Sachdev Mansion
A room filled with people and also silence, Ahaan was back he got to know everything he was happy for Ashlesha but deep down he was sad
“Karthik mujhse ek cheez maangi hai Ahaan, I don’t want that to go” Anisha exclaims in a low tone
“Kya bola Anisha?” Ishqi asks
“Vo nahi chahta isme Ahaan ka naam bahar aaye” Anisha tells
“Kya baat kar rahe ho? Pura galti mera hai aur aise kaise mera naam na aaye”
“Shaant Ahaan, aur Karthik ke baat mai logic hai, puri galti tumhari hi hai, par tumhare jaane ke baad uss galti ka dekhbaal Karthik ne kiya tha, agar tum custody mai chale bhi jao, vo bhi custody mai rahega, usse acha kissi ek ko hi bhoj bharne dho” she says in a cold tone
“Aise kaise ho sakta hai Ashu, Karthik kyu bhare Ahaan ka galti ka bhoj, he doesn’t deserve this”
“Sab deserving aur undeserving se nahi hota hai Ishqi, just accept the reality and move on, koi Ahaan ka naam mat lena, Karthik mujhse wada liya hai, jo vo abhi tak pucha tha nahi de paayi thi, at least ye de sak….
They all hear the shattering of glass near them,
Ahaan was standing beside the shattered vase, his fists tight one of them bleeding, his eyes were closed tight
“Ahaan!!!” Ishqi shouted and ran near him but he moved away from there
“Mai jaake dekhti hun”
“Nahi jaake first aid box deke aajao, Ishqi sambhal legi”
“Par Ahaan bohot gussa mai lag raha hai”
“Ishqi sambhal legi, chinta mat karo, don’t worry Ishqi ko vo kabhi bhi hurt nahi karega”
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“Ishqi mere paas mat aao, chale jao” though she was standing behind him, he knows that she didn’t move by an inch
“Ishqi zidd mat karo, I am not in the right state of my mind I can hurt you as well, chale jao” instead of listening to him she hugged him from behind, his ragged breaths calmed a bit, she hugged him more close to her and placed a kiss on his back
“Relax Ahaan” she whispered, he started taking deep breathes and calmed himself, she kept rubbing his back, he eventually turned around and pulled her into his chest and snuggled into her hair
That moment he felt peace, he really calmed down now, his heart was normal, at it’s place,
He gradually opened his eyes, and his eyes fell on his wounded hand, he pulled her away from her immediately
She understood that, he made him sit on the floor, he didn’t object anything and she sat sat on the floor along with him and took the first aid box
She cleaned the blood then applied the ointment and bandaged the wound but through out the process not once he showed any reaction
“Shayad Karthik itna bhi galat nahi hai”
“Tum bhi yehi bol rahi ho? Seriously Ishqi?”
“Aur kya bolu phir? Dono hi cricket chod ke jail mai bethoge? Ghar vaalo ke baare mai soche ho?”
“Vahi tho mai soch raha hun, chachi ko apna shakal kaise dikha paunga mai?”
“Aur bhi career options haina, Karthik ko kuch saalo ka hi tho jail punishment milega, phir sab thik ho jayega”
“Kya baat kar rahi ho Ishqi, mai tumse yeh expect nahi kiya tha, I though you were on my side”
“I am on your side Ahaan, Isiliye bol rahi hun you both can’t be sitting in the jail leaving your family, aur Karthik khud bola hai”
“Nahi Ishqi mai vo guilt se nahi reh paunga, I can’t, I can’t” his voice was becoming shaky, she moved closer and took his face in her hands
“Thoda realistic socho Ahaan, aur koi better option hai? Dono jail se jaane se acha ek jaana hai”
“Tum journalist hona Ishqi, sach bolna tumhara job haina, tho kaha gaya vo sab”
“Maybe kuch zyada hi selfish hun, nahi bol paa rhi hun sach”
“Tum mere liye Karthik ko suffer karne doge? Hamara pyaar itna toxic kab ban gaya Ishqi”
“Ahaan you are taking it all wrong”
“Tell me Ishqi, kya right ho raha hai yaha? Vaibhav apna sach accept kar liya hai aur vo ek criminal hai ab, aur mai usse punish kar raha tha kyunki abhi tak police usse punish nahi kar paayi hai, isme bhi galti hai”
“Ahaan, control your emotions practically socho, justice ko apne haatho mai lena galat tha, aur ab ussi galti ka asar hai, ek ko bharna hi padega”
“Aur vo ek mujhe hona chahiye, mai hi sab galat kiya hun, I don’t deserve anything, ye cricketer banne ka privilege, maa ka forgiveness, tumhara pya..” he words came to halt when her lips smashed against his, he was numb feeling her lips against his, soon she broke the kiss
“Itne bade jhoot nahi bolna hai Ahaan, sab deserve karte ho tum”
“Nahi Ishqi, nahi….” he break downs into loud sobs, she took him her embrace caressing his back
“Shhh…shh”
“Karthik…vo bhi tho ek career deserve karta haina, kal vo mera samne kuch aur bann ke ghoomega aur mai uska zindagi ji raha honga, mai usse aankh mai aankh milake nahi dekh paunga Ishqi, nahi ho sakta hai Ishqi mujhse” he says hugging her tight
“Ahaan, Karthik ne khud ke liye choose kiya hai, and trust me you are not responsible uska career jaane ka, Vaibhav agar nahi karta ye sab kuch nahi hota, let’s see court kal kya decide karta hai, ham chahe tho BCCI se baat karenge, sab Karthik ko ache se jaante hai, kuch na kuch solution nikalenge”
“Mujhe darr lag raha hai Ishqi”she gently caressed his head, the strong man infront of the world was in the most vulnerable state in front of her,
“I am with you Ahaan, always” that somewhat gave him a hope but that doesn’t mean that his fears have abolished
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“I hereby thank all the members for being present here, on the day 1 of hearing we have seen that Mr. Vaibhav Jha has himself accepted his deeds, today the court will look into his punishment and further talking about Mr. Karthik Malhotra, So now I request Karthik Malhotra to be present on the podium”
He glanced at his family members and smiled at Ahaan and entered the podium
“Anything you want to say Mr. Karthik from your side? You don’t have any opposition so you can speak for yourself”
“Nothing your honour, you can proceed with your processes, I accept doing the crimes”
“But can I speak something your honour?” Anisha stands up
“Ms. Sachdev not your case” Mr. Sharma says
“And Mr. Sharma not your student anymore, better mind you work”
“Go ahead Ms. Anisha”
“Thank you your honour, I want to show everybody another crime pulled up by Mr. Vaibhav Jha, as many of you don’t know the reason for the postponment of the court hearing, let me tell you all
Reason no1, Ms. Ashlesha Sachdev was injured and reason no2 Mr. Vaibhav Jha was missing
And now let me justify both the reasons reason no1 Ashlesha Sachdev was injured, how was she injured? 3 bullets were shot into her and how that happened? Yes Mr. Jha was the one who shot her, and yes we could come and inform the police about it but who are we talking about Vaibhav Jha, son of Purab Jha so not even a single police officer was ready to take a case against him, I repeat not even a single officer
And in that scenario, a very furious Karthik Malhotra himself took Vaibhav Jha into the custody and now is being punished due to this reason, Am I right your honour?”
“Ms. Anisha these are the court rules”
“Court rules? Kya court rules ke baare mai baat kar rahe hai your honour? Jo hamesha naa ke bara bar kaam karte hai?
“Kal Vaibhav apna galti accept kardiya tho vo aap sab ke liye hero ban gaya hoga, right? But vo hamare lives mai hamesha villain hi rahega, hamesha”
“Aur sach bataye tho mai shayad khud iske crimes ko prove kar leti but thank you for saving the court’s time, let me tell you everyone, aaj Vaibhav Jha ko kya punishment milne vaali hai, 1 year jail punishment along with some fine, Am I right your honour?” the judge’s face paled hearing that
“And also Karthik ko kya punishment milne vaali hai patha hai? He will be imprisoned for the next 6 months and fined accordingly, and also any person who will be imprisoned cannot play cricket, no cricket anymore, did I miss anything your honour?” the gossiping among people became louder, the judge himself was sweating profusely, wiping his sweat away he banged his gavel
“Silence”
“Your honour, your daughter is safe with me, trust me and give the hearing accordingly, give your decision thoughtfully, according to what they deserve” saying that she passed a smirk to Purab Jha who was glaring her, and went and sat in her seat
“The court will be back in an hour, dismiss” saying this judge got up and went out hurriedly.
Everyone left the court except Ashlesha Karthik Anisha Ahaan Aarav and Ishqi
“Thank you Anisha” karthik said genuinely smiling towards her
“Galti meri thi aur sudharni bhi mujhe hi thi” she passed a weak smile to him, he ran towards her and pulled her into a tight hug even Ishqi and Ahaan joined them
“Jo mere haath mai tha maine kar liya, and I tried my best guys ab jo hoga bhagwaan ke haatho mai hai” she said breaking the hug, she stared to leave from there
But a voice halted her on her steps
“Anu” ashu called in a low tone, she glanced at her
“Thank you Anu” she said with a smile, while Anisha nodded her head
“Gale bhi nahi lagayegi ga apne behan ko? Ab vaha tak aana nahi sakti mai” Ashu said with a fake glare, with that Anisha jumped into Ashu’s arms hugging her tight,
“I am sorry Ashu”
“Nahi Anu I am sorry too, tum sab mere liye hi kar rahi thi, and how foolish of me to call you selfish, I am sorry”
While everyone was admiring the sister duo, Ahaan was standing there with an emotionless face his gaze stuck to Karthik
“Let’s hope for the best” Ishqi said to him hugging his arm
“Yaa” that’s all he could say, because he was scared, scared as hell he wanted that smile on Karthik’s face permanently, his wasn’t sure if his wish would be true or not, but as she said he can just hope for the best
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“I…I….welcome all of you after the break
So as all the proves, witness and criminal being presented the court wants to take few decisions
“First we will be addressing Mr. Vaibhav Jha, as we see according to the records Ms. Ashlesha Sachdev was pregnant when she was attempted to be raped, according to section 376, subsection 2-e, Mr. Vaibhav Jha is sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for 10 years, but considering his history with drugs and rape of several women he would imprisoned for his life time and also 2.5lacs of fine along with it”
“Ye judge kya bol raha hai, teri beti nahi bachegi bol rahi hun”
“Mr. Purab Jha this is a court and it runs by some rules so please follow by the rules I am still not done” the judge warns him gently
“So, as I was saying, the Jha industries are tend to be shut down or more respectfully saying will be banned, considering Mr. Purab Jha supporting all the crimes of his son he will be removed from his position of the BCCI president, and looking forward he would be pressed with charges, before you shout Mr. Jha let me tell you, you will be taken into custody” Anisha passed a smirk to
Mr. Jha
“Now talking about
Mr. Karthik Malhotra, practically speaking there is no sort of law in constitution for kidnapping a criminal, what you did was only partially correct, but kidnapping is a crime and the punishment is minimum 7 years of imprisonment” except Purab Jha, everyone’s face paled off
“But, whatever you did was for a cause so looking into that matter I have decided a punishment for you”
“Ashu, relax it will be fine” Ishqi rubbed her hand
She just held Ishqi’s hand in a tighter grip, closing her silently praying in her heart, Ishqi caressed her hand
“ You will not be imprisoned” Karthik looked up for the first time in shock
“But the punishment would be, you will be banned from cricket” his face lost all the colour, he even stumbled a bit
“Only for 2 years, and when I mean ban from cricket all forms of cricket, and you will also be fined with 1lac” except Karthik everyone had a smile on their face, Ahaan finally had a relief on his face, he looked at Ishqi who was hugging Ashlesha, even she looked into his eyes at the moment, she blinked her eyes at him and passed a smile, he finally smiled at her and mouthed her a ‘thank you’
“And Headlines Today is removed from their ban and can continue their work as usual”
“The court dismisses here” while Vaibhav was taken into the custody, Karthik was being released from the custody, as soon he got out of the police hands, he had his crying mother in his arms, with a smile on his face he hugged her back
“Aree itna kyun ro rahe ho maa? Abhi aapko hi kaam badne vaala hai mera bohot bada khana ka list hai”
“Sab bana dungi, bass ghar ajaa, tere bina ghar ghar nahi lag raha hai”
“Damn, tum sab log mujhe actually miss kiye the feels good to know actually” she hits his chest whilst playfully breaking the hug
Ahaan was standing near them watching everything, there was something stopping him, he still had his guilt in his heart, he was still taking the blame on himself
“Par bhai tho mujhe miss hi nahi kiye hai, gale bhi nahi laga paa rahe hai? Kya bhai? Aap miss nahi kiye the mujhe” Ahaan hugged him with all his strength he had it enough, he couldn’t stay too far from this man
“I am sor..
“Bol raha hun aapke muh se sorry nikla na, aapko kidnap karke phir se jail chala jaunga”
“Acha itna acha lag gaya tha kya jail? Phirse jaayega? 2 lagake ghar mai bandh kar dunga”
“Awww bhai, aapne mujhe bohot miss kiya I can see”
“Haa bohot miss kiya” he said this time with no playfulness
“Aur bromance baaki hai? Yaa sara bromance court mai hi karna hai?”
“Haww bhabhi you sound jealous, nahi cheen raha hun aapka boyfriend ko”
“Karthik!!” she said signaling the elders
“Oh really bhabhi? Like really? Bhai apna instagram hai “HER>>>” karke itna bada post daale hai aur aap aise behave kar rahe hai ki aapka secret relationship” he said with a evil smile on his face, Ishqi was literally throwing daggers at him
Just then his mother pulled his ear “Ghar chal tu pehle, sab pyaar se baat kar rahe hai tho nakhre bad gaye hai”
“Maaa maaa maa, mai bacha nahi hun, kaan chodo, sab dekh rahe hai, Ashu dekh rahi hai maa, ladki ke saamne bezati mai karo” everyone chuckled hearing his words
“Haa tho bacha jaise harkate karna band kar, chal ab”
“Aunty, ek minute mai Karthik se baat karna chahti hun, tho ham dono aate hai aap jayiye” he frowned looking at her, but she didn’t even glance at him
“Thike, kuch chahiye tho bata dena” she caressed Ashu’s face
Her father came towards in big strides “Listen zyada kiss viss mat kar lena bol raha hun” he tried to whisper, keyword ‘tried’ as it was nothing but whisper, everyone stood there controlling their smile while Ashlesha was flushed red
Then he casually shoved his hands into his pockets “Chale kya sab? Cars arrange kar liya hai maine?”
“Haa haa tumhare warnings khatam hone ka hi intezaar tha” his wife rolled her eyes at him
“Hazaar baar bola hai, not to roll eyes on me”
“Maine bhi hazaar baar bola hai, romance ke beech mai mat ghuso sune ho kabhi? Khud romantic nahi bane ho dusro ko banne nahi dete ho”
“Excuse me?”
“Mere pyaare mata shri and pita shri ghar chalke romance kar loge aap? Bohot pda ho raha hai yaha!!” Anisha yelled at them, then everyone walked silently smiling to themselves
As soon they reached outside the court, Ahaan stopped everyone
“Ahhh….vo mai soch raha tha ki, mujhe ek important kaam hai actually tho mai chalta hun yahi se”
“Jaldi aaja” Chachi said
“Sure chachi, aajaunga jaldi” Ishqi waved a bye to him, he looked at her horrified she questioned him with her eyes, he gestured her showing one finger towards him, one towards her and the car, she looked at him not understanding anything
“Actually, kaam mai Ishqi ko bhi rukna padega”
“Bas sara din romance karna hota hai inhe, bloody idiots” Anil muttered to himself, which was not actually to himself
“Pura din sada hua muh banake ghoom the rehte kuch log, bloody oldies” Mrs. Sachdev returned in a same tone, he looked at his wife shocked
“Tum bache jao, bass dhyan se ghar aajao have fun” Anisha just shook her head at them,
EVERYONE IS CRAZY!!
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I know it got a bit fast paced maybe, but I wanted to conclude their justice here, I felt I was stretching a lot so here it is, everyone is free now
Few more chapters to go
I can't believe it's already ending but yaa, one day it has to soooooo soon it's gonna end
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