"Am fine! Saana!",

He said without a smile secretly mesmerized with her enchanting beauty. There was an awkward silence prevailing among them.

"Umm..So! I heard you are a big businesswoman now?",

He said breaking the ice while she chuckled and nodded her head.

"Aisa kuch nahi hain! Byass You know na how much I wanted to establish myself!",

She said making him smile and nodd, He knew what kind of a girl she was. Suddenly he remembered about the picture of her where she was wearing a ring in her left hand. While glancing on her ring finger he saw nothing,

"Ring utaar ke aayi hain? To find some new guy?",

He said taunting yet mocking on her, while she understood what he meant and chuckled sipping on her drink,

"Utar ke nahi aayi! Toot gayi Engagement!",

She said with a heavy heart. He snapped back at Saana frowning and was about to say something when her friends called her and she left to attend them but there's one person who saw it all. He nodded his head seeing them and left.

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Emotional manipulation is behavior that intends to emotionally exploit, control, or influence someone for an advantage. In a relationship, emotional manipulation may be the only form of abuse present, or it may take place alongside other types of abuse, including physical, psychological, or spiritual. Emotional manipulation, however, may be hard to identify because part of its purpose is to maintain the uneven power dynamics but this kind of manipulation never always happens in a relationship or in a marriage. It can come to oneself through any form of bond.

It has been two to three days since their encounter at the party. Saana was working upon herself. It would be wrong if it is said that he didn't thought about him for once but she restricted herself rather she made herself too busy to even think for him once. On the other hand, Sidhaanth somewhere still stuck at his lost love.
It was one such morning, when Siddhant was working in his office. Though he was working but somewhere his mind was not with him. He couldn't come out of the thought of Saana. Was he lured to him? No! Or was he? Scrolling through her Facebook account. He pressed the friend request button, he finally did the job which somewhere he refrained himself from doing since a decade. He never really wanted to unfriend her but again somewhere he prioritised his then ‘present’ more than his own wishes,

"Sidhaanth! Why your ex is still at your Facebook?",

Pallavi wondered going through his friends list in his social media platform.

"Bubba! I forgot to unfriend her! And I said you everything about her na?",

Sidhaanth said casually having his day's meal at night after being tired and exhausted.

"Still! You are married now! Can You Stop following her on Instagram and Facebook! It's annoying!"

Pallavi said out of jealousy, While he sighed and nodded his head but the next moment she blurt out something which raged him.

"Or..Wait! Wait! Do you still have any feelings for her?"

"Tf! Are you saying Pallavi! You know I am married to you!"

He screamed banging his hand beside his plate. While Pallavi gnashed her jaws and said with equal tone,

"That's the Issue Siddhant! You married me just to have someone to sleep with! Just a person who would be the slave of your family!"

"Pallavi! You are crossing your limits! Fine I will unfriend her! "

He said controlling his ragging self but the next moment she said another phrase that hurt his male ego,

"What limits? I am already frustrated with you! Kamate ho itna! Khaate ho itna! Ek Bai Tak Afford nahi kar sakte hum! Aur tumhe bacche chahiye? Isiliye abort Kara deti hoon! Nahi Banna hain maa mujhe aur nahi jini aisi middle class life!"

That's it, the entire hall echoed with a loud thundering sound on her cheeks.

While on the other hand, Saana was video chatting with one of her business associates for business purposes. Just then her phone beeped with a notification that made her happy as well as anxious, she immediately hunged up the call and read the notification, it said-

“Sidhaanth sent you a friend request”

Gulping down her saliva, she opened the profile. Clicking on the accepting button, she sighed. Meanwhile, Sidhaanth smiled getting the instant response to his Facebook. He was wondering to himself that will this friend request acceptance would led to his acceptance. He immediately left a message to Saana,

Siddhant

Hi! Umm..Can we meet? I need to talk to you regarding a venture!

                        Saana

Venture?

Siddhant

Yeah! Venture! Since you are such a famous business person and am also a business tycoon so was thinking if we can collab! I have few ideas in my mind. Do let me know!

Sending her this message, he saw her typing but soon her typing changed into seen zone and then she was offline. His face fell, sighing on his bad fate, he continued to work. The day ended, but he recieved no text from her side. Even though he noticed her being online quite a lot of time. Now, he is feeling how she used to wait for his single text but she hardly used to recieve one.

"Siddhant! Yaar what has happened to you? Why are you avoiding me? What I have done?",

Saana said sulking after calling him up for the nth time. Each of her calls were going unanswered but luckily this didn't went.

"You have done nothing baby, It's just I wasn't feeling like to talk! I was just taking some space!"

He said in a casual tone, while she frowned getting pissed of his petty reasonings

"Taking space? Uh!? By upsetting me? By avoiding my calls! By not texting me even for an ounce? Don't you know I feel unwanted?"

She said raging up on him while he sighed being not interested at all. He was hurt from her,

"Haan toh! You are unwanted!"

He said in a casual tone hurting her to the edge. While a lone tear escaped from her eyes,

" What? I am unwanted?"

She whispered but soon his seriousness broke into a fit of laughter,

" I am joking Bubba! Tu toh Jaan hain meri! Saana sometimes relationship mein na Space zaroori hota hain! It keeps your individuality alive! Cheezein suffocating nahi lagti! Space is very important in a relationship. Be it after an argument to gather the thoughts or to pursue our individual passions. Abhi jaise jab humari ladai hoti hain! Agar main gussa hoon toh tu mujhe chorr deti hain! Jab tu gussa hoti hain I leave you alone for sometime! Pata Hain kyu? Because we both know that whatever we speak during a fight it's not us speaking rather it's our ego, hurt, pain and anger are speaking. We know that's definitely not who actually we are right? You know  It also helps us to refrain from growing unhealthy attachments and dependency on the partner. Aur sone ko aag mein Jitna Pighlaoge! Sona utna khara hoga! So space is necessary! Agar kabhi bolun space de! Toh tension mat le! Balki de de! Lautke tere paas hi aana Hain Maine!"

He said making her understand. Definately Saana being a lonely child, she never really got the amount of love which she recieve from Siddhant. She smiled and mumbled a sorry.

Sidhaanth chain of thoughts broke with the sound of his notification, checking his phone. He saw it was a text from Saana,

Saana

Kal milte hain! Sharp at 10'o clock! At Cafe Bistro! Thought to meet old people in old places!

Siddhanth

Okay! Thankyou! Cafe Bistro! School days huh?

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