The Best Match

The Awaited Revelation

"Un-leafing the pages of past before those who can stand by you, rock solid is something you must do because that will give a little insight to the person who can stand next to you or not."

Shree's Perspective

"Gradually, she started stepping back from the relationship. I sensed it but I couldn't understand why and the only option was to wait. Our conversation slowly curbed, the last thread what we have tore when I came back." He exhaled, exhaustingly rubbing his face. I was still rooted to my spot. "I came back and went to meet her straightaway to her apartment. She wasn't there, I tried contacting her but she remained unavailable for rest of the week. Since she'd not introduced me to her family, I couldn't contact them. Following week, I planned to meet my friends. We tripped to Darjeeling and there I saw Divya with one of my batch mates from IIT. They were close, really close." I tried to fathom the amount of hurt he'd felt that moment through his voice that fainted while his eyes found a distant spot, living those awful memories again.
"I didn't confront her but waited for her to tell me herself. She didn't. She didn't tell me, we all saw her shamelessly roaming with a guy but not for once, and I saw guilt in her face. Coming back from there, I thought to meet Chetan, he was one of acquaints, we're on speaking terms and the day I went to his home, everything came out clearer. Divya was trimly cheating on me. I found them both in his pool." He divulged and by the moment, I wanted to kill that bitch!

"The moment she saw me, her face blanched and she desperately tried to tell me how wrong of her but not for once, she said that she still loved me. That was my cue; I broke up with her officially. She had made me realize that I was never good enough for her, that I was the reason she fell in love with Chetan, that I was never capable of loving anyone. She had deftly made me believe that no person would want to be with a selfish, insensitive person like me." Poor him!
"So for that you-" I interjected but he showed me hand, "I'm not done yet, Shree. Let me take it out all, let me completely emptied myself before you because I wanted to do this since long. That time, I was sure you will forgive me but now, I want you to hear to me and then decide on your own. I don't want you to be in dark anymore. I have almost lost you and I can't take chances again." My heart skipped two consecutive beats as he said that. I didn't know if he was honest or not but I blindly trusted him.
"This is not the reason why I was reluctant to relationships and love. A month later after I saw them, I ran into Chetan again in a club where I went with Kartik, Mehul and Bharat, actually they forced me." A smile I witnessed on his lips. "Chetan was with another girl who wasn't someone a random catch, he was clearly dating her. He was clearly playing with Divya."

ESV remarked on this, 'See, it is the karma for that bitch.' I shushed her immediately.

"Though I was over Divya because of her infidelity and double standards, I still cared for her, she was a part of my life and she wasn't like this since always. For the sake of old times and perhaps because of the anger that was built up in me due to being incompetence in competition with him, I confronted him. Our confrontation led totally out of the way, I couldn't believe that he simply said that Divya was just a part of his leisure. He was never serious with her. He could be so shameless I had not thought. I couldn't hold myself back and punched him straight on his face." A gasp spurted out from my lips as I covered my face. My feet shuffled to him on their own accord and I put my hand on his shoulder. He clutched my waist tightly and his words rumbled through my stomach, I could see how contemplative he was.

"I killed him, Shree."

At this revelation, I saw my whole world crushing. I was frozen. It was a matter of three minutes when I found my voice. "You did what?"

"I didn't want to. It wasn't intended. We were fighting, he had punched me. I had thrown kicks at him. He ran and I chased him. Before I could stop him, a running car hit him. We were all alone there. No one was there. I did rush to hospital with him but it was too late." I bet he was broken by then. I couldn't collect myself to chip a few words of consolation to him. "Then?"