it don't you?" She asked him. After all the situation was in his hands but he chose the end.

"I do", he agreed. "Unlike others, I could have completed that tale. But I chose to remain silent for a sacrifice that brought nothing but pain".

"Pain to the one for whom you did", Sai said remembering the whole Samrat's return episode. "Don't you feel that you actually loved her?"

"I did", Virat agreed. "But then I met you", he said fondly. "But does loving someone mean you stop loving that person that you met first?"

"No", Sai shook her head. "But you never showed that love. You respected boundaries but you ended up doing it too far to forget her".

"I just wanted my brother's happiness", Virat said sighing. "I never knew I was the one wrong in all this mess", he said further.

"You made wrong decisions because the definition of love is tainted in your mind", Sai said. "The love you feel is true is not love".

Virat looked at her. Sai smiled. "You love your family more than anything. Pakhi didi married your brother for your sake, you kept loving her".

"I helped your family members so you loved me and told her you love me. But you never showed me that support which any lover would give".

Sai was an honest girl so she didn't hesitate saying it on his face. And with time, maybe Virat started accepting his flaws.

"But in actuality, I loved both", Virat said staring at the ring. "Both you and her", he stated. "I am such a weird man ain't I! Loving both?"

"No", Sai shook her head. "I understand. She was your first love you lost without your fault or maybe it was. But you wished to marry her".

"In many cases lovers die leaving partners alone and they find someone else to heal the wounds but that doesn't mean the buried love ends".

Sai kept a hand on his shoulder. "So you love both is not wrong, that is until you stopped being confused and supported both of us in our times".

"But you did what you felt was right according to your family. And that is where things got ruined", she said. "And you were too late to realise".

"You forced yourself to think it was an attraction because she was your brother's wife and you couldn't have her. Didn't you?" Sai asked him.

Virat nodded slowly. "And then you loved me as well but your love turned futile whenever matters came against your family", Sai added.

"Don't you realise that the strong pillar was always your family. You never moved further from it ruining two tales of your life?" She asked.

"Yes", Virat whispered. "Sometimes I wonder how she is", Virat said looking at the moon. "Is she happy now? Did she get married? Is she a mother?"

"Whether she stopped barging inside without knocking", Sai added jokingly and Virat laughed. "Or she stopped being a good daughter in law?"

Virat laughed more. Pakhi was the ideal daughter in law for all except his mother. "And does she still love me? The love I never valued?"

Virat said pausing his laughed and looking sad again. "Her departure made me value you Sai. Because I realised I was doing this with you too"

"I failed her but that feeling made me make our accidental marriage successful. Had I lost you--" His voice cracked. "After her, again being alone"

Sai hugged him stopping him. "I'd rather die than leaving you", she mumbled. "You are the best thing that has happened to me".

"Same here", Virat chuckled. "I just wish I could get that closure we both deserved", he muttered. Sai looked up at him.

"If you both truly loved each other, you will get that closure by Bappa himself", Sai assured. "Now don't be sad".

"Yeah. By the way Savi was requesting a little sibling", he said in a mischievous tone. Sai widened her eyes seeing him smirking.

She stepped back making a horror face with the happiness reflecting in her eyes. "No, you monster, labour pain is the worst", she cried.

Virat grinned at her fake dramatic tone. "I don't care", he said. "I will fulfill my daughter's wish", he said like a good father.

"You need to catch me for it", Sai said naughtily smiling and Virat's grin fell. She ran away from him as he smirked and chased her finally catching her.

He lifted her in his arms and threw her on his shoulders. She laughed and hit his back eventually stopping and he took her to their room.

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