That afternoon, Abir cries a lot on the other end of the phone. He keeps asking her over and over why she didn't tell him about the pregnancy. Sneha just tries to keep him calm. To every repeated question, she gives the same hollow answer: What exactly would have changed if you knew? Choking back tears, Abir tells her, “At least I could have been by your side.” Standing on the balcony of her Basundhara flat two years after that phone call, it hits Sneha- even if she had told him, he would never have been by her side back then. Facing reality and saying “I could have been part of it” after the damage is already done are two completely different things. Words are effortless; presence is a different story entirely. If Abir hadn’t found out about the pregnancy through that fiction, it probably would have remained a secret from him for the rest of his life. It would have been better if he never knew, Sneha thinks. Then their communication wouldn't have started again....