Mona is chopping onion while her eyes gets seriously watered.

"Hato. Main kar dunga." Karan offers help to which she refuses silently. Karan tries to take knife from her hands but she doesnt leave it.

"I am telling you I'll help. Issue kya he isme?"

She instead keeps on cutting onion and crying rivers in process. Karan beats his head. She has gone on silent mode since that dinner. What exactly goes on in her head only she knows. Yes. He asks her to cook randomly but he offers help as well. He does other chores to not let her feel all the burden. He gives up. Its been three days and she has not uttered a word. Somehow the house has become so haunted for him. He feels like everything in this house is either taunting him or asking him to leave. Mona' ignorance was acceptable. She didnt keep a tab on him. She didnt ask him about his whereabouts. Everything was bearable but this silent treatment has started to bug him. Yes. The decision was wrong but mona is doing it too much. This nuptial bond they share could be taken like civil people but no...chaos has spread everywhere.

He leaves kitchen wondering what exactly he did wrong in this relation. What crime he committed mona to hate him this much. He was also married to her..he didnt even know her. He never saw her but signed those papers because aadi had requested him so earnestly. Aadi his twin who never asled him anything was aksing something for a first time. He couldnt deny. He didnt want to deny. It was not like only mona was in this relation without her consent. He was also not familair with anything except the fact that he was getting married to someone his brother knew. Wasnt this also a small secret for him! But he never thought of divorcing her. Thought never crossed his mind. he had no idea when but he got so adjusted to this life of his that he forgot he was married to her just because of some property and shares. The relation was forced one.

But he never found it tiring. Returning home from headquarters and finding mona relaxing on couch...then he would ask her to bring him a glass of water. Her reacting wildly...then all those arguement while cooking.. he never thought she was taking it seriously. She broke his hand. He didnt complain. She spiked his food many times but he ignored it. And the way she says that he is intolerable just doesnt sit right. He has also somewhere suffered even a little but he has.

But still no thought of divorce has ever occurred to him.

Karan has no idea what to do. He ends up calling his brother whom he barely called his whole life.

"Hello."

He keeps silent for few seconds. He feels bit awkward. The brotherly love people share with their twins...karan now feels that he and aadi missed it.

"Hey aadi. Whats up?"

Aadi laughs.

"Itna formal kyu ho rha he?"

"Nothing. Just abhi I realized ki we never really talked."

"Perhaps because we both were busy with our lives. Or perhaps life was busy with us.."

Aadi' statement is vague but it speaks volume today. Karan rememebers how his life has been in the past. Life was not busy but he made life so busy as he could keep distance from everyone. Aadi never complained but he knew...that. for a change..karan wants to apologize aadi for escaping.....for leaving him.

"Ma ke baad...I...I end up distancing myself from everyone. Isilye army me jane ki jid thi. I knew ki ghar nahi aaunga. Dad ko nahi dekhunga and I would not blame him. Do You know that I was escaping...."

"Yes. I did. I knew ki tu dad ko blame karta tha. And his marriage with malvika...Koi bhi accept nahi karta. Believe me karan...Kahi na kahi I also blame him...even if a little but I do. Mom ki jagah kisi aur ko dena impossible he. But seeing dad moving on with malvika was unacceptable. I agree. And I dont blame you at all."

"Aadi....sorry yar. I kept on escaping and you ended up facing everything alone. Sorry yar. Sorry for being the irresponsible brother."

"Chhor na.
Aur waise tujhe Mona ke palle bandh kar maine sare badle le liye." He laughs after this remark. Karan smiles a little. With mention of mona ...it triggers something in him.

"Accha sacchi bata...kya issue he mona se? Why do you talk so rudely with her?"

Karan wonders what issue he has with her. He wonders how can he have issue with her when all issues she has with him. She has copyrights on every damn issues.

"No idea. Agar main pyar se bhi bat karne jaau tab bhi usko chid kar hi jawab dena he. And after that dinner...she has stopped talking to me. Ghar kaatne ko daudhta he. It has started haunting me. Ek pal rukna bhi mushkil lagne laga he."

"I...I dont know how to help you. I'll talk ayushi about it. May be she will talk some sense into her."

"What sense! Aadi. Uske dimag me kya chalta he wo hi jane. Yaar...I just dont understand koi itna ignorant kaise ho sakta he! She doesn't even care ki main ghar me exiat karu ya nahi. She doesnt even ask me ki main kaha ja raha hu. Main kya kar rha hu. Main kyu ja raha hu. She doesnt care. She treats me like a lodger or a tenant. Atleast tenant se tum rent maangte time bat to karte ho. But she doesnt. Usko koi matlab nahi he mujhse. Its not like i dont try. I want to start a conversation but instead she ends up taunting me for the marriage. Mujhse bhi nahi suna jata phir. How can I tolerate all the nonsense when i was also married without knowing a thing about her. But usko ye baat nahi samjhni. I have no kdea how to deal with this!"

There is silence on the other side for two or three seconds.

"Karan. Do you know the very same feelings I share but for ayushi!"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean I too want her to treat me like a friend...like a person...like a partner. I understand the phase you are going through. Believe me I do."

"I dont know yaar...What she wants. How can I divorce her? Mujhe is shadi se koi issue hi nahi he. I knew at some point I had to get married..and now when I have..I dont see why I should divorce her. I am ready to make it work but she just refuses it plainly."

"Koi nahi. I am here. I'll find some solution."

"Chhor. Its my marriage. I'll see what i can do. Aur waise bhi tune hi sar issue ko solve nahi karna he. Let me do some work as well."

"Okay. As you say. Captain diwan!''

Karan laughs and bids him goodbye. When call ends he feels like he is back to his falling in abyss. Feeling of being lost...feelings of being alone...they come back.

*************

Aaditya after talking with karan for a first time in past so many years feels so ecstatic. He ends up finding ayushi and sharing this with her.

"Hey. Ayushi. Do you know I just talked with karan. Even for few minutes but it was a brotherly talk."

She is writing something while nodding her head to his talks. Aadi takes the files from her hand and mames him look at him.

"Phle meri bat sun lo..phir kam karna. Please...just two minutes."

"Bolo jaldi."

"I just talked with karan. It was a nice talk."

"What did you guys talk about?"

"Mona. What else! I mean who else!''

"Ab kaun sa kand bithaya he is aurat ne?" She genuinely gets worried.

"She has stopped talking to karan. And karan feels sufficated in that house. I agree with karan. When you share a common place with someone you expect to have some conversations with each other. But somehow with mona and karan there is less of talking more of arguing."

"She has not acted like this ever before. Even I am surprised."

"Karan...I think he wants to have a normal relation with her. He wants her to talk with him. To ask him things...But Mona doesnt. So it irritates him and he ends up talking rudely."

"But why? I and you..I understand we were classmates. So It was very immature to talk rudely and keep on acting childishly."

"They share a roof! Ek sath ek hi jagah rahne wale log bhi agar apas me bat nahi karenge to how toxic the environment will get, do you have any idea?"

"Hmm. But as I see her and know her...She is not that hostile person until someone messes with her. And karan...he knowingly irritates her. Us din theatre me bhi we gave him ticket of faraway seat but that guy ended up sitting next to mona. He literally threatened the person sitting next to her. How can you expect her to behave civil to him? He teases her on whim."

"Yar. Kamal he. He just sat next to her because he wanted to sit next to her. Isme teasing kaha se aa gayi. He didnt even do a thing while she was sleeping. In fact he stayed longer with her after movie ended. How can this be teasing?"

Ayushi remembers what aadi is saying is true. But that doesnt make up for the cooking drama he put all the time. Before she can ask about it aaditya tells her about karan' opinion about divorce.

"Karan doesnt wanna divorce her. He has no problem in making this marriage work."

Ayushi is taken aback.

"But...but why! This is not even a proper marriage. Not arranged...not even a contract one."

"Perhaps the idea of having someone at home has born in his head. Perhaps he has started liking to return a house full of human instead of furnitures and emptiness."

She is surprised at the revelation.

''How do you know?"

"We are twins. Moreover I know how it must have been for him after mom and dad. He never really tried to keep in touch with us. He never relaly tried to have a family. He never teally tried to be social. Uski job, uska life style everything made him lonely. May be he wants to escape this loneliness by following that marriage."

Ayushi is taken aback. She has never thought the errors and mishaps taking place on a random day can have such consequences. Mona...who wants to run away from karan as if he is plague..and there is karan who has no issue but to pursue the abnormal marriage with her. She wonders how she will react if she gets to know about this.

"Mona will kill karan if she gets to know he is ready to give this marriage a chance. Man! Wo karan ko shaheed kar degi yahi...delhi me. Kargil ke to sapne bhi nahi aayenge karan ko..lekin veergati jarur mil jayegi use."

Aadi smiles.

"Sach kahu to...Broken family makes you lonely. Karan kept on escaping from his broken family. When he ended up having a forced relation idea of family formed in his head. He perhaps realized how lonely he must have been his whole life. Now he wont dare to jump into that blackhole once again."

She looks at him with her big eyes. Questions visible in her eyes..aadi just shrugs his shoulders and passes a smile. His phone rings and he leaves...

"If karan was alone all this time...what about him!" Ayushi wonders....

Comedy of errors was indeed a great piece of work but somehow thos doesnt seem like that much of comedy and great work. Who would have thought things went this deep...