Abhi looks at her eyes...

Seeing her sharp gaze he stammers

Ab: wh..what

Pr: Aditi

Ab: you should rest

Pr: I need answer and not rest..

Ab: you are mistaken...she lied to you

Pr: I asked you a simple question why can't you answer that directly..

Abhi gets up to leave but pragya holds his hand..

Abhi shouts

Ab: Pragya..

But she neither left his hand nor bowed down to his gaze...

Abhi looked at her defeated...

He sits near her and gently asked," does your head hurts?"

Pragya nods negatively...

Pragya whispers," why are you punishing yourself for their mistake"

Ab: it was not their mistake pragya... mistake was mine...

Pragya nods negatively..

Abhi's eyes brimmed thinking about his past...

Pragya looked at abhi pleadingly....she wants him to vent out his feelings to her...she knows he is dying inside everyday...At first she thought of giving him time but today after facing the fear of losing him closely she is too scared about tomorrow..

She somehow survived the pain of losing Ishaan , she is not ready for another bruise in her life..

She should heal him soon otherwise he will break completely...

Abhi nervously looked at pragya...he slowly layed his head on her lap...

In her lap he felt the peace which he lost before five years..

He murmers in-between his tears," like he trusted me , I too trusted him...that is what being friends means doesn't it?"

Pragya's eyes shed tears hearing his painful voice...

He started to sob like a child by hugging her lap.

Pragya felt furious on aakash and Aditi.... how insensitively they played with his emotions...she can never forgive them..

Pragya runs her hand through his hair ....

Abhi felt wetness on his arm and sees pragya crying silently...

He immediately gets up and wipes his tears...

He wished to cry his heart out but he couldn't bear to see her cry because of him.

He was about to turn....

But Pragya holds his face and says," suniye "

Saying she leans near him and kissed his forehead...

Tears flooded out from his both eyes ...

Pragya wraps her hands around his neck and hugs him gently...she whispers near his ears ," we will go through this together.... please vent it out.."

Abhi closes his arms around her and pulled her closer...

His control broke and he started to sob loudly... pragya's heart broke hearing his painful whimpers..her eyes brimmed with unshed tears..

He tightens the hug and cries his heart out...the tightness of his hug shows his pain...

He asked her the question which is haunting him from that fateful day..

Ab: where did I go wrong?

Pragya cries unable to bear the pain in his voice...

She parts from the hug and says," your mistake is you gave the wrong people the right to control your life..."

Abhi looks at her...his heart would have felt heavy if she said he is not wrong or nothing was his mistake..she is giving him the answer which he is searching for years..

She softly caresses his cheek and says

Pr: your single mistake gave them the power to hurt you... your mistake is you trusted them..suniye everyone does mistake but not all will punish themselves for long... please let it go ...they lost you it was their loss and not yours..they both are the loosers and not you... they both are fools and not you..

He suddenly hugged her and started to sob..

Without breaking the hug pragya says," forget everything suniye.. their betrayal, their words, everything.."

Ab: I tried hard but I couldn't

Pr: when a deep injury is done to us , we will never heal until we forgive ..

Ab: matlab

Pr: matlab forgive them..It's not the pain that hurts but it's who it came from..

She said him to forgive them but she can never forgive them for making him like this.

Abhi thinks," she is right ....why should I be angry on them for their betrayal...their betrayal gave me my pragya"

Pr: please forget everything

Ab: I don't know whether I could forget but I will surely forgive them..

Pragya smiles with tears hearing that..

How could he hate their betrayal anymore, it brought pragya in his life and now in his heart..

He himself doesn't know how she broke the wall and entered his heart..

Pr: cry as much as you want to but make sure when you finished you never cry again thinking about their betrayal..

His sobs died out slowly as he vent out his anger, frustration, his helplessness that he had held within for years..

Pragya parts from the hug and says..

Pr: cheating a right person and trusting a wrong person , only fools do this ...

Suddenly she bites her tongue...

Pr: I didn't mean that

Abhi smiles lightly..

Pr: I am very bad in advising

Ab: not bad than your cooking...

Pragya chuckles hearing that..

Pr: aw...it hurts..

Abhi smiles ..

Pr: I will come back now , you go and fresh up...

Saying she goes out to see abhi's parents..

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To be continued...

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