OVER A CUP OF COFFEE (A DevAkshi Fanfiction) ~ Royally Yours Award

Episode 9

Sona sits caressing Dev, when Dev suddenly wakes up...staring into Sona… Her eyes were welled up…He stands up immediately..

“So.. Sorr..sorry…”

Sona cups his faces… But he withdraws himself and turns away…

“What has happened to me??” he thought walking towards his mother’s cabin.

Natasha walks out… and pats Dev..

“Tsst tsst..I feel sorry for you,Dev!” she says walking away.

Dev rushes into the room and notices Ishwaris’ condition worsening.. He calls out for a Doctor..

While holding his mother's hand firmly.

Ishwari gets irritated and pulls her hands away.

“Please..Dev..i never expected--”

“Ma!”

“How can I not trust what i have seen?”

“Excuse me!” says the nurse.

Dev and Ishwari looks towards the nurse standing there.

“Mr. Dev, I need you to leave...it's time for check up.”

“Sure”

Dev and Sona paces up and down the hospital corridor.. Waiting..

The doctor comes out after checking Ishwari and asks Dev to get the prescribed medicine.

“It was just that her pressure went high. Please do not put her in any stress or tension.”

Ishwari is discharged from the hospital the next day. Dev had been trying to speak to her..but she justs avoids him. Rather she sleeps off or pretends to sleep. Dev was upset by her behaviour. Sona brings breakfast for them,while Ishwari sits sulking with Dev. She sees Sona and mistakes her to be the nurse.

“Please tell everyone to leave. I am feeling sick”

“Sorry! breakfast!”

Dev holds Ishwaris’ hand while she was walking towards Sona.Ishwari jerks her hands away but Dev yet holds her tightly..

“Ma plz”

“What?? What do you want to hear??? After what you have done to Natasha--”

“Ma.. I haven't done anything to Natasha!”

Ishwari turns towards Dev and was about to slap him when Sona runs in between and stops her.

Ishwari looks shocked by her behaviour and looks towards Dev saying:

“Is she the reason??”

“What??!” Dev says surprised.

“Aunty! Actually--”

Ishwari gives her stern looks indicating her to keep quiet.

“Ma, I don't know what Natasha would have told you but--”

“I don't want any explanation.I want to go home.please complete the formalities and come.”

Natasha was seen leaving smirking at what ever had happened.

Ishwari walks out. Sona looks on. Dev sits upsets sighing.

After all the formalities were done,Dev drives Ishwari home. Sona walks restlessly down the street. She was upset that Ishwari had misunderstood her relation with Dev.

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It was a dark cold night.Dev sits on the porch.tears rolling down his cheeks. The past few days have been tough on him. He thought about Natasha and then about Gauri. Both of them were an integral part of his life. Yet none was with him.