The 'Un' Attached String

Chapter - 28

On one side, Bela was partially intoxicated due to the drug Reyhaan gave her and it was becoming very difficult for him to control her since sometimes she was fighting back. After reaching the 7th floor, when he came out of the lift, he searched for the man whom he bribed for giving him a suite for a few hours. Reyhaan then called the man and asked him to come to the lift and within a few minutes the man came to him and looked at Bela and gave a meaningful smile to Reyhaan and gave him a keycard and in return Reyhaan gave him a bundle of money. After the man left, Reyhaan very carefully dragged Bela by holding her by her arms and then took her to the desired room and opened the lock of the door. After opening the door, Reyhaan took Bela inside and then pushed her on the bed and Bela fall on her stomach on the bed and became unconscious. Reyhaan then looked at her and smiled and then walked back towards the door and closed it and again walked upto the bed and looked at the unconscious Bela and said, "Bela darling aaj ke baad tumhaare aur tumhaari family ke paas koi option hi nehi rahega except to beg in front of me to marry you." He gave an angry grin and said, "Aaj main tumhaara vo hashr karunga Bela jo tumhaare so called pati ko zindagi bhar ye yaad dilaayega ke Reyhaan Khurana se panga lene ka kya nateeja hota hai." He then returned to his evil mode and slowly unbuttoned his sherwaani. On the other side, Bulbul reached the 7th floor before Maahir and others and started looking here and there but she didn't know what to do since there are many rooms and she didn't know which room to search for and so she said to herself, "Yaha to kitne saare rooms hai, kaise pata chalega chimpanjee ne meri mamma ko kis room mein bandh karke rakkha hai. Ab main kya karu?" She kept on looking here and there and then closed her eyes looking upwards and prayed to God, "Bhagwaanji please meri help kar do, chimpanjee ne meri mamma ko kidnap kar liya hai, vo meri mamma ko maar denge, please mamma ko bachaane mein meri madat kardo. Please please please!!" Just at that moment, the family members who were using the lift, came running and found Bulbul and Madhu looked at Bulbul and said, "Mujhe pata tha tu yehi aayegi!" Bulbul replied, "Dekho na naani, meri mamma danger mein hai main kuch nehi kar paa hi hu. Daddy ne kaha hai na ke chimpanjee ne mamma ko yaha kidnap karke rakkha hua hai, isliye main yehi aa gayi par itne saare rooms hai, mujhe nehi pata na ke mamma kisme hai." Everyone decided to knock the doors but Suhaani said, "Par aise knock karne mein to bohot time nikal jaayega, hum didi ko bachaayenge kaise?" Just then Bulbul's eyes fall on the ceiling where she found fire sprinklers attached to the ceiling and she pulled Madhu's hand and upwards and said, "Naani naani vo dekho fire sprinkler!" Everyone looked upwards and then Bulbul asked, "Naani aapko yaad hai maine ekdin Dracula ke office mein smoke create kiya unko pareshaan karne ke liye aur ye saaare sprinklers on ho gaye the jiske vajah se sabko pareshaani hui thi aur phir mamma ne punish bhi kiya tha?" Madhu confusingly asked, "Ha to? Usse kya?" Bulbul replied, "Jab vo sprinkler on hua tha to sab apne room se bahaar aa gaye the, to abhi bhi aisa karenge to sab bahaar aa jaayenge na." Ranjit remembered that incident and said, "That's actually not a bad idea! Isse kaam aur bhi zyaada asaan ho jaayega." Since the lengths of the stair cases were small so by that time, Maahir, Pratham and Daksh also reached the 7th floor and on seeing Bulbul, Maahir angrily said to her, "Bulbul that was absolutely disgusting! Aap aise bina bataaye bhaag jaati ho, pehle hi main mamma ko lekar pareshaan hu aur upar se...""Jiju Bulbul ko baad mein daat lena, pehle kisi kisam ke smoke ka intezaam karo!", said Suhaani and hearing that Pratham asked, "Hai?" Suhaani pointed at the ceiling and he immediately understood that and so he took out his lighter, as he smoked sometimes, hiding from everyone and opened it and lighted it by raising his hand upto the ceiling but his hand was too far away from the ceiling and then he asked Bulbul to light up his lighter and he picked her up in his shoulder and as shown by Pratham, Bulbul lighted up the lighter and raised it upto the fire sprinkler. In his room, Reyhaan pulled out the dupatta of the unconscious Bela and threw it elsewhere and then opened the thread of the back of Bela's top. After that, Reyhaan opened all the buttons of his sherwaani and was leaning down on the bare back of Bela when it started showering from the fire sprinkler making Reyhaan totally drenched and he even heard the alarm of the fire. Reyhaan was extremely scared thinking that a fire had broke out and he ran towards the door to fled away from there but stopped at the nick of time thinking that he might get caught. Outside of his room, all the other boarders of that floor came out of their rooms, totally wet and they thought that there was some kind of fire outbreak. Majority of the hotel staffs also arrived in that floor along with the manager. Maahir and others were also completely drenched due to the water but no one cared about that as they had much more important things to take care of. Maahir and Pratham looked here and there and noticed that no one came out of only one room. They told the others and then they rushed towards that door and by that time, the sprinkler had already stopped. As the doors could be locked and unlocked by keycards so there was no point in pushing and Pratham asked the manager to open the door. Inside the room, since the sprinkler had stopped, Reyhaan decided to finish up his undone work, for which he had taken so much of pain and so he walked upto Bela and since there was so much of chaos outside, he thought no one was going to notice what was going inside this room and so he failed to realize that Maahir had already reached the other side of the door. Reyhaan bowed down and was about to kiss on Bela's shoulder when Maahir and others barged in. Reyhaan was shocked to see Maahir and the other family members standing on the other side of the door as he could not imagine that they would catch him in such condition and most important of all, he could not imagine that he would be caught at all. Maahir and his family were shocked seeing Reyhaan with unbuttoned sherwaani and Maahir, without thinking anything stormed inside and then gave punch on Reyhaan's face so hard that he fall down. Madhu entered the room instructing Suhaani not to let Bulbul enter inside, but Bulbul was Bulbul and she never listens to anybody and also the moment, she saw her mother lying on the bed on her stomach, she didn't care about any instruction and ran inside calling Bela and Madhu followed her. On seeing Bela's condition, Madhu understood everything as the nightmare about which they were thinking had come true and the earth under her feet was shaking. Bulbul, on the other hand, sat beside Bela and shook her by her hand and constantly called her, "Mamma mamma utho na mamma dekho main aayi hu, mamma please utho na, mamma. Naani mamma to meri taraf dekh bhi nehi rahi hai, mamma mar gayi hai kya?" She pouted while saying that and then Bulbul called Maahir and said, "Daddy daddy dekho na meri mamma kuch bol hi nehi rahi hai. Chaimpanjee ne meri mamma ko maar diya." Maahir, who was beating Reyhaan black and blue stopped hitting him when Bulbul said that and looked at Bela. All that time, he was so busy concentrating on Reyhaan that he forgot to look at his wife. He left Reyhaan and then came to Bela. He found Madhu was standing as if she was petrified and tears were falling down of her eyes and she was having blank expression and just like her, Maahir also thought that Reyhaan might have been successful in raping Bela as he feared. He turned Bela and covered her in his arms and then burst into tears hugging her and said, "I'm sorry! I'm really very sorry, main tumhe bacha nehi paaya, I'm really very sorry ke main waqt rehte tumhaare paas nehi aa paaya. Bela aakhe kholo please! Please ek baar meri taraf dekho, agar tumhe kuch ho gaya to main kaise jeeyunga tumhaare bina, I'm really very sorry!" Since Maahir was crying that way, Bulbul thought that Bela really had died and would never ever talk to her and so she started to cry loudly calling Bela and then Ranjit, who too was shocked to see Bela in that condition, was frozen and dashed on the floor, seeing Bela in that condition. Seeing the opportunity, Reyhaan was about to flee but Daksh stopped him and pinned him against the wall. At that moment, the only person who was in a stable and sane condition was Pratham. He checked on Bela's nerve and was confirmed of she being alive and said, "Maahir control yourself! Abhi Bela ko sabse zyaada tumhaari zarurat hai aur uski saasein chal rahi hai. She's alive!" On hearing that Bela was alive, Maahir gained his consciousness and then Pratham said, "Maahir tujhe apne aap par abhi control karna parega, bhabhi ko abhi doctor ki zarurat hai aur jaisa ke mujhe doubt hai ke Reyhaan ne unko kuch drug type khilaaya hoga, I think usko bhi bahaar nikaalna zaruri hai isse pehle ke bohot der ho jaaye. C'mon!" Pratham looked at Madhu and then held her hands and said, "Buaji! Please control yourself, bhabhi ko kuch nehi hoga but just she has to be taken to hospital immediately." By that time, Maahir asked Suhaani to take Bulbul outside, but Bulbul was not ready to go and then Suhaani explained her that Bela was alive but she was just sick and so had to be taken to the hospital. Maahir fixed Bela's dress somehow and then he picked her up in his arms and rushed with her towards the lift. When everyone came to the ground floor, they found the cops had already arrived as instructed to the manager by Pratham. Daksh and Pratham who had brought Reyhaan downstairs with them handed him to the police and instead of Maahir, Pratham gave the statement to the police. By that time, Rohit also reached the venue and had heard everything from Kuhu and was waiting with her there for everyone. While leaving for the hospital, Maahir had an eye to eye contact with Kuhu and seeing his eyes, she understood all his silent pain that whatever they had scared had finally came out to be true.