Dheeraj stood there like a stone... he just can't believe what the doctor said right now......

" No..no...this can't be true...no..." He mumbled to himself...

Just then , niteesh and his brother Namish came to the hospital...
Dheeraj saw them and stood numb as he didn't know what should he tell them now ..

" Beta ..what did doctor said...."he asked...

" They are trying their best uncle..." Dheeraj stammered...

" Nikku didn't know yet...what should I say her.." niteesh said with hand on his forehead...

Dheeraj's heart weakened thinking about her... Could she tolerate this?
He don't know how to react....

" Uncle.. function...??" raj asked..

" I don't know anything beta... Darsh didn't told his parents yet...they are still at the venue...I don't know beta what should I say now.." Niteesh sat on the chair with hands on his head...

Dheeraj held his shoulders...Namish stood there but just then his phone rang...
" Bhavi hai...what should I say?" Namish asked raj..

" Don't say anything uncle...just tell them that you will be back " he suggested...

" Hmm.." he sighed and went out with his phone...

Just then a nurse came outside...
" Patient regained his consciousness...."

Dheeraj's face lit up and niteesh too...

" But his condition is critical... he is asking for some Dheeraj and said that he immediately want to see him..." nurse added..

" That's me..." Dheeraj said in shock...

" You can come inside.." nurse said ...
He followed the nurse ...

The scene infront of him was horrible....he got terrified seeing his friend....his eyes filled with tears...

He was covered with white bandages all over his body and a oxygen mask was on his nose...he was surrounded by several machines and one machine indicated his life line....

Dheeraj felt like his body is going all numb...
He slowly went near his friend and looked at him with shock...
Tears started rolling down from his cheeks and it fall on to Ashish's hands..
He slowly opened his eyes...
Dheeraj suddenly sat beside him in a chair and held his hands gently...

" Raj..." He called softly..

" Ye..yes ... Ashish ...I'm..I'm..here... nothing will happen to you.." He stammered...

" Raj.... please... forgive me... I'm.. sorry..." he said..

" For what? You are my best friend..I'll never let anything happen to you.. you
want come back to life and you will...your... your... niharika is waiting for you..." He said...

" Seriously....is she my Niharika raj?... think once more before you say she is mine..." He said in low voice which shocked raj...

" Why...it's your marriage with..with.. her..." Raj said..

" Yes..but she is someone else too.. someone is loving her raj..very much...may be more than me...more than anyone..do you have any guess..who it is?" He said fixing his glance at raj...

Dheeraj  got shocked to the core...

" what's he is saying? Is he out of his mind or..did he ..no..no.." he thought to himself and he loosened his grip when he heard that...he looked at him in shock...tears filled in his eyes..

"What happened raj...why are you looking at me like this... I know...I know you loves her... right?" He asked...

He got up from the chair in shock and tears welled up in his eyes...

" I..I..m..." Dheeraj stammered...

" Sit..." Ashish said with a slight smile..

" I know...even before me...you loved her...but still you stepped back  for me.. why?" Ashish asked.. tears started rolling down from his eyes....

" Ashish... that's not.. like..." Dheeraj didn't know what to say...

" i know...i got to know that when I came to your house...2 weeks after proposing nikku..."
       Ashish started to recall the past...

A small flash back...

" Just one min...mein fresh hokar aata hu.." Dheeraj said when Ashish and he entered into his room.....

" jaldi ana " Ashish said and sat on he bed...

Dheeraj went to bathroom with his towel..
Ashish saw some business magazines scattering there at the table....
He took one of the magazine and suddenly he saw a diary lying beneath it...
He took it and  opened....
He saw something written on it in a beautiful handwriting...
" My diary"

"It must be his...pagal..." Ashish chuckled...

Just then he saw a small paper popping out...he opened that specific page ...it was  a photo...
Photo of Dheeraj and nikku which was taken on annual day rehersal...

He saw Dheeraj's hands on niharika's waist...
He frowned seeing that but then let it leave that afterall they are friends...
He took the photo out and suddenly he saw something written on that page where the photo was kept...

It was written.. that
" I don't know how to confess my feelings for you... I'm urging to express my feelings to you....I swear I didn't want to broke our friendship..but still I love you Sonu... my Sonu...
If it's Life or death, I just want you to be with me... with me only...
Love you sonu..."

Ashish felt a pang on his chest as he read it ..
His eyes turned moist.... just then he heard Dheeraj opening the door..
He kept that diary back at the same place and sat normally.....
Without knowing anything, Dheeraj came and after getting ready, both went from the room....
                       Flash back ends...

Dheeraj got shocked hearing that from him...
His tears made their way down through his cheeks....

" I'm..I'm.. sorry raj......for my selfishness... that time  I thought only about me..i ..i.didnt pay importance to your feelings....i was blind in my love...now look where life has bought me... I got punishment for what I did..and I'm happy to receive it..." he said..

" Don't say like that... nothing will happen to you..." Dheeraj said..

" No..no.. raj...I know ...I'm a cancer patient..and i can't survive from that.. leave me..what you now get focused should be Nikku...you have to be with her...and I..I..want.. you....you...to marry..her.." Ashish said with a wide smile on his face...

Raj cried holding his hand...
" How can...can...I..." Raj broke down...

" You have to...I know.. nobody can love her better than you...she will be happy with you...I'm asking my last wish...you have to marry her and one more thing...my diary was kept in my room in my wardrobe..you have to read it...but never ever show my diary to her.... ok?" Asish asked...

Now Ashish started to breathe heavily...
Ashish tightened his grip on Raj's hands...he held Ashish with his other hand too...
" I know.. my time..is near...take care of her and yourself...and if you can, then name your first child,my name if he is a boy.." Ashish chuckled a bit...

Dheeraj cried badly...
" Raj...you sacrificed your love for me... now it's time ...for me to ...give you back..your..love..... happy.....life ahead..." Ashish's voice broken..

" Ashish how can I.. do you think that  she will  loves me back ?" Dheeraj asked

Ashish didn't reply...he just smiled.. smiled..and looked at him..tears rolled down through his cheeks...

"Ashish.." Dheeraj called him..
No response...

" Ashish!!!!!" He again called...
No response..

She felt that his hands getting cold...
He loosened the grip and Ashish's hands fell down from his hands....
Dheeraj's eyes widened in shock...
He looked at the machine and saw a straight line passing through....
Which indicated that Ashish in no more....

Dheeraj's body went numb...
His legs stumbled and his back hit on the wall...
He placed his hands on his mouth...tears came like stream from his eyes ...
He sat on the floor....like that...
He can feel the footsteps of doctor and nurses came running..he sat there...
Two attenders came and made him stand...
He slowly moved out of ICU looking back...

With red eyes and devastated face, he came out from the ICU and got shocked to see a emotionless niharika standing infront of the ICU... staring at him....
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How's my second chapter guys...
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Sorry aham fans for killing him...even I'm also a aham Sharma fan ..but what to do.. I've to move the story forward...
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