CHAPTER 85
Mayil keeps looking at Shivam and Shweta's photo for a long time, and after that again, she tries to read the paper as she is finding it difficult to read due to tears in her eyes.
On September 9, 1998, he proposed to me, and yes, he loves me too.
On January 10, 1999, he expressed himself for the first time openly. I found out that he has loved me for 2 years, even before I saw him for the first time. He is a friend of Jagdish from college. But I never saw him with Jaggi.
On reading this, Mayil gets into a strange situation. Shivam Kumar already knew and loved Shweta, and he was Jagdish's friend. This is something new, so that means Sunaina must have known Shivam Kumar, as Jagdish and Sunaina both studied together in the same college, and later both Jagdish and Shivam Kumar had gone to England to do an MBA. She read again and murmured.
"Papa is not friends with Shivam Kumar since he was doing an MBA with him, but he knew him before. Both of them have been friends since college, due to which Shivam Kumar already knew Mumma, so... I am not able to understand anything properly."
3 September 1999: Today is his birthday; I am totally his.... I am his..... We love each other, and today we show our love in every way .... I am very happy.
15 October 1999: His family says yes to our marriage.
30 March 2000 I am pregnant, he is very happy, and he wants a daughter as our first child. He is crazy today.
Mayil does not know how many times she has read this last sentence again and again. She does not understand that if Shivam was happy, then why did he suddenly leave her mother and leave his unborn baby?
14 April 2000: got married to Jaggi... Shivam, I am waiting for you.
On September 3, 2000, our daughter was born. You want a daughter. Come back and look into her eyes. She is the same as yours, with the same eyes. I miss you.
July 4, 2003: Mahi gets kidnapped and found.
"What…… I was kidnapped. No one ever told me that I was kidnapped when I was 3 years old."
She wants to know more things related to her kidnapping, but she can't see anything there. There is only one last sentence written there.
On September 3, 2005, I lost all hope of finding you. I want to hate you, but I can never hate you. Maybe I will love you till the last breath of my life...
Mayil suddenly holds her head; she does not understand what happened all of a sudden—that her mother got married, her birth, her kidnapping, and a lot of unanswered questions. She did not understand anything.
She feels as if she is going to faint and fall there. She immediately puts the papers back in her pocket after handling them, starts pouring lots of water into her hands continuously, and starts splashing on her face. She sits and thinks wisely.
"College friends… He never had a photo of any college friend... Why?"
She knows so much that Sunaina must have known Shivam Kumar because Shivam Kumar used to study at Jagdish's college, so Sunaina also must have some information about him. She quickly decided to talk to her.
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After dinner, Sunaina was lovingly massaging Mayil's hair. As she said, her head hurts, and she knows this is her chance to ask Sunaina something as Mrityunjay has a meeting today. Because of this, he is not even present there and will come quite late tonight.
"Mom… How were your college days? Even after going to college, I could not find many good friends. You had good friends in college."
"A lot… I loved going to college every day because I loved meeting all my friends there."
" Wow… How many friends did you have? Do you even remember the names of those people? ... "
"Of course... Roshini, Ashi, Tanya, Puja, Shivam, Jagdish..."
Sunaina gets silent as soon as Jagdish's name comes out of her mouth. Mayil also knows that she hasn't done right, but at this point, she has to think about herself. So she immediately turns around, grabs his hand, and tells him.
"Tell me about all your friends. We won't talk about that except for the last one. I just want to know about friends. How's Tanya?"
" Mischievous… She used to talk a lot. Once the conversation started, she would never stop. She just kept on talking. To silence her, we often had to make her sit in the canteen and feed her something so that she would be silent."
On hearing this, Mayil starts laughing. Sunaina is also enjoying it a lot, as she remembers her college days. She starts telling about all her friends, and finally Shivam's name comes up.
"Shivam is the most genuine and fun-loving guy; most of the girls in our college want to be his girlfriend; he has a dashing personality, but he is very clear that he wants to complete his studies, then get a job to serve his family. as he belongs to a service-class family... His father is a clerk at a bank. He is a very hard-working and helpful person.
"Very nice... Really, why didn't he make any girlfriends? maybe a fake one… "
"No way… He is very clear in everything; he clearly said that I will marry whomever I love, or I will marry the one I have fallen in love with. He says many times that in love, even if he has to die for her, he will be hers only. And I am telling you the truth: I have never seen such a settled man in my life. He was a very sweet and happy person. I used to be so comfortable with him that, at times, Jagdish also used to envy why I became so friendly with Shivam."
Sunaina does not want to talk much now because she is taking Jagdish's name even without wanting to. So she falls silent. Mayil has also understood her situation, but she quickly says.
"Oh, I am in love with this guy. I wish there was such a boy at this time. How good he would be! Such boys are very few."
"Yup, very much. One thing I really liked about Shivam was that he was very serious about everything. He used to say that if you are not serious about something, then you cannot do that thing with enthusiasm."
" Really… Do you know where he lives?"
"I never tried to find out about him, as he was a very good friend of Jagdish. Jagdish did not want at all that the intelligence of Shivam should go to waste. So he took him with him to England. He offered to have MBA done with him; it was like a loan, and Shivam was ready to return every penny he could get to Jagdish. That's why he also did a job for his company at exactly half the salary. And anyway, after leaving college, I never got to know much about Shivam because I wouldn't know about him because... "
"Because Papa feels jealous..."
Sunaina immediately starts looking toward Rannvijay. She does not know whether she still has any feelings about Jagdish or not, but she does know that whenever she has any kind of doubt, she prefers to look only at Rannvijay.
Mayil smiles, leaves her to spend quality time with Ranvijay, whom she loves the most, and comes to her room. She doesn't understand anything. If Shivam was such a settled and genuine person, why did he leave her mother by betraying her? She is just constantly thinking. She doesn't know to whom she can ask anything because her mind is not working at all.
Suddenly, Mrityunjay comes into his room. He is very angry at someone, and he shouts at Ayaan.
"If someone is coming in our way, get him out of the way; I don't know how big of a personality he is.... kills him."
Mritunjay's attention is not on Mayil at all, but as soon as Mayil listens to him, her mind suddenly goes numb. She starts talking slowly to herself, which no one can hear.
"Kill, … Papa… No, he can't... Something happened to him.... Maybe someone killed him. Papa did that.... No, he can't.... Is he no more?"
Mayil's head suddenly starts twitching with sharp pain. She feels like maybe she will fall. But at the same time, Mrityunjay's eyes go to her. Standing and holding her head, he immediately runs to her and takes her in his arms.
"Mahi..."
Mayil's heartbeat had suddenly increased very fast. It felt to her that something might happen to her. Strange thoughts were running through her mind. But as soon as she comes into the arms of Mrityunjay, she seems to have found some kind of peace all of a sudden. She wraps both her arms around his neck and clings to his chest.
"Mahi, what happened? I was not here for one day, so you did not eat properly. That's what happened, isn't it? ..."
"Jay, I want to sleep in your arms."
"First, eat something."
"No, just keep tightly hugging me; that's it."
"Is something happening?"
Mayil is going through a very strange situation, but now she cannot disturb Mrityunjay by telling him anything. That's why she says that while handling the situation immediately.
"You were missing all day. Earlier, you were busy in the office. Then you were busy somewhere else, and now I am asking you to hug me tightly in your arms. Instead of taking me in your arms, you are asking me 50 questions: "
Mrityunjay immediately smiles upon hearing her cute complaint, as he knows her very well. If Mayil stays away from him for a long time, then she reacts in the same way, he tells her while hugging her.
"Missing me so much..."
"Hmmm… "
She was crying. Suddenly, she was going through a lot of things. He quickly cupped her face and asked her.
"What happened, love?"
"Miss mom so much..."
He immediately unbuttons his jacket, throws it on the sofa, and lies on the bed, holding Mayil snugly in his arms, laying her on his chest, and massaging her scalps with his fingers.
"Jaan, you know very well that I don't like when you cry."
"I want to sleep like this; be my mattress today."
"Fine, anything else, my queen."
She had overheard the words of Ayaan and Mrityunjay. She has a lot of work that is about to happen in India only and is thinking of going there. She has to go to India by any means and find out a lot of things. She doesn't know when she will go to India, but she has to plan something because, after knowing all this, she can't sit quite easily.
"Be with me. If you leave me and go anywhere, even for a day, then I will never talk to you."
"This is hard."
"Promise me otherwise; I am going to Mom's room to sleep."
Mayil knows very well that she is doing wrong with Mrityunjay because whatever promise Mrityunjay makes to her, he keeps it and tries to fulfill it at any cost. No matter how many problems he has to face later, he never breaks any promise made to Mayil.
"Mahi, it's complicated, Jaan. You know very well. I have to go a lot because of the work. I can't take you everywhere."
Mayil knows very well that she has to do something, or else the bet will go out of her hands. She quickly gets away from him, holds her head tightly, and shouts.
"I don't want to live without you... Can't I stay with you, as I always demand of you? .... Nothing."
Mrityunjay knows very well that Mayil suddenly gets anxiety issues after the death of her mother. Because of this, he immediately takes her in his arms, starts caressing her hair, and tells her.
"Fine… We will go everywhere together."
"Promise..."
"Promise, love."
Mayil breathes a sigh of relief. She knows that she has done a lot wrong, but in the situation she is going through at the moment, she is ready to do anything.
She is waiting for the day when she gets to know everything, and after knowing everything, she will first tell Mrityunjay everything because she has become very upset now. She does not want to hide anything from him, but she does not want to take any risk by telling him anything right now.