Naina's P.O.V.
"No please" I yelled as the stick was hit against my arm.
"You are the cause of all my problems" aunty yelled and hit me harder.
She hit me harder and slapped me and kicked me so hard I fell with a thud my head bashing with the floor.
"aaaaaaaahhhhhhh" I yelled on the top of my voice. No use. Itl'l be unheard but my pain would still be there. I cant take it anymore.
"savitri and mahesh were like the saturn in our horoscope" she said evilly. Who are they??
"how would you know?" she said and laughed cruelly. "how would you know when you were too busy making our lives another hell after them" she said as her voice took its pitch.
I was in that same basment. Except only my aunt was there. She walked back and took an iron rod with that satanic glint in her eyes. How evil can a person get? What kind of lengths are they ready to go to??
With a swift motion she hit my arm with that and it stinged and burnt eliciting a painful scream from my mouth. "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh"
Saliva came out of my mouth as I coughed hard. My spine. My back hurts. God plsease help me. Please. Adii. I cried as my tears covering my eyes.
I think I'm bleeding from my arms.
"aaaaaahhhhhhh nooooooo" I yelled again as the rod hit my legs. She threw the rod aside as wakled to me. My hands were tied and so were my legs.
"if i could just kill you right now" she said coming close to my face as her hands went to my throat slowly and gripped it tight as i choked.
I gasped and got up with a jolt. my hands went to my throat as i breathed hard. my inahales and exhales loud. i looked back and adi was still sleeping. fear crept over me like fire burning and my stomach felt like a pit and i was suddenly sinking. abyss.
i pulled my knees to myself and wrapped my arms around me and tears pooled in my eyes as i broke out in a cry waking adi up.
"shit naina!" he jolted up and rushed to me in an instant.
"baby what happened?" he asked hugging me tighter than i hugged myself. his arms squeezing me and i felt good with the pressure. it felt good. it was like i let go and blood rushed in me cramping me heating me up and i became drowsy for a minute with that squeeze. it felt really good. ahh god. wow! my body was limp and realxed and floppy.
his strong arms kept getting tighter and tighter and it felt as if the claustrophobia was never there and gone even before coming. even thought the tightness should make me panic, it made me want it more. he rocked me back and forth in his chest which suddenly turned soft in my hallucination.
"ssshhhh its okay my love. you're safe. you're okay. i'm here" he said whsipering in my ear. "im not gonna leave you" he reassured. i got reassured. he dosent have to say it twice.
i lost myself in his arms, something i wanna do more often now.
i put my hands on his shoulders and pulled back a little. his arms are the gate to my heart and my sanity and my mind.
"adi" i said slowly wrapping my arms around him coming out from the little cocoon he made around me.
"yes my love" he said
"im okay now" i said slowly. he looked at me and smiled at me and kissed my forehead and we stayed like that for sometime until grumbling sounds came from both our stomachs, louder from mine. we looked at each other and laughed.
"its 1 am, everyone must be sleeping. they didnt even wake us" i said
"lets see whats left in the fridge" he said and we both went down tip toeing.
i turned the light on and he opened the fridge and after few minutes of careful inspection he stuck his face out and looked at me.
"theres nothing left. pigs" he made a face.
"its okay adi i'll make some chapati and i think there should be some vegetable left" i said and was about to move to the fridge when he came and stood in front of me.
he raise his finger and cleared his throat "numero uno, you are not going anywhere except the chair and numero dos i am going to cook for both of us" he said smiling and i doubted that today ill get a good meal.
i laughed nervously "uh haha okay" i said and was about to leave but then i stopped and again turne around.
"um adi you sure you dont want me to cook?" i said rubbing my neck. his hand left the bowl with a thud on the shelf as he looked at me and narrowed his eyes.
"huh you dont believe me do you?" he aksed
"what?"
"that your husband can apart from working and being handsome can cook, delicious food" he said emaphasing on 'delicious'.
"no no i believe you" i said the last part with hestation. he looked at me and huffed
"unbelieveable" he said and got the stuff ready. "the trust my own wife has on me is just amazing" he said sarcastically and i bit my tongue.
"hey you cant blame me. we never got to know each other well" i protested.
"yeah thats true" he said taking some dough and rolling it in his hands and coating it with atta he began rolling it and making it into a round flat chappati.
it was more like india's map. a smile threatened to break out on my lips as i watched him cook and take care of me.
his tongue came out as he was stuggling to pick india's map up as it kept drooping and falling. i shook my head and came to him
"not like this adi" i said and carefully took the dough and put it on the tawa. i looked down for the flame and looked at adi.
"adi its on sim, its gonna take a lot longer. we have to keep the flame on a little more than sim. medium" i said. all this time he was listening and observing like a child ans asking questions in between.
"I'm gonna take cooking lessons from you from now on" he said laughing.
i felt so happy and grateful for this moment.
"okay now i know you go and sit there" he said and pushed me out of the way and made me sit on the counter. its late in the night and we both are cooking and i just feel so grateful.
"ouch" adi's voice got me out of my trance. i jumped off the counter and ran to him
"omg show me. i told you to let me cook. see what happend" i raised my voice at him and he smiled. he was trying to flip it upside down and ended up putting his finger on the bare tawa.
"why are you smiling" i aksed him
"you look so beautiful all worked up. plus baby this is nothing comapred to what you went through. maybe this is my punishment for not protecting you. it may be small but i accept it wholeheartedly" he said and a sad smile broke out on his face.
i was shocked. not again with the blaming. i made him look at me and held his face and bought it close to mine.
"dont you ever dare to even say anything like that ever again. dont you even dare. the care and the love is nothing compared to that now. it is forgotten now. you and i are all that matter. none of it and none of them matter. you protected me. even when god didnt. from my own mind and my own thoughts. when the world was against me, you werent. you are not at fault. i am. i am. i didnt tell you anything. even though i wanted to adi. god tell me why i didnt. im a fool not and im at fault not you. so if you ever open that mouth for anything else other than kissing me, i will break it." i said dangerously close to his face makiny sure to encode every word in his brain.
his eyes seemed to have taken my signal and they were filled with shock and love and amusement and somewhere an unfair guilt with a beautiful innocence.
he nodded without saying anything and hugged me. we both hugged each other. i could smell something burning as my nose cringed. my eyes widen
"adi!! omg!! the rotii!" i ran towards the gas. he ran after me.
hissing and ouching we got the roti off the tawa. there it was all black and roasted from one side. we both looked at each and burst out laughing.
"aaj toh roasted roti khani padegi" adi said and i glared at him but i was literally smiling internally.
"now im gonna cook and youre gonna sit. i wanna have a good meal" i said and he made a face.
"what i made was good too" he said and i glared at him.
i went back to cooking smiling at my adi. hehe i love him.
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after filling our tummies by feeding each other adi insisted on doing the dishes while i sat on the counter eating a chocolate and he got all romantic with me.
we went to our room with me in his arms and my mouth filled with chocolate. i got some speared on my mouth too and chuckled looking at me. yes im a messy eater.
we went in and he laid me on the bed, took the wrapper from my hand and kept it on the bedside table, kissed the smeared chocolate from my lips making me blush and came in the bed beside me and pulled me to him. my face was in his chest where i could hear his heartbeat. the silence made it prominent.
i raised my head at him and he looked at me and raised his eyebrows.
"adi can i ask you something?" i asked playing with his t shirt. he nodded.
"i wanna meet them" i saw in a low voice and the anticipated reaction was in front of me.
his nostrils flared and eyes turned a shade darker, jaw clenched, his grip on me tightened and his knuckles turned white, he was controlling his raged breathing trying to stop the rage from flowing in him.
"no" he said in a sharp cold voice. i looked at him innocently.
"adi please" i begged.
"what does a NO mean?" he said glaring at me. i was actually getting scared at this point.
"i wanna know the truth adi please" i said finally looking in his eyes. he looked taken aback for a minute but composed himself.
"the truth? did you not see that already? this" he pointed at my injuries "is their truth. what else is left huh? death?" he said coldly. what he said was right. his anger is justified but maybe a part of him will think more clearly if he gets to know the truth.
hes been living on half informations. obviously his mind is gonna make up things and conclude them into something different. he deserves to know the truth just as much as me.
before i could say anything he cut me off.
"no more talking shh, sleep" he said and pulled my face back to his chest.
i pulled back again and he glared at me but closed his eyes.
"adi" i called and he didnt respond.
i shook him again but he didnt budge. i huffed.
"she talked about my parents" i said softly this time. he opened his eyes and looked at me
"yeah she even said their names savitri and mahesh" i said "i really wanna know who my parents are adi. please." i begged him. his eyes turned soft and i could see him getting convinced. just a 'yes' was all i wanted.
"please" i said looking into his eyes. he thought something deeply and sighed.
"baby i don- i dont know what to say. meeting the people who took you away from me, its just that-" he sighed.
"i know, i know. you can come with me. infact i want you to. you deserve to know it just as much as i." i said holding his arm. his eyes held uncertanity and i wished that they dont win against my words.
"i know you wont let anything happen to me. its a police station with so many poeple. they cant try anything even if they try to." i said with hopeful eyes.
"thats not the problem" he said looking into my eyes. i looked at him confused.
"the doctor said to keep you stress free" he said taking my hand on his arm in his hand.
"you really think i'll be stress free with the thought of what happened to my parents swrilingin my mind like a tornado, messing thinngs up" i protested. his concern matters so much to me but so does the truth.
"she said a few things which need to be cleared up. maybe for alisha too" i said
"that bitch is going straight to jail once she's out of that hospital" he said with hate. pure hate. "and i'll make sure she spends a good lifetime in there grinding wheat" he said gritting his teeth.
i pulled him to me and kissed him. he stilled and reciprocated. we parted and i looked at him and nodded.
"whatever you wish. but not before listening to the truth" i said against his forehead.
he sighed again.
"okay" he said tiringly. i smiled at him. i wasnt too happy about this either and i dont want to ever see their face again if it wasnt for the truth.
i hope its not worse than what they did. please god. maybe the truth might let me live in peace. i know he's not saying a lot but he too is going through a lot with me. this impacted not just me but the entire family.
i havent been thinking about anyone else. i know ma is in the hospital. alisha too which brings back a lot different memories. including aunty's words towards her. SHE WAS NEVER OUR DAUGHTER!!!!.
i jerked out of my thoughts. adi looked at me and pulled me back to him. i didnt protest this time cause i needed it.
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