I too want a love story - KarEena

2(24). Unravel

Haseena gasped in her sleep; her right hand clutched at her heart. Karishma frowned looking at sleeping Haseena, before she could react Haseena sat waking up from her sleep with a jerk startling Karishma, Haseena's hand still clutching her heart.

"Sweetness?" Karishma called sitting beside Haseena trying to understand what just happened

"I... I" Haseena looked around taking shallow breaths, her heartbeat drumming against her ears deafening her.

"Haseena" Karishma softly called her caressing her back, Haseena turned towards Karishma blinking her eyes rapidly to clear her vision as the brimmed eyes blurred Karishma, "You are fine, Sweetness" Karishma wiped off Haseena's face which was drenched in sweat, and pulled Haseena into a hug.

Haseena grabbed Karishma's t-shirt trying to ground herself from the wretched nightmare, she closed her eyes as Karishma hugged her securely. The remints of the nightmare floated back to her memory, Haseena gulped as she saw herself being shot, her whole family lying dead before her and she saw everything helplessly, she shuddered at the thought.

Karishma cooed that she is here with her softly in Haseena's ears, it took around 30 minutes for Haseena to get back to normal.

"Do you want to talk about it?" Karishma asked as Haseena sat before her, Haseena shook her head 'no' looking at their intertwined hands

Karishma sighed, "Do you want to listen to what happened in those 4 years when you are gone?"

Haseena instantly looked at Karishma concerned; she didn't understand why Karishma is asking this now. She did want to know it from Karishma but never had the courage or heart to make Karishma relive those memories and now when Haseena is trying to push Karishma away about her past trauma, Karishma is talking about revealing it to her.

Haseena nodded slowly

Karishma sighed, 'If you want Santosh to share her secrets then you should share yours first, show that you believe her and that in return she can believe in you. Society has strange rules, Karishma, they always point the one who asks for help as weak, If you want to help her, instead of telling her to ask for help from you, you ask her help even if it's unnecessary, show that you both are equal, it helps her to reveal her problems to you too' this is what her mother from the orphanage once told her when Santosh and she were small and Santosh is facing some problems.

She hoped this would work here too. Maybe if she opens up about her past, it may give Haseena a push to open up about her trauma too. But what she dreaded was, what if this plan backfired and Haseena went more into the trauma, blaming herself for Karishma's ill fate. After weighing her options Karishma decided to reveal as Haseena is adamant about not going to the doctor until this case is over, and because of this Haseena's health is deteriorating slowly.

'If this goes south, I have to be more careful. By hook or crook, I have to make Haseena talk' Karishma hyped herself up to face those black years once again.

She held Haseena's hand, "Before that, I need your promise that you are not going to blame yourself for anything, Sweetness"

Haseena shook her head denying Karishma.

"Listen to me sweetness, we both agree that you left me but whatever happened with me after, is my doing, I consciously or subconsciously made those choices and you are not to blame, okay?"

"But..." Karishma spoke before Haseena could complete

"When God presents us with a situation, we don't go blaming God for our bad reaction, do we?"