Bittersweet

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Think you've nothing in your life but then you decide to build a house for your life; with much difficulty and pouring all your love on each and every brick, you're building a beautiful house. Then you're living there enjoying each and every moment and creating a lot of good memories. You have no place except that house and it has become an inseparable part of you like you don't have that thought to leave it for a single moment.

Then one day, a storm hits your home, you are distraught but you want to repair it back. While repairing the house again another storm cracks your house. Then one after another disaster getting hard and at a certain point, you're tired of the thought to repair it. The pillars in your house break down in front of your tear shot eyes and you are standing there helplessly watching how it's slowly falling out. But still, you can't move off from that broken house. Embracing the wrecked pieces, you are staying there hoping that you will again repair everything back to normal.

Then like wiping about all your hope, a hurricane takes all the remaining pieces leaving only you and memories that you shared in the house. What do you feel when you're in that position?

You want to cry hard, a wave of anger will ripple through your veins and you don't know on whom you have to get angry; either the hurricane that took the house or the home that couldn't stand strong.

Sathya was right now in that situation. But she didn't blame the hurricane or her house. She blamed herself for the state she's in.
I didn't look after this family properly and let go Raghu easily, is what Sathya thought while looking at the divorce papers lying on the table.

"Sathya, just sign it. You don't have to stay with him after coming to this stage," her mom advised.

She can, it will take a moment to do it but she looked at Sanjay's innocent face. How could she tell that his father will never come back home? Even Sathya couldn't believe it. Never in her worst dreams, Sathya thought that Raghu will leave her! Now it's happening... He just left her giving this divorce papers. How cruel and merciless act that he did to her?

Her mom begged Raghu holding his hand and Sathya pleaded him to stay at home, but he didn't hear any of their words and left telling her to sign the papers. Raghu's uncle and Aunt everyone tried to talk to him but he didn't change his decision and returned back to the ashram. Sathya doesn't want to make this big and agreed to separate like how her mother suggested.
No one can change him then what else she can do?

She's extremely angry on Raghu like she wants to kill him but there's no use of doing it. Sathya has come to the state where she started to think about her life without him instead of dwelling in this misery.

Why you're holding on a person, who wants to leave you badly. Sathya just let him go, you can live on your own, her mind advised against her heart for the first time.

For all these days she didn't let go of her hope because she thought Raghu will be back with her but now it's all gone, entirely.

Leaving a deep sigh, Sathya gripped the pen and turning her heart numb she signed the papers and handed it to his lawyer.

"Raghu sir told that you can stay in this house as long as you want but if you want to leave, you can hand the keys to me and I will give it to him," the lawyer told and Sathya couldn't hear that.

"Did he said anything else?" Sathya's mom asked.

"He asked you to take care of his son," he told to Sathya and she just chuckled hearing that.

"What a worst human he is? I wish him to rot in hell," her mom commented. Sathya officially ending their relationship heard that without have any reaction on her face. Not a drop of tear fell from her eyes.