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Aparna reached her house and finished cooking first. After doing some household works, she reached her bed and dropped herself in it.

"Why this Ashwin is doing all these things and making my day miserable?" Aparna had no answers for her own question.

But she knew one thing, the way he behaves makes her heart flutter even though her mind hates him for everything he did towards her.

She knew this form the beginning that a simple gesture form him is enough to turn her heart towards him, may she loved him too much in past.

Aparna can remember the times he did mistakes and then apolizing later, and her stupid heart will forgive him within a second. Atleast she expected this time to be different. But that seems highly impossible now.

Aparna thought about the time she was very happy, with him. It's true that even though Ashwin behaved hard at times, he took care of her very well. All he did indicated only thing to her, that he also loves her. At a point Aparna believed that too.

The nice words he said, the warm hug, that small peck in the forehead, the way he called her 'love', the deepness of his voice and the intensity in his eyes, they are more than enough for Aparna to survive.

But everything turned out to be an act right? Her mind crossed her.

Yes, that's how it ended. As an act. And she being a dumb girl, needed someone else to point it out. As the tear drops from her eyes escaped she rembered the day she met Ashwin's ex for the first time.

After having a sweet dnace with Ashwin, Aparna was waiting for him in one end of that party hall, As Ashwin was talking to someone retarding some business deal.

"So, finally I got to meet Mrs. Ashwin's" she heart an irritating high pitched voice and turned only to find Nisha standing there with an ugly smirk.

"Nice to meet you" she forwaded hands and Aparna shook her hands with her. "Aparna right? My Ashwin's wife" Aparna wanted to punch her ugly face for calling Ashwin as 'her's'.

"And you are Nisha right, the one who made our marriage happen. Listen I baldy wanted to meet you to thank you for what you did. Thank you for giving my husband to me" Aparna was not in the mood to give up then.

"Because of your cheep tricks I got the best and most loving husband in the world" Aparna's words had a pride in them.

"loving husband? You believe that he loves you, what's a pity!" Nisha's words made Aparna crook her eyebrows.

"in what way you are matching to him for him to love you Aparna, your childish behavior cab only annoy him, and you are just his alibi, to escape that scandal.. We should call that as a scandal you know, the photo's are ture! The claim in true, except for the betraying part. Ask your husband whether he met me or not. And keep this in your mind, you are just an asset for him, the one which is keeping his business steady. He is with you for your dad's business girl" Nisha left the spot.

Aparna didn't believed what Nisha said, but she was just 20 at that time and she don't had anyone to clear her confusions so she asked that to him that night.

I'm not a correct Pair for you, right?" she asked.

"I'm a messy, senseless, idiotic girl who always disturbs you right? Why did you agreed to marry me Ashwin" she added

"who told you that Aparna" he made her look at him.

"You are the best you know, no one can act this much mature at your stage. You are my perfect wife na, my baby girl who always try to bring a smile in my face " he made her lean on his chest.

"You are my best, love" he said. Even though he called her as 'love' now and then, he never her those Three Words which made her doubt what Nisha told.

"What if you are just an escape for him?" that question nerve left Aparna after that day.

But some sweet gestures and words form him kept her sane. And when she heard all of them form Ashwin's mouth, she died, mentally.

Aparna a didn't wanted think about them then, she has to find a good girl for Ajay, he deserves the best. And she has to give him that, he sacrificed a lot for her and she can't just leave them like that.

Aparna remembered Sara being there in her residence that day. " What she was doing here?" Aparna wanted to know that. And for that dhe decided to meet Sara, even though she is going to irritate Aparna to hell, Sara is the only way to know what Ajay is thinking now.

*next day *

"oi! Assitant professor! What are you doing" Sara asked entering into the Physics lab when Ajay was correcting the records.

It was his free hour and he decided to some pending work but her sudden arrival startled him.

"Sara? How did you came here? Who let you in Haan? Where is that security" he looked around even though he knows that she could have used her influence.

"Oh that short man with a long stick in his hands na? I just send him out to eat biriyani" she chucked.

"The only use of my Dad being a central minister is this only" she laughed dragging a chair besides him and sitting on it.

"How do you even work in this college man! You deserve more" Ajay knows where she is going.

"This job is more than enough for me Arpana, government jobs are not easy to get and I'm content with this" Ajay said.

'okay okay I don't want your content stories, come on fill this up. I have to send this within two days' she forwarded a application to him.

"what's this?" he asked waving the paper.

"come on Ajay now don't tell me that you lost your sight after focusing this old microscopes" her words made him frown but he silently read that.

"Appliance to join as a research scholar? That too in Oxford university?.. What is this Sara" he felt a happiness inside him when he saw that form, but his life now was different.

"I already have a PhD degree what I'm going to do there and more over I have a job and responsibilities too" he tired to justify but that doesn't seem to work at her.

"Your PhD in that crystal growth! Threw that away, I know your dream is to achieve some thing in quantum mechanics and regarding this job it's a matter of time to get you suspended and a day to make you resign this job" her words shocked him. Though Ajay knows what she is capable of, he didn't expect to say that like this.

"Don't act like the world is under your feet Sara, you can't do anything" he hated giving up to her.

"yen da vaaya vachitu iruen da, ethachum senji vachira pora, apurom iruka oru velaiyum illama poga poguthu"  his mind warned him.

"It's time for your principals visit right? Should I do some romance with you so that he will suspend you for doing inappropriate things in college? Or should I claim that your certificates are fake...?" she said in a mocking tone moving close to him and Ajay stated filling that application without saying anything.

" Iva kitta nammalala porada mudiyathu Ajay" his conscience agreed to his action.

"Don't think like I'm forcing you Ajay. Now you may not feel anything, but I don't want you to regret anything after years. Today you sacrificed many things for Aparna, but after she went with Ashwin, when you are alone in your life's journey, you should never regret leaving your dream behind Ajay, our mind won't think alike all the time " Ajay looked at Sara surprised. He knew a Sara who is carefree and won't think twice before doing anything.

But this much deep thoughts surprised him and he felt happy to have someone who cares for his future.

" For you I'm applying okay " he said signing in that application.

"good and I'm going to make Shruti meet Aparna. Take care and bye." she said and rushed out before Ajay could understand what she said.

"Yei, loosu mathiri ethuvum panniratha di" Ajay shouted.

"That's in your hands Mr Ajay" she said before leaving and a worry crept his mind as he thought about Shruti, his ex-fiancé.

Shruti was the girl whom his parents chose for him. She was a nice girl and she did understood him in the first place. She accepted Aparna, got her a job in the company she worked. But things changed when she got to know about his Harvard incident.

He would have convinced her and make her understand. He would have tried to love her and care for her, if only she didn't said those words to him and hurted him this much, everything would have been fine. Ajay can still remember those cruel words she threw at him that day.

"Why didn't you picked my call yesterday Ajay" her anger was visible in her voice.

"I told you right, I went with Aparna to her therapists. It was her regular schedule" he explained. It's not the first time and she knew that very well.

"Why Ajay? You always care for her. Why can't you allot some time for me?" Ajay held his head in irritation.

He missed his conference, his important lectures just to spend time. With her and she is claiming like this now.

"i'm trying my best to spend my time. With you Shruti, try to understand. I'm doing my PhD now, I have works, I have to do my research Shruti" he tried to explain his state to her.

"You have time to accompany your so called friend to her therapist, you have time to roam the city with her, to console her, but you are giving reasons to me now?"  she raised her voice.

"Don't shout Shruti, why are you frustrating me like this? I'm trying my best right. Don't behave like a idiot Shruti. I have no idea how I'm going to tolerate you for his whole life" he was really annoyed by her constant nagging. This is not the first time, she has been doing this for days. And she is hurting Aparna in her office too.

Aparna won't say that to him but he has people who will tell that to him.

"ohh - now I became a toucher right. You can't spend your entire life with me right? I know this Ajay. I know you will say this one" she said in a mocking tone.

"It's not like that Shruti, I - I'm sorry, but try to understand me.." he didn't wanted to hurt her at all.

"I can understand you Ajay. I know why you are doing this. You have a girl in your house to satisfy all your needs, why in the hell you are going to need me." her  words shocked him, yet he controlled himself.

"Shruti the way you are talking is wrong" he said in a cold Voice.

"ohh, the truth is making you angry right. What i said wrongly? Why are you keeping her with you if there is nothing between you two and why should she live with you leaving her super such husband. I know your truth Ajay, I'm not a fool. I know that you both are having an affair "before she could finish Ajay slapped her, not even minding the surroundings.

" wah, now you are slapping me for your lover right " her words hurted him.

"there is no use of talking with you idiot, just get lost. Whatever relation we shared, that ends here and it's not your business to know what's between me and Aparna" he pushed the table and walked out

Ajay never saw her again after that. He heard that she got married an year back. But that doesn't bothered her. Ajay tried his best to love her in the beginning, but now he is gald that he failed in that attempt.

"nalla velai naan pilaithu konden.. Antha loosu udan break up seithu vitten.." his heart expressed it's singing talent, only to get slapped by his mind.

His trance broke when his mobile rang flashing Aparna's name in the screen.

"Etho plan pannita.." he thought, as he know this call has something regarding what Sara said a few minutes before.

"okay Aparna, I will be there  at evening" Ajay said when Aparna called and asked him to wait for her in the rest identify nearby her office.

It's nothing unusual as they usually visit that particular resrurent, but Ajay doubted Sara's intervence in this sudden meet.

So guys here is the next part, hope you liked this too...

And I have a plan of writing my old. Story with Ashangi in a different style with minor changes, do you want me to publishing that? Will you support me?

Let me know, take care. Love you all.