Abhigya Stories Collection

When Love Awaits

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When Love Awaits

- a second chance at love.

Pragya happily walks into the cafe and spots Abhi waiting for her. He seemed upset about something, but she was too happy with her news that she decided to share her news before she asked him what was troubling him. And once he heard her news he would be happy too, forgetting everything else. He gets up seeing her and she hugs him happily kissing him on his cheeks. He hugs her tightly, a little more than he usually does. "I want to talk to you." Abhi tells her. "Before that I want to tell you something." Pragya cuts him off happily. "This is important, Pragya." "This is more important. I talked to my parents and they agreed for the wedding. Bhaiyya said he will also come for the wedding. Isn't it great?" Pragya tells him excitedly. Abhi sadly smiles at her hearing that. "You talked to your parents?" she asks wondering whether they refused and that is the reason he was upset, as they had decided that they would wait till they got their parent's consent before they married, they were bound to have objections as she was a Bengali and he was a Punjabi. "I did." "But they didn't agree." Pragya says sobering up seeing him upset. "My sister is pregnant." Abhi tells her. "Aliyah? But she is not..." Pragya starts and stops. "The guy is saying that only if I marry his sister he will marry my sister." Abhi tells her. "How can he say that?" Pragya asks angrily. "His sister it seems has been in love with me. I didn't even know that. They are our family friends." "What have you decided?" "When I think of Aliyah, I..." Abhi stops as he tried to get his thoughts right. "I don't care, Pragya. I love you. I want to marry you." Abhi tells her in finality. "What about Aliyah and her baby?" Pragya asks forced to think of his little sister. "I don't know." Abhi says desperately. "When I think about her I want to sacrifice my happiness for her, but when I think of you, I just want to be with you. My head will burst now." Abhi says as he held his head helplessly. "My parents and Aliyah expects me to sacrifice you for Aliyah but without you I am nothing, Pragya." Pragya knew him well, all she has to do was tell him and he would marry her, but then for the rest of his life he would live with the guilt that he ruined his sister's and her baby's life. His relation with his family will be broken. He would live in hell and she loved him too much to see him suffer like that. "I will always be with you, Abhi." Pragya tells him smiling. Abhi looks at her hopefully. "So what if we are not married or we are not together physically? We will be each other's support. We will be with each other in our memory and love. Not every love finds its happy ending. Some remain incomplete." Pragya tells him as she lovingly caressed his cheeks. "NO!" Abhi says forcefully.

Abhi wakes up sweating profusely. It's been 5 years, but he dreams of that day every single time he sleeps. She had left him, without a trace. At times, it felt like those 9 months with her never happened, but the heart ache made it seem real as if it happened yesterday. He wondered where she was, what she was doing now. Maybe she got married and moved on in life. Wherever she was he wished and prayed she be happy. The sacrifice she had made for his sister had only made his love for her all the more intense. Realizing he was sweating, he removes his seat belt and gets up from the seat and goes to freshen up. By the time he had come out, the seat belt sign was on and the announcement was made that they were about to land. He resumes his seat and pulls out the file he had been studying before he fell asleep. He was going to New York to finalize a merger.

The next day, he was ushered into King Singh's cabin. King Singh was the MD of Renaissance, the company he was planning the merger with. Seeing Abhi, King immediately gets up and shakes his hand with a smile. "Mr Abhishek Prem Mehra, finally we meet." "Yes finally." Abhi says with a smile. "I hope your flight and stay is comfortable." King says pleasantly. "Everything is fine." Abhi replies. King gestures him to sit and Abhi sits, and King also sits. They start discussing the merger. They were deep in discussion when the door bursts open, and they both look up in irritation. King's irritation soon changes into a big smile, Abhi looks at the direction King was looking wondering why there was no decorum in this office, you don't barge into an office, specially your MD's cabin. Finally seeing the intruder he couldn't help smile. It was a small boy, hardly 4 years. "I am here!!!" he shouts happily as he ran to King. King scoops him up in his arms as he happily smiled. Turning to Abhi regretfully, he says "Sorry. Just a minute." "Take your time." Abhi says smiling at the boy. It was evident that the boy was King's son, he was his mirror image. "What are you doing here? Haven't I told you not to come here like this, especially when I am in a meeting?" King lovingly scolds him as he pulled his nose. The boy starts laughing, "Yes you have told me." "Then?" "But I like coming here, Papa." he says, "Really?" King starts tickling him on his stomach and he starts laughing loudly. "Where is your Mama?" "Upstairs." "She knows you are here?" the boy nods his head quickly, a little too quickly. "AB..." King says in a warning tone. "No." he pouts. King shakes his head in disappointment. His phone starts ringing and he looks at the caller id, "It's your mama." "Don't tell her I am here." "I will tell her." King tells him and quickly takes the phone saying, "He is here, I am sending him up." then he hangs up smiling seeing AB pout. "You are bad!" AB says angrily. "So are you." King replies grinning. "I am not bad! I am hulk!" AB says proudly as he made Hulk pose. Abhi starts chuckling seeing that. King and AB turns to look at him. AB frowns at Abhi for laughing at him. "You do look like hulk." Abhi tells him to appease him. AB makes the Hulk pose more proudly now. "Now, go." King says as he gently eased him off his lap. "Who are you?" AB asks Abhi having caught his attention. "Abhishek Prem Mehra, you can call me Abhi." "I am Abhimanyu Singh, you can call me AB." AB says as he puts his hand forward for a shake hand, Abhi takes his hand and smiles at him. Then AB smiled at him, at him and his smile reminded Abhi of Pragya's smile. There was an uncanny resemblance in the way he smiled. Abhi's heart breaks realizing that if he had married Pragya, then maybe they would have had a kid like AB now. "You should go now, AB. I have an important meeting and your mama is waiting for you." "Okay." AB says pouting. "Bye Abhi." "Bye Hulk." Making AB smile at him, like the way Pragya used to smile at him when she was truly happy, the only difference was AB had a slight hint of a dimple when he smiled. Abhi watched as AB dragged his feet to prolong his stay there. Abhi wanted AB to stay back, it was strange he was always weird around kids, but with AB he wanted to get to know him, maybe it was because of the resemblance he felt with Pragya. "He is a cute boy." Abhi tells King after AB leaves. "He is a brat." King tells him proudly, "he is having holidays now and he is bored out of his wits. So he keeps coming here without his mother finding out." King tells him. "Do you have any plans for the evening?" King asks. "No." "Then please come home for dinner." King invites him. Abhi nods his head, "I stay in pent house in this building." King tells him, and then they get back to their discussion.