Shourya PoV:
I returned home late. Diya opened the door but didn’t look at me. She might be angry at me. I took my dress and came back, taking a shower.
“Did you have your dinner?” Diya asked, looking at the floor.
“I will come to dining hall,” I said, and she went off.
She served dinner to me.
“Diya, did you have your dinner?”
“I had it with mom and dad,” she replied.
We went to the room, and she laid on the bed, turning another side not to face me.
“Diya, are you angry with me?”
“No, Shourya. I am not angry with you. I think unless I prove truth to you, you may not believe me,” she said.
“No, Diya, it’s not that. I trust you. But situations are confusing me. You no need to prove anything, Diya. I will find out the real culprit. Ranveer said that Rajeev tried saving you. I didn’t understand.”
“Did Ranveer say that Rajeev saved me? But he tried to molest me twice,” she said shockingly.
“Didn’t Ranveer say this to you anytime?”
“No, he didn’t.”
“Ok, let me find out, Diya. You sleep now. Don’t strain yourself too much.”
“Shourya, why does this happen to me every time? Whenever I am happy, something from my past destroys everything.”
“Please stop crying. I am so stressed these days because of all these tensions. But really I didn’t mean to hurt you. I am sorry for hurting you, baby.”
“It’s ok. I love you and I never lie to you. Just remember this,” Diya said.
“I love you,” I said, taking her into my arms.
I felt happy as Diya didn’t make it as an issue. We already have enough tensions in the profession and outside the home. I want peace atleast at my house. Diya being a mature person, she always creates an aura of peace with her love and smile.
Next day, I am about to leave to office and Ranveer came with Ala again.
“Your friends came,” I said to Diya.
“Who?” She asked combing her beautiful curly hairs.
I lost in her thoughts, and she patted on my shoulder.
“Who is it?”
“Ranveer and Ala.”
“God, I will send them soon. Please don’t shout at them or at me now,” she said as if she was scared of me.
“It’s ok. I have no objection if they come to our home. Because you have right to invite your friends. This is your home, you can call your friends to visit you,” I said.
“Shourya, actually Ranveer asked me to take Ala for wedding shopping. I know you don’t like me going with her to shopping but…. ”
“No, Diya, I have no objection.”
Not now. Because Ala is Ashutosh’s sister.
“Really? Thank you, Shourya. I thought you would be angry with me again.”
Diya PoV:
“No, Diya, I won’t be angry with you because I am not against Ala. Only Ranveer is my enemy as he is a criminal,” Ranveer said.
Though I can’t entirely agree with Shourya, I didn’t argue with him. Shourya left to office and Ranveer too left leaving Ala at my home. As mom and dad went for marriage, we both were alone now at home. I decided to know about Ala. Ranveer didn’t say anything about Ala to me. I gave tea to her and settled beside her on the sofa.
“Diya, if you don’t mind, shall I ask you something?”
“Of course, Ala, tell me.”
“Are you the same Diya who called Ranveer and accused him that he is not a human?”
“Yes, it’s me,” I replied in a low voice regretting my words about Ranveer as I thought he changed at that time.
“Ranveer is not that bad as you think, Diya. He is my saviour. He didn’t abduct me. Ranveer told that you are trying to trace my whereabouts at that time. But please don’t do that.
Few people abducted me, and Ranveer saved me. I am living with Ranveer not because he forced me to stay. Infact, he never forced me to stay with him. I am staying with him because I have no one to go. Ranveer told me that I could stay with him if I didn’t have any objection,” Ala said.
“Ala, I know about Ranveer to some extent. At that time, I misunderstood him. So I talked like that but now I understood what he is.”
“Whatever, Diya, I want to say you one thing. Ranveer never forced me. Infact he didn’t touch me anytime,” she said.
“Ala, I didn’t mean……. ”
“Let me speak, Diya,” Ala said, and I stopped to listen to her words.
“The fact is that he no need to force me. If he asks me once, I am ready to give myself to him wholeheartedly. I love him.
I love him, but he doesn’t. He treats me as a friend. I know that the public thinks that I am his mistress. But we never had such a relationship between us. Our relationship is something pure which can’t be described in words. Only the heart can understand that. He cares for me and understands me. But he didn’t love me” Ala said sadly.
“Then why did he agree to marry you?”
“He didn’t want me to get blamed as a prostitute just for staying with him. Diya, tell me one thing. You and Ranveer too lived in the same room in the past. Don’t you know that staying in the same house doesn’t mean having an affair? Society knew only to blame, but people like you are different from this society. At least people like you should understand the facts.
Media have to bring out the hidden truths but only those hidden truths which are beneficial to the public, not about love and extramarital affairs. It doesn’t help the people in any way,” Ala said to me.
She is right. Why did I concentrate more on Ranveer and Ala affair? I shouldn’t have done that.
“What did you study, Ala?”
“A lot about humans and society,” Ala said.
Perfect to Ranveer. Because he too talks in the same way which no one understands.
We went to shopping and completed wedding shopping. Ranveer came to my home to take Ala to home. He is waiting for her in the car.
“I hope soon Ranveer will love you.”
“I don’t mind, Diya. Because I can understand his intentions even if he didn’t say. If I live atleast one day as his wife, it’s enough for me. I can’t expect him to love me because it may divert his focus from the goal he had. However I feel lucky to become his wife,” Ala said and went off with Ranveer.
Shourya didn’t return home, and it’s already midnight. I called him, but it’s switched off. I switched on the TV to watch something to stay awake till he returns. I am changing channels and stopped seeing flash news.
“DCP Shourya was shot by terrorists. He is in ICU and is in critical stage.”