Chapter 8: Lost

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Vaish (teasing): Wah! Khudke sheher ki kami kaise chupaye ye kala sikhne jaisi hai.

Abhi: Kami? (looking here and there) Kami kaisi? Apni sanskruti rakhneme kami kaisi? Mujhe bata, tu itni der mere saath ghum rahi hai, tujhe ek baar to insecure laga? Mai meri limits cross karunga, aisa ek baar bhi laga tumhe? Nahi batana batana.

Vaish: Aur agar laga bhi to koi option hai kya? 

Abhi frowned.

Abhi: Matlab?

Vaish: Option nahi na koi aur mere paas. Jaisa hai, vaisa hai. Chala leneka. 

Abhi (angrily): Bas. bas bas bas huh. Ab ab, Swabhiman dukhaya hai mera. Ab aur nahi sununga mai. Mai chala.

Vaish: Are ha. Tumhari batting baki hai na? Ja tu ja. Bye.

She waved her hand and started walking. Abhi frowned angrily.

Abhi (angrily): Nahi, ja raha hu mai par ek baat dhyan me rakh. Is duniyame na sirf teen hi cheejen swayambhu hai. Ek, bara Jyotirling. Don, Ashtavinayak Ganpati. Ani, e, idhar dekh e. Teesra humara Puneri Swabhiman. Sun nahi lenge. 

Abhi turned. Vaish saw him turning and she too turned. Abhi started walking back and fro while talking to himself.

Abhi (angrily): Are ek to CCD tak chodo to paise maangti hai. Tari shukar hai deva, mere paas ATM card tha. Are par nahi hota to kya kiya hota? Nahi. Par jidhar chahe udhar chodke aaya uska kuch nahi. Sab sab, ye sab jo problem hota hai vo na uski bajese hota hai. Udhar galti hoti hai humse.

Saying this, he again came near Vaish as his round completed. Vaish, who was checking the time, saw him and looked at him concerned.

Vaish: Kya re? Kya hua?

Abhi (angrily): Sanskar nahi hai humpe.

Vaish (shocked): Aah?

Abhi: Matlab aise anjan sheher me ladki ko akele chodne ke sanskar nahi hai humpe. Humne ek baar saath di phir vo ant tak. Are Sinha gela tari chalel pan Gad rakhnar. (We will keep the fort safe, even if it costs a warrior's life). 

Vaish: Pata hai. Pune ke ladkonpe kya sanskar hai pata hai.

Abhi: Are shakyach nahi. Shakyach nahi. Jis ladki ko Tulshibaug tak pata nahi, use kya pata honge Pune ke snaskar?

Vaish: Arnav Pune ka hai.

Abhi who was about to say something stopped in middle hearing it. Vaish smiled on it.

Vaish: Chale? Jyada dur nahi hai na yahase Tulshibaug?

She said walking. Abhi too went behind her. 

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They went in Tulshibaug. It was a crowdy place. Abhi was telling her about Tulshibaug while Vaish was busy looking the duppatas. 2 times, Abhi went back and took Vaish with him. Abhi was talking when Vaish saw something in a lane. She went in that lane. Without knowing this, Abhi kept walking ahead. He looked back and noticed that Vaish is not there. He started worrying and starts searching her in the lanes.

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Vaish, while exploring the Tulshibaug comes near the Ram Mandir. She saw a beautiful Ganpati Idol made of brass in a shop near the temple. She loved it a lot.

 She loved it a lot

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