FF: Separate Journeys, EPILOGUE, Page-20 - Page 13

bani left......so sad.

Hope both realize or rather admit that they have fallen for each other.

All right only one think to say where are their brains? I suppose in the pits. So now what a big question and hope you give us an update to answer to that. Don't tell me you decided to end it this way.

Dhani, say, you didn't end the story there.

I feel heart broken like Tony, watching the two people you care about, go different ways to

hide their pain.

Continue soon, hopefully.

Take care.

Hi Dhani... nice update..

I think JW is at the fault here....!!!

Bani gave him opportunity... he didn't want to take any chance...!

hey!

what? the seperated? indeed a right Q to ask where their brains are!! But you didnt end the whole story like this, did you?? :S

I realized there were so many spelling errors in the previous update…Sorry for that!!! And stop abusing my JW, he is a cutie pie…and guys…when in love people leave their brains far behind (only after marriage do they realize what has hit them but it is too late by then! HAHA!!! That's why I am not intending to do the same mistake as I have seen people doing it and regretting of course! More so because I don't want to destroy a poor innocent life)

And this is no Hindi film where the hero flies and goes to the heroine promising her stars, moon and sun…JW is as normal as my friend (guy) who is a shameless flirt (Though he thinks he is exceedingly charming but is exact opposite, but I love him, hey no other sense! He is a very cute and a dear friend! I can't tell you the amount of fun we have) And bani as regular as my vain and high-nosed female friend/bench-mate (I like her a lot too because she has intellectual esteems like me {so immodest of me} unlike the usual dunderhead female folk in my class, no offense ladies but seriously yaar, they can't think beyond nail-polish and trendy footwear or their wardrobe, which I find to be hideous). And between being Ying and Yang (I am THE craziest Gemini) really helps, you can become a boy with boys and a girl with girls, though genetically I am a girl but my sensibilities are nowhere near 'typical girls' (I am thankful to god for that, now don't hit me the ragging feminists). Phew!! That was long!!!

Part-15

Yeh dooriyan
Yeh dooriyan
Yeh dooriyan

Kabhi hua yeh bhi
Khali Rahon pe bhi
Tu tha mere saath

Kabhi tujhe milke lauta
mera dil yeh khali khali haath
Yeh bhi hua kabhi
Jaise hua Aabhi
Tujhko sabhi mein paa li

Tera mujhe kar jaati hai dooriyan
Satati hain dooriyan
Tarsati hain dooriyan
Fanah ho sabhi dooriyan

Kaha bhi na mene
Nahi jeena mene
Tu jo na mila

Tujhe bhule se bhi na
Bola na mene chahun fasla

Bas fasla rahein
Ban ke kasak jo kahen
Ho aur chahat yeh aur jawan
Teri meri mit jaani hai dooriyan
Begani hai dooriyan

Yeh dooriyan

{Movie: Love Aaj Kal}

Jai looked down from the altitude…he was on the highest floor of the Eiffel Tower… he had come to Paris for some business purpose… the whole of Paris looked like a perfume bottle from above…it wasn't lamely called the most romantic place...his eyes travelled to the cheers coming from the other side… a young lady was blushing and shyly announcing hat she had been proposed by her boyfriend… showing off her ring…he turned his face away as the newly engaged couple kissed…their happiness made him burn…yes, he felt envious of the world, everywhere he saw he could only find happiness and joy expect inside him…he hated it, the silence which was growing inside him, his emotions were playing hide & seek and he knew if silence came then those digressing sentiments were not far behind… lurking around, trying to kidnap his rational mind…but he was 'humane' after all, at least a part of him was still intact even though his thoughts were made by rigid perceptions and intricate observations, metamorphosing into a cynical, presbyopic overview, where pragmatism ruled everything. But he was well aware of the fact that everything in Life couldn't be measured on the balance of right and wrong, the truth basically was much more complicated that it seemed and relationships a tuft of entangled threads… …

The shuffling cold winds ruffled his hair…he remembered his talk with ranveer, ranveer was ecstatic informing him that he and rano had gone for the sonography and the image of his unborn child was…yes, he didn't have words to describe it…and he could understand ranveer's eloquent silence…but his joyful silence had soon been interrupted by a question, about him and bani… and he was rendered speechless…

"It is better for something to remain like that ranveer…it was just an understanding between us, this relationship never meant anything to both of us… "jai said…

"You and bani speak in the same way…she also said the same thing…bua is very upset, in fact she had been cursing herself…"

"Oh veer, please tell bua, it's not her fault…it was our own stupidity… it was nothing…it's over now…"

"Is it bhai…is it really over…"

"Yes…"

"I don't think so…the way you took care of bani when uncle died…I don't think it's was nothing… you…you are in love with her…bhai…if you have not realized it till now… "

"Love, veer…I can't love…"

"You are in love bahi…but it is true that you couldn't safeguard it…"

"Veer…please, bani has an entire life ahead of her and I think you people should let her start afresh, no need to pester her with unnecessary questions…" jai said irritated…only to be replied by a small laugh…

"Even now you are thinking of bani…I leave the rest to you…and by the way bani is not the same bani anymore…she is still there in Mt. Abu with you…" ranveer ended the call…

Was it true??? Was he in love??? No, it was too frivolous a notion for him to fall for it…but it was also true that he had been a mess since bani's departure…his work doubled as he took care of the orphanage also…Tony was not that cheerful tony anymore…and the house…the curtains were drawn back, the windows shut, preventing the light to enter…his life was back to the way it was before but it felt empty…only bani possessed him intensely… he missed the clatter of the cutlery while lonely dinners, her impromptu jigs, her funny jokes, the way she pulled out the cigarette from his mouth when he was about to lit it, her innovative games with the children, the sparkling diwali they celebrated together, the wild dance the jived to in the club and the slow kiss they shared…all these memories consumed him… …

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"Come on dear…your move…" Robert said looking at the chess board… bani pursed her lips…thinking hard… She had come to rano after leaving Mt. Abu, explained her everything, though rano was very upset but she had comforted her while pia had been critical of her, she had decided to continue her studies she had come to Canada, planning to do her masters…

"Come on bani…" Robert drummed his fingers…he looked at the lost girl, the same girl who would bring the house down with her cheeky jokes and infectious laughter was now expressionless as a rock…

Bani picked up the horse, thinking of where to put between the two places…suddenly a memory hit her back, jai was excellent in playing chess and he always won the game, frustrated she used to always distract jai by telling him something and in the meanwhile cheat by changing a few places…but most times he found out and teased her endlessly for being a cheater-cock… her hand shook, the horse fell from her hand…she ran inside towards her room…

"Bani…" Robert got up…Vasu stopped her husband who was going behind her niece… the day bani had called her up to tell everything, though she had said in a very casual manner but having been brought her up she knew, the wound had been too deep…and she knew the same thing happened which she had dreaded…

"Let her be Robert…" vasu patted his shoulder…

"But she is ruining herself vasu…and for whom that Bas…" Robert gritted his teeth…

"Robert, stop blaming jai, bani was not a kid, they both had agreed to fake it…"

"But why is bani so depressed…"

"Because…she is in love with jai…"

"What!!"

"Yes…and she is not able to deal with the fact that she loves jai…it's too huge for her…it's her pride and ego which are stopping her from admitting that she indeed loves jai…and she is struggling…"

"But…she can't go on like this…"

"I know…but the point is…what about jai…what if he doesn't feel the same for bani…" vasu said suspiciously…

"What about jai, he has to accept her…?" Robert said audaciously… vasu smiled…

"Robert…its love…no war…that you will put a pistol on jai's head and make him accept bani…"

"But I can't see bani like this…"

"I can't see my daughter like this too…" vasu sighed…

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Jai saw the unknown number flashing on the screen, he was retuning back to his hotel, he would be catching a mid-night flight back to India, his lawyer had called, the divorce papers were ready…

"Hello…" he said hoarsely…

"Hello…jai…its Vasudha…bani's masi…" vasu said clutching the phone tightly…

"Err…ya…" jai didn't know what to say…

"I don' know how to tell…bani is with me… "

"Hmm…"

"Jai, I know about your pretentious marriage…"

"Hmm…"

"Jai…bani…she …she is in love with you…" jai stood thunderstruck in his tracks…

"What!!! But…"

"I know…she will never say it jai…she is too proud and confident of her ideals that she will never confess it to herself forget about telling you…"

"I…" jai gulped down…bani loved him…he bet his heart skipped a beat at that thought…

"I don't know what you feel about bani but I thought it was important for you to know this…rest your wish…being a mother I am selfish jai, I want to see my laughing, cheerful bani back…the girl staying with me is someone else…not my bani…"

"Masi… " jai asked after a short silence…

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The End...

God bless

Dhani

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