chapter 3 bani exclaimed : wow , jai look at that its so beautiful as she held one of his arms tightly and pointed to the magnificent site of the filtered sun rays frm here n there falling over the fresh water stream and actually for once they cud see the blue sky thru the less dense forest.....and the cool breeze that was blowing was a welcum respite frm the heat ....
jai went to freshen up first as bani enjoyed the cool breeze.....once he was back bani went she washed her face cuple of times and tied her hair once again neatly in a pony tail...and started to walk back to where jai was....there she saw jai was in conversation with a short black tribal man (just for information sake the pygmies inhabitate these rainforests, pygmies are short in height under 5 foot and speak baka language ) as for jai he was trying 2 explain to that man in english as well as in sign language abt how he and bani landed here and if he cud help them get out of here and if they cud find a place to stay or some food but he got no answers frm the man who kept looking at him with curiosity and then before bani or jai cud understand what was happening the little man attacked jai with his wooden weapon hitting him very hard on the forhead and leading to jai collapsing that very minute and bani yelling out 'jai' and rushing towards him and the short man moving away shrieking at the top of his voice and saying sumthin in his language which bani cudnt understand ......
for a minute bani just kept looking at jai and the blood flowing frm his forehead .as she bent down to check his heart beat which she found to be ok .... and then it suddenly struck her what if the short man has gone to call the others frm his tribe to capture jai and her ... and she quickly prayed to god to stop the blood flow frm the wound and then bent down to try and lift jai (she knew it wasnt easy especially with his physique and the condition of her foot but then there was no choice) ..after quite an effort she managed to lift jai and she held frm his waist as moved frm there quickly (atleast tried to but moving quickly with jai was very difficult and she knew it as soon as she started) after dragging herself and jai quite a distance she found themselves a semi concealed cave ( she thanked the almighty for that cave being there bec she cudnt think of dragging herself and jai ne further , her foot had started to pain and she was feeling short of breath) only she hoped the cave was not a home to ne one as she managed to seat jai with his back against the wall he was still unconcious though his breathing was back to normal and the flow of blood frm the wound had almost becum negligible ,bani with the end of her shirt sleeve cleared the blood arnd his wound and thanked god for stopping the blood flow....as she seated herself alongside jai and relaxed.......
It was almost evening the daylite outside the cave was receding when jai gained conciousness and stirred , bani was quite releived to see him get back to life.....as jai slowly opened his eyes and immediately his hand found its way to his forehead
jai: ouch that hurts, that ass
bani ; dont touch , u'll ruin the wound..(as bani removed his hand frm the wound)
jai looked arnd to c where he was : yahan kaise aaye what i remember last was that shorty hitting me and at that time we were at the stream
bani: i got us here, (and she explained how she had a tuf time bringing him nd herself here and that she was so thankful to god for having helped her find this place and having stopped the blood flow frm his wound )
jai smiled; thnx a lot bani and sorry for the truble u had because of me....
bani: nope not really , just that u r a little too broad for me to manage .....ya before it gets dark which it will soon , have these (she handed him mangoes , yup guys mangoes do grow in these rainforests)
jai; ye kahan mile tumhe
bani: yahan paas mein there are lots of mango trees just had to be carefull abt the monkeys there ... i just piked up the good ones that were on the floor and aimed at few hanging on the trees saare to hits sahi jagah nahin lage but i managed...
jai: u amaze me kya zaroorat thi akele jaane ki what if the shorty n his gang found u to main kahan dhoondhta tumhe (now he was angry at her) tum wait nahin kar sakti thi , main uth jaata fir chale jaate how can u be so careless, main ek galti kar chuka tha and u ....
bani; i am sorry u r rite but agar mein wait karti to main bhook ke mare hi mar jati aur ab look outside its almost dark thodi der mein to we wont be able to c each other to mangoes kahan se todte....(she made a sorry face)
jai: sorry , these r good thanx a lot for everything actually main tumhe itni baar thanx keh chuka hoon so u no there is a better way out (as he stuck out his right hand) and said 'friends'
bani placed her hand in his : yup friends...and smiled
jai just cud not beleive he made friends with a girl , how surprising n weird ,in his 36 yrs he had met numerous women all them wanting to be his friends or more than that but he was never interested in nobody and here he had taken the initiative of being friends with this 19 yr old girl/kid , he guessed that this had more to do with the circumstances than her...whateva
by the time they finished with their mangoes it was quite dark and they cudnt c each other
jai : lets move a little deeper into the cave to sleep .
bani : haan ok and its relatively cleaner , i just hope this cave doesnt belong to someone
jai: i dont think so , it doesnt look like it, and neways dont worry i am there,and if yr fears grip u wake me up dont cry alone that doesnt help
bani: ok...gnite
jai : u too
so jai slept towards the entrance of the cave and bani towards the inside , during her sleep bani 's nitemares revisited her and in her distress n discomfort she snuggled upto jai clutching his shirt in her fists evr so tightly and soon her nitemares left n she slept peacefully .As for jai he did stir when bani moved close to him but didnt wake up and rather fell into deep sleep completely relaxing himself....
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as the day lite filtered thru the dense vegetation.....bani was the first once to stir n wake up and she didnt realise she was so close to jai that her waking up wud wake him up as well...
jai: gmorning....
bani: oops sorry ....n gmorning...how is yr (as she pointed to his wound) and r u ok
jai: ya feeling much better and u neednt be sorry remember friends!! and plus these 2 days i have been sleeping rather more than i usually do i just sleep on avg for abt 5/6 hrs thats it ......
bani: why/
jai: work , self-confessed workaholic..
bani; but jai health is wealth( as both of them made their way out of the cave and stretched themselves ) a good sleep is very necessary for the mind to stay good....kuch zyaada ho gayaa
jai; nahin continue u sound like my masi , thats what she tells me daily...i just dont do the things she tells me 2 just so that she yells at me its so much fun i love it ... she is my biggest strengths... and probably the reason why i cud survive after my parents died ....when i was 15yrs
jai looked at bani and the expression she had on her face said it all . he cud see her feel his loss and those big black eyes they had concern for him....so he continued while they started to walk
jai: 15 yrs i was still in school , jab news aayi ki they had died in a car crash i turned to stone par mere ander bhagwaan se nafrat ,gussa bhar gaya , i hated life and thought it was so inconsiderate of life to have left me behind without ne support par fir jigyasa ko dekha to realised i had a reason to live for uska kaun bachta agar main apne aap ko kuch karleta and fir mere parents ke bhi mujhe leke dreams the unhe poora karna hi mera aim ho gayaa. (a tear rolled down his eye which bani saw and wiped it with her hand , )
par masi ne apni life ko sacrifice kar hum logon ki care ki, meri aur jigyasa ki, i was a bright student school mein accha kiya then IIT mumbai mein admission mila (tuition fee ke liye to mom n dad ke funds the but masi ne kaam karke ghar chalaya) ,after my graduation i started working kuch saal kaam kiya( made money so that masi ko kaam na karna padhe ) fir scholarship secure karke i went to the US to do my MBA ...wahan i made friends with aditya aur hum dono ne hotel industry mein enter kiya bought a hotel running into losses and made it into a success story...wahin se shuru hui walia industries and jai walia the rude .cold, emotionless ,shrewd businessman...
bani: wo hotel kaunsa hai jahan se...
jai: wo thats no longer a hotel wo ab mera office hai .....that entire building has been redone for our office and thats were we work from...mumbai airport ki side hai...
bani; so aditya still works with u ...
jai: ya, he's family he's married to my sister jigyasa and unke 3 bacche bhi hain , not bacche actually young adults...ranveer who has just started assissting his father and saahil n anu who r in college...yr age
bani: aapne apne baare mein u used sum words like rude, cold emotionless i dont agree with u atleast maine jo apke saath experience kiya its nothing like that ... u no what jai sumtimes circumstances humein waisa bana dete hain jaise hum hote nahin hain ..... circumstances take over while our actual self takes a backseat ....so u r a very nice n warm person but its just that circumstances depict u or make u act rude n cold n emotionless n whatever....
jai just kept looking at her and smiled , finally he had told his tale to sumone ...and that person understood him just like he had thought they wud
bani:ummm bhook nahin lagi abhi to mango trees dikh rahe hain aage pataa nahin honge ke nahin( she tried to change the topic)
jai : ok main todta hoon , ill show u how .....
with that jai took aim of the mango and first shot and he had it
bani: not bad jai
jai: we use to do this at our grandparents place ...this is loads of fun...ok now which one ...
bani pointed to one of the mangoes...
after a while they had collected a good quantity to eat....
jai; ab lets go to the stream n freshen up n wash these mangoes as well....
with that they headed for the stream......which was running parallel at quite a distance to where they were walking
wow extra long part zyada ho gayaa , tell me u guys didnt end up sleeping, sorry for the errors n boredome , plus if u dont like it tell me n ill stop writing.....n one more thing i gave too much of detail u guys ok with it or shud i skip
have a nice weekend guys ,,, next update maybe monday ...ya i think so....
Edited by bccool - 18 years ago
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