"Are you insane? Why the hell would you think I would meet her?" Shehnaaz's shrilled voice resonated in the confinement of four walls.
"I don't know..I really don't know. The way she requested me I couldn't really deny to her." Aditya chided back getting back at her.
"You should've asked me atleast once Aditya..you know hers and mine equation, don't you?" She sighed plopping down on the couch near her taking her head between her hands.
"Shehnaaz don't you think there must be a good reason for which she has come all the way from Punjab to Mumbai just to meet you.talk to you , at a time when she is awared of the fact that you clearly have no word to spare to her." He took a seat next to her making her see the situation from his eyes.
A real friend is the one who always thinks the best for you. Sometimes, there are things that we neglect for some reason but there may be people in your life who could see the good in those things and would make you realise that too.
This is what here Aditya was trying to do.
The lady our there was her mother.. Shehnaaz's mother!
What was she doing there?
Well, just looking for a way to talk to her daughter who was relentlessly ignoring all her calls and messages for what reason..it was unknown to herself as well.
May be because of some seeds that her
mother had planted in her early life that in place of fruits gave her pricks to deal with.
"I don't think it's would be a good decision.." she whispered back.
"Give it a chance. Good or bad we would see later. Atleast you wouldn't wonder some time after what she wanted to talk about .
May be she have something important related to you.." he insisted one more time.
"Okay..I will talk to her but the moment she said something I couldn't bear, you are the one who's gonna get her out of here" she remarked more of ordered pointing her finger at him who surrender raising his hands with a grin on his face.
Really blessed to have him in my life.
Her mind reminded her time and again.
Don't ever loose him. He's precious.
Indeed! She smiled at her thought.
There are people who gave birth to her, the ones who's blood is running in her veins, the one's who's reflection could be seen in her although just in facial features, they didn't even gave her the love,affection,care which of her part and then there was him..
An absolute no-one to her yet the shadow to her sunshine.
"Sidharth mai uski dost hu .. zimmedari nahi.." she had said back then.
"You are..when he has his own reasons to make you work with Sanjay and Harshjot."
And Sidharth had replied this. What did it meant? She questioned herself.
Was there something that Aditya was hiding from her.. something that she should know but she didn't.
He had not told her anything, did he? No!
But Sidharth as well wouldn't lie..would he?
She knew , she believed, there must be a reason he had made such a statement and she knew his information wouldn't be wrong in any case.
So what is it exactly?
If there's something that she should know , Aditya would have told her ... Right??
"Shehnaaz" the lady named Niyati, whispered in contentment seeing her daughter after a long time but smiled in pain with tears in her eyes when Shehnaaz took a step back when she tried to touch cup her face to show her love..
The love that she realised late...very late when she had already lost her daughter.
Her love for her husband had overpowered her all other relations, creating that distance in those relations that was hard to cover.
Was she really at fault?
She had done just what felt right to her.
Her love for her husband made her blind and neglect all other things around her..even her children.
Crazy it is, isn't it.
Well, she did the crazier thing years before.
Falling in love with a criminal.
Someone who was a criminal by choice.. he loved seeing people in pain.
A sadist he was.
It drives him crazy when people beg for their lives in front of him.. and he being him..
Would love to see them suffer.
Money and power were all his eyes could see.
This left a big scar in her life too.
Niyati had lost her everything by the time she realised, that it was only her that had fallen in love and not him ever.
Life's weird , isn't it ..
We all have stories that differ us in a way from one another year bind us at the same time in other way.
It's life!!
"Kyu aayi hai aap yaha ... Itna sab kuch karne ke baad bhi aapko sukoon nahi mila?"
Niyati hissed at the rude tone of her daughter.
But this is what she had to face after all the things she had done to her.
"Let's sit and talk. Aaj bahut himmat karke ye batane aayi hu tumhe. Shayad aaj nhi bata payi to pata nhi ye himmat wapis mujhme kabhi aayegi bhi ya nahi.." Niyati calmly said with the myriad of emotions in her eyes that Shehnaaz couldn't decode.
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"Kya hua kya soch raha hai?" Jay finally asked to his dear friend who seemed zoned out from a long time..
Thinking sometimes very deeply..seemed like trying to solve a riddle in his mind while solving the rubix cube with his hands.
This habit of him , Jay knew.
Whenever Sidharth would have something that would be disturbing him mentally, giving him stress, he would solve this small cube to lessen his stress.
It kind of make him focus on better things.
"What do you think of this ... Harshjot?" Sidharth asked , eyes squinting, decoding some puzzle mentally yet focussed on the cube in his hands.
"What about him?" Jay asked sceptically.
He wanted to know what exactly was making him this disturbed but his words were putting him in confusion.
"He is much more than what we know about him.." he remarked leaning back on his chair, fingers moving faster on the cube.
"As in?" Jay again asked not getting what exactly was his point.
'As in..we have a very limited information about him. If we talk about Sanjay, uski janam kundali pata hai ..par iss saale ke baare me nahi pata ye sab..
All what we know is, he is equal partner of Sanjay in every work but what about his early life?
Kaha se aaya hai, pehle kya karta tha, shaadi ki ya nhi, biwi, bache kuch bhi nhi..
Sirf uski abhi ki life jaante hai hum." He explained putting all his thoughts into words.
"Hmm..but does it makes any difference? I mean what is it even if we don't know?" Jay replied making Sidharth stare at him for few seconds making him rethink the statement he just uttered and what wrong went?
"It's just ... I get some weird vibes from him.
Matlab jitna ye insaan zameen ke upar hai usse doguna zameen ke neeche hai..jaankaari to nikalni padegi..laga de apne aadmiyon ko. I want to know everything about his early life. Kuch bhi chhutna nahi chahiye" he declared making Jay sigh.
He really couldn't win from him.
No-one could!!
What Sidharth decides once,he would do that thing even if the world goes against him.
This is him, purely real with no mask of fakeness.
"Aage kya karna hai Sidharth?"
"Filhaal toh acting karni hai. Aate hi honge chutiye apni almost destroyed zindagi ko bachane ki minnate karne..
Pata ni ab kya deal lekar aaye honge.."
"Saalo ki life hi deals pe chal rahi hai..bakc**di se baaz ni aayenge ye" Jay snickered while Sidharth as well smirked and shaked his head at his joke.
"Ab iss game me maza aa rha hai...inki maut se pehle inki zindagi ko tabah hote huye to inhe 3d view me hd full-screen me dikhaunga" he said making Jay chuckle beside him.
"Inki maut inke bahut kareeb hai. If I want I can kill them right away.. bas ek jawab chahiye..kyu. Why?!!" Sidharth gritted his teeth and made the last move on the cube, a little harshly, making it solve in the next step and slided it down on the table.
Why??
He did not knew the reason his parents lost their lives for... The reason for which they were mercilessly killed..
Whenever he thinks of his parents , he always feels shaked from inside, goosebumps on his body..
What was their fault? Why were they snatched from his life..?
He needed to know the reason. He deserved to know.
But what he didn't knew was, the reason was gonna change his life in an inexplicable way.
A complete 360° turn.
His life was taking him on a way he never could have imagined....
His paths were again colliding with someone whom he never wanted to be a part of his life but destiny had stored something else for him!!
Else for her too!!
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What's in their stores? Any guesses?
From here all doubts and all mysteries will start unfolding themselves..you guys ready for it?
I hope you all still liking the story..is it??