While Holding the Pain

Chapter_50

Roshni's P.O.V.

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As I kept staring at the smiling face of Titly of the picture, all the incidents happened to me started coming to my mind.

At some point I sat on the floor with a thud keeping my watery eyes glued to the picture. I didn’t know how long I was like that until I felt someone shaking me.

I looked at the person blankly and it took me sometime to recognise the person who was no other than Ruhaan.

She shook me again and I came back to earth. When he asked me, “What’s wrong with you? Why are you being like this?”, all I could point at the picture of the wall and uttered a word, “Titly!” but got shocked when Ruhaan also uttered the word at the same time with me.

Ruhaan also gave me a surprising look and then again we uttered a same question at the same time to each other get shocked again, “How did you know Titly?”

Glancing at me, Ruhaan turned to the picture as he spoke up being  anguished, “Titly was my sister but she is no more.”

While shaking my head, I spoke up then, “Noo. She is alive.”

He turned to me and spoke up with confusion, “What did you just say?”

I uttered looking at the picture, “Titly is alive. She is alive.” and then turned to Ruhaan only to find him giving me a disbelieving look.

He then uttered in watery eyes, “She died, Roshni. She died in an accident three years ago.”

I turned to him and spoke up with watery eyes, “It’s me, Ruhaan who lost her sister three years ago in an accident and the girl who you thought of as my sister is not actually my sister Tithy but your sister Titly.”

He just uttered a word, “What?”

And I started telling him about the incidents happened back then. I told him how for the first time I met Titly in a watch shop and about that time also when I happened to find her with burnt face.

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3 Years Back

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That day I was going to office after visiting Ammi at the hospital. There was no improvement in her condition for the last 1 month.

She got an heart attack as soon as she heard the news of Tithy’s accident over phone call and went to comma.

Tithy died on the spot on that accident. I was trying to get myself together to save Ammi. As I became all alone after Tithy left us then.

I took loan from Bank using my house as the security for her treatment.

That day when I was walking towards office while thinking all this then all of a sudden I heard someone calling me, “Roshni Api”

Turning back, I found Titly who was sitting in a car. As soon as I stopped, she got down from the car and got near me.

We talked for a little while until I got a call from my office. Taking leave from her, I stepped forward a little and got in a taxi. As soon as the taxi started, I heard a sound of crashing.

I got down from the taxi immediately remembering Tithy’s accident time and found there were lying many bodies lifeless.

I ran there only to find Titly was lying also but her face was all burnt. By the face, I could barely recognise her but then I saw the watch in her hand which she showed me few times back to ask me how’s it looking on her wrist as I was the one who bought her the watch.