"Divorce me, and you're free to keep her with you."

He was looking at her shocked, she asked for a divorce but he left like she asked his life. Dying would be thousand times better than this.

"Naira, w..what are you saying?"

"You heard me right. I'm asking for divorce. Divorce me."
While saying these words, it felt like someone was killing her slowly, slowly. She wanted to give her life but she's not dying, she wants to die.

"Please, don't do this, Naira. We can sort it together." He said pleading her.

"What's there to sort out, Kartik? I'm sorry, I can't live with a man like you. I'm feeling disgusted, you disgust me."

She was right! He was disgust with himself too. If he didn't has the responsibility, he would have finished himself.

"No, Naira, please don't this. I will die without you. I'm nothing without you. I love you, Naira. I really do. You're life." He requested her.

"The same life, you betrayed? Are you talking about the same life?" She mocked him.

And he died with shame.

"But, Naira, divorce? Please aise mat karo, Naira. I beg you. Main mar jaunga tumhare bina." And he literally begged her.

"Toh main aur kya karun, Kartik? Main bhi mar jaungi tumhare bina, lekin tumhe har roz kisi aur k sath dekh kr main har pal marun gi. Yeh khayal hi mujhe maar deta hai. Mujhe jeena hai, Kartik. Mujhe jeene do." She said, her eyes pleading him.

"Nahi, Naira, aise mat karo. Main mar jaunga ga. Please aise mat karo." He again pleaded her

"Kartik, main tumhare agay hath jodti hun. Mujhe jaane do, please mujhe jaane do. Main nahi reh sakti ab tumhare sath." She joined her hands infront of him.

He didn't say anything, but his tears said everything.

"Aur tum usse shaadi karlena, Kartik. Iss me uski galti nahi hai. Jo tumne mere sath kiya woh uske sath mat karna."

He was looking at her surprised. How can she talk about him marrying someone else?

"Naira, yeh kya keh rahi ho tum. Tum aise soch bhi kaise sakti ho?" He questioned her.

"Maine toh sirf socha hai, Kartik. Tumne toh kiya hai." Her each word was stabbing a knife in his already injured heart.

She said and ran out of her room to guestroom and locked the door.

He ran behind her.

"Naira, please open the door. Please, Naira. Aise mat karo please." He kept knocking but she didn't open the door.

He sat there, he could listen to her sobs.

"Naira, please don't cry. Please talk to me." He said but she only responded with her sobs.

"Don't say anything, but please don't cry. Just listen to me. Don't say anything."

He kept talking with her the whole night, telling how much he's ashamed, telling her how much he loves her, telling her that he'll die without her.

They both cried the whole night.

***

The next morning, they went to court to sign the divorce.

Naira was shocked that how Kartik agreed so easily? Like he was waiting for it.

On the other side, Kartik wanted to set her free. He knew she's hurt, she's in pain and if she stayed with him, she'll die.

The time was there, Naira held the pen to sign. Her hands were trembling but this was the only right thing. She took a deep breath and signed those papers.

Kartik too signed those papers.

And they were divorced.

Not even in dreams, they had thought that this day will come when they had to part their ways. It killed them both.

"Now what you want to do?" Naira asked him with a heavy voice.

"I want to marry her." He said and looked at her. She didn't say anything but those tears said it all.

She got up and went to live her life, without him. It was tough for her but she had to do it.

***

6 months passed, and she was still there. She wanted to move on but the love she still had for him never let her to move on.

She was coming out of a shop, she looked up and the scene she saw snatched the floor from her. The sight was a nightmare for her.

Kartik was holding a girl's hand, who had a visible baby bump. Tears formed in her eyes, when she saw Kartik supporting her in walking.

She wanted to go and hug him and tell how much she has missed him, to tell him that she's incomplete without him. She was about to go when that vermilion caught her eyes.

"I want to marry her."

His words rang in her head, and he proved what he said, he married her.

Kartik looked up and saw her, he saw his life, he saw his reason of living, he saw his everything, he saw his Naira.

He wanted to took her in his embrace and never let her go, but he was forced, he couldn't do anything.

He passed through her like he never noticed her, as if she was a stranger.

To her, he looked happy, he looked satisfied. But what about her? She was incomplete without him. How can he forget her so easily, how can he move on?

She escaped through that place as fast as she could.

She entered her room and crawled to that corner of her room, where she has spent her whole days crying.

She cried her heart out, after 6 months she saw him, but he didn't even talk to her, didn't even ask how was she? This was her value in his life? This was his love?

She passed the whole day there sitting in the corner and crying for him, crying for her fate.

"Jinke liye hum rote hain,
Woh kisi aur ki baahon mein sote hain.
Hum galiyon mein bhatakte phirte hain,
Woh samandar kinaaron pe hote hain."

***
9 months were passed since they separated. She got to know through Kartik's manger that the baby was born.

She was broken, but accepted the reality.

It's been a day the baby was born. Today she decided to meet him for the last night. Maybe seeing him happy gives her courage to move on in her life.

He was sitting on the bench in the park. She sat beside him.

There was dead silence between them.

She broke the silence.

"Tum khush ho?" She asked him the stupid question, of course he will be happy, his baby was born and it was a girl, his daughter.

He let out a dry chuckle.

"Pehle nahi tha, lekin ab khush ho jaonga, hamesha k liye." He said and left.

She was still sitting there in trance of his words.

"Ofc, he will be happy because of his baby."

"He didn't even ask me how I am, he didn't even look at me."

She chuckled on her fate, she was stupid to meet him. She thought maybe there's something left between them, but there was nothing, nothing.

***

After two hours,

She was sitting in her room when the door bell rang. She wiped her tears and went to open the door.

She saw Kartik's manger standing there, he was worried.

"What happened? Is everything alright?" She asked him sensing his worry.

He handed over a letter to Naira and left from there.

She went to her room and opened the letter.

Hey Naira!
        When you receive this letter, I will be no more in this world. Maybe I deserved this, I deserved to die. I deserved because I had hurt you so much, I deserved because I betrayed you. I'm sorry, Naira. I'm sorry for everything. I know it can't be good even if I say sorry. But I can't live like this, Naira. I can't. Mere jeene ki wajah ho tum, meri saans ho tum. Main kaise reh lun tumhare bina? Nai chaiye mujhe aisi zindagi jisme tum nai ho. Main jaanta hoon tum mujh se nafrat krti ho, shayad main issi qabil hoon.

Mar toh main ussi din gaya tha, jis din tum mujhe chor kr gayi thi. Mere upar responsibility thi, ab woh puri ho gayi hai. Uss bache ko mera naam chaiye tha toh wo usse mil gaya hai.

I missed you, Naira. I miss you. Damn, I wish I could make things better. I'm tired, Naira. I'm so tired.

Ab yeh be-jaan jism hai, jise main aj azaad kar raha hun.

Marne se pehle, I want you to know that I love you so much. Aisa koi aik din nai gaya jab maine tumhe yaad na kiya ho. Main taras gaya tha tumhe dekhne k liye, tumhari awaaz sunne k liye.

Main kaise jee lun woh zindagi jis mein meri Naira hi na ho. Tumhe itni takleef de kar main nai zinda reh sakta. Tumhari hassi ki wajah bana chahta tha, lekin tumhare ankh se nikle har aik aanson ki wajah ban gaya. Yehi wajah kaafi hai mere mar jaane ke liye.

I'm going, Naira. Ho sake toh mujhe maaf kar dena. Hum agli uss dunya mein zaroor milein gy jahan sirf main aur tum hon gy.

Till then bye. Take care of yourself. Just remember that I love you beyond this world.

Sirf lafzon ki baat nai thi jab main kehta tha k tum meri jaan ho. Aj dekho meri saansein ruk gayi hain.

-Your Kartik.

She couldn't believe, what was happening? Her Kartik, her Kartik is no more.

She hated him, she thought he has moved on while he was counting the last days of life.

"Pehle nahi tha, lekin ab khush ho jaonga, hamesha k liye"

She remembered his words, this is what he meant. He'll be happy forever after dying. She misunderstood him everytime.

What was she supposed to do now?

She screamed, she shouted. She wanted to tell her Kartik that she loved him, she never hated him.

"Kartik, please wapis aa jao. I'm sorry, Kartik. Please aik baar wapis aa jao. Mujhe tumhe aik baar dekhne do, aik baar gale lagane do. Kartik, please aik baar wapis aajao. Apni Naira k liye wapis aa jao. Please Kartik wapis aa jao. I'm sorry, Kartik. I promise main sab theek kar dun gi, sab theek ho jayege lekin please aik baar wapis aa jao." She cried holding the letter close to her.

"Tum sunn rahy ho, Kartik. Main kahan dhoondun tumhe? Tum mujhe kahan milo gy? Bolo na. Kyun kiya tumne yeh? Aik baar bhi mere baare mein nai soocha. Meri toh rooh tumhare sath judi hui hai, main kaise zinda rahun gi tumhare bina." She shouted but he was nowhere, she can never see him.

She cried the whole night and atlast drifted to sleep. The sleep from which she never woke up, the sleep which had no morning, no tomorrow, the sleep which led her to her Kartik.

They were meant to be together but not in this world, in the other world, their world.

And atlast, their sun drowned.

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                  THE END

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Here's the last chapter, I know you guys will be mad at me for this sad ending. I'm sorry for that. My stupid is making me to write such sad stories but I promise the next story will be the happy one♥

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