Can't let YOU go !!!

CHAPTER 23: AVODING INTERACTION

Shehnaaz woke up to find herself alone. She slept the whole night by her back resting on some pillow. She sat on the bed to feel her thighs sore.

"Oucchh" she hissed touching her thigh. She blinked faster to register everything. The big man Sidharth passed out in her lap last night. His weight is not a cup of tea to handle. His grip on her waist also left some same feelings but that was not bad as on the thigh. Of course this had to happen. She looked around the whole room in search of Sidharth. She saw the bathroom door also open. So he is not here. Shrugging her shoulders she moved to the washroom.

After some minutes she came to the living room.

"Good morning Ma." She came and hugged Rita ji.

"Good morning baccha. Uth gayi itni jaldi, bas 6 baj rahe hain" she asked.

"Ha. Wohh nind khul gayi." She looked around and then asked out of curiousity "Dr. Sidharth kahan hain?"

"Wohh toh hospital nikal gaya adhe ghante pehele hi." Rita ji answered.

"Itni jaldi.. Wohh to 8 baje jate hain." Shehnaaz was confused. More after last night incident. She was worried about him and just wanted to know how he was doing this morning

"Ha. Kuch kaam hain bola!" Rita ji answered. She was also confused as Sidharth always maintained routine. Of course he is a Doctor. Shehnaaz went in her room giving Rita ji some hope as she asked something about Sidharth for the first time since their marriage. She thought Shehnaaz might develop some feelings for her son.

It was 9 in the clock. Shehnaaz was home at 7 today after NGO. She and Rita ji watched TV together when Rita ji worried about Sidharth's miss timing. He doesn't really do that usually. Shehnaaz just listened.

It was now 11 when Sidharth walked in the house. Rita ji was waiting for him in the living room. Shehnaaz can hear them talk. Maybe she is asking him why he is late. After some time he entered the room. Shehnaaz was on the bed holding her bunny pillow to her chest. Sidharth moved his eyes as soon as she looked at her. He rushed to the washroom. she was surprised at his behavior.

'Inko aab kya hua? Aise kyun behave kiya?' she thought. After some minutes he opened the washroom door and directly came to his side of the bed. Never once spare a look to Shehnaaz. He lay down facing his back to her.

'Hain? Ajeeb hain yaar. Kya yeh mere ko avoid kar rahe hain.' Shehnaaz thought. She found that very weird. Last night he was different.

She tried to sneak at his face only to find his eyes closed.

'Yeh mujhe avoid hi kar rahe hain. Ajeeb insan hain, samajh me nehi aata.' She switched off the light on her side and lay down.

Sidharth opened his eyes the moment she switched the light off. The room was now filled in darkness. He doesn't know how to face Shehnaaz and what to say if she ask anything. He wasn't in his state of mind last night and shared his feelings to someone. He didn't do that to anyone since he saw his mother's breakdown. It was always Sidharth himself who saw him cry remembering his father alone in a dark room. Nobody saw him cry, nobody he shared his feelings with. He couldn't get why he wanted to share with Shehnaaz, why he felt it safe to share with Shehnaaz? The feelings he kept hide in his heart for years came out in front of Shehnaaz. He felt peace and comfort in her arms. The way she cradled him to her heart. She let him cry in her chest hugging her from her waist. Her warm soft chest. He felt his calm there. She felt warm and safe. She kissed him in his head to comfort him. He even felt a tear fell in his shoulder coming from Shehnaaz.

'Why her heart is so soft? She cared for me, the same person who made her life so complicated one month earlier because of my selfish motive. How can she even cry for me, how did she let me cry in her chest? She should have deny when I ask a place in her lap. Especially for what I did.' Sidharth's heart felt so heavy thinking all these. He closed his eyes when he went back in his thought

One month earlier

"Sir, aap bolo toh kisi ko 3rd degree treatment du kya?" a man asked Sidharth. Sidharth shouted in the phone hearing that.

"Aap log ye kya bol rahe hain?" he stood up. "Wohh log bacche hain aur aurate hain. Kuch matt karo aisa."

"Sahab, pehele aap gunde hire karoge fir ye sab lecture do ge to kaise hoga? Vaajan kirtan ke liye hamein bulaya?" the man reasoned him.

Sidharth inhaled to calm himself. He hated what he was doing but he has to do that. He has no other option. He exhaled and said

"Aap sirf waha jake unko thora sa darana. Kuch misbehave matt karna. Aapko paise main sirf issi liye hi de raha hu. Aur ek baat apko maine issiliye hire kiya kyun ki ye main kabhi karr nehi payunga. So jo kahan waisa hi karna." He finished.

Those man looked at each other. They are not used to tolerate someone's high voice but there Sidharth was standing, huge, tall showing his aura that nobody wants to have a fight. Also he was paying them good so they decided

"Okay, Aap ne jo kahan. Waisa hi karunga. Jo madam ka naam bola tha wo kya tha?" one of them asked.

He took a deep breath to take the name. he was hating himself for doing this.

"Shehnaaz" he said looking down.

After 2 hours he got a call. He was waiting for it. That call was from Shehnaaz.

"Dr. Sidharth, aap iss tarha giroge mujhe pata nehi tha!" a furious Shehnaaz shouted over the phone. He expected this. It was normal for her to react like this.

"I don't have a choice. If I have to do this to make you say Yes then there it is." He rested his back on the chair.

"Chiiih, maine kabhi socha vi nehi Aap aisa niklo ge. Mujhe nehi karni Aap se saadi. Aap samajhte kyun nehi?" she shouted her heart out. he could feel that. He closed his eyes. He was not someone who would do something like this without a girls consent. But he will do anything to make her say Yes.

Anything..... he came back to place his hand on the table.

"Par tumhe karni paregi. I can do anything. Remember. Do din hain tumhare pas." He cut the call. He rested his head on the table now.

'Shehnaaz you have to marry me. I will not spare any way for you to deny me. You will be Shehnaaz Sidharth Shukla in this week.

I will make your life living hell to say Yes. You won't have any way out without agreeing.' 

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