Unsettled feelings. 

Emotions that were held in for far too long. 

A guilt that needed closure. A past that needed to end to bring forth new beginnings. 

It was time. 

Time to finally end that chapter, to end the closed loops. 

Bondita entered the study that night, where Anirudh was. 

A dreadful feeling in her chest, as she realized that to climb the final stretch of the mountain, they would need to revisit the entire journey of thorns. 

Three knocks on the study door. 

That was all it took, for Anirudh to look up from the pregnancy book he was reading. 

Bondita. 

His Bondita was here. 

He swallowed the lump in his throat, remembering their encounter from earlier. 

"C - come in Bondita," he said from the sofa. 

She slowly opened the door. 

And when she entered, he saw the small Bondita who he had married. The girl he had saved. The one who needed him. The one who depended on him. 

She didn't look like the confident Bondita he knew. She looked like a terrified child, one who was existing in the frost of her own darkness. 

She needed him. 

Her steps were slow, as her anklets rung, bringing the slightest of sounds in the silent room. The room was lit with only a few lamps. 

His eyes landed on Bondita's hands. They were trembling. And inside them, were two coconut shells, bound together by a thread. 

A nostalgic feeling hit Anirudh, and he gazed up at her terrified eyes when she finally approached. 

With her shaking hand, she handed him the coco phone, and Anirudh took it immediately. 

Still standing, with a shaky voice, she said, "T - Tring Tring... Jamai Babu... it's Bondita's Maa speaking." 

Anirudh felt his throat dry up and he answered, "M... Maa?" 

Her eyes were glossing with tears, as she whispered, "It's t - time to end t - the saga Jamai Babu."

Anirudh continued to gaze at her and asked, "It's the final stretch of our journey, is it Maa?"

Bondita sat down on the sofa next to Anirudh and said, "We have until the moon is in the sky, because as soon as the sun rises, we will have reached our Destination." 

"Then let's start..." Anirudh whispered, the same unsettled feeling reaching his own heart. 

"I... I want to s - start by telling you about the a - abortion," Bondita cried, tears obstructing her vision, "I g - get n - nightmares until today. The darkest... moments of my life... I want to come c - clean about it. It - it haunts me... P - Pati -- Jamai Babu." 

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