1. Fallen (apart)

                                    

                                          
"Rajeev I want divorce." Parineet said with a low stern voice, her eyes looking hollow after a crying session of atleast one weak. She can't believe that she's asking for a divorce from the man, she loved with all her heart and soul. She in fact, devoted him, because he was there for her when no one could be. When she was being forced to get married to a guy who almost molested her, Rajeev was there to take a stand for her, to hold her hand and took those holy seven vows of a chaste relationship. Which is not chaste anymore. 
She fell for him the instant he gave her a lift in his car that night, saved from the goons and cared for her well being. A good looking guy who seemed to have a big heart, Parineet fell for that Rajeev. 
Indeed he had a big heart. Enough to keep two woman there. 
One week ago, when her best friend was in the operation theatre, fighting for her life, Parineet came to know the biggest shocker of her life. Rajeev - the man to whom she's married, is none another than Neeti's husband himself. Rajeev is married to Neeti too. Rajeev is Neeti's Sanju. He lives with another woman, with another name and with another reality. 
Parineet's father and mother died in a terrorist attack some months back, but that day, for the first time in her life, she felt homeless. 
Rajeev was her home but little did she know that her best friend also resides in the same place. 
How could she do this to Neeti? How could Rajeev do this to both of them? How can destiny bring these two best friends who are more than real blood sisters, at such a crossroad? How could she betray her own friend? She knows she has no hand in this, but in a way she did cheat on Neeti. Didn't she? 
Rajeev, in his head, had all the clarifications ready. He looked ashamed, heartbroken and tongue tied yet managed to gave away an insight into his complicated world, and Pari was least interested.  He said ─ "I loved you Pari. I started to love you, and I was ready to dump my "girlfriend" Neeti for you but then I couldn't help but marry because" ─ he blabbered something like that, Pari doesn't remember clearly. She was too shocked to absorb all this. And frankly it doesn't matter anymore. The reasons can't ever matter. Two marriages? How can one ever justify that? And if someone can, then Parineet is definitely not so intelligent to understand it. She isn't. Two marriages at the same time, can only be regarded as unfaithfulness, cheating and if given a benefit of doubt, a blunder. 
Neeti is unknown to all the fiasco that's happening out of her medical ward. She's out of danger and happy with the fact that her husband Sanju is taking care of her, she cups his face and asks "now that goons are behind the bars, why he's still upset? Why Pari doesn't visit her? Where's she?" But that happy go lucky girl doesn't know that her best friend Pari keeps on standing outside the room, sobbing, clutching her hand purse tightly to her chest, digging her fingers into it, as her heart crumbles and everything inside her collapses again and again. She does not have the slightest idea that when she calls Rajeev, 'her Sanju', her best friend's heart get stabbed billion times in a single second and she feels disgusting to feel something like that for her best friend's husband, Neeti doesn't know that when she was in OT, her husband's ultimate dark truth had come out in front of his another wife. 
Pari didn't have the guts to tell everything to Neeti. Because Neeti loves Rajeev so much. She loves Parineet very much. And if this truth ever comes out, Pari will loose her best friend too and she doesn't deserve this. She doesn't deserve to lose her best friend for a cheater husband. 
Ex husband.
Rajeev finally has signed the divorce papers. He cried, begged and asked for her forgiveness, he asked for another chance but nothing really worked. Nothing can help them now.
"Pari mai -" 
"Parineet hai mera naam. Only my close ones call me Pari." Her eyes looked lifeless and hollow. Devoid of any emotion.