PART 3:
He continued towards his room, dreading each step....how would he face her?...what would he tell her?...he couldn't not yet...he paused on the steps...he needed to clear his head first...he needed a drink...
he turned around and walked towards his study...he began drinking as soon as he got the bottle of whiskey in his hands....he thought about everything...
He thought about Bani....all their romantic moments...their consummation...he thought about how he had wanted to forget it....how he had wanted to be separated from bani.....but then he thought about how his feelings had changed...how much bani had come to mean to him......he began thinking of all the accusations he ever threw at her..always telling her she broke his trust....but she had been right today...he hadn't trusted her that deeply...not enough to tell her about Park Road.....he couldn't...he didn't want to....he didn't want her to leave him.....when had she become a part of him??....
he couldn't face her...not tonight....his feelings still obscured...the anger still brimming at the surface....anger?...yes anger...anger at himself for Park Road, anger at Roshni for disclosing the truth, anger at Bani for asking him about it when he had forbidden her, anger at Bani, Sahil, Rano, Ranveer and Jigyasa for the whole elopement thing......he had to control his emotions...it would be better for him to spend the night in his study...he didn't know what he might say.....his frustrations were fresh...and the frustration of having to share a bed with bani for another night....without holding her, touching her, caressing her, as he had done that night, ....might be his undoing.....no it would definately be better in here....
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Jai woke up disorientated...he was in his study with an empty bottle of whiskey in his hands??...what happened?....then it hit him....all the events of the day before came flooding into him...
He couldn't runaway forever, he was no coward....he would face bani and tell her that he would answer all her questions, but now was not the time....
The restlessness he had felt the night before returned, but again Jai credited to his dread of telling bani the truth, or as the result of his drinking binge from the night before....but he didn't have time to dwell on that now...
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He entered his room....it seemed bare, but he didn't pay much attention...he was more concerned with facing bani....but she wasn't there.....
he walked further into the room and headed towards the bathroom....again she wasn't there....
He felt.....relieved....he didn't have to face her yet...but this relief was mingled with nervousness....
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Jai got dressed and came downstairs....everyone was running around frantic with all the wedding preparations....he saw sahil looking lost and upset...and realised that this marriage was not ideal for him....he didn't want to make his nephew get tied down in a relation where he would have to compromise his feelings....marriages like that...like his...were very hard work....neither sahil, nor raashi nor rano would be happy.....he had to talk to bani regarding this matter.......He was sure that she wouldn't bring up the park road incident until they were alone and these wedding festivities had quietened down....
Jai began to search for bani...but could not find her...he noted that rano hadn't come downsatairs and thought that maybe bani was with her....he went back upstairs....
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Rano hadn't been able to sleep....too guilt-ridden...too upset about her failed elopement...she had been hurt by Bani's rejection...it made her feel as though she had hurt bani terribly...but she also wanted bani to understand her feelings....be with her through these times....she had been dreading today, having to go down in front of all the guests that would be enjoying the wedding festivities taking place and pretend to be happy, while she watched the man she was in love with become someone else's......
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Jai knocked on Rano's door and was surprised to see her tear-stained, sore red-eyed face open it for him....
"aa...aap?" she said, looking at him scared...
"I need to talk to bani...call her...i need her to understand that i think you and sahil should think seriously about your relationship...its obvious that he doesn't want to marry raashi..."
Rano looked at him shocked....then hope began to arise within her as what he said began to sink in...she just continue to blink up at him...hoping this wasn't a dream...she wasn't used to mr Jai walia being so....nice?...concerned?...
"Rano...Rano!?"
"uh...ji Mr Walia?"
"Bani di?" She just looked at him confused.
"call bani. your sister."
"Lekin di toh yaha nahin hai."
"She isn't here? then where is she?...i have looked everywhere..." he felt bewildered...he understood now why he had been feeling do restless...he felt guilty his earlier sense of relief at his reprieve from having to tell bani the truth...then worry began to gnaw at him...where could she have gone?...what if something happened to her?...last time she had gone...the fire...oh god....
Edited by tbabhra - 19 years ago
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