"You deserve it," I spoke brutally, Sara narrowed her eyes. 

"Then what happened?" Preeti di prompted me to carry on with the past. Neetu di and Sara too kept quiet so I could continue. 

"Then..." with that, I again started narrating my past. 

### Past ###

I had been sleeping peacefully in my bed when I felt a soft touch. Someone was stroking my hair, that touch made me smile in delight. I slowly opened my eyes, rubbing it. Sana was sitting beside me, grinning. How come she got up so early? 

"Baby you wake up?" I asked her out, sitting up. She nodded her head vigorously, she was excited about something. "What's the matter, sweetheart? You seems excited." I was curious to know the reason behind her excitement that she woke up  before him. 

"Sara is going to make me watch one more movie, she promised me yesterday." Sana beamed, saying it. 

 It terrified me, another movie which means, "No!" I yelled. "You're not watching any movie, not with Sara for sure." I restricted for which Sana gave me sullen expression. 

"Why?" She scowled. 

"Because such movies should not be watched by kids. As kids should watch cartoons." I tried to convince her but she frowned at me. 

"I am not a kid, cutie says I am twenty-five years old girl." She wailed,  moving out the room. 

"Moti! Stop! At least brush your teeth." I called her out, she turned and gave me an embarrassed smile. 

"I forgot about it" she sounded embarrassed, "but I will watch the movie." Ms. stubborn spoke. I narrowed my eyes at her, moving out of the bed. 

//

As we descended downstairs, we heard some gossips going on and I knew Sara was already present. She was talking with the maid, as her eyes landed on Sana she beamed. Sana too got out of the grip I had on her hand and rushed towards Sara. They had developed a good bonding and I hate to admit that I felt the pitch of jealously on seeing it. 

"Sara today which movie are we going to watch?" Sana jumped in excitement seeing her, and was eager to know about the movie.

"You're not watching any movie, not especially with Sara." That made Sara to get astonished, while Sana  grimaced.

"What you mean?" Sara faked an innocent look. 

"So you don't know what I meant? Sara ki Bacchi," with my every step towards them she was moving back. 

"I seriously don't know what you mean, Sid. What had I done, for you to get so infuriated at me." Sara stared at me been alarmed. 

"Who made Sana watch Titanic and leave it, what did you said to her that we wish good night by kissing?" I was exasperated at her.

"What else I could tell her?" By now she had moved out of the mansion and I was chasing her. "She was asking me what were they doing, her eyes wide staring at the screen. She was looking so innocent," Sara chuckled, I could imagine how cute she might be looking at that moment. "I had no other option than to give this excuse, I couldn't tell her that they were kissing she would have asked me more questions." Sara shrugged her shoulder. 

"To escape from the question you gave her the wrong information. You know what she did last night, she..." I was going to blurt it out but seeing Sara's mischievous face, I backed off. 

"What she did?" She paused for a second as the thought popped in her mind. "Don't tell me she kissed you?" Finding no respond from me, she laughed out loud. "What the! She kissed you, hahaha... I can't believe it. Finally, Sid had his first kiss! I will have to share it with di, how happy they will get, that..." I didn't give her chance to continue and pushed her on the ground. "Sid, what are you doing?" She was startled, as she was on the ground in a minute and covered up with mud. 

I had covered her entire face with mud, "now laugh on me. You keep on teasing me and this is my revenge." She tried to raise her head, but I pulled it again down. "Dare you to open your mouth in front of di. I won't think twice before bathing you entirely with mud." I declared, she raised her hand in surrender. 

"I promise I won't do it again." I was kneeling beside her while she was laying on the ground. 

"I am not coming in your tricks, you won't ever give up so easily." I spoke harshly at that time I heard Sana's voice. 

"What are you both doing?" She giggled seeing Sara in such a state. "Sara, why did you applied chocolate all over your face?" She asked her out. Chocolate! I looked at Sara keenly, it looked like chocolate though, I chuckled when suddenly Sara thump on my stomach pushing on the ground. 

"Owch!" I gasped in pain touching my stomach as it was abrupt. "What was that dude?" I exasperated. 

"Never lose your attention from your enemy as the outcome might be hazardous which you're witnessing at the moment." Sara mocked, her hand full of mud, kneeled beside me. Fully determined for revenge. 

"Hey, not that easy." Holding both her wrist with my hand. "It not that easy to defeat Siddharth," I smirk seeing her helpless as she was not able to come out of the grip. 

"Can I play too chocolate.. chocolate?" Sana's melodious voice again heard, but I didn't dare to look at her. As I was sure that I would lose concentration and I didn't want to be defeated. 

"Yes, you can baby," Sara spoke sweetly. "Apply the chocolate in your Kullu's face." I widen my eyes listening to it. While it was Sara's turn to smirk, I glanced at Sana you eyes were beaming with delight looking at the mud. 

"No! Moti you won't do it, you're with me, right? So apply that mud... I mean chocolate on Sara's face." I winked at Sara, while she groaned

"No! Sana," She shouted in horror. "You won't apply to me, as you need to watch a movie and if you did it I won't show you." Sara knew Sana's weakness. 

"Don't listen to her moti, she is just using your weakness. She won't do anything like such, I won't allow her to show you any movie." I blurted out and bite my tongue after realizing what blunder I committed. 

Sara chuckled listening to it, "see him that, that he won't allow you to watch the movie so who deserves the mud?" With that as we both looked at Sana, we found her applying mud on herself, licking the mud in her palm. 

Seeing it I loosen the grip on Sara's hand she too got up from the ground. "What the hell! Why you ate the mud?" I got pissed on Sana on seeing it, Sana make faces after tasting it. 

"It is not chocolate," she turns awful on the revelation that it was not chocolate. 

"And which idiot told you that it is chocolate? Don't you have eyes?" I grip her wrist taking her to the other side, annoyed with her behavior. 

"Sid it's fine she mistakes it for mud..." Sara was going to speak but I just showed her hand gesturing her to stop. 

"It not fine because it's not a bar of chocolate but mud." Getting enraged I moved to the other side of the garden, where there was tap leaving Sara alone. "Don't you dare to gulp the mud in!" I growled at Sana whose head was bend from the time I had a grip on her hand. 

### Past end ###

"That moment I realized the care Sid had for Sana was not the guilt that her condition was due to him but the unknown feeling developing in his heart. I had seen a glimpse of it on that day, and it put a confirmation when I saw him getting vulnerable sharing the decision with me." Sara's words brought me back to the present. 

"Which decision? I am so curious to know about it now." Preeti di was sounding desperate. 

"Which decision?" Came Shehbaaz voice, stunning us off. When did he come? And did he heard any of our conversations, I glanced at Sara who was having the same thought in her mind as she was already gazing at me? 

"Shehbaaz when you came? Navya you too." Neetu di smiled at them. 

"I saw you all having a conversation so thought why not join you all." Came Shehbaaz reply for which Navya nodded. 

"Why not?" Preeti di spoke while the rest of us gave her a bewildered look. "We were just talking about the wonderful nature." But she was smart enough to change the topic, though she knew nothing about Shehnaaz been my moti she knew that I was a reserved person. Shehbaaz was a person I hardly knew, I couldn't share my past with him. 

"Siddharth the call was an urgent one?" Shehbaaz asked it out and it took me a second to understand what he was speaking. On realizing it, I nodded. And soon the conversation drifted from one to another. 

Twenty minutes later I got a call and as an excuse, I moved out of the conversation. I peeked at the Id it was Kiran, I snorted. Why was she against my peace? Putting it in silent mode, I made my way towards my room. On the way, I heard that giggling sound and I knew it was moti.

Strange that in the past two days stayed over here, her giggling didn't give me the peace which this one gave. I was so engrossed in my pain, that kind of forgotten to enjoy the small little happiness which she thought me too. My legs unknowingly making its way towards that direction. 

Aise Talaashon Main Tumko 
Jaise Ki Paer Zameeno Ko 

At that moment, the conversation with had an hour back crossed my mind. She had all planned to move to Purab place, to repair the ring but I couldn't take the risk. Moreover, the incomplete conversation we had, my doubt of her not letting me see the ring. She hiding me something, I needed to ask it out and I was about to knock the door when I heard Raghav's voice from inside. She was not along but Raghav accompanied her. 

Main Phir Bhi Tumko Chahunga
Main Phir Bhi Tumko Chahoonga
Is Chaahat Mein Marr Jaaoonga
Main Phir Bhi Tumko Chahoongaa...

I took a step back, I couldn't disturb them. I had no right to do it, I made my way back to my room. I opened it up and got back into my bed. How much did I wish to just stay in my past, just in those ten days as it was much more peacefully then my present?

### Past ###

Turning the tap on, "Bend down." I ordered her and she obeyed without a word from her mouth. And I was neither in a mood to appreciate her blabbers. 

"Sid you're overreacting, she just ate mud. You're behaving as if she ate something poisons stuff." Sara who had followed us rolled her eyes at me. 

"You're a doctor and I should not be the one telling you that mud is not a substance eaten by humans." I narrowed my eyes at Sara while splashing water from the tap on Sana's face. 

Sara gave up, not in a mood to argue with me further. As she knows I never lose any argument, I don't like losing it. "Open your mouth,"  she did as I instructed. Mud all around, It made me feel nauseated. How could a person eat mud? 

"Split it out!" I sounded annoyed, Sara just shook her head seeing my behavior. 

Cleaning her face and after examining there was no single hint of mud in her mouth, I finally turned off the tap. At that moment I noticed Sana's face which had to turn red, her eyes swollen up. She was sobbing, damn she was crying! And I had no intention to do it.

"Baby, why are you crying?" I asked cupping her cheek, once again her face melted I was in full mood to scold her up but she demolished it every single time. That tears were her savior. 

"Baby, why are you crying?" Sara imitated me, "is it even a question to ask? Anyone would have the way you yelled on her seeing her eating that mud. The way you dragged her over here and not to forget that from the last ten minutes you have been washing her face and the mouth. You're such an annoying ass, Sid! Who behaves like that? You scared her idiot!" Sara exasperated, which infuriated me. 

"You shut your mouth, the sole reason for all this mess is you. That mud is chocolate? You always give her the wrong information. Then she does some mistake and I accuse her, you are responsible for all this." My blame game started. 

Sara was going to speak something up when Sana gave a loud cry. "You both are bad, here I am crying but you both are busy with each other. I hate you both," she scowled. 

"Aww baby needs attention, I will give her that. We will watch many movies." Sara tried to cheer her up and her face shined again. 

"But I want you to take her to your hospital." I gazed at Sara, not even glimpsing at Sana as I was sure I won't dare to speak if I had a look at her face. 

"I will go out with Sara." But to my surprise she got happy, she hugged Sara getting happy and moved towards me, hugging me tightly. "Kullu you are so cute," she planted a kiss on my chest. I didn't dare to respond to the hug as my heart had been feeling heavy. From the last night, as I took the decision. I knew this was correct for her as well as me but my heart was denying. 

"Moti, go and have your breakfast, you will get late." I urged her for which she broke the hug and moved towards the mansion. She gripped Sara's hand forcing her to come along with her. 

"Sana I will come you go and start." Sara patted Sana's cheek and accepting it. Sana made her way towards the mansion. I stared at the retreating figure, it was the fifth day with her but why my heart contained the grief with the thought that I am sending her away from me. 

"Why I feel there is more to it Sid?" Sara's eyes fixed on me, while I glanced once at her. "This separation is forever?" She watched my face keenly, I just gave her a slight nod. Turning the tap once again. 

TO BE CONTINUED...  

Do you people think the same, it this separation forever?