Setting: Raghav arrives at DSE soaked from the rain to try and speak to Pallavi
“Pallavi I cannot live with this hatred you have for me, please please say something, say anything”
“You should have thought about that in that hotel room, when you betrayed me. Tell me Raghav what would you have done if it was me?”
“What?”
“Yes, if it was me who spent the night..”
“PALLAVI!”
“Please let me finish. Had I spent the night with an old lover in a hotel room, what would you do?”
With his eyes tightly shut he replied, “Goli maar deta usko. Aur tumko aisa punishment deta jo zindagi bhar ke liye nahin bhoolta”
“Wow! Thank God at least you do know how to speak the truth! So that just means I am being too easy on you and your so called lover.”
“Don’t call her that! She is nothing to me”
“Last time you said the same thing and look where we are today.”
“Pallavi I know I don’t deserve you, I never have. You are the good I wish I had in me. I wish I was the better man. I don’t know what to do, what to say, I just know I need you in my life. How can there be a Raghav without Pallavi?”
With a cold stare she replies,“These are just words to me now Raghav. You are right about one thing you never deserved me or my love. Now please get out of my shop”
She leads him out and closes the shutter. Raghav leaves and tries to start his car but the battery is dead. He didn’t have his cell phone so he gets out to knock on her shutter.
“What?”
“Woh I need to make a phone call to Farhad, the car won’t start”
“Fine.”
He tried Farhad and couldn’t reach him and tried the house but the power must have gone out.
“Pallavi I’m sorry to bother you again. No one has picked up.”
“You can sit over there in Krishna’s spot. I have work to complete."
“Thank you. I will try again in a few minutes.”
TBC...
