Lifeless

QUESTIONS!

Sana: tears in her eyes, a weak smile on her face and with a choking lump in her throat she uttered "Maa nahi hai".....

Amma felt sad for Sana

Aunt (1): ohoo bht bura laga sun kr....phr tere papa ji wohh kahan hein?

Amma: Bas karo tum sab.....tune rishta bhejna hai iska jo itne sawaal kr rahi hai....

Amma turned to sana and hugged her

Amma: koi na bache aise udaas mat ho....mai hun na teri maa....while rubbing her back

Sana smiled and nodded

Sid saw all this and he so wanted to just take her away from all those useless questions but felt helpless in front of those teary eyes!

Soon the guests took a leave and Sid and Sana also greeted everybody and left the house! Sana was walking back to home when sid called her

Sid: sana!!

Sana: han?

Sid: lets walk...

Sana: sighed....smiled and nodded

They were walking on the quiet streets lost in their thoughts when Sana uttered

Sana: do questions haunt you Sidharth?

Sid: looked in her eyes and then looked back to their empty way.......'always' .....they are stupid...annoying but they are real....yeh dunya chalti nahi sawalon k baghair

Sana: saddened.....but kya jawab dena zaroori hai?

Sid: sawal krne wala agr koi apna ho toh jawaab dene se darr nahi lagta...

His words paused her and she felt herself filling up with some realizations and her heart with a lot of sorrow which she really needed to vent out. They soon reached a kind of a hill garden and kept on walking on the wet grass bare footed. After a quiet good walk they sat on a nearby grassy hill with their legs crossed and just staring the moon and the stars!

Sana: tum kabhi koi sawal q nahi krte Sidharth?

Sid: looked at her with a smile.....matlab?

Sana: matlab jaise saari dunya krti hai tum q mujhse kuch nahi puchte? (with moistened eyes)

Sid: (wiping the layer of tears at the corner of her eyes with his thumb) mere sawalon se agr in aankhon me aansoo aayenge toh mai sari life ghoonga banne ko tayyar hun

Sana: could not believe that how can he even promise such a thing

After a short pause

Sana: I was born in Chandigarh in a middle class family

Sid turned towards her and listened to her carefully

Sana: my father Parminder Singh was an ordinary business man of the city and my mom Samarpreet Gill was daughter of Navjot Gill

Sid: Navjot Gill? That....

Sana: yeah that famous rich businessman of the country jo ab country me nahi rehte.....he is my Naanu

Sid: wahh yaar tum toh bht hi ameer nikli

Sana: chuckled....Shutup!!.....

Sana: yeh ameeri hi mumma ko le dubi.....she was only child of a rich businessman and Nanu bht pyaar krte thay unse but she was not a brat she was a very nice and humble human being! Phr ek din she fell in love with Papa and of course wohi purani class difference ki kahani.....Nanuu nahi mane and she ran away and got married! Mumma Papa ki shadi k baad Naani bht bemaar hogai and she died....Nanu blamed mumma for it aur unhone un se saray rishte torr diye. Mumma was broken and after sometime she got pregnant and wohh bht khush bhi thi apni khushi apne papa k saath share krne bhi gai but tab tak Nanu country chor kr ja chuke thay.... hamesha k liye....