Aaradhya's Pov.

"Tiara." Tears welled up in my eyes as her name rolled out from my tongue.

My friend was lying on the hospital bed while Dr. Ian was examining her. A nurse was helping him.

Her eyes were closed and her beautiful face earlier looked pale and jaded now.

Ian turned around when he heard my sniffing. He rushed to me immediately.

"What are you doing here?
Who gave you the permission to enter?" He hissed and pulled me out to the corridor.

"Tiara.." I pointed towards the room, sobbing.

"You?" He gave me a confused look while I cried more and more.

He quickly made me sit and handed me a glass of water. I drank it calming my nerves down.

"Now tell me, what's wrong?" He asked.

"Wait. Are you..umm.. Aredya." He tried pronouncing my name.

A smile broke on my face hearing him.

"Oh I'm so sorry, Tiara keeps mentioning you." He smiled sheepishly.

"Does she?" I questioned him and he nodded, "Always."

"Why is she here?" I asked him and he instantly looked down.

"Doctor, she's awake and is calling you." The nurse intruded.

We got up and sprinted back to the room. I stopped at door while Ian stood facing her.

"Where were you?" She asked feebly to him.

"I'm always with you, right love?" He pecked her forehead. She closed her eyes and smiled.

"Look, we have a visitor today." He said softly and moved aside.

Tiara, finally noticed me. Her eyes turned red as tears brimmed up. She averted her gaze but wet droplets were still gushing down, "Why are you here, Mrs. Taneja?" She spoke with hoarseness this time.

"Tiara, please don't speak like this." I stuttered.

"Oh did he leave you the way he left me? Too early, didn't he?" She sounded cacophonous while I shook my head in a no.
Ian squeezed her hand and gave me an apologetic look.

"Tiara. Please don't be so cold. Please let me explain." I cried, "Please."

She glanced at Ian who nodded his head.

"Go on."

"Tiara. I didn't do anything intentionally. I tried informing you but failed every time we talked. I didn't know anything till you called, I swear on my mother." I defended myself.

"Oh so you know everything now then what are you here for?" She asked again rudely.

"To know the entire truth from you." I blurted out.

"Yeah right!" She scoffed.

"Please Tiara, I want to know everything from you." I implored again.

She sighed.

"It shouldn't concern you, Aaradhya." She uttered in a low voice.

"It does because you are my friend." I stated the truth.

"Aaradhya please. Go and have a good life. My problems shouldn't bother you. You're married now. It was a mistake that I called you." She said trying to hold herself.

"No I won't go unless you tell me the truth, Tiara." I denied.

"Didn't he tell you anything?"

I nodded.

"Then why do you want me to tell you? What difference will it make?" She replied.

"No, I want to know it from you because I know that you can never do anything wrong to anyone. At least not intentionally." I paused when she finally looked at me.

Her eyes showed multiple emotions and she opened her mouth again

"Aaradhya. You were always surrounded with people whom you loved and they loved you too. My parents were not that expressive like you have. They always thought that money and style status in the society is greater than any love so they obviously gave me everything except for the one thing I always desired. Love. At that time for me only two people mattered the most. You were my only friend who despite of my inate behaviour and selfishness, never stopped caring for me. The other one was him. Riddhant! He made me feel special like no other man had ever did. I was ready to do anything for him but he." Her voice cracked. Ian squeezed her hand.

"He broke me. He dumped me because.."

I squeezed her hand.

"Because I slept with some random guy." Tears spilled out from her eyes.

Ian held her other hand in support again. She began briefing to me about things that I didn't know.

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Tiara's Pov.

"It was his birthday and I had planned to throw a party at my house. You didn't wish to attend and even I didn't force you because of that club incident. I was really ashamed of myself for that."

Aaradhya bobbed her head.

"That day, he looked gloomy and frustrated. I tried my best to cheer him up at the party so we both started drinking vodka shots. After some time, we both were highly drunk and started making out. We had lost our minds and then one thing led to another. We ended up in bed and got intimated with lust." I averted my gaze in awkwardly.

"But he started blabbering something in frustration as he wasn't in his actual sense which made me furious.
I got out of the bed in anger and tried wearing my clothes again but couldn't wear it properly because I was still tipsy and walked out from my room in those clothes which were hardly covering my body.
I tripped and was about to fell but suddenly someone grabbed my hand in the corridor.
I didn't remember who the person was but he was definitely not Riddhant.

"The next thing, I remembered that I woke up next day in some other room and my clothes were ripped off in one corner."

My voice quivered as I remembered the horrible day of my life.

"That man had taken advantage of me in my unconscious state. I was technically raped.
I was devastated and guilty for it but I didn't do anything intentionally. I tried talking to Riddhant but he started avoiding me, my calls. He had seen me with another man and refused to believe what I had to say."

Tears formed in her eyes too. I still continued.

"I was not myself anymore. I distant myself from you fearing that you would also judge me like he did and I would end up losing you too. My health started getting worse and when I visited a doctor, I got to know about my pregnancy.

"I was shattered and wanted Riddhant badly beside me and that very same day, he called and asked me to meet him.
I got a bit of hope and I was even ready to apologize to him but he broke up with me that day itself. He dumped me because he thought that I'd cheated on him by sleeping with that guy. I tried hard explaining but he didn't pay heed to my words. When I was going to tell him about my pregnancy, he said something which totally shattered me and he walked off. He labeled me as a slut and other titles which were so horrible that I can't even say."

"He abused my character. He broke my heart. His words impaled me more than his actions." I sobbed hard.

"After he had left, I started walking on the road towards my home and I didn't notice a car that hit me and I lost... I lost my baby in that accident. I had a miscarriage.
I couldn't face anyone there so I came here.

"I was not a good girl anymore, Aaradhya. I started drinking, smoking and even started sleeping around. I turned into an actual slut and those other labels that I hated. His words became a reality for me. I even neglected my health and started doing all the bad stuff that I didn't realize when I had ruined my life with my reckless attitude which brought me here.

"I got diagnosed with Pelvic inflammatory disease, Aaradhya." I opened my eyes and looked at her. She gasped when I said that.

"I can never conceive. I can never become a mother."

We both were crying by now. Ian rubbed his hand on my back.

"Six months ago, I started visiting this hospital where I met Ian who is also a co-owner of this hospital and my doctor.
He understood me and became a gem of my life. No one cared for me the way he did at time I needed someone emotionally. My parents disowned me when they found out everything
but Ian was always there for me and after few weeks, he proposed to me and we got engaged." I smiled at Ian who smiled too before kissing my head.

"I told you about it when you called me. I visited India to meet you and to even tell you about everything but when I got to know about you getting engaged to someone, I dismissed the thought because I didn't want you to be burdened with my past but still I wished to see you at least and luckily I met you at the mall next day before my flight. I was so happy to meet you there. I wanted to attend your engagement but couldn't stay longer because of my treatment was still due so I came back to Australia."

"Everything was going smooth But my fate played one more game." I continued.

"My lower abdominal pain became unbearable to endure so Ian brought me here and shifted me to a private section so that he can be with me while working."

"I wanted to contact you but on the same time I didn't want to destroy the happiness from your life thinking you might be busy with the arrangements.
Your sister Aditi had mentioned about your wedding date when she had told me about your engagement and I badly wanted to attend it but then I found out about the person you got engaged to is none other than the man who indirectly wrecked my life, I felt betrayed because you didn't tell me about him being your fiancé.
I felt that you also didn't care about me anymore and that's the reason, I called you in anger that day." Tears were still gushing down. "And another tornado rolled in my life as yesterday, we..." I choked.

"Yesterday we found out that I am also suffering from. I am suffering from uterine cancer."

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So the truth is finally out and what's your intake about it?

Poor Tiara. Did you feel bad for her?

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