PYAR KE DO PAL PART 2 NEW NOTE PG 151 - Page 100

yay!!! waiting waiting... dil thaam ke 😆

CHAPTER 36

"How long Arjun" Arohi asked him like an eager little girl.

" I don't know Arohi….this meeting is taking longer than I had anticipated" he informed her softly. She had called him at least five times and Arjun was feeling a bit uncomfortable leaving the room every time to attend her call.

"But your flight is in the coming two hours…." Arohi pouted even over the phone. He could visualise her angry expression.

" Yes ..but I just cant leave an important meeting…I had to fly to Hyderabad from Bangalore just for this meeting" Arjun tried to rationalise, knowing very well that nothing would work at this moment. She was in one of those 'I don't want to understand' moods.

"Are you trying to tell me that if the meeting goes on longer you wont be able to come home tonight" The thoughts that were going around in her mind since she had heard about Arjun's prolonged meeting came to forefront.

" Look I am not saying anything….please sweetheart if you let me go and concentrate, it will be over quickly and I will be home tonight with my lovely wife" He tried to cheer her up but in vain.

"So you are not saying anything…which means that there is a possibility" Arohi almost stamped on the floor in frustration. Tears started swelling in her eyes. So she was the one who was delaying his work.

"Arohi please….okay lets face it…I will try my best to be back home tonight but if the meeting continues then I might have to stay over and take the early morning flight…I haven't got the company's jet so will have to fly like a normal person" Arjun said the word without stopping. He knew that it wouldn't go down well with her but there was no harm in trying.

" But you have promised me Arjun…" He could hear her voice cracking.

" I know sweetheart but try to understand the situation…I will try my level best ..even I don't want to be away from you and Aayan" He might be a ruthless business tycoon in the boardroom but like most of the rest of his gender an absolute 'henpecked' when it came to the home ministry.

" I don't want to understand anything…you don't love me anymore Arjun..I have become like an extra furniture in your life….you have no time for me" Arohi couldn't control her tears any more. She felt like the forlorn wife whose only mission in life was to wait for her husband. She knew that she was being difficult and Arjun had always given her the most importance but she was just feeling so tearful.

"Arohi..Arohi…my sweet baby…please don't cry….I promise I will try my hardest…" if words could cuddle the softness of his voice sounded like it.

"Sir Mr Vincent is waiting…. " Dinesh, his junior associate came out to look for him

"Arohi I really need to go now…Will call you as soon as the meeting is over….love you"

"Love you too but wont talk to you till you come home" Arohi said between sobs.

" I will make you talk.." Arjun laughed before he cut the call off. " I love you…Jaan

Arjun nodded his head in exasperation. He had to fly to Hyderabad for this particular meeting. Even he wanted to go back home tonight but the meeting was taking so long and owing to some of the Airlines strike there were no flights available till the next morning rather till next afternoon from Hyderabad. Just the mere thought of Arohi being so upset about it made his heart cry out in pain. He could deal with any crisis but Arohi being in pain….No way…If it was within his control he would have cancelled the meeting and go back home to her. But Mr Vincent the Head of a multinational company was in India only for just the day so one silly decision from him would have catastrophic affect on the business. But then Arohi's tear stained face came back to haunt him. She was right …he had promised her and he himself was asking her to be considerate. Already she had to spend a whole week without him and obviously she was getting restless…She was not acting like a drama wife rather it was his responsibility to keep his promise. But how!!!! There was still so much to be discussed and it would definitely take more than two hours.

He looked at his watch and sighed well one and a half hour to be more precise!!!

"Sir..is everything all right?" Dinesh asked him as they headed back to the conference room.

"Yes ..I am fine…lets nail the deal" Arjun said confidently leaving aside the home problem to deal with later on.

Arohi kept on looking at the clock. It was nearly 9'clock. About two hours back Arjun had called her to inform that the meeting was still on and there was no way he would be able to come home till late afternoon the next day. She was aware of the strikes and the problems at the Hyderabad Airport but still she had cried and cried like a typical soap heroine. She was in an absolute foul mood. She had no idea why she was behaving so immature but she was so much looking forward to having him home that she could feel her heart breaking into pieces and more tears swelling. She just wanted to make a point..do something outrageous to make him understand how lonely she was feeling. It was almost lunatic!!!She just picked the phone up and dialled his number. She felt more agitated that it went straight away to the voice message. Something heinous…stupidly incoherent feeling stirred in her and she left a message without even considering the effect for once…

"Arjun it is me ...if you don't come home before tomorrow morning you wont see me again and I really mean it…talk to you when I see you" she switched her mobile off and put the receiver of the home phone down. No way Arjun Singhania!!!!

Arjun touched his throbbing head in absolute agony as he listened to Arohi's message for the second time. He just couldn't believe that Arohi was behaving this irrational…this immature. Most probably she was having one of her recent mood swings and it was all a hollow threat. But when he tried calling her mobile and it came switched off he started getting worried. Even the constant engaged tone of the home number confirmed to the fact that she was not be appeased so easily. He listened to the message again. The words "you wont see me again and I really meant it" send a chill down his spine. What if it was real? What if she really leaves in case he didn't manage to get home on time. His pounding head couldn't even bear any more. He just couldn't afford to take the risk. He had promised himself to always keep her happy and smiling and if this was a test that she wanted him to go through then he would definitely come out with flying colours. Love can be a bit painful at times but just the thought of her beautiful face brought a smile to his lips. Well Mrs Singhania it is not so easy to get rid of me he thought!!!!

"Dinesh….could you please arrange for a car to get back to Mumbai as soon as possible" He called for his associate.

"Sir..it is already 10 p.m and about 10 hours journey from here…considering the bad weather I suggest you take the next flight"

" I have already done that…there is no flight available till tomorrow afternoon….and I just have to reach Mumbai in the morning…please" Arjun said unmindfully " I just cant loose her again…she is too precious"

"Okay Sir..if you insist" the younger man left to arrange for a car, the only thought came to his mind this 'her' must be really special as no man in his right sense of mind would even dread to travel this far in such an awful weather…he looked back and saw his boss fervently trying to get hold of someone over the phone…poor man!!!

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The constant ringing of the door bell simmered through her sleep. Arohi woke up with a startle. She had been barely asleep but most probably the early hours of the night had lulled her to sleep. It was nearly four o clock in the morning. She hurried to open the door fully confident that it was Arjun. But the loud banging on the door made her heart skip a bit. She looked at the hallway and opened the door.

"Harbhajan…itne rat ko..kya huya" her security guard was standing outside.

"Madam ji..sahib ka phone hain…un hone bole ki apka mobile aur ghar ka phone band a raha hain…isli..

Before he could finish Arohi snatched the mobile from his hand.

"Arjun?'

"Arohi..It's Salil" his voice sounded calm…not the relaxing calm but the worrying calm that comes before the storm. Harbhajan was still used to call Salil "sahib".

"Yes…what it is Salil?" Her heart beating abnormally as she could sense something ominous " is everything all right..Purvi di…Sanvi?"

There was a momentary silence from the other side of the phone before she could hear Salil saying "Get ready soon ..I am coming to pick you up…we need to go"

"Pick me up….but why? Where do we need to go" before she could ask more question Salil had already hung up.

Arohi waited in absolute agony, each second feeling like years as Salil's car pulled at the parking lot. She literally ran up to him and asked him the dreaded question.

"Tell me Salil…who is it about?" her voice chocking with tension.

"Arohi" he wrapped his arms around her as if giving her protective shield. "Arjun had a car accident near Kurkumbh on the way back from Hyderabad and he was being taken to a hospital in Pune…we need to go there as early as possible"

"Car accident? Salil I am sure there is some misunderstanding. He was supposed to be flying tomorrow morning" Arohi said hopefully.

" Yes he was suppose to but Dinesh told me that he decided to take a car and left in a hurry despite of the bad weather….he said he had to make it to Mumbai before morning otherwise he would loose the most important person in his life"

She felt cold, so icily cold it felt as if her body were in shutdown mode, numb, totally without any sensation. The words of her message came back to taunt her. what a foolish act!!!!

"How bad it is?" she knew she breathed, she knew she had a heartbeat still, as she could feel its thud loud in the sudden stillness.

"I don't know…" Salil said softly.

She looked up at him, tried to see beyond his words….try to find the lurking truth. "Honestly I don't know" Salil voiced echoed around.

She banished the overwhelming urge to cry as she went inside and hurled up sleeping Aayan in her arms. Tears wouldn't achieve a thing and she had to be strong…strong for him..strong for them. Nothing can happen to him. A painful sight of Arjun injured, bleeding and unconscious flashed through her mind. Oh god.. she looked at Aayan and said " He can't die …we wont't let him"The agony of the moment struck her body like a physical pain and for a moment she couldn't breathe, couldn't move. There was so much that she wanted to tell him. What if she never got the chance? What if it was too late? A sudden shudder rushed through her as she hugged Aayan tight. It was impossible. The man was invincible.

The journey from Mumbai to Pune felt like going through hell. It seemed to take for ever. She had never felt this impatient at traffic signal but if sheer will power aided speed they would have reached the hospital in record time but unfortunately it didn't. and every single monent added to the agonising throbbing in her chest. She and Salil had barely spoken. Both seemed to be engrossed in their own little world of seclusion as if every single sound would break a ominous news. She was still holding Aayan in her laps. Despite of Purvi urging her not to take him along she had brought him…she wanted her little man by her side more than anything else. Salil kept on thinking about the phone call he had received earlier from Arjun's associate Dinesh informing him about the accident. He had tried to get in touch with Dinesh but of no avail. All he knew that Arjun's had left in a rush and the local police had informed Dinesh about the accident. On not being able to contact Arohi he had called Salil and asked him to take Arohi to Pune General Hospital.

The hospital heaved with over crowded people, ambulance, doctors and nurses…and bodies. Smell of death and gried dragged like aovercasted cloud. Family members waiting eagerly to know about the whereabouts of their loved ones. Different strange face but all evoked only two emotions….dread and hope. They gathered that there had been a big accident between a bus and a truck and the number of deaths and injured unknown. People were being transferred form the site to the hospital. Arohi grabbed Salil for support. Her mind still unable to come to terms with the fact that Arjun could be involved in all of this.

"Salil I still think there is a misundertanding…Arjun was in a car but they are talking about an accident between a bus and a truck"

" I don't know..Dinesh told me to come here….lets go and enquire…" Salil said moving towards the enquiry. His mind prayed in hope that indeed it was all a big misundertanding.

"Hum Arjun Singhania ko dhund rahe hain…hume bola gay tha ki woh yeha admitted hain..unka accident huya hain Kurkumh mein" Salil asked the hospital staff.

The man looked at the register and looked up at them ; his face devoid of any expression. He turned his attention at Arohi and asked

"Yeh madam ji kaun hain"

" Main unki patni hoon..please boliye na kaha hain woh" Arohi came forwarded, her heart exploding with the uncertainity of the situation.

"App na jaye to hi achha hain…dekh nehi payengi" the man said like a robot. "Aur yeh bachha ander nehi ja sakta"

Arohi could feel the whole world spining round her, the sensation of being pulled down into the deep dark frozen water came back.

"Nehi mujhe jana hain….

"Chaliye phir…." The man signalled then to follow him and took them to a big cold room. He pulled a drawer and pointed them towards a body covered in a white cloth. Patches of red blood spots could be seen through the cotton sheet. He dutifully took the sheet off from the body and said

"Identify kijiye"

Salil took a look at it and immediately forced Arohi out the way. But she was a different planet. Like a living zombie she forced him out of her way and looked at the man lying in the chiller drawer. A gripping sensation of excruciating pain filled her lungs. She looked again at the body…yes the body…the body of a man with mutilated face and a half burnt body…he was hardly recognizable …but only the broken omega watch on his wrist that she had gifted him last month and his Prada wallet testified to the fact that he could be Arjun Singhania….the name tag still had a question mark next to it…as if claiming for confirmation weather the body was indeed Arjun Singhania's or not….some strips of his a bright yellow tee shirt and a demin jeans bore evidence that he was a civilised man….

She ran out of the room and grabbed the nearby post, clinging to it for balance and drawing air into her lungs. But each breath only fanned the flames that felt like they wre birnung out of control within her hearty, her soul. Odd twings ribboned across her belly. She gasped for air but her world continued to spin away. She desperately tried to cry but no tears came out …she gasped for air…a breathless halo engulged her and she felt like as if she was drowning…she looked at Aayan playing with her mobile and sitting with the driver ….oblivious of the catastrophy….she tried to hug him for support…for consolation but her body just would't move…a paralyzing sensation gripped her as the words of Dinesh came back to haunt her " Sir left in a hurry despite of the bad weather..he said he had to make it to Mumbai before morning otherwise he would loose the most important person in his life"

The sound of the other wailing women crying at their destiny gripped her heart with the biggest possible pain. They have their destiny to blame for but in her case it was her. YES no one but only her.As the sight of his lifeless body drowned in the pool of blood came back the only thought that came to her mind that she was the one the sole one responsible for this …and no repentence…no remorse can bring him back to her…he was gone…gone forever...away from all her irrationality…her immaturity…freed from the shackles of all promises and commitment…he was free after all….free from the choking gasp of her so called love...

She remembered his last word "I will make you talk" ….she shouted like a man woman

"Arjun…make me talk Arjun…make me talkkk"

"I love you sweetheart…I am on my way back….I can't afford to loose you again …you will definitely see me tomorrow morning…..just pick up your phone and talk to me" It was Arjun. She knew it. She looked round to find the source. But there was no sign of Arjun but the there was a click and it was Arjun again,,

"I am nearly home ..just another three hours and then you will be all mine…Love you sweetheart..I promise I will never go away again"

Arohi's gaze fell on Aayan playing with her phone.

Salil took the phone from his little hand and looked at the screen.

"Arohi..it seems like Arjun tried to contact you a lot of time…" Salil said quietly.

She snatched the phone from his hand and flicked through it like a frenzied woman. Arjun had sent her photographs of him in the car giving updates on his journey. She touched his smiling handsome face…looking exhausted after a long meeting but still blooming with the excitement to come back home. There were 50 missed calls from him. She kept on listening to every message and ssuddenly something stirred in her… a ray of hope in the long dark tunnel….she shouted

"That man is not Arjun…he cant be my Arjunnn…I knew it….he cant be dead…he cant leave me like that…this is not him….it can't be him…….can't you all see this is not Arjunnn….

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i jst hope its not arjun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!fingers crossed!!!!!😵

I CAN SEEE AROHI... THIS IS NOT ARJUN... THIS CANT BE ARJUN 😭 😭 😭 HE WAS IN A CAR NOT IN A BUS OR A TRUCK 😡

omg arjun met with an accident!!!
hw could aru b so immatures.she knws he would go to any extent to keep hs promise to hr.inspite of tht she made hm go through such a test.she evn knw tht there is bad weathr around hyderabad!!
bt wht it is nw tht made hr so confidnt tht he is nt tht persn?? gettin desp di.pls updat this one sn

oh my god...

dont know why...

"I don't want to understand anything…you don't love me anymore Arjun..I have become like an extra furniture in your life….you have no time for me"

I felt like slapping her at this point..! how childish can you get??? he's done so much for you and you forget the love and counter with this argument..!! Urgh..i swear immature girls like this, really drive me insane..

Oh..!! I can so relate with this feeling..when you're looking forward to something, anticipating it and it doesn't happent..i also go mad...how frikin' tru is this..i think us girls are just crazy emotional fools..

"Arjun touched his throbbing head in absolute agony as he listened to Arohi's message for the second time. He just couldn't believe that Arohi was behaving this irrational…this immature"

Awww..i felt so sorry for him here..! poor guy..had to put up with such a difficult wife..hmph...i wanted to give him a hug..

"He had promised himself to always keep her happy and smiling and if this was a test that she wanted him to go through then he would definitely come out with flying colours. Love can be a bit painful at times but just the thought of her beautiful face brought a smile to his lips. Well Mrs Singhania it is not so easy to get rid of me he thought!!!!"

HOw sweeet of him man..!!! Loved him here..and how true is that about love..! it hurts but when it makes you smile, it makes it all worth it.!

"Yes he was suppose to but Dinesh told me that he decided to take a car and left in a hurry despite of the bad weather….he said he had to make it to Mumbai before morning otherwise he would loose the most important person in his life"
She felt cold, so icily cold it felt as if her body were in shutdown mode, numb, totally without any sensation. The words of her message came back to taunt her. what a foolish act!!!!"

I SWEAR I HAD A CHILL RUN DOWN MY SPINE WHEN I READ THIS SENTENCE..phew..!!! i could almost feel Arohi's condition..it's the ominous feeling of guilt, unknown, the worst..the most painfully real feeling..!

"The journey from Mumbai to Pune felt like going through hell. It seemed to take for ever. She had never felt this impatient at traffic signal but if sheer will power aided speed they would have reached the hospital in record time but unfortunately it didn't. and every single monent added to the agonising throbbing in her chest"

You know this stenence left me cold, shivering and in tears. it reminded me of a certain incident in my family. 'My aunt (dad's sister) lived in another city which was 7 hrs away through train. her husband had come to our city and somebody shot him. He passed away. The travel my aunt(phopho) had to do from that city to here was like living in hell for her. i could feel her pain, her agony. I can till date never imagine waht she would've gone through in that way, knowing that she has to go and see her dead husband. he was so young, only 35 and my aunt was 30. Oh this update has left me crying anu..what pain ppl go through when they lose someone...wish it was that easy to just let somebody understand the pain...

Oh anu..!! i hate you for this update..u made me cry so much..! it was such a brilliant piece of writing..will remain my utmost fav of all times..! this particular update was so real..so fierce and just...
i dnt know wot..i feel numb and cold..! i really do

omg