Love me, or Hate me

s2- Part 3

Mahir walking inside saw one of his cook running from his sister. Smiling fondly he sadly wonders why pearl would leave his family just to steal his identity. He still couldn't understand why he would go through so much just for an incident that happend when they were kids.

Holding his son, his sister quickly saw him and ran to him. " Bhai please help me before ma kills me. I promise I will get along with your friend "

Mahir raised a brow " what did you do to ma" he whispers

Geet hiding behind her brother mumbles something. Mahir leans forward to hear " what"

" she caught me in bed with maan" once she said that she quickly says " nothing happend"

Mahir tense at first because over the course of years he actually started seeing them as his family. Maan is one of his friends he made six years ago while doing business in America. He's one of the benefactors he had. He's always coming around, but now he knows why.

Smiling he looks at his mom " ma if she says nothing happend then nothing happened. Don't you trust our upbringing? "

The woman stops her Advances " your right, but geet what was maan doing in your room"

Both heads turn to her. She nervously looks away " well" she stretched trying to remember herself. She recalls going out with friends, she told them she doesn't drink when they took her to a bar. They dared her and slip Alcohol in her drink. She became tipsy, she had to approach someone. That person had called her name and she smiles, she flirted and dance with him, and the next thing she knew she was at her house in her bed.

When she woke up, she was topless and Maan was sleeping next to her. She looks at her mom and gulp. If she finds out I drank, I'm dead, she thought. " well geet are you going to tell us"

" I....i dont remember," she says before quickly walking in the restaurant.

The two look at her with worry, Mahir disguised as pearl looks at his mom before reassuring her once more.

While going inside, he could hear Rishi and Baldev laughing at her while Inder takes his rag to  clean the counters. " ok you guys stop laughing at geet, you're embarrassing her"

Rishi looks at the child and offers to take him while Mahir grabs a binder that has the new weekly plan. Looking through it, he noticed there was a delivery for catering. " whose order is this?"

" the sehgals," Baldev says

Mahir tense, " didnt I say we won't take any order from them"

" yeah, but this is a really big one"

" I dont care how big the order is, we won't cater them."

Confused his mom sat next to him " Beta dont get angry, I made the order. This is a big opportunity to make some connections in India, why not start with a big company like the Sehgal's"

Mahir relax a little " the Sehgals seems to have a bad reputation, I just dont want our work to mix with people like them"

The truth was he wasn't ready to face his family yet, and the fact that he killed someone whom bel loved eats him inside. He just can't bear to see her in pain.....And his mom....he knew she most is having a hard time.

" by the way your therapist called, she says you better not skip your session tomorrow"

Mahir frown, he didnt thinks he needed it, but since everyone was worried, he decided to go.

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Bel sitting up was greeted by the doctor. She couldn't remember exactly what happend. One minute she was in her room sobbing, and the next she heard Mahir calling her name. She didnt think she would miss him so much after he mentally abuses her. He had his moments where he was so sweet, where she felt his pain. She couldn't blame him, she doesn't have the heart too.

But it's funny how things played out. Just when she was finally accepting him, life takes him away. She laughs dryly. One of the doctors in charge saw this and asks if she was alright.

" bel, how many time are you going to harm yourself over something that happend six years ago"

Watching her, she could tell bel wasn't paying attention. Her mind was once more somewhere else.

The doctor frown " I called your mother-in-law, she will be arriving soon. But bel, if you need someone to talk to, I can recommend a good therapist to yo-"

" I dont need it, I'm perfectly fine," she says

" bel your not fine, you've been spacing out, disappearing, and even screaming out of nowhere. Your obviously triggered by your husband death."

Bel didn't want to hear any more of her talk. She stood up to leave, while the doctor tries to stop her.

" Bel, what are you doing"

Bel turns to see Sumitra, and Pratham pushing her in. She did not look happy at all. " you disappeared, and got yourself injured. How many times do you want me to have a heart attack." She says

" I'm sorry " she cried " B...But Mahir ...w...was...
Calling me"

Sumitra sigh " we are both saddened that he died but do you think he would want you to behave like this"

Bel tears start to flow somemore " It's just so hard to move on"

Sumitra grabs her hand "I know, but as long as we got each other, we can get through it"

Bel wipes her tear  and hugs Sumitra. They stayed like this for a little bit before the doctor told her to cooperate.