Fates

Part 30- The Diwali Series- Talks

"Why did you do it?" Pragya asked after a long silence, her voice was sorrowful, Abhi looked at her worriedly.

"Why did I do what?" Abhi asked after Pragya did not elaborate, scared of the answer.

"Why did you blame me for Kiara's death? Why did you kick me out? Why did we have to choose between our twin daughters? We lost not one daughter that day, each of us lost two. I lost Kiara and the daughter you took. You lost Kaira and the daughter I took. Why did have to be this way?" Pragya said her voice cracking with emotion, as tears streamed down her face.

"Pragya I-." Abhi said beginning to cry himself, his voice heavy with emotion, but Pragya interrupted him.

"If you only asked once, if you only once asked me to stay I would've stayed. I would've forgotten everything, I would've forgiven everything, our present would've been different, and our daughters would've had two parents. But it's too late now, it's been 21 years, two decades, even if we want to, we can't be together." Pragya said shaking her head side to side in a no gesture, now crying harder, choking on her words.

"Pragya I did." Abhi said scooting next to Pragya, not caring if he was tipping the table with his weight. He cupped Pragya's face in both hands and wiped her tears with both of his thumbs.

"I did, Pragya." Abhi said nodding his head in a yes gesture.

"I did try to get you back, I did try to ask for your forgiveness, 19 years a-" Abhi started to say but the sound of the door opening interrupted him.

Pragya heard the door open too and she jerked Abhi's hands off of her face, quickly scrambling off the table, and exiting the storeroom, passing the person who had opened the door, without looking up.

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Alia was in shock. She couldn't believe who she had just seen pass her. She had seen Pragya. Pragya in this house. How was that even possible? Alia remained frozen in shock, she finally snapped out of it when she heard a light thud come from inside the storeroom. She spotted her brother sitting on top of a table, head leaning against the wall.

The light thud came from Abhi hitting his head defeatedly against the wall. When Pragya sped away from the room, Abhi had thought about following her. But his guilt did not let him, he instead opted for sitting helplessly on top of a table, head against the wall. Alia seeing her brother's broken state immediately went to him.

"Abhi bhai, did I just see Pragya bhabhi here, or am I dreaming? What happened between the two of you?" Alia asked worriedly.

"Pragya she-" Abhi said his voice breaking, the dam broke and Abhi started to full-on weep. Alia who was now super worried about her brother hugged Abhi to comfort him, letting him cry it out with his head on her shoulder.

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Pragya raced down the hallway as tears streamed down her face, wanting to get away from this place and Abhi. As Pragya was trying to make a quick exit she bumped into Shahana.

"Maasi, are you okay? Where are you going so fast?" Shahana asked unable to see Pragya's face because she was looking towards the floor trying to hide her tears from Shahana.

"Beta, can you go and get Prach? We're going home now." Pragya said turning to the side to wipe the remaining tears off of her face before looking up at Shahana.

"Maasi that's what I've been trying to do. I've been looking for her all over I can't find her anywhere." Shahana told Pragya, she could still see tear tracks on Pragya's face, but didn't think right now was a good time to ask her what was wrong.

"You know what, I'll go look around once again." Shahana said seeing how distressed her Maasi was.

"Yes, please go check again." Pragya said and with that Shahana left looking for Prachi once again. Leaving Pragya alone in the hallway with her thoughts.

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Purab was really starting to get annoyed at Alia and Abhi, both of them had left him to die. He was dying in between these people who had nothing else to talk about but gossip. And Mrs. Gupta kept asking him an infinite number of questions about the most random things. When he would outrun her, he would bump into someone else just as annoying. Purabswored that he would make Abhi and Alia pay for abandoning him like this.

Plus he felt like he was babysitting his almost 20-year-old son because he had to keep a close eye on him and Priyanka as Alia had ordered him to do.

Purab promised himself that today not him but Alia would sleep on the couch tonight, as punishment for leaving him like this.

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Alia had finally succeeded in getting Abhi to calm down, though a few tears still fell from his eyes here and there.

"Bhai, will you please tell me what happened between you and Pragya bhabhi? What made you cry like this?" Alia asked worriedly.

"She hates m,e Alia, my Fuggi hates me. Her hate is valid, who wouldn't hate someone like me? Someone like me who gave her nothing but pain. Someone who took her daughter away from her. Heck, even I hate me! I caused all of this, I broke my family apart!" Abhi said angrily at himself, his tears falling more heavily now.

"No bhai, you didn't do anything like that. That day when Kaira died you reacted as any other person would. I agree your actions weren't great but you realize that you want forgiveness. And that is a great start, if you keep hoping, I believe that one day Pragya bhabhi will come back to you. Hope goes a long way, we learned that when Riya got sick. So keep on trying to get Pragya bhabhi back and one day you will succeed." Alia said motivating Abhi the best she could because she didn't have any idea about what had happened between Abhi and Pragya.

And even though Alia had so many questions about it, she didn't think it was the right time to ask such questions.

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