Rekindling Love

Chapter 16

Naira's POV

I was discharged the next day. He didn't come back. I was informed by Pungi that he was here in the town, but true to my words. He had left me alone. Literally this time around.

I didn't mean it that way. I didn't mean to push him away. I only meant leave me alone for the time being. The true intensity of how much my words affected him was beginning to dawn upon me.

Of how much he affected by my words. How much control I held over him, and how I had loosened my anchor at the wrong place, and how it may possibly be drowning.

I had to talk to him, I had to explain that I didn't mean it to him. I had to have him understand that I didn't mean it. That I always wanted and will want him.

I called him to meet me. I called him at the Hrishikesh Bridge. The one which was known to make relations, I wanted us to re unite there. I wanted everything to be perfect. I'll tell him that I was his. That I was ready to be back with him.

I was wearing the dress he had given to me last time. And I had rejected to wear it. One more stupidity of so many. But again, I was glad. I knew even as Tina. I was in love with the glorious mess that Kartik was. I hadn't told him that, I never got the chance to. But, in spite of me not knowing me. I loved him, I trusted him, I believed him to be there.

I'm glad even Chandu couldn't get me to believe he would leave me. I'm proud of my trust in him, I'm proud of our love. Our love which literally kept us going. I'm glad he didn't leave me even though it would have been the most logical thing to do.

Getting dressed up to my best, I wanted to leave no stone unturned. I wanted him to see me like he always did. I wanted him to take me in his arms and just take all the distance time had us given away.

I called him in the dead of the night. Knowing that we will have lesser people around. I walked to the bridge and waited. And waited.

He wasn't turning up. I was beginning to loose hope. I was beginning to realise the extent of his hurt. I waited there for the whole night. I was about to leave, when I saw him walking towards me, wearing the same shirt he was wearing, undone shirt, hair ruffled, probably pulled too many times, eyes dark, haunted, shoulders dropped.

I didn't think he had come here for me. He was just walking on the street as a lost man. No direction, no purpose.

But then he surprised me by standing in front of me. "What did you want to say? Any parting words I think?" He said. Not even looking up at me. Not even seeing that I wasn't going to... break up? That's what he thought? That I sent him away as I want him by my side? How could he think of his Naira like that? It was then I figured that he didn't know, he didn't know I was his Naira.

I had only one chance to do this. And I had to do it right. He was constantly looking down, like only here to follow my order, not meeting my eyes. But if that's what he wanted.

I went down on my knees and said, "Main tumse bahut pyar karti Hu Kartik. I love you so much Kartik. I love you so much. I love you Kartik I love you." I saw a flicker of emotion in his eye taking encouragement from that I went ahead.

I took hold of his hand and said, "Ab yahi Sach hai Kartik aur kafi samay see raha hai. I love you Kartik. I really really love you. I love you. I love you a lot. I love you so much Kartik. Main tumse bahut bahut pyar karti Hu. Tum jante ho, kabse kaise. Main khud hi bhul gayi thi. Jabse tumne mujhe pyar samjhaya hai, tabse bas tumhe hi chaha hai. Mere pyar ke mayne or mazil bas tum hi ho, Kartik."

"Jabse mendak ko dekha hai uski aadat ho gayi hai. Ladkar jhagadkar, jisne mujhe vishvas karna sikhaya, dosti karna sikhaya, pyar karna sikhaya. Aur maine bas tumse pyar kiya hai Kartik. Jis din mujhe tumne kaha tha, ki tum mujhse pyar karte ho, tabhi se waqt thama hua hai. Har roz koshish karti hun ke tumse aur hurt na karun, par jane anjane galatiyan kar baithti Hu."

"Tumne mujhse kaha tha Kartik ki main tumhara junoon Hu. Ki mere ilawa tumhe na kuch dikhayi deta hai, na samjh aata hai. Kuch beete mahino me, meri har saas tumse rahi hai Kartik, aur tumhari mujhse. Kya tum apni Naira ko apne sath Le jaoge Kartik? I love you Kartik. I really really love you. I love you Kartik, I love you. I..."

That was all I had said before he sprinted. I could see the emotions running just when I was saying all this. If I had this in my memories, then I was sure he remembered. He remembered everything when it came to me. I was sure that he would have understood everything by now.

I went behind him. I thought he would go to his place. That I would intrude his privacy even when I didn't want to. But I was in no mood of leaving him alone right now. I wanted him there by my side. And I was ready to do whatever it took.

He didn't go to his place. He went to the place we met for the first time. The place which is my peace place. I let him go settled. Get his emotions under control, and after making enough signs for him to understand I was here, I went to him.

He was staring at the calm waters. To any on looker even he may appear calm. But I knew these waters, and I knew him. I slipped my hand into his. He clutched onto mine in a death grip. His knuckles whitening from the strength he had used to hold me.

When he sat down, I sat beside him. I had said everything what I wanted to. Whatever was left wasn't important. He knew everything he needed to know. I was doing what he did for me all these months. Just being there.

After a while his hold on to my hand loosened a bit. I had hoped it wouldn't, but he turned to look at me. His hands raising to touch my face, a gentle shiver running though them as if afraid. His eyes never leaving mine.

When his hands finally reached my face, he traced each and every curve of my face, gently, as if he was unsure it was true, as if he feared I would break. I wasn't sure which, but he did.

My eyes watered seeing him like that, still lost in the world of real or fake, true or false. I wanted to see him happy. I couldn't see this horror on him. He wiped one of those tears and shook his head, telling me to not cry.

I couldn't, I couldn't hold myself back, I jumped onto him, and hid my face in the crook of his neck, and sobbed. I sobbed for him, for his pain, for our distance, for the time we missed. He held me, a silent stream of tears running from his eyes, he hugged me tight. Holding me very close, enclosing me away from the world, only one thing visible to me, him.

I breathed his scent and assured myself yet again, that he promised to be with me, in my highs and lows.

When I pulled back a bit, "N..Naaira?" He questioned. As if unsure that it really were me. That it was not a dream, that he really wasn't insane. I nodded.

And his dam broke. I pulled me closer yet again, but this time his body raked with the sobs he held. He cried for all the times he had been brave. He cried for the only person he could be vulnerable with was back. He hid his face in the crook of my neck and cried, holding me very tightly.

I held him too, crying with him, pain we both shared, misfortune we both shared, the guilt we both shared. When our breathing slowed down to normal, when we were past sobbing he pulled back.

Looking at me yet again. Just looking, memorising me yet again. His hands running down my hair, my back. And then he gently kissed me. A soft, gentle kiss, full of unsaid love, care and affection. A kiss which asked me to take away all the sufferings of his, and I was happy to oblige. A kiss which was poured with promises and vows, which we would continue to fulfil. A kiss we had most definitely missed all this time. A small kiss which was enough to set me on fire, and yet keep me rooted at the very same place, a kiss which made me go weak and left me asking for more.

When we parted, his eyes shone with the emotion missing for so long, "Love and Happiness"

Authors notes -

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