Despair

Chapter 1
This day sucked totally, it could go down as one of the worst days of Riddhima Gupta's entire life. She couldn't help but think what a fool she had been as she got her clothes ready for tomorrow. Hopefully tomorrow would be a fresh new start for her and she'd make no more mistakes and these short-term relationships would have to stop. Because, even though she knew she wasn't serious in the relationship and it would only last for a while, the abrupt ending of one did leave scars especially when it ended on such awful notes.
She cringed as the sight of Sid's wife storming towards her flashed in her mind for the umpteenth time this day. Monica had slapped her. Hard. It still hurt. And she had called her a s**t, accused her of being a home wrecker. Riddhima knew she herself wasn't really at fault and neither was Monica, she couldn't even imagine what the poor woman must be going through after knowing what a cheating bas***d her husband had been. If anyone was at fault here it was Sid Malhotra, who had dared to pursue Riddhima into a relationship with him despite being married and a father of two.
On second thoughts Riddhima should be thanking Monica for that slap, it had really been a wake up call for her and she had been saved from sleeping with that scumbag. Sid and Riddhima had been heading to the hotel with Sid's arm wrapped possessively around Riddhima's waist and suddenly Sid had stopped in his tracks, horrified at the sight of his wife standing before him, he had jerked Riddhima away from himself and of course it didn't take Riddhima long to put two and two together.
The final blow had been the slap and all those abuses hurled at her by Monica while Sid just stood next to her in shock of being caught. Once Riddhima came back to her senses she had told Monica her side of the story and explained to her how she had no clue that Sid was married and that he had cheated her too. To say Monica was appalled at her cheating husband was an understatement.
Although at that point Monica was done with Sid for good, Riddhima had some scores to settle. She chose the choicest of abuses for him and didn't leave before giving him a bloody nose.
Now she sat on the corner of her bed with her head in her hands cursing herself for being such a foolish woman all this while. Everything was supposed to be going well, it was the first day as a resident doctor for her tomorrow at Sanjeevani. She had been so excited about it, but now all her excitement had been drained way thanks to the whole Sid-Monica episode.
Just then Muskaan entered Riddhima's bedroom, interrupting her train of thoughts. It was about time, Riddhima had been wondering what was taking her best friend so long to come. She had called her over so she could rant to her about everything that had gone wrong in her life in the last 24 hours. She knew Muskaan would be able to cheer her up, she always managed to some how whether it was with her wisecracks or by just being her usually bubbly self.
"Muskiii what took you so long?" Riddhima screeched at her.
Muskaan's eyes widened at Riddhima's over-reaction. "God Ridzy!! Why are you shouting and what happened why did you call me so urgently? I was preparing for tomorrow you know ..." She stopped mid sentence when she saw her friend's worried expression and small tears rolling down her cheeks.
Immediately she went to her and took her in a side hug. "Riddhima what's wrong? Why are you crying? I'm getting worried."
Riddhima took a deep breath and steeled herself before telling her. "I ... I and Sid broke up."
"WHAT? But why?" Muskaan asked in shock. Last time she had checked, Riddhima seemed to be very happy in her relationship. she wondered what had happened so suddenly.
And that set Riddhima off. "Muskaan he's such a dog you won't believe it .. He's married and has two kids' he was cheating on his wife and me all this while."
Muskaan gaped at her in her shock. "What the f**k? Are you serious?"
Riddhima sighed heavily and narrated the whole story to her and watched the expressions on Muskaan's face change from one of shock to anger to disbelief and finally of empathy.
"Well that truly sucks! But you can't do much about it now, what's happened has happened Ridz and you sitting here and crying about it won't change anything, you know that. So just go get smashed and suck it up."
Riddhima looked at her friend in disbelief. "Get smashed? Are you for real? It's the first day of work tomorrow and you're suggesting I get drunk the night before?!"
"So what man?! I'm sure a few drinks until you forget about all this Sid fiasco won't do much harm. And tomorrow will be a fresh new day which means a fresh new start. And you never know you might find some SINGLE hot hunk at the hospital tomorrow, who'll just rock your world and make you forget all about Sid in a second." She told her cheekily with a wink.
Riddhima shook her head rolling her eyes at her. There was no way she was going for any guy again, well not anytime soon anyway. She had learned her lesson now.
"Pleaseee Musaan." She groaned. "Not men again. I've decided to take a break after this, and it's always those good looking ones who are dodgy. If I do I'll go for a total nerd or loner this time at least they can be trusted to be loyal."
Muskaan just chuckled at Riddhima's logic and giving her best friend a tight hug and a kiss on the cheek bid her a good bye. And Riddhima followed her advice and got smashed till Sid was totally flushed out of her system.
As Muskaan so rightly pointed out tomorrow would be a fresh new day which meant a fresh new start.
Hey guys =) for those of you who don't know me I'm Rosh. And well this idea had been bugging me for quite some time now and so I finally decided to pen it down. I hope you guys like the first part and do tell me your HONEST views about it, even if they're negative I won't mind LOL.
And I just wanna thank my friends Rads and Neeti who helped me with a lot of the ideas and Tashu for the banner and the credit for the title goes to her. ILY GUYS <3
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