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chapter 2
Jai was the first one to wake up and he looked arnd to see no sunshine damn these rainforests and then he quickly saw the time in his watch 10BST ( british standard time)oh my god how long have i been sleeping but slept so peacefully like never before, he thought .... his waking up woke up bani as well who saw his arm which was arnd her casually and unconciously moving to her side and her fist still clutching his shirt which she quickly released with a jerk making jai realise she was awake , jai looked at her
bani: sorry , as she pointed to his scrunched shirt and thnk u so very much aapki wajah se atleast i cud sleep
jai just smiled at her and said no problem and gmorning , lets get going or else we'll be stuck here for longer than i anticipate it to be...as he got up and stretched
bani also got up but her foot was now swollen and numb so she didnt feel ne pain when she stood up and took a few steps....
bani: can we freshen up first ....
jai ; ya sure , i am sure we'll find a stream as we move ahead , is yr foot ok
bani: hmmm ok in the sense that its all numb and i dont feel ne thing...
jai reaching out for her wrist and holding it: lets go
they both continued walking in absolutle silence , no spring or lake had come their way nor had they come across ne trees which bore ne thing edible.... bani and jai just looked at each other occasionally and smiled , the silence got to bani n she decided to break it
bani; u dont like talkin much do u
jai: no not really...i mean i do like to talk .
bani: so its like u dont talk to strangers...that much
jai: no no ....its not like that.
bani: u no everything else is so messed up arnd us talkin helps , it makes u forget yr woes .... atleast i feel if we talk u wont think abt freshnin up, abt food abt how much more we have to walk to get out of here....but its yr wish really i wont force u ...
jai ; actually u r rite , u r smart girl its just that my mind is plagued by the fact that i am here when i had such a crucial meeting today at work.... i have lost quite a lot today....millions....i hate god for putting me in this mess
bani:u shudnt feel bad for whats not in yr control and plus whats meant to happen will happen so why loose yr peace of mind over it and plus u shud thankgod for the fact u r alive otherwise u can imagine what yr family will go thru without u....
jai just looked at her and she was very level headed for her age jai thought
bani: i m sorry i shudnt have said that
jai: u r rite very rite so dont be sorry abt it....
bani: ok jai tell me sumthing abt yrself
jai: well,i am jai walia , 36yrs ,owner walia industries ... we have multiple resorts and hotels across india and abroad and have recently ventured into software and hardware solutions ...
bani: hotel and software /hardware solutions? whats the relation really... i mean if u told me u owned resorts n hotels and are now moving to real estate of sumother nature or maybe sumthing like yr own institute for training hotel staff or u now maybe into airline sector ..
jai: ya quite weird though but its just that it was sumthing i always wanted to do being an computer engineering grad myself but once i did my mba and family responsibilities were on me quick money was required so hotel industry provided the oppurtunity got initial success and there was no looking back but the dream remained and now it has realised sumwhat.....
bani: wow,
jai : well rest u must have read or heard abt me ...
bani: nope not really , i think i heard one of my school friends once mention yr name but really i dont read the business sections or hear them so
jai: not even the tabloids
bani: nope whats the point reading them they make up most of it .........hardly is there ne truth ..so how does yr family deal with it or r they like use to it
jai ; well they r use to it and they really dont care ..they didnt even when these things happened for the first time..
bani: not even yr wife....
jai ( started laufin): i am not married
ban ( embarassed , a little surprised as well) : sorry once u mentioned yr age and status i just assumed u must be married ...but i guess u r one of those perfect guys who dont find a perfect match....like they show very often in movies that there is this perfect guy who is flanked by woman who r ready to be his but he doesnt like ne of them and his search for that ultimate girl continues...
jai laufed : very correct u r in yr analysis...thats something abt me now tell me something abt yrself ...
bani: well , myself bani dixit,19yrs , doing my B.eng in computer engineering , just finished my 1st year at kings college london, live in mumbai kalina area with my parents no siblings, middle class family really slogged hard to get a full scholarship at KCL .....but once i got it life has been good ....
jai: so u have a boyfriend ( he asked very abruptly, jai saw bani's surprised face ) umm sorry i didnt mean to intrude on yr privacy , u r free not to tell
bani: no its nothin like that , its just that its the first time sumone asked me this question ....so u c that surprise on the face .....no boyfriends ....actually to tell u the truth i am not interested in having one and guys well they dont find me attractive like other girls are.....
jai (moving away frm and givin her a good luk frm top to bottom, while scratching his chin ) i dont agree with the last bit of yr sentence...
bani (smiling ): thnk u very much that is a moral booster...
As they continued walking through the uneven terrain jai held bani's hand all the time to make sure she wudnt trip..and was ok...
bani: jai , i can hear the sound of water....gurguling water....(as she pointed int he direction the sound came frm)
jai: i hope its the sound of water and not the sound of yr empty stomach that u r hearing ... well it cud be my empty stomach as well...
bani : i am sure its water as for my stomach it has resigned to its fate of staying empty so its not gonna make ne sound and i guess the same goes for yr stomach...
jai and bani walked in the direction of the water sound and after walkin quite a fair bit there eyes met a beautiful site
sorry for the boredome n mistakes ... feedback of all nature is welcum always....
thanks guys for yr lovely comments on ma previous ff and this as well
