He didn't know the reason but Arjun moved away from the door to her room when she tried to look in that direction.......He just glanced one last time at her through the window and walked out of the place.....
But those eyes, that look, her state never walked out of his mind.....it just clogged in his heart.......
Back in the hotel room, he tried his best to forget that and sleep.....
But sleep evaded him.......he paced up and down the balcony and then dialed a number....
"Rathod, I saw her today..."
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It was almost 2 years since Sakshi left ETF all of a sudden.....
Just after their successful mission of hunting down Sikandar and finally killing him without leaving his fate to be changed or decided by the loopholes in the law......
It was all over and the entire ETF was in a celebrations mood except for the hot cop....
He had piled in all the bullets into Sikandar's body and vented out all his pain and anger....all the agony he had stocked up within himself, the tears, the sorrows, all those emotions which always suffocated him was drained out that very instant.....He cried out all that bottled up pain for the first time in so many years......
What remained was just a vacuum of sorts....a plain emptiness......as if he had nothing else to do in life.....
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The team insisted on a small party....
Though he wasn't interested, he obliged to the team's wishes and dropped in for the get together.....But he stood far apart from the team...all alone as always.....he preferred his loneliness.....he had started loving it by now......Allowing anyone to trespass it wasn't acceptable to him.....
He was content seeing his team happy from a distance......he could see Rathod smile as he stood with his lady love....yes they were a couple and had announced their engagement in the same party.....It was a celebration of so many things.....And Arjun was happy seeing their happiness....
His promise to himself to avenge Roshni's death was fulfilled now....and his best friend had finally found his soul mate in Aisha.....
"Best friend" that pricked.....yes they were best friends once.....but now? It was a distant reality.....well things were sure getting better and their relationship was far from what it was when he first joined ETF but still there was a distance, a gap which perhaps can never get filled!
He glanced across the entire party area.....Shree, Chotu and Liza were in their own world of enjoyment......saat saat phir bhi apne hi dunn mein mast!
That left just one missing....yeah, she was missing........Arjun wasn't missing her but still, he thought to himself, "harr masti mazaag mein pehli number pe kadhi hoti hai.....par aaj ab tak nahi aayi..."
But he didn't ask about it to anyone.....Why should he bother?
Towards the end of the party, during the dinner time, he heard Aisha and Shree talking about her.....he didn't want to eavesdrop on their conversation but still it fell into his ears that Sakshi was out of town for a few days.....
He wondered what was so urgent that she went without even telling any of them.....She had just called up Rathod and informed about her absence!
That was the last of what they heard of her......a few days later, her resignation reached ETF through the commissioner himself.....and she was relieved off all her duties just through papers officially....She never came back or called back once!
