Aditi's point of view

Worst..

How you describe this word?

For me the single worst moment was when I born. But you can't change it. The worst happened and life still goes on. I born and I am living my worst moment every day. 

Life teach me so many things in every steps. It took my exam in every phase of my life. I fell so many times and every time tried to get back up. I have through the toughest time because of my family but I still I tried to stand.

Life teaches me the most important lesson not to trust anyone but I trust him. Because I love him. I love him so much and he the only one who brings smile on my face. I am full of wounds but still I didn't stop loving the only person I met in my childhood. Even though he betrayed me, I still love him.

I pulled the thick iron chain which was tied to my hands. It's been a week since my Aakash bhiya kidnapped me and chained me in the store room of his house once I used to live. From past week I did not have anything except continuously beating day and night which leaves me unconscious every time and make my body numb. They put a thick iron neck band in my neck tied my hands and legs with thick iron chain. I can taste the blood on my lips and if I move every single bone of my body hurts.

At sometime in last week I wished I would have died not just because of the physical pain, the pain I don't want go through is seeing Dhruv in someone's arms.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside you and everything dies inside me. The only light of hope is now extinguish and again leave me in the darkness.

"Aahh..." I moaned in pain when I feel the pain in lower abdomen because of the kicks Aakash bhiya showered me last night.

The worst moment of life when you wanna cry but you can't, when you wanna yell but you can't, when you wanna a love to the person you want but you can't.

The store room door open and I squeeze my eyes shut when suddenly sun light fell on my face after a week. I heard  someone's footsteps walking towards me. I slowly open my eyes and saw Aahana and standing towards me.

"Aahh.." I moaned in pain when Aahana pulled my scalp hair and make me stand on feet with all iron chains. I looked into her eyes when she looked at me with smirk.

Pure evil.

She was looking like a real monster, looking at me while wearing her disgusting smirk.

"You know today is the best day of my life seeing you getting into another hell. But I wish I could torture you little more." The way she said, my instincts are saying that something bad is going to happen with me.

"But don't worry, where are you going, your every night going to turn into hell and every day is much worst than before." She greeted her teeth and I moan in pain when she harshly pulled my scalp hair in her fist.

"Aahana, what are you doing. We don't have time for this. Hurry up, we have to get her ready." Bua ji walk through the storeroom door and started unlocking my chains and neckband.

"But mumma, I want to torture her more." Aahana pouted and bua ji give her a warm smile.

"Don't worry, sweetheart. You can visit her anytime and have your own way with her if she live till then." I looked both of them when bua ji talking to her like her daughter asking for some lipstick instead of asking to torture me.

I lost my ability to speak. Though there is so many things I wanted to speak but I could not. I don't know what worst life holds for me.

Bua ji hold my hand and take me out to the store room. I noticed whole house was decorated with flowers, Aahana and bua ji are also wearing new clothes. I keep following them. I don't know where they are taking me.

Soon we entered in Aahana's room. There Aakash bhiya's wife already waiting for us.

"Make her ready for the wedding. I'll come after and hour to take her. Hide all her wounds and marks." My eyes become wide after hearing bua ji.

Before I could say anything bua ji left and I left with Aahana and Aakash bhiya's wife, whose name I still don't know. I looked at Aahana and bhiya's wife and pleading to them through my eyes. But instead of evilness I did not see anything.

"I want to do the favour for you for the last time. Do you want to see your would be husband?" She hold me by my elbow and took me to the balcony. She removed the curtain from the window and my eyes become blur with tears when I saw a very old man, may be the age of my ex father, drinking whisky along with his friends. He already lost half of his consciousness and would be loose soon.

"He pays the hefty amount for you. So we don't need you anymore."

"Aahna please save me." I beg to her but she started laughing evilly and slapped me really hard that my head hit the balcony making my forehead bleed.

"Aahna don't increase my work. It will be really hard to cover this wound." Aahna bhiya's wife speak very rudely to her.

"You shut up bitch. Don't tell me what to do." Aahana pointed her finger to her bhabhi while she greeted her teeth and clenched her fist to control her anger. She nodded her head and took a dress from the bed and throw on me.

"Changed into this. I don't have a whole day."

"Please I don't want to marry. Please.." I begged in front of them but they did not hear me and forcefully changed my clothes.

Aahana tied me to the chair with rope while Aakasha bhiya's wife getting me ready for my so called marriage. I sit in quite after getting three more slaps from Aahana but I can't sit like this. I have to do something before everything ends in my life. I will fight to my last breath. I know no one gonna listen to me or help. I have to run from here or call help.

Aahana was eating the apple while scrolling through the phone when bua ji enters inside the room.

"She is not ready yet?" She glare at Aakash bhiya's wife.

"I am not robot, I need few more minutes." She rolled her eyes ignoring her completely.

"I need her downstairs in next fifteen minutes." She said through her greeted teeth ignoring her sarcastic reply.

After saying this she leave the room. In these last hour I came to know that Aakash bhiya wife's don't share the good relation with Aahana and bua ji. She is the only hope for me now. I waited Aahna to leave and after five minutes she also leave.

"Don't cry. You are running my hard work." She shouted on me. When she done with me she was about to leave and when I stood up and hold her hand.

"Please help me to run from here." Tears flow down to my cheeks when I am having another chance to ask help from her.

"Leave me. I don't have a time for you." She free her hand from my hold but I hold it again.

"Please I beg you." I tried again.

"I can't do anything. Now leave me." She again shouted on me but I hold her legs.

"You see yourself how they sell me to that alcoholic old person. These people are monsters. They made my life hell. Please help me to run from here." I beg to her holding her legs and put my head on her feet beginning to her for the help while broke into tears.

"I agree with you that these people are monsters." I lifted my head and saw a frown on her face.

I wipe my tears and stood on my legs.

"I just hate these people. They took so much money from my father in the name of dowry and get me married to their useless son. Anyways I am running away tonight with my boyfriend then they can go to hell, who cares." She still have frown of disgust on her face.

"Will you help me to run away from here?" I asked with hope.

"I can't help you to run away from here. But I can give you my phone to call someone fir your help and don't tell anyone what I said before." She warned and I nodded my head.

"Here.." She gave me her phone after unlocking it.  I hold it and dialled Raghav's phone number.

"You stay here till then I go and check. I'll indicate you if someone come." I nodded my head while looking at her and she stood in-front of the door keeping eyes.

My tears are not stopping and any moment I can broke into tears. Raghav is not picking up the call. This is the third time I am dialling his number. Fear was crawling inside me as the time passes and he is not picking up his phone.

"Do fast.." She whispered yell.

"He is not picking up the call." I said with tears. My voice is shaky due to fear. At any time I can fall due to anxiety.

"Then tried someone else's number." She again yelled.

I was having fight with my mind to call him or not. I don't have anyone's number except him and Raghav. Should I ask him for help after having a fight with him. But I don't have any other option.

With my shaky hands I dialled his phone number. I put the phone on my ear and waited for him to pick up. Ring goes on but he did not pick up.

When the last ring goes on and phone was about to cut he pick up the phone.

"Hello..."

My heart started beating faster after hearing his voice after a week.

"Hello..."

My lips quivered and a sob escape from my mouth.

"Aditi...."

"Dhruv..."

*****

Dhruv point of view

It us during the worst times of your life that you will get to see the true colours of the people who says they are for you.

Just like my family.

They fixed my marriage to the girl whom I could never love. Instead of denying all the time they fixed me with her. They stopped thinking about me. I wish I could turn back the time when they care for me. When they don't think about their profits but only my happiness.

Today is my engagement with Priya. My phone is filled there text messages and missed calls. But this is not what I am concerned about. I cared about the girl whom I hurt.

There are so many people on this world who hurt her but every time she wore her scar like a best attire and smile like she has a beautiful life.

I could not forget the hurt in her eyes when I blamed her because of my anger after seeing those pictures.

Should I blame my anger.

I should not because it was me who hurt my beautiful neighbour. Yes, I was angry on her. I wanted to confronted but after seeing her I wanted know the reason behind her tears. She blamed me for betraying her with Priya but she doesn't know I was again and again betrayed by my own family. She didn't give me chance to explain which triggered my anger and I regret I lashed out on her instead taking her in my arms and kissing the hell out of her.

It's been a week I have seen her. Not a single day passed when I didn't crossed the road of her house and college. From past week I have locked myself in my bedroom and just only drink, no matter if I have to go for work or not. Today I have took the half day from my office and again found myself drinking in my room, wearing my office attire. I have tears in my eyes and a hope in my heart that she forgive me.

My room's door open and I found Raghav walking towards me in his uniform. He took a chair in front of me and made a drink for himself.

He keep looking at me while drinking while I was still lost in her thoughts.

He finally put the glass on table and asked me, "Nikhil called me and asked me to bring you with me in your engagement with Priya."

I blinked and sip my whisky. "I am not going there and if you came her to take me then door is open. You are wasting your time."

He took a breath of relief.

"You locked yourself in your house from past week and if you go office you don't want to meet anyone. Looked at you. You are looking like, you didn't poop from past week." He mock me but I didn't answer his questions because I don't have anything to tell.

"What happened between you and Aditi?" He directly came to the point. I didn't tell him anything but he know me batter.

"I broke her heart." I said while looking at the ceiling. Tears brim into my eyes when her face came in front of my eyes.

"Then apologised to her." He shrugged his shoulders.

"She won't forgive me. I lost her." I said keep looking at the ceiling.

"Dhruv, tell me one thing, what is Aditi for you?" I looked at him and finally a tear drop from my left eye. There is no mocking on his face but only genuineness.

"She is my everything, she is my life. I couldn't live without her. It feels like I couldn't breath if she is not with me. She gave me her everything but I hurt her. She is going to hate me and this is killing me from inside. I don't know if she ever going to forgive me but I am falling for her. I am in love with my beautiful neighbour." I leaned down, put my hand on my eyes and broke into tears after confessing my feelings.

"Now I realised how she used to feel. How broken she feels when you are in love with the person you can give your life but that person doesn't love you back. But my case is worst. She hates me." I said with my broken voice. In past week this is the first time I have opened up with my feelings to someone.

Yes, I am in love with her. Since when I don't know. It just happened with me. I always feel the attraction towards her but when it turn into love, is still a mystery to me. Maybe we both know each other from our pain. We have a relation of pain and agony, maybe that is the reason she understands me batter then others and I fall for her.

Raghav put his hand on my shoulder and tap it to calm me.

"Talk to her."

I shake my head as no, "She won't. She asked me not to meet her again." I wiped my tears and gulped down the whole drink in my glass.

"..and you agreed with her? Dude, you are a guy that means you have to make the first move and trust me if you talk to her calmly and make her understand your point of view, she fill forgive you. Clear your misunderstandings between you." He suggests. He smiles but I can tell it was a smile of sympathy and care.

My phone started ringing. I didn't picked it up as I know it's from my family. They want my presence in the engagement and now they are calling me from unknown number. But my heart was telling me to pick it up. There is hope lit inside me that it maybe from Aditi. For that hope I picked up the phone before it gets end .

"Hello..."

I speak but no one speak from the other side. I waited for a moment and then speak again.

"Hello.."

That time I heard a sob which made me panic.

"Aditi..."

"Dhruv..." Her voice was broken and I can tell she was crying right now.

"What happened? " I got up from the chair and walked to towards the window. Her every breath leaving me in panic. I hope she is fine. At one side I was happy that she called me and on the other side I was panicking hearing her sobs.

"Dhruv, please save me. They getting me married to some alcoholic." Floor slide down under my feet when her words get into me.

"Where are you?" I asked through my clenched teeth.

"At my house." She said with difficulty.

"Hold up. I am coming." I said while glaring at the wall.

"Dhruv, Ple...."

"Cut the call she is coming." Before he could say anything someone snatched the phone from her hand and cut the call.

I cut the call while glaring at the wall and turn to leave.

"Where are you going?" Raghav asked me while following me. I took my car keys and walked outside.

"Call your team. We have to go somewhere." I set inside the car and he set beside me. I drove off with as much as speed I can to reach her as soon as possible.

*****

Aditi 's point of view

"Cut the the call she is coming." Aakash bhiya's wife snatched the phone from my hand and cut the call.

Room's door open and Bua ji barged in.

"Isn't she ready yet?" She asked through clenched teeth.

"She is..You can take her to the downstairs." After saying this Aakash bhiya's wife started walking outside but before leaving the room she looked back and I saw sympathy in her eyes.

I don't know how long it will take Dhruv to reach me. But I have to delay this wedding till Dhruv come.

"Bua ji please..I request you to please stop the wedding. I'll do everything you'll say." I beg to bua ji.

"You should have think it before hitting my son." She hold me by forearm and practically dragged me outside to the room. Aahna also joined her and they both forcefully took me to the mandhap.

That alcoholic old man who was wearing a groom dress give a creepy smile after looking at me. He rolled his tongue over his lower lip which brings more tears in my eyes. I know I have lost my hope with my family years ago but I have a little hope inside me that they are human at least. They won't sell me to someone no matter how worst they behave me. But they proved me wrong. They sell me in just a few bucks and do this arrangement so no one can suspect them.

I know I am angry with Dhruv but I was just hoping that he could make here on time. He is the only hope now.

Aahana smirked looking at me when buaji forcefully made me stand beside him. Pandit ji started chanting mantra and asked us to exchange the garlands. Bua ji forcefully make me hold the garland and asked me to stand quietly. He again gave me the creepy smile and was about to make me wear the garland when..

"No..." I pushed his hand away.

"I don't want to marry you." I shouted on his face.

Smack..

A slap landed on my face which makes my head turn to the right. Tears flow down to my cheeks. My uncle hold me by elbow harshly and pulled me to him.

"He paid for you. So practically he owned you. You should be great full that we let you marry him otherwise he can take you like this. So go now and marry him quietly. Your prince charming is waiting for you." He threatened me.

My bua ji come forward and without exchanging the garlands she made me sit on the mandap and pandit ji started chanting mantra.

My life ends today if I get marry to this person. I will practically called someone's mistress. He will use my body every night and torture me and may be he sell me to someone else. My tears are not stopping as much as I was trying, they keep coming back. Every single person whom I think as my family, betrayed me. No one trust me.

Why it's so hard?

I broke into sobs when pandit ji asked him to fill my mang (Hair partition) with sindoor (vermillion). I tried to oppose but bua ji hold me tight. I squeeze my eyes shut because I don't want to witness this hideous moment.

"If you want to live then stop right there." I opened my eyes slowly and found him standing in the mandap in his office attire holding that old man's hand with whom he was going to fill my maang.

His jaw was clenched and grip on the groom's hand is tight.

"You can not stop me. It's my wedding."

"Try it and I'll cut your hands off." Dhruv pushed his hands away and we all stood up.

"What the hell is this? You said nothing is going to happen. I paid for her. She is mi..." Before he could complete the sentence Dhruv slapped him hard make him fall on the ground, holding his cheek.

"Don't you dare to complete that sentence." He warned him pointing his finger to him.

Raghav also come with his team but stood at one place, watching all the drama.

"Who the hell are you?" Aakash bhiya came forward shouting on Dhruv.

"If I were you, I won't asked that to him." Raghav said while clenching his teeth.

"It's our family function. You can not interrupt us." Bua ji came forward and started shouting on Dhruv.

"Getting marry Aditi forcefully with some old wrack doesn't call your drama a family function." Dhruv said in a fire.

"Aditi is my niece. She lives with us from years so I have a full right to getting her marry with someone I want." She shouted which makes me turn to her.

"You never treated me as your niece. You sell me to this old man for money. You are no less than a pimp." I shouted on her she was about to slap me when Dhruv pulled me to her. Raghav stopped her and jerked her hand away while glaring at her.

"What kind if a girl you are? Having two men at one time. You are no less than a slut." Aahana came forward and said to me. Dhruv glares at her. He pushed me gently behind him and walked further to Aahna. Aahana took a step back timidly.

"If she is the slut then who are you changing boyfriends in every single month and going to the clubs with them after lying at home." He threatened her.

"Whhatty....ar..e....you saying?" She asked him.

"Do you wanna see the proofs? I have the pictures in my phone when you were busy partying with your boyfriends." Aahana sealed her mouth when Raghav threatened her with pictures.

"Today you may have your bodyguards beside you but what after this? They go to their home and forget about you. After today you don't have this house also. Then where will you go? You have no one. You don't have a family?" My uncle smirked at me.

"Who will marry you? You are cursed. You never have the happiness in your life." Bua ji came and asked me.

"Tell me if not this old man then who will marry you?"

"I'll marry her."

Everyone's eyes turn to the Dhruv who was standing looking at my bua ji with rage. I was looking at Dhruv with my wide eyes and more tears welled up in my eyes.

"You are bluffing." She smirked on him.

"Pandit ji..start chanting the mantra and do not stop until we are done." He glared at my bua ji.

"Pandit ji, you hear the man. Start doing your work." Raghav also said to pandit ji. Pandit ji nodded his head and asked us to come forward.

Dhruv turns to me and hold my hand.

"Dhruv, I can't."

"We don't have an option." Fat tears streaming down from my eyes when I didn't see any emotions in his eyes but only anger and rage.

He put around the pink colour scarf, the patka around his neck and tied the gathbandhan with my red dupatta of lehnga. He took me to the mandap and made me wear the flower garland. He hold my both hands and made him wear the garland and then made me sit beside him.

Pandit ji started chanting mantra and one after another we gave the aahuti of ghee in the sacred fire or you can say he made me forcefully.

Yes, this is true that I want to marry him but not like this. Not when, when he is not love me and we have differences. I don't want to marry him when he was going to engage with someone else.

I looked at Raghav but there was a satisfaction look on his face. My bua ji, uncle and everyone was witnessing our wedding. No one tried to stopped it. Maybe they were just minding their own businesses.

I didn't call Dhruv here to marry me. I just wanted to stop all this drama because I was not able to do it without help. I looked at him, his jaw was clenched in anger and eyes were focused on the sacred fire. He wasn't feeling any emotions right now.

This not the wedding, I want with him.

"Stand for the phera." Dhruv stand up and make me stand forcefully.

I broke into tears when he started walking for our first phera. His own eyes were glistening but I don't know if it was his unshaded tears or the reflection of fire in his eyes.

Why Raghav is not saying anything?

Why he is quite?

"Dhruv please, ruk jaiye." I requested him in my shaky voice.

(Dhruv please stop.)

"Aaj nahi.." He move forward for our second phera and I broke into tears.

(Not today..)

One by one he completed our seven phere where I keep requesting him to stop but he didn't. We both again sit in front of the sacred fire when pandit ji asked him to fill my maang.

He took the pinch of sindoor and turns to me. For the first time he looked into my eyes and I saw many emotions in his eyes all together. They have glint in them. He was looking at me with care, sympathy and pity but there were something else in his eyes, like a satisfaction.

He bring his hand near to my forehead and I closed my eyes in anticipation. Tears streamed out of my eyes when he finally filled my maang with sindoor.

"Make her wear the mangalsutra." Pandit ji asked to Dhruv. He glared at the mangalsutra which was already in mandap and clenched his jaw to control his anger. He ignore that mangalsutra and take off his gold chain from his neck.

He leaned to me, our eyes again made the contact and I requested him not to do it through my eyes but ignoring all my requests and locked up his gold chain around my neck.

Finally, the dream I have seen from childhood completed but this I want to turn into a dream again.

Finally I become Aditi Dhruv Malhotra.

Not by choice but by chance.

or forcefully..

Dhruv hold my hand while I keep sitting on my place and become a crying mess.

"This girl is cursed. She will ruin your life. Her own family abandoned her, I will see how long you will keep her as your wife." Bua ji mocked to Dhruv.

"Yes, she is cursed of getting such a pathetic family and about ruining my life think about yours. Raghav....." Dhruv looked at Raghav and he nodded his head.

"No my friend Dhruv is finally married to Aditi it's time for some punishment. Chaudhary... arrest the whole family." Raghav ordered one of his man. He nodded his head and put handcuffed in my uncle's wrists.

"Wwhh...what are you doing? You can not arrest us." My uncle said in panic.

"You practically sell Aditi to this old man in exchange of some money." Dhruv roared in anger which made me flinch on my place. That old man was still unconscious after getting the slap from Dhruv.

"No just this but to torturing her, starving her for days, pushing her towards the suicide. Isn't it enough for all of you to arrest or should I keep going on?" He said in full rage.

"Leave us, we haven't do anything?" My bua ji was crying when a lady constable put handcuff in her wrist and move forward towards Aahna.

"Dad please save me." Aahna started crying when the same lady constable put the iron handcuff around her wrist.

"Aditi tell them we didn't do anything?" My bua ji requested me with tears in her eyes but I moved my eyes away from her.

"I don't want to hear their crap. Take away them. I want to meet them person." Raghav clenched his jaw.

"Hey, not me. I helped her." Aahna bhiya's wife glared at the lady constable when she was about to arrest her. Raghav nodded his head and lady constable move out with Bua ji and Aahana. A constable took my uncle and Aakash bhiya while another constable handled the unconscious old man.

"Raghav, make sure they spend their whole life inside the lock-up." Dhruv said through his greeted teeth.

"Don't worry about that." Raghav assured him.

"We should leave now." Raghav suggested.

"Wait a minute." Dhruv give his pink scarf to Raghav to hold it for sometime and lost somewhere in the house.

After sometime he came out with the box in which I keep my things safe. Tears flow down to my cheek seeing this. He handed the box to Raghav and again out the pink scarf around his neck.

He forward his hand and asked me, "Come it's time to go home."

I was angry on him to marry me forcefully so I move my face away from him.

"I am not going anywhere." I said in anger and hiccups in my tears.

He leaned down and picked me up in a bridal style.

"Dhruv, leave me." I glared to him through my tears.

"Not gonna happen." He didn't look and me and walk out of the house.

Raghav has already opened the back door of his car and smiled looking at both of us when I keep fisting Dhruv's chest to leave and he turn himself into a robot mode.

Raghav closed the door after Dhruv settling me in and sit beside me.

I was angry on both of them. One marry me forcefully while another has done nothing to stop him.

Raghav settled himself in a driving seat when the passenger door open and Aahna bhiya's wife sit inside.

"Excuse me miss. But you can not come with us." Raghav said looking at her in confusion.

Dhruv rubbed his forehead irritatingly.

"Don't think wrong of me but I don't know anyone in this city. You  drop me to the next gas station. My boyfriend was coming to pick me up." She said while bulking her seat belt.

"I thought you were married?" Raghav asked in confusion.

"I were. I am going to give a Divorce to my husband and will charge him and his family fir dowry." She said while giving a tight smile to him.

"Oh!"

"Anything else?" She asked him with same tight smile.

"Can you please take her introduction later?" Dhruv said irritately looking at Raghav.

"Yeah, sure..where should we head to?" Raghav asked looking at Dhruv through the rear-view mirror.

"To my house."

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I hope you guys like the chapter.

Dhruv and Aditi finally got married. I don't know what should I say about the the chapter as I want them to get married in that way only.

I know many of you expecting their marriage in a different way, like Siddharth and Preeti but as you guys say every story has their own beauty.

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