Chapter two :
It was after midnight. A train arrived in the platform and a girl hopped on the platform. She was carrying only on duffel bag, which is quite unnatural for any girl travelling from another city. She brought out her phone, called someone and then hired a taxi.
Usually people takes a good rest after such journey, but any tiredness was visible on her face. She was dropped in front of a house, she knocked the door and a girl opened the door. That girl was about to scream in excitement, when she put her index finger on her lips and gestured her to keep quite. That girl asked her about the journey and scolded her to travelling at late night. The newcomer calmed her down saying she'll tell her at morning. The not too convinced host retired to her room to resume her sleep.
She was looking around her room, it've been four years she left this place. But this girl staying here has maintained everything so nicely and arranged this room for living within 10 hours. She took her cloths from her bag ant freshen up. Then she brought out a packet of biscuits and a coffee sachet and moved tiptoed to the kitchen. She made her cup of coffee and sat beside the window looking at the sky. She couldn't remember when she sat like this last time. Four tough years can make you forget everything good happened with you.
Then she noticed a car entering inside the garage next door. She smiled at that guy. Some people never changes. And after 15 minutes of that, she saw a tall figure in training suit walking away from that place. She tried to ignore, but his figure doesn't match him, it must be someone else. But curiosity is the basic nature of a cat and of course of a woman too. She quickly got ready into her training suit and followed that man.
She followed him to the beach and saw him jogging around. This hour was too early to jog, but that man continued it till the sunrise. After he finished jogging, he started his free hand exercises and finally he settled on the sand. She saw the tea-man came and handed him a cup of tea. She as gawking at the man surprisingly. Something inside her telling her she knew him but she could bet she never met this man before. She decided to talk with karan and collect information about this man.
She was about to leave when she heard that blood-freezing scream. She turned around to the source of that scream and she saw that man crying his heart out. Now she became uber-curious about this man.
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She entered her house when she heard someone singing aarti in the mandir. A smile crept on her lips, that drama queen started it early. She tiptoed to her room freshen up and headed to kitchen; here she saw that girl as preparing breakfast. She looked up to see her leaning against the kitchen door.
Simran : Hey, Di. I thought you are sleeping.
Di : I was, what are you doing ?
Simran : I think your eyesight is worse than before, can't you see, I'm making breakfast.
Di : No, no I can see it. But don't you think it's too much for two of us.
Simran : No, I'm preparing for four. Who mere Karan Arjun hain na!
Di : Karan toh thik hain, yeh Arjun kahanse aa tapka?
Simran : Di, don't tell me you don't know him, I told you na, Karan has a new partner, he's staying with him and we work together...
Di : to bring justice to people. I know. Aab auditions chorke yhi tera full time job hain.
Simran : Choro woh sab, tell me about you, four years and you only called 3 times. Where've you been?
Di : At work.
Simran : I thought you would never return and are planning to settle there.
Di : I've time for settlement. But you kept my house well maintained. Thanks for it.
Simran : Woh kya hain na, malik nahi tha toh maine pura ghar harapne ki planning karr rahi thi.
Di : (smirked) Accha!! ( with a black expression) Mera 4 years ka rent nikal, avi!!
Simran : ( made a serious face) I'll think about it.
And two ladies started their chasing match, they laughed, fought and enjoyed themselves after a long time.
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"Time heals but sometimes time kills too." She was sitting in the dining area and saw Simran arranging plates for her garage-mates. She was thinking about her early morning adventure and that tall guy she saw in the beach crying during sunrise, as if the morning sun was hurting him. As if that man was burning down by the first ray of sun, it was killing every bit of him. And after a brief moment, he arose like a proud Phoenix and walked away. What was with him? Who is he? Why he behaved so? Does he have some unhealable wounds, like those which already damaged him to an incurable stage which could led him to his dooms? Like her? Her? What is she? Like him? Now, she was thinking what she had missed in last four years and in debit-credit of her life, she could saw only debit. She thought about of her decision she took, she took time to heal her wounds, not only morphological, but also her mental ones. However, now she know her wounds didn't heal a bit, she'd covered and nursed them and they are way too fresh, more than before and the irony is she came to know about it after she saw that man in morning. She was thinking about going back, from where she returned, because she couldn't stop herself from being curious of that man and somewhere inside she know if she doesn't stop now, it'll hurt both of them, again.
Her chain of thought broke by Sim's voice.
Simran : Di, I'm gonna serve them. Would you like to meet my Karan Arjun?
Di : No, not now. and don't tell that karan that I'm back.
Simran frowned.
Di : Surprise dena hain. Tu sham tak iss baat ko pet main rakh le, I won't disappoint you.
Simran : Really?
Di : Kal shopping jaana hain, chalegi?
Simran offered her a 100w smile and went away.
She sighed. This girl is way too innocent.
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Simran enters the garage with the plates and saw Arjun was sitting at his usual place.
Simran : Good morning Arjun.
Arjun didn't react.
Simran : Breakfast is ready. Have it. Where's Karan?
Karan : ( from behind)subha subha koi mujhe yaad karr rahi hain? Waah kya kismet hain meri!
Simran made a face.
Karan took his plate and started eating. Simran was about to switch on the TV when Karna spoke up.
Karan : Heroine, tell me one thing what were you doing last evening into that room opposite to yours?
Simran : Cleaning...it was dirty.
Karan : Haan, 4 saal se bandh tha toh gandha toh hona hain...but suddenly tu safaai karn ki kyun sochi?
Simran : (thought something) haan..kaal meri audition hain...voli vaali bahu ki roll ke liye, jiski saans use ghar ke saare kaam karwata hain, toh socha practice karlun.
Karan : Really? Kaafi practice karna para?
Simran : haan, but tum itna interested kyun ho?
Karan : nahi, raat ki 3 baaj tak practice karr rahi thi, phir vi tere aankhon me darkwala circles nahi hain...upar se yeh khana vi accha bana hain... Itna stamina tujh main aaya kahan se? tu thik toh hain na?
Simran : Loh jee, aab tu yeh chahta hain kii main bimar parun. Jara socho, desh kii kitni abla naari roz aise hi subha sham kaam karti hain, agar woh nahi thakte toh main kyun thakun?
Arjun gets up from his sat.
Simran : Arr tum kahan jaa rahe ho?
Arjun : School.
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She saw that man exited from the garage and she observed him keenly in daylight. Yes, this man has something with him.
Her sighed and took out her phone, she switched it on and a text arrived right then. She opened the text and smiled at the sender. Some people never stop caring for you.
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Simran returned home and found the place empty. She found a sticky note on fridge "Will be back after dinner."
She sighed, Di becomes more mysterious and unpredictable than before she was.
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Now, tell me should I proceed further? & plz leave your feedback.
Shiv Shakti
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