MMZ- A Relationship Of Guilt.
Last Shot
This is the last shot of this ff….well, it was intended to be a two shot…but it got extended to six….
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Please ignore my typos and grammatical errors.
Happy reading
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Arjun ran out without even glancing back…..his heart was brimming with emotions yet he felt emotionless..
He didn’t know what to feel….he didn’t understand how to respond….just wanted to run away from all of this….
He grabbed the door handle of his car and yanked it open….he drove like maniac that day….a thin layer of tears covering his eye lashes…
He unconsciously drove to the house, he and nandini shared. He was surprised and frustrated with his own instincts…..and the last thing he wanted right now was the memories of his nandu’s betrayal…
Nevertheless, he went in and as soon as he saw her picture on the wall….all his emotions came out loose….he lost control of his own self…..floods came out of his eyes.
He crashed on the floor with his back against the wall in what used to be his old room……he no longer knew what he was crying for…..for nandu’s betrayal….for hurting Radhika…..for playing with sam….for using bonnie…..for snatching neil’s love….
The list seemed endless…..
He clutched his head in his arms with his elbows placed on his knees and cried vigorously……he was curled up in a corner….thinking of what his life had come to….he had everything he wanted his love…his friends…his brothers but they all were in a role they shouldn’t be in….
Meanwhile, sam waited for Radhika and neil to wake up….she prepared lemon water to get their heads clear as soon as they woke up….
She desperately wanted to apologise to Radhika and to stay in neil’s arms forever…..one place where she will always be safe and well cared for.
Finally, after what seemed like forever, they woke up….both surprised to find themselves in an unknown surrounding….shocked as it dawned on them that it was Arjun and sam’s house.
Coming out of the room, neil glared at sam and Radhika questioned her as to how they ended up there….sam handed them a glass of lemon water each…and replayed the entire episode from finding them in a bar to Arjun taking care of Radhika. She sighed went on explaining the annulment papers and Arjun’s reaction….
Neil was on a cloud nine….finally, his love was truly his…….at the same time, he felt bad for Arjun, he could now understand how hard it was to be in position that he was in…..to be aimless…and to find despair and tears in every second of his life.
He cocked up an eyebrow at Radhika….as if asking for her permission…….
Radhika pushed his towards sam, “you guys are lucky….life doesn’t give a second chance to everyone….finally, you both are with the one you were meant to be with….dont leave each other’s side forever..”
Saying so Radhika pushed neil towards sam and neil arm hugged sam…
Neil, “but what about Arjun?…come, we will both find him together..”
Saying so he grabbed radhika’s arm…..but Radhika gently removed it….and looked at him earnestly…, “you are exactly where are destined to be…..i’ll go and look for Arjun…”
Neil still was skeptical….radhika gently squeezed his hand, “trust me, I’ll be fine…..and you already know…when in trouble, the first number I dial is you.”
Neil hugged her and pecked her forehead….silently, praying for ardhika to be one…
Radhika was about to move out but she came back and hugged sam tight whispering, “finally…my best friend’s back and don’t you worry….once Arjun gets to know that you love neil…he’ll sign the papers in a jiffy.”
Sam too responded to her hug with all the warm she had in her…..she thanked her stars for giving her a friend like Radhika…
Radhika rushed out….and wandered aimlessly on the roads….she had looked in the obvious spots….their office…his apartment….his favourite hangout spots….parks….
She had no clue where to look for him the next….it was as if he had vanished into thin air..
Each passing second made her more desperate to look at him once…she imagined his state and it was eating her from inside…..she was continuously cursing herself for not being there with Arjun when he needed her the most…
After all her efforts were in vain and numerous unsuccessful attempts…she decided to call neil….she opened her contact list and before she could dial neil’s number…she eyes fell on another contact……her eyes glistened….a ray of hope awakened in her heart…..
She dialled the number and he picked it up after a couple of rings, “Radhika beta…are you okay?”
Radhika, who was in verge of tears, broke down hearing his voice….her sobs, panicked him more, “what happened beta…tell me?”
Radhika replied between sobs, “rana kaka….arjun…kaka…”
She wiped her tears took a deep breath and told everything to her..
Rana kaka thanked god a number of times….finally, his boy, his Arjun…could get all the happiness he deserved in life….
Radhika knew rana kaka was the only person who knew Arjun like the back of his hand….he was the one who cried when Arjun got hurt….
She told him about her failed attempts to find him…
Rana kaka laughed sadly, “beta….go to the house, where he and nandini lived….you’ll find him there…”
Radhika thanked him…hung up and rushed to her Arjun sir.
Arjun was curled up on the floor.….he had cried himself to sleep..
Radhika found the door unlocked and was relieved that finally she had found her Arjun….
She entered in his room and found him sleeping on the floor….her heart broken into a million little pieces seeing his state…dishevelled hair….tear strained cheeks and swollen eye lid…..
Tears started to flow down her own cheeks….she moved forward….and sat down besides Arjun on the floor…
She cupped the cheeks of his sleeping form…..she wiped his cheeks with the corner of her dupatta….her action woke up Arjun…
Arjun was overwhelmed to find Radhika there…..before she could say anything…he hugged her tight…plastered her to him. He broke down in her arms……he cried….cried like a baby….a small child whose dog died……whose favourite toy was snatched away from him…
Radhika consoled him….was continuously rubbing his back…..
All the while tears kept streaming down her own cheeks…..
Finally when he calmed, she broke the hug….and started to scold him…
Radhika, “what are you crying for…..huh?”
Arjun just made a puppy dog face and kept staring at her…
Radhika, “Arjun mehra….dare you run away like that again….i have been looking for you all over the city…you went away like that without informing anyone…it was as if someone had sucked the life out of me….you know how scared I was…”
Arjun cupped her cheeks and gently whispered, “and why so?”
He smiled…..radhika looked down realising what she said….arjun pulled her chin up, “answer me..”
Radhika slowly looked up and answered looking in his eyes, “what if something happened to you.”
The posssiblity itself was so horrid that radhika’s little heart could not take it anymore….she broke down crying in his eyes…he hugged her tight ….she snuggled closer to him, burring herself in his chest.
Arjun realised how pure radhika’s love for him was….radhika was his…just his….radhika was his priceless possession…he was willing to even kill for.
Arjun just closed his eyes, with Radhika in his arms…..after a few minutes, Radhika composed herself and whispered without moving, “sir, you need to sign those annulment papers..”
Arjun opened his eyes…his heart pained, he didn’t know what to answer…..
Radhika smiled seeing his silence, “not for us…but for sam…”
Arjun was surprised, he got curious…..he wasn’t aware of the nesam scene……he broke the hug, held her by shoulders and looked in her eyes, “what do you mean?”
Radhika mischieviously wink, “nesam!”
Arjun didn’t understand, “what?”
Radhika slapped him lightly…pulled his cheeks …played with his hair, “sam loves neil…and neil loves sam….and she wants to marry him….so, you need to free her from this marriage..”
Arjun wrapped his around her cocooning her, “we’ll get married too.”
Radhika blushed and buried herself more in his arms…Arjun smiled seeing her reaction…
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