Unconditional Love (Part- 2)

Chapter - 24

Everyone gave a confused and worried look, and asked gullu what happened.

Gullu : Anika wasn’t opening the door so Anik tried to see through the glass of her room's side window and he saw Anika is holding a knife.

“Whattt! ”- everyone said union and became horrified, they also ran towards Anika’s room.

Reaching in front of Anika’s room they saw Aniket, Anik and Kanishk, Kabir all were
urging Anika to open the door. Nitika was crying very badly. Seeing Kritika,
Nitika came near her and hugged her.

NITIKA : Mom… di… isn’t.. Opening the… door….. Nothing has happened to di…right mom?

Kritika had no words to say. She has been trembling since gullu said about Anika’s
situation.

KARAN : Aniket, we can’t wait for her to open the door. Do you have spare keys?

Mrs KAPOOR : Yes… I am bringing it.

They were urging Anika to open the door but they didn’t get any response.

Mr. KAPOOR : let’s not wait for the spare key. Aniket try to break the door.

All the men were just going to push the door but before that Mrs. Kapoor came with the
spare key.

They immediately opened the door… seeing the scene in front of them, it’s feel like
all of them have forgotten to breathe.

In front of them Anika holding the knife with one hand and looking at it very keenly.

Before anyone could understand what is happening, with speed Aniket went near Anika threw that knife, and gave her a tight slap to Anika.

Anika was stunned by this sudden slap. Holding the cheek with her palm, Anika looked at her father. Tears were already present on her face.

ANIKET : Are You Out of Your Mind!! What were you going to do??

ANIKA : what did I do? Why did you slap me? ( asked in sobbing tone)

ANIKET : You are asking me why did I slap you? I want to slap you more…

This was the first time everyone saw Aniket so angry and also this was first time Aniket
slapped Anika.

Anik suddenly noticed something…

ANIK : I think we have made a wrong assumption.

Saying this he pointed towards something. Then everyone noticed, on the floor beside Anika there were two apples, which were stabbed very badly. It looked like
someone had vented her anger on it.

KARAN : Anika, were you going to cut your wrist with the knife?

ANIKA : what ? No.

KRITIKA : Then why were you holding it like that and also looking at it so keenly?

Her voice was trembling. She was still trembling in fear.

ANIKA : I was just observing it…

Kritika now wanted to slap her. Aniket couldn’t control anymore… he hugged Anika tightly in his embrace. Hugging Anika, Aniket sighed in relief.

ANIKET : you scared us, Niki. You scared us.

ANIKA : But… I didn’t do… anything still you slapped me, papa.

Hearing the Papa from Anika’s mouth, Aniket felt like the blood of his body again started to flow. Aniket didn’t reply anything, he kissed Anika on the cheek, he has
slapped and then hugged her very tightly in his embrace.

After a moment of silence, Anika again started crying loudly.

ANIKET : sweetheart…

This time Anika hugged Aniket tightly with his arms.

ANIKA : Papa, I am your daughter only. Please make me your daughter. Please make
everything like before. Please papa... I am only your daughter.

ANIKET : You are my daughter Anika. You are my daughter.

Anika and Aniket both were crying hugging each other. Seeing Anika crying so badly Niti
was also crying hugging her mother.

Anik went near his elder sister and joined the hug.

ANIK : Di, Please don’t cry. We don’t like to see you cry. We all love you.

Hearing Anik's words Anika started crying more loudly. Everyone present in the room had tears on their faces.

In fear that maybe they will not able to love her, everyone tried to love her more and she
became the apple of everyone's eyes. They don’t like to see tears in Anika’s
eyes. They knew Anika needed time…she needed time to adjust to this bitter truth of her life. They will all give the time
but they will not leave her alone.