Thin rays of sunlight pierces through the window and falls on his face making his eyebrows furrow. He slowly tries to open his eyes as he felt his eyelids heavy. He adjusted his vision to the light by blinking his eyes multiple times and observes the surroundings and came to know that he is not in his room but on the hospital bed.

He remembers that happened last night and gets tensed whether riddhima is safe or not. He felts whole body aching due to injuries but he ignores the pain and tries to get up but couldn't.

He feels something heavy on his hand and feels a familiar warm touch and looks at his side.

A smile crept on his face forgetting all his pain when he sees a familiar beautiful face on his hand sleeping peacefully by clutching his hands tightly with her hands as if she removes her hand he will run away from her.

( Asmaani rang ho tune plays on the background.......)

Wind blows from nowhere making her hair fall covering her face while armaan will be watching riddhima adorably.

He tries to remove the hair from her face with his other hand but fails due to the pain and glucose attached to it. Armaan smiles at the cuteness of his sleeping basket and blows air lightly with his mouth enough to reach her face and her hair blows upwards clearing her face. He does this few times to clear hair off her face.

Riddhima unknowingly smiles in her sleep because of the familiar warm air blowing on her. A wide smile automatically appears on Armaan's face seeing her smile in her sleep.

He knows she cares for him,she is concerned for him and he also saw love for him in her eyes before he fell unconscious. He always wanted her to tell him that she still loves him but today after seeing so much love for him in her eyes he decides no words are needed. He was happy that at last he saw the love for him which he was longing to see since he came back to Sanjeevani.

Yes I can live with this......basket.

I always wanted your love.

I know we couldn't be together.

But the love you have for me is enough for me.

Yes your love is enough.

I am so much happy today.

I am feeling close to you after longtime.

I am feeling loved after longtime.

You no need to tell me anything.

No words are needed.

Your care,your concern,your fear of losing me.......says everything that you still love me riddhima.

You love me......and I love you.......

I can live with this.............

I love you Riddhima

I love you so much

And I will love you forever.

Armaan grins widely with tears while he feels a weight lift off his chest and sighs happily.

His heart aches seeing her tears stained cheeks knowing that he is the reason for her tears. He sadly smiles that where their fate has got them to as they were so near but yet so far from each other.

He watches her keenly admiring her beauty, all their beautiful memories flashes in front of his eyes as he watches her smiling while sleeping. He smiles and tears fall out from his eyes unknowingly as he stares at her smilingly and sighs sadly as this will not last long. He doesn't know when he dozed off into his sleep while watching her.

Armaan and Riddhima slept peacefully after many days may be after more than a year. They didn't have peaceful sleep since they were separated during that awful accident and fate brought them today in this state as they fell asleep peacefully feeling each other's warmth.

******

Riddhima opens her eyes slowly to see the most adorable scene in front of her. She slowly gets up from Armaan's hand without leaving his hands and looks at his face.

Armaan sleeps with his messy silky hair resting on his forehead and with a slight smile on his face. She thinks that he looks more handsome while sleeping and brushes off his hair from his forehead with her fingers. She smiles watching him sleeping looking cute like a kid.

I thought I lost you armaan.

Last time that accident took away everything from us.

I thought I will lose you again.

I know we can't be together.

But no one and nothing can remove the feelings we have for each other.

I know I hurt you everytime by pushing you away but it's our fate and nothing is my hands.

And I ask God to give me punishment for every tear you shed because of me.

I know you wouldn't want any punishment for me instead you take everything on you before it comes to me.

I know because I trust you, I believe you.

If there is anything that I wish is that is to take away the pain you are suffering because me and my love.

I know I don't have right to do all this after what I have done to you.

But what I have to do, I care for you, I am concerned for you.

Armaan you may have thought sometimes that it does not matter to me and it doesn't make any difference to me which is related to you.

But you know ,the truth is.........

I care for you

I'm concerned for you

It makes difference for me anything related to you either you smile or cry or serious or happy or sad.

Everything about you matters to me Armaan......every single thing.

Not only in the past but also today and till my last breath

Because

I lo.............

I don't need to say anything

I don't need to prove anything to anybody

Because I know you will understand

You always understood me.

You have always read my silence.

You have stood by my side in every situation.

You always helped me or at least tried to help even if  it caused you pain by doing so.

You will understand me today also and also till your last breath.

No words are needed.

And maybe I can live with this.

Riddhima cries silently holding armaan's hands and her tears falls on his hands.

She holds his hand with both her hands and rests her head back on the bed while looking at him smiling.

******

Sid comes early to check on riddhima if she is alright or not and sees through the glass door riddhima holding armaan's hand,looking at him with tears flowing,thinking deeply something and sleeping on the bed looking at him longingly as if she looks away he will disappear. Sid gets infuriated and storms off from there.

******

Atul, Anji,Rahul and Muskaan also comes early to check on their friends. They opens the door silently and freeze watching the sight in front of them.

They silently take steps forward and stop. They smile looking at the most adorable sight of riddhima holding armaan's hand and slept with a smile playing on her lips while armaan also sleeping like a baby with the same smile on his face.

******

" Did you just do that?" Anji asks unbelievingly to muskaan with wide eyes grabbing her out of the ICU.

" What?" Muski asks and Rahul sighs.

" Have you gone mad?" Rahul asks her and she frees herself from grip of rahul.

" It was so creepy Muskaan!!!!" Anji exclaims and Rahul agrees nodding.

" Maine aisa Kya Kar Diya yaar tum log aise ghoor rahe ho mujhe" Muskaan asks them back confused while Atul will be controlling his laugh.

" Muskaan tumne photos click Kiya andhar" Rahul states.

" Toh? " Muski asks lifting her eyebrows.

" Oh my God! You are impossible......armaan was injured and unconscious, ridzy must be awake whole night and now she slept and you were just clicking their photos happily enjoying as if they both are dancing to some romantic song." Anji exclaims looking wondering at Muskaan and Atul starts laughing earning glares from Anji and Muskaan while Rahul also joins Atul laughing.

" I find them cute together and how romantic they were looking holding their hands while sleeping" Muskaan says happily shrugging her shoulders.

" I know they looked great together but clicking photos without their knowledge while they are sleeping is totally a creepy thing and for God sake ridzy is married......to someone else,that was not the right thing to do." Anji tries to explain her.

" They are not strangers or something ,they are our friends who loved each other and look great together and we saw them sleeping happily after longtime. It was not only romantic but it was also their love, their concern,their care for each other without speaking anything, and for them no words are needed just some gestures are enough to depict their love for each other. What you said about the thing of her marriage is that I don't care at all and that Sid is a more creepier than anything" Muskaan pauses when she looks at three of them looking at her dumbfounded.

" So I found them cute and wanted to capture their moment as I am not sure that we might be able to see them like this in future or not so I did it, it may be mannerless or a creepy thing or whatever it is ,I just did what I wanted to do" Muskaan says chirping while rest three of them just look at her in awe.

" Guys dekho kitne ache hai pictures,armaan dekhega toh kitna kush ho jaayega na" Muskaan says while three of them nods with tears and hugs her tightly.

" I can be a good photographer " Muskaan says proudly while three of them nods again enjoying their group hug.

" Muski tum apni photography apne paas rakh and promise me that you will never take a picture of me while sleeping ,I will sure look like sleeping bear " Atul says and everyone bursts out laughing while hugging.

" Mein jaanwaron ka photos nahi kinchti Hoon.......tum fikar mat Kar" Muskaan says patting atul's back and laughs in her unique style while Rahul and Anji chuckles.

" Teri toh mein......." Atul tries to catch her while she runs away laughing and he follows her. Rahul and Anjali also follows them shaking their heads laughing.

******

Riddhima feels something moving on her hand and opens her eyes to see armaan holding her hand tightly.

The thought of Armaan's movement made her so much happy and gets up and looks at him who will be already staring at her with his blue orbs.

She felt alive seeing him staring at her with smile playing on his lips and holding her hands. She firms her grip on his hand and grins widely seeing him gaining conscious.

They just look into each other's eyes slightly smiling forgetting the whole world.......

To be continued........

Love AR.