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Part 4 : Jo na keh sake hum, jo na keh sake tum. ( i really love when it plays on Rikaara. Its so apt 😳)
Omkaara was driving the car. He didn't turn towards Gauri once. He was not knowing the reason for her staunch silence. She was sitting like a statue. She might not have come out of the shock, he thought. He slowed down the car and offered her water. Gauri turned slowly.
"Lo, paani pee lo"
Gauri extended her right hand. She was still having that blade/knife hidden in her bangle which she forgot to throw amidst all the happenings. Omkaara noticed that.
"Yeh kya hai?"
Gauri just then noticed that blade. She removed it from her choodi.
"Woh hume isse Kaali se bachne ke liye rakhi thi. Uski saath shaadi hone se pehle hi, humne apni jaan khatam karani thi" Gauri remembered her pathetic state in the morning. Indeed, Sankar ji ki kaam hai yeh sab. Marthe marthe usko bachadiya. Uski Omkaara ko phirse mila diya. Tears swelled up in her eyes thinking about her Sankar ji.
Omkaara felt so bad. He couldn't even think of her taking such an extreme step. With spiraling crimes against Women, safety is always a questionable fact in this nation. But he never thought he would witness it up and close. He stopped the car.
"Gauri, jo kuch bhi hua, main samajh saktha hoon, kisi bhi ladki ke liye kitna mushkil hoga digest karne ke liye. Par ab tum safe ho. Kuch ghabrane ki zaroorat nahi. So calm down. Ye paani pee lo. Don't think about what just happened"
Gauri was looking at him with disbelief. She wasn't sure about the reason for his change. He had accused her last time of being a home breaker and characterless girl. Now his behavior is completely changed. Even when she was chulbul, he talked about her only once. But she never noticed him speaking about anything that changed his opinion about Gauri. She was petrified at the thought that he is still not aware that she is chulbul.
Omkaara was looking at her face. Her face is indeed index to her heart. He could clearly read the questions that were running in her mind, her anxiety, her disbelief everything. Those questions of Why, how, and where.. But this is not the right place to discuss.
"Tumhari mann mein jo bhi sawal hai, main samajh saktha hoon. Par yeh jaga sahi nahi hai yeh sab discuss karne ke liye. Main poora jawab de doonga jaldi. Par tumhe kuch der intezaar karna padega" Omkaara said with a half smile.
Gauri let out a peaceful sigh at the reassurance that smile gave, she nodded and drank the water and gave it back to him. She was hoping this beautiful journey never ends.
Omkaara stopped his car infront of an apparel shop. He was thinking Gauri needed some clothes to change from this dulhan ki jhoda. Gauri looked at the shop and looked back at Omkaara again.
"Woh, delhi jane tak tum yeh bridal wear mein kaise rahogi. To maine socha, tum kuch kapde kareed lo. Bill de do. Main pay kar deta hoon."
Gauri didn't feel like refusing. She was not liking the feel this dress was giving her. This was given by kaali. She wanted to burn anything that was related to him. She got down and went in to the apparel shop. Omkaara's car stopped infront of a 5 star hotel in Bareilly. Gauri felt some kind of hesitation going into the same room with Omkaara. She had stayed along with him as Chulbul but never felt the hesitation before. May be now she is in her real own self, she hesitated. Omkaara understood that hesitation.
"Tum change karlo, wahan restroom hain. Mujhe kuch calls karna hain. Main call karke aata hoon. Room lock karta hoon bahar se. Humhe zyaada time nahi hain, nikalna hai 2 ghante mein. Aaj raat ghar pahonchna hain". He left the place.
Gauri was sitting shocked. What he is taking her to O. Mansion again. But his maa.. !!!
<To be continued>