Same evening:-

They are on the way back to home.. Sanskar is driving lost in thoughts, Swara is leaning to the seat back & staring at the sky which is about to fill color with black.. Black shades are just started to spread..

Swara gets straight all of a sudden and asks--

"Sanskar what is love?"

He looks at her, turns front, blinks & again looks to confirm that it's real that she is asking such thing, Swara gets annoyed at his gesture and--

"Arrey, say na"

"Well you are asking me to explain what colour is... Like some white or yellow colour?"

"What's so difficult in that? Just say what's love according to you?" Swara twitches her nose getting annoyed as she expected something beautiful, like interesting answer from him.

"Well..it is a beautiful feeling I guess..that makes one remain happy whatever the situation maybe, just remembering about his/her love that particular person can smile means it is love to some extent.. Love is beautiful, but like a rose plant if we wanna pluck rose to keep with ourselves we shouldn't care about the pain we feel when thorns pricks us,... no doubt love is something which can never be described" he explained something with his words, actually it isn't his cup of tea..

"Mm..it isn't boring"

"You  know sanskar today in college during interval I met one of the couples of my class, for God's sake they have just met two weeks ago and now they claim to be madly in love with each other.. I don't know what's with them.. Seriously like seriously they are saying they feel incomplete without each other... For heavens sake I found myself very hard to interact with boys after entering the college and even now I don't know most of the boys in my class" Swara lets out a pissed off sigh ..

"That made you curious to know about  love" sanskar asked while pulling the brake..

"No I wanted to know how we get to know that we are in love" he laughs a little at her naive question..

"I will tell once I get to know by experience" he smiles inwardly seeing her innocence.

"Means you haven't been in love till now???!" Swara jumps with heart eyes , she puts her one leg on the seat and turns to his side squealing..

"No, but why?" He is surprised by her act..

"I myself have cooked a boring love story of yours and myself concluded that she broke up with you telling that yuu are boring and wait I imagined her too..she is like ...her name is swati & she isn't beautiful as I am, & yeah bit shorter than you, an egoistic, annoying head..." Swara gets engrossed in her world while he shouts..

"What no!! How can you huh? You yourself cooked up my story? Omg! Damn goddd! this girl has gone nuts..what made you name her swati ha? & why you selected her character as such?" Sanskar stops the car with jerk and irritation is written all over his face😂

"I had one of my classmates named swati & I never liked her..& to be honest you know when I thought about you being in love na I have to imagine a girl with you right? & when I imagined a beautiful girl I got angry because in my imagination she was romancing with you.. (Making faces) so I replaced her, now this egoistic girl na I hate her so I don't have problem...infact I felt much more jealous with that girl you know" Swara showed her irritation just thinking him with another girl and he is smirking looking at her..

"So ma'am is jealous of my love" he leans towards her, making the distance between them too small..

"No not now as I'm very much happy that you have never been in love" she bites her inner cheeks, then lower lips looking at his smirk..

"I was never in love but I'm not sure about present" he straighten himself and again his eyes went blank irritating her to core as she couldn't read anything in that blank eyes...

"You have crush with any?" She asks collecting his words..

He starts the car ignoring her question, he drives acting as if they didn't talked at all..God! Don't know how people manage to keep such double acting heart with them!

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"Swara your baba have to talk to dad he said, so he'll be coming so you can go with him.."sanskar announces as soon as he cuts the call..

" it's Ok then...I have uttu here Na"

"btw sanskar I had to ask something with you " Swara looks at his eyes..

"You are asking as if you won't ask me that if I denied" he laughs while she glares him....

"Waw so funny" she mocks at him while he giggles at her irritated face..

"You look extra cute while you are irritated" he pulls her cheeks earning a slap on shoulder..

"Ok ok ask " he rubs his shoulder still laughing..

"That I saw one girl with you in your album , I didn't ask thinking that she might be your cousin or someone like that but whole your family, neighbours were all present on that inaugural function but I couldn't find her there anywhere.. So who is she & where is she? " Swara atlast asks struggling within herself from many days...

He remained silent for about 30 seconds, her question stopped him from laughing,  his eyes turned emotionless, face pale.. Swara registered her words once again cross checking whether she asked something wrong or what seeing his reaction..

He took a deep sigh as if he determined something ..

"I had two sisters!" His words made her eyes pop out from the socket..

"Kushi..kushi my unbiological sister whom I loved more than my biological sister" she palmed her mouth in utter shock.....

"I was studying in ninth standard when I visited to orphanage with mom, dad was in London and even uttu learnt there itself in London till 12th, it's just four months back she came here in order to continue studies here..& mom took me all around the orphanage & I was just wondering how they managed to live without parents, when I met one beautiful kid who stole my heart with her innocence.. She was KUSHI..my chotu..she talked to me, she played with me and she even said she too want a brother like me and mother like my mom, I just consoled her and came back home.. But after reaching home only kushi came in my head.. I just wanted to bring her home.. I even told my mom about my wish & she talked with dad and you know we adopted her! That day was the most happiest day in my life..my happiness had no bounds when I brought her here..her every act used to make me smile, she got connected to me within little span of time.. She was the one who made me feel the happiness of being a brother because uttu wasn't with me..she left to London when I was 6 & only she visited us during vacations ..yeah even uttu loved kushi so we had no problem..

My day used to start with her and ends with her, she used to sleep in my stomach, she used to jump on my stomach, she used to feed me & I fed her, I don't know how much I loved her  but I loved her very much.. I used to take her out after school, later from 6-8 pm we had fun time in our time table and we used to do all mastis possible, I had done whatever made her laugh because her smile is equal to mine..we used to laugh without reason, she used to cry if I got Ill..she called me bhayyu..

I used to do all her works from making her bathe , eat , write, to put two pony tails.. She was my teddy bear whom I carried wherever I go...I used to do whatever she commands, I loved her like anything..

I spent seven heavenly years with her!" He stooped at looked at Swara, Swara looked up at him and he continued-

"& LATER I KILLED HER!" His voice is weighty , he couldn't speak further..he gulped the lump formed in his throat and even gulped the tears but he couldn't hold on his emotions..

"I KILLED HER SWARA...I KILLED MY KUSHI"

Swara didn't knew what he is speaking, she just hugged him to take some weight on her head but he is reluctant, he broke the hug and wiped a tear from corner of his eyes rashly....

"It was Sunday and I promised her to take out ..this just happened 19 months before.. I was driving & she was sitting on the passenger seat with seat belts..

Flashback..

Kushi is looking out of Window ..she is trying to count the rain droplets falling on the road..sanskar smiled looking at her craziness..

" arrey buddhu" she narrows her eyebrows turning with wind speed towards him..

"Sowie.." He apologized immediately while she gave victorious smile and --

"For today I'm leaving as I'm very generous" she throws her hair back with full attitude while he smiled at her antics..

"Arrey pani Puri" she shouts at once at the top of her lungs standing inside the car resulting in harm on head..

He stopped the car worried seeing her getting hurt on head but before he could test her head, she opened the door of her side and ran out..

"Kushi...chotu...chotu...don't run..it's raining and people won't be seeing clearly... Wait..." Sanskar opened the door and shouted but she never heard him as all her ear, eyes and heart is with pani Puri now..

"BHAYYUUU...." Before he could chase her he heard her last voice!

It was raining badly and her leg slipped resulting her to land under one of the bus' tyre...

Flashback ends..

"I was irresponsible and I killed her with my own hands Swara..I killed my kushi & you know she struggled between life and death in my hands.. (Showing his hands) in this hands...she cried alot on that day you know.. I never let a single tear fall from her eyes till that day and I couldn't help on that time, I let her cry...she wasn't unconscious, she talked to me until she breathed her last.. Before we could reach hospital I felt all her weight on me and she died kissing my palms.." He poured water for himself and drank, his eyes are blank having No emotions..

"Sanskar..." Swara kept hands  on her shoulder..

"You are pitying me?" He asked with nonchalant tone..

"No..I just want you to cry" she said looking deep in his eyes..

"Kushi never liked my tears" he tugged hands on his pocket and shifted his gaze..

"& she liked your this blank and cold eyes?" Swara looked at him angrily, he looks at her..

"Sanskar I can feel your love for her..but sanskar you can't spend whole life like this.." He cuts her..

"She taught me to smile and I forgot to smile after her" he simply said..

"Sanskar I was born in heaven and pushed into hell at the tender 2! I learnt smiling there itself in heaven & you know I continued smiling burning in the fire also in hell ,I never forgot how to smile... We can't let what we learnt go very easily Sanskar" he looks at her & she nods assuring him in yes..he smiles at her while she pulled him to a hug..

Sanskar goes to cupboard and takes something out..it is a beautiful picture of kushi in frame...

"Swara this is kushi, my chotu; & chotu this is my friend Swara who refreshed my knowledge to smile" saying this he holds that picture near his chest and smiles..hoping his chotu too be smiling in heaven..

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"I taught you how to mimic like parrot Na, & even I taught you about love.. So what will you give me in return" sanskar asks sipping coffee.. (Note he is drinking coffee with her insistence)

"I made you drink coffee what will you give me in return" Swara raises her eyebrows victoriously..

"Your attitude is like you made me drink some nector " he snaps..

"Whatever you drank because of me only na"

"Ok then chocolates" he smiled seeing her face which is changing expression every now and then..

"Yay! Sacchi? " her eyes shined..

"Yeah & now what will you give me?"

"I have something special then..close your eyes" he looks confused at her..

"Arrey just close your eyes Na" smile spread on his face and he closes his eyes..

Swara gets up and walks tiptoed towards him, smiles seeing him closing eyes with smiling face & leans towards him closer, she runs inside kissing his cheek!!

He opens his eyes feeling a lip on his cheek but she wasn't there, he looks himself in mirror and finds lipstick mark on cheek..

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So how was the chapter guys?

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& few words about sanskar's past?

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