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Part V:
Sultan looked at Radha ji. His tears poured down like a dam. Radhaji hugged him and he just gave into the hug. Aryan looked shocked as his ice cream melted. Bittuji was more shocked. RK stepped out of the room and his face tightened. He screamed out "Maa". Radha ji pulled away from Sultan and looked at RK and said "Rishu, Sultan ke upar mera kuch haque hai; agar tume pasand nahi karte toh woh alag baat hai par mere liye ab bhi yeh mera beta hai". RK walked past Bittuji and Aryan. Madhu had overheard the conversation and was stunned. She did not know that RK and Sultan were related...another ghost from RK's past. She looked away...how much had RK undergone? What was happening. She wanted to wipe away his pain. Her poor baby.
Sultan took leave from Radha ji (the only mother he knew). I called out for Aryan. He walked past Radha ji. She stopped and hugged him...just like a grand ma would her grand son. Aryan was so shocked but he felt nice. Aryan looked at Radha ji and said "Aap mujhe jaanti hai". Radha ji said "Mein tumari maa ko janti thi". Aryan was stumped as Sultan called out for him. Radha ji felt a lump in jer throat as she saw her other son and grand son walk away. I still loved Sultan. One day, I would have to tell Rishu and Sultan the real truth.
RK was watching the scene from afar and felt a familiar pain in his chest. Sultan: my brother, my best friend, my comrade, my protector and more important MY SISTER'S HUSBAND AND MY FATHER'S MURDERER. How could Sultan do it to us...the KUNDRAS, who gave him everything?? How?? But now I, RK, understood him as I felt the same for Madhu as he did for my sister...he fell in love. Simple and straight.
In his den, Sultan rewound to the past. He was 11 and Rashika (RK sister's) was 7 when Mohan Kundra brought him home. RK had just been born. For Sultan, the Kundras were family. Mohan was his papa, Radha ji his Maa and RK his life. RK looked up to him just like he did to his dad. I, Sultan had taught RK everything. But then I fell in love with Rashika...a love and attachment that I had never felt before. Allah, that one move changed my life. Rashika and I ran away and got married...on Rishu's 12th birthday. We thought we would surprise him but Papa could not take the shame and shock. He committed suicide. On our return, RK blamed Rashika and me and Maa was just too shocked. But she blessed us...seemed like she knew something that we did not. I turned into the underworld.
Rashika and I moved away to Dubai but she was never the same. She was wonderful wife BUT...
I lost her when Aryan was born. She wanted her mum and brother but she could not have it. RK refused to have anything to do with her (by then my Rishab turned into an arrogant RK). I swore never to get attached and wanted Aryan to be independent. Owing to complications, Aryan was born with a limp.
Then Madhu happened...she got me to face my past. She brought Aryan friendship. Now, she would bring Aryan's DADI JI AND MAMA. Oh! God, I could not let it happen.
RK walked into Madhu's room. Madhu was with Maa and Sasu Maa. I knew she had questions and this time I would give her all the answers...I would open out to her like I never did. NO ACT.
I would make her believe in me again. She was MY ISHQ AND MY JUNOON and I was her ISHQ AND JUNOON. JUST LIKE SULTAN AND MY SISTER.
( Guys, I contemplated RK-Sultan as brothers, RK-Sultan as friends but it sounded so passe. So I brought in a new character...the sister). I like the idea of the Aryan-RK-Madhu bond..so chose this track. Hope you enjoy it.
PART V SOON...