Chapter - 6

"Appa... Appaaa!!" Krishna opened his eyes abruptly. His heart beat faster than usual. He inhaled and exhaled to make his heart beat normal. In the past four years, everyday he woke up with those kind of nightmares either like a unknown baby crying appa or his mom's accident. He rubbed his eyes and found it was 5 in the morning. Sleep was far away, so he just lied flat and starred the ceiling recollecting the past memories.

"What my wife is doing very sincerely not even realising her husband's presence?!" Krishna sat closer to Meera. "I'm drawing something. Don't disturb me. I'll complete it in few minutes and I'll show you" she said without looking his face concentrating on her drawing. "Okay, I'll wait" he said and thought what she was drawing with that much interest.

After few minutes, "yeah! Its so perfect" Meera said happily looking at the picture. "What is that?" He came near her curiously. She handed over the diagram. He was speechless seeing it. It was a beautiful sketch of a baby. He looked it with happiness and love. "It's really beautiful Meera" he said giving her a side hug.

"In future we also will have a baby like this right. I want a baby boy first" she said holding the drawing and leaning in his shoulder. "Not one, we will have 10 babies as we already planned" he said with a wink. Meera smiled hugging him. "But I want a baby girl just like my darling wife as a first child" he added.

"Why you want a girl first?" She asked rolling her eyes. "If she is a caring girl like you, then she will take care of her small brother right, every boy like to have a caring elder sister and I can't wait two years to see my junior Meera. So first child will be a girl. I'll treat her like my princess. I'll take her around the world. She will be the most beautiful girl in this whole world" he said what was in his mind. Meera looked him lovingly and pinched his nose saying "you're so Adorable" they both dreamt about their unborn baby.

He came out of the thoughts and found his eyes were wet. "You ruined everything Meera. You ruined my life, you broke my trust and you made my mom lifeless. You took away all my happiness. Why you did this to me?" He shouted in frustration throwing the glass on the floor.

His mobile rang at that moment. He saw caller ID and it was from Aishwarya. "Yes" he said in cold tone. "Good morning Krishna, today you have a meeting with Russian clients" she instructed. "Okay, anything else?" He asked. "Yeah! Update from your dad. He want you to attend the annual day function in a school running on behalf of our trust. Daddy cannot attend the function, so he want you to attend it" she said slowly.

"I already told that I can't attend all these silly functions but I don't know why you guys making me loose my patience every time. I'll talk to dad. You make all arrangements for today's meeting" he ended the call before her reply. She ended the call with a sad face.

He called his dad. "Dad! What's all this?! I told you right, I can't attend any school functions or trust activities. Then why are you making it tough every time by asking me to attend those functions?" he said with irritation. "Cool down Kanna. This is one of the major school which belongs to our trust and it's very important to attend the function. I can't attend this leaving your mom in this state. So it's your responsibility. You're going to bangalore this Friday to attend that function and that's final" he said firmly. Krishna cut the call with irritation.

Only the previous day he visited India. He stayed in Delhi to attend the meeting but Vishwanath asked him to attend the school function in Bangalore which made him frustrated cause it was the place where he first time felt loneliness in his life. But he finally agreed since he don't wanna overrule his mother's vows.

"Mommy!! Friday is our school annual day. Teacher gave this card, you should come to this function" Krithi said with a cute face showing the invitation. "Friday!! Baby Friday mommy have an important meeting" she replied sadly. Krithi's face too turned sad. She left the place without telling anything. Meera followed her, "understand dear, that was an important meeting" she tried to console.

"I'm getting best student award. So teacher said I should bring you compulsory" Krithi said adamantly. "Really!!!" She kissed her cheeks. "Okay, I'll complete my meeting and will join the function for sure" she said holding her face.

"Promise" Krithi asked. "Pinky promise" Meera replied with smile. Krithi jumped in happiness hearing her. Meera smiled looking her happiness. They both spent some good mother and daughter time by watching her favourite cartoon and listening her stories.

Meera took invitation card from Krithi and shocked to see the chief guest name. It was written as Vishwanath. She wantedly joined Krithi in that school since it was the major school run by the Rajeswari trust. She want Krithi to study in the school where Krishna studied and she expected to face all the consequences but not this early. She decided to attend the function since she didn’t wanna disappoint her daughter at the same time she decided to be cautious.

Next day,

Meera and Aditi visited nearby shopping mall. Meera purchased gifts for Krithi to present it on her annual day for getting the best student award. She felt proud of her daughter. In the very first year of her schooling she achieved something big. Meera selected a huge teddy bear and gift wrapped it. She handed over the gift to Aditi to keep that as surprise for Krithi.

"Meera!!" She heard a familiar voice and turned back to see Karthik. She was shocked to see him there. She looked at him nervously. "Meera!? How are you? Why you left us without telling anything?" He asked in extremely sad tone. Aditi understood the situation and left the place telling she has to shop. Meera nodded and looked at him.

They sat in a coffee shop,

"Anna, I beg you please don't tell anyone about my existence in Bangalore" she said with tears. "Meera you misunderstood" he was about to say but Meera interrupted. "Enough anna, I have already gone through the worst part of my life. Most hurting part is my parents who doesn't believe me when I don't have any other hope and at that moment I realized I have nothing in my life. I'm living here peacefully trying to forget all those bitter memories. Please don't try to bring everything back in my life. I don't have any strength to face them anymore" she said in extremely sad tone.

He understood her condition but he was not able to get why she was not ready at least to listen their point. He looked at her sadly. "Sorry Anna if I have hurt you" she apologized. "You don't have to be sorry Meera. At that time everything was against you so they reacted like that but once after you left they truly worried thinking about you everyday. Even now mom is praying to show you in her eyes" he said with tears which made her eyes wet too but she didn’t wanna lose her daughter at any point and now if she agreed to meet her parents then they might know about Krithi too so she decided to be silent.

"I think, I took correct decision anna. Let them be happy with their peaceful life, I don't wanna be their burden anymore. Promise me that you will not tell about me to anyone" she asked looking at his face. "Okay Meera if this is what makes you happy be happy, I'll not talk about this with anyone" he confirmed. She smiled.

"Anna, what about Maaya? She is fine right? How is my small girl Rithu?" She asked with excitement. "Yeah they are fine. Rithu is going to her Second class" he said with smile. Meera smiled. "And you? When is your marriage?" She asked. "Last month we got married" he replied with smile.

"Really?!! Omg!! Anna I'm very happy for you. Finally you married my best friend" she said happily. He smiled looking at her excitement. "Daily I'll pray for you both" she added. "I know that Meera, I missed you more in my wedding" he said sadly. "Its ok anna. We can't change the past. Let it be. Always be happy with my friend and you're really lucky to have a girl like her in your life. Her IAS training got completed right?" She asked. "Yeah! Only After that we got married" he said with smile.

"I'm very happy anna. Stay happy forever" she wished. He smiled looking her happy face. She ordered coffee and snacks they both had it by chitchatting. Finally he left bidding a good bye. Meera's heart ached, she too missed her family but the destiny played all its miserable act in her life.