*Flashbacks in Italics!!
Segment 3*~*Meeting the 3 Idiots*~*
"Ab aap humme batayengi bhi ki yeh sab chal kya raha hai?" asked Armaan's father. Everybody was sitting together and drinking milkshakes.
"Yeah bhabhi, why Armaan, Sid and Abhi acted like this? We don't even know where they are going!" added Sid's father.
"The most important thing, who is this Shona?" asked Abhi's father. Shyla and Hansin too were looking at the mothers, the elder ladies of the family with curious eyes.
"Shona..that's her nickname!" smiled Armaan's Mom.
"Yeh woh ladki hai, jisne hamaare teeno beton ki zindagi badal di.." added Sid's Mom.
"Armaan ki Shona hai woh, Sid usse Sunshine bulata hai, aurr Abhi, Abhimaan ke liye woh Sam hai..." said Abhimaan's Mom.
"Who is this girl?" asked Shyla and Hansin.
"Shilpa..Shilpa Avinash Malhotra" said the three Mom's together.
"Aaj se 5 saal pehle, remember jab yeh teeno Dehradun mein padahi kar rahe thhe? There at the college, they met Shilpa for the very first time." Said Armaan's Mom.
"Shilpa in teeno se ek hi din, but alag alag jagah milli, aurr in teeno ki band baja daali!" chuckled Abhi's Mom.
"Band baja daali? Matlab?" asked the fathers.
"She met Armaan first, what a meeting that was. She had hit the bulls eye that time.."
"How..?"
Armaan was driving at a fast pace on the roads of Dehradun, in his new Porsche. Not caring about anything else, Armaan was in his own world. He jerked out of his world, when he felt the back mirror of the car break into pieces. With anger evident on his face, Armaan came down out of the car. He saw fierce, young girl, standing in front of him. Covered in mud, she was looking damn angry. Her doe shaped, forest green colored eyes reflecting extreme anger. She was Shilpa.
"What the..How dare you? Why the hell did you threw that stone at my car? Do you even know how expensive it is?" Armaan said, nearing Shilpa.
Not backing away, Shilpa too came forward, snapping her fingers in front of him, she replied, "How dare I? Dude, you surely are blind! I had a doubt about this but know I am sure that YOU ARE BLIND. Can't you see, that your oh-so expensive car had splashed mud on me!"
"So what? I know, that you also like those girls who struggle hard to have my attention!" shrugged and smirked Armaan.
Looking directly into his eyes, Shilpa smirked and replied, "Oh really! Are you Tom Cruise or Salmaan Khan that I would like having your attention? Dude, you are full of yourself, and believe me, you are not worth my attention."
Uh-Oh, this made Armaan's anger to reach its peak. How dare she? This chit of a girl, dares to argue with Armaan Malik.
"Is that so? It's my bad then." Armaan spoke sarcastically. "You..just forget it. You will not be able to compensate for the broken mirror. Do you know how much it costs? 20,000 rupees. Huh, you won't to able to pay that huge amount." shrugged Armaan.
"Oh My!! Do you really think so?" chuckled Shilpa. Signaling him with her eyes, Shilpa said, "Just wait and watch!"
Armaan looked confused. Shilpa looked on her left side a saw her new friend, a boy of 14 years, who was selling mustard oil, under the name of a special kind of massage oil. She whispered something in that boy's ear, making Armaan more confused.
If Armaan was confused earlier, he was perplexed now, as both Shilpa and that 14 year old boy, started breaking hose medium sized glass bottles that had oil in them. After breaking them all, both Shilpa and that boy started crying ever so loudly, thus catching the attention of the people nearby.
Armaan was baffled, "What the hell is she doing?" he asked himself.
Huge crowd gathered around them. A middle aged lady came forward and asked;
"Why are you crying?"
"See na, aunty, these rich people..Uhhh..oohh..mmhh.." she cried some more.
"Tell us clearly beta!" the lady encouraged.
"Aunty, this guy (the boy pointed his finger at Armaan, who was beyond confusion), he was driving rashly and carelessly, and in his carelessness, he..his...car, he was about to hit us! We managed to save ourselves but couldn't save these medicine bottles. Because of all this, my mother's medicine bottles fell down and broke!!"
"Our mom is suffering from cancer and we had struggled so hard to collect money to buy these medicines and he..because of his carelessness.." Shilpa cried hard.
"How dare you? You idiot!" roared the lady at Armaan.
"I..I.." Armaan stammered.
"I what haan? You rich brat, see what you did. You have to compensate her now." yelled an old man.
"Me..compensate..her??" Armaan spoke, narrowing his eyes.
"Yes, or else we will file a complaint against you. Do you get that?" spoke a young man, coming out of the crowd.
"Fine..!" Armaan was angry and Shilpa was showing off her innocent face. Fearing that he won't be able to come out of this mess cause of such huge crowd and afraid of the police complaint, Armaan decided to compensate Shilpa.
"How much?" he asked.
"50,000 rupees." replied Shilpa.
"What the..! 50,000 for these..!" he asked pointing his finger at the broken pieces of those bottles.
"Yes! 50,000 for these medicines. My relative had cancer too, and I know, how much costly such medicines are. Are you giving her the money or..?" threatened another guy.
"Here take this.." Armaan handed 50,000 rupees to Shilpa.
The crowd started to disperse, but Armaan and Shilpa were staring at each other. After the whole lot of people, who had gathered around, left, Shilpa broke into a victorious grin, fanning herself with the bundle of notes.
Armaan gritted his teeth and made his way towards his car, but was stopped by Shilpa.
"Aye Mr. Dahkkan..." she yelled, making Armaan stop.
"Here take this. The compensation money for the broken mirror of your car. And haan, take these 5,000, extra, just to make sure that you get the best services." said Shilpa, handing Armaan, 25,000 rupees out of the 50,000, which only Armaan had given to her. In short, Shilpa handed Armaan, a part of his own money.
Clicking her fingers in front of him, staring directly into his eyes, Shilpa said, "Saw, what I did? Believe me, I can do much more. You were talking about, me not able to give you 20,000 rupees as compensation, see what I did. I made you, compensate me! You better not mess with me!"
She smiled, gave 5,000 rupees to that 14 year old boy and left, having the rest 20,000 rupees with her, whereas Armaan stood still, angry, his ego was hurt. How dare she make Armaan Malik, a fool, Mr. Dahkkan!!
"OH MY GOD" shrieked Shyla.
"Shyy..." Hansin chided, covering his ears.
"I am impressed, she really got tactics.", smiled Sid's father, highly impressed with Shilpa.
"Kya khoob bewakoof banaya mere bete ka!" said Armaan's father with a stern smile on his face.
"Aurr yeh Mr. Dhakkan?" asked Abhi's father.
"Aapke bete agar Shilpa ko alag alag naam se bula sakte hain toh kya woh nahi? Shilpa had given names to three of them based on their first meeting.", replied Sid's Mom.
"So what are the other ones?" asked Hansin.
"It's Mr. Milkshake for Sid.." replied Armaan's Mom.
"Bhaiya ko milkshake pasand hain..I mean thhe, issiliye?" asked Shyla.
"Yeh Shilpa ki hi kartoot hai, ki Sid now hates milkshakes this much!" laughed Sid's Mom.
"Woh kaise?"
"Woh aise..."
"O Oh La La La La Le O.." sang Sid, taking the glass of milkshake from the girl who was blushing.
"Thanks sweetheart! Aaj ka yeh milkshake tumhaare naam.." smiled Sid, drinking his favourite strawberry milkshake.
"What? Sid bhaiya, college ki ladkiyon ke paison par aish karte thhe?" asked an impressed Hansin.
"Bilkul apne Dad par gaya hai!" huffed Sid's Mom, while Sid's Dad smiled sheepishly.
"Charms beta ji, charms!" chuckled Abhi's Mom, "Har roz koi na koi ladki uske liye milkshake yah uska kuch favourite arrange karti thhi, just to get a chance with him. Aurr Sid ki issi bahane aish ho jaati thhi, but Shilpa ne iski bhi band baja di.."
"Ab yeh kaise?"
"Yeh aise..."
Shilpa now changed in fresh clothes and was walking around the college's canteen, calculating and counting how much money she has (Armaan's money). After counting she put that money in her bag and was walking aimlessly when she collided with Sid.
The glass of milkshake Sid was carrying fell over Shilpa. Shilpa was now drenched in strawberry milkshake, a flavour she loves to hate.
"What the.." cursed Sid.
"Aankhein hai yah button? Jangli saand (Bull) ki tarah ghoom rahe ho!" yelled Shilpa, while the others guys around them, who were jealous of Sid's charm, were now laughing. Jangli Saand, oh yeah!
"You.." muttered Sid, anger taking over his senses.
"Kya haan? You ke aage kya?"
"Acchi tarah se jaanta hoon tum jaisi ladkiyon ko! Attention seekers. I feel sorry for that pretty lady, jisne mujhe yeh milkshake offer kiya thha."
"Oh really" Shilpa was back in her dangerous mode, "I am so sorry, kitna bura hua nahi? Let me compensate for it." Shilpa said with an oh-so innocent expression on her face and walked towards the canteen's milkshakes stall.
Sid smirked, but his smirk soon turned into a frown, when he saw Shilpa whispering something-something in ears of the girls present there. Girls I said, girls I wrote. Soon there were at least 100 glasses of different flavours of milkshake set on the table. Sid's eyes widened at this but Shilpa smiled menacingly and said, "See, meri wajah se uss ladki ka dil toot gaya na, and uss ladki ki wajah se baaki sab ladkiyon ka! They all wanted to offer you different flavours of milkshake but didn't got a chance, so aaj main sab ke dil ki tamanna poori kar deti hoon.."
Sid gulped, clearly knowing what Shilpa was doing, "Girls, aaj aapke Mr. Charming, aapke liye yeh sabhi milkshake ke glasses pe jayenge. Cheer him girls!" Shilpa smirked as the girls started cheering for Sid. Now now, Sid had to maintain his charming, caring and good boy image, didn't he? So my dear friends he drank all the milkshakes offered to him. 1..10..25..44..67..89..100..oops, Sid was feeling that he will just die after drinking this much. And if this wasn't enough, those girls had the audacity to kiss and pull his cheeks and say, "Ccchhhooo..swwweeett.."
After that Shilpa came close to Sid and said, "I guess aaj ke baad tum milkshake peena toh door ki baat, milkshake ke naam se bhi door bhagoge! Buddy, mujhse panga, is not changa! Yaad rakhna..Mr. Milkshake" she said the last part, punching Sid's belly lightly, but it did hurt a lot, so Sid moaned.."Uuuii Maa.."
It was Armaan's father who was laughing now, while Sid's father got that stern smile. Everybody was laughing at Sid's expense. "Wah kya ladki hai..!" chuckled Abhi's father.
"Tabhi! bhai gets so scared of milkshakes now!" laughed Hansin.
"Kya halat hui hogi bechaare ki!" laughed Abhi's father.
"Hhmm..waise it was Abhi whose ego was hurt the most!" added Armaan's Mom and that had Abhi's father straightened and sober, while Armaan and Sid's father had that cocky smirk on their faces.
"Hhmmm.."
Abhimaan was practicing basketball, flaunting himself to be more precise. Dressed in just track pants, Abhimaan's bare chest was on display, a delicious treat for the girls who were enjoying Abhimaan practicing. Abhi was practicing alone, while the girls were sitting on the benches, chanting "Ooohhss.." and "Aaahhss.."
It was Shilpa who came and asked Abhimaan, "Can I play?"
Abhi smirked, Shilpa frowned and asked again, "Sunai nahi deta yah ignore kar rahe ho?"
"Impressive.."
"What? Dude I just asked a simple question! Pandit se muhurat nikalwa kar jawaab do-ge kya?"
"Baat pandit aurr muhurat tak pohonch gayi..kaafi fast ho tum! I am impressed; because no girl dared to ask me for a game challenge and you came and talked directly to me! You got guts babe.."
Shilpa laughed and said, "Ek se badkar ek ghadhe mil rahe hain aaj mujhe! Sabhi ke sabhi egoistic fools.."
"What the.."
Back into her Shilpa-the scary mode, she covered the distance between him and her, tracing her finger over Abhimaan's biceps, Shilpa whispered, "I have much more to me...kiddo!" she laughed backing away.
Shilpa was walking out of the basketball court, when Abhimaan, angry because of being called as a kiddo and laughed at, he threw the ball in Shilpa's direction. The ball was about to hit Shilpa's back, when Shilpa gracefully slid to her right and caught the ball in her hand, not moving around, not facing Abhimaan.
"Game ka pehla rule, kabhi bhi peeth peeche waar nahi karna chahiye.." she dribbled the ball and then said, "Game ka doosra rule, apne opponent ko weak samajhne ki galati kabhi mat karna!" and by this Shilpa lifted the ball and did a score. Shilpa had her back towards the basket and did a score without facing the basket. So it hurt Abhimaan's ego a lot as he was still practicing such move and still wasn't able to do so, but this girl! Oh this girl did it like a pro.
"Par isse kya hua? How did it hurt Abhi bhaiya's ego?" asked Hansin.
"Beta, think like this..socho, if you and Shyla got a maths problem to solve. Tumne usse solve karne ke liye 24 ghante laga diye, and you solved the problem in 20 different steps with great difficulty, but Shyla, she took 24 seconds to do so and solved the question in 2 simple steps only! Tab how will you feel?" Abhi's Mom asked Hansin, who after understanding, made a weird face.
Facing Abhimaan now, Shilpa went close to him, and said, "Oh my! Baby ko bula laga, so sad too bad!" she said pulling his cheeks.
Smirking, she backed away and said, "You limit your challenges Dude! But I, I challenge my limits! So bhool ke bhi panga mat lena mujhse, understood Mr. Basket?" she smiled and walked away, leaving behind a cursing Abhimaan.
"This Shilpa..seems to be a pro at everything.." muttered Abhi's father, unbelievingly.
"She is.." exclaimed Armaan's Mom.
"Hhmm..she got brains I would say!" smiled Armaan's father, highly impressed.
"She got the beauty too.." said Sid's Mom, showing Shilpa's photograph, that she had in her cell phone.
"Really..bohot pyaari bachhi hai.." smiled the fathers.
"Wow, she's pretty..! So Armaan bhaiya loves this girl, Shilpa?" asked Shyla.
"He does, he really does..pata nahi college khatam hone ke baad kahan chali gayi yeh, bohot dhunda but nahi milli. Infact there was no girl named as Shilpa Avinash Malhotra in that batch." Frowned Armaan's Mom.
"Aise kaise?" asked the others.
"Don't know, but ab pata chal jayega. 3 Idiots gaye hain na, apne 4th idiot ko dhoondne!" smiled Abhi's Mom.
"But yeh log friends kaise bane? Aurr love? Armaan bhaiya ko pyaar kaise hua Shilpa, I mean Shilpa bhabhi se?" asked Hansin and Shyla.
"Bas ho gaya.." the mothers smiled.
"Kaise ho gaya?" asked the others.
To be Continued...
Edited by dmegha - 11 years ago
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