Zindagi Aur Pyaar - FULL ENGLISH

Chapter 2: Funeral

Birla Mansion was mourning. The house that had recently been filled with colors and glowing with upcoming happiness was now dull and lifeless. The atmosphere was filled with mourning.

As the people from the hospital came with Neil's body, the room immediately became filled with Manjiri's queries and then shrieks of pain when she uncovered the lifeless body of her son. As she broke into hysterics, there were only questions on everyone's mind. What would they tell Aarohi? How would they help her stay strong in her grief? Where was Abhimanyu? Why was he not here supporting Manjiri?

While their brains weren't that able to think for answers for the first two questions just yet, the second was answered, as Abhimanyu arrived with his hand intertwined with Akshara, both dressed in simple white clothing, ready to meet Neil for the last time.

As everyone expected Abhi to run to his mother, they were very surprised when he first helped Akshara carefully into the house, and then took her with him to come next to Neil's body. Just as Abhi was about to call out to get his mother's attention, Aarohi's agony-filled scream echoed throughout the house, as she arrived next to the dead body of her husband.

As she screamed at him to wake up, open his eyes, come back to life to see their unborn child, Manjiri comfortingly hugged her, which did nothing to calm Aarohi. Aarohi stopped screaming when she was reminded that all that was left of Neil was growing in her stomach, and too much stress was bad for the baby. At this, Aarohi stopped screaming, and instead turned to Akshara, who her eyes found to blame.

"You can't ever see me happy, right Akshara. For so many years I have remained saddened by my mom's death, but I finally got happiness when I met Neil. But you couldn't see me happy right, so you got him killed right. Why did you take Neil with you?" she started her blame game, as blaming Akshara had always been her coping mechanism. And due to a cruel twist of fate, Akshara was always somewhere nearby when something bad occurred, making it more reasonable to blame her. In Aarohi's eyes, Akshara was there in the car where Neil decided to take actions to save those girls who had called Akshara, so he had died due to Akshara.

"You are wretched, your mother died a few months after your birth, and now you also got your children killed, but why did you take my husband with you? If you wanted to die, or if you wanted to kill your babies, then you should have gone alone, why did you murder my husband? First you took away my mother, now you took away my husband. How will I live without Neil? Why did you snatch my husband away, the father of my unborn child? Why?" she demanded, continuing to blame Akshara for the death of Neil.

As Aarohi paused to take a breath, Akshara attempted to shake her head and started crying, attempting to justify that she hadn't caused those deaths, and hadn't wanted anyone to die, not Neil nor her babies, but her words fell on deaf ears, as no one wanted to listen to her. Currently, everyone cared only for Neil's widow Aarohi. Everyone except Abhimanyu, who stood behind Akshara. Just as Abhimanyu was going to speak up on Akshara's behalf, as Akshu's point wasn't getting across, Manjiri lashed out.

Shoving Akshara away from Neil's body, Manjiri pointed a finger at Akshara.

"This all happened because of you, just because of you," she screamed, just as the Goenka family entered the house. They were shocked to see Manjiri shove Akshu away from Neil's body and blame her. Akshara would have had a nasty fall if Abhimanyu hadn't caught her in time.

Just as they were about to ask what was going on, and that Manjiri should not be hurting Akshu, who had just had a miscarriage, Manjiri started verbally attacking Akshara.

"Don't come near my son. Because of you, my son is not here with me today. Because of you he will never be able to see his and Aarohi's child ever. Everything happened because of you. Keep your wretched self away from my son. Away! And -" Manjiri wailed, waving her finger with hatred at Akshara.