Sands Of Time (Part 6)

“Hi, I might say is a surprise to see you here.”

“I wish I could say the same. I was expecting you. Pratima called you here right??”

“Yeah but how do you know?”

“She told me she had something important to talk about with me and you.”

“Everything alright?? She had been acting is bit weird lately.”

“When I asked this in the morning she said no, but she said this was the reason she called both of us here. To make things alright. ”

“Well let’s hope it’s nothing serious.”

“Yeah…. Well here she comes.”

Pratima entered the coffee house not by her feet but with all she had left inside of her. Every step she took looked like a punishment. Her heart stopped the moment she spotted both of them looking over towards her. She felt today was the end of one side of her. Today was the end of Pratima as everybody knows. She had a part of her in both of them and she knew whatever she did today, she won’t be complete from now on. She might be happy, but incomplete.

On the other hand the Aryan’s and Rachit’s mind were thinking-

Oh my god I can’t believe she is so beautiful. And I can’t believe she is going to be my wife in a few days. God I love her so much. I can do anything just to see her happy. Just to see the spark in her eyes, the glow on her face. If ever god made a perfect woman, I am sure she won’t be more beautiful, smarter and braver then Pratima.

Oh my god I can’t believe she is so beautiful. I wish I could just look at here forever in my life. God I just wish if there was still a chance for me to spend the rest of my life with her. I could never explain to her what she means to me. I know I won’t be able to love someone more than I love her. If there was something like death at wish, I wish I would die right at this moment, so that I’ll know that I died watching my life.

Pratima came up to the table where they were sitting. Both of them got up, to receive her. Aryan spoke first.

“Hey Rachit here told me you had something you wanted to talk about???”

“Yeah Pratima what is it?? You can tell us?? ”

She somehow got the courage to speak up carefully while looking down at the table so she won’t have to face their eyes while she was saying this. “Well first of all I want to say that this is the most difficult thing I had to do during my entire life. I wish it could remain the same but I know it can’t. Aryan there is something I need you to know about me and Rachit. When we were stranded alone in that forest, the way he saved my life, the way he did everything, I could not help to fall in love with Rachit. He was just so perfect in everything. From the way he fought to the way he cooked food for me to the way he looked. Everything was just so confusing. I mean I tried not to; every night before going to sleep I apologized to you a thousand times in my mind just too even think about him when you were the one for me. But all I know, I fell in love with him. Not that I loved you less, it is that he saw a part of me no one ever did, not you not dad not even me, a part even I didn’t knew existed. That part of me was his. And when we returned from the mission he told me that he loved me too. Due to some reason I could not tell him that I was engaged to be married to guy I am in love with. I wish I did, but I could not. Maybe because I never thought I will meet him again. I thought it was just a fling that will pass by as soon as I got away from him. Then I got your letter and god knows I hated myself for even remotely thinking about myself with another man. I knew you loved me, but you never actually expressed that in words before that letter. I read your letter for a thousand times and hated myself even more. As soon as I came home I thought I will forget him. I thought I don’t need him. Our days were going happily till the time he and Col. Shah came home. I thought I had forgotten about him. I thought I could live without him. But then he smiled at me and ruined it all. I never meant any of this to happen but I somehow did and whatever I do I can’t rewind the time and mend all the wrongs I have done. You are perfect. You have always been perfect. But I am just ME. I make mistakes. I made some. Now I can’t even do anything about them, and the worst part about this is, I cheated with someone I loved the most in my life.”