Romance With A Stranger

Episode 20

I am pregnant ??

The ride home no one dates to say a word. They were still gobsmack about what happened.

They just got married.

For the whole world,their relationship is innocent and pure but in front of the goddess they were married.

They were husband and wife.

Aditya parked the car in the lot and turned to look at her.

Her face was swollen from all the crying and her eyes were all red and fluffy.

He knew this was not the right time to be admiring her but he couldn’t help himself. She was so beautiful,with that nuptial chain around her neck and the vermilion upon her forehead.

“Sanyukta,I……”

“Save it Aditya. It has been done. I…I am a married woman now,”she glared at him.

“There was nothing I can do.”

“Nothing you could have done?!”she bitterly scoffed. “You apparently can do anything! You slept with me not only once but thrice! You become my professor! You gave me the hardest of all tests! You can do anything! You even got us married! Of course you could have done something damnit!” She hollered.

“What could I have done,tell me? The sage mistook us to be a married couple! How is that my fault?!”

“Having to have met you is your fault! I wish I never met you Mr. Vadhan. My life was just perfect without you but you ruined it for me . Again! My mom is going to be furious and my dad is going to kill me!” She said stammering,fear evident on her face. “They will get to know everything. Everything.”

“Is that all you care about? Are so selfish that you only think about yourself? What about me tell me?”

“What about you? You’re a man. You can get any man you want but I am woman Aditya. A woman! You ruined my life the first time I met you! You have destroyed my life!” She cried and got out of the car slamming the car shut.

In rage Aditya got out too and pinned her against the car making her gasp in fear as she stared into his eyes.

“You….you think you can say whatever you want to say and then walk away just like that? You were there too. Why didn’t you say something huh? Instead of being bold has you have always been,you become a damsel in distress and you played a helpless woman. Hey, don’t blame me for everything. I remember very well that even you wanted that to happen between us. You’re equally at fault Sanyukta. I just regret that I started thinking of you as a better person. You’re nothing but a selfish and self sophisticated woman! Fine you don’t want this then I will do the liberty to take them off,”he grasped the nuptial chain and broke it away from her neck. The beads shattered down on the ground.

Everything happened in slow motion in front of Sanyukta’s eyes. She teary stared at him as he coldly wiped off her mark as a married woman.

“There you’re unmarried now,”he snarled and tightly grabbed her cheeks and roughly slammed his lips upon hers, kissing her. She took a sharp intake of air when he withdrew from the kiss. “And now everything we have ever shared til now has been erases and wiped off just like the vermilion upon your forehead. I rather be alone than be with someone like you in my life. One woman was enough to shatter me and I won’t let another one do the same. Now I don’t care anymore. I just don’t care. From now on, you’re dead to me,every memory of yours will go along with you when you leave from here. Go. Get out from my life and my house. Never come back again. I’m done caring for people who don’t care about me. JUST GO!” he shoved her out of his way as tears streamed down his gritted cheeks.didn’t want to do this but he had to,to protect himself from getting hurt again.

He had sworn to never fail in love but this girl he just recently met melted down his cold demeanor and made him fall in love once again. He gave her his soul,his body and she just shattered all of that away just because of one mistake that wasn’t even his fault.

It pained him to see her in tears and it hurt him even more that he was the reason why she was sobbing right now. He hated himself but he had to do it.

He was done with selfish people in his life.

Slowly she carried herself away.

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When she got home,it was already dusk. She spent most of her time roaming around the streets of the city, crying her eyes out. She ran to her room and slammed her door shut.

She didn’t even acknowledge her parents or her sister who just got discharged from the hospital. She didn’t even care about dinner.

She just wanted to be alone.

She slumped on the sides of her bed and hugged her legs and sobbed between them.

There was a knock at her door.

“GO AWAY! JUST LEAVE MW THE HELL ALONE! I WANT TO BE LEFT ALONE!” She cried out.

The door crept open and her sister walked in with a tray of food.

“Sanyu?”she rushed over to her when she saw her face.”Wh…. what happened? Talk to me Sanyukta.”

“Sanju,I have lost him forever. That too because of my stupidity and fear,”she stated leaning into her for a hug.

“Okay but tell me what really happened.”

She slightly brushed off her hair,Sanju’s eyes widened in realization,when she saw the similar red color on her sister’s forehead.

“This!?”

“The sage mistook us as a couple and unintentionally forced us to get married in front of Goddess Durga.”

“But….but you love him then why is it a problem? I get that mom and dad would be angry but why would he leave you?”

“I got scared sister. I feared a lot. If dad finds out he is going to kill me sister. If he finds out he is going to separate the two of us and we will never be together again. And that beast will have the liberty to abuse you anyhow he wants. I got scared that I lashed out on him. I blamed him of my misfortune. He got angry and took back everything.”

“Sanyu,I know that you love me so much but sometimes to have to think of other people another than just me. You don’t have to worry about me anymore. I am planning to divorce Dev and no one can stop me this time. Sanyu,you have always been my inspiration in life. I have always wanted to be carefree and bold like you and now when I am about to need your support you wilter too? Sanyu, remember one thing. Love is for the courageous and not the weak. You have to fight for your love. We can’t let mom and dad win every time. This time they will have to listen to us. If this guy can make you so weak then it means you love him so much. Don’t lose him because you are afraid of what mom and dad will do. I am with here for you and will always be with you. In this battle against our parents,I will need your full support and girl strength Sanyu,”she said with a determined look.

Which made Sanyukta wiped away her tears and join her hands with her. “But how will we do it? What will we do?” She asked.

Her sister cupped her face and smiled. “I will tell you but first I am starving and I can’t think with an empty stomach.”

“Come Sanju,I am not a kid anymore that you will coax me into eating like that.”

“But it always works,”she giggled as she fed her some curd rice. “I love you Sanyu.”

“I love you more sister Sanju,”she hugged her with a smile.

Back home Aditya was standing in the middle of the cold shower, having flashbacks of the woman he thought would be the one for him.

His eyes were red and tears mixed with the shower water streamed down her cheeks.

He was feeling suffocated and he wanted to scream his pain out.

He fisted his hand and punched the shower wall with it, repeatedly.

He was num to the pain. He didn’t even realize that his knuckles were bloody.

“Why? Why did you do this to me? Why? Why? Why? Why! I love you so much. I f—–g love you! I love you so much and I hate that I can’t forget you! What have you done to me Sanyukta Agarwal! What! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” He screamed out punching the wall til he lost his will and collapsed on the shower floor, with a heaving chest.