My nightmare turned lover

Chapter - 42

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Astha's POV :-

I felt numb. The same loud sound before the silence of the line echoing inside my head on repeat mode.

Just then the door burst open revealing a scared looking Elon staring at me.

" Ma...Maya.. it's Mr. Saxena. He.." Elon stammered.

" What about...him." Although I knew the answer but still somewhere my heart was not ready to accept it.

" The news on the T.V are saying that his car collided with a heavy Tipper and.."

" And.." My tone rising a bit. I am totally not liking this suspense. Why can't he speak fast?

" And it got crushed. That car is literally now just a rumpled scrap. That scene is so horrifying on the screen itself I wonder if Mr. Saxe..."

" Stop." I silenced him before he can utter that nonsense and dashed out.

No no...he can't die...he can't.

Chanting this I reached the lobby and dialled Samarth's number. Getting no response after the third time I started dialing another number. But curse my slippery sweaty hands. The phone fell from the grasp of it.

I was about to pick it up when someone picked it up instead.

I looked up and saw an almost broken Samarth in front of me.

" Astha.."

" Samarth.."

He suddenly engulfed me into a hug and started crying. I on the other hand is trying hard to control mine. Something inside me just felt empty like it had been just stripped of it's essentials.

" Abhay...he..he..I can't leave without him Astha. And I don't have the guts to see him like that too. He is my only brother Astha. No no.. not just that..he is more than that to me. He is the one who is always on my side when no one is..he can't leave me like that..."

" Sushhh... nothing is going to happen to him alright. Don't say stupid things okay. He will be here with us to bore us to death until eternity." I said in more like convincing myself that and Samarth chuckled.

" Yes you are right. The devil himself is afraid of him. He can't come near him." He said now relaxing and smiling a bit. " Come...we need to go to the hospital ASAP." He said and dragged me out along with him.

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" Will he be alright?" He asked keeping his eyes on the road.

" He will.. remember he is Lucifer himself." I said comforting him and myself in the process.

" Hmm.." He said and continued driving. Both of us lost in our own world after that.

I kept staring outside the window. But it was not the scenary outside which was flashing before me. My vision was occupied with Abhay and our time before. Our time together right from the start when I entered the Saxena enterprise flashed before me like a movie.

Suddenly I realised that I was never that happy after leaving him. Sure I had everything with me now but still that unalloyed happiness was missing. All these fame and all was just helping me to hide from my own feelings from which I was running away. Yes I was alone at that time with minimal support but after he came into my life my so called life was taking this new turn which I somehow failed to see. The feeling of being in a family that I had forgotten... I again experienced it with him. Anupama aunty, Samarth and Mr. Samaksh Saxena..well he was..he too tried to be one! They were slowly starting to get inside me. But I foolishly left all these. Because... because of my own insecurities. No...I was wrong in blaming Abhay for all that what happened. I too was equally responsible for it. Now that I see into it I can get things more clearly. Yes that night was a mistake but it was sitted on both of us. I should have acknowledged the fact that no one can be perfect. Everyone has their own flows. Deep down I somewhere knew that his love for me was true but I was too stupid to not believe that. I was too preoccupied by my past. How everyone left me before... I tied that with my present which made me believed that it will happen again. I was the one who was not able to come out from my past and look how a hypocrite I was. I blamed him for a fact in which I too was stuck. He loved me enough to hold onto me until now. Yeah people make mistakes.. it's there inherent nature but they change too. They rectify too. And Abhay did that which I couldn't. I blamed him of not changing but the truth is that I am the one who didn't changed.

I now want to scream out loud in frustration. I was so so stupid. The ones who loved me, I left them. I was running for the happiness which I myself had kicked out from my life. And now that I finally got on my right senses that happiness might not return to my life again. My heart hammered thinking that. What are you thinking Astha? Nothing is gonna happen to him. Oh god! I bet nobody is as stupid as I am. Not even the Simpsons ( the stupidest cartoon family that I have ever encountered!). I now can finally see myself in the position of Scar ( the foolish greedy uncle of Simba the lion King) who because of his stupidity lost everything.

Please god.. please. Don't let anything happen to him. I promise I will never leave him again. I promise. Just don't let anything bad happen to him. I prayed.

Just then the car halted signalling that we reached the hospital and without waiting for Samarth I dashed inside the hospital.

"I have some news for you Abhay. So you better be fine if you want to hear it." I said smiling while looking for the reception.

" Where is Mr. Abhay Saxena?" I asked the receptionist who looked at me warily.

" Why are looking at her like that and tell me where my brother is?" Samarth asked. I realised he was right behind me.

" But.."

" I am his brother for god's sake. Now please tell me before I take an action on you." Samarth yelled and the receptionist visibly paled hearing it.

" I am sorry sir. As this is an accident case and not to mention a high profile one on top of that I was not allowed to disclose anything to anyone. I am sorry I couldn't recognise you. Mr. Saxena is in the ICU right now."

" What?" We both exclaimed in unison.

" But don't worry the doctor said that he is alright. Just a minor concussion. Apart from this he is alright. He was lucky that he jumped out just in time before that truck collided with the car. Apprently he hit himself on a tree trunk while doing so. He will be transferred to a room shortly." She smiled looking at us. We both breathed a sigh of relief.

" Where is he?" We asked again in unison. We looked at each other then giving a faint smile looked at her again.

" Second corridor to the left sir. The last room." She said pointing to the direction and we moved accordingly.

When we reached the said destination, I saw Abhay's parents seating on the sit outside the ICU. Anupama aunty was crying hard and Mr. Saxena was holding her. A worried expression masking his face.

" Ma." Samarth said walking slowly towards them.

As soon as aunty's eyes landed on her son she dashed towards him and hugging him started crying again.

" See what happened to your brother. He is not speaking to me. Tell him Sammy to speak with me or else I will not talk with him ever again." She said crying.

" I will ma. I will. I will even whip his lazy ass if he refuses to get up " Samarth said comforting her.

Mr. Saxena smiled at this and then his eyes landed on me and immediately his face morphed into an angry one. I got scared at this.

" What are you doing here?" He said angrily.

" I..I..." As usual words vocabulary left my brain at the time when I need them the most.

At this Anupama aunty too looked at me.

She immediately left Samarth and came towards me. I smiled weakly at her.

" Aunty..I..."

" You.... don't come near him." She sneared at me. " Get out from here before I do something that I shouldn't." She yelled and I was shocked.

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Don't laugh at the examples I gave. Scar is totally my favourite and last night I again revisited the story just to get in him. I know you might be thinking what a crazy person I am but I simply love him guys. What to do!

And yipes! If anyone in here loves The Simpsons please don't murder me. Please!! It's totally my thinking, so don't become all Thanos on me. Don't forget that if you kill me then who will finish this story ha?😉

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