ACCEPTING 'US'

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Shyam's blood boiled with anger looking at gangadhar. All he could think was how he insulted sudha with his filthy words. He was the reason for her leaving the house. He was the reason for her tears, pain, hurt and self doubt. It's all because of his words that he had to let sudha go even though she was suffering with fever.

With all the pent up anger he marched towards him forgetting about everything. He stood behind him and kept his hand on his shoulder. Gangadhar stopped talking and turned towards him. He was initially confused looking at him staring.

" What do you want? " Gangadhar asked flinching. Shyam crushed his teeth with the anger surging within him.

" Apologise " shyam said dangerously low.

" For what? " Gangadhar questioned frowning.

" For everything you said that day about my wife " shyam replied pressing his fingers in his palm trying to control try rage.

" You must be kidding right now? " Gangadhar said and chuckled.

" I said apologise " shyam said still not wanting to lose his sanity. But when he saw gangadhar shaking his head and laughing as if he was joking made him lose control over himself.

Without any second thought he punched his jaw making him stumble backside. Gangadhar was taken aback with his courage and tried to attack him. Shyam who was already prepared to beat him easily moved his head aside when he tried to punch him. This gave shyam a chance to kick him from the backside making him fall on the ground. Gangadhar screamed in pain and there were people surrounding them and looking at them as if it was the fighting scene from a movie.

Initially they were surprised to see Shyam fighting and later shocked to see his opponent. Gangadhar is someone with whom no one wants to be involved with and seeing shyam fighting with him made everyone anxious of the consequences. A few people informed Vikas about the fight and he immediately rushed towards the spot. He saw shyam beating gangadhar and vice versa. But what made him happy was that his friend was able to make him bleed somehow. He was really grateful to see Shyam beating him as he himself heard what nonsense he spoke about sudha.

Vikas with the help of his other friends Mani and Kalyan separated both of them but shyam was not ready to leave him anyways. He kept kicking the air when they tried to separate them and Gangadhar was warning him of the consequences.

" You will see what will happen to you now. Just wait and watch you waste " he shouted going away from there rubbing the blood with his sleeves.

Shyam tried to run to catch him again but his friends held him tightly.

" Shyam calm down. You are doing everything out of rage " Kalyan shouted making him sit near a tree. Shyam was breathing heavily and his hands were still fisted.

" Shyam just calm down " vikas said this time and freed his fisted hands. He offered him water to drink. Shyam drank water and splashed his face with water trying to calm down. When his breathing was normal he closed his eyes in frustration. Vikas told his friends about the incident which took place before and everyone was quite shocked to know the profinity of gangadhar's words. They felt sad and upset to see their friend like that as he was always away from quarrels and only concentrated in his work.

After examining his face vikas sighed knowing that there was no major injury except a swelling on his cheek and light cut on his lips.

" Shyam are you alright man? " Kalyan asked placing his hand on his shoulder and he nodded.

" You better go home and take a rest. I hope everything will be alright. Don't think too much " his friend Mani said. Everyone tried to cheer him on and sent him back home with encouraging words.