When The Heart Lies | ✓

[64] Open-minded

He had slapped her.

Sakshi couldn't believe it. Never had her Tau ji or Tai ji touched her. She had least expected this harshness from the only person she had thought, would support her in every situation.

Maybe, she did wrong. The pic looked wrong and it was questioning her character. But that didn't give him the power to hit her.

"How dare you raise your hand on me!" She had asked calmly, getting angry slowly.

Tears were flowing but she could control her sobs. Her cheek was stinging but she wasn't afraid of him. She looked him dead in the eye.

"How dare me?" Raghav flared his nostrils angrily. He looked at his mother in disbelief who too looked shocked. He looked back at Sakshi, "If you are going to lie to me, I'll slap you again. I will have to if that's what brings sense to your mind-"

"Who sent you this pic?" Sakshi asked, cuttings his words.

Raghav glanced at Pihu and breathed angrily. "It was unknown number. But the pic is not by any chance, fake." He glared back at his sister.

Sakshi shook terribly, she never wanted to live this scene but now that this moment had arrived, she'd live it through.

"We have hopes and dreams for your future," said Raghav, his eyes turning bloodshot. "What are you doing there? Sleeping with these douchebags?"

"It's as less than what you used to do in my age!" Sakshi replied, a loud sob following.

Raghav's eyes stoned as he breathed angrily. Pihu widened her eyes and palmed his chest. "Could even please listen to her first?" She asked, worriedly.

"Sakshi, what is the meaning of this photo? What are you doing with that Malhotra boy?" His mother walked forward, her eyes now focused on Sakshi who felt getting surrounded.

"Everything that a girlfriend does with her boyfriend. And whatever you both are thinking," she sobbed, and answered, "He hasn't touched me."

"You were warned years ago. Weren't you? You lied to all of us for him. You repeated the same after all these years. What point is left for us to get you educated all these years when you shame us like this?" His mother asked, trying to calm Raghav down because he would speak, there would be more violence.

Sakshi gulped shakily. She felt Pihu's hand on her forearm in support.

"He has changed."

Raghav let out a humorless laughter, madness empowering him. "Changed? My foot. He's the same dick, he was years ago. He is again playing with you. This time, he is the one inferior to you. He has his name gone bad, suicide attempt and all that shit. He is undeserving of you-"

"He has changed."

Pihu observed the stubbornness in Sakshi's eyes and the same in her husband. Both brother-sister were of same quality and she knew, none of them was going to back down.

"Tell her to shut up or I'll-"

"What will you do?" Sakshi screamed at him. "Hit me again? Get me married to that pervert of a professor?"

Their mouth opened in shock. Raghav was dumbfounded hearing the same words from her mouth that Shrey had said.

"I never asked you to get me married to Shrey. I am not telling you to accept him," she cried. "I have left him. We ended up relationship. We were a thing but not anymore. I ended it because I know what is right and what is not."

She glared at him shakily. "So, I came here, ending everything with him. I don't know who sent you this pic. But you were supposed to trust me before trusting that person. Shrey and I love each other but we never crossed the limit."