Fate's play

CHAPTER 12: The losing hope

She looked herself before the mirror, she felt like the ugliest person on the earth driving a car at late night after the failed attempt of surprising her husband. Her perspective completely changed, she felt like a teenager and cared about her hair and appearance and wondered which would have made him feel embarrassed about her. While then she realized that the last party they attended together was before 4 years, they never made any public appearance yet, she became too conscious. While then, A car overtaking her car while she takes a sudden turn to avoid hitting it with the car and hit a sudden brake when she was about to hit the barricade. 

"Thank god!" She muttered and looked ahead at the car. She also put a break from the rubbish thoughts going inside her mind. She wasn't supposed to think like that. She was not the same person, she clearly understood. Not these 4 years, these 2 days from the moment she got the mail from him asking her to come to Miami, she has been behaving like this. Like a childish teenager. She knew the reason behind his behaviour. But whatever he did today was wrong totally wrong. She neither cried nor shown any signs of it in her face but she buried everything inside. She saw everyone sleeping in their room but it has been just 20 minutes since she left. Shivaansh was still sleeping in his room. She emerged inside and took him in her arms, he snuggled in her arms. 

"It's mommy, baby," She said and took him to her room. She knew if she sleeps lonely, she will definitely get messed up with unwanted thoughts. She walked towards the washroom and washed away all her makeup, she emerged out she saw her big suitcase ready-packed with so many clothes and stuff, it would probably be over-weight. She placed the suitcase on the bed without disturbing her son. The reality hit her finally, she totally packed 50 dresses and 15 of them were party wear. She smiled at her immaturity and took off her extra unwanted dresses and arranged it in her wardrobe. While then, Saranya, also her schoolmate, sid's wife called her. Anika attended it in the first ring. 

"Yeah, darling, tell me," Anika answered with a usual chime in her voice. 

"You're fine, right, darling," Saranya asked her. Anika chuckled. 

"What will happen to me?" She asked while re-arranging the extra clothes in the wardrobe. 

"Okay, I don't want to lie, but sid told me about whatever happened in the party. He was worried for you, and I am feeling like breaking your husband's head for you if you permit." Saranya busted out and Anika chuckled hearing to her. She felt like her emotions leaking out hearing her words. 

"Saru, I love you so much, yarr." Anika wiped off the leaking tears from her right eye. But her voice didn't have any impact in it. She was never been close to Saranya like she was with sid in her school days, but when she happened to meet them coincidently before 3 years, she can't help herself from re-bonding with them again. 

They met in the restaurant, they didn't come forward to talk to her but stared at her weirdly. Looking at sid, she couldn't stop herself from reaching them. He wondered whether it's really here as she knows to be dead for them. He cried on that day for her and Saranya hugged her to the tightest hug which anika never expect, she also didn't expect sid and Saranya will end up together after seeing them fighting like tom and jerry in the school for good grades, she heard from sid that ended up in IIT Madras together. And, over then, she also came to know that they ended up together for the rest of her life. From then, she became Saranya's closest friend as Anika was her closest friend. Little by little, she told everything to them without any filters. 

"I love you too, darling. Don't be so secretive, at least not with me." Saranya asked her. Anika stayed silent hearing infact she started to cry while smiling hard. 

"I will tell you everything, Saru. Now tell me, it's okay to have three sleeping pills to sleep till morning around 9?" Anika asked her. For a while, Saru didn't answer anything her.