Dedicated this chapter to FabulousMaria6 .Thank you :)

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Ruhani's POV

He gripped my hand tightly as we heard three different voices.

"Mom come and sit here."he made Vani Aunty sit on the bed.

"What scars Vikram?"she asked.

"Yes.And dont say it's nothing,we heard it."dad said.

"I will go and see what Meera aunty is doing."I told them as I was leaving the room.

"Angel.You will not go anywhere.You will stay here." Vicky's voice stopped me on the tracks and I turned around and went near him.

He sat on the bed beside mom.

"Vikram you are scraring me?Are you hurt?"aunty asked.

He slowly opened the buttons of his shirt.

"No."Akira shouted seeing all the scars.

Aunty and uncle were too shocked to say anything.

"I mean h..ow ..who?"aunty stuttered.

He closed his eyes and uttered one word.

"Grandmother."

"No, my mother loves you.I mean she can never do this.How can she do this?"dad said.

"Yes dad."aunty traced all his scars.

"I failed as a mother."she said and her tears were not stopping.

"I failed as a mother."she mumbled the same line over and over.

"I want to know everything she did."aunty asked wiping her tears but her tears were not stopping.

"When I was eleven years old for the first time she hit me."he said and explained everything that day.The first day I saw him.

"And then she hit me almost every day."

She was crying loudly and after some time she started to coughing.

"Vani are you okay?"uncle asked patting her back.

"Can you please dont disturb when I am talking to MY son."she shouted and her eyes were red and swollen due to tear and anger.

"Why didn't you tell me?"she asked.

"At first when she hit me I was shocked mom,i didnt understand what to do and then she told me if I tell you something , you will not beleive me and you will throw me out of the house."

This was not the boss of the company,this was not my Vicky.This man sitting on the floor was a small child.

"No Vikram.No.I would have never send you away." she answered.

"I was afraid mom.I was scared that I will loose you and dad."

Now he was not a thirty year old man but an eleven year old child who was too scared that his mother will leave him.

I felt someone sobbing behind me and I realized Akira was sitting on the corner of the bed and crying.I understood what she was feeling.

I sat on the bed beside her and held her hand and then I looked at Vicky and his mom.It felt so intimate that I felt like running out.

"These scars?" she asked.

"She burnt me with butter knife." he said as she was still tracing all the scars.

"No. How can she do this?"Suraj uncle shouted.

"Mom it hurted.Here."he said as he took her hand in his and traced the scar on his chest.

"It was the first."he told her.

"I am sorry."she apologized tracing the scars on his chest.

"I am sorry."once again she said tracing the scars on his stomach.

"I am sorry."she continued as she was tracing all the scars.

"I cried.I begged but she was there placing that on my body.After every burn she said I deserve it.Mom, was I a bad boy?" he asked and I couldnt control my tears.

"No Vikram you were the perfect child god had given me.Maybe I dont deserve you.It happened because I was too selfish to think of my happiness.If I had not married this would not have happened."

Dad couldnt take anymore and came and hugged Vikram .

"Sorry is a small word but if I had known that she could stoop so low I would have never bought her in my house."

Vikram didnt say anything.I understood he was not here.Physically he was here but mentally he was at that time where her grandmother was torturing him.

"Suraj please ,can you for once let me and MY son talk?" aunty shouted.

I went towards uncle.

"Uncle Vicky never blames you.He always says you are the best father."

"Really?" Uncle asked me.

"Yes he said it infront of me but right now he is not with us and aunty is also mentally disturbed.Can you...

"I understand."he said cutting me off and sat on the corner of the bed with Akira and I sat beside uncle.

"You know Vikram the first time I saw you.I fell in love with you and you were always so smart and caring.You are my life."

Suddenly Vicky put his head on his mom's lap.

"Mom you know I always loved when you caressed my hair."

"I know and whenever I thought of going to kitchen to make us something you used to sleep on my lap.That was your trick of keeping me close to you."he said as she was caressing his hair.

"She never gave me breakfast and lunch but she had to give me dinner because we had dinner together."

"It was my fault.I gave her the duty of giving you lunch and breakfast.Everything is my fault.Falling in love,getting married.We both were so happy with each other."

"But I love dad,he was so good,he bought me so many toys when I was small and he is the best."

Dad looked at him shockingly but then it was a replaced by a small smile.

"Today I will feed you with my own hands.Akira bring his
breakfast which he couldnt finish." Mom ordered and in few minutes Akira bought his breakfast and a glass of water.

"First eat it and then you can sleep on my lap."

He sat up and aunty fed him.

"She never let me sleep at night.Every night I used to massage her legs."he told her as she was feeding him.

"I am sorry for not being there when you needed me but i would have never imagine this was going in my house." she said.

"Once I came to sleep with you but you were busy with Akira and then I went to my room and she burned me again." he said as she fed him another bite.

"One day I decided I will try to show you all my scars but she came to know about it and said that she will tell you and dad that I had hurt myself and then you will think I am mad and send me to mental asylum." he was pouring all his sorrows infront of his mother.

"I am sorry Vikram.I am so sorry for not being with you when you needed me,I was so busy with work and then Akira but I never forget you.I thought that now as you are growing you need me less but I never understood that a child always needs his mother."she said as she gave him a glass of water.

"I should have sat with you, maybe if I was close to you I would have sensed something is wrong without you telling me.God gave me the best thing and I ruined it.Now you hate your mom right?"she continued as the tears again started to roll down her cheeks.

"No mom I love you,dad and Akira.She did it.It was never your fault.It was her fault."

"Why didn't you tell us after she died?"she asked as
she patted her lap and he slept on her lap again and she was stroking his hair.

I wanted to go out.It was such a private moment and I was feeling like I was interupting it with my presence.

"She already ruined me and I didn't want to do the same to dad because I know how much dad loved her and I didnt want to ruin her impression infront of him and even if I told you what was the use when she already died."

"You are the best son god had given me."he said and bend down and kissed his forehead.

Then aunty was stroking his hairs as he slept peacefully on her lap and I went out.

After few seconds I saw dad and Akira also came and dad shut the door.

"Are you okay?"I asked uncle and he nodded in a yes.

"Okay.I think you should take rest.I will show both of you your respective rooms." I said as I looked last time at the closed door and then went to show them their respective rooms.

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This is one of the hardest scene I have ever written because I cant see Vikram so vulnerable and I hope you all liked it.Please VOTE and COMMENT if you like it.

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