"Elly! Hold on sweets!" Om tried his best to pacify the downpour moment Safrin is facing now .

But I was still at a daze to respond or even move. Safrin's words still resonated and reverberated around my mind like a sword thrust.

"I am done with Abhi. Now nothing will take me back to him. Nothing. It is over once and for all" These words soared around my mind like a ghost warning.

I flinched again when the seriousness and realism in those words began to take a form of its own and sunk into my reasoning in its full depth.

What happened now for Safrin to behave this reckless regarding her love life. Everything was pretty great and smooth for them in an outer shell.

And all this while that outer camouflage and libretto they put up before everyone made me think that she was having a strong and unbreakable bonding with Edin when the reality was they were suffering from a serious and chaotic chasm in their love life skillfully hidden from others grasp.

"Just calm down Elly! And talk to me. Look at me, Elly. "Om said softly touching her shoulder gently and leaning forward towards her. She raised her head and glanced at him through her tear filled eyes silently.

"What is picking on you. Did Jeet say anything to hurt you? I can't be of any help unless you open your mind and keep things before me as they are. Truthfully and honestly." Om said taking a seat on the couch before Safrin.

I sat on a kneeling position before Safrin on the floor holding her hand.

She looked at me through her glassy eyes and let out a few feeble and deep gasps of breath.

I patted her shoulder and allowed her some space to clear the coast of her thoughts.

Om nodded at me in approval when he saw my detached stance towards Safrin. I picked up the violin and bow which lay listlessly on the floor like the martyr of the pain and agony Safrin had to undergo with her journey of love.

I put it back safely in its case and placed the case on the table.

I shuffled towards a chair and sat on it silently viewing the tortured and writhing self of my sister.

"I can't carry this burden on my frail shoulders any more. Abhi and I, we are done. Now I don't wanna turn around and check the decision. Please don't force me. I can't. It took every bit of me to come to this decision." Saffy said in low whispers tears rolling out of her eyes like a terrible outpouring of her anguished inner self.

Om glanced at me silently. I returned a look of helplessness towards his direction.

"Elly, don't take decisions in a spur of rage or when you are facing some inner gruesome turmoil. Just keep it calm sweets and think about it reasonably."Om tried to talk some sense into her.

But she seemed to be at the denying end. She shook her head adamantly like refusing to accept what Om had in store for her as calm and peaceful talk.

"This decision was not taken like that,flimsly in a wink anna. But after a very long,deep and profound pondering.From the very beginning of our relation there were so many uncanny things that made this relation look like a patched up one or something felt at the jutting end. Even you too know how? Why? When we had to take the decision of this whole marriage spiel, don't you, Anna?" Safrin asked glaring at Om pointedly.

Om gulped hard when he heard this candid statement from Safrin. I glanced at Safrin in confusion not getting a grasp of what she really meant by her remark.

"Elly, that was only a slight facade of the real truth. But the main libretto behind all this lies on Edin's ardent and fervent love for you" Om said elusively eyeing at me occasionally.

Safrin forced a vicious yet painful smile when she heard Om.

"Is it? Wow! That is a new story! Is it the tale which you have spun for your favour, anna? Or is it Abhi's spiel?" Safrin inquired with a cruel smile.

"It is the truth Elly. Just put the habit of accepting the truth as it is than holding on to some unwanted illusions you have woven with your absurd thoughts" Om snapped at her with outrageous spleen.

"There is nothing to think about or weave within about a broken spiel. That is now what Abhi and I have become. A tale which has no happy ending." Safrin said blankly.

"I didn't get you Ella. Make it more clear" Om said impatiently pulling his hair in agitation and shaking his left hand.

"Anna! I can't take ithis lie and swallow it dry anymore " Saffy repeated the same refrain like a broken record for the umpteenth time of this eve much to Om's exasperation.

"That is what you are saying like zillionth time of this night. Aagae bhi kuch kahne ki iraadha hain ki nahin. Agar baath ke gaharaayi samaj mein aaya tho mein kuch kaam zaroor aa saktha hoon. Samay bhi bahuth kam hain hamare liye. Georgette papa aur Lucian papa aaj yahan aa raha hain." (Are you intending to proceed this talk with some useful information or not. If I could fathom the intensity of the problem in a right sense I could be of some help to you in this matter. We don't have enough time left to sit here and have a leisure chat. Georgette papa and Lucian papa are calling on here tonight itself) Om conveyed the situation to Safrin much to her horror and terror.

She looked mortified.

"Are they.." She suddenly grabbed Om's hands and was about to inquire something but as if Om got a brain wave he interjected her query by showing his other palm flat before her face.

"They are coming here for some official work that has to be done under their experienced scrutiny and observation. This is not an official call on for your marriage. Also be careful what you let out before them. Georgette papa is looking forward to see you. Nash mom has sent some gifts and token of love for you. She loves you so much. Also there is something warm and sweet from Shara's side as well." Om said staring pointedly at Safrin.

When she heard the mention of Edin's household she held a guilty stance and shook her head disdainfully.

"I don't deserve all this love and warmth anna. What did I ever do to have Edin in my life. His loving family is an absolute blessing. But I don't deserve all these things. If I take these blessings for granted without a second that will be the greatest wrong I am doing to Edin. He deserves a wonderful girl in his life. I am no where near what he expect me to be. I am just a lost cause in the name of a girl. A pathetic and berserk book worm who doesn't know how to take life as it comes or acknowledge her luck and blessings" Safrin blurted out painfully breaking pathetically into sobs holding Om's hand before her face.

Om clenched his jaw in and stared at Safrin.

"Elly ,you are his wonder girl. The whole family loves you like heaven . His younger brother Fin is so much in love with you that he is making arrangements for your reception to their family now itself. Shara is counting the days for your advent to that family for getting bonded with you. Nash mom is just happily insane to have a girl like you as her Daughter. She too is a bookworm of some sort. You girls will make a great impact in Diaz family and we men are looking forward for the wonder to happen. And contorting all that beauteous events what has gone inside your mind to think and behave like this about this proposal. You are getting a beautiful family Elly. And they are getting a wonderful,warm, friendly and kind soul as an addition to the jubilation in their family. " Om explained everything with immense patience though he was trying real hard not to burst out his chagrin before her.

Safrin stared at Om like he has grown some third eye.

"Really? I never thought someone will give me this much regard in their life and family for me." Safrin mumbled looking down and sniffling when she presumably got out of her terrific stupor

"I don't get the reason behind your sceptical attitude towards this whole Jeet and his love thingy. Girl! They are so in to making you their own family and you here sit and sulk like you have lost everything in a terrible quake" Om said impatiently shooting a glare towards my direction irritably.

I showed my hands in helplessness.

"I am not worthy of any goodness that comes along with Abhi and his beautiful family, Anna. He is such a gorgeous man. And I am no where near his charming radiance" Safrin said tears rolling down as the martyr of her emotional downpour.

Seeing my sister's pain my eyes too welled up with tears. I sat beside her and wiped off the tears slowly and looked at Om who by now quivered with rage.

"What kind of a gorgeous monkey is he? I never saw any of the stuff in him as such. He is just a normal human got that. A normal imbecile cartoon of a human who plaintively fallen in love with a girl whom he considers as the beam and rainbow of his universe. Got that. I don't know what I will do if you continue to act like this, Elly. That idiot can't see anything or anyone other than you, before him. Now wherever he turns only you are there greeting him with a warm hallucinatory smile. He is becoming insane and berserk every passing second , in your love girl. If you don't believe my words. Ask your loving sister. She is playing the 'agony aunt' for a fair share of this evening for you guys. She got hit by the love storm exuded by Jeet idiot." Om said all these words looking from me to Safrin with impatience and agitation mounting up within his features considerably.

He paced here and there muttering so many incoherent strings of profanity under his breath like a crazy man.

Om eyed at me and signaled me to take up the charge of Safrin.

"He is right Saffy. Edin is going all gaga and reckless in your love that he made me listen to a whole paper presentation of his love saga over the phone. Just take it easy akka. Edin anna is one gem of a man. He loves you so much that nothing seems good or sane before you Saffy. Don't test waters with his patience akka. Today I got to experience a terrible side of Edin. He is losing it every passing second. He hurled the words at me like I am some kidnapper who is keeping you as a captive to my place. Just break this silence akka and talk to him. He can't live without you." I tried to talk some sense into her but that too seemed to be at the verge of backfiring from the look she cast me.

Her features hardened and determination filled her other wise soft and benign oozing face.

"I am done with Abhi. Now nothing could change my decision. Nothing. I am not going back to check or reconsider my decision. It is done means done forever." Safrin said desolately yet determinedly.

I stared at Om in pure horror and shock when I heard these words.

" That is it Elly. You have crossed all the limits and set fire on the last fibre of my patience with this insolent behaviour of yours . Now tell me what is actually going on in your mind. I have been civil with you all the time. And things seem like you don't deserve a good treatment from me. Just spew out the venom you have brewed within you against our Jeet" Om snapped at her waspishly grabbing her by her forearm and shaking her forcefully.

I got up in panic and tried to Pry away his hold over Safrin. I tried to yank his hand but he was too heavy for such an act. After a few failed attempts I lost my control and shouted at him.

"Om!leave her! Please! You are hurting her. Edin won't forgive you if he comes to know about this" I yelled at Om hitting his arm with my tiny fist trying to break his clasp and hold over Safrin.

"He won't do anything. Elly is my sister and I have that right over her. I have the authority to know what is going on inside her mind. I can't see these beautiful people parting their ways because of some fruitless thoughts and doubts they have regarding their relation. Elly is perfect for Jeet and vice versa." Om shirk off my fist from his arm and spat off each and every word all the while staring down at Safrin.

Safrin glanced at Om painfully. She didn't take any initiative to wriggle out of his tight death grip.

She placed her hands on his arms and looked at him through her glassy eyes.

"Everything went wrong for me anna. I know your genuine concern and love for Abhi-me and the relationship we share. But after facing all the torture alone in one go I can't even think of going back and checking and rethinking my decision. It took every inch of my cell and ounce of my blood to come to this decision. Writhing that is the correct word. I was writhing like a worm all these days. Now it is done" Safrin sniveled, gasping for breath and between her sobs.

Om slowly loosened his grip over Safrin. His features softened sighting her agonizing look.

He placed his hand on her cheek tenderly.

"Tell me , what is wrong? You need not have to do this ma. We will find a solution for anything together. I am with you sweetie. Just have faith in your anna and tell what is that which went wrong for both of you" Om said softly his eyes glistening a bit.

Safrin seemed to be softened a tad. She was about to open her mouth.

"Om!" Suddenly our conversation was interrupted by a hasty and rushed voice.

"Gaith?What now?" Om snapped impatiently and outrageously at Druv for interrupting the talk which could have taken other mode if we were allowed to have the talk peacefully without any intervention as of this.

Druv shifted from one foot to another in uncertainty. He eyed at Om to join him.

Om looked from me to Safrin for a moment before joining Druv without any nitpicking or snappish spiel.

Safrin held my hand in her tight grasp and began to sob bitterly holding my hand close to her cheek.

I ran my fingers through her thick curly hair. She looked up at me before hugging me tight and burying her head on my shoulders crying feverishly.

"Its okay Saffy please calm down. I don't know what is bothering you this much. But one thing I know is this, Edin loves you like his each cell chants your name. Don't ignore that Safrin. For him you are his blessing. Don't pretend to be oblivious of that truth" I tried to talk some sense into her.

She pulled away from me and stared at me through her exhausted and tired eyes which by now resembled a panda's eyes with smeared mascara and kajal by all crying and wailing.

"Look at you, Saffy! You look horrible and pathetic. What have you made of yourself in all this saffy. I really can't tolerate to see you like this. How happy you were with Edin. Now what has gone wrong for such a change of mind" I asked morosely.

Safrin glanced at me and smiled wryly.

"You are right there Kichu. How happy I was. But now I am not. Because nothing feels good or right about Abhi and me being together" Safrin said heaving a sigh of pain and agony.

I narrowed my eyes and viewed her suspiciously.

"Elly, I will give you fifteen mts time to make up your mind and blurt out the stuff that is troubling you regarding Jeet and you." Om said suddenly making me turn my eyes towards him and view him for a brief second.

"Now it is seven in the evening. At quarter past seven you will have an open talk with me regarding this issue that too in a crisp and sane way." Om said as a final verdict.

"Pearl! It is best to allow Elly on her own. She will be able to think properly and come up with something reasonable. You are coming with me now" Om said going through his phone.

I nodded and followed him quietly out of the leisure room not before sparing a concerned glance at Safrin.

She stood there with a stoic expression on her face.

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"Hello Good evening ! You have been connected to Florenza airways,India. What can I do for you sir?" A soft elegant lady voice welcomed Om's call cordially.

"Good evening. This is MisterA.S.O Diaz ,pilot of Florenza airways. Please do connect me to Mister Qureshi the co pilot" Om said over the phone in an official tone occasionally glancing at me.

A trace of perturbation was discernible on his face. I glanced at him innocently. His tormented blue gaze oozed into my innocent plain brown gaze.

We are now standing near the bay window upstairs.

Om was making a call to the company he works for.

"Please give your full name sir then only we would be able to gauge out your real reputation here and make possible arrangements to connect you to Mister JMA Qureshi" A female voice chimed in an equally official stern yet pleasant and calm .

"I am Omnath Diaz. Connect me to Jahangir Qureshi" Om uttered in a rather waspish and irate tone.

"Oh! Um... Sir if I am not mistaken I demanded your full name to be exact" The lady voice floated past the phone

He pulled his collar and turned his neck back and forth uncomfortably.

I felt the need to quit the place giving him space to have his official talk calmly without any disturbance.

I was about to turn away and go, then a hand clasped around my wrist and prevented me from moving away.

"Stay here" Om ordered authoritatively his gaze held staunchly held mine.

I felt irritated and troubled. I don't like to be told what I should do and not to do. I am not a baby for that matter.

I glared at him ill tempered but felt utterly pathetic for not being able to rip off my gaze from his authoritative and cold gaze.

"Sorry sir! I didn't get you." A shrill troubled ,out of composure and troubled chime of a lady, which came as confused incoherent mumbling , brought me back to reality. Om was the first one to avert his gaze.

He seemed irritated and perturbed. He scratched his chin thoughtfully before answering.