FINALLLYYY I AM DONE WITH THIS.! *curses writer's block* so i tried my level best with this because i wanted this chapter to be perfect. Hope you all like my adi atleast enough to compensate for the effort of writing him 🤣 and also that the chapter isn't too confusing or vague 🤣 . As always feedback appreciated more than res's 🤣 Lemme know how you find it ❤️
Chapter 6
"Jis din tu mujhe mil jayegi" abeer hummed as he walked beside meher on the way to her hostel. It had become their daily routine now him coming to pick her up from hostel and dropping her back.
Meher giggled "kab chodoge tum wo gaana? It won't work on me"
"Hum honge kamiyaab ek din" abeer said in a stern voice as if he were talking about winning a world war, which only made meher giggle even more.
"Chalo lets make a deal. Jis din tumhe aisi ladki mil gayi jo tumhari awargi khatam karde, tab aake mere saamne ye gaana gaana. Jis din is gaane mei wo feel aa jayegi, mai ise pasand karne lagungi" she says bringing her hand forward for a handshake.
Abeer promptly catches it with his own grinning.
"Always a pleasure doing business with you miss purohit." He bows in front of her as she hits his arm.
"Abeer. Nautanki thoda kam kiya karo" with this she bids him goodbye just like any other day only thing was it was not any other normal day.
"Bye bye mam" he winks at her walking backwards his eyes still on her watching as she gets irritated on the mam' reference.
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Sanyukta and randhir reached the airport in a numb haze. Their fingers were entwined while sanyukta's head was almost resting on randhir's chest as they moved towards check in. He supported most of her weight pulling her forward as her steps had become heavy and weren't moving ahead by themselves. Sanyukta kept reducing her pace by the minute, making her steps smaller and smaller dreading what lay ahead for them in delhi. Eventually randhir had to drag her to the check in counter to make sure they didnt miss their flight. They made it in the last moment.
Sanyukta curled up in her seat clinging to randhir for dear life with one hand and clutching the two rings she always wore in her chain with the other. The flight ascended into the sky and started towards its destination while sanyu closed her eyes and hid herself in randhir's strong hold.
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A loud crashing sound wakes abeer and practically everyone in the hostel up.
"Nisaar yaar ye kya ajeeb music baja raha hai itni raat ko" abeer rubs his eyes trying to assess where the sound was coming from only to realise nisaar was still asleep.
Shaking nisaar out of his slumber both abeer and nisaar head out to find out what was wrong.
All the guys in the hostel dorm could be seen running around. Finally abeer managed to catch hold of them to ask what was wrong. What he heard though made him lose his senses.
"The girls hostel walls have collapsed. We have been asked to evacuate immediately because this building can collapse anytime"
"Meher" he whispered as realisation dawned upon him, before running off towards the girls hostel with nisaar closely following him.
As abeer is about to rush into the collapsed building realising meher isn't among the girls who escaped the collapse nisaar holds him back.
"Abeer pagal ho gaya hai kya bhai. Building gir chuki hai, jo bhi bacha hai kabhi bhi gir sakta hai. Tujhe kuch ho sakta hai" Nisaar speaks petrified at the havoc that the collapse had created which was visible in the surviving girls scared faces. He quickly locates sasha in a corner relieved that she is safe.
"Agar mai nahi gaya toh meher ko kuch ho sakta hai nisaar, aur mere hote hue mai use kuch nahi hone dunga" abeer says as he wriggles out of nisaars grip and rushes into the collapsed building to find meher.
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*Far away in delhi at that exact moment.*
"Randhir singh shekhawat you male chauvinistic pig" sanyukta screamed at the top of her lungs as she realised that randhir had tweaked her experiment with his own egoistic solution which had ruined her research and the results she wanted to find.
Randhir entered the mechanical lab with a smirk.
"You called honey" he winked at her as he squeezed her waist pulling her closer to him sideways and planting a kiss on her cheek.
"You are such an insufferable know it all who doesnt know anything. let alone knowing it all" she stomped her foot in frustration as her last attempt to salvage the experiment failed. "who asked you to change my formulas" she shot at him releasing herself from his hold.
" Well despite being rank no 300 you are my would be wife sweet heart and I couldnt let you spoil my name with such a silly experiment. so i increased its efficiency by 200%" he took a dramatic bow in front of her and inverted his imaginary hat.
"You idiot!!!" sanyukta shouted animatedly trying to strangle him "It was supposed to be inefficient. I was trying to see how the system worked in adverse conditions" she huffed in frustration.
"Oh" randhir uttered not having anything to say for once.
"Who is trying to kill whom today?" aditya asks as he entered smiling.
Sanyukta diverted her gaze to see who had interrupted them ready to fire when she saw aditya and her gaze softened as a smile spread through her lips.
Aditya khurana was not the best looking guy or the most charming guy you would meet. He was of average build. He was just the right amount of everything, enough but not more. Most girls wouldn't give him a second glance as he passed them on the street. He was ordinary' by their standards. But for sanyukta he was her adi' her best friend since childhood, who could always make her smile. He was the only guy in her life who didn't treat her like a fragile girl incapable of doing anything, instead believed that she could capture the moon if only she set her mind to it.
"He ruined my experiment" sanyukta whined to aditya's pointing towards randhir like a school kid complaining to their teaching about an obnoxious boy.
Randhir had by now left her side, grabbing aditya's hand for a handshake he pulled adi in for a hug.
"Adi man.! So good to see you back" randhir gave adi a huge smile as they parted.
Adi had won him over as well with his magic, sanyu's heart melted for a second seeing her best friend and her boy friend hug. But it only lasted a second as randhir continued "You're best friend has been driving me nuts."
"Take your seats in the court of law." Adi gestures randhir and sanyukta to take two seats as he grins turning to face an invisible jury sensing sanyu on the verge of starting round 2 of her rant about rd and stopping her midway "Ye court saare gavaho aur sabooto ko madde nazar rakhte hue is nateeje par pahucha hai ke aap dono ko jald se jald shaadi karleni chahiye, taki aap dono ek dusre ka murder nahi kar paye" he said in the most serious baritone.
"ADI" randhir screamed annoyed at adi for ruining the surprise while adi only shrugged in response.
"What?" sanyukta demanded. Randhir kept giving adi death glares to cut it already but when did adi ever listen.
"Sorry RD. If i leave it to you two, I won't be able to see my best friend's marriage even at the age of 60. Can't take that risk now can I" adi winked at a blushing sanyukta before removing two boxes of rings from his pocket.
Adi cocked his eye brow eyeing them to get it over with.
"Dude you picked out our rings. At least let us propose each other by ourselves" randhir said folding his hands in a mock pleading gesture.
"Yes. Ok." Adi said scratching his beard making it appear like he was deep in thought "The court can grant you that much." He speaks finally satisfied with his decision.
"But why did you get two rings? The proposal needs only one?" randhir asks grinning knowing very well the answer would get a real fun reaction out of sanyu.
"Because I didn't want you both starting the whole boys v/s girls thing over you giving her a ring, so I thought better make it a equal thing and get you both rings so you both can propose to each other." And adi and randhir burst out laughing while sanyukta busied herself in throwing whatever she could find including nuts and bolts at them.
"Boys are such jerks" she threw her hands up in the air in frustration as she walked out of the lab.
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Abeer found an unconscious meher below a rubble of fallen concrete. Not caring about all the wounds he had gotten on the way to her he picked her up in his arms. Hiding her head in his strong embrace and got her out to safety.
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"Randhir hum yaha aa toh gaye hai, but where will we stay?" sanyukta asks randhir who was still holding on to her hand as they reach roorkie.
He removed a house key and placed it in her hand before continuing.
"Well" randhir contemplates how best to break it to sanyu without breaking her heart but realizes there was no easy way to put it he let it all out at once without letting the pain stab his heart "I bought a house for us, so that I could propose to you in the house that we would spend the rest of our lives in. But we never got a chance to step into it."
Sanyukta looked on the verge of a nervous breakdown. She knew randhir had sacrificed a lot for her, because she was not ready to get married after what happened, but he never let on the depth of his pain and she was too obsessed with making right what went wrong that day to bother asking him.
"RD" she says his name in reverence as she pulls him in for a hug crying into his holding on to him for support.
"It is alright" he strokes her back trying to calm her down. "The good news is I never sold the house in case you ever were over that day. So we have a place to live in" he beamed at her wiping away her tears masking his pain yet again to make her feel better. He had wanted their first memory in this house to be of him proposing her, a wish that never became reality. Brushing his thoughts aside, RD covered his face and sanyu's and they both headed towards the house which would have been their home.
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"Ahhh" meher screams from her room waking abeer up and he rushes to her. Her screams only get louder and louder.
"kya hua meher?" he asks trying to re-focus his eyes to the light, assessing her from top to bottom to see if she was hurt only to realise she was bleeding from her leg and her left hand was badly bleeding well. There was blood coming from her forehead. Everywhere he looked he saw a new wound that was emptying the blood from her body and spilling it outside.
"ye kaise hua?" he asks frantic while pulling drawers open for the first aid kit and finally locating it in the dressing table drawer.
Abeer is about to tear open her salwar when her shaking hand stops him . Seriously she wanted to do this now. He wanted to scream at her.
"meher baby" he speaks to her softly like he was addressing an actual baby instead " tum meri patni thi, dil se aaj bhi meri patni hi ho, why the hell are you being shy now of all times?"
She pulls her hand away before she has to be told in sterner ways and lets abeer dress her wounds up. And silently takes the pain killer he gives her.
"Mujhe nahi pata kya hua abeer. Mai so rahi thi, and suddenly, suddenly," she speaks with difficulty between pangs of pain "it felt like the whole building or the world collapsed on me" as the pain subsided a little with the pain killers kicking in, her mind started working over time and making her nervous. What had happened? And how?
He sits beside her bed holding onto her ok, unhurt hand trying to put her to sleep so that her pain ends for a bit.
"Tum bed par baith sakte ho you know." She tries to smile for his sake, knowing how scared he was seeing her like this. Not being able to protect her from something he had no clue about. "We've done a lot more on the bed. I am sure sitting beside me would pale in...ahhh"
"Shhh" he places a finger on her lips as he settles on the bed beside her. "Let me do the talking"
"tanha mai ghuma galiyan sheher" he starts humming and a peaceful smile crosses meher's lips as she smiles through the pain.
"Past wali meher ka mujhe nahi pata, par mujhe humesha ye tumhara sabse genuine gana lagta tha, my favourite." She smiled a bit more bracing the pain that came with the effort.
He shut her eyes with his palm, while she held on to his hand for strength against the pain and he kept on humming "jis din tu mujhe mil jayegee...tham jayegee meri awargi"
PART 7
