Thanks to all for voting and commenting on the previous part.
Warning:
I have been hesitating in posting this story so far.
This is the original warning message I had posted regarding this story when I posted it on Rishabala. Just reposting it.
Finally, I am here with the Rape story. Please, if you have issues with the love story between a Rapist and the Rape victim, then please don't read it because I seriously don't want any comments on 'how you could write a story on rape and how big a crime it is'. I know that, and I personally feel that a rapist should be castrated and then hung in public. This is a story idea that had haunted me and I had to get it out of my head. And another thing... this story follows the rapist and not the rape victim. So, please don't accuse me of selling Gauri's hurt and pain short... the story idea I got was about Om's feelings. I tried to show Gauri's too but I didn't want to make it too much painful... and I felt I couldn't do justice to Gauri's side of the story even if I tried to write it andjust following Om's story in this, I had been feeling too heavy, so I don't know how I would have felt if I wrote it from Gauri's side. And no offense to Kunal Jaisingh or Shrenu Parekh. It is just a story.
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"DI!!!" Gauri excitedly calls her as she ran into Anika's room dropping her luggage on the way.
"Gauri!" Anika smiles at her as she hugged her happily.
"Oh my God! You are getting married! I can't believe it. Tell me all about him. What all did he say when he came to meet you? Is he hot?" Gauri asks her teasingly as she nudged Anika.
Anika giggles happily and tells her, "He is so hot! So dreamy."
"I bet. But why this sudden rush? You just saw him two days ago and now tomorrow engagement. Do you know how much I had to beg my boss for a sudden leave?"
"His sister is getting engaged day after, and his family wanted to conduct both the functions together."
"And Mami might have thought she can foot the bill to the groom's side for the function if we do it together." Gauri teases her.
"Sshh... It was Papa's idea." Anika whispers to her giggling.
Gauri laughs loudly hearing that. "Show me his picture."
Anika grabs her laptop and gets his photo. "This is him."
"Let me see your hot Omkara." Gauri teases her as she turned the laptop towards her. Then seeing the photo her smile drops. "This is Om, right?"
"Omkara Singh Oberoi. You know him?" Anika asks curiously.
"Yeah... Di what do you know about him?" Gauri asks her curiously.
"Why, Gauri? What do you know about him? And how do you know him?" Anika asks her frowning.
"I know him from college."
"College? But he didn't study in your college."
"But we had common friends. We used to hang out together."
"And?" Anika asks frowning realizing there was more to it.
"He is a nice guy, Di. Very sweet."
"But? What is it, Gauri?" Anika asks her frowning.
"I don't know, Di... he might have changed... don't know how he is now."
"How was he before?"
Gauri contemplates for a while and then decides that her loyalty was more towards her sister and their family who had raised her after her parents' death and tells her, "He used to be a little wild."
"Wild?"
"Alcohol... girls... he used to majorly sleep around. But he might have changed his ways. Did he say anything about that?"
"I didn't ask him anything about that." Anika says as she sits down in shock.
"He used to smoke up too. He had got into an accident because of it and he had said that he would quit and he was never going to use drugs again. He had promised all of us that."
"Drugs too?"
"Yeah but he did tell us that he was not going to use it again." Gauri tells her again.
"Alcohol, girls, drugs... is there anything good about him, Gauri?" Anika asks her shocked.
"No, Di... I know him... he is a sweet guy... I can guarantee that... He had the vices of a boy from a rich family but he was a true friend. Every time anyone was in trouble he would be there to help them out. He has helped me out too... but he was a little wild back then. But that is years ago, Di. He might have cleaned up after that. I haven't seen him after I left college."
"I don't care. I can't marry him." Anika decides.
"Just talk to him before you decide, Di. Give him a chance to explain." Gauri request her.
"Why should I jump into fire knowing that I would get burned, Gauri? I should have sent you his photo when this proposal came then things wouldn't have come to this. Even now, it is not late." Anika decides and walks off to talk to her parents while Gauri sat back in shock wondering whether she did the right thing by telling her something that had happened in the past.
A week later, Gauri was excitedly running around taking care of the arrangements for Anika's engagement. As she looked at her sister with her a fiance a pang of guilt hit her heart. Di had called off the wedding with Om. Before she could intervene, the marriage had been called off and that evening, Di got a new proposal from Shivaay who is working abroad and the marriage was fixed and now engagement as Shivaay has to leave back tomorrow. Gauri sighs as she thought of Om, she had tried many times to call him but then chickened out. Seeing the couple exchange the rings, Gauri softly claps. She feels a cold object on her waist and before she could turn to investigate she gets a strong scent and hears a cold voice. "Don't make a sound. Come with me."
"Om?" Gauri gasps in shock hearing the very familiar voice.
"Keep your mouth shut and move."
"Om... I..."
"I said shut up and walk. Do you want a blood bath here?" Om asks her furiously.
Gulping fearfully Gauri starts walking.
Feeling as if his head was about to split, Om wakes up holding his head and looks around the room confused wondering how did he get there and where he is.
"Guest house?" Om says confused seeing the familiar room. "How did I get here?" Om asks softly as he started to get off the bed. "What the hell happene... GAURI!" Om looks around the room in panic remembering Gauri and sees the room all messed up.
"Oh God... Oh God... no... no..." Om says frantically as he got up from the bed. "Please... no... no... Oh God... please no." Om frantically starts praying as images came flashing to him. "GAURI!" Om screams out for her as he stood up and realizes that he is naked. He looks at the bed and sees blood.
"Om... please let me go."
"Please... I am begging you."
"Please don't do anything to me."
"HELP."
"Om"
"Om"
"Om PLEASE"
Om steps back from the bed remembering Gauri's screams and her begging him to let her go. He could hear her screams, her pleading him and he hadn't listened to them. He had attacked her like an animal.
"Oh God!"
She had fought him and begged him but he had just...
"AAA" Om screams out in agony remembering what he had done to her and stumbles back in pain. He falls down as he screamed out loudly oblivious to everything around him, and all that was surrounding him was Gauri's heart wrenching voice as she begged him.
Om gets out of the car and looks at Gauri's house. The house looked quiet and all the lights seemed to be off except for one room. That could be Gauri's room. He stealthily starts walking towards the house. I shouldn't be coming here. I should be going to the police and surrender. Om thought as he stopped for a second as his eyes filled again with tears. But I have to see her. I have to tell her that I ... I have to see her.
Om walks around the house in the dark to find a way to enter and finally he climbs onto the pipe line and climbs up to the terrace. He quickly picks open the terrace door, thanks to his wild life from college. He gently opens it and sneaks in.
Om was keeping to the dark and walking around looking for Gauri's room when he hears whispers and stops to listen trying to recognize if Gauri's voice was one among them.
"Gauri... you can't tell this to anyone."
"Mami..."
"If someone finds out that you were raped then we will not be able to show our face to anyone."
"I didn't do anything wrong, Mami." Om hears Gauri's whisper as she sobbed.
"I know, Gauri but why did you leave the venue? You should have called one of us."
"He would have killed all of us." Gauri whispers.
"He can still do that... so please forget all this happened... don't breath a word of this to anyone... specially Anika... her marriage is fixed and if Shivaay's family find out about this then they might call off the wedding. Then we have Soumya to think about. Your life is ruined don't ruin my daughters' life too."
Om closes his eyes in pain hearing the conversation. After what he did to her, he couldn't imagine what Gauri might be going through and now her family wasn't even supporting her.
"I won't tell anyone." He hears Gauri's whisper.
"Now, stop crying. You go to sleep and when you wake up forget all these happened."
"I won't be able to forget." Gauri says as she broke down piercing Om's heart as he leaned back and silently cried.
"You have to, Gauri. Think of it as a nightmare. Nothing happened to you and no one needs to know anything. Understood?"
Om hears a faint whimper. Few seconds later, he sees Anika's mother walk out and he quickly ducks behind. After he made sure no one was around he quietly slips into Gauri's room and sees her lying on the bed crying. He locks the door.
Hearing the sound, Gauri turns to look at the door and sees Om. She quickly sits up in bed and starts scrambling to the end as she opened her mouth to scream in fear. Om was quick on his feet and he clamps her mouth with his hand and whispers to her, "I didn't come to hurt you, Gauri. I didn't. I don't know what I was doing." Seeing her panic having him so close to her, he jumps over her to the other side of the bed still holding her mouth and turns on the light as she stared at him frightened. "Gauri... I don't know how all that happened... I am sorry." Om says as he broke down in front of her kneeling before her leaving her mouth. "I wasn't in my senses... everything had toppled down at home and I didn't know what I was doing... I am sorry, Gauri... I don't deserve to live for what I did to you... I don't..." Om starts to wail when Gauri quickly keeps her hand over his mouth to shut him up.
"My family doesn't know... please leave." Gauri tells him as she cried.
Om moves back as he sat on the floor facing her crying.
"You were my friend, Om." Gauri accuses him as she cried. "Was Di the last girl on earth that you did this to me for her?"
"Anika was not the issue. She didn't matter to me from the moment she called off the wedding. It was you who mattered because you were my friend, Gauri!" Om replies to her. "After your breakup with Kaali, when he was stalking you, I was the one who had helped you and you couldn't even ask me a few questions? You couldn't talk to me, Gauri?" Om asks her though not accusingly rather helplessly. "Why didn't you try to talk to me, Gauri? I would have told you that after I had endangered all your life due to my drugs, I hadn't touched it. I would have told you that I stopped getting drunk. I would have told you that I was clean for the past 2 years. I would have told you that from the moment I decided to get married I had decided that I would be loyal and faithful to my wife. Why didn't you ask me anything, Gauri? Why did you judge me for how I was 3 years ago? We lost touch after college but once upon a time I called you my friend, Gauri. Whether we stayed in touch or not, friends are forever. If you had called me last week and told me you were in trouble I would have come to help you without any questions asked. You know that. You know I would do that for my friends and you backstabbed me? If you had thought I wasn't good enough for your sister you could have told me. I would have done something. I would have happily stepped aside because you were my friend."
Gauri looks at him in shock as she really didn't have an answer to his questions. She didn't even think of talking to Om first before telling Di everything. But did any of that matter now? Wasn't her mistakes insignificant compared to his sin? "I didn't deserve to be raped. No one deserves to be raped!" Gauri furiously accuses him.
Tired Om turns around and lean on the bed with his back towards her. "When my sister's fiance found out that my wedding got called off and the reasons for it, he called off the wedding with Priyanka. My family threw me out. I was blamed, punished and accused for a life that I had left behind. I was no longer that. Maa said that I am no longer her son." Om tells her as tears fell from his eyes from the memory. "You know what my Maa is to me. When Maa turned her back against me... I turned to drugs." Om confesses to her in a whisper. "Drugs and alcohol... I had been drifting in and out of my senses the last whole week. The thought that you had caused me all this for no valid reason, I don't know... when I decided I wanted to punish you. My life looked as if it had ended and I decided to end yours. I came to put a bullet in your skull." Om tells her as he turned to look at her. Gauri was shaken hearing his confession. He had come to kill her?
"You should have just killed me, Om." Gauri whispers to him in tears.
"I saw you smiling and I remember thinking how you had snatched my happiness and I will punish you in such a way that you never smile for life. Then, I don't know what happened or how... I can't even think of hurting a girl like that and I hurt you like that... I raped you." Om says as he broke down in front of her. "None of my reasons excuses me from what I did to you. I need to be punished for what I did. I wanted to see you and talk to you before I went to the police."
"NO!" Gauri shouts in panic.
"Whatever your mami says, Gauri you deserve justice."
"I am not going to get anything by putting you in jail. I won't forget what you did to me. I won't forgive you even if you rot in jail for the rest of your life. If what happened comes out then my family would be ruined."
"But Gauri..."
"You have hurt in the most heinous way a man could hurt a woman... now don't add more to it. You ruined my life. Now let me pick it up and put it back together for my family."
Om looks at her in guilt for a while and then asks her, "I will marry you, Gauri?"
Gauri furiously looks at Om in shock then shouting in fury she slaps him with one hand while she pulled on his hair with the other. She kept slapping him and hurting him for a while he remained still letting her do whatever she wanted.
Finally tired, Gauri gives up and moves back.
"Kill me, Gauri. I can't live with this guilt. After knowing what I did to you, I will not be able to live in peace. Please kill me, Gauri. You deserve justice. I won't kill myself and snatch your chance at justice. Kill me, Gauri."
"You feel guilty for what you did?" Gauri asks him in a whisper.
"Yes."
"Good." Om looks at her confused hearing her. "Now that is your punishment. You live in hell remembering what you did to me. I won't kill you. Your guilt will kill you. This guilt will neither let you live nor let you die. You should suffer like how I am suffering thinking of what you did to me."
"I won't be able to go on like that, Gauri." Om pleads her.
"I am going to live with what you did to me and you will also live with that." Gauri tells him.
Om helplessly looks at Gauri and sees the tears in her eyes. He looks away unable to see the tears or pain on her face.
"Leave." Gauri tells him.
"Gauri..."
"It kills me to look at you."
Hearing her, without a word Om gets up and starts to walk off. Then stopping he turns to her, "I don't live at my house anymore. They threw me out. I am living in a flat alone." Om tells her and proceeds to give her the address. Then taking a key from his pocket, he offers it to her and seeing the way she cowered in fear seeing his hand heading towards her, he keeps it on the bed instead and tells her, "If ever you feel like killing me. I live alone."
Gauri watches him in shock as he quietly walked out into the dark.
Two months later
It was the same nightmare again. The monster was forcing himself on Gauri while he had stood behind and watched in horror. He wanted to save her, stop the monster from attacking her but all he would do was stand back and watch in silence. He wanted to scream at Gauri to escape... he wanted to pull the monster away from her to set Gauri free. Shouting at the monster to leave Gauri alone, he ran towards the bed and stops in shock when the monster turned to him with a smile. The monster looked like him. The monster was him. He wanted to tell Gauri to run because he knew what was going to happen next. He screams at Gauri to run while he got on the bed and slowly merged into the monster to attack her.
"GAURI!" Om screams out in horror as he sat up sweating. Grabbing the bottle from the side table, he starts gulping down water. He wanted marijuana, whiskey, scotch, pethidine, rum something to put him out of his senses so these nightmares doesn't plague him. But Gauri had told him his punishment was his guilt and he had to be in his senses to remember his sin and guilt.
"You should see a psychiatrist." Gauri tells him in a calm tone.
"Gauri?" Om says in shock hearing her voice and he quickly turns on the light to see Gauri sitting on the single seater opposite to him. Her voice had sounded calm but her expression looked shaken. He quickly gets out of the bed and hurries to her as he kneeled down in front of her. "Gauri... please Gauri... please... I can't live like this... please kill me... please Gauri... I am begging you."
"Didn't I beg you? Did you listen?" Gauri asks him angrily. "After what you did to me I am still alive, right? It is more difficult for me to be alive than you. To keep breathing."
Om leans back hearing her words. It was true. If he was finding it so hard to live then what would she be going through?
"Do you... always... have these nightmares?" Gauri hesitantly asks him. Om looks at her in shock and for a split second he could see concern in her eyes, like that old friends they were and it was gone just as quickly. Om nods his head in reply.
"Good."
Om closes his eyes in pain hearing her.
"You should consult a doctor... it helps." Gauri hesitantly tells him.
"Did you?" Om asks her surprised.
Gauri nods in reply.
"How have you been? I wanted to see you... talk to you but you said that it killed you to look at my face."
"It still does." Gauri replies a little hurt.
"I know how that feels. I can't look at the mirror." Om whispers to her surprising Gauri completely.
"I am pregnant." Gauri tells him.
"GOD!" Om moans as he moves back as his guilt hit him at a new high.
"I found out two weeks ago. I didn't know whether I want this child or not. I still don't. I had come to town last week and I talked to Mami. She told me if I decide to have this baby then I can't come back home."
"You are going to abort?" Om asks her as his heart stopped beating. He didn't want to kill his baby. He had sinned and there was no repentance for him but how can he force Gauri to have his baby? How can they bring a baby into this world? Father a rapist and mother a rape victim?
"Sign this." Gauri tells him as she passed him the abortion papers with a pen. With shaking hands Om takes the pen. Just as he was about to take his hand back his hand softly brushes against Gauri's and Gauri flinches back in panic as she pulled her hand away worriedly. He gulps seeing what he had done to her. She couldn't even bare to have herself touched. He looks at the paper and without reading signs the paper. By the time he finished putting his signature his eyes were again filled and his vision was a blur.
"I haven't decided. I am going back to Delhi now. Once I go there, I'll decide if I want to keep this child or not. I am trying for a transfer and if I do then I will move from there."
"Will you let me know what you decide?" Om asks her.
"It kills me to have this conversation with you." Gauri tells him angrily. Om nods understanding.
"I might have the kid and might give it up for adoption. I don't know. I am confused and I have no idea what I am going to do." Gauri tells him getting agitated.
"I won't stop you if you want to have an abortion but if you decide to have the baby and thinks of giving the baby up for adoption will you call me then at least? I'll raise the baby."
Gauri watches him for a while and then crisply nods.
"Thank you."
"You said you would marry me."
"Yes." Om says surprised at her question.
"Your stand is still the same?"
"If any girl comes into my life then it is going to be only you now." Om promises her.
"If I decide to have the baby then I might marry you. Not now. Not for a long time."
"I'll wait for you."
"My email id is the same. You have it right?"
Om nods, it would be there in his inbox.
"Gaurimalik@gmail.com." Gauri tells him, just in case. "If you decide to marry someone then drop in a line." Gauri tells him and getting up, she starts to walk off.
"Can I mail you?" Om asks her hopefully.
Gauri turns to look at him furiously and sees his tear stained expression she replies "Don't expect a reply."
Dear Gauri...
How are you?
Thanks for letting me mail you. I know it is torturous for you to remember me but it kills me to know that you are alone somewhere. I don't know what you have decided about our baby... know this that whatever you decide, I will support you. If you decided to have the baby then is it difficult to work during the pregnancy? Please take care of yourself.
I wish I could go back in time and change everything but I can't. It kills me to know that you are suffering because of me. I am sorry, Gauri. I know saying sorry or doing anything for you would never make up for what I did to you. If there is anything I can do for you please let me know.
Take care of yourself, Gauri. Wherever you are I hope you are happy.
Om.
Dear Gauri...
How are you?
You are into your third month of pregnancy and I know you might have made a decision by now. I wish I knew what you had decided. Whatever decision you made, I will stand by you like I promised. After this mail, I will not ask you about the baby because if in case you decided on abortion then I don't want to hurt you or remind you by talking about the baby. So, I will not ask you anything about the baby how much ever it kills me to know for certain about our baby. I'll not.
I just want to tell you one more thing. With or without the baby, I am still waiting for you.
I started going back to work. My parents are still not talking to me and I know I don't deserve them. I snatched your family from you and I should also pay for what I did to you. Though I do miss Maa and you a lot.
I keep thinking about you and wondering about you. I hope wherever you are, you are happy and healthy.
Take care, Gauri.
Om
Dear Gauri,
How are you?
It's been two years, since I last saw you. I hope you are happy and fine. You had told me that you had been seeing a doctor and it was helping you. How is the counseling going? Are you done with it or...
I saw Anika last week accidently and she has no idea where you where... she seems to be missing you a lot. She still doesn't know what I did to you and I didn't tell her anything as I know you don't want her to find out about it. But there is good news for you. Anika is pregnant and she looked very happy. Just missing you. Maybe you should give her a call sometime. This is her number 344545245.
Here everything is going as usual... I am going to office and coming back home.
Om
Dear Gauri...
I bumped into Anika few minutes back when I went for a walk and she told me that you called her. She asked me whether it was me who told you that she is pregnant. It means you are reading my mails. Thanks a lot for reading them, Gauri. It means the world to me.
I realize that you might want to hear news about your family, so I have asked Khanna to keep tabs on them and I'll update you anything and everything that is happening there.
Love you,
Om.
Dear Gauri...
Priyanka's wedding went nicely. I am sending you the photos of the function. If you are interested have a look. But let me warn you, my photos are also there.
Take care.
Love,
Om.
Dear Gauri...
I just wanted to tell you once and I won't say it again. I know it would hurt you to hear me say this to you but I wanted you to know. You deserved to know. You might have already understood it from my mails but let me tell you. I love you. Don't know when I started loving you but I do. It is not because of guilt. It is not because you are my solace now. It is something beyond that and I can't explain it. You would be scoffing at it as we haven't seen each other for 4 years now but it is true that I love you and only you. When I think about it, it surprises me that how I never fell in love with you when we were in college maybe because I wasn't in my senses back then and you were pretty serious about Kaali then... don't know... it kind of amazes me that I never felt more than friendship to you all those years ago. I wished I had these feelings back then, then things would have been different between us now. I understand that you might won't like reading this so I won't say it again. I just wanted you to know as you had a right to know my truth.
Love you always and only yours,
Om
Dear Gauri...
Like I told you, Khanna is keeping tabs on your family. Soumya's wedding is fixed. The guy's name is Rudra. He is working in Malaysia as a Doctor. General Medicine. I had Khanna look up his background and everything has come clean. Am attaching his photo with the mail and details since I know you would be curious.
Love you,
Om
Dear Gauri,
How are you?
Last night... on an impulse I went home. Maa didn't talk much to me but she did ask after my health. She seemed worried that I am becoming a workaholic and not taking care of my health. I wanted to tell her that I was doing it for you but didn't think you would like it so didn't tell her anything. Maa kind of hinted on marriage and I told her that I love someone and I am waiting for her. She asked about your details but I didn't tell her anything.
Love you always,
Om
Dear Gauri,
It's been five years since we have been having this one sided conversations. Even though it is just one sided, I still feel close to you. I am missing you so badly lately. Life is starting to feel very lonely but I won't ask you to come back. How much ever I love you now, it is not going to change what I did to you. When I haven't forgiven myself for what I did to you, how can I expect you to forgive me for what I did to you?
I told you that Maa has started talking to me though a little reserved but last night, she had come home and we talked a lot. Like old times. I wanted to tell her about you but I feel you won't like it, so I won't. She kept asking me about the girl I am waiting for and I told her that we need to give her some time and maybe I will just keep waiting for her all my life.
I just wish I could see you one more time. I don't know why, lately I am gripped with this fear that I might never see you again. It kills me to be away from you but being near me would kill you. I just wish and pray that wherever you are, you are happy now. I just wish I could go back in time or at least erase those memories from you but I can't. Knowing that those memories would still be haunting you like it haunts me, it kills me but now it has become my life, my reality and my penance.
I know you are eagerly waiting for Soumya's daughter's photo. I still haven't got one. Khanna is trying. Though I found out the name, Aditi... nice name... isn't it?
Love you,
Om.
It was the same nightmare that has been haunting him for 5 long years now. He wanted to save her but he couldn't. He just joins the monster to rape her. Om starts thrashing in bed as he fought his monsters to protect Gauri.
"Ssshhh... it's okay... it's okay." Gauri gently tells him as she patted him down. "Everything is fine." Gauri gently whispers to him as she rubbed his chest down.
Om calms down feeling peaceful after a long time.
"It's okay." He hears the soft voice again and opens his eyes as his sleep cleared. He sees Gauri sitting on the bed next to him. "Gauri?"
"You never went to a Psychologist?" Gauri asks him.
"I don't deserve anyone's help." Om replies and then asks surprised. "You are here?"
"Yes."
"At this time?"
"I seem to come into your house like a thief always." Gauri says with a gentle smile. "I had to take a late night flight."
"It's been so long since I saw you last." Om says with happy tears as he started to cup her face and remembering her aversion to his touch he takes his hands back not realizing that she didn't flinch this time.
Gauri smiles at Om as she looked at him and Om looks at her though happy but the guilt was still there. Seeing her smile at him was killing him all the more.
"I read all yours mail." Gauri tells him. "It helped a lot. I knew you were waiting for a reply but I didn't want to reply to you. I wanted to hurt you. I didn't want you to find peace."
Om gulps hearing her and gently tells her, "I understand."
"I read your last mail and I don't know what happened to me... I just wanted to see you. I couldn't keep you waiting or hurting."
"You have come to me?" Om asks surprised, shocked and happy.
"Yes." Gauri tells him smiling.
Om's face breaks out into a smile and he starts to hug her when he realizes her fear and stops. Seeing him stop, Gauri hugs him and Om hugs her happily as they both cried.
A while later, they slowly part and Om asks her gently, "Gauri... our baby?"
"I was worried you might be having your nightmares." Gauri tells him softly. "One minute." Gauri says and quickly getting up, she hurries out.
Om gets up from his bed and grabbing the bottle, he drinks water as he tried to calm his racing heart.
She is here. She is here.
He tried to reassure himself that she was finally here and it was not a dream. He keeps the bottle on the table as he turned on the lights and decides to go check on her. He was about to turn to walk out when suddenly he hears an excited shout "PAPA"
Om whips around in shock hearing the little girl and stops in shock seeing a small girl smiling happily at him. He starts to walk towards her when he sees Gauri enter the room behind their daughter. She smiles at Om and tells him, "Omkara Singh Oberoi, meet our daughter, Pratheeksha Malik Oberoi."
"Prats." Pratheeksha corrects her mother and Om couldn't help smile at the way Gauri rolls her eyes hearing that.
"Prats." Om calls her as he started to walk towards her when Pratheeksha runs towards him happily and hugs him.
Om kneels down and cups her face as he looked at his daughter. She was a mixture of Gauri and him. He kisses her as he broke into tears.
"Why are you crying, Papa?"
"I am so happy to see you."
"Even I am happy to see you."
"You are so beautiful like your Mama."
"Mama says I look like you." Prats tell him smiling. "Papa, I want to see you drive your bike on a single wheel."
"Who told you that?" Om asks surprised.
"Mama."
Om looks up at Gauri surprised that she used to talk to their baby about him after all that he did to her.
"He is going to leave all his wild ways behind." Gauri tells Prats.
"I left." Om tells her.
"I know. And no going back to it."
"I won't." Om promises her.
Prats tugs on his shirt calling for attention and Om looks at her. "You show me secretly, okay?" Prats whispers to him.
God! He could so see his wild and rebellious nature in her. Om smiles sweetly at her and tells her, "Maybe I will show you a video of that."
"Show me! Show me!" Prats says excitedly.
"Not now. Tomorrow. It is really late. You are going to sleep." Gauri tells her.
"But I just met Papa now." Prats says pouting.
"He is going to be here only. Now get on the bed." Gauri orders her.
"Tell her I will sleep later. She is bossy." Prats complains to Om loudly.
"Don't say that about your Mama." Om gently admonishes her. "And listen to what she says."
"I told you, he is going to listen to only me." Gauri gloats as she took her hand and walks towards the bed. And Om hears his daughter muttering in disgust, "What a sissy?" causing him to laugh out loudly after 5 years.
Gauri turns to him surprised hearing him laugh and smiles at him happily while Prats giggles seeing her father laugh. Gauri puts Prats on Om's bed and puts the blanket over her.
"Now go to sleep."
"Sleeping is boring." Prats complains.
"Oh my God." Om says softly hearing something he used to tell his mother when he was small. He walks towards the bed and sits on her other side as he watched her close her eyes.
Prats takes his hand saying "Give me your hand, Papa." And she keeps it over her stomach next to Gauri's and closes her eyes. Om and Gauri gently patted her to sleep.
Once Prats had gone to sleep, Om and Gauri sat with her for a long time in silence.
"You might be tired, you can sleep here. I'll sleep in the other room." Om softly whispers to her and leaves.
Gauri softly opens the bedroom door and sees Om sitting on the bed lost in thoughts.
"You wanted something, Gauri?" Om asks her as he stood up seeing him.
Gauri closes the door and locks it. She walks towards Om and says, "There is something..."
"Yes?"
Gauri looks away from him and softly whispers to him, "After what happened... I have been to counseling and all... but that kind of intimacy... I am mentally prepared but when it really comes to it... I don't know if..."
"After what I did to you... these five years... lust and desire is something I haven't felt... those feelings are dead in me."
"But it is an important part of a marriage."
"You can take your time, Gauri."
"No. I don't want to." Gauri tells him as she turned to look at him. "Om... I want you to make love to me tonight."
"Gauri..." Om says astonished hearing her.
"If I am unable to... then we won't get married. But if I am able to then we will get married."
"Sex doesn't matter, Gauri." Om tells her as tears filled his eyes and fear gripped his heart.
"It matters." Gauri says determined and moves closer to him.
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Taking a deep breath, Gauri closes her eyes and cups his face. Then leaning on tip toes, she softly takes his lips in hers and softly starts kissing it. When Om remained stiff Gauri whispers to him, "I want you to kiss me, Om."
Om carefully and gently cups her face and gives her feather light kisses on her lips.
As he kissed her Gauri felt wetness on her cheek and opens her eyes to see his tears. Gauri shakes her head at him as she wiped his tears.
"I am sorry, Gauri." Om whispers to her as his tears fell freely.
Looking at him, she realized that she was not the only one who needed to be healed, even he needed to heal. "Make me forget, Om." Gauri pleads him as tears fell from her eyes too.
Understanding her need Om deepens the kiss but very gently and slowly. Om kisses her on her closed eyelids and then gently sucks her tears while Gauri stood there nervously feeling his touch. Om continued to slowly and gently kiss her as he started getting turned on.
Breathing nervously with his heart slamming against his chest, he takes his hand to the topmost button of her shirt and softly asks her, "May I?"
Shutting her eyes tightly, Gauri holds her erratic breath and nods her head in yes.
"I love you, Gauri." Om whispers to her as he started unbuttoning her shirt ready to stop the instant she asks him to. But she didn't stop him instead asked him to remove his clothes.
Om starts to lead Gauri to the bed and for a moment his nightmares returned and he stops in panic. Seeing him going pale and how rapid his breathing was becoming as he had been breathing when he had his nightmares, Gauri holds his hand and gently tells him. "It's okay. Everything is going to be fine."
"What if I hurt you?" Om asks her worriedly.
"You won't. I know that." Gauri tells him as she cupped his face confidently. Seeing his eyes still fixed on the bed, Gauri tells him. "Look at me."
Om turns to look at her as his head continued to fill with his nightmares.
"I love you, Om."
Om looks at her in shock and softly whispers to her as tears fell from his eyes again, "I don't deserve your love."
"I decide that." Gauri tells him and then taking his hand she leads him to bed.
Om joins Gauri in the bed and he takes her lips in his again. Feeling desire arising him after so many years, Om rolls on top of Gauri and she freezes that instant and Om sees the panic on her face. He quickly rolls off her. Gauri heaves a sigh of relief and holds Om's hand silently urging him to continue. Om lying on his side, slowly and gently starts kissing her all over, gracing her heart, body and soul with new memories and wiping out the old.
As passion clouded him, he kept reminding himself to go slow. Even though he could see Gauri reacting to him passionately, he didn't want to scare her or rush her. he continued to go at her pace.
"Om." Gauri nervously calls his name. and Om looks at her. Gauri nods her head at him.
Om gently rolls over her and Gauri freezes again. He was about to roll off again when she holds him back and shakes her head at him. "Now."
"Tell me if you want me to stop." Om instructs her even though he knew it would be mighty impossible for him but he would do it if she wanted him to stop.
Gauri nods in reply.
Om slowly eases into her and Gauri gasps slowly. Even though he wanted to keep thrusting against her, he knew she needed time and breathing hard for his breath, he waited for her and finally she nodded at him. Om slowly starts moving against her as he tried to bring her to an orgasm. As the pleasure increased, Gauri's worries left her and she started moving against him to reach their climax. Realizing she was about to scream, Gauri takes his lips and kisses him passionately. Om and Gauri kissed each other hungrily as they brought each other to fulfillment.
Om rolls away from Gauri and lies on his back next to her. Finally, their racing hearts and breaths calms down and they turn to look at each other. Without a word they hug each other as they cried in relief.
Om takes Gauri and Prats to his house the next week to inform his family about their wedding.
"What are you going to tell them about Prats?" Gauri asks Om as they walked into his mansion. She was worried about his family's reaction to him marrying an unwed mother.
"I will take care of it." Om tells her confidently as he led her towards the living room.
"Tell them we had an ONS."
"What is ONS?" Prats asks curiously.
Gauri gulps in panic as she looked at her daughter.
"What ONS?" Om asks Prats.
"Mama said ONS."
"Mama said ounce not ONS. She was saying Tell them we had an ounce of medicine." Om tells her shaking his head while Gauri gaped at him in shock as Prats nods her head and went back to Om's mobile playing on the video of Om doing stunts on bikes when they were in college.
"I still got it." Om smirks at Gauri happily.
"You were always a pathological liar." Gauri teases him happily while Om chuckles hearing her.
"Mama... I want to grow my hair like Papa's." Prats says excitedly as she showed Gauri Om's video of smoking up during his hippy phase of life.
"What are you showing her?" Gauri asks in shock seeing him smoking up sitting next to his gypsy girlfriend. "And why do you have her video still?" Gauri asks furiously as she snatched the phone from Prats.
"Gauri... she was asking for the video and I didn't know which was what so I transferred everything to the mobile." Om says quickly seeing her murderous look. Then noticing Gauri was going to delete the video Om says quickly. "Don't delete it, Gauri. It is fun to see old videos."
"Of course... you get to see your darling gypsy."
"Gypsy?" Prats asks curiously.
"It is a jeep!" Gauri snaps at her and turns to Om waiting for an answer.
"Old memories of my adventurous and fun life."
"I am deleting it!" Gauri tells him furiously.
And seeing her furious look he gets a little scared, "Okay, whatever you say."
"Sissy." Prats sings in a soft voice as she snatched the mobile from Gauri and continued to watch the next video.
"Om." Jhanvi calls him as she walked towards him happily with Tej tagging behind. "You said there is a surprise for me."
"Dad... Maa... meet Gauri." Om introduces her. "Gauri Kumari Sharma."
"Is she the girl you told me about?" Jhanvi asks smiling at Om and Gauri.
"Yes."
"Who is this, Mama?" Prats whispers to Gauri seeing the strangers.
"My parents." Om answers for Gauri. "And Dad... Maa... meet Pratheeksha."
"Is she her daughter?" Tej asks frowning.
"Yes." Prats replies frowning back at Tej not liking the way he was frowning at her mother.
"Om..."
"One sec." Om tells them and turning to Prats he tells her, "Prats, there is a swing outside, why don't you and Mama go there and play for a bit?"
"Swing? Okay! But you are not coming, Papa?"
"In a few minutes, love." Om replies ignoring Jhanvi's outrageous gasp. "Gauri..."
"Om... I want to be here." Gauri tells him.
"She hears everything, Gauri." Om tells her pointing at Prats.
"Who, Papa?" Prats asks curiously.
Om smiles hearing her and tells her, "Take Mama and go, Prats."
"Okay... come, Mama." Prats says as she took her hand and starts dragging her towards the door Om had pointed her.
"Om, remember what I told you?" Gauri reminds him worriedly and Om nods in reply.
"What is this, Om? You waited all these years to marry a girl with a child?" Tej asks him outraged.
"I will tell you everything, Dad. I am just waiting for some people to join us."
"Who?"
"You will see."
"Om, what is happening here?" Jhanvi asks him worriedly.
"After a long time, something good is happening in my life, Maa. Something right."
Before Jhanvi could reply, Patil informs Om about the arrival of Anika and her family.
"Why did you call them here?" Tej asks furiously as Patil went to bring them in.
"They are Gauri's family. So I asked Anika to bring them here."
"Is Gauri the same girl who..."
"Yes."
"Omkara... why did you ask me to bring everyone here?" Anika asks curiously as she walked in.
"Thanks for coming." Om tells them as he turned to look at them and sees Gauri's Mami furiously looking at him. Ignoring her, he turns to look at Anika. "Gauri is here." Om informs them.
"What? Where is she?" Anika asks excitedly while her family members also asked the same happily.
"She just took our daughter to play outside."
"Your daughter?" Tej asks shocked.
"Daughter? What daughter?" Gauri's Mama asks shocked while Mami's eyes fill with tears.
"Wait a minute... Gauri told me all that about you and you are saying that she has a daughter with you? How can that be possible? You are lying." Anika says furiously.
"Is that girl really your daughter?" Jhanvi asks Om in a shocked voice.
Om nods in reply. "Gauri was my friend in college but when I found out that she had told Anika about my past and all that happened because of her. I became furious and I..."
"And you what?" Jhanvi asks frowning.
"I raped her." Om replies as he looked down unable to look into anyone's eyes.
Jhanvi grips his hand and turns him around to face her. "You what?" Jhanvi asks unable to believe her ears.
"He raped her." Mami says furiously.
"You knew?" Anika asks her shocked.
"Yes."
"And you didn't tell me?" Mama asks shocked.
"How could I tell you? Her life was ruined and I couldn't let that affect Anika's and Soumya's future. So I told her to forget everything and move forward."
"How could you, Mom?" Anika asks her furiously. "How could you tell her that? Is that why she left home?"
"When Gauri told her that she was pregnant, she told Gauri that if she had the baby then she couldn't come home." Om informs her unable to bear the injustice done to Gauri because of him.
"You turned your back on her when she needed us the most?" Anika asks her.
"What did you want me to do? Take her to the police and write FIR?"
"YES! He needed to be punished for what he did." Anika says furiously.
"How could you do this, Om? How could you forget that you have a sister? How could you do?" Jhanvi asks him furiously as she cried.
"Maa..."
*SLAP*
Jhanvi starts furiously slapping Om while he remained with his head bend down.
"AAA" they hear a furious shout and turns to back to see Gauri and Prats standing. Prats runs towards Jhanvi and furiously pushes her away. "MOVE AWAY FROM MY PAPA!"
Om looks down in shock to see his daughter standing in front of him to guard him. Om was about to make Prats understand that she was his mother and she was punishing him for his mistake when he sees Gauri joining Prats standing in front of him.
"Gauri..."
"I told you not to tell them." Gauri furiously tells him.
"I couldn't hide it, Gauri." Om tells her helplessly.
"How can you support him, Gauri?" Anika asks her shocked.
"Because he has been supporting me for the last five years. He had been standing by me and helping me."
"After what he did to you?" Mami asks her shocked remembering Gauri's condition on that day.
"Yes. After what he did to me. When you had turned your back to me, he was there to console me and tell me that it was not my mistake. It was not my fault. He had stood by me. He had helped me recover. Yes, I'll never forget what he did to me. I don't know whether I forgave him or whether I can ever forgive him. All I know is that I can't hurt him anymore. He has suffered"
"What about your suffering?" Jhanvi asks her.
"Whatever happened, Om and I have made our peace with it. We are happy now. And I don't want anyone talking about our past. It is our past. So it is our personal problem."
"Enough of all this. Come home now." Mama tells Gauri.
"Prats and I'll stay with Om. We are going to get married." Om holds Gauri's hand.
"You can't stay with him before marriage."
"We have been away from Om for so long. We don't want to be away from him any longer. We are happy and safe with him." Gauri tells everyone as she interlocked her fingers with Om's.
Since Om wanted to give Gauri the biggest and best wedding ever, their wedding was held four months later. In these four months, things had fallen into place. Gauri had forgiven her mami for what she did, and she had a proper reunion with her family. While on Om's side, Jhanvi had taken her time in forgiving Om for what he did to Gauri. But finally, both Om and Gauri were happy in their perfect little world with their daughter. Even though Om still couldn't forgive himself for what he did, Gauri's love and care had helped him a lot and he realized that he should slowly move away from that night and start building beautiful memories for his Gauri and his daughter. And he was able to do that and along with that, he made beautiful memories for himself too. Two weeks later, he would be adding one more memory to the list of beautiful memories as Gauri and Prats have planned a birthday party for him where they would tell him about the new baby that was going to join them in 7 months.
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