A LOVE STORY OR NOT PART 2

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Sidharth wordlessly opened the door for her and then buckled her up. He didn't kiss her forehead and it seemed strange.

Shehnaaz's eyes moved with his moving figure. She looked at him with concern as he sat inside the car.

Sidharth sighed and shut his eyes, his hands on the steering wheel, gripping it so hard that Shehnaaz felt he might break it.

Shehnaaz kept a soothing hand on his arm. It calmed him down instantly.

Shehnaaz could feel the flexed muscles of his arm and his veins that were popping out.

She paced her hand right to left on his arm and he gulped before looking straight at her.

"Shehnaaz, I am gonna ask you something aur tu mujhe Sach bolegi!", he said.

"Hmm, OK!", she said.

"Do you love me?", he asked.

"Ye kaisa sawaal hai?", she asked in disbelief.

"Just answer me without questioning back!", he said as he looked outside the windshield, at nothing in particular.

"I do!", she said softly.

"Do you value our vows? Jo Humne shaadi ke time liye the?", he asked.

"Han Sidharth! Ye kya Bakwaas puch ra hai tu?", she asked in utter confusion.

"Do you remember the vows?", he asked.

"Sidharth tu...", she couldn't speak when he interrupted.

"Do you or do you not remember the vows?", he said as he focussed on each and every word.

"I do!", she said.

"Then how can you fucking hide things from me!", Sidharth asked with gritted teeth.

Shehnaaz could see that more than anger, he was in pain and she didnt know what had she done to cause it.

"Par meine kuch nhi chupaya", she said with a frown.

"Just Shut up, just shut the fuck up! What was that song about? Don't say that you don't know what I am talking about!", he warned her.

Now, she knew what he meant and what triggered him. She knew that she can not hide it anymore.

"Let's go home!", she said.

"No, tell me first!", he said.

"I will! First let's go home!", she said a bit coldly and then they drove towards their home.

Both were fighting their inner battles. Shehnaaz was about to tell him something which she had been keeping in her heart for so long.

On the other hand, Sidharth was imagining all the worst case scenarios in his mind but what she was about to tell him, was beyond those possibilities.

They reached home and Shehnaaz asked him to go to terrace and wait for her there.

He didn't ask any questions and silently moved upstairs towards the terrace.

Maa came out of her room and saw Shehnaaz. She looked scared and distraught.

"Kya hua mera bachcha? Wo bhi pareshaan tha tu bhi, kya hua hai?", Maa asked worriedly, desperately hoping that Shehnaaz and baby were fine.

"Kuch nhi hua Maa, bass choti si ladaai ho gyi, meine medicines nhi li thi!", Shehnaaz said as she made an excuse.

"Pakka Sana? Tu aur Pari theek ho?", she asked again.

"Han Maa, mein bhi theek hun aur Pari toh bohot hi achchi hai!", Shehnaaz said as she giggled, trying to ease her out.

Maa nodded and kissed her forehead after which, Shehnaaz went straight into the room and took out some envelopes from behind her closet.