Chapter-23

Happy 30.11 Here's a special update...❤️

"You know Him?" Aditya said pointing to the sky.

"Who?" The little boy asked.

"God...Do you know who He is?"

"Yes, he is just God...neither be seen nor be heard...Mom told that he loves my father so much that he called him up to live with him...I also love my father so much...I also need him...I also want to live with him...why did he call him up? Huh?" The little boy asked with teary innocent eyes.

"God can't be seen nor could he be heard but He can only be felt...Here..." Aditya said as he kept his hand on the little boy's chest.

"You know if you will cry then your father will also cry...and you laugh then?"

"He will also laugh?"

"Yes..."

"So, do you want to cry or laugh?"

"Laugh...But, how? I miss him a lot...I miss the time when we used to go to park together...when he used to lift me up so high that I felt like I was flying like whoosh...I miss him so much...I can't laugh without him, bhaiya..."

"You miss him na?" The boy nodded with his tear filled eyes.

"Here he is..." Aditya said as he opened a locket and showed his father's picture to him. His hands went behind and made the boy wear the locket.

"He is with you now, right?"

"And if you would say we both can visit the park..." Aditya said as he winked at the end.

"Do you want to fly also...I can help with that too...an exclusive offer just for you...What say?" A big grin played on the boy's face. A knock on the door interrupted their moment.

"Come in..." Aditya said gently.

"Doctor, Is the session over?"

"Mom!?" The little boy exclaimed with joy.

"Almost..."

"Can I take him to an adventure park tomorrow?"

"Yeah, of course...anything which keeps him happy..."

"Ok...Done! What is the date today?" Aditya asked as he started scribbling on his notepad.

"30 November..." Aditya's hands stopped scribbling as he registered the date in his mind.

"Ok...I'll come to pick him up tomorrow...You may send your address to me..." Aditya said with much difficulty, trying to overcome his emotions.

"Thank you, Doctor..." The lady said as she exited the cabin with her child. Aditya was so much lost in his thoughts to even respond to his surroundings.

30 November. This date. This day changed so much in his life. If he had the power to delete one day from his life, he would delete this one day without giving a second thought to it.

"Ma, please buy me that car..." Seven-year old Aditya said pleading. Him and his mother were walking by the road's side holding hands. Him on the safer side, while his mother towards the road. A grocery filled bag hanged from his mother's other hand.

"No...and I mean it!"

"Ma, please na...I promise I will be a good boy..."

"No, cheeku..."

"Ma..." Aditya stopped in his track and looked at his mother with puppy eyes.

"No, cheeku...not that look..."

"Ma...please..."

"Ok!"

"Yay!!" Aditya jumped with joy.

"But, I have some conditions that you need to agree to..."

"Every condition is agreed!" Aditya squealed with happiness.

"First listen to them, Adi..."

"Ok..." Aditya said making a pout.

"First, no mischievous acts..."

"Hmm..." He said nodding.

"Second, you will listen to what I say and not trouble me..."

"Yes, and third..."

"You will study with all your heart and become successful one day..."

"Umm..."

"Think...think...then only you will get that toy car..."

"Ok!"

"My Adi is so good! I will talk about this to your father, ok?"

Aditya saw a little puppy standing on the busy road and a car speeding towards it. He left his mother's hand and went to save the puppy. He picked up the puppy in his little hands and started petting him. He turned with the puppy still in his hands and didn't saw his mother anywhere. He crossed the road safely and reached the crowd.

"Ma..?" His heart beat was increasing with each step of his. He held the puppy tight to himself. He saw the vegetables from the grocery bag lying on the road. He walked further and saw his worst nightmare, his mother lying in the pool of her own blood. He kept the puppy down and reached for his mother. He kept her head in his little lap. He wasn't able to understand what happened in just a few minutes. His heart felt as if it will jump out from his chest. His little hands were shaking as he cupped his mother's face.

"Ma...?"

"I love you, beta..." His mother said and closed her eyes, permanently after kissing his inner palm.

"Ma..." He asked in a shaking tone tapping her cheek.

"Maa! Maa, wake up...maa..."

"Maa, wake up... Somebody help...maa..."

He kept shaking his mother only to be disappointed with no reaction.

"Ma..." He kept sitting there without any tear in his eye cupping her mother's face. His mind was somewhere else.

A seven year old Aditya looked around for help but saw only a look of sympathy pass through the people's eyes surrounding him. He doesn't want sympathy, he wants help. Tears escaped his eyes and streamed down his chubby cheeks.

He started crying feeling helpless, sitting on his knees amidst the busy and now crowded road.

"Don't play around and take care..." He remembered his father's words and more tears filled his eyes.

"Help please!" He shouted but no one came forward to help the poor kid. He started crying not able to do anything. The next day these people will be there to show how much gruesome they feel but right now they are just enjoying the show. The show of his life.

Tere bin jee na paaunga...sach much mar hi jaaunga...ye tay hai...

Poor Aditya kept sitting there crying at his loss just when he felt something soft near his knee. He looked at his knee and saw the same puppy from earlier rubbing his face against his knee.

More tears filled his eyes as he clutched the puppy close to himself. He sat there, on the road, crying hugging the puppy.

When his father brought him home, after doing the last rites of his mother, he lashed out at him. Aditya brought that puppy home after losing his mother. The puppy was licking Aditya's leg when he entered the house.

"I told you to not play around! Then why the hell did you do that!?"

"I was not play-ing around, pa..." Aditya said in a low voice. The whole accident scene replaying in his mind.

"Then what were you doing!? I lost my wife because of you...my love of life...my family…I lost her just because of your naughtiness!"

"I also lost my Ma, pa...I also lost her..." Aditya sniffed.

"You lost your mother because of your non sense…"

"Am I not your family, Pa?" Aditya asked biting the corner of his lip.

"I thought you were but what can be expected from someone else's blood..." Aditya felt all the energy draining out from his body.

"Am I not your blood?"

"Didn't you hear to what I said earlier? You are adopted! You are bloody adopted!!!" Harsh said and went in the direction of his room.

"And, one more thing... don't call me pa from now onwards…"

Aditya kept standing there without moving. His eyes red, heart aching and legs shaking.

"Aditya?" Zoya asked in a low voice keeping a hand on his shoulder. He was sitting under the desk, his head rested on his knees and shaking ferociously.

When he looked up, Zoya saw his red puffed eyes and tears automatically lined her eyes as she witnessed his vulnerable state.

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I, finally, completed the chapter...*sigh* Sorry, everyone for making you cry more from this update on this day...🥺❤️

Aditya's past is out🤧🤧 I can't talk..🤧🤧

Hope, you liked this one..❤️