❝ 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒔'𝒏𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒂𝒓𝒅 - 𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒇𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒈𝒍𝒚. ❞
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Sometimes love doesn't knock on the right door. Sometimes it slips in through a misdial, a l...
छोटी सी दूरी थी, पर दिल वहीं ठहरा था, माँसे बात थी, पर नया रिश्ता कहीं गहरा था...
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The Quiet Return?
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Author's POV-
It started like any other day.
But not really.
Because today, Arjun was trying.
Not just existing. Not just showing up and silently sitting on the edge of conversations.
Today, he was trying.
Trying to be present, to talk, to smile, to remember that there was still more to feel after grief. That maybe, the stillness his father left behind could slowly be filled—not replaced—with something softer.
The morning sun filtered through the kitchen window as Arjun, Mira, and his mother sat on the living room floor—surrounded by mugs of chai and a half-opened photo album that Mira had randomly pulled out from the old wooden trunk in the hallway.
"This one!" Mira pointed at a grainy, slightly crumpled photo of Arjun as a chubby toddler wearing a lemon-yellow sweater. "Tell me you didn't bite the photographer right after this photo."
Arjun, who would have normally given a tired smile and zoned out, actually leaned forward, squinting at the photo, and said, "I think I was trying to eat the sweater."
His mother chuckled. "He did bite the postman that year."
"Valid," Mira smirked. "He was five. Bills are traumatic at that age too."
The three of them burst into laughter.
That was the first incident of the day where Arjun's mother and Mira noticed—he was here. Really here.
Later, Mira declared she needed help fixing the garden tap. Arjun immediately offered, surprising both women.
"I mean... I've seen YouTube videos," he said with a half-smile, rolling up his sleeves.
The second moment came when he crouched beside Mira, both of them looking utterly clueless with a wrench in hand, and Mira asking, "Tum plumber ho ya actor playing plumber in a low-budget film?"
"Shut up," he muttered, lips twitching into a grin.
They didn't actually fix the tap, but Mira called it "character development," and Arjun didn't even protest.
