aurore - an unusual love story √

part forty two

The guest room had a balcony.
Sonara discovered.

She had woken the baby up and fed her. The maid had come to serve hot milk for the kid.

Seemed the child was tired of everything too. She had fallen asleep again.

Sonara stood at the balcony, judging her life now as a whole. In bits and pieces though. Her body and mind weren't ready for any serious calculations at all..

A car whooshed into the yard.

Jai got down. He had been driving himself. Just as he always did.

The stormy night, months back flashed before her eyes. The first time, she met this weird individual.

Sonara had come across many humans till date. Good, wonderful, bad, worst...
But Jai hardly fitted into any of these categories. Sonara knew not, what Jai Prakash Raichand actually meant to her life. And what even was the purpose of his presence....

From the distance too, she realised, he was extremely messed up. He stood supporting himself against the car, staring at the ground for quite a long time.

Was he distressed with his decision of holding her back?
Sonara was struck again with the same dilemma....did he really mean what he said?

Jai suddenly looked up. And unknowingly his eyes met hers.

Neither of them looked away for sometime. For a long time.
All Jai did was softly smile. Sonara couldn't smile back though.

Jai walked into the house. And Sonara stood still. Regretting the fact, that she couldn't even reciprocate a smile to her host.

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" This is the gossip corner. Dad's friends love to gather in this spot every Saturday night. So do mom's kitty party friends. "

Jai said.

It was hardly a room. Literally a corner of the huge living area, secluded by seperators, but brilliantly designed..
The semi round sofas, the climbers around, and the lights, reflected taste of the designer.

Sonara kept standing. Her jaw almost on the verge of demolition.

" Sit, please. " , Jai settled on one end of the sofa.

Sonara slowly did, on the other end.

" Would you like some tea?
I mean, would you like to accompany me? My head's hurting badly and I'll have some. "

" You have. " , Sonara cleared her throat.

" Ease up Sonara! I'm the same person you even flied with. Midair. Remember?

Lisa!! Two cups of Earl Grey please! "

Jai smiled at Sonara again.

Sonara choked on the insides.

She remembered everything.
A part of her soul cursed herself.

Why did she try to murder a beautifully brewing relationship, an honest friendship, in the fear of not being able to repay the debts ever? Could she even stick to that?

Meanwhile, everything turned chokingly formal, a game of chess as if.

" Jai sir..... " , Sonara couldn't help but speak out in a gust.
" I know I've hurt you...hurt the aquiantance...the...the trust...the friendship we shared even if unequal..
I... I brought in this inequality more, when you never did...

You could to a large extent give up on your father's ideals in case of me, but I couldn't give up on my complex of being smaller than you in every means.... "