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~Author's POV~
The next day
Kirti Mansion
"Yaar you should have at least told me you are in India. How much eager I was to meet you? Man this is not good." said Maheer sitting in front of Vedant in his home office.
"I just came back a week ago, man. What's a big deal?" he replied running his fingers on his keyboard.
"A week is a big deal." Maheer leaned towards him and closed the lid of the laptop making his mouth hung open. "What the-"
"Now tell me what have you decided?" He asked in a serious but low tone both comforting and questioning him.
"Maheer I already told you. It's all closed. Leave it."
"It's not closed. You just have gone mad. Since you have lost your brain cells, na? Tabse dimag satak gaya hai tera or kuch nahi"
(since then you have gone insane, nothing else)
"Whatever" Vedant exclaimed and took a sip of his coffee.
"Yes whatever. Aise hi chalta raha toh whatever me hi life nikal jayegi"
(If this keeps going on, then whole life will go away in 'whatever')
"Hope so"
"Shut up" Maheer slammed his palm on the desk. "Will you stop covering your emotions all around? Don't think that you can hide the storms inside you in front of me like you have been doing in front of your family. Just stop it. It's too much now. I am just tired of explaining you but you aren't ready to understand."
"Then stop doing it because you will again start preaching about things that happened quite a while ago and then as always, I would not obey you. So let it go."
"Exactly, just LET IT GO. The things which happened years ago and are healed should not stop you from living. It's all in the past. It's not related to you anymore."
"Yes it's all past and it's all mine. MY freaking past. So it's definitely related to me. Ho gaya? Yahi bolne aaya tha? Ab nikal yaha se" Vedant said raising his voice and opened his laptop.
(Done? This is what you came here to say? Now get lost)
Maheer got up in anger and opened the door with a thud. Before going out, he turned around.
"Bhai" he called in a worried tone.
"You are walking on the wrong path. It will be disastrous only. The effect is already in front of you. Zidd chhod de please" He uttered in dismay and left closing the door.
(Please stop being stubborn)
Vedant slammed his fist on the desk. He got up and went near the shelves. He started throwing the files releasing all his anger on them. Then he went near the coffee table and picked the vase. He was about to smash it on the floor when he heard footsteps from the corridor.
He knew who it was. He immediately kept the vase back. Then he picked up the files and arranged them on the shelves as if nothing happened.
Just as he kept the last file, the door opened and his little munchkin came inside shouting "big broooooooooo".
He turned around and passed him a smile as he had mastered the art of hiding his emotions.
He went near Ayush and picked him in his arms. "Hello munchkin how was your day?" he asked gently tickling Ayush's belly at which he giggled.
"veryyyyyyyyyyyy good" he replied opening his little arms till as far as he could.
"Very good? Why? What was so special today?" Vedant asked sitting on his chair with Ayush in his lap. "Big bro pta hai?" He started narrating it like an anecdote whispering this trying to form suspense and his big bro shook his head adoring his actions.
(Do you know big bro?)
"I met the princess today."
"What? Princess?" Vedant asked furrowing his eyebrows.
"Yes she was like a princess. Pretty princess"
"But what was a princess doing in your school?"
"Offo, not in my school. When I was coming home with mumma, then we" he stopped and started thinking of ahead incidents as his little brain could not form further sentences. He looked at his big bro with an innocent pout on his face scratching his head with his tiny fingers.
"It's okay munchkin. Forget about princess." Vedant said and pecked his forehead. They went downstairs to have lunch.
"Vedant" Kriya called him in between. He hummed looking at her.
"Who is princess?" He started coughing and food got stuck in his throat hearing her. He drank water while everyone kept looking at him.
"Can you people stop staring at me?" everyone looked back to their plates except Kriya.
"You know what he did today?" she said passing a glare to Ayush. "A woman gave us lift as our car got shut and instead of thanking her, he said"
She looked back at Vedant "'Please become my big bro's princess.' Will you explain this?" she raised her eyebrows demanding the answer.
Vedant passed a glare to Ayush who hid his face behind his little palms as if protecting himself from the furious daggers of his big bro. He looked from the gaps between his fingers to check if his big bro was still passing him the glare.
"Nothing chachi. Him and his stupid TV shows."
He said to Kriya and turned back to Ayush. "Oye" he called at which Ayush looked at him.
"Stop finding the princess. She is in stories. If this happens again, then no stories from now." He said showing his index finger to him and received a smack from Kirti.
"Dhamki de raha hai?"
(Are you giving him a warning?)
"Arey" He exclaimed showing his palms in defense.
"Sorry big bro" the little munchkin said in his soft voice. Vedant passed him a comforting smile and the former reciprocated it.
Vaidya Hospital
She entered the hospital with a huge bouquet of chocolates and flowers. Everyone greeted the owner of the institution whose aura radiated wisdom. The owner though was not much interested in the greetings. She quickly ran to her destination.
"Surpriseeeeeeeeeeeeeee" she shouted moving into Myra's cabin who passed her a thin sarcastic smile.
"Look what did I bring. Ab chal na yaar please. Bus ho gaya" Shreya asserted consoling her as they hadn't talked to each other since last night.
(Now let it go please. It's enough now)
Myra started throwing things at her from the desk. "Ouch" Shreya exclaimed moving here and there defending her from the attack. "Doctor bas karo You are here to save lives, not kill people."
(Doctor, stop it)
"Accha?" Myra said getting up from her chair. She held Shreya's ear and twisted it at which she shouted more "Aaaaaaaa" and ended up receiving a smack on her head.
"Done? Or you wanna hit me more?" Shreya said throwing her innocent daggers at Myra at which the latter sighed and Shreya hugged her vanishing all the anger. They both left for the hospital they had to visit today.
~Vedant's POV~
"Yes, I will be there in an hour" I drove out my car from the garage and headed to the destination.
Finally, after a year, this series of appointments and meetings are coming to an end. Foreign trip, oh sorry, medical foreign trip covered a huge part of the year.
It was exhausting but at least my condition prohibited me from thinking much or I say thinking about her.
After an hour of driving, I reached the place I needed to visit, I wish, for the last time. I took my file and went into the cabin.
"So Mr Saxena, how was your experience?"
"I would like you to sum up everything quick. I have an urgent work to do. Can we not talk about the experience bit here? Please." I said passing a thin smile to the person sitting in front of me.
His smile dropped and he did his work. Yeah, nowadays, I am just stealing away people's happiness. It seems like it has become my favorite hobby. I never wanted to go back to the stage I was years ago but the recurrence has forced me to be who I am not.
I wish I could go back in time and fix everything or maybe I wish I wasn't even here.
"Sir you are good to go." He said and I came out of the cabin. I was walking out of the building being on a call.
I just came to the parking area when someone hit me by their shoulder.
Without even waiting for a second, that person walked past me. I wonder if they even looked at me.
"Sorry" she shouted and.......
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