SOULMATES

I'm gonna miss you

"You sure you're gonna get out of this house, Ragini?" anna asked as she saw Ragini packing her clothes into the suitcase.

Ragini ignored Annapurna, she was still busy packing her things.

Annapurna pulls Ragini's arm, forcing Ragini to turn to him.

"Look at me, are you sure you're leaving this house? You're still my son-in-law and I forbid you to step foot out of this house!"

Ragini tek unmoved, she just fell silent.

"I'm sorry! But I can't keep being here! I can't! Sorry!"

Ragini tries to get her hand out of Anna's grip.

Ragini lowered her head, she twisted her body her tears flowed swiftly. Her heart aches and hurts when she learns the truth that Laksh was the one who caused Rohit, the man she loved, to die.

"Laksh is not entirely at fault Ragini.. You should have heard the explanation before you decided to end your relationship with him"

Ragini remained silent.

"There's nothing more to explain, it's all very clear" he said, holding back the emotions inside his chest.

"My son loves you so much, I can see it from the look in his eyes when he sees you and treats you, he respects you so much and respects you as his wife, if he hides all this maybe he has a reason"

"Haha.. A reason? What other reason? He purposely hid all this so that I would be willing to marry him when obviously he killed my husband first"

Ragini closed her suitcase and wanted to pull it away as she wanted to step her foot out of Annapurna's house screaming.

"At least think about Ragini before making a decision! Would you let your child be born without a father, if he asked about his father what answer would you give?"

Ragini fell silent, she clenched her hand. Take a deep breath and breathe it out slowly.

"This child is not Laksh's child" he said loudly.

"You're wrong Ragini.. What do you think is Laksh's reason for marrying you? That's all he did because he wanted to save you because of insults people later if you gave birth to a child without a father figure? You're wrong! Laksh is the biological father of the boy"

Ragini was surprised, she turned back around her body. He scrunched his eyebrows.

"What do you mean?"

"Yes.. The child you bear is Laksh's son, he is the biological father of that child. Laksh's friend who a doctor accidentally injected Laksh's sperm into yours, at first thought you were a surrogate mother who was willing to contain Laksh's seed but it turns out she was misdirected, do you remember that?"

Ragini recalled the incident where she went to the hospital for medical check-ups but the doctor instead put something into hers.

Ragini clenched her hand.

"Suckers! It turns out that guy was really the source of trouble in my life, so I lost my family and loved ones, because this kid (hit his stomach) I really hated him!"

Ragini continued to cry and hit her stomach, Anna approached her and pulled Ragini's hand to stop hitting her stomach.

"Stop Ragini.. The baby is innocent! She was accidentally in your womb, please don't hurt her even if you never want her, let her see this world later, I beg you" Anna said in tears.

Ragini couldn't bear to turn her face away.

"All right! I'll keep this baby until he's born but I beg you not to block my way from here, if you keep getting in the way I'm gonna abort this" she cried.

Annapurna was just speechless, he was completely resigned to his circumstances. He just nodded and stared at the pain.

Ragini pulls her suitcase and leaves Annapurna. At least he breathed a little relieved because Ragini did not act rashly to eliminate the life of his grandson.

***

Laksh leaned his head against the wall of the prison, his tears dripping out of his eyes. He raised his head and closed his eyes, a dark shadow about the events that occurred when his arrest made his heart really sore.

He looked down and looked at Ragini's silk mangal necklace, he cried bitterly and smiled wryly.

Again and again his love is now supreme, a story that has not been started even had to be forced to end.

The happiness that is expected never comes, only sadness and suffering that comes in his life.

I don't know what sins he had committed in his past so God always played with his destiny.

As she began to feel love again, again the Gods forcibly snatched her away.

Now that Laksh is broken, he is really suffering. More suffering than betrayal.

He was injured because he could not see the development of his baby in the womb of his wife, maybe even now Ragini was sick of meeting him.

The shadow of hatred and anger Ragini always flashed in his mind, still clearly ringing his words earlier this afternoon that so hurt his heart.

Laksh stared at the rubble of his index finger that left the stain of Ragini's old sindoor who Ragini forcibly removed using that finger.

"Laksh.. There are people who want to see you" the warden said loudly.

Laksh turned his head and wiped his tears, he put the silk mangal necklace back in his pants pocket.

Laksh gets out of the prison following the warden's steps leading him to a place.

He rounded his eyes when he saw his best friend Akash was there with his mother. His mother smiled but his tears kept dripping, while Akash he seemed to pity Laksh's condition.

"Laksh"

Annapurna immediately hugged the burly body of his son. Laksh just fell silent, he stroked his mother's hair and kissed the tops of her head to keep her mother calm and stopped crying.

"Std.. Already mother.. Don't cry anymore for Laksh"

Laksh wiped away the tears on Annapurna's cheek, he then sat opposite Akash.

"Laksh.. I'm really surprised, I didn't think you were the one......"

Akash hung up his sentence, his tongue felt like a joke to continue his words.

"I killed Rohit?"

Akash nodded.

"I talked before I got here with Meethi, but she didn't mind what I said, she said justice has to be done and you have to get the punishment you deserve! I tried to persuade him to drop his lawsuit but he refused, I'm sorry Laksh"

Laksh just smiled he stared fixedly at Akash's face.

"You're not wrong! What Meethi did was right, if I was in his position I'd do the same thing, you don't have to worry"

Annapurna and Akash exchanged lyrics, they really don't have the heart of Laksh like this.

"Laksh.. Ragini's gone from home"

Laksh was surprised, he really did not expect that Ragini had indeed left him.

"Mothers.. Why did you let him Ragini.. She's pregnant with mom, where she's going.. Even he had no purpose in life anymore, his family had kicked him out and he had no one"

"He's back at Rohit's house, Laksh. Meethi tells him to stay there, however Ragini still has the right to live there, because she is still Rohit's wife even though Rohit is gone"

Laksh exhaled violently, he closed his eyes.

"Then how did he finance his life, ma'am?"

Annapurna stroked the back of Laksh's hand.

"You take it easy, son, Akash has given Ragini a suitable job"

Laksh looked towards Akash.

"I beg Akash! Don't you give Ragini a hard job, you remember her condition well"

"Sorry madam, sir.. Your time is up! Laksh has to get back into his cell"

The cop pulled Laksh's arm.

Annapurna hugged his son tightly before he was brought back into his cell.

"Laksh.. Take care, I promise you won't be here for long, Laksh.. I promise I'll get you out of here soon, I promise"

Laksh just nodded resignedly, he glanced at Akash and blinked his eyes.

***

Ragini was still pensive in her room, she tightly hugged her legs. His mind was still fixed on the incident this afternoon.

"You're evil Laksh.. Really nasty! I didn't expect you to take Rohit's life, you're evil"

BRAAAKKK..

Suddenly Rohit's picture falls, Ragini turns and takes the photo. Staring at him softly, he was really sad because Rohit died because of Laksh. He hates Laksh.

As Ragini tidied up the photo and the piece of glass, she saw a piece of paper folded inside.

Ragini picked it up and began to read it, she was completely unconcerned by what she had read in the letter.

He shed his tears and sat on the floor. Lamenting the bad luck that always comes to him.

To be continued...