"You here?" Kavita asked.
Swara was looking for words to answer but could not find any.
"How are you?" Swara asked but next moment cursed herself.
"Do you really want to know how I am?" Kavita counter-backed, passing a humorous chuckle. "Still alive."
"Sorry." Swara regretted.
"Don't worry. He came here only once when jail authorities shifted me to this hospital from the government hospital. I don't know why he applied for my bail application." Kavita shook her head.
Swara took a step not moving her eyes from Kavita's face.
"Your husband admitted his ex-girlfriend to such a big hospital here. He got specialist for me. Arranged the best treatment. Sponsoring my medical expenses. Why? Have you come to find the answer to this mystery? Or did you think Sanskar is cheating on you with me?" Kavita's straightforward question stumbled Swara.
"What do you mean?" Her question angered Swara.
"Come on Swara, you have Sherlock Holmes' soul. It's no wonder to see you here when you would have got to know about me being out of jail and that too Sanskar is behind my bail out." Swara felt Kavita's pale eyes were trying to peep inside her soul.
"I just came to meet you as humanity. I came to meet that person whom I considered as my friend once upon a time. " Swara tried to sound sober. But Kavita's words had already left their impact.
"Take care." Swara turned to leave.
"You should trust Sanskar. He can never cheat on you Swara. He loves you more than anything in this world. And no one knows this better than me." Her words stopped Swara in her tracks.
She turned to see Kavita, tears were streaming over her cheeks for her unrequited love for Sanskar.
"These days, I always think if... if that day my mother had not goofed up and me and Sanskar would have got married then... then you would not have had a chance to be even near Sanskar. I would have been the happiest person on this earth being Sanskar's better half." Kavita's lips flustered with smile.
Swara gaped like a fish with just a mere thought.
"But what about Sanskar? Would he have been happy with me?" For a moment Swara felt Kavita was talking to herself.
"Maybe not." The hospital room beamed with the meek laughter of Kavita. "For sure no. I was never his happiness. I was always his close friend. Just a close friend."
"But for you he had almost destroyed his family business." Swara replied.
"That's how he is. He is over possessive when it comes to his relations. He can go to any extent for their happiness, their safety, their wellbeing."
There was deadly silence spread over the room for a few moments.
"I and Sanskar met at a common friend's place." Kavita's words again gained Swara's attention, she never had an opportunity to know details about their meet and relation.
"For me it was love at first sight but for him it was just a friendship which he thought of as love when I proposed to him. I always wanted to see love in his eyes, the same love that was in my eyes. And that day when you brought me back to Maheshwari house, I saw that love in his eyes but it was not for me." Kavita gulped heavily, "but for you."
"When I realised it I walked away for his happiness." She was submerged in their past.
"But you tried to snatch his happiness. You made him regret the time he spent with you." Swara wanted to know the rationale behind Kavita's past actions.