Ridz(to herself):-"itni der ho gayi hai,abhi bhi sab kha rahein hai kya!!!ek baar phone karke pooch toh loon!!!
She takes out her cell from her bag and sees that the battery is low...She tries to call up one of her friends,but since it was an area on the outskirts of mumbai,the connectivity was high...moreover,her low battery....It was futile!!!!She cudn't call anyone...
She looked at her watch....It was well past 10pm....She got a twinge of nervousness..and so decided to go and check herself....
Ridz ran towards the dhaba and was shocked beyond words to see the place deserted...except those dhaba people and a few late-night travellers,there was no-one..
Ridz:-(to the dhaba-owner)" Bhaiya ji,woh jo bus aayi thi kaafi logon ko lekar,woh kahan gayi"???
Dhaba owner:-Behanji,woh bus toh kam se kam aadhe ghante pehle chali gayi,sab hadbadi mein the....shayad kahin pahunchne ki jaldi hogi!!! Tabhi,kha-pee kar nikal gaye..
Ridz went away from there,not knowing what to do...It wasn't in her nature to get tensed up about anything...So,she decided to be calm and composed and then think......She sat on one of the 'khatiyas' kept there.....
Meanwhile,Armaan had a nice little walk,and decided to go back to the dhaba.....All the while he had been thinking about ridz....He decided to try hard to keep her out of his mind.....he thought to himself that:-"sumhow,i don't feel that it's right....i don't know..par kuch samajh mein nahin aa raha.....one thing is pakka,Riddhima hates me...the way she looks at me when our eyes sumtimes meet....well,she has a valid reason to do so...afterall,i haven't done her any good.....but sumtimes,i have felt that she has sumthing in her heart for me,tht is expressed through her eyes....but yes,everything can be misleading....matters of heart are really confusing...Wish i had never fallen into this stuff.....but no i must stay away from all this,as i have said earlier to myself...'OUR PATHS ARE NEVER MEANT TO MEET,THEY HAVE SIMPLY CROSSED EACH OTHER!!!!'
With his thoughts,he took the way back to the dhaba....Even he met the same scene as riddhima...The only difference was that in addition he saw riddhima sitting on one of the khatiyas'...His immediate impulse was to go upto her and ask her the matter...But he stopped himself in time..and went upto the dhaba ownner and asked the same question as Ridz....The anwswer he got was also same...But the dhaba owner added:-"woh behanji bhi yahi pooch rahi thi(pointing towards riddhima.Aap unhi se pooch lijiye,agar kuch aur poochna hai toh...."
Armaan:-Achcha,yahan se Sonpur gaon kitni doori par hai???"
Dhaba owner:-"Ji,agar bus ya car se jaaye toh 1 ghanta ,paidal chalne par shyad 1-1 1/2 ghanta lag jaaye....par kya aap iss waqt jaane ka soch rahein hai....itni raat ko toh theek nahin hoga...aage raaste par bahut se mod aate hai...itni raat ko bilkul samajh nahin aayegay ki kaunsa mod sahi hai or kauna galat.."
Armaan:-Nahin theek hai,hum kuch sochtein hain..!!"
Saying this,he went toward riddhima,whome he found lost in thoughts.."how serene her face looks,,even though she may be tensed...there isn't even a flicker of tension on her face....riddhima is really amazing"...All these thoughts came to his mind sub-consciously...But then suddenly,he came back to realty and went upto her..
Riddhima hadn't noticed Armaan coming.
Armaan:-"Riddhima..."
Ridz:-(surprised)"Armaan TUM.....Tum yahan kya kar rahe ho.....Tum bus mein nahin the kya???"
Armaan:-"Nahin,main walk pe gaya tha,wapas aaya toh dekha ki bus choot gayi hai..tumhari bus kaise chchoti(he decided to kep things light and so asked this question)...
But Ridz had got over her surprise in seeing Armaan and as usual decided not to talk to him much!!!
Ridz:-(CURTLY)"Ab bas chchoot gayi,yeh poochkar kya fayda ki kaise chchooti ya kahan se chchooti????!
Armaan:-(sensed her tone,but decided to continue behaving the way he was to keep things normal)"Kuch socha kya kya karna hai?"
Ridz:-"Soch hi rahi hoon,par tum kyun pooch rahe ho???you think urself ki tumhein kya karna hai???"
Armaan:-"Wt do u mean mujhe kya karna hai,humari bus chchoot gayi hai...toh milke kuch sochte hai...coz we'll have to go together....."
Ridz:-"kisne kaha,ki we"ll have to go together....tum yahi socho,ki tumhari akele ki bus choot gayi hai...and think wt u have to do...And now,plzzz mujhe kuch sochne do!!!"
Armaan:-"But ya toh hum abhi nikal sakte hai,taaki aage chalkar koi rukne ki jagah mil jaaye,ya toh seedha chal kar sonpur pahunchne ki koshish kartein hain!!"
Ridz doesn't reply....
Armaan goes and sits on a khatiya some distance away from ridz..he doesn't know what to do,seeing Ridz's adamancy in sorting out things wid him...At the same time,he felt a bit upset about his behaviour...He didn't like when she talked to him in an indifferent way....(For the First Time,Not because he was ARMAAN But he genuinely didn't like her being indiffernt towards him...but wt could he do..)
Ridz on the other hand,wasn't at all pleased to see him,not because she thought that she might feel sumthing towards him but beacuse she had convinced herself fully to stay away from him as well of his foul nature...she had excellent control on her emotions and feeling...well,she thought so...
Ridz knew the dangers of a lone girl,going somewhere at night,but she wanted to get as far as possible from Armaan...every time she saw him she felt nauseated by remembering all that had passes between them since the last 2-3 months..She stood up,hung her bag on her shoulder and started walking towards the main road...in order to find atleast somw guest-house on the way...Her mind was full of inhibitions at walking alone on the night but she took the name of god,and strted walking...
Armaan saw her leave,he cudn't understand her behaviour...he thought:-"How cud she go alone at this time of the night....This isn't a matter of her liking me or hating me...She shud be sensible enough and not go alone...Armaan decided to go with her whether she liked it or not...he cudn't leave her alone...that was unimaginable..
ARmaan started walking slowly so that initially ridz was sum distance ahead of him and later on he could catch up with her..
Ridz kept on walking...it was getting really cold and dark...moreover as they had approached countryside,there were woods on both sides of the road...she kept her apprehensions at the back of her mind and continued walking...
But even FATE seemed determined to unite Armaan and Riddhima.....Ridz was confronted by some goons.....They were a drunken lot and began wolf-whistling at her...Ridz knew the best thing was to ignore...So she didn't pay any attention to them and continued walking...the men gradually came up to her and talkied all sorts of shitty things...Ridz felt helpless but when they advanced forward to touch for she cudn't control anymore and slapped the one nearest to her..this angered them and they came forward to grab her her hand..Ridz just pushed herself out from their midst and started running in the oppposite direction...The men ran behind her angered and now doubly determined to catch her...Ridz was overcome by fear but kept her senses alive..
Running as fast as she could,she suddenly collided with sumone and found herself in sumone's STRONG GRASP.She sensed sumone's hand was on her waist and back,for moment she was terrified to the heart but when she looked up,found herself staring into Armaan's eyes.
A sense of warm relief washed her...for that moment she felt herself so protected...She held onto armaan tightly not getting the courage to look back and see if the goons were still following her...
But ARMAAN was totally lost...wt he felt on having riddhima in his arms,even he cudn't describe...it wasn't a feeling from this world...in his entire life he hadn't even experienced sumthing close enough to this.....he held onto her...wishing that if time cud be in his control,he wud stop it on tht moment forever..IN THAT INSTANT HE REALIZED RIDDHIMA IS THE ONE.....ALL his past memories and feelings of riddhima LEFT HIM....THERE WAS NO TRACE OF THE BITTER MEMORIES LEFT.....LOVE HAD SPREAD ITS GLOWING LIGHT IN ARMAAN"S BODY,MIND and SOUL...
He looked at her face and saw terror in her eyes before he cud ask her the matter or before riddhima cud tell him,thegoons arrived..
one of them:-"Ae ladke,yeh kya ladki ko beech sadak par pakadke khada hai,kaam ho gaya hai to humein bhi de de!!!!"
Armaan:-(angered beyond limits)"Dekhiye,zaban sambhal kar baat kijiye"
Goons:-"Oye,ab aek shahar ka chchora humein baat karna seekhayga...dekh beech mein mat pad aur ladki humein de de...
Ridz was trembling no,she hadn't imagined the situation wud reach here....she held onto Armaan more tightly...Armaan cudn't bear to see her like this...her usual glowing and happy face was stricken wid fear...he cud feel him trembling like a lamb in his arms...
Armaan:-"Aisa sochna bhi mat,aap log yahan se chale jaaiye.."
Goons:-"Itni kya jaldi hai,ho jaaye do-do haath....Jo jieeta ladki uski,warna hum yahan se jaane nahin denge",they aaded taking out rough knives...
Armaan knew now there was no way out of escape.....He decided to run sumhow along with riddhima....he whispered to her to hold onto his hand tightly,and run when he said...But before tht he went up to the goons to try to give them sum money and ask to leave them..but the goons thought he was coming to fight and so before armaan cud say anything two of them kicked Armaan hard on his face....Immediately blood started oozing out from his mouth and nose..But he grabbed riddhima's hand and ran with full might...The goons stood clueless for a moment and then strted running...They had nearly caught up with them when armaan pulled riddhima away from the road and they entered the woods...The goons were apprehensive to follow them,after all they didn't want to stuck themselves there just for a girl..they thought they wud get many such girls and left....
Armaan and Riddhima kept running deep into the woods and stopped only when they realized they cudn't go any further due to the dense covering of trees...
PRECAP:-Ridz and Armaan have lighted a fire.....Ridz is cleaning Armaan's wound while armaan watches her continuously.......ARmaan stares unblinkingly at ridz while she is sleeping.....
So Guys,That was the 5th Part...It doesn't have full A-R romance,but as u can guess,the next part will have definitely....HOPE U LIKED IT....PLZZ PLZZ PLZZ PLZZ PLZZ post ur comments and views..it really encourages me to continue...
Lots of luv,
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