His last breath(Completed✔)

Chapter 13

Before I answer, he continued "You know what, don't make him your best friend okay? Only I am your best friend. You can make him your Boyfriend if you want," I almost died when he said the last sentence. 

"Sid, shut up!!! I know what you are trying to do here!!! I shouldn't have called you. BYEEE," I hang up the phone before he replies. I don't know how I feel about Arjun but how I feel about him doesn't really matter. What matter is that I can never be free from my past and I can never be happy with all my past hunting me down. After so long of thinking, I ended up buying a watch. The most regular present someone could get. I dressed up in a purple knee-length dress with simple jewels.

I asked my driver to send me there. "Mam, actually I have to bring my daughter to clinic as she is not feeling well. So..." he dragged it. 

"Urmm okay, your drop me there and come back with the car. I will book a cab back home." I said. I admire how much he cares for his family. His daughter is a special need child but he have never been ashamed of it. He love her to the moon and back and it is evident in his eyes. He is not someone who give importance to work more than family. Yes, money is important but family needs us the most. And my father failed to understand this, even I did at some point of my life. He had never spent time for us. Till the day he die, he only gave importance to his work. Only if he took care of us, just like a normal parent would do, my brother would not have died and my life would not have been so miserable.

I reached Arjun's home when it was 7.15pm. I was neither late nor early. I went inside and I found Arjun talking to someone older, probably his father. He noticed me as soon as I enter and wave at me calling me over. 

"Hey Arjun. Happy birthday," I hugged him and gave him the present I got for him. 

"Heyy you didn't had to do that you know. Anyway, meet my father," he introduced and I nodded smiling. 

"Hello Anjali. My wife and daughter will be ecstatic to meet you. Please meet them before leaving okay?" he said. What. The. Hell. Why would his mom and sis want to meet me? Arjun dragged me to his mom before I could get say anything. The weirdest was his facial expression. He was just smiling, and I have never seen him smiling for so long.

"Mom, this is Anjali and Anjali this is my mom and my elder sister,Priya," he introduced me to his family. I nodded in his mom's direction and shake my hand with Priya. "Hi aunty. Hi Ms.Priya" I greeted. 

"You know what, just Priya. And you look beautiful today," we talked for some good time. Arjun excused himself to meet his friends. 

His mom hold my and said, "Anjali, I was waiting to meet you. Every year I will be arranging a party for his birthday but he had never really cared about it. But, this year most of the arrangement he done it by himself. And all this year, never once he have invited any friends on his own. We know all his friends so we will be the one inviting them. And you are the first he invited himself. You are special to him," Okay now that is awkward. What am I suppose to answer now?

"Really aunty? Haha I didn't know that" that was a weird answer but guess she doesn't care. 

"What is you family doing Anjali?" she asked the one question that hurt me the most. I forced a smile and answered, "My mother died when my brother was born. And my father died when I was 19. And my brother died when I was 23... So technically I have no one. I am handling my father's business," I finished. 

I have never shared this with anyone, at least not on the very first meeting. But I felt warm near Arjun's mom, that it just came in the flow. 

"Oh my child, you are stronger than I imagine. And after this don't say you don't have anyone. You have us and you have Arjun," she said pulling me into a hug. I knew she had different meaning when she said 'you have Arjun'.

I noticed Arjun have a very nice family. A friendly father, a lovely mother and most importantly a crazy sister. Arjun and Priya had a very nice bonding that it reminded me of my brother. What would it be like if my brother was still alive? What would it be like if my parents was alive now? What wrong did I do to not deserve any of this in my life. Why was I so unfortunate to lose them all in an early age? A lone tear escaped my eyes. I wiped it before anyone noticed. 

"Anjali, are you okay?" Arjun's mom asked me when my expression was ugly. "Yeah aunty," I lied to her face. "Hmm.." she hummed and turned to see Arjun who was laughing with his friends.

She continue seeing his face, "You know Anjali. I have never seen Arjun this happy before this. He would always be grumpy, angry, quiet. In short, anything but happy. Today he is so happy and its because of you my dear. When we adopted him, he was just 4. His birth parents died when he was 3. I saw him when I visit the orphanage and I had a unknown attraction to him. I have always visited the home but that was the first time I felt different. He was sitting in a corner, alone and I loved him the moment I saw him. Even though we already had Priya at that time, we still adopted him in hope that we can make a better life for him. After that he would occasionally smile, but he will take good care of us. He is an ideal son for us. He would never ask for anything, and he will accept everything we give without a second thought. Will you believe me if I tell that the first thing he ever asked to us was, about inviting you to this party," she said and I was shocked. 

Hell, he was adopted. And the first thing he asked his parents was about me. That moment I forgot how to react.

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