SS: The Guilt (Discontinued NOTE at page 42)! - Page 25

P.S. This is quite an emotional update so please put a pack of tissue papers by your side. This update cotains neha's story as i wanted to finish this track off and from next part ariya and ETF will be in action😳
PART 6:

Arjun felt her weight shifting onto his shoulders. He held her shoulders, pulled her up and there she was, after crying so much riya was unconscious. He took her in his arms, went to the bedroom, and placed her on the bed. He sprinkled water on her face from the jug on the side table. She moved her eyelids and arjun sighed in relief. She opened her eyes a bit but due to the tears that were already there, she couldn't open them much.
riya: "arjun sir!"
arjun: "ssshhh riya bus ab koi aur baat nahin, tum bohat thak gai ho, ab chup kr k so jao." He closed her eyes with his palm and was about to get up when she held his hand.
riys: "sir please ap yahin par rrahein…wo"
arjun: "mein yahin hun riya, tum pareshan mat ho, mein hun tumhare paas." He sat near the bed side on the carpeted floor and placed his other hand on hers just to confirm his presence. After a few minutes, she dozed off to sleep; still holding his hand as tightly as possible. Arjun sat there, he looked at her; her pale face, her red cheeks, her shivering body; he covered her with a blanket, from the other hand. A few moments passed and a small smile appeared on her lips as she slept comfortably in her cozy bed clinging onto her biggest support: his hand. Seeing her like this, his lips also curved.
"riyaaa…..bilkul pagal ho tum." He thought to himself as images flashed in his mind; her dimpled smile, that glowing face, the determined statistical data machine. (He laughed at that one) this is the RIYA MUKHERJEE that I knew and I swear I am going to bring her back. Riya you are not going anywhere. ETF needs you, shree, chotu they are your friends they need you, rathore, he already asked you to come back and I know he want you back. And ME….(he paused) mmm….i just want you back in that office, you're coming back, to hell with that resignation. We will sort out all this mess. He swore to a sleeping riya. In a few minutes he also fell asleep with his head resting near their entwined hands.
********Neha's backstory************
Neha and Rohan boarded the airplane, landed in delhi in about one and a half hour. They were welcomed by a group of four men who were clad in three piece suits and seemed pretty decent. Rohan introduced them to neha as the people who have organized the workshop. They went to their hotel, freshened up and came downstairs for dinner. Rohan received a call and told neha that the workshop has been postponed as the main speaker wasn't able to reach delhi. Neha was happy that she can spend some more time with rohan. They both went out for a drive but neha forgot her mobile in her room. Rohan took her to the city's outskirts where he had arranged a special surprise for her. He proposed neha and as expected neha accepted his proposal. They came back to the hotel in the midnight after planning a few things for their marriage. Neha ran to her room and was about to call riya and share her joy with her best friend when all of a sudden someone hit her head from behind and she became unconscious. When she came back to senses she saw herself lying on a master size bed. She tried to move her hands but they were tied with ropes with the sides of bed. She moved her legs just to be disappointed as they were also tied the same way as her hands were. She then noticed a group of people standing beside the bed. They were the same men whom she met at the delhi airport today. A strange fear took over her as they all came closer to her. She screamed for help on top of her voice but no one came. The screams later changed into pleas but were of no use. They all didn't speak even a single word. They ripped her clothes apart and then for one whole hour there were cries of despair, helplessness and PAIN echoing in that room!!! After fulfilling their ignoble desires, they all walked out of the room with an evil grin on their faces. One of them opened her tied hands and whispered in her ears: "Goodnight darling." She had no strength left in any muscle of her body, her voice has disappeared, her heart was still beating but she wasn't able to feel the beats. She was numb; a dead soul. She covered herself with the bedspread, got up from the bed and looked around to figure out where she was. This was her own room; she walked to the washroom, opened the shower and sat under the water crying her heart out. Seconds, minutes, hours passed and she sat there cursing herself as to why did she come to this place and why did this happen with her? Who were those people? This question struck her mind and she stood up, wrapped a towel around herself, came out, and bandaged her bruises as much as she could and wore a jeans and a top. Then she went to the hotel lobby but to her shock not even a single person was there. She went to rohan's room and he wasn't there either. She went to the police station to launch an FIR. When she stepped inside all the senior and junior officers sitting there, looked at her from top to bottom and gave weird looks to each other. It was around 2:30am and the man, who was in charge, after sipping his tea asked her: "madam itni raat ko police station?"
neha: "mujhe ek FIR likhwani hai."
Inspector: "ji ji boliye madam kiski khilaf likhwani hai FIR? kia hua hai?"
Neha: "mein….mein wo….."
Inspector: "ghabraiye mat madam, bataein kiya hua hai?"
Neha shut her eyes for a while and then spoke: "mera rape hua hai. (took a deep breath) mein yahan ek workshop k liya ai thi aur raat ko wapis hotel ayi, apne room mein gayi to peche se kisi ne mere sir pe danda mara aur mein behosh ho gayi. Jab mujhe hosh aya to mere hath, paon rassi se bandhe hue the aur 4(chaar) log mere aas paas kahre the aur unho ne…(she said all of it in a single breath but choked at the last word) ….unho ne …" tears started brimming in her eyes. She became silent.
Inspector: "ji madam uske baad kiya hua, please zara detail mein batain, hawaldar FIR likho. Ji madam batein kia kiy unho ne?"
neha became red with anger: "what do u mean by details…is se zayda kiya detail chahye apko? Dekhein mr. mein bhi ek police officer hun is liye mujhse hoshiyari karne ki zarurat nahin hai."
Inspector changed the topic immediately after listening this: "dekhiye madam ap to gussa hi ho gaen mein to sirf keh raha tha k ap un logon mein se kisi ko janti thi?"
Neha (raising an eyebrow): "nahin."
Inspector: "kisi se koi dushmani?"
Neha: "nahin."
Inspector: "hawaldar, ye madam se un logon ki description le k sketch banwao. Madam ap please inko bata dein aur fikar na karein hum dhoond lein ge unko."
Neha: "ok."
After completing all the formalities, she reached the hotel but rohan was still not there. She became suspicious. Neha packed her bags, closed her room and was about to go out when she heard some people laughing out loud two rooms away from hers. She went near the room as the door was slightly open. She peeped inside to see who was there and what she saw next just drove the hell out of her. Her eyes popped out….they were watching some video on TV, it was not just any video but her video. Yes it was her own video, those men had put a handy cam inside the room when they raped her and made the whole movie. She just ran back to her room and straight to the washroom. She vomited out of disgust. She didn't know what to do; apart from being embarrassed she was clenching her jaws fiercely, and went to that room again and started beating all the four men giving some tight blows on their face and body. She kept on asking them why did they do this to her? She called the local police, where she registered the case. The police came and arrested all four men and after interrogating them they told her that someone paid them to do this and make a video of this. When asked about the man they said that the man never came to meet them, they were some local goons and they got a call from that man. He sent another man on his behalf to give them the money. The police made a sketch of that third man and started searching for him. Neha didn't tell anyone what happened in delhi not even riya. Rohan was missing and he didn't return to Mumbai. They received a call from the Mumbai station that the man was spotted there by an old woman. Neha went to Mumbai. She reached the police station as soon as her flight landed. She met that old woman who told her about that man. She herself traced the man and went behind him to see who the actual person behind all this was. The man went to a construction site. Neha followed him and hid behind the cement bar. He gave a CD to another man standing in a suit. His back was towards neha so she couldn't see his face. Then suddenly that man turned around and neha was just dumbfounded for a few seconds.
"Rohan…" he saw her there and signaled the other person to go away. She came forward and held him by his collar. "Tum ne kiya ye sab…kyun rohan? Tum to pyar karte the na mujhse."
rohan: "chodo mujhe..(He shrugged off her hands from his collar) pyaar? Kaisa pyar Ms. Neha? Koi pyar vyar nahin tha. Mujhe sirf ek ladki chahye thi aur tum bewakuf phans gae.."
neha raised her hand to slap him but he held her arm tightly and said: "khabardar agar aisi koshish bhi ki to. Warna ye film pure shehar (city) k television sets pe chalwa dunga."
Neha eyes welled up: "ye CD…?"
Rohan: "han ye CD mere paas hai aur iski bohat si copies mere office mein bhi pari hui hain."
Neha was dumbstruck. She just couldn't believe that the man she loved was the one who made her life a living hell. She walked towards the office stumbling on the footpath and reached rohan's cabin from the back side of the building. She searched all the drawers and found a few CDs in one of them. She played one and it was the same video. She threw all the CDs on floor and burned them up except the one that was playing. She was about to take that one out when she saw something. The video stopped and the CD was blank. Then a video clip started. Two men sitting in a room, with their backs facing the camera, one of them told the other one: "Kaam ho jaega sir, ap fikar mat karein." Second one laughed and said: "mujhe pata hai kaam hojaega tabhi to tumhe ye kaam sonpa tha, magar kisi ko pata nahin chalna chahye k ye sub mein ne krwaya hai." She was recognizing the voices, one of them was rohans' and the other one … she thought for a while but wasn't able to figure it out. She played the clip again and suddenly recalled… "dada…" this was the final blow for her. She stood their staring at the LCD with blank expressions. Her phone rang and brought her back to senses. It was her mother. She cut the call and walked down to the backyard. This is where she called riya and killed herself.
****flashback ends****