Chapter 8

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They get up to leave, feeling utterly drowsy, Ananya unconsciously collides with Kabeer.

"Sorry",

she apologizes.

"Mujhe restroom use karna hai, abhi aati hun",

she says in her drowsiness.

As she turns and leaves, Kabeer realizes, she has unconsciously dropped her left earring.

Picking it up he manages to say,

"Ananya tumhari...",

that he realizes, she has already gone far away, to hear his voice.

Seeing the earring Kabeer smiles, as a naughty idea comes into his head, then he looks up to where he could still see Ananya walking, moving towards the restroom. Shaking his head, smiling, he puts the earring into his jacket's pocket.

As Ananya returns he says,

"chalein?"

Hoping she doesn't remember about her earring. And as if God was too much happy with him, Ananya didn't remember about her earring at all and says,

"ji",

still sleepy.

Smiling at his own secret joke, Kabeer, gestures her to move forth, in a very gentleman style.

As they get into the car, Ananya falls into a deep sleep. Kabeer concentrates on his driving, in between he gets a chance to bring out Ananya's earring from his pocket. Looking at it, he smiles and puts it back to it's place, before the traffic signal turns green.

As they reach her house, it was already 11 pm. Kabeer turns his head to find Ananya sleeping next to her, calmly in his car. Smiling, he takes his hand to push the tendrils back from her face. But controlling his feelings, thinking he won't touch her while she is unconscious, he needs her permission first. He needs to know that she is comfortable on being touched by him. Although he knows the truth too well, but still he needs to listen it from her. To get the words from her. Then suddenly he remembers, that from tomorrow onward 'The Punishment Scene' will start and he won't be able to talk to her, even though it would kill him, but this is important. He wants to know how much she aches for him. How much she can endure his anger. How far can she go to change his mood. How much would she want him to start talking to her. Taking a deep breath, he whispers into her ear,

"Ananya ghar aa gya hai".

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