BEST FRIENDS

Chapter 64

It is 02:00 am of a cold and windy January night but Ragini is still awake, after leaving the warm comfort of duvet and heater of her room she is walking in the lawn of their mansion trying to collect her thoughts.
"Have they done wrong?"
"But then why doesn't it feel like that??"
"But if they are not wrong then why their family is upset???"
"Her family is always right so this time also they would be right, right????"
"But then why is she having a feeling to protest and make them understand her point?????"
These are some of the thought going on in her mind, thoughts which she really need to get rid of. She was tired and thinking that she would doze off as soon as her head would touch her pillow but after her family's speech she just could not sleep so as soon as she saw Swara sleeping soundly she came here to their favourite spot.
She needed to come here to refresh her mind.
"You don't understand shona and lado!!! Ap has gotten her son after so many years and mathur's arrival is going to snatch her son away again" Sumi has said as soon as Gadodia family entered in mansion, got sit in their living room and Swaragini apologized for deciding on their own.
Ragini has thought that she would have to say all those things again which she has said to Laksh when they were in car in front of Mathur's villa to make him understand that how this decision should be only of Sanskar but neither she nor Swara did even get any chance to make their family understand that why they did what they did.
"You both thought that Sanskar will get both of theirs love but have you thought that how will Ap and Dp feel when Sanskar love would be distributed among his both families" This was by Dida.

"You all are being partial" This sentence was on the tip of Swaragini's tongue throughout their conversation in which everyone was speaking except them but both sisters just zipped their mouth, saving themselves from next punishment but then all their thoughts of their parents being partial got thrown outside the window as soon as Shekhar spoke last words of conversation.
"Princesses we are not angry or mad, we are disappointed" Shekhar has said and Swaragini's eyes glistened. Both of them has done many things to upset their mother and Dadi and both of them have punished Swaragini many times but never in a million year Swaragini have thought that they would do something to disappoint their father. Their father, Grandfather and Dida have always appreciated their each actions.
Like when both sisters was caught by teacher while bunking classes in 8th standard and their teacher informed their parents, her mother was furious but still her father has said to his wife that, that was their age to have fun and just left with his wife but not before winking at them.
They have not thought to hear something like that from their father not even in their worst nightmare. PAINFUL WORDS. And if those words were not enough painful then next words by their father was enough to give them the worst pain of their life.

"You have no right to take the decision which affects others more than you"
Then whole family left both sisters to silently cry in their room.
And then there was Laksh. It's not like Ragini has not noticed his shoulder going stiff whenever Sanskar was talking to Mathurs and that was whole dinner. Laksh's, Gadodias and Maheshwaris reactions were enough to make her realise that they have done wrong but whenever she sees the happiness in Sanskar's and Mathurs' eyes she just could not conclude the decision wrong.

Oh! Why can't things be simple??? Why can't decisions be either right or wrong like white or black??? Why it must be gray???
She was thinking then she hears footsteps getting louder each time and she smiles very well knowing who the person is. But it was soon today maybe because both sisters have a lot to think. Normally it takes them 1 hour to come in lawn whenever one of them wakes up in mid night. 45 minutes to realize emptiness on other side of bed and 15 minutes to prepare their mid night food. 2 bowls of noodles and two large hot chocolate.
Ragini smiles thinking how it has unknowingly become one of their rituals!!! Like back then when Swara lost a guitar contest in 9th std and she woke up at 1 am to cry then Ragini has come here with over cooked noodles and really bitter hot chocolate and when Ragini got failed in a weekly test in 9th std and she woke up at 1 am to cry then also Swara came with extra sweet hot chocolate trying not to repeat Ragini's mistake from last time. But neither of them complained, not even once. Because it was never about how food tastes, it was always about being there for each other, it was about giving a shoulder to cry on to other, it was about being philosophical to inspire each other, it was about giving each other right direction, it was about being mature sibling for each other, it was about being a perfect twin and understanding each other without a word spoken.