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Sorry for the delay!!! But to make up for the delay I am posting 2 parts!!!! Hope you like them. Please don't forget to comment....
PART - 19
The next day morning Kasturi will get up late. She had forgotten all her problems and had slept as a baby. But as soon as she wakes up, all the issues come back to surround her!!! She will get up and get ready but will dread meeting others!!! Alka and Pooja will be waiting for her like tigers on the prowl for their victim. They get the opportunity during lunch time. Kaushalya will decide to take Kasturi's lunch to her room, when Alka will start...
Alka : Kyon, bhabhi? Woh neeche nahi aa sakti?? Kya hum sab usse kha jaayenge??
Kaushalya : Arre nahi Alka, aise baat nahi, woh Kasturi ki tabiyat...
Alka : Ab zindagi bhar usi yehi tabiyat hogi, bhabhi!! Toh kya aap zindagi bhar usse khaana upar le jaake khilaayengi???
Pooja : Mummy ji, yeh aapne theek kahaa. Ab toh Kasturi ko jeevan bhar yahin rehna hogaa. Aaj kal toh ek baar shaadi karaana, namumkin hai, toh shaadi tootne ke baad.....
Kaushalya glares at her.
Beeji : Tum donon chup karogi???
Alka : Hame chup karaa deejiye, lekin abhi sabke phone aane shuru ho jaayenge, un sabko kaise chup karaayengi??? Poora satyanaash ho gayaa hai!!! Kasturi ke iss harkat se hum sabko bhugatnaa padegaa. Sabse zyaada uski do behenon koh!!!
Kasturi will be hearing everything from upstairs and tears will be flowing down her eyes. She will be standing very close to her bag and so will hear that her phone is ringing. She will pick up the phone. It will be Robbie. She will end the call and will see that she has 40 missed calls, all from him!!!!!! She will feel very bad, but is not at all ready to talk to him. And so she will switch her phone off.
Robbie is so frustrated that he cannot even get to talk to her!!!
Meanwhile at Kasturi's office, Sharma ji of his own accord starts to wonder why Kasturi did not come to work. So he calls her cell. But Kasturi's phone is switched off and he gets even more concerned and so calls Raunak. Raunak gives him K's home number and asks him to call her there. JP lifts the phone.
Sharma ji : Namaste. Kya mei Kasturi se baat kar sakta hun?
JP : Aap Kaun bol rahe hai?
Sharma ji : Ji, mei unkaa manager Sharma bol rahaa hun. Woh aaj kaam par nahi aayi........
JP : Oh accha. Sorry ussne aap ko inform nahi kiya, magar uski tabiyat theek nahi hai. Aaj woh nahi aa sakti. Aur ek baat mei aapse kehnaa chahta hun. Kasturi yeh naukri chod rahi hai. Mei aaj hi aapo resignation letter bhijwa detaa hun!
Sharma ji : What????? Lekin kyun? Aise decision kyon liyaa aur ussne mujhe kuch bataaya bhi nahi???
JP : Sorry Sharma ji, mei aapko kuch aur nahi bataa saktaa. Bas yun samajhiye ke haalaat hi aise paida ho gaye.
Sharma ji : Lekin yeh toh company policy ke khilaaf hai. Unhe toh ek mahine kaa notice denaa hoga. Krupayaa aap Kasturi se meri baat karvaiye.
JP : Abhi toh woh ghar mei nahi hai. Uske aane ke baad mei usse bataa doonga.
And he ends the call.
Dadaji : Kiska phone tha??
JP : Kasturi ke manager kaa. Woh keh rahe hai ke Kasturi ko ek mahine kaa notice dena hogaa kaam chodne se pehle. Lekin mei usse wahaan kaam nahi karne doonga. Uska resignation kal hi bhijwa doonga.
Meanwhile Kasturi will decide to come down as she does not want her Mom to listen to Alka's crap about her. She is on the lst step when she hears her Dad say this. She will feel very sad, but there is nothing she can do about it. Kaushalya and Beeji will notice this. As soon as JP sees Kasturi, he says
JP : Kasturi puttar, mujhe maaf karde. Galti teri nahi hai, lekin sazaa tujhe mil rahi hai!!! Teraa resignation letter tayaar karde, kal mei usse tere office pahuncha doonga.
And he will walk away from there.
That night, Beeji will slowly go to Dadaji and will start requesting him to change JP's mind
Beeji : Aaj tak meine aapki har baat maani. Bas yeh ek baar mei jo keh rahi hun usspar gaur keejiye. Agar Kasturi naukri par jaayegi, toh uska dil behlaa rahegaa. Nahi toh Kasturi puttar ke saath jo haadsaa hua hai, kahin yeh usse khaa na jaaye. Ghar mei rahegi toh hamesha Alka usse khari khoti sunaayegi, usse jeene nahi degi.....
She will try very hard to explain the situation to Dadaji. Dadaji will understand her and he and Beeji will talk to JP and Kaushalya and convince them to send Kasturi to work. JP will agree on one condition that within a month she should find a job elsewhere and quit the SS group. Kaushalya will be very happy at her husband's decision and she will convey it to Kasturi. Kasturi will be very relieved and happy that she will have a way to escape Alka and Pooja and also that she will not be a burden on her family and continue to work.
Meanwhile, Devika will be going through hell thinking that her well-oiled plan has failed with this new situation of Raunak planning to divorce Kasturi!!! She will be worried sick thinking that Robbie will try to get Kasturi back again!!!! She will be thinking furiously what to do next.
The next day Kasturi will go to work. She will explain to Sharma ji the situation and will give her one-month notice. Sharma ji will be very sad but he will promise her that he will help her in finding another job soon. Even though Kasturi will be glad to come back to work, she will dread the idea of meeting either Robbie or Raunak!!! But she will decide that she needs to remain strong and will decide to not to bend even if she comes across them. The first day will pass uneventfully. Raunak and Robbie will not know that she has started work again. The next day Raunak will get information that Kasturi has given her one month's notice and that she has started work. He will inform Robbie. That day at office closing time, Robbie will come to meet K.
Kasturi will be just finishing up, when she will hear a knock on her door.
K : Come in
Robbie will enter the room and close the door.
Kasturi will get tensed on seeing him. Robbie will stare at her. He will feel that Kasturi has lost weight in these 2 days. He will miss her like hell and was so desperate to see her!! All of this he will be converying through his eyes. Kasturi can understand all those feelings but does not respond.
R : Kaisi ho, Kasturi?
K : Acchi hun.
R : Kitnaa bhi phone karu, tum uttha nahi rahi thi, toh mujhe yahaan aanaa hi padaa.
K : Kyon Sir? Ab hamare beech koi baat nahi ho sakti, ab hamare milne ki koi wajah nahi hai.
R (pleadingly) : Kasturi please, yeh mat kaho!! Mei samajh sakta hun, tum par kya beet rahi hai. Lekin mujhe aur apne aap ko bhi thoda waqt do, please!!!
K : Nahi Sir, ab mujhe aap se bilkul nahi milnaa hai.
R (he comes to where she is sitting) : Kasturi please, meri baat samajhne ki koshish karo!!
K (moves away from there) : Nahi, ab koi bhi baat nahi hogi. Mujhe sazaa mili hai, aapse pyaar karne ki! Mei joh apne parivaar ki laadli thi, aaj unke beizzati aur dukh ki kaaran bani. Yeh sochkar mujhe apne aap se ghinn aati hai! Please Sir, mujhe akela chod deejiye. Mei ab iss haalat mei nahi hun ke aapko maaf kardu. Please yahaan se chale jaaiye!!
Robbie tries to explain a lot but she refuses to listen.Finally Robbie says
R : Theek hai Kasturi. Jaise tumhaari marzi. Lekin agar tum samajhti ho iss berukhi ki wajah se mei tumhe chodkar chalaa jaaonga, toh yeh tumhaari naadani hai. Ab yeh zindagi tumhaare naam hai. Ek din tum mujhe maaf kar dogi, isi aas se jeeta rahunga.
He will leave and Kasturi will cry putting her head on her desk. After a while, she will take her bag and start for home. She will stand in the bus stop waiting for bus when she will suddenly notice Robbie sitting in his car on the other side of the road looking at her. They will stare at each other. Robbie will come out and open the passenger side door of the car kind of indicating her to come to him. Kasturi will look away. Her bus will come, she will get into it and leave. Robbie will stand there looking after the bus, with the car door still open.
Devika will try to arrange some out of town concerts to keep Robbie away from Delhi. But Robbie will refuse to go saying that he needs to record his album, which is more important at this point. He will revive talks with the company with whom he was talking about his album. He will get busy with recording but everyday at office closing time, he will come and wait in front of Kasturi's bus stop!!! Everyday he will open his door for her expecting her to come to him with such an expression of hope and earnestness. Everyday Kasturi will see him waiting for her but will take the bus leaving him waiting for her!!!! And he will remain standing there seeing the bus with Kasturi in it drive away from him.
Meanwhile JP will continue his work at Sameer's boutique. And everybody in the Chawla household will be trying to get back to normal. One day Navneet and Tanu will take lunch for their dad to the shop. Sameer will be very glad to see both of them. JP will invite him to share his lunch. After lunch, JP will get back to work when Sameer will approach Navneet.
Sameer : Navneet, mei tumse kuch kehnaa chahtaa hun.
Navneet : Bolo
Sameer : Yahaan tak aayi ho toh mei soch raha tha, kyon na tum mere kuch designs try karo?
Navneet : Mere paas time nahin hai. Aur waise bhi mei aise kapade nahi pehenti.
Sameer : Mujhe sirf 30 minutes chahiye! Aur mei sab kapde tumhe dikhaungaa, tumhe jo acche lage wahi pehen na!!
He and Tanu will request her a lot and finally Navneet will agree in the end. She will try many dresses, western, Indian and Sameer and Tanu will also change her hairstyle and put a little make up. After a lot of cajoling, fighting, bickering, screaming, finally they will be done. It will be 2 hours of hard work but at the end Sameer will be amazed at how wonderful Navneet looked. (Imagine her in jeans and top that exactly fit her and that actually accentuated her figure). He cannot stop looking at her and Tanu notices this. Tanu will also be very happy to see Navneet look so good!!!
Sameer : Navneet, kaisa lagaa yeh new look??
Navneet (loves the look but does not want to acknowledge) : Tumne kahaa, adha ganta aur time dekho kitnaa liyaa?? Do ghante mere barbaad ho gaye!!!
Sameer (will feel hurt) : Sorry, time thoda zyaada lag gayaa. Lekin tumhe pasand aaya yaa nahi?
Tanu : Arre, pasand kaise nahi aayega? Yeh toh ekdum Miss India lag rahi hai!!! Sach Navneet, bahut sundar lag rahi hai!!!
Navneet : Accha chalo ab bahut der ho gayi hai. Lets go.
She does not say anything to Sameer and she and Tanu say good bye to their dad and leave. Sameer feels very bad and just stares after them. Tanu notices this too.
While going home she chides Navneet that she did not even have the courtesy to thank Sameer for the clothes and for spending so much of his time on her.
Tanu : Kam se kam Sameer ko thanks toh bol sakthi thi?? Tere manners kahaan gaye? Sameer ne apne kapde tujhe diye aur 2 ghante tere upar spend kiye!!
Navneet : Kaun bola usse yeh sab karne?? Meine toh nahi poocha. Uske paas waqt tha jo usne spend kiyaa. Aur kapde?? Woh mei kal usse lauta doongi!
Tanu : You are shameless!! Tu kabhi nahi sudharegi
But Tanu does not realize that Navneet actually loved this new look and she also wanted to thank Sameer but somehow could not bring herself to do it and hence acted rude instead. But her actions keep bothering Navneet and she will plan to go back to the store the next day and thank Sameer.
Divya who was out of town when Raunak's truth came out, will be shocked to know about this upon coming back. She will get in touch with Kasturi and they will talk. She will want to meet Kasturi. Kasturi will agree. They will meet up at K's office and have a long chat and finally Divya will say
Divya : Kasturi, tum hamare parivaar ka hissa ho na ho, lekin tum hamesha meri dost rahogi!!! Mujhe iss baat ka behad afsos hai ke tum meri bhabhi nahi ban saki, lekin iss baat ki bahut khushi hai, ki tumhaare jaisa dost milaa. Tumhaari dosti mei kabhi nahi khoungi!
They hug and Divya will promise to support Kasturi in her fight.
Edited by pragalbha - 18 years ago