BROKEN BONDS

They broke the hug after good ten minutes.

"Aaru, abb aage kya?"
"Abb aage....I- I want to rectify all my mistakes, take account for all the times I have hurt you, to assure yo-"
"To assure me that you love me?"
"Huh?"
"Huh nahi haan bol, that is all that matters to me, Aaru"
Aarohi chuckled and said, "I love you, Akshu"
Akshara felt a flood in her heart to calm down. She had last saw this look of love with her sister ages ago, before her parents left her.

"Aaru can we please move on? We have been through so much in our lives, this time can we trying enduring it together? Do we really have to stay apart?"

"I don't want to stay apart, Akshu, it was my mistake to drift away from you, but not anymore. Main Neil se kiya, apne baby se kiya, Mumma Papa se kiya aur tujhse kiya waada nibhaana chahti hun", she raised her palm into a fist and raised it, "Akshu, kya meri behen banegi, phirse?"

Akshara felt overwhelmed looking at her fist, as a surge of emotions from her childhood came across her mind and her heart.

She hurriedly bumped her fist with Aarohi's and gleamed brightly, "Haan, aur iss baar, humesha ke liye"

"Let's end everything, Akshu, we both now know each other's pain, but we can't undo it, so let's work on easing it down now, on making new memories now"

"Yes, Aaru. We have both hurt each other lot becuase of our past, let's get to the present and heal each other"

Aarohi took a pause, sighed and said, "Fine then, the first step, to help you heal your biggest pain, Akshu chahe tu waapis conceive kare na kare, lekin mere aur Neil ka baby ki tu Maasi kam aur Maa zyada hogi, humesha", placing Akshara's hand over her belly.

Akshara's heart felt as if someone had loosened it. She had lost her motherhood moments ago, and here her sister offered it to her again. The sister who was blamed to ruin her happiness and peace, today gave her the bliss which no one else could ever have given to their siblings.
This was the best thing anyone had ever said to her, and the fact that it was her sister, made it ten times better.

"Aa- Aaru, sach? Tu- tera aur Neil ka bab-"
"Yes Akshu, waise bhi Neil ke bina...I don't know, and even if he was there, the baby needs you and your furry soft love"

Akshara pulled her sister into a tight hug and said, "Tha- thankyou Aaru, I promise, I'll love this cutie of ours so much that she would be the happiest baby on planet. I'll love her just like how Sirat Maa loved Kairav Bhaiya and me, Aaru, an- and Abhi, he would be so attached to her, he would be blissed having her around, usne bhi wada kiya hai Neil se, Aaru, tum dono ka bahut khyaal rakhega woh"

"Thankyou Akshu, but how do you know it's a 'she' and not a 'he' ?"
"Neil ne kaha tha na, I feel that he won't be wrong about this", she replied with a warm smile, making Aarohi miss him.

"I am sorry, Aaru, tune toh mujhe yeh khushi de di, but I- I wish I could do something for you, bu- but there's nothing which can fill the void of a life partner, an-"
"If you know this, then why are you saying sorry? Akshu, maine bhi tera dard thoda khatam kar diya, I have just given you another reason to be happy and to move on soon, and I just want you, and my family on my side, that would be my baby's and my way to accept this grief."

"Humesha, Aaru. I'll love you and be there for you, forever"
"Even I'll love you and support you always"

"Der se hi sahi, waqt aa gaya, Sirat Maa aur Papa se kiya waada nibhaane ka"
"Ek dusre ke saath humesha rehene ka"

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