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All sad people like poetry

"Bhabhi maa"Aryan tailed around Aradhaya in kitchen.

She hummed as if asking him to continue what he wanted to say.

"Ek baar muskara do yaar,itni der se joke suna Raha hun"he whines.

(Smile one time please,i have been joking for so long)

It's not like Aryan wanted to force her to smile but he has tried a lot,so now it's his time to emotionally blackmail her.

Aardhya seeing him whine,wants to smile but it just can't come to her face.

Her lips can't twitch upwards.

"Tell me what do you want to eat for dinner,Aryan?"she asks him softly.

He sighs knowing emotional blackmail won't work on her,it never worked on his brother.

Like husband,like wife

"Anything you make,bhabhi ma.Everything you make is always delicious"he responded with a smile.

"Alright, don't tail around me go and sit down"Aardhya speaks firmly and he nodded like a obedient child.

Her eyes softened at him and this time he didn't miss this sight.his heart bloomed with happiness.

His efforts didn't go in vain.

He smiled widely and went out of kitchen.

"You make the best food in the World bhabhi maa"Aryan said,his mouth full of food.

"Don't talk while eating"she scolded him and Reyansh felt a strange heaviness in his heart.

Would she also scold me like this ever?

"Beta,you too eat"Amravati said and she nodded and settled down on her seat.

Reyansh completed his food and left to his room.

Aradhya entered the room and went to closet.taking her clothes she went inside the bathroom.Reyansh noticed her every move.

How effortlessly she carries herself!

She came out wearing a blue coloured nightdress.she made herself comfortable on the floor, taking a pen and notebook in her hand.

"Aradhya"she looked at him and he continued"food was delicious"

She hummed at his words and turned her focus back to her notebook.

This was the first time he complimented but it doesn't matter now.its too late for him.

He continued to stare at her, noticing her every movement.Her slim long fingers holding the pen,her hand moving gracefully as she write down in her notebook.

Her writing must be so beautiful

After 10 minutes,she closed her notebook and put it on table and again lie down on the floor.

"Please"he Whispered"don't do this"

It was loud and clear to her but she chose to ignore it.

She also begged him but he also chose to ignore.

tit for tat.

"Aradhya don't ignore me please,punish me,shout at me,even kill me but don't ignore me.it hurts and it hurts more that you are burying your emotions and hurting yourself "

She had turned her back to him but now she turned to his side, looked at him in his eyes.

His heart bleeds to see blankness in her eyes.

"If I do same what you did,what will be difference between you and me"she replied.

He closed his eyes,intaking her words inside his scarred heart.

Her voice was a melody to his ears but her words,it makes him feel more guilty every time.

Everytime she speaks it makes him realise the mistakes he did.

"Give me a chance to make things right,please"he pleaded.

"For what?so you can be free from guilt after gaining my forgiveness"

She questioned and he didn't have the answer.

She scoffed and turned her back to him.

He lay down on the bed but it felt like he was sleeping on thorns.

He stood up from the bed and settled down on the couch with his laptop but still the lamp was off.

He didn't want to disturb her sleep.

Around 1 am,he shut his laptop as he felt sleep taking over him.

He just couldn't sleep at the bed when she is sleeping on the floor so he settled down beside her but maintained the distance.

What if she woke up to see him close and hate him even more?

He opened his eyes slowly as the sunrays hit him.

He looked at the clock hung,it was 6 am in the morning,he slept for long.

He looked at the side hope to see her but he didn't find her.

Maybe she woke up earlier.

He got up from the floor and went to get ready for the office.

He reached downstairs to get a sight of his wife which he couldn't get after waking up.

He saw Amravati coming to him

"Beta,where is aradhya?is her health fine?she doesn't sleep that long!"

His heart stopped beating for a second.

Did she leave him?

He blinked few times at his mother and with slow and steady steps he reached to his room.

He went inside the closet,her things are gone.she is gone.

He fell down on his knees.

"Aradhya"he chanted her name.

"Why did you leave me? please give me a chance"

He felt like his heart was torn apart from him.

What was this feeling?how does it feel like to lose someone you wished to stay?

This feeling isn't new for him yet it's not less painful.

He looked at the note on the table near the bed,it was from her.

"Thank you for the pain

It made me stronger.

Hope we never meet again

And if we do I hope i don't see

Sympathy for me because I hate it"

The note with divorce papers.she had ready signed at the next day of their wedding.he made her sign it and he also signed it.

When the six months get over, don't show me your face again

His own words echoed in his ears.he asked her to leave after 6 months and she did.she left him.she went away from his life.

When the six months get over, don't show me your face again.

Six months, divorce papers.

Don't show me your face again.

Don't show me your face again.

Again,again...again........

"Ahhhhhhh"he screamed loudly clutching on the divorce papers.

Amravati and Aryan who heard his scream rushed inside his room.

"W-what happened Reyansh?"Amravati asked worried.

Aryan saw his brother on his knees, vulnerable clutching on the some papers.

A flashback comes infront of his eyes.

His brother,same like this on his knees but clutching on their dead grandfather's hands not wanting to let go.

His heart ached at that sight and it still does.

"Bhai"he called out softly.

"She left me,she went away from my life.aradhya left me.she divorced me.

Maa"Reyansh's voice trembled.

The unshed tears in his eyes finally roll down his cheeks.

Aaryan's breath hitched.his Bhabhi maa left?why?Did they have fight?but a fight couldn't let them to get divorced?

Ohh how fool of him to think that their marriage was ever normal!

Amravati's heart ached but she doesn't know for whom?for his son or for her daughter in law who suffered so much?

Should she be happy that she is free now?or sad that her son if suffering now?

She kneeled down infront of him and took him into a hug.

"Mera bacha ro mat,shhh"she tried to console him.

(Don't cry my kid)

But he was drowned in his sadness crying like a baby who lost his candy.

Aryan couldn't see his brother crying.

Tears escaped his eyes too,for his brother,for his bhabhi.

She was a motherly figure to him.

He wished it was all a bad dream and when he wakes up he find his bhabhi making delicious food for him in the kitchen and his brother cold.

It was better to see him cold than crying.

"Maa,I am so bad.i didn't deserve her but I wanted a second chance.she didn't give me second chance.she hates me.she wrote she hopes that she never sees me again.she left me,she didn't even say a goodbye.maybe i could have stopped her.but she went silently.she didn't punish me for my sins."he sobbed crying in hai mother's embrace.

A sudden thought crossed his mind.she might have also felt like this.she might have also cried so much.but she had noone to comfort her.how could he get the comfort if she didn't.

He broke the hug from her mother and wiped his tears.

He doesn't deserve consolation and comfort from anyone.

"Beta"Amravati spoke softly.

"Maa,Aryan please go out,I want to be alone"he sobbed.

She sighed and looked at Aryan who was lost in his own thoughts,dried tears on his cheeks.

She took him out of his room with her.

"Aryan beta!"she said softly

"Ma,why did bhabhi maa leave bhai?why did she leave us?"he questioned.

"They were forced into this marriage and it didn't work out beta.now when she is gone,he realises his mistakes."

"What mistakes ma?"

"I don't know Aryan"

She sighed.

"Bhai is so sad ma"his voice trembled.

She knows how much he loves his elder brother and idolize him.

Reyansh also loves him so much.

He was the father for Aryan which his own father couldn't be.

"I know beta,but it's important that he is left alone.he needs peace."

He nodded at his mother's words.

Reyansh looked at the room where her presence could be still felt.

He thought he would never cry after his grandfather's death but here he is crying his heart out,his wife is gone.

She took away his peace with her.

She took her everything with her but also took away his peace with her.

He looked at the table where she sat for hours doing her homework.

There were still some notebooks on table.

Did she forget to take them?

He managed to stand up on his legs and moved towards the table.

His eyes fell on the notebook she was holding last night.

It was a diary,her diary.

He opened it but closed it immediately.no,he can't read it, it's her privacy.

This reminded him of her college maybe she is still there.maybe he still has time.

He took his car eyes and moved out of the room.

Amravati and Aryan saw him hurriedly going out.

"Where are you going?"asked amravati.

"I will be back"was his reply before he was out of their sight.

"Maa,its been two days bhai has locked him inside his room"Aryan said worried for his brother's health,he hasn't eaten anything for two days.

"He is neglecting his health"Amravati was equally worried for him.

"Aryan beta,I will go and take him the food,hope he opens it today and you go to office. your brother isn't there so you need to handle it"

"Ok maa,but make sure to call me if Bhai eats or not"

Amravati smiled lightly and nodded at his words.

Happy friendship day ❤️🎀🥀✨