....My Brothers Are Everything To Me....
Chapter 28:
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Jealousy.....
Irritation.....
Either one of these two feelings were irritating enough.
But both combined into one, then no one can handle the burning in your chest..
That was what happening to Annika.
She had never been jealous of people like this even though she had nothing and grew up in orphanage.
But to be jealous of Tia of all people.. It's disgraceful.
Annika cannot help but feel like that..
Yes, she admits it to herself that she's jealous.
Why...?
She don't know, it's more like she doesn't want to know.
Looking at Shivaay exchanging rings with Tia made her stomach burn and she couldn't look at them nor avoid it. She didn't want to attend this engagement but Dadi had specifically requested her to attend along with giving her a dress too.
Just then, startling everyone, Tia after a push from her mother, leaned and kissed Shivaay on his cheeks..
The stubble which pierced Annika's neck was now being kissed by some other girl...
Her heart all of a sudden weighed a ton, making her feel miserable.
Annika looked away from the scene and moved towards the kitchen, pretending to look over at work but in fact she wants to get away from there.
Annika touched her neck..
The bruise was still there as a proof of what he had done...
Yet... He's now officially engaged to Tia..
No.... No....
This was not time to be sad Annika...
Who was he..?
He's Shivaay Singh Oberoi, an arrogant devil, sometimes sweet too and his eyes,...
No... No....
Stop thinking about him..
Shivaay gritted his teeth and endured through the engagement ceremony, getting irritated with Tia's giggles and Daksh following Annika with lustful eyes, all the while Shivaay mainly ignored Om and Ru's questioning stares.
Yesterday, the talk didn't go well with them, it's rare to fight with Om but even more rare of Rudra to argue with him.
Yesterday, they came to his room to talk him out of this engagement and started teasing him about Annika to which he couldn't respond back with anything so he covered it with anger..
What he could tell them when he himself don't know anything about it...?
He cannot understand emotions if it's not related to his brothers. He cannot really understand the mess his mind has become when it comes to her.
Yet, he could tell there's something between them..
That something was what pushing him to carve Daksh's eyes of his face so he wouldn’t see Annika with those eyes.
Then the disagreement turned into argument with both Om and Rudra.
Just two months before he was fine with relationship and now all of a sudden everything's out of sort and since when did he even start to find Tia annoying.
The kiss on the cheek irritated him enough to glare at her which startled Tia..
Does he have to live like this for all his life...?
Granted, Tia has a good family background and the deal with her family business was good too.
Shivaay didn't expect to have love feelings and all but he expected some sort of stable calmness between them.
If it goes on like this, he will be the first one in Oberoi family to get divorced.
Shivaay never doubted his decision but maybe he felt like he has to rethink it.
He hated feeling this...
Shivaay looked around to find Annika, Om and Rudra all gone from the ceremony.
Why did it feel like he's building a golden cage around him with his own hands.?
"Hey, Rudy.."
Rudra ignored O and stared at Shivaay bhaiyaa from a far.
"Hey Rudy, what are you staring at?"
Om put a hand on Rudra's shoulder and looked at Rudra's sight of view.
"Hey, Why are you spying on Shivaay when you dragged me from there?"
"Shhh, O"
"Come On, Rudy.. Why are we hiding from Shivaay?"
"See him, O.. See how restless Shivaay bhaiyaa is after finding us gone."
"Yeah. He is always like this. He gets upset easily whenever we're not around in home."
Rudra pulled Om towards his room and didn't stare back again, angry at Shivaay bhaiyaa.
"Rudra.. What happened to you?"
"It's nothing.. Just angry at Shivaay bhaiyaa."
Om gasped in surprise and grabbed Rudra's shoulder in shock..
"I noticed yesterday too, the Rudra Singh Oberoi who will give up his gym if his Shivaay bhaiyaa wished for was angry with his Shivaay bhaiyaa? Do my ears deceive me? Did I hear right? Oh..! What a day has come?"
"O... Don't be dramatic."
"Well this is how you behave usually, Rudy."
"Yeah yeah.."
"Hey, Rudra, come on, you know he always brush us off when we speak about love. Don't be sad."
"No, O.. You don't know.."
"What..?"
"You haven't seen him fall apart but I have.."
Om's smiling face turned into a troubled one. He let go of Rudra and sat beside him.
"Rudra, what are you talking about?"
"Bhaiyaa didn't want to tell you at that time but while you were away in rehab centre, Bhaiyaa... He was falling apart.."
Rudra could still remember those days very well.
~~~~~~Rudra waited, sitting on the sofa in Shivaay bhaiyaa's for bhaiyaa to come.
It has been a month since Om had went to rehab, so Rudra was kind of bored with being himself at first but after sometime he grew worried.
Bhaiyaa had at first resigned from his job for a month, looking after Om but after Om started rehab, Shivaay bhaiyaa rejoined in work.
At first it was okay, Shivaay bhaiyaa seemed fine.
But as the days passed, Shivaay bhaiyaa came home after everyone slept and went office before anyone was awake. Then stopped coming to home at all, immersed fully in his job.
Shivaay bhaiyaa didn't attend calls nor did he respond well if he attended the call.
Rudra only saw him last week, Shivay bhaiya looked so worn out and thin. It didn't look like he has been eating well.
Shivaay bhaiyaa was the symbol of strength, to see him like that. Shivaay bhaiyaa even refused to talk properly with Dadi.
Rudra didn't know what to do...
Rudra went to office but couldn't meet him since he's always in a conference or presentation. Rudra didn't have the heart to disturb him.
So Rudra did what he could...
After coming from college, Rudra waited in his bhaiyaa's room as long as he can stay awake.
Rudra knew the health condition of Shivaay bhaiyaa more than anyone and he becomes even more worried thinking all this.
Bhaiyaa hadn't come to home for a week now.
All of a sudden, the door was opened and Rudra could never tell how relived he was to see his Shivaay bhaiyaa.
But the relief was short lived because standing in front of him was not his Shivaay bhaiyaa....
It was Shivaay Singh Oberoi...
Shivaay bhaiyaa had never put walls around his heart for his brothers but he looked like a stranger.
Why...?
Why no one noticed him becoming like that...?
"Bhaiyaa..."
"Go to sleep, Rudra.."
"Bhaiyaa"
"Rudra... Please.. I don't want to talk.."
"Bhaiyaa... Are you still feeling guilty because of Om?"
Shivaay bhaiyaa didn't answer but Rudra got the answer from his face itself.
Shivaay bhaiyaa dropped his bag and crumpled on the floor much to his shock.
Rudra knelt down beside his bhaiyaa, tears trailing down without him knowing because this is his bhaiyaa, the bravest person he had ever seen, his superman.
"It's not your fault, bhaiyaa. Om hid everything."
"It's my fault, Rudra... I should have known. Such a fatal mistake done by me to my brother was unforgivable."
"Bhaiyaa... None of that was your fault. No one noticed it."
"But I should have, Rudra.. From the moment I took him and you in my hands ever since both of you had born , you two are my responsibility. I failed it... I had failed Om.. For him to not rely on me but on drugs, I failed as a brother. Grandfather would've been so ashamed of me."
And to Rudra's utter shock, tears trailed down his bhaiyaa's cheeks while his body trembled.
"I can't sleep, Rudra nor can I eat properly.. I kept imagining how much pain he will go through with withdrawal symptoms of drugs. I don't want Om to be any more hurt than this. Just thinking of him going through all this pain... If only I had noticed earlier.. It's my fault, Rudra."
Rudra realized that this was the breaking point of his brother. No one noticed this..
Rudra hugged his bhaiyaa and held him in his arms, trying to comfort him so his bhaiyaa let out everything.
"I am the worst brother, Rudra.. I am the worst."
"Stop it, bhaiyaa.. You're the best of best brother anyone could ever have. Yes, Om relied on drugs that is his fault for not trusting and relying on us, not yours bhaiyaa.. I too have failed to notice you till you became like that, bhaiyaa"
"Rudra... I almost destroyed a company in my anger. I don't know what I am even doing these days."
"It's okay, bhaiyaa.. It's okay.. I am here... And Om will be here too in few days. Om may think of himself as weak but just you wait and see, he will be back soon."
Rudra petted his Shivaay bhaiyaa's hair lightly and held him till he fell asleep like this..
Just before he fell asleep, Shivaay bhaiyaa muttered in his sleep which was clear enough to be heard by him.
"Rudra... I won't live with myself if something happened you two."
It hasn't been easy after that too but Rudra waited everyday and made Shivaay bhaiyaa to promise to come home everyday. He made sure, Shivaay bhaiyaa at least ate twice a meal a day and made him sleep with stupid stories, making him laugh with his childish antics. Slowly his bhaiyaa pieced himself together and with Om's arrival after a month, he became normal.~~~~
Rudra had never told this to Om since his Shivaay bhaiyaa didn't want to stress Om just after he returned home.
But Rudra never forget the crying face of his bhaiyaa. His azure eyes glistening with tears held so much pain. He never wanted to see his bhaiyaa like that. It always bothered him.
Om felt guilty hearing all this, he had known Shivaay was not well after he went to rehab but to this extent, Om felt ashamed. Shivaay is the main reason that he hadn't touched drugs till now. Just imagining Shivaay's guilty face was enough to keep him away from drugs.
"That's why I always get worried, O when Shivaay bhaiyaa overworks or doesn't come home like he did a while before after the argument with you. It's just makes me remember those days."
"I am sorry, Rudy.."
"Hey O, it's okay now. It's just, he will go mad even if one of us is not well. Shivaay bhaiyaa will fall apart like that and I want a girl who loves bhaiyaa to be there for him.. We're everything to him, O.. We're the sun he's orbiting.. I just want a girl to be there for him, to manage him. But Tia is not the right person and Shivaay bhaiyaa who always listen to my whims was refusing to listen to this. It makes me angry, O. Did you see even now, bhaiyaa looks around for us just like he was in our childhood. He has done everything for us, even more than our own parents. I just want him to be happy."
Om knew too and this was why he wanted Shivaay to not think about class and lineage but about love. He has to live with her.
Om put a hand on Rudra's shoulder in comfort..
Even though he can be childish most of the time, Rudra did grow up well. Shivaay's desperate attempts at hiding anything big and bad from Rudra had made him grow into a normal person who was a little childish but that's what makes Rudy special.
"I was searching for you two.. Why have you left?"
Shivaay came in looking worried.
Rudra just turned around with a hmph and angry pout, he's not gonna give in this time.
Shivaay sighed knowing this was going to be long conversation of compromising his brothers in this matter. Its better than silent treatment. But he smiled despite the situation.
Love or no love...
A good wife or a bad relationship..
Nothing mattered...
It never did nor does and never will be..
As long as his brothers are here with him, he wants nothing in his life.
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Annika sighed and entered her house, the day was so long that she felt fate was being extra cruel to her.
Nothing ever went her way..
Annika moved towards the mirror and took her dupatta from her neck and stared at the bruise, it's fading slowly and no matter how much she tried not to, she felt depressed because of it.
The engagement has ended in noon and she wrapped up the decoration and catering details till night. So she came home tiredly and she immersed in her thoughts, failed to notice there's something strange in her home.
She had never noticed her longing gazes and Shivaay's lingering stares were noticed by Daksh today and he had knowingly arranged things to scare her.
As a punishment....
Annika...
You has to suffer...
For every time you gazed at Shivaay, every time you pierced my heart with arrows..
Daksh switched on the screen so he can see her getting all scared...
Daksh didn't want her to cry but she has to suffer for falling for that Shivaay, for hurting Daksh, she has to suffer..
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(A/N: Hello readers... Some of you may disappointed to hear that nor Ishana or Guari is going to be introduced in this fic any soon. I haven't watched Ishkara scenes and I didn't watch that much of DBO and I also didn't watch a single episode of bhavya scenes.. I really don't know how their characters are or anything. So I am still contemplating whether to introduce them or not.
Anyway, hope you all liked this and do share your thoughts..
Oh..! One last thing,
Advance happy new year to all my dear readers and I wish coming year brings happiness to all of you..
Take care and See you with next update.)