MAHIR

What a pathetic person I have changed into?

What did I just do?

I sighed and sat on the couch,rubbing my face with my palms.What the fuck have I said to Bela just now?

I made a complete mess!

The awful words I said to her..sleep..bed...fuck what the hell was that?

I kicked the coffee table hardly.

Bela left!

She left taking Mahira,her eye's showing a huge disappointment and anger towards me.

I sobbed rubbing my face,I lost her today,emotionally.

This is not what I wished for.This is not how it has to be,everything was meant to be good today.

"Bela..I'm sorry,this is not what I meant..not this...",I sobbed looking at our large photo frame hunged on the wall.

I wiped my tears and looked at Mahira's toy's scattered around tge lobby.

My baby!

"Mahira..I'm sorry baby..I..I didn't mean to..",I sobbed wiping my tears.

My phone was buzzing and I answered it,
"Hello",I spoke wiping my tears.

"Sir we did it,the deal is our's. We succeeded in this Asian project,we got the deal sir",my PA was talking in excitement and the phone slipped from my hands.

I got the deal,costing my love and family!

I felt like slapped!

Angry,I was angry on myself.

I throwed my phone across the wall and shouted my lungs out,
"No..no..this is not how it should be..noo..",I shouted,breaking down.

"I'm sorry Bela..I'm sorry",I sobbed getting on my knee's.

Bela,she is alone!

Where did she go? Our friends and family are not here,where did she go?

I got up and stumbled around,looking for my car keys.I grabbed my keys and wore my shoes hurriedly,I was about to leave and our house intercom was buzzing.

I hurriedly answered it,
"Hello",I spoke.

"Mahir,congratulations son. We got the deal,the Asian project is our's,all your hard work paid off today",he was talking so excitedly and I sobbed.

"Mahir..Mahir what happened?"he asked and I sobbed.

"Dad..Bela..",I spoke with a broken voice.

"Bela?What happened to Bela?Is she alright?Mahira is OK?"he asked getting worried.

"Bela..she left..she left taking Mahira with her..she left me",I spoke.

"What?Mahir what happened?"dad asked and I sobbed.

"Dad..I'll call back again,I need to go",I said.

"But Mahir wha...",I hanged up and wiped my freshly forming tears.

I sobbed getting out of my home and got inside my car,searching for her.Bela and Mahira,they both are alone in this early morning.

Where did she go?

I don't even have my phone to call her,she left without taking anything from our home.Her parents are also not here right now,where did she go?

I wiped my tears and started towards her parent's home.Her parent's home is also locked,I cried feeling helpless at this moment.

I searched like a mad person for them both,my love and my baby.Where will they go in this city?

I reached my home like a defeated man and slumped on the floor,I felt something poking under my knees.I moved my leg and saw her wedding chain.

I held it and sobbed kissing it,
"I'm sorry Bela..I'm sorry..I didn't mean to..I didn't..",I sobbed.

The intercom was ringing again,
"Hello..",I spoke weakly.

"Mahir,it's me",I heard Bela's dad's voice.

"Uncle...uncle..did..did Bela call you?Uncle where is she and Mahira?Uncle please tell",I said.

"Mahir,Bela called me.She and Mahira are safe,we are returning home today.We will come and talk",he said sternly.

"Uncle..please tell me where they are,please uncle.I want to see them..I want my baby",I sobbed.

"Mahir,compose yourself.We will be back by evening,let's talk",he said and I sobbed.

"Uncle at least tell me where they are...",he cut the call.

I cried slumping on the floor,I just want to see them both.

My Bela,my Mahira!

What a stupid thing I have done today.

She was asking for my love,and me..

I'm ashamed of myself to talk to her like this.

How did I think that she was dying to sleep with me?She was dying to be with me,in my arm's.And me?

I'm a sick person!

"Hello",I spoke when the intercom was ringing again.

"Mahir",my mom spoke.

"Mom..mom..Bela and Mahira",I sobbed.

"Mahir what have you done?What happened?"she asked and I sobbed.

"Mom..I need you,please come.You and dad,I need you both.Mom..please",I sobbed like a helpless person.

Because I am helpless right now.

"Mahir don't cry,we are coming.We will be there by tomorrow morning,we will come..don't cry",she said and I sobbed.

I don't have any energy to talk,I hanged up.I'm done,broken.

Broke myself and broke the love of my life!

I didn't talk to anyone until my parent's came to me.My parent's,her parent's,Vish,Yuvi,Vyom,everyone came up to me.

We all went to their home to meet them and bring them back.I told them what happened in between us all these months,but I couldn't dare to blurt out the ill words I spitted on her face.

And my guess was right,Bela told her parent's about our fight but didn't tell about the verbal spat.

Even she must be ashamed to tell about it,I put her in that position.

And being the women she is with her self  respect,she sent me the divorce papers.

Shattering me and our relationship!

And not even once she allowed me to talk to her,and take a look at Mahira.Since that day,I've been dying and rooting to meet my daughter.

Bela cut all her strings with me,but Mahira was still the only string attached in between us.

But I couldn't meet her,not even once.

Anger was filling inside me with a frustration that I'm not able to meet my own flesh and blood.

I used to see my daughter like a thief,all these three months.Just a look from afar.

One day I was caught by her father when I was climbing up their balcony,but even he couldn't say anything to me.He also knows how a father's love is.

I couldn't see Bela,but I could see my sleeping daughter from far.Anger,pain,guilt,all flooding inside me from all these months.

I don't want to get separated from her,so I gave a plea to the court.

The only way to apologize and get my family back!

"Dadda..",I snapped into reality when Mahira called me.

"Dadda..you cry..",she asked climbing on me.

"No..no baby,I'm not",I wiped my tears.

"Dadda..don cryy...",she said cupping my huge face in her little palms.

I smiled and kissed her palms,
"No Mahira,dadda is not crying.Mahira is with dadda na,dadda will not cry baby",I smiled.

She wiped my tears and gave a small peck on my lips,
"I lobee you dadda..",she said.

"I love you too baby,dadda loves you the most.I'm so sorry",I kissed her and hugged her.

My Mahira suffered because of me.She cried for me,she loves me.I neglected my daughter due to work,and lost them because of my anger and awfull things I said to Bela.

"Mahira..",Bela called her coming out from our room.

Mahira peeked at her and hid her face immediately in my neck,looking at the medicine in Bela's hands.

"Bela,what is that?"I asked caressing Mahira's hairs.

"It's a cough syrup,she's been coughing from yesterday night",Bela said coming towards us.

"Mumma noo..",Mahira groaned clinging onto me tightly.

"Bela,let it be.We will make her take it after sometime",I said.

"Mahir don't be silly,you know that she couldn't sleep properly yesterday night,she has been coughing",Bela said and sat beside us,filling the filler with syrup.

Mahira looked at her and swatted away her hand,making the filler fall on the floor,
"Noo..",Mahira almost cried.

And Bela looked angry!

"Mahira,what is this?"Bela asked sternly.

"Dadda noo..noo..",her voice was muffled as she was crying silently hiding her face in my neck.

"Bela,let's wait for sometime.She will cry now.We will give after sometime",I said.

"Mahir try to understand,it has to be given at the right time.Or else it could get worse",Bela said filling the filler again.

"But Bela,she is already whining now.She won't have it,she will spill it again",I said and Bela huffed with annoyance.

"Mahir I know you can't understand my pain.Please let me do my work",Bela said trying to take Mahira from me and I felt anger bubbling inside me.

"Bela,is this the way to talk?"I asked seething with anger.

"Mumma..no..noo..",Mahira shouted when Bela took her from me.

"Mahira,stop testing my patience",Bela said and Mahira was crying.

Can't she see it?Mahira is crying.

"Bela,don't act like a fool.Mahira is crying,stop it",I shouted and Bela flinched.

I took Mahira from her and calmed her down,she was sobbing hugging me.

Bela's eye's were filled with tears,angry tears.

She got up and stood in front of me,
"You won't be to take care of her when she will fall sick,will you?"she shouted on me.

BELA

Firstly he has never been with me when Mahira was sick,I knew that pain.The pain when Mahira used to get up and cry in middle of the nights due to her breathing problem.

Mahir was never there to comfort us both,he used to sleep due to his tiredness from office work.

He didn't take his responsibility as a father,now he is stopping me also from doing my job.

"Bela..don't..say that",his voice was low.

"I will.I will say it Mahir.You don't know the pain of a parent when their child is sick..you don't know",I yelled at him with anger.

Here I am worried about my daughter's health,and now also he is showing this anger,attitude and dislike towards me.

"OK..I was..I was just saying that,give her the medicine when she is ready.Not now,when she is whining and crying",he slowly said,caressing Mahira'a back.

"This is a medicine God damn it,not a chocolate for them to like.Kids will always cry when it comes to taking medications,and we have to give it in a correct time",I said.

He slowly caressed Mahira's back and Mahira looked at me,
"Mahira..come here",I said going to them.

"No..dadda..",she clutched Mahir tightly again.

"Mahir..give her to me",I said.

"Bela please..at least wait for few minutes",Mahir said.

I sighed in disbelief,
"Why don't you understand Mahir?She will cry for just few minutes after taking the syrup,she will be fine later",I tried to make him understand.

"I don't want to see her crying Bela",he said with such a vulnerability.

I didn't knew what to say.

"She cried enough for you Mahir,don't worry.She is also used to crying..just like me",I said turning around.

"Wait..what did you say?"he made me look at him,pulling me by my shoulders.

We both were staring at each other,spitting venom from each others eye's.

Anger bubbled inside us,since so many months.

"I said that,me and my daughter are used to crying.Thanks to you Mahir",I said gritting my teeth.

"I don't get any satisfaction,making you both cry Bela.Drop this act",he said with a clenched jaw.

He slowly bent down and made Mahira sit on the floor.

"I am not acting or trying to show something.I'm stating the truth Mahir.Have some balls to fucking accept the reality",I said yanking his hand away.

In the next moment my back was slammed against the wall,caging me in between him and wall,
"Don't you fucking dare to talk like this Bela.I knew I made a mistake neglecting you and our daughter,but it was not on purpose.You started over reacting",he said boring holes at me.

"Over reacting?Yes,I have done masters in acting.How is my show Mahir?You are linking it?"I mocked him.

"The things you said to me..there also I over reacted right?"I asked.

He was silent,eye's closed,uneven breaths,jaw clenched.Trying to calm his anger.

"What happened now Mahir?Reality..sorry,my acting show is playing in front of your eye's?"I asked.

He opened his eye's and stared at me,
"You know Bela..I didn't mean what I said",he said with a clenched jaw.

"Sleeping means..sex?Hmm?"I asked,tears selling up in my eye's.

"You think that..I was dying to sleep...oh sorry,dying to have sex with you right?"I asked,my voice breaking.

The only question I couldn't ask him during that time and all these months.

"Sleeping doesn't mean sex,Mahir.It means just sleep and nothing else,just hug me tight..hold my hand..and..and just comfort me",I said.

"Bela..no..I didn't mean it",he said.

"Then why did you utter that bullshit?"I shouted,pushing him by his chest.

"When you don't mean it...why did you talk like that?From where did you get those thoughts?"I shouted pushing him again.

"All these years..you think that I slept with you just for sex.You saw my desperation in bed but not in my heart?"I shouted,almost sobbing.

Because I've been keeping this to myself all these months.I didn't say about this to anyone,not our parents nor any of my friends.

I'm feeling heavy to keep it within me.Eating me from inside daily,slowly.

He was silent,unable to look at me and utter anything with shame.

"Look at me",I said helding his jaw and making him look at me.

"If I ever got to know that your thinking is like this..I would..I would never be with you Mahir Sehgal",I sobbed.

"Do you know how much your words effected me?Did you know?"I cried helding his collar.

"These words used to ring in my ear's..every time when I look at my daughter.Who is a carbon copy of you.The moment I look at her..I used to feel that..was she made just out of sex..and not love?"I cried.

His eye's were also spilling,wetting his tee.

"Tell me..is Mahira nothing to you?Me?To us?"I yelled.

"She is my everything",he said slowly.

"She is just a result of me warming your bed?Not our love?"I cried in a defeated tone and he looked at me now.

"These words are hurting you right?Then just think..what I went through with your words",I sobbed and moved back.

"So you are retaliating it now? Hmm?"he asked.

"I don't have to retaliate anything for you,you are just a coward who cannot accept your own mistakes",I said wiping my tears.

"Yes,I am a coward.I am a coward who cannot face the reality.But you are even more than that Bela",he said.

"Really?Maybe I am.I am coward..sorry,I am a shameful coward who is not able to explain her parent's about my separation with my husband",I said.

"I am scared that my father will never allow me to see my husband if I tell him the shit you said.I am scared that my in-laws will disown you for your pathetic behavior,and you know what is my biggest fear?"I said.

"I am scared that my daughter will never get to see her father.That is my biggest fear Mahir",I said pushing him back.

"And I am a coward to say this all in front of my family",I shouted.

"Mahira loves you more than me,what will happen to her if she doesn't see you for ever?"I sobbed.

"Then why did you take her away from me?"he shouted back,punching the wall.

"Because I don't want her to stay with a man with such type of mentality.Who thinks that her mother craves for sex from her father",I shouted pushing him again.

"Don't you dare push me again",he said and pushed me against the wall,helding my wrist tightly.

"This is what you have always done,hurting me",I sobbed.

He looked at our hands and removed his grip from me immediately,
"Bela...I don't want to fight again.I had enough.We are back together to solve the problems,not to multiply them",he said.

"Then why don't you understand me?I know more than you when it comes to my daughter",I shouted.

"You think I don't know anything about my daughter?"he shouted back.

"You don't know anything Mahir,you never comforted her as a father",I said.

"Then how can she love me so much when I never comforted her?"he shouted.

I sobbed thinking about it.

"Tell me Bela.How can Mahira love me so much if I never actually cared for her?Tell me?"he shouted.

"She loves me because I'm her father and I also took care of her like you.Just a few months gap and you think that my daughter will forget me?I will forget my daughter?"he asked.

"I was not there when you both needed me,but no one was there to see my tears for you both Bela.I mustered up all that pain within me when Mahira got sick,I was..I was not good in expressing it.I used to come late night and sleep only after taking my daughter in my arm's",he said and I looked at him.

"Just some work pressure and you think I will forget my family?Just like that?My Mahira is my everything,I was shook to the core after knowing her health condition that day,I was pale for days thinking about her health,talking to the best doctors about it",he said and I sobbed.

"And what did you do?You took her away from me",his voice broke,sounding him broken.

"I used to come to your home like a fucking thief to see my own daughter",he shouted with so much pain in his voice.

And I was shocked.

"I didn't miss even a single day,I..I..came everyday to your home..to see my daughter.Everyday..I used to..I used to climb up and see my daughter playing,sleeping..crying for me...I saw her crying for me",he was telling,loosing his will.

"And how fair is this?Do I deserve this much hatred from you?Tell me Bela?"he shouted.

"In fact..you tried to take away my daughter from me.Yes..you are the one who separated me and my daughter",he said gritting his teeth.

"I never tried to separate you from her Mahir,this was caused because of your actions",I shouted.

"You are trying to take away my daughter from me Bela..and trust me,I will never let it happen",he warned me.

"I will go to any extent to be with my daughter,remember this",he said.

"Try yourself Mahir,even I'm not going to give my daughter to you..just like that",I retorted.

We both snapped our heads when we heard a duck quacking sound.

Mahira!

She was standing with a duckling in her hands,eye's filled with tears and..and she was looking scared.

God no,she watched our whole fight in silence.

She covered her face with her palms are started crying,my heart pained looking at her.

"Mahira..",both me and Mahir walked towards her.

She turned back and started walking away from us,this house echoing with her cries.

Mahir was as worried as me looking at her like this.

We both stopped in our tracks when we saw Vish and Yuvi entering inside with a smiling face's.

Their smiles vanished immediately after looking at us and Mahira.

Mahira walked straight and she finally saw them both,
"Yueeee....",she cried hugging his legs.

Vish and Yuvi looked at me and Mahir with a confused look,
"Mahira,don't cry baby",Vish patted her back when Yuvi took her in his arm's.

I sighed and sat on the couch helding my head,Mahir walked towards them.

"Mahira..Yuvi..give her to me",Mahir said.

"First you both look at yourself,then think about Mahira",Yuvi said angrily,rubbing her back.

"Mahira,come here baby.I'm back na",Vish said wiping her lone tear and took a crying Mahira in her arms.

"I..know..theyy..Vishii....",we heard Mahira's muffled cries.

Vish looked at me angrily and I broke into fistful of sobs.

Mahira shouldn't have seen our ugly fight!

Where are we standing now?

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