She somehow got the
courage to look up and what she saw was more surprising than she had expected.
She expected Aryan to burst out in anger and even start throwing things around,
she expected that he will start fighting with Rachit. She even expected that he
will even slap her; she was ready for all that. But she was not ready for what
he was doing, which was nothing. He had the blankest face she had ever seen.
Maybe he was so lost in his thoughts that he might have forgotten to react.
Maybe it was too hard for him to grasp all this in so little time. Obviously
this was a shock, she figured he might need his time to think about all that
she had said. She was sure her heart had forgotten to beat because she could
not feel it. She just felt a vein paining going all the way from her forehead
to the back of her head. Surprising enough, except that vein she didn’t felt
anything. Not her arms not her legs nothing. She almost felt as she was
floating in air.
While one the other
hand Rachit was flabbergasted but subtle. He knew that she loved him but this
much? This was astonishment for him too. Though he as happy to hear all that he
felt bad for Aryan. Even he was surprised with Aryan not doing anything. He had
never anticipated this but now that this did happen, he felt she might have a
chance to spend his life with Pratima.
Now everything depended
on Aryan. He was the one whose reaction everyone was waiting for. He was still
so lost in his own thoughts that he did not even realized that it had been about
half an hour since any of them spoke. Rachit somehow tried calling him once or
twice but his face was as blank as the mountains when they are covered in snow.
Pratima was thinking, and was even a little doubtful on what his mental condition
was. She wanted him to speak, to yell, to say all the things that a normal
person might do. All the things she might do if put in a similar type of a
situation. But there was still no sign of reply from his side. Both Rachit and
Pratima were getting impatient.
Just then it was like
everything went blank. Aryan looked up with eyes filled with tears. He wanted
to ask her what he had done wrong. But if he even understood her he knew that
Pratima realized that what she did was wrong. It was him that was wrong, it was
her. He took all what was left inside of him just to utter something but every
time he tried nothing came out. Maybe he didn’t have the words to say, his mind
was playing games with his heart. He was numb. With all the strength he had he
came up with “What now???”
“Ummm… I guess now I
will have to choose one of you. And I swear it is practically the most
difficult thing I had ever had to do. I wish I could make both of you
understand that I love both of you equally. But I will have to choose because
it would be the fairest thing to do. I know I might not be the one to talk
about the fair things in life but it is all I have and it is all I can do to
make things right for at least one of you.”
“So who is it going to
be??” Rachit asked.
She looked at both of
them. She went back to where it all started. It was like she was living in
flashback. Photographs in her memory came up from the day she met Aryan to this
day know that they were sitting here in this situation. Then she went back to
her search and rescue mission with Rachit. How she thought of him to be filled
with attitude and how he saved her life, that lip lock while he was giving her
mouth to mouth. That white horse. All that was floating in her mind. But then
it was complete silence. Complete whiteness around her. It was that she was
somewhere in outer space. She prayed to god to help her in taking the right
decision. She closed her eyes and saw only one of them. That was the moment she
realized who he was going to be. That was the moment it was all clear. That was
the moment she was surer than she had ever been in her life.
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