#A_CRAZY_LOVE_2
©Sir Zach
EPISODE 88
“But then everything changed. First brother was still unaware about the little life, the symbol of love he and Anna shared, that was growing inside Anna.
Anna had decided to surprise the First brother and then break this happy news, but destiny had some other plans.” Rose said and took another sip, as if preparing herself for wh@tëver she was about to say.
Her smile had disappeared and the air around her was suddenly gloomy.
“Anna must have racked her brains to come up with such a loving method to disclose the news about their child.
She had bought a book about how to take care of children that was made for fathers. She had wrapped the book and kept it on the table with a note saying ‘We are pregnant!’.
She had taken a day off, saying she wasn’t feeling well. First brother must have pestered her a lot before she finally managed to shoo him away.
She was ecstatic about wh@tëver was happening, and was content with the life she was sharing with First brother.
Jason said that Anna had decorated their bedroom in shades of pastel blue and pink, wanting to make it memorable forever.
She was done with most of the decoration work and decided to bake some cookies.
Once she was done placing them in the oven, she heard a knock. She excitedly went to open the door, thinking it must be First brother, but…” Rose said and stopped, as if the next part was difficult to speak.
She had to take a deep breath, calm her chaotic mind before talking again. But this time Nicole didn’t urge her anymore. She knew that the next part must be something extreme for even Rose to narrate.
“It wasn’t the First brother but instead it was the gangster that had threatened Anna’s father before.
Anna didn’t know how that man looked, thus she asked with a bright smile about what the man wanted. But the man didn’t even take a minute before shooting her exactly on the centre of her forehead.
Before Anna could process anything, she had already collapsed on the floor, bleeding from her head.
Since people had heard the gunshot, no one came forward to even help her in her dying state.
Her father was the first person who came to know about this and shifted her to hospital. He then called First brother who was unaware of the tragedy that had fallen upon his dreamlike sweet family.
By the time he could reach the hospital, Anna was already breathing her last. Doctors tried to stop the First brother, but he pushed them all away before reaching Anna.
He held her hand tightly, not wanting to let her go. It was one of those rare moments when he cried, scared that he might lose Anna forever. Anna, even in her semi conscious state, was trying hard to speak something.
She must have been trying hard to tell the First brother to save their child.
But finally the thing that the First brother was fearing ultimately happened. Anna died holding his hands.
Doctors instantly pushed First brother out of the room, trying to resuscitate her one last time, which was useless.
“It was a girl child.” The doctor said after coming out of the room.
“What?” It was Anna’s father who exclaimed while Forst brother just looked blankly at the doctor, unable to process his words.
“Sorry. We were unable to save both the mother and child.” The doctor said apologetically before leaving the two broken men behind.
I still remember Jason saying that the First brother ran like a maniac from hospital to home, knowing that there must be something for which Anna had skipped her teaching lesson for that day. And true to his expectations, he found the book, the decorated room and burnt cookies.
He couldn’t be anymore broken than he already was. Finding his wife dying was already no less pain, and knowing she died carrying his child was even more heartbreaking, that too a child, a life he was unaware about.
It was Anna’s father who did all the rituals while First brother never left there home, or more precisely the four walled space that had witnessed their dreams for forever.
Finally Jason, who had unknowingly witnessed First brother’s condition in hospital, felt that he needed to do something. He had heard that Anna was shot by some gangster, thus he thought that in order to let First brother come out of his state, he needed to avenge Anna.
Thus on the very third day, he approached Forst brother. He knew that revenge was best taken when the iron was still hot.
He understood that though First brother had been traumatised by Anna’s death, somewhere deep down there was this fire inside him that needed to burn Anna’s murderer to death before it could die down.
Thus he approached the First brother and helped him kill the gangster as well as his entire gang. First brother had then at that very moment decided to sacrifice his life for Jason.
Jason had never expected that his single selfless deed would get him his first team member.” Rose said, finally ending the story with a sigh.
Nicole had tears in her eyes by the time Rose was done telling this.
She didn’t say anything, trying hard to not burst out crying. She had never expected that a cold heart would have so much pain hidden behind it.
“That was also the day he decided to not fall in love with anyone again. He had already gone through a lot of pain to come this far, if he was to go through all this again, he was sure to die from it. Therefore love or even the name of love is a total taboo in front of him.” Rose said, knowing that she had done her part to prevent any animosity between Nicole and Victor that could have been fatal to their team in important times.
“This is why he was so sweet with Kizy and Evie. He does not take Kizy as his teammate but more like his younger sister or even a little child.” Nicole said, or more like thought out loud.
“Hmmm. He has a soft spot for females since he lost his wife and baby girl. He would have never shouted or scolded you if not for your request about faking love.” Rose concluded, thinking she had said enough.
With that she got up and turned to leave. She knew that Nicole must have known her mistake, as well as her misunderstanding regarding Victor.
“Thank you.” Nicole suddenly said, wiping her tears away.
Rose just patted on her shoulder before leaving with the empty bottles and glasses, intending to clean up her room.
“I’ll take my leave now.” Nicole said after Rose came back, getting up to leave the room.
“Don’t go and apologise to the First brother now. He would still be in his angry mood. Maybe visit him in the morning when he has cooled down and in a state to think calmly about wh@tëver you have to say.” Rose said, knowing his First brother through and through.
“Hmmm. Thank you once again for clearing my misunderstanding.” Nicole said with a small smile before leaving.
Nicole came back to her room, still processing the entire story about Victor. That night she was unable to fall asleep, her thoughts revolving around Victor.
*VICTOR’s ROOM, MARKUS’s HOUSE*
Victor was sitting on his bed, deep in his thoughts when he heard a knock on the door.
“Come in.” Victor said, wanting to know who was awake this late and that too wanted to meet him.
And surprisingly the person turned out to be Kizy.
“Why are you still awake? It is very late at night and you have a job that you join early in the morning.” Victor said in a reprimanding tone, immediately shifting to his role of an elder brother after watching the clock which showed 3 am.
“I had some doubts. You can scold me if you want to though.” Kozy said plainly while sitting beside Victor.
“And why will I scold you?” Victor asked.
“Because of two things. First – for the scene I played out with Nicole. I didn’t expect it to turn out this way. Although I knew that grandpa and grandma would definitely doubt you to be that man, I had planned to keep you hidden and then plan a break up. But to save me from grandpa’s scolding, Nicole blurted your name. And I am equally wrong and responsible in this case.” Kizy said, knowing that Nicole had already spoken with Victor.
“Hmm.” Victor simply hummed in response.
“Secondly, I am apologising in advance for wh@tëver doubts I am about to ask, because you are bound to be sad after hearing that. But I can’t help it. I have tried everything in my control to help myself, but I can not continue this any longer.” Kizy said, her voice ultimately sounding a little high pitched, all her emotions riled up.
“You can always come to me, Second sister. You didn’t have to struggle with wh@tëver you’re facing this long alone. You know I am always there for you, no matter whether I like your decision or not.” Victor said, placing his hand on Kizy’s head, consoling her even before she could break down.
“How… how did you manage to survive after Anna left you?” Kizy said before she ended up crying loudly.
Victor had frozen for a moment, listening to this name after eternity. But there was one thing he had decided.
Anna had always been the love of his life and she would remain the same. But he needed to move on. If he was to stay at the same place, then it was bound to hurt not only him but his friends and family as well.
Thus even when there was this lava of emotions boiling inside him, he had sealed them of forever, wanting to keep Anna as his forever sweet memory, as well as his biggest lesson of how he was not supposed to let any other person close to him die such death.
Thus the next minute, instead of thinking about Anna, who was already dead, he chose to help Kizy out who was crying right now in front of him.
“Hey.. stop crying, second sister. Just tell me wh@tëver it is but don’t cry. You know I can never tolerate your tears.” Victor said before wiping her tears away, though to no avail.
Kizy was literally crying buckets, as if all her riled up emotions could no longer remain in the bubble of coldness she had developed.
“This.. this is getting… even harder than… than I imagined. I can not… not survive without Markus. I.. I may be over.. overthinking… but I can not ignore… this feeling that he is in some.. some danger.. and I am the one who has caused… caused it.” Kizy said while crying even more badly, her emotions taking the best of her.
“Stop crying first girl! You don’t have to make it so hard for yourself. Don’t blame yourself for something you haven’t even done. Stop crying now.” Victor said, wiping her tears away before immediately rushing to get water for Kizy.
He had never seen this little sister of his, cry so much. She had always been a calm person to begin with. Thus even when Rose would be so dramatic on smallest of events, Kizy would remain composed.
Thus she crying this much meant she was truly heartbroken and now he could understand the depth of love she shared with Markus.
“Here.” He said before giving the glass of water to Kizy, which she drank a sip or two before choking on it and coughing.
“Slowly slowly.” Victor said before rubbing her back, sad to watch Kizy in this state.
Kizy cried for some more time before her crying eventually died after half an hour.
“Sorry for being a crybaby and troubling you this late.” Kizy said before getting up, knowing that it was already very late.
“Stop.” Suddenly Victor said, getting up along with Kizy.
