Just Ten Days

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[[A/n] It is a small one, but I hope you like it. And do comment and vote]

Love, can you define it? Can you ever give a perfect explanation to it? Can you give that unspoken feeling any words? There is nothing that you can do but just feel it and the only way to convey the feeling is to make the person feel it to and the only way you can do it is through your actions. Actions that justify the feeling that you have, actions that give a meaning to all that is in you, actions that connects you to that special person. But what if you have never ever experienced it? What if you know how the best to describe it in words but you never had felt it?

Ever felt the need to rush and just go to the person you possibly have ever wanted to be with? A need to just be with the only one whom you have ever received unselfish love from? A need for affection because all you have felt in all your life is the lack of it and the time you got it, you were just so burned that the thing that could have healed you, you pushed it aside because the cure always hurts. Omkara was in the same situation. He knew that he needed answers for his questions from his heart and for that he had to get to the only one person who had managed to keep his heart beating. He knew that all those emotions that he had felt in all these days was only because she had suffered so much and all of that was just for him.

She had given up on her life. Gauri, the only girl he had seen with so much of life in had given up on her life and all was because he had snatched away all the hopes from her and he as hell had to give it back to her, even if it meant to be repenting for his whole life for all he cared.

He knew he had to go back to where he actually belonged; and that was with his wife, his life, his inspiration, Gauri Kumari Sharma... Ssarma, he smiled. Because he had to make it up for all these years that he had wasted. All these six years that he has snatched away from her, he knew that he had to give it back to her in all the life that he had got with him. It was not about him needing her; it was about him loving her, it was about him giving her all that she deserved and not because he felt guilty but because he knew that if he lacked in anything, he would fail all the sacrifice that she had made for him in all these years.

He took a deep breath "there is only one way I want to live my life and that is what you always wanted" he faced the sky and for the first time he actually felt all that Gauri had said about faith in something that a person feels. He closed his eyes and just took the deep breath again heading towards the only place he wanted to be in.

Just a while after he left the house, Anaya became extremely sad. She had not eaten anything and was just in her room since that time. She refused to come out, no matter who tried or whatever anyone offered, she was just in her room and had been sobbing since the time Omkara left.

Shivaay sighed "I am sorry, I tried to talk to her but she didn't hear me out. She is not even looking at me". "I just want to hit him I swear. This is not the way one acts. Stupid man... stupid stupid man" Rudra shouted.

Gauri rushed into her child's room and bent down to her "Anaya, baby listen to me" she said in a loving voice. "I am not" Anaya shouted for the nth time and this time Gauri had her hopes really down "baby please eat... please" she tried requesting. "No one stopped dada from leaving like you all did when badi maa was leaving. No one stopped him and he left. I don't want to talk to you all. Go away" she shouted. "Anaya it is not like that" Annika tried to explain her. "Go away" she shouted again; while still crying.

"I think we should leave the room" Shivaay suggested. "Lekin Bade Bhaiya...." Shivaay cuts Gauri "one of us will be there outside the room till she decides to come out Gauri. She is in a vulnerable condition and there is absolutely no one she is going to talk to.... We have to do this" he sighed.

Gauri just stayed there outside Anaya's room. She sat with the door supporting the door and refused to eat or do anything else than just sitting there till her daughter comes out.

"Why don't you tell her finally... He isn't coming back Gauri .. you have to make her accept the truth" Annika placed a hand on Gauri's shoulders. "She is just five jiji... How am I supposed to tell a five year old that her dad just left because he thought it was the best for her? When I myself am not able to forgive him" she sighed.

She looked at Annika "did I marry the wrong man jiji. Was all that Shankarji planned was to teach me to not love anyone ever again?" she asked with her eyes glassed with tears. "I don't know..." Annika placed Gauri's head on her shoulders and brushed her hair "I don't know"

She brought his smiling picture in front of herself and all she thought was the future that she had dreamt about once. The beautiful future, a place where after all the things she had gone through, she would feel protected, she would be happy.

Loving can hurt, loving can hurt sometimes
But it's the only thing that I know
When it gets hard, you know it can get hard sometimes
It is the only thing makes us feel alive

We keep this love in a photograph
We made these memories for ourselves
Where our eyes are never closing
Hearts are never broken
And time's forever frozen still

Rudra opened the door after he heard the bell. He looked up and clenched his jaw as his hand formed into a fist. He hit as hard as he could to the one who was standing on the door.

Omkara cried out in pain "what the.... Aahhh Rudra". "You deserve that... that little girl is wrecked. You bloody destroyed everything that you possibly made" Rudra gritted his teeth. "Little girl... Anaya?" he asked. "Who else?" Rudra questioned back. "What?" Omkara dropped his bag and rushed towards his daughter's room. His heart stopped when he saw Gauri sitting beside the door with her head on her knees and her hand wrapped around them. "Gauri" he called out, softly. She looked up "what... what happened?". "Anu...Anaya is not opening the gate. She asked me to go away. I... I don't know what to do.... I..." her voice cracked. "Hey....shhh... we will talk to her okay... we will fix this" he said as he wrapped his arms around her, allowing her to lean into his embrace.

"Anaya" he called out. "Dadaa is that you?" she asked. "yes... yes it's me... Anaya baby open the door" he said. The door opened immediately and the little girl jumped to him "you came back" she said. "Yes, I had to... after all dadaa can't stay without Anaya, can he?" Anaya shook her head rapidly in a 'no' and hugged him again. He smiled and caressed her hair "now come on, let's eat something" he picked her up and walked to the dining area.

Gauri served her food as the litte girl kept looking at her "sorry maa" she started "I was a very bad girl today naa? I made you cry... I am sorry" she held her ears. "No baby, it's okay. Finish your food" Gauri said as she took a morsel and fed Anaya.

"Dadaa" she called."Yes" he answered. "You should eat too. Maa has cooked tasty tasty food" she said excitedly. "I am fine. You finish yours" he said. "Please" she requested and at that point Omkara had nothing left in him to say no "okay" he sighed.

"Maa, dadaa" Anaya said as she stopped Gauri's hand and guided it towards Omkara. Gauri sighed as she smiled towards her little girl and fed him.

At this point; Om had nothing in mind except to make this moment a real one; where Gauri's eyes would be as shining as they were before and instead of doing it for their daughter; they will be doing it for themselves. Because he wanted it... he wanted this life that he thought he would never have.

So you can keep me
Inside the pocket of your ripped jeans
Holding me closer 'til our eyes meet
You won't ever be alone, wait for me to come home