Just Ten Days

I want you to love me

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Past an hour, pacing back and forth, that was all he was doing. He did not have a clue of what was happening just near him in these years. He did not know anything about her or her disease and that she had been playing with her life like that. If he had known he would have never let her do something like that. What kept him from going to her and asking her? What happened that he was not able to look into her eyes and recognise the pain? What just happened?

Was that everything he was thinking was all wrong? Was that everything he was imagining was incorrect? Was his heart right for the first time? Was he right for the first time? Moreover, she was doing this all to herself because of him. Was he correct in thinking that he was responsible for her state? What just happened was out of his imagination. She just believed him so much that he was unable to process anything. He was frustrated, he was angry, he was just.... disappointed.

"You are not getting it Shivaay, I have to be there, she needs me" Annika yelled packing her and Gauri's stuff in her big bag. "Om is there Annika, he will take care" Shivaay tried to explain to his wife. "Om has been there for the past six years, what has he done? nothing. I cannot afford 'nothing' right now" Annika hurried. "Annika stop, you have to understand that they need time with each other," Shivaay said. "Time? How much time do they need? Six years Shivaay, six long years, he had all this time with her when I trusted him with my sister. Six years was enough, not even a second am I going to give him now. I have seen enough" Annika's tone was loud.

"Annika .. Annika listen to me, just listen to me, at least let them talk" Shivaay caught Annika's hand. "Talk? Don't you think she would have tried to talk to him? Don't you think she would have tried to explain him? Don't you think she would not have done her best to explain everything to him? She tried Shivaay, she has tried a thousand times, she had requested, she had pleaded, she had asked, she had done everything, just everything. I cannot let her just give this time to someone who I know will not care for her anyway, I can leave her alone but I cannot trust her with that man.... I just cannot" Annika jerked her husband's hand.

"Look I understand everything okay, I know how it feels when you cannot do anything for your loved ones when you know they are in pain" Shivaay rushed behind Annika and caught her again "but believe me when I say this, he has heard everything that Gauri has told him, he knows every time she had cried, he regretted every time she pleaded, but you have to understand this, he is not what you are getting of him, believe me, he is the perfect match for Gauri". "Perfect match?" Annika sighed "this is a perfect match? This suffering, these cries this treatment? This is a perfect match? Is he taking back Riddhima to prove him a perfect match? Are you crazy" Annika asked in disbelief.

"Okay I got that, I understand what you are going through, but do you think she can live without Om? Annika, it will kill her" Shivaay said. "And then? Shivaay, she is already dying, how much possible she will die? I know it will hurt her, I know it will not be the happiest thing she would want. But at least she will be at peace, she will be able to hold herself, she will be able to survive, she will die otherwise and you are already seeing one of the examples right now" tears escaped Annika's eyes.

Shivaay's shoulders slumped down, he knew he was right but she was right too. He cared for his brother but Annika did for her sister too and he was able to understand this pain. Shivaay cupped Annika's face and wiped her tears "look I know it hurts, but this will be the best if we let them talk". Annika jerked his palms away "She is not, I am not letting her get hurt once again" Annika glared at Shivaay and walked away.

Meanwhile, in the hospital, Gauri was still not up and he was sitting outside the hospital bench trying to clear his mind. "Sir she is up" the nurse informed which made him look up. "Can I... Can I see her?" he asked pointing at the room's door. "Yes sir" the nurse informed and he rushed inside after murmuring a thank you to the nurse.