When Love Meets Logic
chap 1
THe worst kind of heartbreak isn’t your own —
It’s the kind you watch in silence.
The kind you’re too young to stop.
[Scene: Rishita's home, Age 15]
The dinner table was a battlefield. Her father spoke in numbers. Her mother replied in silence.
Only Rishita sat between them, dissecting the tension like a lab experiment.
Rishita
{Quietly} " mum ..the food's getting cold"
Anushka mehra fl mom
{Snapping slightly} " then eat who is stopping you?
Rishab saxena
{stirring his soul without looking up}
She is just trying to help. Try thta sometime.
Anushka mehra fl mom
Oh? You mean like how you helped me by staying late at office with someone
Rishab saxena
....*already uninterested ion her tantrums*
They were beautiful once, she remembered. Her father read poetry. Her mother listens with full of love and admiration, in their eyes nothing but love .
Rishita
*Softly and happily* I got full marks in biology papa
Rishab saxena
Hmm that's good.
*absent minded* I will be good for your future
Anushka mehra fl mom
*sighing* you always tells her what is good. Have you asked her about what she wants or feels?
Rishab saxena
She doesn't needs therapy. She needs structure.
Anushka mehra fl mom
she needs love Rishab
Rishab saxena
And you? What do you need? A stage ? Applause? ....just just stop being dramatic Anushka
The argument grew louder
Rishita got up. She didn't slam her chair nor raise her voice . She had learned by now:
When adults break,
Children vanish.
She sat beside the window, writing formulas in her book
Not because they mattered -but they oddly calms her .
Molecules didn't leave nor numbers yell.
science just stayed by her side calming her not asking to choose side ....just the logic of things .
Anushka mehra fl mom
*avoiding eyes* you will stay with me for now . I will enroll you to local school where I am going
Rishab saxena
I will send money and visit when I can
Anushka mehra fl mom
Beta---
Rishita
I will figure it out *blunt*
That was the last time they stood on the same side of anything.
They called it mutual decision
But no one asked the girl in the middle
So she decided something too
To become someone they had never understood
To belong to no one but logic
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