Kartik was sitting on the porch as he was looking at the moon. His phone rang but instead of picking it up he simply put it on silent and kept it aside on the stairs beneath his feet.
He once again reached out and took the letter out from the right side pocket of his shirt only to read it for 67th time today.
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Kartik,
I know that I should be saying this to you in person but considering everything that happened between us in past couple of months I really don't think that it's feasible for me to say this in person. So I am using this letter to say something that you already know.
I was in love with you Kartik..for the longest time possible.
Only I could never find the right word or the right time to say it. But now I realise that there is no perfect time or perfect words which can express one's true feelings for the other person.
Though I don't regret it because I am glad I didn't say those words to you because it would have really hurt my self respect, my pride and my ego when you would have turned me down..though gently but still it would have shred my heart into gazallion pieces.
But now I am confessing my feelings because I want to let go of any unwarranted and unrequited feelings that I had for you in these years.
I want a clean slate Kartik because I want to get my happily ever after too. And for that I am freeing myself from you and those feelings related to you.
No I don't hate you rather I respect you for being honest and for being the person you truly are. I don't want that because of any issue I end up hurting you and Sanjana because though at the moment I am fully controlled of my emotions but with time who knows what tricks my heart might get me into.
After all watching your "supposedly" first love with your soul sister isn't at all easy.
And it's getting tough day by day and I know it will only become worse that's why I have chosen to leave this city and you two behind.
I know by now you would have heard the news that I am leaving Mumbai. And just like Sanjana even you must be wondering how can you stop me.
That's why I am saying this...
..DON'T.
I don't want you to stop me because I don't want to be here anymore.
That's why I don't want to meet you anymore. I don't want you to even help me with my moving or seeing me off for the last time.
Not because I hate you but because I love you way too much to say NO to you. I don't want to stop here because I know if you stop me then I will end up doing something that I am scared the most at the moment..
..snatching you back from Sanjana.
And that's something I don't ever want to get myself into.
You are a human with emotion who is capable of making choices and I don't want to make you my asset or property by staking my claim on you in any way.
I don't want to begin this jealousy-snatching-hatred game because it will only end up hurting us all in the end making everything beyond redemption.
I respect you and your choice Krish.
And I hope you would do the same for me as well.
I hope you and Sanjana live a beautiful and memorable life together.
Sanjana is extremely precious for me and I know that you know that so you better keep her happy or else I will return only to destroy you if you ever dare to make her sad for even a fraction of second.
I wish you both all the love and happiness in the world.
Goodbye Kartik.
..and yes..it was really nice meeting and knowing you.
Anjali.
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Kartik got this letter just couple of hours before Anjali left the city.
He never mentioned anything about this letter to Sanjana.
Kartik was getting married to Sanjana next week so he came to collect his stuff from his old house and that's where he found this letter again.
Kartik and Sanjana had move on with their lives and the way Anjali disappeared from their lives made it pretty clear to him that even she had moved on in her life without them.
Though he doesn't regret his choices or decisions but reading this letter somehow makes him feel uncomfortable.
Not guilty...but weird.
He simply didn't knew what exactly was he supposed to feel.
So he let himself follow the course of his life that was his PRESENT.
"What if and What it could have been " wasn't something that he was keen on knowing rather he was happy with his choice and was living it with full willingness and joy.
Because just like Sanjana even he wanted to spend his life happily just like Anjali's wish.
Anjali was their Angel and now she would always be in his prayers and well wishes.
While Sanjana was his PRESENT and will be his HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
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