Ek Duje Ke Vaaste

Part - 4 Emotional Conflicts

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Anjali was standing outside her Chhote's room, fidgeting with words in her mind, to approach him. She has decided not to let overpower Chhote's di on Anjali today, who always gets convinced with his explanations, no matter how absurd they are. But this time he has to give proper explanation for ruining Khushiji's & his own life over a prejudiced decision. Determined Anjali opened his room door without knocking & found him sitting on his recliner, working on his laptop. His face expressionless. 'How can he appear so nonchalent after doing such a horrendous deed' thought Anjali, which was enough to enrage a mostly calm & composed Anjali.

She entered inside & walked towards him. Stood near his laptop table. She knew he was very much aware of her presence but was pretending unaware. She broke the silence. "Chhote!" Arnav looked up straight into his di's fiery eyes but stayed silent.

''Why Chhote?" questioned Anjali. "Why what di?" Arnav continued with his nonchalant behavior & took a file from besides his laptop & pretended to be reading it. Which fuelled Anjali's anger more.

"You very well know what I am talking about Chhote!!" fumed Anjali. Arnav tightened his jaw, closed the file, placed it back on its place with a thud & stood up arrogantly.

"Fine. If you are asking about me canceling the marriage, then I don't want to discuss anything as I have done the right thing" replied Arnav with same arrogance. "Breaking your marriage, ruining your & Khushiji's dreams, shattering that innocent soul, just because of some dead skeletons of the past came alive after years, is a right thing Chhote? How could you do this to her, who you claimed to love?" retorted Anjali.

"Skeletons of the past!! Really di!! That woman was the other woman in our father's life, destroyed our family, forced mamma to commit suicide & made us orphans. Your marriage broke, our inhuman uncle got a chance to throw us out of our own house & roam on streets like beggars". roared Arnav, reminding Anjali of those painful days.

"Chhote, whatever happened between papa & Garima aunty years back was all papa's doing. She was unknown to the fact of papa being married. He falsified her. She was as innocent as mamma. Both were cheated by papa" Anjali tried to make him see sense.

"Don't you dare compare her to our mamma di, she isn't worth." His anger reached one notch higher. "I don't care whether she was innocent or not. For me she is the reason, our mamma is not with us." His voice laden with hurt & pain.

"She was not a small baby to get falsified. She did everything in her senses. Arvind Mallik was not a small name in Lucknow. He held a big name & place & so did Sheesh Mahal. How come she never heard about him?? That's completely unbelievable." he said making it loud & clear.

Anjali understood its useless making him believe about Garima's innocence. So she tried the other way.

"OK, fine Chhote. But what is Khushiji's fault in all these?Why are you punishing her for what she is not guilty of? " asked Anjali looking straight in his eyes.