Abhigya Stories Collection

Love Trilogy 3 : Stubborn Love

Thanks to all for voting and commenting on the previous story. Sorry, I have been a little busy and I am not able to reply to the PMs, will do so as soon as I get some time.

Stubborn Love

Pragya, Sarala and Raghuveer walks into Mehra Mansion wondering what the urgency could be. They walk in to find the Mehra clan waiting for them including Aaliyah. Pragya walks to her and hugs her smiling, "Di."

Soon, Raghuveer and Sarala were hugging Aaliyah and asking her about her life in her new sasural. It's been a little over a month since Aaliyah got married. Pragya smiles at her sister's in-laws and makes some polite conversations with them. Then she walks towards Abhishek who was leaning near the window watching everything silently.

"How are you doing?" Abhishek asks her in a gentle whisper.

"Getting better." Pragya replies as she watches her happy sister. It still hurt something fierce looking at her sister or coming to Mehra Mansion. The man she had loved was married to her sister now. She gave up her boyfriend for her sister. She has been trying to forget him and move on in life but she was not able to do it as she has loved him for the longest time.

"Why did you ask us to come urgently?" Raghuveer asks Aaliyah.

"Is everything alright, Di?" Pragya asks walking towards her worried.

"Yes."

"What did you want to tell us?" Sarala asks her.

"That Papa... we wanted to tell you something." Aaliyah says with a shy blush.

"What?"

Aaliyah turns to her mother-in-law for help as she blushed uncontrollably.

"We are going to be grandparents." Radha informs Raghuveer and Sarala happily.

Pragya turns to Aaliyah in shock and sees her happily smiling. Forgetting her pain she hugs Aaliyah plastering a smile on her face and Aaliyah hugs her happily. Pragya turns to look at Abhishek and he was watching her sadly. Pragya closes her eyes to hide her pain and then quickly steps away from Aaliyah as her parents hugged her happily wishing her. Seeing everyone so excited, Pragya couldn't take it anymore and she quietly leaves from there.

Pragya walks to the pool area and sits on one of the lounger as the tears dropped down. She knew that neither her parents nor anyone would notice that she was missing as they would be too happy at present. The only person who would notice that she had left was Abhishek and he would come behind her in a few minutes. He always managed to realize when she was upset. He always was there when she needed him. She didn't know how he did it but he was always there for her. He was her anchor.

She feels him sit next to her and she turns to him with tears in her eyes. Without a word he hugs her. Pragya cries as she hugged him tight around his waist. She was getting his shirt all wet and it was not the first time. He was the shoulder she cried on since she was a baby. He was her best friend.

"You have to let go, Pragya." Abhishek gently tells her.

"I am trying." Pragya tells him as she looked up at him. "I am really trying."

"I know." Abhishek replies. "But you have to try harder. He is no longer yours. He is married and now he is going to be a father."

Pragya hugs him as she broke into loud sobs. Abhishek hugs her muffling her loud sobs. Abhishek gently pats her back as he tries to calm her down. Pragya calms down as she thought of Suresh. She had been in love with him since she started college. Even though she has known the Mehra brothers ever since she was a kid, she had started having romantic feelings for the elder Mehra when she had joined college and got to know him better. Abhishek, she has known him since they were in pre-school. They were best friends since then. She grew up in his house and he in hers. They were such best friends that their parents also became friends because of that. Then she fell in love with Suresh, and had told Abhishek about it. Abhishek had told Suresh about her feelings for him, on her insistence. Suresh reciprocated her feelings and they were together for about a month when he met her elder sister and fell in love hopelessly with her. When she found out about that, she was heartbroken and when she realized that Suresh and Aaliyah were willing to forget their love for her happiness, she had stepped aside and let them be together. They got married quickly after that with her blessings and now they were waiting for their first baby. Suresh and Aaliyah are under the impression that she was over Suresh. Only Abhishek knew about her pain and heartache. Without even telling him much, he always knew her pain and like this time, he would come running to help her.