The Journey from Ms. Sharma to Mrs. Who [✓]

Chapter 30-Edited

Megha's POV:

Well, what can I say?

Or what's your question?

Whatever it is, you should be teaching the answer as well, because

I REALLY don't know how exactly I am feeling.

My pain is beyond confession and I am no longer feeling human to even experience the physical act of slapping done on me.

Do you know how it feels to be numb?

Well, you have a raw wound bleeding and in order to do the first aid, the doctors keep ice on it...You don't feel anything, but aren't you supposed to feel the pain? The answer is, well, the pain is beyond the tolerance of human acceptance and that's when you feel numb.

After 2 most exciting, eventful and exhaustive days, I returned home to my parents, to thank them, to seek their blessings and to just be their daughter. Alas, casted the veil of constructive disappointment and  baseless allegations against me from my own father.

He is usually quite a calm and deterministic man, but today... You know what happened. I was too fragile to be touched and afraid that I'd break.

I prayed to the Lord Krishna himself that I had just taken his Arathi in the morning, and why am I being treated like this? The paradoxical act of my father with the public, being okay with this relationship and with me, revealing the true form, well, I quite didn't get it.

I was just left under the debris of threatened thoughts and when the doorbell rang, I just didn't want it to be Charan. My two best friends stood in uttermost shock looking at my plight. Alas, they came for a birthday party but they are going to attend an almost-funeral.

"Charan?", I whispered.

"He is still with everyone at home-

Megha are you even okay?", gasped Chinnu looking at the very sight of me.

I look disastrous. I feel disastrous.

Can I seek console in her shoulder?
I just sat down at the door step, feeling too vulnerable to even reply.

"Megha-", Anirudh tried to support me.

But the pain was way too much that I hissed. Chinnu starting crying. Well, I felt like a bitch now, when she really needed me, I wasn't there and yet, that soul is just sitting here throwing away all her problems in a second.

This is selflessness!

"Who did this to you?", asked Anirudh.

Everyone already knew, but they didn't want their voices to utter it.

"Appa."

When you actually say it, it is out there, for real!

"Megha, why? What happened?"

"Chinnu never fall in love, even if it happens involuntarily with an immortal angel! To the world, it's a beautiful love story, but in front of your parents, you take the form of a disgraceful daughter.

He questioned me with all sorts character defining statements and said he can't even see my face now.
I asked why did he then accept to the Sharma's when Charan confessed to his family?

This made me the worst daughter who dared to question her father after what she did. Chinnu, Anirudh, kindly tell me, what did I do, except to love a man like Charan?"

The sting just unfurled so rigidly in front of us, that we just absorbed it...

"Megha-", well that's all she managed to say as she hugger me tenderly, like cupping a gentle flower without crushing it.

We were still at the doorstep and Anirudh, very carefully smoothened my hair. A tear slipped through his eye. He is not the emotional Sharma.
But my plight looked so terrible that it moved a heart like his.

"Megha, everyone from the family is getting ready to come here. Is uncle at home? Where is aunty?", he asked.

"Appa went outside. Amma, you know that she silently tolerates everything...
I really don't know what is going to happen now... I am just so scared you know...

I can't be a disappointment nor can I even think of marrying someone other than Charan.

Is it so wrong to seek for a bit of love?

Haven't they also met him and watch him grow? Can't they see why he is the right person for me?

Did I really bring disgrace-"

"MEGHA!"

The last person whom I wanted to see me like this was here.

I couldn't look him in the eye, I really couldn't. How will I face him, of all people? What will I tell him?

He was so brave and strong while telling his family and here I am, wrecked and broken into pieces. Every single step he took closer towards me, I felt more safe and lost at the same time...

Love, you paradoxical fool!

"Megha-", his voice was trembling.

He is in the near end of the strings to just breakdown. He knelt down to just reach the height at which I was sitting and tried to look at my face.

Chinnu was still holding me and Anirudh sat on the other side. I felt secure trapping in the Bermuda Triangle of Sharma's loving family.

"What happened?", he whispered.

I was too weak to even utter a word to him. Anirudh caught this up quickly and just told him everything. After he heard everything, he just took me in his arms and just hugged me.

Even though I winced in pain, I felt life filling into my lungs as his soothing caress and aura filled my almost-dead soul.

"I am with you", he said.

He gently rubbed my back, to calm me down.

"I am so sorry Meghu-", and he stopped mid sentence as I felt my strong man choke and break down at my plight. Releasing me, he gently wiped my tears and examined my face.

Tears brimmed his eyes..

I could feel his heart raise and nerves stiffen.

"Hare Krishna Dhaamaad Ji, please come".

Well that was from Appa who had just returned home.

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