CHAPTER : YOU ARE MY TOPMOST PRIORITY
RIYA WOKE UP WITH ANEW FEELING IN HER HEART AS TODAY SHE WAS GOING TO MEET HER ARJUN AFTER A WHOLE MONTH. SHE HAS A PROMISE TO KEEP AND TODAY SHE IS GOING TO JOIN ETF AGAIN.
RIYA( TO HERSELF ): GET UP RIYA AND A VERY GOOD MORNING. LOVE U JU...OOPS LOVE U ARJUN SIR.
ETF OFFICE
CHOTTU: YAAR SHREE JALDI KAR, RIYA BAS AATI HI HOGI.
SHREE: ARE CHOTTU SEE, HER FAVORITE CHOCOLATE ROSE CAKE IS READY
AND ALL THE DECORATIONS ARE ALSO DONE. IS TOO GOOD.
RATHORE: IF ITS GOOD MAKE IT PERFECT. SHE DESERVES IT.
ARJUN(TO HIMSELF ): HUH, FINALLY AFTER 31 DAYS, 744 HOURS, 44640 MINUTES AND ALMOST 2678400 SECONDS, SHE WILL BE IN FRONT OF ME. SERIOUSLY AM I BEING STATISTICAL AND CALCULATIVE...RIYA...SHE HAS COMPLETELY CHANGED ME...KASH I COULD TELL U KI MAIN TUMSE KITNA PYAAR KARTA HOON.
ARJUN: KOI PRIME MINISTER TOH NAHI AA RAHA NA. ITS JUST RIYA. TUM SAB LOG FALTU ME OVER REACT KAR RAHE HO.
SHREE(WHISPERING TO CHOTTU): LO HO GAYE SHURU KHADOOS KAHIN KE.
RATHORE: SHE DESERVES THIS RAWTE AND MIND U, USSE ACHCHI TARAH SE TREAT NAHI KAR SAKTE TO KUCH AISA BHI MAT BOLNA JISSE USSE BURA LAGE. AB YEH BAAT TUM SAMAJH GAYE YA MAIN SAMJHAOON.
ARJUN:RATHORE...
HE WAS ABOUT TO SAY SOMETHING WHEN A COLD BREEZE FLEW AND HE SMELT HER SCENT. HE WAS SURE THAT SHE WAS HERE. HIS RIYA WAS HERE.
AS SOON AS RIYA ENTERED THE OFFICE SHE WAS WELCOMED BY A HAPPY RATHORE, CHEERFUL CHOTTU, EXCITED SHREE AND A LITTLE BIT GRUMPY ARJUN. SHE SMILED INWARDLY AT HIS CONSTANT GAZE.
AFTER THE CELEBRATIONS WERE OVER, EVERYBODY WAS SITTING AT THEIR USUAL PLACE.
RATHORE: WELL GUYS WE HAVE A PENDING CASE, JUNGLE MEIN EK DEAD BODY MILI HAI, IT SEEMS TO BE AN ACCIDENT.
ARJUN: BAAT KYA HAI RATHORE?
RATHORE: ITS ONE OF OUR INFORMERS KISHEN.
RIYA'S HEAD SHOT UP BY THIS NAME BUT SHE HIDED HER EXPRESSIONS AND FORTUNATELY NOBODY NOTICED IT.
RTHORE: HUME BAS YEH KARNA HAI KI KYA USKE PAAS KOI AISI INFORMATION THIS JO WOH HUME DE SAKTA THA YAH DENA CHAHTA HO. LETS GET BACK TO WORK.
CRIME SCENE
RIYA WAS CAREFULLY EXAMINING THE DEAD BODY AND QUIETLY SNEAKED OUT THE VICTIMS CELL PHONE, AND AGAIN IT WAS NOT NOTICED.
WHEN NOTHING WAS FOUND THE DEAD BODY WAS SENT FOR POSTMORTEM AND EVERYBODY WAS JUST MOTIONING TOWARDS THE CAR IGNORING THAT A SPEEDY CAR WAS JUST ABOUT TO HIT HER BUT WAS SAVED BY ARJUN.
ARJUN: PAGAL HO GAYI HO KYA DIKHAI NAHI DETA, AGAR KUCH HO JATA TOH. ABHI ABHI HOSPITALL BED SE UTHI HO, HOSPITAL JAANE KA ITNA SHAUK HAI KI TUMHE APNI TARAF AATI HUI ITNI BADI CAR BHI NAHI DIKHI.
RIYA'S EYES WELLED UP SHE SAID: I AM SORRY SIR,
AND SAT INSIDE THE CAR.
ARJUN BANGED HIS FIST LIGHTLY ON THE CAR DOOR AND SHUT HIS EYES.
ARJUN ( TO HIMSELF ): NAHI DEKH SAKTA MAIN TUMHARE AASON, YOU ARE MY TOPMOST PRIORITY RIYA, APNA CONCERN PYAAR SE NAHI TO GUSSE KA SAHARA LEKAR TOH DIKHA HI SAKTA HOON.
DRIVE TO THE OFFICE WAS QUIET, IN BETWEEN RIYA SAID THAT SHE WASN'T FEELING WELL SO IF ARJUN CAN DROP HER BACK HOME. ARJUN AGREED.
ONCE HOME, AND ARJUN GONE, RIYA CHECKED THE PHONE AND FOUND THAT A VOICE MAIL WAS SENT TO HER JUST LAST NIGHT. WHEN CHECKED A MALE VOICE SPOKE:
MADAM, ARJUN JI KI JAAN KO KHTARA HAI, WOH LOG UNHE MAARNE KI PLANNING BANA RAHE HAI AUR AUR AAAHHH...
AND NOTHING, RIYA PANICKED, SHE WAS DISTURBED BY THE CONSTANT RINGING OF HER CELL PHONE WHEN SHE PICKED UP AGAIN A MALE VOICE BUT THIS TIME A DIFFERENT ONE, A ROUGH ONE SPOKE:
CHCHCH...TUMHARA INFORMER TO MAARA GAYE, JO INFORMATION WOH TUMHE DENA CHAHTA THA CHALO MEIN TUMHE BATATA HOON. AAJ SHYAAM 5 BAJE, WOH KYA PEETA HAI TUMHARA ARJUN, HAAN USKI CUTTING CHAI...BACHA SAKTI HO TO BACHA LO. GOOD BYE AND BEST OF LUCK.
THE CALL ENDED AND RIYA GLANCED AT THE CLOCK. IT WAS 4:30 NOW. JUST 30 MINUTES SHE HAVE TO HURRY UP.
RIYA ALMOST RAN OUTSIDE, STARTED HER SCOOTY AND WENT TOWARDS HER OFFICE BUT IN THE MIDDLE WAS TRAPPED IN HUGE TRAFFIC. SO SHE RAN AS FAST AS SHE COUL. JUST ONE THING OR A PERSON TO BE MORE PRECISE, IN HER MIND, ARJUN WAS IN DANGER.
ARJUN WAS ABOUT TO TAKE A SIP FROM HIS CUTTING CHAI WHEN RIYA CAME PANTING AND JUST PUSHED HIM AND THUS THE GLASS FELL ON THE FLOOR, CHAI SPREAD ON THE FLOOR AND THE GLASS INTO PIECES AND THEN SIGHED OUT OF RELIEF.
ARJUN:YEK KYA BATEMEEZI HAI RIYA.
RIYA: I AM SORRY SIR BUT...BUT...
SHREE: RI...YEH LO PHELE PAANI PI LO AUR BATAO KI KYA HUA.
RIYA ( PATIALLY LIED ): WOH SIR ACTUALLY I GOT A THREATENING MESSAGE THAT YOUR LIVES WERE IN DANGER SO I JUST...
ARJUN: HUM KHUD KA DEFENCE KAR SAKTE HAIN. HUH.
ARJUN WENT OUTSIDE, HE WAS CONCERNED FOR HER, A LOOK ON HER FACE AND ONE COULD TELL THAT SHE WAS SCARED AND ARJUN CAN'T STOP HIMSELF FROM SHOWING CONCERN SO HE WENT OUT.
RATHORE LEFT FROM THERE JUST TO TALK TO ARJUN ABOUT HIS BEHAVIOR, AND, SHREE AND CHOTTU WENT TO BRING MINERAL WATER FOR HER AND SOME HEALTHY FOOD RESPECTIVELY.
ONCE RIYA WAS ALONE, SHE COLLECTED SAMPLES OF THE GLASS AND THAT CHAI ( TEA ) AND PUT THEM IN HER HANDY BAD WHICH SHE KEPT WITH HER AS ALWAYS.
AND THEN SAID TO HERSELF: YOU ARE MY TOPMOST PRIORITY ARJUN. I CAN BEAR YOUR ANGER BUT A SINGLE SCRATCH ON U MAKE MY HEART BLEED. I CAN'T TAKE RISK WITH YOUR LIFE.
Edited by dmegha - 12 years ago
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