:Cure me with your Love:
Part 11
Next morning everyone was gathered in the living room. Preet and Mickey had also came to invite everyone for their engagement which was after a week. Neil came there with his bags already packed. Everyone was shocked to see him with his bags. âNeil beta kahi ja rahe ho?â asked Biji. âYes Biji, actually I am shifting in Mrs.Sandhuâs house as a tenant. Here is all my dues.â He said giving an envelop to Biji. âNeil what happened why you are going?â asked very concerned Naeem bi. âNaeem bi you forgot I came to live here because I had no place to go. But now Mrs. Sandhu herself has offered me to be her tenant so I am shifting there. I donât want to give any more trouble to anyone here.â Neil completed as he looked away. He couldnât say the truth to Naeem bi on her face as she will catch his lie in few seconds. But Naeem bi still got that something has went horribly wrong between Neil and Mini. Naeem bi looked at Preet to find out if she knew anything. Preet was also looking equally shocked that means she also donât know anything. Just then Mini and Arya came there. âNeil where are you going? Asked Arya. Neil closed his eyes and took a deep breath. Now he has to face Arya. How he is going to handle her,âChhoti madam I am just shifting across the street in Mrs. Sandhuâs house I am not going anywhere.â Said Neil exaggerating the last part to assure her that he is not going any far from her. âBut why Neil. You live with us right? This is your home too. So why are you going? Asked Arya on the verge of tears. Neil settled down on his knees in front of Arya and said holding her, âChhoti madam ,this is not my home. I was only a tenant here. Tenants donât live always in the house. I have to go.â Neil tried to explain. âNo, tenant or not you are not going anywhere Neil. I wont let you go. I will miss you. Please stay with us.âArya started crying. âNeil wiped her tears, âPlease donât cry chhoti madam,Please understand I have to go from here its important for me. I am not going far away from you and donât worry I will come daily to meet you.â âBut why are you going Neil. Have I done any mistake? Tell me I will correct it.â said Arya now desperately trying to stop him. âNo Arya baby, donât say that. You can never do anything wrong. Please understand I cant explain this to you but its very important for me to go from here otherwise it will hurt me. Do you want to see me hurt? Neil asked hugging her to which Arya nodded in no still crying in his arms. Seeing that he is not going to budge she went towards Mini, âVeer Balika please stop him. He is not listening to me. You tell him to stop he always listens to you.â Arya requested to Mini. Mini was torn from inside. She was also not happy that Neil is going but she cant be selfish. She broke up with him and after that expecting him to stay was not right. But she never thought of Arya in all this. Arya was vey attached to Neil. It never occur to her mind that she is breaking up with Neil for Arya but how will she react if Neil leaves them. She looked at Arya who was wailing now and she immediately doubted her decision of breaking up with Neil. She opened her mouth to say something when Neil gestured her to stop. âYou have already made you view poin tvery clear to me yesterday. No need to say anything more.â Neil said as the last nightâs memories of how she broke up with him came to his mind. He looked away to hide his tears which were threatening to come out.
He once again looked at Arya and picked her up in his arms, âArya my little darling, there are some things which are not in our control. We have to do certain things even if we donât want. Going from here is one such thing for me. But as I said I am not going away from you.I will be at the restaurant all day. You can come to meet me anytime and in the evening I will come to meet you.â Neil promised her. âpakka promise Neil, you will meet me everyday rightâ seeing that he not going to stop she finally gave up but she asked for promised from him to which Neil nodded in a yes. He then said goodbye to everyone left. Naeem bi followed him on a pretext of helping him settle down in a new house as she wanted to know what was going on. Biji and Preet looked at Mini to find her already wiping her tears. She went in the room unable to hide her tears anymore and Biji and Preet followed her.
Neil was unpacking his bags when Naeem bi asked him, âItni jaldi haar maan gaye Neil. I warned you right that Mini is not an ordinary girl. You will have to make extraordinary efforts for her.â âI know Naeem bi and I was ready to die for her.â said Neil. âthen what happened between you two why you left her in between?â Naeem bi asked angrily as if it was Neilâs fault. âWhy donât you ask your Mini? Veer Balika..huhâŚno, not reallyâŚas far as I know she is such a coward girl unable to move ahead of her past.â Neil replied furiously. âButâŚwhatâŚhappen..how..â Naeem bi asked confused as to why Neil was so furious at Mini. âEfforts are done for those from whom you have hope, hope that they want to be pulled out of their misery. They are trying and they need your help. Efforts are not wasted for masochist people.You are accusing me of giving up. I am not a loser Naeem bi. I could have fought for her with the whole world had she placed her trust on me. Everything was going great but then just one small gust of wind came and blew away everything. I had started thinking that Mini is leaving her fears behind but NO. just a small problem came and she became that old Mini. Ever since Arya has failed Mini is wallowing in self hatred and guilt. I was hurt that my love could not hold her in her tough times but I didnât give up. I was trying everydayâŚeveryday since one month to talk to her to help her but she shut me out of her life completely. When last night I confronted her she broke up with meâ Neil told Naeem bi everything going on between them since last one month .Naeem bi gasped hearing all that. She knew that Mini was upset and they were facing problems but she couldnât have imagined that Mini would take such a step. She felt bad for Neil, poor soul had to go through so much. Neil continued to wipe his eyes furiously as angry tears made them wet again and again, âNaeem bi I pleaded her âŚ.I literally begged her to donât do this to me but she didnât listenâ said Neil slumped down on the floor as the memories of last night resurfaced again. â I had decided to leave the city but then I thought about the restaurant and Arya then I decided to shift here. I couldnât live in that house anymore where my love was killed so mercilessly. I hate her Naeem bi⌠I hate MiniâŚI just hate her.â Neil finally let out his emotional outburst in front of Naeem bi which he was holding since many days. Naeem bi tried to console him but then she left him alone to give him some time gathe rhimself up.
Naeem bi marched towards haveli to confront Mini. what had she done to the poor boy. She found her in her room already facing the music from Biji and Preet. âMini yaar kismet walo ko sachha pyar milta hai. Uski kadra karni chahiye naaki use khud se durr kar dena chahiyeâ Preet explained to Mini. âI know Preet that he loves me a lot but the problem is that I cant ever love him like he do.â Mini said helplessly. âMini you said you are doing this for Arya right? But you saw yourself how Arya felt when he leaved. Arya also likes him she will be very happy to accept him in your life.â This time Biji tried to reason. â Arya is a child Biji, she is very attached to Neil. Thatâs why I had to break up with him. Her attachment will only grow with time and when she will face the reality when Neil wont be able to accept her as her own then her heart will break. She wont be able to take it.â said Mini as if itâs the obvious thing which they are not understanding. â leave it behenji whatever you say she is not going to understand.â Said Naeem bi to Biji. âye aapkya keh rahi hain Mini ko samjhana to hamara farj hai.â Replied Biji. âSamjhaya usse jaata hai jo kuch samajhne to taiyaar ho. Jo apne ateet ki janjeero mein jakda hua ho aise insaan ko samjhane ka koi fayda nahiâ said Naeem bi directly looking into Miniâs eyes. When Mini looked at her confused, Naeem bi continued,âyou left Neil because you fear that history will repeat itself right? Mini nodded in yes. âCant you see, history has already started repeating itselfâsaid Naeem bi smiling sarcastically which made Mini more confused. âArre aise kya dekh rahi hai Allah maari, dekh khudko aaine mein, itihaas khud ko dohra raha hai. Jahan pehle Babita khadi thi wahi aaj tu khud khadi hai. Aaj main tujhme duniya se ladne wali Mini nahi balki dari sehmi Babita ko dekh rahi hoon jo log kya kahenge, bhavishya mein kya hoga ye sab soch soch ke jindagi jeena hi bhul gayi thi. Lekin uske sath uski Mini thi jisne usse apne daro ko peechhe chhodna sikhaya aur tere sath dene liye kaun hai? Ek Neil tha par use toh tune khud hi apne aap se dur kar diya. Bahut badi galti kar di tune Mini. You ran away from Babitaâs weaknesses all your life but at the end you become what you always feared.â Naeem bi concluded and took Preet and Biji with her saying now Mini should become habituated to stay alone as no one will ever come near to her as she herself pushes them away.
Mini sat on the bed with shock as what Naeem bi said sunk in. she was very determined to stick with her decision of breaking up with Neil but now her mind was filled with self doubt. âJahan pehle Babita khadi thi wahi aaj tu khud khadi hai.â, âYou ran away from Babitaâs weaknesses all your life but at the end you become what you always feared.âNaeem biâs words started ringing in her ears again and again till she shouted and closed her ears to stop them. Has she really committed a big mistake? She did this for Aryaâs good but even Arya is not happy with this. was it all worth it? She kept saying that Neil wont be able to accept Arya but was it her who didnât have trust on him or his love just like Babes kept rejecting Hanuman uncleâs love earlier sighting her reason? Was she wrong all along? Was it her paranoia about Arya which clouded her mind and she end up hurting Neil? She remembered how cruel she was to him. How she ignored him how he pleaded her not to break up but she has so ruthlessly broke his heart. Is it too late to say sorry and make amends? Will he ever be able to forgive her after what she did to him? Mini kept thinking all this till there was no energy left in her. she slept after crying whole day.
Preet, Biji and Naeem bi were sitting inthe hall. âye sab kya ho gaya meri bachhi ke sath? Kitni khush thi wo phir ye achanakâŚâ said Biji in disappointment. â Yes, this cant be happening. We should do something for them.â Said Preet. â You are right, ab jo hona tha ho gaya.Hume kuch karna chahiye. Kaise bhi karke in dono ko phirse ek karna hogaâ Naeembi agreed. They all started discussing how to bring them close once again.
to be continued...
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