"When- did you find this picture?"
"Maybe- when I was 5 years old-."
"This will hurt a little." Says Abhi, cleaning the cuts on Riya's hand, she doesn't even wince, just staring at the picture, still holding it in her other hand.
They're on the bed now, a servant quietly fixing up Riya's bedroom, Parthiv stands in the corner, arms folded on his chest, just looking at Riya, he can't look away.
Riya's sighs, she needs to tell him, he needs to know. "I got- this picture, in the storeroom... I went in there to hide- playing hide and seek with my friends. I don't know from where this just flew and fell on the ground in front of me- I picked it up, didn't really understand what I was looking at. It was you holding a kid and a... fairy- because she had long hair, smiling, wearing yellow. I want long hair like that, I had thought... their pretty- she's pretty. But who's the kid, that you're holding, you're only my dad- I was jealous. But, I forgot to ask you, by tomorrow I forgot all about it, but I still kept it somewhere. At 10 years old, I found it again somewhere- people talk- the kid I found out she was my older sister- my innocence was gone- the fairy was no longer a fairy- she was my mom- who left me... I used to put this picture underneath my pillow every night before I went to sleep- in the hope that- mom would come meet me in my dreams... sometimes she did- sometimes she didn't. At 15 I stopped doing that, I realized how stupid it was. I also realized another thing, this is the only picture where all of us are together- Mom's pregnant here, isn't she? With me and- ... Dad I need-."
"There all done." Says Abhi, finishing bandaging Riya's hand, kissing it.
Riya is confused. "Dad, did you even hear what I said?"
Abhi looks at Riya's, tears rolling down his face, holding her face, wiping off her tears. "I did- and I'm so sorry that you had to go through all of that all alone- I didn't you had this picture- I thought I had buried it with everything else related to her- even when she's not here all she causes is pain... but she's gone."
Abhi takes the picture from Riya's hand, he's about to rip it, but sees Kiara in it too, tears rolling down his face, faster.
"Dad!" Yells Riya when Abhi does rip the picture, but only the portion with Pragya in it, throwing that part on to the floor.
"She's gone, there's no place in this house for her, she's who walked out- she's not worth talking about- Princess, forget about her." Says Abhi in finality. Hugging Riya tightly, kissing her head, Riya hugs him back, with wide red eyes, looking at the picture on the floor. What does she do now? She can't forget.
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Pragya can't sleep, she's tried so hard, but she can't, not in this city. Prachi's sleeping, hugging her. She went to sleep while they were talking, they talked alot, still Pragya doesn't know why she feels like Prachi didn't say what she wanted to say. She kept looking at her phone for some reason... like she was waiting for someone to call.
Pragya kisses Prachi's head and gets up, going to the kitchen, making tea, waiting for it to boil, looking at the window.
She shouldn't have come back to this city. All this city gave her was pain, this city took away so much from her. But she's just here for a week, what can happen in a week?
"Mom?- The tea!" Yells Prachi, Pragya turns and Prachi's turning off the stove, the tea is boiling over, Pragya didn't notice.
"Oh I-."
"Are you crying? Why are you crying?" Says Prachi, taking Pragya’s hands.
"I'm not crying."
"Did being here... make you think- of Dad?" Says Prachi, curiously, hopefully.
"He's not your dad! How many times do I have to tell you that?!" Yells Pragya, her hand turning in to a fist. Prachi frowns, a single tear rolling down her face, and Pragya sighs, holding her face. "I'm sorry, Pari. I didn't want to yell... can we just not talk about him please?"
Prachi's heard this a thousands times before, but today she doesn't back away. "No. I want to talk about him. I want to know him. You don't tell me anything! He left us, I know, but why, I don't. Why shouldn't I call him dad? Give me a reason, just one reason!"
"You want a reason, huh?! You really want a reason?! He killed your sister!!!"
Pragya sobs, falling apart. She had kept it a secret for so long, why it suddenly came out today, she didn't know. Like a curse that comes with being in this city, only pain.
And Prachi- she finally got her reason, but instantly lost all of her hope.
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