Broken Wings

Of Whole And Half Truths

APTER SEVENTEEN

Swayam walked in the hall holding Sharon by her arms close to himself as she looked at him and the happiness radiating from his face made her heartbeat skip.

Gautam's eyes, who was indulged with the little kids in the party went to them and he couldn't help himself feeling pleasantly surprised. He looked over at Swayam whose ecstatic face answered his every question even before they could crop inside his head. He suddenly wanted to ask him about this sudden change but realized it wasn't the time nor he was at a place to ask such questions. But he knew his curiosity would be fed eventually. He smiled looking at his daughter's happy face and sent a thank you prayer up to the heavens wishing in his heart it never ever wears off again.

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The party was over and Swayam was just waving Rey the last goodbye of the night. He mentally kicked himself for getting so emotional in front of his best friend that he actually started to cry while telling him about his own emotions while feeling his baby for the first time and getting his wife, the one who shows that she loves her back. But then he smiled widely because he felt the moment was worth it and for him nobody knew it better than Rey.

He closed the door and put off jacket he was wearing and found Sharon fighting with Sam, her best friend over phone.

"Shut Up Sam! How come you never came? This call is not going to make up for this I am telling you!!!" She sounded furious and Swayam admired her voice, the voice which actually sounded like hers, not the cold, monotonous, hollow sound he had grown to listening from her in all these months.

Sharon cut the call shaking her head at her best friend's excuses and sorry while smiling to herself. She raised her head up to find Swayam smiling at her and lost into his own train of thoughts. His smile made her heart flip. It had been so long, so long that she couldn't recognize the last time he had looked at her like this, lost in her like this.

"Swayam!" She called out to him softly but he was in his own land.

She blushed and smiled and pearls formed in her eyes. She had almost forgotten that her beat this loudly when he looked at her with such intense innocent eyes. Getting up from her seat she walked over to him and touched his cheek lightly calling out his name in a voice which made his heart stop beating for a second or two.

"Swayam!"

There was no conversation, no talks, no words and yet it felt like they hadn't talked so much in months. Their eyes did everything for them and to them which words couldn't have done ever. A rebelling tear escaped Swayam's eyes as he held the hand on his cheeks and took it in his own. He wanted to say something. He wanted to tell her he loves her very much. He wanted to tell her that she shouldn't be scared of losing him ever because leaving her would mean his death and he had chosen life. A life with her and only her but at the end nothing came out from his mouth. His eyes had shut his mouth completely so he just took her hand and kissed it lightly with just one word which he thought he owed to her.

"Thank You!"

"For what?" Sharon asked wiping his tears from her other hand.

For what? That was a question to which the answer was too long given his state and all his complicated situations he had found himself in last seven months.