When The Heart Lies | ✓

[72] Letting It Out

It was eleven in the night.

Aarush and Aditya glanced at each other as the phone rang loudly in Shrey's hand. The man didn't even eat properly and had two drinks. Aarush made sure, he didn't get more than that. They both too had a little bit.

The Whiskey started to get into the system as slowly Shrey's frustration reached it's peak. He called Rishabh for the twelfth time but the man didn't pick up. All of them thought that he was sleep.

It was Aarush who suggested Shrey to call his mother. She needs to know what had been happening all this time.

A mother's love is eternal.

She was awake and picked up his first call. But unexpectedly, Shrey had cut the phone, afraid that his mother would be worried about him being drunk.

Aarush stressed that he wasn't as drunk as one could be called drunk. He must tell her so they could arrive soon here to talk to Sakshi's family.

Before they could even think more, his mother was now calling back.

Shrey gulped shakily, his eyes half opened as he swiped towards the green. "Mom?"

"Shrey, where have you been? I had been calling you ever since. You wouldn't pick up my phone. When I pick up your call, you cut the call. What is wrong with you? Why wouldn't you talk to me? What's going on there-"

Shrey closed his eyes. "Mom, I did it."

His mother turned quiet. "What?"

"I pushed away the other guy out of the way. Raghav was fine with me. He has grown warm with me. He told me that he would talk to you and father, for the sake of his sister. Could you believe it?" He said, hoarsely.

His mother whimpered in the phone, happily. Aarush smiled sadly as she told him, "That is wonderful, son. Your father wants to talk here. . . Uh, hold on."

Shrey's lips tightened as his father held the phone desperately. "Shrey? Son?"

"Dad."

"Tell us, when can we come?" His father asked desperately. "We are here awaiting your call ever since. What did he say? Did he agree? He didn't hit you. Did he?"

Shrey rubbed his eyes while saying, "No one hit me. You want to come?"

"Yes, why not-"

"There is no need to come, Dad." Shrey said, immediately.

Aarush and Aditya exchanged a confused look as Shrey brokenly said, "You shouldn't come. I am coming back there. Because I failed. I failed in making her mine. I failed in making her believe that I would keep her happy. I never understood what she actually wanted."

"She is a woman who believes in living together. She hated the idea of even upsetting Rishabh by marrying me. Didn't I tell you how much that bastard insulted her?" Shrey's voice broke. "His words are still there in her heart."

"Stuck there in her beautiful old heart. She is a gem. She told me to leave her for the sake of Rishabh, could you believe it?" Shrey said, tears sliding down his cheeks. "She doesn't want me to be apart from my brother because of all the efforts he put in protecting me from the cases and everything. She doesn't want to marry me because of him."

"What?" His father was speechless it seemed. There was a thick silence that followed.

Shrey blinked while wiping his eyes. "I am coming back, empty. Raghav says that he will talk to Rishabh's father. He doesn't deserve that. Rishabh tried to break his marriage. But for his sister, Raghav wants to  make a step. But I don't want that, Dad. I won't be able to sleep at night if Raghav cones at our home, shaking hands with us with those bad memories still in his heart."