A LOVE STORY OR NOT PART 2

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Shehnaaz was right now lying on the couch with her feet in Sidharth's lap. He was working on his laptop and massaging her feet simultaneously.

"Sidharth!", she called out to him.

"Han baby?", he asked.

"Mujhe bahar jaana hai!", she said.

"Shehnaaz tu pagal hai? Bahar nhi jaa sakte, teri halat nhi hai!", he said as he closed his laptop and kept it aside.

Sidharth was in constant fear of something happening to her and so he had even shifted his work to home.

He did not even want to believe the fact that these might be her last days with him.

But somewhere he understood that if she is with him even for a few days, then he would just stay with her.

He couldn't control what's going to happen in a few days but he could hold her close to him while she was still alive.

"Please! Mujhe date pe jaana hai!", she pleaded to him, "Ek aakhri baar!", she thought, not daring to say it out loud.

Whenever she would say something about her not being there with him, he would completely break down and so she avoided it.

Although, Shehnaaz didn't say "Ek aakhri baar", out loud, but he knew what she might have though.

He just pecked her forehead and made her stand up and moved towards their room.

Shehnaaz happily took out a light pink colored dress which ended just above her knees and he made her wear the sneakers.

She pulled up her hair in a pony tail and when she was ready, Sidharth hugged her from behind, closing his eyes, inhaling her in.

He didn't know till when would he be able to inhale her scent, he didn't know till how long will he be able to hug her.

The thought of not being able to hold her in his arms, made him emotional and upset.

He was slightly loosing all of it but he wouldn't show it to anybody.

After the thing with the baby shower, they both had told the family about Shehnaaz's condition and everybody had just cried.

Nobody could talk to Shehnaaz without getting emotional, that day and even today. All of them would just cry.

"Aap sab kyun ro re ho? Agar mein jaa rahi hun toh aapke paas ek new member aa bhi toh rahi hai na!", she had said, trying to coax everybody.

This didn't console them but for the sake of seeing Shehnaaz smiling and giggling, they pretended to smile as well.

Shehnaaz insisted on having the party, which she thought might be her last party with the family, that day which was 2 weeks ago.

They both made their way downstairs, Sidharth holding her hand firmly in his, helping her climb down.

"Kahan jaa re ho tum iss Waqt?", Maa asked worriedly.

"Maa, mein, Pari aur Sidharth date pe jaa re hain!", Shehnaaz said and giggled.

Maa gave her watery smile, "Humesha aise hi khush raho!", she said.

She did indeed bless her to be happy always, but she herself didn't know till when is this 'always' going to be.

Sidharth took her to the same cafe in which they had gone the day before they were leaving for Udaipur.

Shehnaaz giggled as he stretched his hand out for her after unbuckling the seat belt.

He shot up an eyebrow at her and she asked, "Tujhe Yaad hai hum first time yahan Kab aaye the?".