Believe Me - An IshKara OS

Believe Me : An OS

AN: In case anyone thinks they've seen/read this before it's because this was something I had originally posted on IF back when IshKara was a thing. This is simply a repost.

4 months.

It had been four months since he last saw her. Four months since he found out her truth. Four months since he decided to pay off all her debt so that nothing could tie her to him ever again. This is what ran through his mind as he stood frozen at the front door taking in the sight before him. She was sitting on the couch with his Dadi and Prinku laughing at something Rudra had said.

Four months ago he had appeared at her house finally deciding it was time she met his family, the people he had talked about so much she was practically dying of curiosity and the want to meet them. Yet what he saw while standing there shocked him to the core. The wall he had always seen covered by a huge cloth, she had always said the wall was damaged and needed to be repaired every time he asked; that wall was completely fine and what shocked him even more was the fact that every inch of the wall was covered. From top to bottom, every inch was covered with newspaper articles and photos. Of him, his family, his brothers. There were articles that were published on every recent thing that happened in their business, and photos of him, Shivaay, and Rudra. Pictures of them alone, together, there were pictures he forgot even existed just because they were so old.

But what shocked him the most is what he heard her and her father say.

"Look Ishana, you can't fall weak right now. You need to forget everything except your goal." he was saying to her.

"All you need to do is go to him like you did all those months ago and become that 'bechari' in front of him once again. Tell him a sob story and get the money from him. Just like how you got the 50 Lakh him and his brother the first time. Then we'll pay those goons their money and then we'll be free."

"And remember one thing, don't let him know anything. One mistake and everything is finished. You killed Mala already which was perfect... Cut off Omkara's 'chipku' girlfriend from your life as well. Besides, playing 2 different roles was making all of this too complicated. Now just finish this entire drama up and then go to him and kill off Bela as well. After all that we'll leave Mumbai forever. Nobody sees you, which means nobody can catch us again."

"I know that Papa but..." She said before her gaze fell on him standing at the door. He saw the shock come on her face along with her trying to take a step towards him. She raised a hand towards him before he put his own hand up to stop her.

"Stop," he told her, "just stop."

He saw her hand drop and her face go blank. He couldn't seem to read her like he always could. His mind was running with everything he had heard and saw. Ishana, her name was Ishana. Not Bela. Bela was just a lie. Mala as well, Riddhima's friend who had died in some kind of tragic accident 6 months ago. That Mala wasn't anyone else but her as well. Everything was a just a big fat lie. The past 9 months of his life were a lie. The girl he met by accident, who became his friend, and who somehow became one of the most important people in his life was a lie. He had treated her as someone who was almost as important to him as his brothers were. The girl he had somehow fallen in love with was just the biggest lie of his life.

"You lied to me." He whispered. "You've just been lying to me all this time. You don't care about me, my feelings, NOTHING!" He didn't realize when he started screaming but when he saw her flinch, and he saw the tears in her eyes something pricked inside of him. Somehow still not being able to see her cry he walked away from her towards her father to ask him how much money they owed. 2 Crores he said. He told him to set up a meeting with them tomorrow at the art hub before walking out of there. She tried to stop him, he felt her grip on his arm yet he wasn't going to stop. He couldn't stay there any longer; he just knew that he had to get out of there as fast as he could. He knew that if he stayed he would do or say something that he'd regret later on. He couldn't take that risk.