Chapter 11
The sunraysbeamed on Armaan's innocent face, which forced him to open his eyes. He liftedhis head back from Shilpa's while rubbing his eyes.
A loose hairlock of Shilpa's was disturbing her peaceful slumber. He smiled and bowed alittle towards her and gently tucked it behind her ear.
The situationintentionally forced Armaan to rewind his mind 3 years ago, when he was withRiddhima in the same position while Minie's case.
He closed hiseyes tightly and faking smiled at the irony of fate and thought in his mind,"Strange! I've shared the same moment with someone else also but--", and stopin the mid and continued himself with a sigh.
"But she left meto acquire her happiness and here, Shilpa...you neither want to acquire me norleave"
Armaan was stillin the same position but the sunrays finally forced Shilpa to wake up as theroom filled with bright light. When she was trying to open her eyes, heimmediately took his hand back and tried to get normal.
Shilpa finallyopened her almond shape eyes and yawned. She realized that her head was lyingon Armaan's shoulder, so she without wasting a second, she straightened herself.
"I'm sorry! Ididn't realize when I rested my head--", Shilpa mumbled in haste but heinterrupted before she could complete, "Calm down!!", and patted her shoulder.
Both Shilpa andArmaan tried to search a topic and opened their mouth in unison after a pauseof few minutes, "Tired?"
They laughedwhen the same question came from each other.
Few Minutes Later, Dr. Sehgal's Cabin
Armaan, alongwith Shilpa knocked the glass door and asked, "May we!"
"Yes comeinside", Dr. Sehgal allowed them while buttoning his coat.
He took off hisseat and applauded the two people in front of him, "Well done doctors! You twohad handled everything perfectly in the emergency"
"It's our jobSir!", both Armaan and Shilpa replied in unison with smile.
"Well if I'm notwrong you two have done double shift?", he mocked at which they giggled.
"Hmm! So take aday off. Have some rest!!", and smiled Dr. Sehgal.
Both of themsmiled and thanked their senior while taking the exit.
Few Hours Later, Little Angel's Orphanage
After a longpeaceful sleep, Shilpa was cooking the hot chocolate for herself , when thehullabaloo of the children took her attention. Firstly she ignored as shethought they might be playing.
But few minuteslater, when she filled her mug with hot chocolate and her eyes automaticallyfell on the window of the kitchen. Shilpa saw that the children were near themain gate, encircling someone, but she didn't saw who he was.
Shilpa put themug on the platform and stepped outside to inspect what was going on and shesaw that Armaan stood up on his feet and tossed a little girl up, and caughther immediately in his arms and rubbed her nose with his.
The whole crowd,especially Armaan was oblivious with the fact that Shilpa was witnessing him,but he realized when a coughed sound came from somewhere.
Shilpa hascrossed her hands on her chest and coughed, "Aham!!", and smirked a little.
Armaan shiftedhis eyes in the direction of the sound and smiled looking at her. He let thelittle girl stand over the muddy floor, carefully who kissed his dimples atwhich both Armaan and Shilpa giggled.
"Accha go andplay something. Go!", Armaan said to the children who ran towards theplayground and Shilpa shuffled the hairs who of the little girl at which shepouted and said, "Shona Di! I'll complain Armaan Bhaiya, if you will shuffle myperfectly combed hairs again", at which Armaan laughed and Shilpa opened hermouth in a perfect O.
Shilpa glared atArmaan as she noticed that he was laughing and Armaan pressed his lips tocontrol his laughter.
Shilpa said tothe little girl, "Now Go!", widening her eyes, and her changing expressionswere automatically forcing Armaan to not let him took his eyes off from her.
Shilpa shiftedher eyes towards Armaan clasped her fingers in front of his face to take him inhis senses and asked, "What", through her expressions at which he nodded hishead negatively as was saying, "Nothing"
"Hotchocolate?", she asked him.
He replied, "Sure"
~~**~~
Shilpa andArmaan with their respective mugs of hot chocolate get seated on the stairsnear the play ground and were enjoying the cute children conversation. Buttheir concentration was on each other.
Shilpa sippedfrom her mug and giggled at the antics of a child and shifted her eyes towardsArmaan, who was all engrossed in her smile.
"Ab kya hua?",she asked while glaring him.
"Kuch nahi", allhe could answer.
She pointedtowards his mug and chuckled, "Have it. Otherwise it'll be a COLD chocolate",and emphasized the word cold.
He laughed alittle at her order as he could witness the old Shilpa in her today, which wasa tranquilized him and sipped his hot chocolate.
The same timefew children ran in their direction and being stubborn, they demanded to play agame with them and they started snatching them forcefully to play with them.
After losing thebattle with the little soldiers, Shilpa finally put the arms down and replied,"Okay Okay! We'll play. Fine?"
"Yeah!!", thechildren screamed in excitement.
They kept theirrespective mugs on the staircase and Armaan asked a boy, "What we've to play MyLord?"
"Hmmm! Come wewill explain you", he replied.
They all sat andone of the Angel Gang took a bottle and kept it in the middle.
"Truth and dare!We all know about it. But with partners", and he very sincerely explained.
They wereenjoying the game and one by one the bottle stopped in front of people. ArShwere enjoying the newly invented game and at the same time the bottle stoppedpointing Armaan and Shilpa who were the partners.
"Wow! Ab ayegamaza", the children giggled.
"Dare!", Armaanreplied immediately.
The childrenmocked to think and finally announced with excitement, "Hmm! Armaan Bhaiya andShona Di you two have to sing a song for each other"
Shilpa got stunwith the dare which they have given to Armaan and her. She bit her lower lipand decided to interrupt.
She observedfrom her corner of eyes that Armaan left his place and Shilpa immediatelyscolded the children, "Kuch bhi bolte ho tum log"
"Kya kuch bhi?Bas ek gana hi to gana hai", the children pouted.
"Armaan! Hum yenahi--", but before she could complete herself a whistling sound reached herears which forced her to turn around.
Shilpa's hairsstarted blowing when she realized that Armaan was changing and taking himselffrom the past.
The kids tooktheir command and started jumping like toddlers while humming.
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo...
Armaan steppedforward in Shilpa's direction and started humming.
Hehhe Hehhe Hehhe He...
And he winked atwhich she smiled and took her command and shrugged her head.
LaLa LaLa LaLa LaLa...
Armaan steppedbackward a little and picked a girl in his arms and started singing.
Ladki badianjaani hai..
Sapna hai sach hai kahaani hai
And then he gently put her down on the floor and knelt downwhile pointing towards Shilpa.
Dekho yepagli bilkul na badli
Ye to vohi deewani hai...
At which Shilpa laughed out loud and Armaan continued dancingwith the children and stepped forward to her with a broad smile on his face andhe poked her nose with his forefinger at which she opened her mouth in aperfect O which forced her to join them.
Ladka bada anjaana hai
Sapna hai sach hai fasana hai
Hay hay ye pagla bilkul na badla
Ye to vohi deewana hai...
Shilpabowed down to explain a child and showed him her tongue to tease him and whenhe followed her, she ran and rescued herself behind Dilshad, who was witnessingall this at which he stopped and put his palms on his waist at which shesmirked and he laughed.
Dilshadpatted Armaan's cheek and stepped aside so Shilpa couldn't rescue herselfbehind her and Armaan again followed her.
Whilerunning Shilpa realized that he wasn't there but was playing with kids, whowere sprinkling water on each other.
Paasrehke bhi thi doori
Jaane kaise thi majboori
Vaqt vo bhi ajeeb tha
Jab tu mere kareeb tha
Shilpa's eyes became moist and being senseless she startedthinking about those gold moment which she spent with Armaan and her dupattastarted blowing in the air.
Kho gayitu ye kis jahaan mein
Main wahaan hoon dekh to zara...
Shilpa gulped her sorrow down and scrunched her brows whenhis voice reached in her ears and she turned back and found Armaan who wipedher tear droplet from her cheek.
Armaan sprinkled the water from his hairs on her face atwhich she chuckled and snatched in the crowd of children to jump in the water.
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo...
Thechildren started jumping and chuckling along with Armaan and Shilpa.
FinallyShilpa ordered the children to go inside and change their clothes. She wasgiving Hi-Fi and naughty glare and smile to the children, kissing their cheekswhich were not unnoticeable by Armaan.
Hmm...bheed mein bhi thi tanhai
Yaad har pal teri aayi
Roke koi mujhe zara
Bhar na aaye ye dil mera...
Armaanstared at the floor and gulped down when he realized that, Shilpa's heelslipped from the muddy floor who was two steps away from him but he immediatelygrabbed her in his arms to not let her fall and their eyes met.
Behkebehke mere kadam hain
Aise mein tu sambhaal to zara...
The children saw that and again started singing to tease them at which theyfelt embarrass.
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo...
Armaanand Shilpa joined them again Armaan pinched her nose again.
Ladki badianjaani hai
Sapna hai sach hai kahaani hai
Haan haanye pagla bilkul na badla
Ye to vohi deewana hai..
Atwhich Shilpa shuffled her hairs and they all kept dancing and giggling.
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo...
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo...
All innocentkiddies were dancing now but Armaan and Shilpa were lost in each other andsmiling hesitatingly from a bit distance.
~~**~~
Next Moring, Sanjeevani Mussorrie
The whole gangwas having lunch in the canteen when a handsome guy with a well-built bodyentered the canteen and greeted them from the entrance door.
"Hey Guys!!",the guy greeted.
"Hey AnshumanHow are you yaar?", Zaroon hugged him and asked.
Anshuman Rathore
"Bas I wasmissing Mussoorie a lot so aa gaya", he shrugged his shoulder.
Samrat andGunjan too gave him a hug, whereas Shilpa passed a smile and shook her handwith him.
"Where isKashaf?", Anshuman asked.
"Duty time!",Zaroon said with a gloomy face at which all chuckled.
Anshuman shiftedhis eyes in Armaan's direction and then shifted his head to his friend andwidened his eyes as was asking "who ishe?"
"Hmm! He is Dr.Armaan Mallik the new senior doctor of the hospital", Zaroon introduced himwith Armaan and Shilpa continued his incomplete introduction to Armani, "He isAnshuman Sir, previously he was working at your place but now he lives inDelhi"
"Hey Anshuman/Armaan", they both shook their hands and said in unison with smile.
"Well! Itne dinobaad hum sab ki yaad kaise aa gayi?", Samrat taunted him.
"Hmmm! Actuallymy fianc Paakhi, uska birthday hai aaj, and I want to give her a surpriseparty", Anshuman said with a smile.
"Aham! Kya baathai", Samrat teased him.
"Yeah andMussorrie se acchi jagah party ke liye koi ho nahi sakti thi. So bus I'm here",Anshuman shrugged his shoulder and said.
And he continuedhimself, "So you all have to come with your partners. It's a cocktail party andmujhe koi bahana nahi chahiye", he said as he was ordering them.
"Partners!", allof them asked in unison.
"Partners kesath ana jaruri hai", Shilpa questioned.
"Obviously orkoi miss nahi karega ye party.", he announced.
"You too Dr.Mallik!", Anshuman said to Armaan.
"Main?", heasked.
"Hmm! You are afriend of my friends to aapka aana banta hai, but with a partner", he winkedand completed himself, "Chalo abhi jana hai bahut kaam baki hai, aur anacompulsory hai"
And finally hebided a good bye to all of them while leaving.
Samrat mumbled,"Gosh! Itne dino baad party mili but a PARTNER party", he emphasized the wordpartner.
At which Zaroongiggled.
"Hmm! Youalready have a partner so you are enjoying my pain", Samrat pouted and the sametime something stroke his mind but he kept it in his mind.
Shilpa andArmaan looked at each other but the same thing was revolving in his mind aboutthe partner party theme and they had no partner.
With anannouncement they all left but Shilpa and Armaan didn't as the theme wasn't forthem.
Shilpa whilesipping her coffee asked, "Will you be my date?"
"Excuse me!",Armaan arched his brow.
"I mean. We bothdon't have a partner for the party", Shilpa tried to let him understand.
"Why not? Itwill be a pleasure for me to be a date of such a beautiful lady", he smiledwhile sipping his coffee and she too passed a smile.
~~**~~
Shilpa andArmaan were passing the corridor from the general ward to approach the lift forupper floor.
Gunjan was writinga prescription for her patient when Samrat came to her and asked while rubbinghis palm, "Will you be my partner for the party?"
"Dr. Shergill,please mujhe meri duty karne dein", she replied sternly.
"Why are youbehaving like this with me? Afterall we are best buddies", he asked in a bitloud voice.
All the nursesand the patients in the ward were noticing them along with ArSh, so shewhispered, "Hospital hai ye and secondly main kisi aur ke sath ja rahi hoon"
"Kisi or kesath? Ab tak to aisa kabhi nahi hua", he asked with disbelief.
She kept theprescription pad on the table and while folding her arms on her chest said, "Abho gaya na."
"But why someoneelse?", he asked while gulping his saliva down.
"Kyuki usnemujhse pehle poocha. Aur jab tum kisi aur ke sath ja sakte ho...to why not me?",She replied him as a slap on his face and was leaving the ward so ArSh enteredinside the lift.
Armaan askedShilpa about this between Samrat and Gunjan and Shilpa narrated him the wholescenario at which he sighed and lowered his eyes.
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A/N: Updated after a month! Sorry was engrossed in personnel matters. i hope your gussa will get normal after the update . Proof read by Mrina Di
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