Part three
Rajveer stood in front of the window wrapped only in a towel. The morning bugle had rung and it was time for all the cadets to wake up. He had just come back from the shower and just stood in front of the window, feeling the morning breeze touch his bare wet skin. All night he had been restless since he kept dreaming about Naina and her effervescent beauty.
Lage re lage re lage lage re nayanwa
Lage re lage re
Lage re lage re lage lage re nayanwa
Lage re lage re
Now as he looked out into the sky he could find Naina's smiling face and her sparkling eyes.
He swayed with the curtains and began singing.
"Jab se tere naina mere naino se laage re
Jab se tere naina mere naino se laage re"
He leaped with joy and began jumping around
"Tab se deewaana hua, sab se begaana huwa
Rab bhi deewana laage re oye oye
Rab bhi deewaana laage re ho hoooooo"
He fell back on his bed and he stared at the ceiling dreamily
"Jab se tere naina mere naino se laage re"
Yudi just entered after being to the bathroom and Rajveer went up to him really hyper, scaring him.
"Tab se deewaana hua, sab se begaana huwa
Rab bhi deewana laage re oye oye
Rab bhi deewaana laage re ho hoooooo"
He hugged Yudi and danced around with him thinking he is Naina
"Jab se tere naina mere naino se laage re"
Yudi got annoyed and pushed him off and Rajveer came back in his senses and just began lauhging like a clown at his own stupidity.
Deewaana yeh to deewaana laage re
Deewaana yeh to deewaana laage re
As he got ready he kept imagining Naina everywhere and then he looked in the mirror and saw her face and got lost in her sweet smile
"Hoo jabse mila hai tera ishaara
Tabse jagi hai bechaineeya
Hoo jabse mila hai tera ishaara
Tabse jagi hai bechaineeya"
He put his hand out and was surprised to find Naina's hand in his and he pulled her tight against him
"Jabse hui sarghoshiya
Tab se badhi hai madhoshiyan"
He kept getting closer to her
"Jabse jure yaara
Tere mere mann ke dhaage re"
He pushed her out and pulled her in again
"Tab se deewaana hua, sab se begaana huwa
Rab bhi deewana laage re oye oye
Rab bhi deewaana laage re ho hoooooo"
His dream broke when an outraged Yudi pushed him away yet once again. He couldn't imagine himself that close to a guy and felt really uncomfortable and started doubting Rajveer's sexual orientation. Rajveer realised his mistake and just left before Yudi asked him any questions.
He became busy in his drill where they were carrying heavy sacks from one place to another and Major Nair was in a cruel mood that morning since it was raining. Rajveer was right ahead as he was one of the best cadets around but that day his heart was simply not with him and midway he saw Naina finishing off her drill so he halted and dropped the sack on the floor and kept staring at her.
"Ho jabse hui hai tujhse shararat
Tab se gaya hai chain o karaar"
Naina noticed him and also just gave him a shy smile and carried on with her drill giggling along with her friends. They all knew after last night what was happening between these two. He forgot everything else and kept staring at her.
"Ho jabse hui hai tujhse shararat
Tab se gaya hai chain o karaar"
Jabse tera aanchal dhala
Tabse koi jaadoo chala"
The others caught up but Yudi didn't see the sack Rajveer had thrown on the ground and he tripped and fell over. Alekh also came and stumbled over Yudi and he also fell and this series continued with the rest. They all were irritated with Rajveer but he left from there and went to join Naina without looking anywhere else. He went to her and grabbed hold of her.
"Jab se tujhe paaya
Yeh jiya dhak, dhak bhaage re"
He did the pushing out and pulling in dance with her and she was afraid of getting caught and tried warning him but he was just too much lost to understand anything.
"Tab se deewaana hua, sab se begaana huwa
Rab bhi deewana laage re oye oye"
She got a chance when he had closed his eyes to slip away and now he stood there alone. When he opened his eyes he saw Naina standing right next to him and he went up closer to her and cupped her face in his palms.
"Rab bhi deewaana laage re ho hoooooo"
He kept going closer and closer to her as if he was going to kiss her
"Jabse tere naina mere naino se laage re"
He got a severe push and he was susprised that Naina had become so rough. But then the shock he got was too much to take and he felt as if the sky fell upon him.
"CADET SHEKHAWAT!" it was Major Nair who had been standing in front of him all this time and he had mistaken him as Naina. "What do you think you're doing?" he was really disappointed to find Rajveer messing around in his drill time.
"Um…sir…I mean…um…" he gulped as he lost all his words looking at the monstrous man's face. Then he began cursing himself that if he did imagine Naina then how did he find her in this mucchar Nair and all of a sudden he felt sick. He just had to think and before he knew it he puked all over Nair's face which shocked him even further.
Nair wirped off the muck and began snarling which scared Rajveer too much and he knew that now he was done for.
He certainly was as five minutes later he found himself hung upside down from a tree. His legs were tied up with a rope and the branch he hung from looked really insecure and he could even hear it creak.
"Cadet Shekhawat you'll be under this ulti dunya punishment until the evening you understand that?"
"Yes sir…" Rajveer spoke weakly as he kept checking the branch which was near snapping.
"I didn't hear that." Nair yelled at him.
"YES SIR!" he yelled so loudly that the whole campus heard his voice and Nair was nearly thrown off his feet but he recovered.
"You have any doubts cadet?" before leaving Nair asked Rajveer again.
"Yes sir I do." Rajveer turned his eyes back at Nair's feet as that's what he could see hung upside down. "Sir I think this branch won't be able to take my weight."
"That's the whole trick." Nair came up closer to Rajveer, "this tree is a momentum which I'm sure you're well aware of. Yaha pe kaafi kai cadets kee qabar khode chukee hai or wo bhi issee tarha…tum samajh rahe ho na." Rajveer became scared again and Nair pushed Rajveer back to make him swing against the branch. He chuckled evilly and left and Rajveer kept dreading about the branch snapping and he wanted to stop himself from swinging but he couldn't.
As nair was leaving he ordered all the other cadets to leave too as they were dismissed. Alekh and Yudi still stood there and Rajveer called out to them.
"Hey guys come on atleast you help me out here." He pleaded with desperate need as he tried to stop himself from swinging.
Yudi marched over aggitated, "help you? No ways RV. I fell into a mud patch because of you I mean saale agar tu thak gaya tha to raaste ke beecho beecho bistar lagaane kee kya zaroorat thi?" Yudi was on the verge of strangling Rajveer but Alekh came and stopped him.
"Chal chore ise Yudi." Alekh gave Rajveer a sympathetic look, "wese bhi yeh to thori dair me apne aap pohoch ne hee waala hai.." he pointed towards the sky and Rajveer panicked further. "Tu apne haath gande mat kar. Chal." He began taking Yudi away with him.
"Abhe kis kisam ke dost ho tum?" Rajveer yelled after them, "apne dost ko aise maut ke mooh me daal ke jaarahe ho?" he saw that they still didnt stop and turn back. "Alekh…are tu to mera bhai hai. Are you going to leave your dear brother like this?" Alekh as usual was less affected by this as he knew Rajveer was just a one number nautanki. Rajveer was really disappointed. "Yudi stop atleast you stop. Dekh Yudi, tujhe meree dosti ka waasta ruk jaa."
Yudi stopped at that and he felt really bad but Alekh told him not to pay attention and Yudi remembered he was angry at him and continued walking.
Seeing Yudi didn't stop Rajveer began singing this song, "Dost, dost na raha. Pyaar, pyaar na raha," he shedded crocodile tears as he knew Yudi would melt, "zindagee hame tera aitbaar na raha aitbaar na raha." He continued singing that song and Yudi couldn't take it anymore and he turned around towards Rajveer dramatically.
"RV, mere dost." And he ran with his arms out in a proper dramatic way as if he was running towards his lover. He reached Rajveer and just hugged him still with him hung upside down. "I'm sorry my friend but I forgot for a while what you mean to me."
Alekh just shook his head and came to separate the two guys. "Ab honi ko koun taal sakta hai Yudi." He also spoke pretending to be really remorseful. "We all have to leave one day to ab iska bhi waqt aagaya hai."
"Abhe saale Alekh tu mera bhai hai ke dushman. Mujhe maarne pe hee tula huwa hai." Rajveer was irritated with him now.
"Didn't you hear what Nair just said? Whoever is put on this tree goes only one place…" Alekh once again pointed towards the sky and then he pulled Yudi off Rajveer. "We must leave him to his dwelling."
"RV I'm going to miss you." Yudi had become too hysterical now and he didn't want to leave Rajveer.
This was ridiculous and Rajveer knew it, "Yudi I'm not going anywhere."
"You promise na." he kept crying like a kid.
"Yes I'm not going to die. Trust me." Rajveer tried to smile but he knew the branch would snap anytime and he might be history. He wanted to stop swinging but that wasn't stopping either.
Alekh managed to take Yudi away but he kept looking back at Rajveer and crying dramatically. "You won't leave me na RV?"
"I won't Yudi."
"Are you sure you'll be alright?"
"Of course," Rajveer was on the verge of screaming as he was hanging from a tree which was going to snap and the fool was asking if he was going to be alright, "I'm just hanging around here as if I'm on a vacation." He spoke sarcastically and Yudi cried further.
"I'm really going to miss you RV." Alekh was also annoyed with Yudi now and pulled him along with him before he created a pool of his tears. He spoke under his breath, "nautanki saala." And then he dragged Yudi away.
Rajveer was left disappointed as his friends just desserted him and now he just waited for his doom.
Back inside the campus Naina was passing by the mess and she heard some girl cadets coming out. "It's so sad, poor RV he didn't deserve this."
The other girl answered her, "Yeh this shouldn't have happened. Poor RV I hope he'll be alright." Then the girls left and Naina wondered what they were talking about.
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