Pyaar Again

Chapter 3

Italics is for flashbacks :)

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Rohit walked into the Sippy Mansion to Kyara playing with Veena and Pooja. They had been playing with the kitchen set that Rohit had bought for her a few days before. She was making some imaginary food with water and the faux vegetables as Veena instructed her and Pooja helped her. She looked up at Rohit and held her arms out to him.

Rohit walked up to her and picked Kyara up in his arms. "Papa... Kitchen kitchen khelna" Kyara looked up at him with pleading eyes.

"Baby abhi nahi thodi der me pakka papa khelenge... Papa ko fresh hona hai na?" Rohit said as he pinched her tiny nose with his fingers.

"Plomise?" Kyara asked him with big puppy eyes, just like Sonakshi.

"Pakka promise baby" Rohit laughed looking at her and nuzzled his nose with hers. "Mumma Sonakshi kaha hai?" Rohit asked Veena.

"Woh abhi hi aayi hai kamre me hogi" Veena answered as Rohit passed Kyara on to her who immediately shifted her focus onto playing.

"Thik hai main fresh hoke aata hu" Rohit informed her and walked away. Veena kept on looking at his retreating figure and smiled at him. It had been long since Rohit had ever even asked about Sonakshi and she felt happy that maybe, finally they were going to solve everything.

Rohit walked into the room with Sonakshi sitting on the bed, her back facing him, and talking on the phone. He waited for a few minutes, for her to complete her call and walked up to her once she quit the call. He took out the divorce papers from his bag and kept it on her mobile as she switched it off.

"Yeh kya hai Rohit?" Sonakshi asked him, confused as she held the papers in her hand to read them.

Sonakshi read through the whole paper as her brain tried to register each and every word that was written in it. Her eyes enlarged as she read through the last line and looked up at Rohit, with confused eyes. She wasn't sure if what she read was true or her dream.

"Divorce papers" Rohit muttered, trying to make his voice sound as emotionless and strong as possible.

"Kyu?" Sonakshi tried her hardest to form words but her mouth had betrayed her.

"Sonakshi yehi hum dono ke liye sahi hoga"

"Rohit yeh... M... Mujhe divorce nahi chahiye" Sonakshi stuttered with her words and got up from her place to face Rohit.

"Sonakshi tum aaram se socho aur mujhe batao... Yeh divorce humare liye best decision hoga aur Kyara ke liye bhi" Rohit tried to calm her down as her breaths became heavier. She wasn't taking this easy, was she?

"Nahi Rohit... Tum aise hi yeh... Yeh decision nahi le sakte... Tum..." Sonakshi worded in between her breaths as tears formed in her eyes.

"Sonakshi maine yeh decision hum dono ki aur Kyara ki bhalai ke liye hi liya hai" He tried explaining.

"No! Yeh decision kisike liye bhi sahi nahi hai" Sonakshi shouted as she threw the papers on the bed.

"Sonakshi..." He held her shoulders.

"No Rohit... Maine kitni baar tumse sorry kaha hai... I can't... Main nahi reh paungi tumhare bina" Sonakshi jerked his hands off.

"Sonakshi tum soch lo..." Rohit said as he walked out of the room. He knew she had to be left alone and he couldn't see her breakdown like this. She must've thought that he doesn't care about her emotions but he did, more than she could think about at that moment.

"Hume apne is rishte ko ek aur mauka dena chahiye" Her words rung in his ears. She was right, he could give their relationship a second chance and she kept continuing over and over but he didn't understand why he wasn't ready to. He was skeptical. He knew she would come up with it again and maybe, just maybe, he still hoped that she did ask him that again. He didn't know why, even though he was sure of his decision, he still hoped that she would try and resolve everything.