Jaise tum na... waise hum

Pragya learns the truth

"Pooch na" Abhi said.

"Tune Di ka woh call attend nahi kiya tha na?" Purab asked.

"Nahi" Abhi said.

"Ok... sorry on insisting this" Purab said, "but... Dadi ki kasam?"

"haan re Dadi kasam." Abhi said, "maine woh call attend nahi kiya".

"Toh fir we were right Sushmaji" Purab said, "woh Pradeep hi hoga".

"Pradeep?" Abhi asked.

"Woh phone call Tanu ne aattend kiya tha" Purab said, "Usne kuch kaha Di se, phir Di ko laga ki tune baat kiya, par actually koi aur tha... teri aawaz me baat kar raha tha. Bohot kuch bola... details Di ko aur Sushmaji ko pata hai... par briefly... ki you don't want her in your life, tune unke brakes fail kiye hai, maar dalne ke liye... aisa kuch."

"Oh Shit!" Abhi said, "isliye nahi aayi who wapas? God!"

After a brief pause he continued, "Woh Pradeep hi hai. He can imitate my voice. I've seen him do that."

"Kabhi?" Purab asked.

"Suna hai" Abhi said, "in fact usine Alia aur Tanu ko mere baare me khabar di hogi. Woh Alia ne properties ka kaand kiya tha na ... woh incident se kuch 1-2 din pehle ki baat hai. Mera ek chotta jhagda bhi ho gaya tha us se."

"Ohkaay!" Purab said, "so... hume us se jaake milne ki jarrorat nahi hai?"

"Nahi." he is the one.

"Aur kuch bataya Pragya ne?" Sushma asked.

"Haan..." Abhi said, "woh keh rahi thi Alia ke business ke saath kya kya kiya tha, detail nahi bataya but she did a lot."

Sushma nodded and said, "Did she tell you something about it? That she actually did it against you and not Alia?"

"Is it?" Abhi asked and laughed, "Oh my God! Well... thank you Alia I guess. If it was me I would've had a tough time."

"Ok..." Sushma said, "hope you dint feel bad about it knowing this... because she did all that believing you were the one who tried to kill her. And we never knew you left home or your businesses. We had assumed you are living happily with Tanu."

Abhi smiled and shook his head, "me with Tanu... Pragya... how can she even think that?" and laughed, "God... feel like giving her a bear hug now."

Pragya's room, Few hours later

"And ma'am... just one more thing" Pragya's secretary said, "You really look happy today. Good to see you like this".

"Oh...Thank you" Pragya said, "and have a nice weekend" and called off the video meeting.

She stared at the screen of her laptop... 'I look happy today? But I just had another attack!'

She realised she was. She had slept peacefully since what felt like ages. That felt like heaven... 'yes... mujhe takleef hui jab unhone us phone call ke baare mein baat ki. Par, jis tarah se unhone woh poocha... seems like he doesn't know anything about it.' Lunch time had gone well too with him. they had not talked but everything felt normal. 

She got up from her work station and walked over to the window... 'kya unhe wakehi me kuch pata nahi? Par woh phone call aur unki aawaaz? Unki aawaaz ki nakal to bohot log karte honge... Rockstar jo they! ... God... is that what happened?'