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THE CHANGING EQUATIONS...😳
His POV..
Now she had been a member of our team for about 3 months... I could well understand the differences in the team... Shree and Chhotu were a bit hesitant to accept her as a team member... well..i understand.. they missed Riya a lot.. her cheerfulness,.. the bubbly attitude.. the awesome trio... and Aisha was nowhere like Riya... that was the reason for this... I even heard shree complaining to Chhotu that unlike Riya,Aisha never worked with them..or never asked them.. that was her style.. free and independent... and this irked everyone... not her fault... she was used to working alone undercover... so i knew it would take up some time for her...
And then came the case of the murder in jungle...in the outskirts ..near some village.. where the people claimed that death was caused due to some "Aatma" ... Me and Aisha had been following up the suspected poacher.. but not very soon.. we realised that we were trapped... "Dammit!!" no one was around and those people tied us up on two different trees... "Man ..these people are so,..."... my mind kept screaming loads of DAMMITS when that criminal outlined her face with that sharp arrow threatening us... and finally i lost my self control and yelled.."eeeyy.. hath mat lagana usey".. i don't know what made me lose my control that day... yes.. i am very protective about my team members.. i had lost a female colleague some months back.. and now.. i was very much concerned about Aisha's safety... i couldn't afford to lose her... umm.. no..i mean... i cant afford to lose another team member...
Some incidents leave a mark... these small changes indeed were heading somewhere else... i have to accept that i literally pushed HER down from the bus where we found the bomb... why dosn't this girl listen to me? i had ordered her not to step inside that bus... but ...again... if she had not stepped in and killed that man on time.. Arjun would have been killed...
But now she refused to leave us alone with that bomb..so i had no option but to shoo her away...thankfully me and Arjun managed to defuse it with Shree's help...
But that day..That very day.. i saw a different side of her...
That unusual day... we had a robbery case at hand...but that day was not a great day for us..for me...for him...for...Rawte..(*sigh*)... it was Roshni's Death anniversary... and not so surprisingly none of us were in a good mood... i had gone to the crime spot alongwith the team... but HE was nowhere around... 'i knew it' ... Shree asked about Arjun..and..and... i felt sorry later... but i could not control myself... i blasted the poor kid...
I was actually getting carried away by emotions.. although we had differences,...but that day... i was losing it... i was the one picking up a fight... bu at that moment i only wanted someone to calm me down... i had lost both my best friends in an instance.. Roshni... and then...Arjun too...
To be honest.. i had never expected Aisha to step into my personal space...and explain to me that i had to keep aside the personal differences and work with the team.. Had it been anyone else saying the same thing... or had it been anyone else saying a word about my personal life..i would have blasted him or her off.. but somehow i wasn't able to say a word to her... whether it be my principles and ethics about maintaining decency with a female colleague or something else... i just couldn't...
And that was the beginning of the change...
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HER POV--
It had been a couple of months that i was in the team... I faced some resistance initially from Shree and Chhotu... but on 26th January's commemoration ceremony.. i realised the team's attachment to their ex-member Riya Mukherjee.. she must be attached to them .. and they missed her.. even Arjun sir missed her..
But as time flew by i gagged well with them... I and shree used to bet sometimes ...that too on our bosses... but kya kare?? timepass ke liye kuch to karna hoga na... plus the work pressure,.. we need a break too... i had kind of fitted in there... i liked the team... i liked working with them...
But i could feel some things changing...i realised that Rathod sir had mellowed down a bit towards me.. err.. atleast i thought so...or.. maybe i have lost my mind... but i was impressed.. he cared for us... for me...NO!! NO!! What am i thinking... ME??? He would have done that...for anyone of us... he would have saved any one from the arrow.. if he could... he would have even thrown someone else out of the bus... but... no... i am thinking too much...
But that day was a hillarious day for us... chhotu,shree and me kept wondering what was wrong with our bosses.. Rathod Sir and Arjun sirr seemed to disagree on every single decision..if one said north..the other had to say South... and what scared us was their verbal wars...and famous war of glares ... we couldn't make out what the matter was... But that was surely affecting our work..our team... i managed once or twice...but now it was going beyond control... One of them had to stop it... i went to Rathod sir for some case details... but i saw him standing near the window...alone... but..he wasn't replying to me...
I took a deep breath ... this was the chance..i knew it was no use explaining to Arjun sir.. he was having the hottest head... but i could atleast try to talk to Rathod sir...
Sensing that he was in a furious mood,i prepared myself for a scolding...and finally started-
Me- Sir.. if you don't mind,mai kuch pooch sakti hoon apse?
He didn't reply to that... and i was a bit nervous...but i had made up my mind to speak to him..
Me- sir,kuch dino se maine notice kia hai ke apke aur arjun sir ke bich kuch tension sa hai...mera koi haq to nai banta...ke mai ap dono ke personal life me interfere karu..lekin sir..aap hi ne sikhaya hai...ke jab hum duty par hai..to humare beech me koi personal problems nai ane chaiye...
well well.."kitna akdu hai... is baar bhi no reply...grrr!!😡😡",my mind screamed... but i had my own ethics as well.. i apologised...
Me- I...I...am sorry,,, I am really sorry if i have disturbed you..
I finally turned away...to leave.. a bit disappointed... i thought that he would reply to me atleast... maybe i was expecting too much... cummon aisha.. he is your boss... dost jaisa thodi baat karenge... but i had expected a reply atleast... a scolding atleast ... he was the only one who used to ..or atleast tried to include me with the team...and well.. i never got a scolding too...😳 ...maybe that made me expect a little more... but at the end of the day.. i think i forgot my lines...
I had reached the door...when i heard him call me back..
Him- Aisha...
I stopped and turned towards him.. his tone actually scared me..and i thought i would get a scolding for my interference... but ...but... he proved me wrong again..
Him-You are right...duty se badhke kuch bhi nahi hota..lets crack this case...
He said..and i smiled automatically...😊
"kaisa aadmi hai.. smile bhi nahi kia🤢", my naughty mind poked..but i controlled myself..hoping that we would work as a team...
Well... now somethings were definitely changing... he was... i was... I don't know where all this was taking me.. but... i liked it...😳...
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