Bittersweet

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Raghu started running in the track tightening his shoelace, these days he never misses to come for a morning run because he feels his belly is getting bigger like Sathya but with no baby!

One of the best sides of Sathya being at home is, he gets delicious food for every meal. She blows his taste buds with amazing cuisine and desserts. Sometimes he eats without a limit, if it was a weekend his mouth will keep munching something, she prepare snacks with much love and oil.

Ever since he became an athlete Raghu was always conscious about health and fitness so now he started running every day for thirty minutes which he used to do thrice a week since he can't say no to the food at any rate. And Sathya looks at him intently while he eats, the way his face change after he took a bite, that's priceless to see. If the food was so delicious Raghu will pull her for a kiss in delight.

They watch movies together, he taught her how to play chess, and she taught him knitting a sweater when she was doing it for her baby. Now she is going to complete Raghu's sweater.

The past months were so memorable in their life, their love is growing more with their child. When they went for a check-up Raghu told about his syndrome to the doctor. They have done few tests to check whether the child is also a carrier of that disease but doctors couldn't exactly predict it and all results are normal. Marfan syndrome was more likely to show visible symptoms when the person becomes adult, if that is a mild case then it will be tough to identify too. Even Raghu doesn't know whether he is really having that disease so moreover, he felt baby will be born normal. Sathya doesn't have that worry at all and happy to welcome a new member into her life. She had a mindset to accept everything.

Raghu while running looked at the sun, which slowly shows up clearly the clouds that hiding it. He remembered the day he started running, it's from his school days. He used to do it when he feels breathless thinking about his parents, at times he runs slowly and sometimes recklessly to throw out the things that put him down. It was like flying away, he doesn't feel like running at all.

Raghu has studied in one of the best schools staying in the hostel, so he grown up with strict rules and also had the freedom to indulge in more sports activity. Running is his only hobby at that time but he never thought it is his talent until his PE teacher found how fast he is. He started participating in the competitions and won it without many risks. He never tried to go in that path but something dragged him till commonwealth games. But once he wished to participate in the Olympics his entire career got destroyed. He doesn't blame anyone for that and started to chase his other dreams.

He is not only good at sports, but he also got a creative brain. He studied well in the rest of the years in college after quitting sports and got a perfect job than his other classmates. Raghu was poor in socializing with people, so others tend to put him in the category of arrogant head weight freak. He never tried to change that image by getting close to people, he always stayed in his own place since he preferred in that way. As a result, he got no close friends to speak everything in his heart.

Nevertheless, now Sathya was indeed a gift to, Raghu felt she is more of a best friend than as his wife these days. He shared everything that whatever his heart stored for all these years, at that moment he felt she is the one for his wait. She is a good woman by heart as his mother.

When Raghu crossed a group of teenagers while running, their trainer stopped and said good morning to Raghu. He replied the same with a smile. A few days back looking at the way Raghu runs that trainer asked whether he was an athlete and there started a new friendship when Raghu told about his sport's history. Yesterday they both went for a tea after the run and the young trainer was actually an athlete too named Prabhu who was now running an academy.