Part 8 : The Painful Past

                                    

                                          
-------- SANSKAAR'S POV ---------


                          
DO I LIKE HER...?? I wasn't expecting this question all of a sudden... What should I say...?? I can lie to others but how can I to myself...!! And to be honest to myself, I fell for her just at the moment I saw her for the first time... but I realized it when she was kidnapped... Just the feeling of losing her shattered me entirely... That was the moment when I realized what she meant to me...!!


                          
I can't see her in pain and to know the cause for the pain she is going through I must tell this truth to Baba...


                          
---- SANSKAAR'S POV OVER------------


                          
Sanskaar walks and sits in front of SB who's already sitting on the bed...


                          
Sanskaar: Baba... I don't know whether this is love or not... but the only thing I know is I can't see her in pain... Every tear from her eyes hurts me thousand times... I'm not sure how I got attached so much to her in such a short duration... but it was really beyond my control...!!

                          
SB: (a painful smile appears across his face) Do you know Sanskaar... today she laughed after entire two years...?? 

                          
Sanskaar: (shocked) Two years...?? I thought that she's like that only... I mean like a person who talks less, smiles rarely and makes less frnds... (holds SB's hands) Baba... I know there is something that happened with her... Please tell me... I assure you ... You can trust me...!! (gives a affirming grip on his hands)...


                          
SB starts and Sanskaar's sits beside him...


                          
------ FLASHBACK -------


                          
SB: (takes a deep breath) Our Swara was never like she's today... She is nowhere related to me or Ganga... she just lived in our village... from the very beginning Destiny played a very cruel game with her and she lost her parents at the very tender age of 8 years... her father Krishnakant was my best friend... so she started addressing me and Ganga as Baba and Maa... we didn't have any child, so both of us loved her just like our daughter... After her parents died in an accident her chacha and chachi were asked to take care of her and raise her up... They brought her in... but her chachi never liked her unwanted entry in their family of four including their two daughters... she didn't even treat her as a human being... Her only frnd was their younger daughter Chutki... both were of the same age... but her elder cousin Anamika never liked her... she was just like her mother... They never wanted her to go to school... but Swara was much more intelligent than both her cousins... I got her admission done and that way she completed her graduation...


                          
Time went by and 13 years passed like that... Swara never complained... Whether they gave her loads of work not allowing her to study... or gave her punishment for something she hadn't done... But as she grew up she became an epitome of Beauty with Brains in the entire village... She was the life of the entire village... The morning of each and every villager used to start with her Aarti which she used to sing in the temple every morning...


                          
Sanskaar: (shocked) She used to sing Aarti... but I thought that she doesn't believe in God...!!

                          
SB: She doesn't now... but she used to be the biggest worshipper of God in our entire village... and trust me she's a wonderful singer... Its about two years ago... It was about an year that Home Sunshine started and we shifted to Palampur... Ganga and I had some important work so we went to our village for two days... and just like any other day we welcomed the morning with the aarti in Swara's beautiful voice...


                          
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TWO YEARS AGO...


                          
Swara is singing aarti in the temple...