POEM

VIVAN POV

I was in the office, trying to work on something that wasn’t urgent, but I just wanted to come to the office along with bhai because I didn’t want to leave him alone after what Anvi asked him, not knowing whether he actually had a wife or not.

"And the other thing is..." my subconscious said. I hate my subconscious for this reason.

I was trying to maintain my distance from Nidhi Arora. "You mean Nidhi VIVAAN RAJSHEKAWAT," my subconscious chimed in. Nidhi had been trying to get closer to me, to be more friendly. It would have been nice if she were the one I loved, but she was the reason I couldn’t marry the girl I loved.

In the past 11 months, Nidhi was nothing like how her best friend described her. Her best friend—the girl I loved, the girl who used to write love poems for me from time to time.

I loved how she used to pen down every little and simple thing that she loved about me, and I didn’t realize it until I’d read the letters she gave me at the end of special days or when we were on a date. I still remember that one poem that holds a dear place in my heart. It’s still in my desk, even though it was 5 years ago when she gave it to me, and it’s still with me, even after she broke up with me two years ago because of Nidhi...

(Here, she refers to Nidhi's best friend.)

I snapped out of that memory when I saw the door open, and my PA stepped in, asking me to sign an important document.

After I finished signing, Sujith, my PA, was on his way out. I started thinking about the poem in the letter that made me fall in love with Nidhi’s best friend after about a month of seeing each other more like friends. She used to come to meet Nidhi and then meet me, when she said, "I don’t know how to express my feelings, so I’ve written you a letter with a poem of my feelings for you."

The poem went like this:

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"The experience of forever captured in an instant.

An impossibility happening every day.

The endless emotion trapped in one lifetime,

In a lifetime where I want to be yours,

And thinking of you, my poor heart is effortlessly sustaining

Such complex love."

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I kept thinking about the poem and the depth of love in it for me, the person I loved... Suddenly, I heard the door open, but I didn’t get up from my chair. My eyes were still closed, and I asked, “Sujith, do I need to sign more papers now?”

I opened my eyes when I heard a voice that sounded exactly like Abhi bhai’s. "No," Abhi bhai said.

I looked at bhai and asked, "Bhai, are you alright?"

"Yeah, why wouldn’t I be?" Abhi replied.

"Maybe because it’s a Sunday and you’re in the office?" I found myself asking him.

"I could say the same about you," Abhi replied.

"I... I... am here because I am," I started, but before I could finish my sentence, Abhi completed it, saying, "You’re trying to escape from Nidhi. Come on, Vivaan, I think there’s more to the story you don’t know about. How long are you going to be angry with her? Maybe there’s another side to the coin."

I just looked at him as if I were seeing an alien on Earth. It had been ages since Abhi bhai had said anything related to emotions or marriage.

I spouted out the first thing that came to my mind, "Bhai, I know, after what happened, it wouldn’t be totally fair to you if I said this, but bhai, I don’t think she might be a bad person..."

"Oh, shut up," bhai said, and he continued, "I married a person who I thought was good, kind-hearted, and humble, but she was all in it for the money. She came from a rich family. You expect me to believe that a girl from a middle-class family, who agreed to marry me for 20 lakh or so, is actually in it for family and love? How do I know if she’s planning something? Maybe she’s planning to hurt our family. She might have fooled grandpa. I think she might have been the one to approach him..."

I didn’t even know what to say to him. He’s been through a lot in his life.

He saw Dad and Grandpa fight a lot from when he was about 10 years old. Later, when he grew up, he fell in love with a girl thinking she was kind-hearted, but it turned out she was a gold-digger, after the money and fame. Just one year after his divorce, without giving him proper time to heal, he was partially forced to marry someone he didn’t even know. After marriage, he learned that he wasn’t allowed to divorce her for three years.

The breaking point came when bhai learned that she had taken 20 lakh from Dadaji, and we were furious about it. But neither Dadaji nor she told us why she had taken the money or if she had blackmailed Grandpa or something.

This made Abhi bhai even angrier, and he asked her to get out of his room and never address him as her husband, which she obliged. I thought she would create a fuss about it, but no. She’s been quiet and does her job. I feel a bit unsettled about it. I almost feel sorry for her, not because I trust her or anything. To be honest, I wouldn’t say bhai is wrong for acting the way he is, by not considering her as his wife.

We don’t know her or anything about her background other than the fact that she’s from a middle-class family, which we learned from Dadaji. I don’t want bhai to trust her blindly, knowing her intentions. Why did she decide to marry a man who had already been divorced? Is it for money? If not, then why does she still stay after bhai said he would never consider her as his wife?

I just don’t want bhai to trust anyone blindly, after what happened the first time he loved a girl and married her.

I feel a bit sad for her because she’s been calling her own husband and everyone else "sir" and "ma’am." If she is truly innocent, that would cause a pang in her heart. But it’s not wrong for us to maintain our distance because we don’t know her. She’s a bodyguard by profession, and who knows, she could even be a spy or an assassin. We have a lot of people who want us dead. Hence, she is never allowed to cook for the family and can only enter the main kitchen when someone is around, or she has to use the servant kitchen. She’s been given a room in the servant quarters, located at the far end of the mansion, to keep us safe in case she tries anything. But so far, nothing has happened. Did we misjudge her, or is she waiting for the right moment to do something, with everything planned?

do guys like vivaan??

what do you think was the actually reason , why did nhidi not tell him the truth??