EPILOGUE
Lakeside
IshKara are sitting beside the lake watching the view…
Om: I’m sorry, Ishana…
Ishu: Why you did like that, Omkara?? Did you know how much I was hurt with that?? I avoided you only for three months but you can’t stand it… You avoided me for three years, Omkara… (Looks at him with tear filled eyes)
Om: (holds her hand) I know what you have felt, Ishana… But I have forced myself to keep distance from you for these long…
Ishu: Why??
Om: Have you forgotten what happened three years ago after your delivery?? You were almost dead, Ishana… You have stopped breathing for 20 minutes… Already you have struggled a lot to deliver our babies… Then, you stopped breathing… My breath too stopped that time, Ishana… I thought I have lost my love again… But, you fought back and returned to me… The doctor told me that you are very weak… Besides that, your previous wounds which because of the chandelier falling, has started to effect you as well… She asked me to handle you with care and avoid physical relationship for some time till you are fully recovered… That’s why I avoided you, Ishana… I just wanted you to be safe… I can’t afford to lose you…
Ishu: (shocked with this revelation) Why you didn’t tell me earlier, Omkara?? You should have told me instead of avoiding yourself from me…
Om: I don’t have the guts to tell you, Ishana… Moreover, I was in guilt thinking I am the reason for your state… I was not dare to meet your eyes… That’s why I avoided you… Your pain, your scream and your struggle during the delivery was haunting me badly… I was scared that I might hurt you if I hold you… I can’t hurt you anymore… That’s why I immediately sent you to pursue your studies… I took more than one year to overcome the guilt, Ishana… And your studies made me me to maintain distance from you… I want you to concentrate on your studies first and I don’t want our closeness to affect your studies… I thought to restart our life again after your studies completed… I concentrate more on our kids and works… I know I was wrong in avoiding you but I don’t have any option than that… (Tears started to make their way out from his eyes… Ishana wipes his tears and cups his face…)
Ishu: (thinks something) Tej papa was right… He has already told this to me earlier… (Omkara looks at her in confused…)
Om: Papa?? What he said??
Ishu: I will tell you… What you said just now?? You felt that our closeness will effect my studies?? (Omkara nods) You are wrong, Omkara… Our distance only effected my studies… Did you know how many times I have lost my concentration because of our distance?? Once I have failed in my test too but I never tell you… (Omkara is shocked knowing about this) Yes, Omkara… I have failed once… I know you will feel bad if you got to know that I have failed… I don’t know with whom to talk about this… Tej papa noticed me one day when I was sitting sadly at the poolside…
*Flashback*
Tej: Ishu beta, why are you sitting here?? (Sits beside her)
Ishu: I have failed in my test, papa… (Cries)
Tej:(surprised to see her crying) It’s ok, Ishu… Failure is the first step for the success… You have told this to Arjun before this, right?? Why are you crying when it comes to you?? Is anything bothering you??
Ishu: Your son is avoiding me, papa… That is bothering me… (Cries)
Tej: (shocked) Since when??
Ishu: Since our kids are born… (Tej chuckles making her confuse…) Why are you laughing, papa??
Tej: Ishu beta, he is not avoiding you but he is just afraid to near you…
Ishu: But why he should afraid of me?? I’m his wife only…
Tej: It’s not like that, Ishu… He is scared that he might hurt you if he comes near you… (Ishana is confused with his statement…) You don’t understand what I’m trying to say… Ishu, you know right how the labor pain is and you have experienced it… A good husband will feel guilty for being the reason for his wife’s pain… Om is in that situation now… That’s why he is avoiding you… Moreover, he has witnessed your delivery for three babies… The struggles you faced to give birth for them, your scream, your cry are haunting him badly… After that, you have stopped breathing for some time… When he came out from the ward that day, he broke down in tears cursing himself for causing you pain… He tightly hugs Jhanvi and apologized to her that she too must have struggled like that to give birth for him… We took a lot of time to console him… He only back to normal after the doctor said you are fine… Not only him, Ishu, ShivRu too have faced the almost same situation… You know right, about Annika’s premature delivery where Shivaay had to the deliver the baby himself?? And Soumya, she has landed in coma for 10 days after giving birth to Reyaan… Do you still remember how was Rudra’s situation that time?? (Ishana nods) He refused to see the baby and said that he will see the baby together with Soumya… It was his guilt that his wife in that situation because of him… In fact, I too was afraid to go near Jhanvi after she gave birth to Omkara… She too struggled a lot for her delivery… I was scared that I might hurt her… I didn’t witness her delivery but still I was having the guilt… So, I will purposely keep myself busy with my works… If I felt like that, just imagine about Om who has witnessed your delivery… Just give him some time, Ishu… He will back to normal soon…
Ishu: How much time I have to give him, papa?? It’s almost a year… I missed him very much… Now, I have started my studies as well and the distance has become more… I’m worried that this distance will remain forever…
Tej: Ishu, why are you thinking like this?? Have you heard that distance will increase love among each other?? Think this like that too… I know about Om… He can’t stay away longer from you… He will be back to you soon… (Ishana nods wiping her tears while Tej just pats her cheek leaving from there…)
*FLASHBACK ENDS*
Ishu: I understood that you are in guilt and wanted to talk to you but you always escaped saying that you have urgent orders… I wanted to embrace you and remove the guilt from your heart but you didn’t give me that chance… I wished that you will come to me and talk to me but you didn’t do that too… So, I thought to teach you a lesson… That’s why I avoided you and pushed you when you came near me after my exams ended… I wanted you to feel the pain being avoided…
Om: So, you took revenge on me??
Ishu: It can’t say like that but I wanted to punish you for avoiding me…
Om: Please forgive me, Ishana… I don’t want this punishment anymore… I can’t stay away from you…
Ishu: Do you think that I love to stay away from you?? Actually, I planned to close our distance today… (Smiles teasingly at him…)
Om: What??
Ishu: I have understood that your guilt has gone when you came near me after my final exams finish… I waited for this day to start again our life freshly…
Om: You have forgiven me??
Ishu: Why I should forgive you when you didn’t do any wrong?? I was just upset and sad that you didn’t share your feelings with me… But I’m not angry with you and I can’t be angry with you… (Omkara just hugs her tightly and she too hugs him back… The hug and the closeness which they missed since three years… They stay like that for some time… They break the hug and stare each other eyes… He lifts her in his arms and leaves inside the villa…)
He walks towards the upstairs with her in his arms and enters a bedroom… Ishana is surprised to see the bedroom decorated beautifully… She understands why he stopped her from coming upstairs just now… He winks at her and places her on the bed… He makes her to lie on the bed and goes closer to her… Ishana blushes seeing his desired filled eyes… He removes the shawl which is covering her shoulders… He removes her pallu from her and caresses her bare waist sending current to all over her body… He turns her and untie her string… He unhooks her blouse and strokes her scar… He places few deep wet kisses on the scar… Ishana closes her eyes feeling the proximity she misses since three years… He turns her again and kisses her both eyes and cheeks… He is about to capture her lips but she stops him… She gets up and makes him to lie… She goes on top of him and unbuttons his shirt… She strokes his chest and kisses it deeply… She kisses his forehead, cheeks and eyes…
Ishu: (brings her face closer towards him) I love you, Om… (Omkara is surprised to hear ‘Om’ from her… She never addressed him like this before… He feels something different hearing ‘Om’ from her… He pushes her and goes on top of her…)
Om: I love you too, Ishu… (Ishana smiles hearing ‘Ishu’ from him and he captures her lips with his and kisses it sensually… Both of them explore each other deeply… They break the kiss after lacking of breath… Omkara places his forehead on her’s and breathes heavily…
Ishu: (cups his face) I missed you very much, Omkara…
Om: I missed you too and that won’t happen again… We will make up for the three years we missed… (Ishana blushes hearing this… Omkara switches off the lamp and their night is filled with their passion and romance which they missed for three years…)
Next day
Omkara wakes up and sees Ishana doing something in her mobile… He holds her waist and pulls her closer…
Om: Are you feeling any pain??
Ishu: (smiles) You are still asking the same question… And my answer too still the same… I love that pain caused by your love… (He just smiles and hugs her…)
Om: What are you doing with your mobile when you are having a dashing husband beside you??
Ishu: I was planning the punishment for you for avoiding me three years…
Om: What punishment??
Ishu: (looks at him) Simple… I want to get pregnant in 15 days… (Omkara gets up and looks at her shockingly…)
Om: What?? Pregnant?? Again?? No way, Ishana… I can’t see you in that pain again… Besides that, we are having three kids already… That is enough for us… We don’t need another child…
Ishu: Omkara, that pain is normal… And I feel to carry your baby again in my womb… Please… (Omkara couldn’t see her pleading eyes…)
Om: How if the same happens again?? No, I can’t take the risk… How if you get pregnant with triplets again?? No way, Ishana… (Ishana sighs holding her head)
Ishu: Sorry, my Zulfi… There is a high possibility for me to get pregnant soon…
Om: (confused) What do you mean?? (Ishana takes her mobile and shows him…)
Ishu: This is an app called ‘my calendar’ where I can know about my menstrual dates… It also shows which date my fertility will be high… That’s means if we made love on that date, the chance of getting pregnant is very high… For me, it was yesterday… And, we didn’t stop with one session only… We had plenty sessions last night… (Smiles shyly)
Om: But, we can’t completely believe this app, right?? It won’t be correct for all the time…
Ishu: Maybe… But, it can be correct too… Let’s see if you are still having the same capability like last time…
Om: Excuse me!! You are doubting my virility?? (Ishana smirks at him… He pulls her towards him and started to kiss her which ended up with another love making session for them…)
Ishana is wiping her wet hair standing in front of the mirror… She recalls about last night and this morning and blushes hard… They have showered their love for each other which they missed for three years… Omkara comes out from the washroom and sees her blushing… He smiles and hugs her from behind…
Om: You are still blushing even after these years… (Kisses her cheek… Ishana turns and hugs him…) Ishana, if I say something, will you agree??
Ishu: (without breaking the hug) Tell me…
Om: If you get pregnant with triplets again, you have to do caesarian… I can’t see you suffer like before…
Ishu: (breaks the hug) That means you are fine if I get pregnant?? (Omkara nods… Ishana smiles in excitement…) Yes!!! I’m very happy… Thank you so much… (Pecks his lips) You are the world’s bestest husband!!! (Omkara chuckles shaking his head and hugs her… They leave after that…)
As Ishana wanted, she get pregnant after fifteen days and she is super happy… Omkara is happy as well as worried too… He just wished that Ishana should not suffer like before during her delivery… Their families are happy as well knowing about Ishana’s pregnancy and started to pamper her… DevRiSha are happy too learning that they are going to have a little brother or sister… PriMa have give birth to baby boy and girl each of them… Reyaan is released after few months and get married to his girlfriend, Tanvi who waited for him patiently… Actually, Reyaan already informed her about Ashok and said that he is going to kill him… Reyaan asked her to forget him and marry someone else… However, Tanvi believed her love is true and waited for him to get released… Ishana give birth to baby boy after few months which was a normal delivery and Omkara stayed with her during her delivery… He is the one cut the umbilical cord for his son… Ishana is discharged after few days…
IshKara’s Room
Omkara enters the room and sees Ishana looking at the baby who is sleeping peacefully in the cradle… DevRiSha are sleeping on the bed… He goes towards Ishana and sits beside her…
Om: What are you thinking, Ishana??
Ishu: (hugs his neck) I’m feeling complete, Omkara… Thanks to you… You made me your wife, you made me a woman, you made me a mother and you made me a doctor… You completed me… My life which I thought have been put full stop after Dev’s death, you changed it into comma and continue it from where it stopped… (Cups his face) I don’t know what would have happened to me if I didn’t meet you… I must have remain as a wid….. (Omkara places his finger on her lips shaking his head…)
Om: You should not mention this word again, Ishana… You are my wife and will always be my wife… Actually, we both are lucky to get two true loves in our life… Dev and Gauri’s love will remain in our life forever… Our kids should know them as their mamma and papa too… (Ishana nods agreeing with him…)
Ishu: Who knows Dev and Gauri are the one born as our kids?? (Looks at little DevRi who are sleeping peacefully…)
Om: Maybe… (IshKara chuckle at each other…) And, Ishana, thanks to you too… For making me to live and love again… My life would have remained empty if I never met you… You entered my life and my heart and fulfilled the emptiness with your love… (Ishana smiles and hugs him… He kisses her forehead and continue hugging her… They break the hug and cover DevRiSha properly with the blanket… They too lie beside them smiling at each other…)
IshKara life are complete now… They have lost their love and have suffered a lot in their lives… The destiny made them to meet and find comfort with each others pain… They felt connected since their first meet and can’t distance themselves from each other… Whenever they want to stay away, the destiny will bring them closer only… They fell in love out of their realisation… They become the healer for each others pain… Finally, they become one… Both of them are not the first love for each other but they have become life for each other… They will continue to live happily forever….
-THE END-
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