Benaam Rishta:An Invisible String

Chapter20

"This is enough Anirudh!!" Saurav spoke a bit loudly holding him by shoulder "Be practical. Did you forget what happened ten years ago?..."

He bit his lower lip to control himself from breaking down, tears made their way down his cheeks and he kept looking at Saurav like a lost child to hear his words as past events flashed back.....

After that Holi night, Anirudh didn't find Bondita in the morning. next day he came home excitedly to give a happy news to her....that they don't have to be separated. They can live a love life without any guilt or inhibition but that's when he got her letter and came to know that she already left home and wouldn't go to Kalkatta but somewhere else. The reason, he couldn't fathom. A day later, some police and doctor had taken a dead body to their house. Upon inquiring about the matter police informed that, "This is the dead body of Bondita Das...." Shaking his world terribly.

"What the hell are you talking about?" He shouted furiously.

"No Mr. Anirudh, it's true. Hope you have got the news about The train accident of Kalkatta to Kanpur. Which happened yesterday. In that train tragedy, more than a hundred people were injured badly and thirty people lost their lives on the spot and the first female Barrister of Bengal Bondita Das was one of them"

He laughed hysterically shook head to threw away the unwanted apprehensive thoughts. But heartbeat accelerated in acute fear. Slowly went ahead and was about to lift up the white clothes from cadaver, police stopped him saying that her body was bruised, injured brutally. No one would be able to recognise as her face was smashed.

Still he did less care. was about to open, Binoy prevented him and he went to see instead. Next Binoy screamed in horror just having a glance of the corpse that tremored Anirudh's full length violently.

"What did you say? This...this is Bondita!! No. I don't believe. How are you so sure of this??" He yelled again in quivering tone.

Then police gave him a plastic bag saying they're the evidences. with a shaking hand he took the bag and no sooner opened that, his heartbeat stopped making him lifeless. There was Bondita's ID card, her favourite watch and most importantly pieces of the red gown with bright blue border which he had gifted her on the day of Holi. he knew that was the same gown and was confirmed after reading what he had written on the gown before giving her... "Red color symbolises love and it represents free will, and Blue color symbolises faith and it represents Destiny...thus, I'm wishing and I have that my love will be free from the struggle of destiny...."

Each word still was so clear. and reading this he collapsed on the floor clutching the pieces of gown to chest. Further heard Kaka and police's conversation. Police queried why Bondita was going to Kanpur. Trilochan replied that Bondita's Nana's home was Kanpur so That must be the reason she was going there. He kept looking at his Kaka lifelessly.

There's no tears in his eyes!.

"Yes, one more thing, Bondita ji was maybe one half or two months pregnant. And because of the unfortunate accident she loss her pregnancy before death...."

Anirudh looked at them in horror. he recalled their first night on their birthday and again the incident of Holi day flashed in his mind. Bondita had fainted and then Doctor congratulated him, was about to say something but got interrupted. And her sudden departure. Probably that's the reason she didn't stay in Kalkatta but chose to go somewhere else. Unknown to him. That means Bondita was pregnant!....his Bondita......was pregnant.....with his....child.......