Invisible Strings * Ongoing*

32 - RIPPED

She was obviously hugging her mother back as hard in the moment. She had been doing that for the last couple of minutes – as her Daddy stood behind them watching the two all shocked and frozen in his spot with dread and fear etched all over his face...

JUST WHAT THE FREAKING HELL WAS THIS ABOUT???

THAT'S IT.

THAT'S IT.

KHUSHI FELT LIKE SHE JUST COULDN'T TAKE IN HER MOTHER'S SILENCE ANYMORE ON THIS ACCORD – ALONG WITH WATCHING HER DADDY FROZEN IN FEAR/Dread in an Intense way with tears streaming down his face – upfront. Surely, something huge was the context in here...on her accord and...she felt like she just needed to know it now...right very now...

Khushi pulls back from hugging Ellie now trembling and crying profusely herself as she asked her holding onto her shoulders – " Mum...please? talk?? Tell me what this is about...your intense broken silence along with your disturbed vibe..is just killing me...as is Daddy's frame of being statued in fear and dread up there...he's crying...you are crying....godammit...please...talk either of you....please just tell me what this is about..before I lose it.....before I lose my freaking mind......I feel so freaking disturbed right now....just talk please...just talk....."

Ellie turns around to glare at Raj behind for just a second – his monumentally disturbed eyes pleading her once again to not tell Khushi anything – but given that her mother's heart had already decided on doing the right thing here – she just looks upfront back at Khushi – takes a moment to wipe her daughters aching tears off her cheeks first and she whispers kissing her head – " I will tell you...Khushi...I will tell you everything...first..sit down my baby..come sit here...next to me on this sofa..here...,"for she knew Khushi would need the comfort of being seated in the moment – as the truth unfolded.

Khushi nods – perplexed in worry as her mother takes her by the hand to sit face to face – on the sofa upfront – with her Daddy still stauted on in fear and dread.What was up with him?? She couldn't help but wonder – what was it that was scaring her daddy so much in the moment. Never in her life before had she spotted fear/dread this intense in his eyes + tears this way in feeling off his eyes...on his cheeks. She couldn't see it...for a second...she felt like she couldn't see her daddy's tears..at all. He was the one – who'd been the second father figure in her life – post Matthew Dad – right? He was the one – who had taken her in – loved her like her very own. Her gods knew – he was amongst the most important men in her Life...

Taking a second – to wipe her mother's streaming down angry tears - Khushi looks at her Daddy across teary-eyed as she says nervously her own voice trembling – " daddy...please...wipe your tears...please??? I cannot see you crying this way daddy...what are you so scared about? I have never seen this sort of fear in your eyes...?? Just wipe your tears...please...I cannot see you two like..this...I just cannot.."

Ellie's heart breaks at that.

To see, Khushi tremble in worry for her dearest daddy in the moment just breaks her motherly heart and also rages it further. To think – Raj knew how much Khushi always loved him – only purely loved him and he'd gone behind her back – with a betrayal that was worse than a stab in the back??????

And at that – from Khushi - Rajesh Maan – felt a deeper level of shame consume him in the moment – the deepest shade off it - indeed.The way Khushi's eyes were shining in worry for him and love right now – just made him feel so ashamed and the tsunami of guilt consumed him - totally.He drowned in it. Surely, he knew, this could be the last time he'd see that emotion in her eyes...for him????