DILLAGI~~PART 1~~ "FEAR"
She woke up in the middle of the night, sweating profusely. She closed her eyes to forget that dream as tears welled up in her eyes. She covered her face with her hands and wiped off her tears. she looked at her side and saw Meher sprawled on more than half of the bed with a plate on her stomach and snoring loudly. She put her hands on her forehead and pressed it tightly. She got up from the bed and walked to the window and looked at her best friend, glowing out in the night sky... THE MOON.
Heer perched herself on the window and kept looking at the moon as the winds played games with her hair.She felt the whisper of the cold wind in her ear and felt her best friend was ready to listen.Heer's heart cried all her thoughts about her upcoming marriage to the moon. It was difficult for her. Today when she was leaving for school her mother had called her and informed her about her in-laws arrival in a weeks time. Since then her heart and mind were playing games. In her heart-to-heart she was always aware of her alliance with PREM..she had grown to love him, respect him.. but for whom???? She had never understood this... She dint know whether she loved him, respected him for what he was or because her father expected her to.
She remembered her early childhood days when she was told about Prem -- she would shy away at the thoughts of marrying him, but now that she had matured.. Was she ready for this??? Did love happen just by fixing a marriage???? She knew she had agreed for it when her father had asked her.. but that was because his happiness mattered to her the most.She could do anything for him and this was another sacrifice that she was going to make for the family.
Tears swelled up again in her eyes...She knew she could do nothing....
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He lay on his bed thinking deeply about the upcoming vacation. He looked at the time 1:00p.m.He got up from his bed and helped himself to a glass of water.He looked outside the window and saw that it was drizzling. He put his hands out to feel it. suddenly his heart was restless..he felt someone dear to him was unhappy and crying. He closed his eyes and walked back to his bed.
This had been Prem's routine for the past 2 months. He had not slept peacefully for these two months... and he knew that he wouldnt till they reached India. He remembered the day (2 months ago) when His dad and mom had broken him the news.He was to marry a girl in India...What was her name??.. yes!! HEER!! Though he liked the name but he was not sure about what he was doing when he had surrendered to his dad's wishes.. these two months had not been easy for him and the family as well. Preet had not taken the issue of Prem's marriage to an unknown girl nicely and had created quite a lot of scenes about it. veera on the other hand was more concerned about the trip to India. She had tried everyway to stay out of it and convince lalit and Gayatri to forget the marriage issue alltogether.
Prem trusted his dad more than anything. He respected his choice also but somewhere the deep longing in his heart to find his True Love remained.He was not sure whether he would be able to love and respect the girl the way his parents expected him to do. He knew how happy his Dad was when Prem had said yes and that is why he was ready to sacrifice his life for him..
Prem buried his face inside the pillow and cried.....
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The Shiv Mandir echoed with Heer's voice as she sang the aarti.Her eyes closed she finished the aarti, prayed for everybody she knew except herself and moved out of the mandir. As she walked down the steps she saw Manmmet walk up the stairs. Manmeet looked at Heer and nodded slowly as Heer gave him a small smile. They both came face to face and Manmeet took Heer in a corner to talk to her.
"Heer is there a problem?? tum kal bhi kafi pareshan lag rahi thi.."
"nahi..aisi koi baat nahi hai..i was just..."
"agar nahi batana chahti to mat batao..."
Heer looked at Manmeet with her innocent eyes. Heer knew him since Vishakha's marriage. And then she had started working for him. Though she liked him but somehow she felt something strange and different when she was near him. The more close he tried to be with her , she would go more far. She had this strange feeling about him. Sometimes she thought that this was because he was the first guy she had ever talked to on a day-to-day basis and sometimes because he was her Prashant jijus brother. Whatever it was Heer felt really uneasy in his company, especially these days as he tried to touch her body and get too close to her...
"Manmeet woh..I need to go home..I will see you in the school.."
As Heer tried to go he caught her hand and pulled her to him.. Heer looked at him with those frightening eyes. He carelessly removed a strand of her hair falling from her cheek as Heer closed her eyes in pain....
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"OUCH!!!!!"
Gayatri ran to Prem as she heard him scream in pain..Prem sat on the chair and saw blood sprickling out from his middle finger. He looked at the nail that had caused it.
"Prem!! kitna khoon beh raha hai beta...kya zarrorat thi ..."
"ma...kuch nahi hua.. chota sa cut hai theek hojayega.. You dont worry..I was careful but pata nahi kaise haath lag gaya.."
Gayatri dint hear Prem and was busy cleaning the wound. He closed his eyes as he felt the pain not in his finger but inside his heart. His heart was beating loudly and he again felt the same restlessness as he had felt yesterday night. He knew someone was in pain but WHO????
Note: Thanks everyone for your encouragement. I wont be able to continue so often but will try my best to post longer parts whenever I do. Plz do leave ur comments as well as criticisms.
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Ananya
Edited by ananya7736 - 17 years ago