OUR MARRIAGE IS JUST A PIECE OF PAPER : EPISODES 121 – 130
Episode 128
” No… Wrong. It won’t. You let me what did you do next?”
” Then I went straight to your Dad and asked for your hand for marriage.” He said casually.
” What?? But how could you do that? That too without my permission and how in the world you wanted to marry me when we didn’t even speak to each other. ” I said getting up from my relaxed position.
” I really liked you. You seemed just perfect for me. I followed you once to the orphanage. I saw a very different and lively side of yours. The way the kids adored you was an amazing sight indeed.
And Dad asked you to meet me. Don’t you remember?” He said and I was thrown back in the flashback.
” Ahana…. Why don’t you at least meet him once? He is very good and I swear you can’t resist him. All the girls are crazy behind him and of all he has asked for you. And he is a business tycoon, like us.”
” So what Dad? There are thousands of businessmen out there but I can’t marry everyone… Right?”
” Ahana… Stop being arrogant. He likes you. ”
” Good… But I don’t like him and moreover I am not being arrogant. I will marry someone whom I like. A person who would respect my decision and dignity. Not a person like him who assumes things, already. See, he send his most expensive car to pick me up. He must have thought that I will agree at once and agree to meet him. What a Fool… Send his car back Dad. I ain’t marrying an arrogant selfish brat. ”
” He isn’t arrogant. Just meet him once.”
” Dad! I am free to take my decisions. And whoever he is, I am not marrying him. ”
I remembered it at once.
” I think you have recalled it already…”
” Ansh!!! It was you? You had send your Red Masserati. Arrgghhh…. ”
” You still remember the car too? ”
” Of course I do…. Why didn’t it click me when I saw it in the garage?”
How can I be so oblivious? And I can’t believe it that Dad fixed my marriage with him only although I said a firm NO.
How stupid of me that I didn’t even cross verify. Was I so busy or I just trusted my family? I don’t thing I regret it but if it hadn’t turned out like this, then.
Sometimes, When you wait so long for something in Life, especially if it’s LOVE, then…
God has planned something special for you.
It all happens for a Reason.
” Well, I never drove it since you rejected it.” He said bringing my attention to him and I looked at him until our eyes met.
But I am not going to be deceived by them.
Never. I told myself. I averted my glance.
” Ansh!! Then why and how did you marry me when I already rejected you. Why didn’t your respect my decision?” I said in near tears.
It’s not that I regret marrying Ansh but it shouldn’t have turned out like this. Perhaps it’s all a God’s Plan.
” I never like to face defeats, that too from my competitors. ” He said and I turned again to look at him. I was furious.
” To such an extent that you need to force someone into a marriage. Something that I considered so pure and divine. You had taken it like a challenge. Huh?
You can’t handle rejection?
What did you tell Dad and grandpa that they forced me such an extent? And why didn’t your Dad say something? ” There were a lot of unanswered questions and of all Ansh was ready to answer them patiently.
” After you said a staunch ‘no’ I decided not to give up. So I had a meeting with your Dad and grandpa. Mine weren’t even aware about it. ”
I didn’t say anything. It was already too much to take in.
” He said that you didn’t have a boyfriend or a lover or even an admirer. He also wanted to marry you soon. Hence I proposed the merger of the company. He readily accepted it and asked for the meeting of both the families. They were happy about it and I thought you will agree on this matter too. ”
And I didn’t… How can I agree on something like this. Who marries for a merger nowadays? And we didn’t need a dmn merger. We are in the 21st century for God’s sake… ” I was about to break down. Or maybe my tears were just flowing down.
” I knew we didn’t one but then there wasn’t any option left… ”
So many things happened behind my back and I wasn’t aware of it.
” Ha! Seriously…. And still Dad and grandpa forced me into this. But then why did you behave in such a rude manner when we met for the first time and don’t tell me your family didn’t know about all this….”
” Hmmm…. I thought I will throw some attitude showing that both of us were in the same boat and we can help each other sail with…..Love… I didn’t want you to know that I liked you. ”
” Ansh!! It’s already frustrating and making me furious. And it’s so damn stupid. How can you be so immature?
How can you do this? You lied to Dad and grandad. And moreover I am upset with my Dad and grandpa. I feel so cheated and deceived.”
” Dad was furious when I told him the night when we met. He thought that we knew each other and we were marrying out of love and grandad still thinks the same.
He doesn’t know anything. Please don’t tell him about this, he will never forgive me. I pleaded Dad to keep all this going for my sake and I will win your heart soon. I am a charmer anyways. And he really liked you on the very first meet and knew that you would be just perfect for me. ”
I don’t know what was happening. So many things happened and I wasn’t aware of it. There were non stop tears flowing for a reason I am not aware of. How can I be so weak? I Was never so fragile or a person who easily gives up. After all this, perhaps I am still upset that I will lose someone whom I love so much.
But there are still things that needs to be explained.
” Ansh!!……” I said still sniffing. He looked at me.
” Then, why didn’t you try to win my heart ? You liked me, right?
Why did YOU…” I said almost in a shout and standing to get my purse and pulling the AGREEMENT file.
” ….. Why the hell did you make me sign this damn shit!!!! When you wanted to win my heart. Why did you ruin something that I considered so pure? Why??” I said breaking down and then throwing that file on him. He caught it and came towards me.
” Ahana… I never thought you would consider it to be so serious. ” He said.
” Huh! Is it not a serious matter?
Ansh! Signing an AGREEMENT is not a serious thing? Really?
Be a bit professional at least. This is what we do day and night. This is our work.
You made me sign such a serious piece of paper, reminding me about this almost every day and you say I shouldn’t consider it as something serious. ”
” Ahana, I wanted to confess you my feelings and tell the truth on the first night itself… But… ”
” But then you realised your mistake, Right? You realized that you cheated me. Didn’t you? ”
” Yes… I realised I shouldn’t have done that in first place. I should have respected your likings too. I should have tried to court you first, marriage had to be the next step. I liked you but you didn’t. I acted hurriedly. Hence to give you all the freedom I did this. I heard you talking to yourself an hour after we got married. ” He said.
I was searching for you and your luggage in the hotel when I heard your sniffs in the balcony. I followed it.
” God!! Please help me from this problem. I can’t love him. I can’t handle a forced relationship, I will suffocate…. I can’t stay happy in this manner.
Ansh stopped. I looking at him so that he would continue further but he didn’t. After a silence of a minute he spoke.
” I realised that Love can’t be forced. Hence when we returned home I printed this. It’s all fake. I even Googled to find some valid and formal statements to make it look like a real AGREEMENT. This notary thing isn’t real too.
” He explained.
I never felt so stupid in life. Bound by lies and nothing else. It looked so real. Perhaps I hadn’t looked at it closely enough. I was angry with Ansh when he made me sign it and then I just signed it up. Ansh was such an expert in his work that anyone could be deceived with these fake papers. Even Dad wasn’t spared.
But, nevertheless it was still a part of lives. The fake ones that we lived. I looked at the file in Ansh’s hand.
In a moment before I could realise, he tore the papers in a white confetti, right in front of me.
” It’s fake and I don’t need this in our relationship anymore. I want to start afresh now. I know there are a lot of lies spoken and you must think that everything in our relationship is false and fake. But trust me, the most beautiful truth is our marriage. The one that binds us together. My love for you is the greatest TRUTH of my life.
Ahana… I want you to decide for us now. ”
” Ansh!! ” I paused.
” You heard it but you didn’t hear it till end. Why… Why do you always abandon a conservation in between, be that you are a part of it or not. It’s your habit, isn’t it? A really bad one.” I could make that Ansh was confused beyond explaination.
“W-What do you mean??!”
” You didn’t hear it thoroughly.
That night, I said that…
” God!! Please help me from this problem. I can’t love him. I can’t handle a forced relationship, I will die…. I can’t stay happy in this manner…
But no matter what, I promise myself to see the bright side of all this. I shall consider it as an arranged marriage. We both can find Love. We are in the same boat. It may be difficult but it’s not impossible… I will make all this work out and give us a chance….” “I looked at Ansh and he was astonished. He had to be.
” For once Ansh if you had considered my point of veiw, things would have been different. If you hadn’t hurried and acted sensibly then…. ” I sighed as I was about to leave the room.
OUR MARRIAGE IS JUST A PIECE OF PAPER : EPISODES 121 – 130
” Ahana… Where are you going? Please let me nurse those at least. And we ain’t done talking yet….”
” What more is left to talk, Ansh? We are done talking. It was all a misunderstanding. I still can’t make myself believe you. Because of your bad habit of abandoning me or because of you assuming things or because of your Bossy behaviour to take all the decisions…. ”
” Ahana… I accept all of my flaws… I really want you to accept me… I don’t have many reasons to give and justify myself so that you can accept me but… because I have only one reason…I love you…. ”
” Ansh! I really don’t want to wake up realising that you didn’t mean any of the things you said tonight. I can’t do that. Coz you have always made me believe that you can never love me. You even misunderstood my friendship.” I interrupted him. I don’t want to get carried away.
” Ahana… I really thought that you would never fall for me. I wanted to free you. I know I am a asshole… a jerk… a stupid insecure person. I bought Jia into picture to distract myself so that it would be easy not to fall in love with you. But, suddenly Jaai showed up. I was scared to lose you to Jaai when I saw you for the first time with him in our house. You looked so happy together.
” And so as always you assumed things. Did you for once think that how could I have married you if I already loved someone and how many times did I tell you about us. ”
” I know… But I thought Dad must have forced you. But the more closer I saw you two the more I wanted you to be by my side. Your caring nature made me fall in love with you each day. From liking you, I went on to loving you.
Trust me, when I came to know that you were pregnant.. It was the best thing that happened. I was just scared and insecure that you wouldn’t accept us… ” I heard him say.
Perhaps his level of insecurity was away higher than mine. From his point of view things looked messed up but then he was responsible for messing them in first place. If at all…
” Ansh! How can you think that I wouldn’t accept them… That morning you said that… That… It was a mis-mistake… ” I said.
He looked at me. His eyes were equally red. He actually did cry. He came towards me. He held my hands in his.
” Ahana… I never said that it was a mistake. I was just sorry. I said that I didn’t want it to happen in such a way. No at that stage of our relationship. I just wished that I could have controlled my feelings. I thought that you would regret sharing that moment with me.
I didn’t want you to regret it. I thought that you will be upset coz it was special to you, something that you might want to share with the person you love. I didn’t regret it at all. I was true to my feelings that night… But.. I was a bit drunk… I thought… ”
” Ansh… I was sober. How can you think like that? Although I didn’t love you back then but I had accepted you as my husband and I didn’t regret it, not even a percent. Your habit of assuming things and making them worse will really hamper our relationship… ” I said.
OUR MARRIAGE IS JUST A PIECE OF PAPER : EPISODES 121 – 130
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