After Few days :

"Aaaa..." Gauri screamed as the stool on which she was standing lost balance and she was about to fall down.

Gauri closed her eyes as she realized she was about to fall down very badly from the long stool she was standing on and then wince in pain with injuries on her arms and legs but realizing that nothing of that sort happened, rather the floor came much before she had expected it to come and feeling no pain of any injury, Gauri opened her eyes, She realized that not on the floor but rather she had fallen in the arms of her husband.

" Gauri, What are you doing? I told you that I'll remove those spider nets on the wall tomorrow...Why are you so keen to do it right now?" Omkara said looking at Gauri with childish anger as he was holding her in his arms.

" And see now what happened... What if you had fell down? You would have hurt yourself so badly and you know I can't see you hurt..." Omkara was speaking looking deep into her eyes when he paused abruptly seeing tear drops form in Gauri's eyelids.

" Now why are you crying? I saved you na..." Omkara was saying while trying to make her stand on the floor as tears drops started falling down her eyes, Gauri was looking at him blankly all this time as her tears fell down.

As Omkara made her stand, his eyes fell on her right hand from where a blood drop fell on the floor. Instantly grabbing her hand, Omkara again started speaking, his voice showing the mixture of tension, fear and anger that he felt, " Gauri, You are crying silently from so long, can't you just speak and tell me about this...See how badly it is bleeding, I'll not leave that carpenter, How could he leave that nail hanging on the wall like that...Leave that for now, I'll just bring the first aid box..." Omkara in between looked up at the wall to spot the blood stained nail hanging and then ran towards their room to get the first aid box.

Gauri kept staring at him as she closed her eyes, tear drops continued falling down her eyelids, " I have to be strong, I have to be strong..." She repeated to herself as she opened her eyes again wiping her tears from her left hand.

Omkara came back running with the first aid box as he took out a cotton swab and held Gauri's hand, Gauri pulled back her hand as she started at Omkara, her tears reappearing, She was too filled up from within, too suffocated, too hurt, too alone , too sad as she finally let her feelings flow hugging Omkara tightly, crying on his chest, Initially Omkara was too confused to react by this sudden development but then composing himself, Omkara caressed Gauri's hair, " What happened Gauri?" He asked softly as Gauri continued crying, " Kuch Nahi Omkara, I just , I just wanted to hug you...Pata Nahi Phir Kabhi Yeh Mauka Mile Na Mile..."

Kal Kya Pata Milna Mile
Nazdikiyan O Saathiya
Kal Kya Pata Milna Mile
Nazdikiyan O Saathiya

Saathiyaa.. Saathiya..
Saathiya.. Saathiya..
Saathiyaa.. Saathiya..
Saathiya.. Saathiya ..

" What happened Gauri? Why are you speaking like this?" Omkara questioned as he broke the hug and held Gauri's shoulder, his eyes deep into her's.

" Woh..." Gauri paused as Omkara held her hand again, " You speak, I'll side by side bandage this cut, It must be hurting a lot na..." Omkara said, his focus now shifting again to her hand, he raised his eyes for a second as he spoke the word 'hurt' but then again started concentrating on the wound, rubbing off the blood with the cotton swab.

" Om...Omkara, I had to tell you something very important..." Gauri paused to let Omkara absorb her words.

" Say Gauri." Omkara said while taking out the ointment from the first aid box, not raising his eyes from her injury.

" Omkara, You are a very nice man...a great human being, anybody can fall in love with you, I...I thought I was also in love with you but...but I was wrong, recently I realized that I never loved you...You were just an attraction, I got to know this when I fell in Love with someone else, Yes Omkara, I am in Love with someone else...I don't Love you." Gauri spoke up stammering as she closed her eyes for some good 30 seconds at the end of her words waiting for Omkara to leave her hand and start screaming on her, nothing of that sort happened. As she opened her eyes again after waiting, Omkara was busy in holding her hand from one and taking out bandage from other, his face as calm as always.

" Who is it?" Omkara finally asked as he started unwrapping the bandage, Gauri was relieved with the fact that atleast he replied.

"My office colleague." Gauri spoke as she again waited for a reaction from Omkara.

Omkara who was still unwrapping the bandage questioned, " Who Gauri? As far as I know all your colleagues are married and if not married, They atleast have a girlfriend for sure."

Shock was a small word to describe what Gauri felt, Did Omkara even care that she was talking about leaving him or only about the history- Geography of her new love interest?

" O...Om, P...Prashant. " Gauri finally remembered the name of one of her unmarried colleagues and spoke up instantly,stammering though; She hadn't really thought that she'll have to answer this question.

" You know na, he is at the same post as me...I know you would think we didn't use to talk before but in recent days we started talking and then interacting and I didn't realize when I fell for him and...even he loves me, a lot, I am sorry Omkara...I know I did wrong but we even went on a few dates recently...I told him I'll tell you everything soon and anyways, till when could I hide, it's already been 2 months..." Gauri said making up as many things as possible to make her story believable as she took a relief after speaking things she found enough for Omkara's blood to boil.

He was still as calm as the sea.

"But Gauri, I saw him that day at your office party 4 months back , that girl he came with...She was his girlfriend right? Did he break up with her, I mean breaking marriage for you is tough but he must have broken up with her at the start of your relationship itself na." Omkara said as he started to bandage her hand, his eyes still fixated on her wound.

" Yes, Of course!" Gauri was just answering him blankly now, expecting some, atleast some reaction from him.

" But his ID was showing in my insta yesterday, I just happened to go through and I saw he had recently posted a picture with the same girl captioned 'My Love', Gauri I guess you should leave him immediately, he is betraying you." Omkara said finally being done and then looking up at her at last.

It was the last straw for Gauri, She was up to the brim as she jerked his hand that was still holding her hand away, Getting up from the table where they both had seated by now, She blasted, " And you don't seem to be thinking about leaving me if betrayal is such a bad thing Omkara? Means seriously, in all this conversation that we were having till now I...your wife am telling you that am betraying you, having an affair behind your back and you don't seem to spare a single thought at that? Can I know the reason? Am I that meaningless to you?" Gauri screamed as tear drops made their way out of her eyelids, again.

Standing up, Omkara looked at Gauri as tear drops formed in his eyes, he was still calm as he questioned crying " I so wish Gauri, I so wish you really were betraying me and telling me the truth now ...It won't have hurt this much, this much to feel how alone I have left you...how far we are that you are going through all the pain alone and not even once thinking about sharing it with me, Am I that bad Gauri? Am I that useless, Am I that worthless? Is my love that weak?" Gauri was confused as she saw Omkara break down as he sat on the floor, the till now calm sea was having some big thunderstorms now.

" Om..." Gauri could only say as the fear of the worst hit her.

" You are thinking right...today in the morning I had to go to the studio to keep some sculptures there, I thought to take your car, there were many sculptures so I decided to keep some in the car dikey..." Omkara stopped abruptly as Gauri's tearful eyes widened at the information, to hide them from Omkara , Gauri had specifically kept her Medical reports that stated about her cancer in her car's dikey but...Life was cruel to her...or rather to them, he got to know the truth.

" Om...I..." Gauri was at the loss of words as she kept a hand at his shoulder, She didn't knew how to react, what to say...it wasn't like she had doubted Omkara's emotional strength, in fact she knew her husband was strong and that was the very reason she had decided to make up this whole affair thing...It was her own self, Her own fear of the unknown that made her hide it all from Omkara, What if in his love for her, Omkara could have taken some extreme step at her loss? Atleast the thought that Gauri was a betrayer would make Omkara remember her with hatred rather than Love...He would hate her, not care about her loss...he would feel she deserved it...Gauri had so many thoughts going on in her mind when she had resorted to this last step of claiming to have an extra marital affair since all her other efforts to make Omkara hate her failed, but then...Life betrayed her,again, Omkara couldn't hate her even for a second, She realized that even if she had an actual EMA, he would still Love her...Love her endlessly, her Omkara never lied.

What an irony it was, Omkara was someone whom every girl would dream of, He loved her the way nobody could love anybody else, Any girl would be happy getting a man like him and yet...here she was standing in front of this very man, Getting all the love in this world but wishing from each cell of her body that he hated her, Hated her a lot...So much so as to try to forget her presence in his life, try to forget her as someone would try to forget a beautiful dream with a sad ending, What an unlucky girl she was...getting all the Love in this world and yet wishing she was hated...What an unlucky man he was...Giving all the Love in this world and yet facing the worst that Life could give someone.

" Pyaar Karti ho na Mujhse?" Omkara asked raising his eyes as Gauri looked at him with tears, moving her face in a 'No' she got up from the floor. Turning away, Gauri tried to run to the room as a soft hold at her hand stopped her.

" Why you love me so much Gauri? Itna Pyaar Kyun Karti ho? Karti ho to Janna Kyun Chahti ho, Mat Jao Gauri...Mein Tumhare Bina Ji Nahi Paunga, I'll not be able to live without you..."

Turning back, Gauri stared at Omkara , She couldn't...she couldn't be strong anymore, She was dying...She was dying more seeing him such a miserable condition than her disease could ever kill her, She finally gave in.

Sitting next to Omkara, She cupped his face, " I don't want to go Omkara...I don't want to leave you but...only if, Only if I had an option, I would give anything to live with you... to die with you, Only if I had a choice..." Gauri paused abruptly as she cried, Omkara held her hands, as they were caressing his cheeks.

" You have a choice Gauri, You have an option, there are still 20% chances of your survival if you take treatment but...but You just gave up, You didn't gave up on your survival Gauri, You gave up on my love...you didn't even tried to get cured, You gave up on me Gauri ...much before life could give up on you." Omkara said as he finally managed to stop crying, silent tears were still falling down his eyelids.

" And there are 80% chances of me dying Omkara...80%, I won't get saved...I know, Life has given up on me...I love you Omkara, I love you a lot but I am dying, I can't make you to see me hurt daily and then eventually see me die...I can't Omkara..." Gauri tried to reason raising her voice at few instances, She knew the huge difference between 80 and 20.

" I am ready, tell me if you are? I have faith in my Love, if you love me So much to let me go then I don't think even God has the power to separate us , Nobody can...not even death..." Keeping a hand at Omkara's mouth, Gauri stopped him.

"Death has seperated us already Omkara, Don't you dare say anything with double meaning." Gauri stated angrily as Omkara held her hand, moving it away from his mouth, moving his head in a 'No'.

" I don't have any double meaning Gauri, I mean just what I said, death WON'T separate us...I won't let it, My Love won't let it, You will Live with me, Grow old with me, Just the way you promised me in the seven vows we took together, You can't break your promise, I won't let you." Omkara had the kind of resolve in his voice that shook the base of all the fears that Gauri harboured, His Love was strong...She knew, Her Love was strong...She knew, If she knew mathematics well enough to understand the difference of 80 and 20 then he wasn't less either, he was a good businessman himself, he knew the worth of promises, they can't be broken and HE won't let her break her promise of togethertherness, of companionship for Lifetime.

And so Gauri hugged Omkara tightly again, She had decided to fulfil her promises, She won't faulter, She won't.

A corner of her heart still wondered if such moments will ever come again in her life...but then, seeing a picture of their wedding hung up on the wall, She smiled, 'They would.' She told herself in her heart.

" Don't worry Gauri, Humein Aise Hugs ke Mauke bohot Milenge..." Omkara echoed her words as a faded smile crept up her lips, She cried again...with happiness, still in his embrace.

Life wasn't that cruel afterall...it played its own games, they might sound bad at the first instant but might be they are the best decisions for us. That night before sleeping Gauri thanked God for revealing the truth to Omkara...a burden was
relieved from her heart, a new life ran in her, a new zeal to live was all she felt.