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Chapter 2
"Tayaar ho kya Heer?" Prem shouts, from outside the locked doors of his own bedroom.
"Coming Prem, just be patient for 2 minutes" Heer yelled back, applying a safety pin to her light purple cotton anarkali.
"Hurry up!" Prem yells back, annoyed.
"Lo! Aagayi, khush?" Heer says as she opens the door open making Prem stare at her, his mouth hanging wide open, trying to control his drool over her goddess like figure.
"Heer...agar tum itni beautiful dikhti ho, then I don't mind. You can take hours to get ready..." Prem says, still staring at his beautiful wife, while Heer was busy blushing. Her cheeks turning the colour of fresh tomatoes.
"Bas bhi karo Prem. Koi aajayega." Heer says, trying to control her embarrassment of such awkward staring moments. In the hallway, not a nice idea. Just then Preet comes there, wearing regular jeans and a buttoned t-shirt, his hair combed and taps Prem on the shoulder.
"Bhaiya, let's go." Preet says, as if he wanted this day to end as soon as possible. Even though Preet loved Heer's parents, at the moment he was in no mood to meet anyone, or even go to anyone's house for dinner, but he had to keep Prem happy. After all, Heer bhabhi and Prem bhaiyaa were trying thier best to keep him happy, so why not return that favour?
"Haan Preet, Let's go." Prem says, after being stopped staring at Heer by Preet and with that, Premeer and Preet make their way to Prem's black Infiniti. Preet quickly slides into the back seat, trying to avoide any glances from Prem and Heer, just trying to hide himself, and trying to drown himself in Ashlesha's death. Whoever wrote that Love only happened once, was right. Love did happen once, and Preet knew, that no more would be be able to fall in love again. Preet had always wondered about what Prem and Heer wanted him to do. They wanted him to get married and start his life afresh but it was impossible for him now. The girl who he will get married to would want love from him, she'd want happiness, which Preet would not be able to provide for her. I am a living body of the dead, Preet thought to himself. Then how can I get married to someone who will require love. respect, honour, protection and a person that will always be there for her when she needs him? I am not that person Preet wondered. I am a half dead, half alive ghost! Preet tried to convince himself. I am a living dead body!
~*~
"Kaise ho beta?" Balraaj asks, as Prem touches his feet to get blessings.
"Jee, theek hoon, aap kaise hain?" Prem asks Balraaj, who had just took Prem in for a hug.
"Never been better" Balraaj replies, jokingly.
Heer and Teji smile and Teji takes Heer in for a hug. "Tum kaisi ho beta?" Teji asks.
"Fine ma. Aap?" Heer asks.
"Achi hoon." replies Teji.
"Tum kaise ho Preet?" asks Balraaj, pulling Preet in for an unwilling hug.
"Acha hoon." Preet lies.
Preet takes blessings from Teji, and goes and uncomfortably sits on the single sofa. The least he wanted was being stuck with everyone on the 3 seated sofa.
Teji leads Heer to the kitchen, while Prem and Balraaj picked up a conversation on the latest IPL happenings, asking Preet for his input, once in a while, while Preet's mind started to drift back to the first time he had seen Ashlesha in this house. She had been right there, coming down from those stairs, with her cousin, Meher. She had looked beautiful. Preet tried to picturize Ashlesha walking down those exact stairs, walking step by step, smiling at him, when he notices a tall, lean figure, walking down the stairs just like Ashlesha had. She had black hair, and was wearing a nice light blue salwaar kameez. It was Meher. Preet had always thought of Meher as a friend, and shared almost all his secrets with her. She had been the first one to know after Heer bhabhi that he loved Ashlesha. And he had been the first one to known that Meher had a thing for his elder brother Harman. Since then, Preet and Meher had done all masti, pranks and everything together. They both even thought the same, did the same things, but the only difference was, they feel in love with different people. Anyone who had seen Preet and Meher would say that they both had a thing for each other, which was obviously not true. They were not even meant for each other. Meher smiled at Preet, in a very unfamiliar way. This was so not her. Preet gets confused and gets up from his chair and goes and stands beside Meher, who looked like she would break down crying any minute.
"Meher, are you okay?" asks Preet, getting worried about his best friend, almost at the verge of crying.
"Haan...kyun?" asks Meher, stuttering, something that was way unlike her.
"Meher, tell me the truth! What happened?" Preet asks, more harshly this time. Preet had seen enough pain himself to see anyone else close to him suffer.
"Preet, Harman...he loves Maya." Meher says, whispering to Preet, her voice breaking in between.
"What?" Preet asks, trying to say calm, but his calmness finally giving up.
Meher nods her head, trying to hold back her tears.
"How is that possible Meher?" Preet asks in disbelief.
"I don't know Preet, but all I know is that Harman loves Maya, and we can't do anything about it. I want him to say happy, even if that means for him to stat away from me. I am sure Maya will keep him happy." Meher says.
"But how do you know?" Preet asks, inquiring.
"Harman texted me. He is at the airport where Maya and him are catching a flight to America. It's over Preet. Harman never liked me. It was all a childish crush of mine. Stupidity." Meher says, angry with herself that she had thought Harman had a thing for her, just as she had one for him. But she had been wrong.
"I am going to kill that..." Preet says, his eyes suddenly flaring up with anger.
"No Preet. It's over now." Meher tells him and leaves Preet, to burn with confused feelings. He had to help Meher. Preet had seen pain and knew how bad it was, and now he had to stop Meher from seeing the same. He had to reunite Meher with Harman.
~*~
"Heer puttar, can you pass me 2 plates there please?" Teji says, pointing towards the window self.
"Jee ma." Heer says, moving over to the window, just to hear Preet and Meher talking about something.
"....It's over Preet....Harman never liked me..." she heard Meher say.
Heer could feel what was going on. Meher liked Harman? Heer wondered to herself...and now he is gone to America with Maya? Preet's anger...! Heer had always thought that Preet and Meher had been best friends and that was practically the reason why she had brought Preet here. She knew that Meher will be able to help Preet out in some way or the other. And now, with Meher and Preet both at the state of loosing the person they loved. friendship and each other's support was all that they needed. Heer smiled to herself. Looks like Mission Dosti is finally on! Heer wondered to herself.
~End of Ch 2~
So please tell me how it was and I shall post the next part soon...and I think now you guys have an idea of where I am heading, isn't it? And thanks to Meera for proofreading.
Ye Hai Mohabbatein
