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Part 11 - Empty! Void! Null! Aching!
(Madhu's POV)
(Few months Later)
My life is so calm, ordered, ... Dull & aching. Calm & ordered because Rishu is taking care of me & my happiness even when he is far away but dull & aching because he is far away from me. I feel like a part of me is missing. But Rishu is happy with his new life. He rarely gets time to talk with me may be Nisha is keeping him occupied. I sigh & walk to my college. Today is my last exam for this semester. One more year of study to go to complete under graduation. I wish at least by next year he comes back to India to be with me when I receive my degree certificate. My Rishu was with me holding my hands at every milestone moments of my life. I miss him so much.
"Madhu, how u wrote the exam?" Trishna asks me jumping from back & pressing my shoulders with her hands & pushing me forward.
"Good. U?" I ask trish smiling.
"Crap. I m gonna kill the examiner who set that shitty paper." She says fisting her hand, pissed, obviously.
"It was not that bad." I tell her giggling.
"Not bad? Oh yeah... You are Miss. Bookworm unlike me so it will be easy for u. Well, lets not talk about the shitty paper, anyway I know I m gonna puke on that paper again in re-exam." Trishna never takes exams seriously. When I say that to her, she simply says marks cant judge her talent. Once I forced her to take exams little serious & start preparing at least a month before exam instead of struggling one night before the exam but she told me to take my life serious & prepare to face the real world instead of being on cloud & keeping your nose pointed to books.
"Any plans for vacation?" She asks me.
"No. I m not going anywhere" I tell her sadly. I suddenly remember my holiday trip to Andaman with Rishu. If Rishu is here then I would nag him to take me somewhere where we could chill out. May be I could go to Singapore & spend my vacation with Rishu?
"Oh so boring, cooping yourself in your room & reading all romantic craps but no improvement in your romantic side." She shakes her head in disapproval.
"Act your age & have fun girl. You are a beautiful chick & so many boys are behind you. so why don't u put inky pinky ponky & pick one idiot & date him?" she suggests me.
"Inky pinky ponky?" I ask laughing.
"Yeah. You are one confused soul so I m telling you one easy way to make decisions" she tells grinning.
"I don't want a boyfriend" I tell her sternly. "So what's your plan?" I ask her to distract her from asking me further questions.
"Hmm... Tonight Mukkund & I are going pubbing. Wanna join us?"
"No... I don't... " i hesitate.
"Come on madhu. It will be so refreshing after your months of preparation for exam."
"Okay" i agree.
"So Mukkund & I will come & pick you up at 8 pm. Be ready"
"No. It's fine. I will drive on my own" I smile. She nods.
Now, I m sitting in 'passion nights' pub & sipping my orange juice. I guess I m the only one drinking orange juice. Mukkund & Trishna are rocking the dance floor. I wish Rishu is with me now so I can feel comfortable but yeah I know he won't come & dance with me as he don't like dancing much. But still I would have felt better around him. Now I m feeling awkward with all these strangers eying me lustfully, it feels creepy. And the loud music & smell of alcohol makes me hate the place more. I should leave this place. I shouldn't have come here on the first place. I sigh & search for Trishna to inform her I m leaving. My eyes catch Mukkund & Trishna is in his arms dancing. I sign & mouth 'I m leaving & I will call Trish later" he nods & I wave a bye to him. Then I made my way out.
I walk to the parking lot & I dig in my purse to fish out my car key. Finally I found my car key & insert it into the key hole & before I could open the door someone hovers behind me, breathing on my nape. I whisk around in shock & sighs in relief seeing Mukkund.
"You scared me Mukkund' I tell him smiling.
"You were telling me something there?" He asks
"When? Of that. I told you to inform Trish that I m leaving & I will call her later. You nodded your head as if u understood what i told?" I ask him. He didn't say anything but stares me.
"Okay bye" I tell him & turn but he hold my hand & turns me roughly towards him.
"Mukkund what are you doing?" I ask in shock. He is behaving strangely with me today. Even in dance floor he was staring at me. If I m not wrong it was a lustful stare but I brushed the thought saying 'he is my best friends boyfriend'
"Madhu you look so beautiful. I cant take my eyes off of you. You..." He leans down to kiss me but I push him forcefully.
"Mukkund" I shout at him. "You bloody creep. You are cheating my friend?" I ask him in disgust.
"Life is full of variety. I m bored of Trishna" he shrugs coolly. I glare him in shock & hatred.
"Lets have fun baby." He nears me again.
"Mukkund, I am married" I tell him. I was a fool to hide my marital status.
"As if I care. But yeah... I know your WERE married & you got DIVORCE from your husband too." He tells shocking me.
"How do you know all this?" I ask him angrily.
"Trishna told me" he says.
"Don't lie. I know my friend. She will never share my private life to you." I trust Trish implicitly. Next to Rishu, she is my only loyal trusted friend.
"Okay chill baby. Long back I overheard you both fight over some issue in our college canteen & from there I managed to gain this valid piece of information. Your useless dick of a husband must be too bad in bed so you kicked him out of your life. But try me sweetie, I will show you the real meaning of pleasure" he says & grazes his filthy hand on my cheek but I swat at away as I felt like worms creeping on my skin when he touched me. I look around the parking lot to seek some help but I could find no one. My heart starts pounding against my chest as I start panicking. But I want to punish him for bad mouthing my Rishu. For feeling me up. For cheating my friend.
"Its the panic that's gonna kill you or put you in danger. So stay calm & handle the situation with ease." Rishu's words from long ago rings in my ears.
I try to calm myself by taking a steady breathe & remember the day Rishu taught me self defense when I was in tenth grade before he leaving to Singapore for the first time to take over the business there.
"Madhu, you need to protect yourself from all the roadside f**kers. I don't want you to be helpless or defenseless at any point of time. Since I m going away, you need to take care of yourself, baby" he tells me.
"Okay, Rishu. I will protect myself" I assure him.
"How?" He asks. I blink at him. I don't know how?
"Keep this pepper spray for safety"
"If I forget to take this pepper spray with me?" I ask.
"Then attack him" he says.
"How?"
"Knock the creep on his precious part" he says.
"Precious part?" I ask him confused.
"Important part to a man" he tells gritting his teeth.
"Brain. Head?" I tell him. He glares me as if i m stupid.
"Heart. But how I will attack a heart? Should I carry a knife with me to stab the creep's heart?" I ask him thoughtfully.
"f**k!" He spits the words at me.
"Oh you mean f**king part? I see" I tell & look down at his now-understood-precious part
"No! You don't see. I m wearing pants" he smirks.
"Gah" I turn my face away from him.
"So knock the balls" he says.
"How? With this?" I hold my hand up.
"We have balls & what you have?" He asks. Why he is quizzing me? He can just tell me how to do? What to do? & where to do right?
"Bingo! We have boobs" I m smart too.
"f**k! f**k! f**k! You have f**king knees. Knock the balls with your knees. Got it?" he shouts.
"GOT IT!!" I shout back & swiftly raise my knee to try on him if I could do but he quickly blocks my knee capping it with his palm & shakes his head & he looks like he will kill me the next moment.
"Dare you use this stunt with me ever in your life" he says angrily.
"I thought I will practice with a target" I tell him in a kitten soft voice.
"Knock the f**ker who tries to misbehave with you. Okay?"
"Okay" I shout & mukkund takes a step forward assuming I agreed to his f**king idea.
Bang! I knock him hard with my knee on his crotch & he screams a cry falling flat on the concrete floor. "Dare you touch any girl ever again in your life, you bloody moron" I shout at him.
Rishu will be proud of me. I smile.
Trishna comes running to me & throws herself on me & starts crying.
"Trish, get in the car" I order her. Its better to move from the deserted parking lot.
"Trish..."
"I heard everything Madhu" she says & starts crying.
"Then why the hell you didnt come to help me you idiot? You were standing & watching us & let him get close to me? You could have jumped in & helped me to kick his ass right?" I ask her pissed.
"Sorry, I was... I couldn't believe what actually I was seeing. I really liked him & started trusting him but he... he is a bas***d. I hate to think I was dating him" she says crying.
"It's okay Trish. We all do make mistakes in our life" even I have done a major mistake. I sigh sadly.
"We should have listened to Rishab" Trishna says wiping her nose with the back of her hand.
"Yes" I agree with her. Once Rishu saw me hugging mukkund in a friendly way in college when he came to pick me up in the evening & then he probed me who was the guy who was sticking to me like a leech & I told he was Trishna's boyfriend & our class mate. He just thanked me by hugging me for giving my notes to him but then itself Rishu told me he didn't like him, Mukkund seems like a rogue & asked me to tell Trish to be careful. I told that to Trish & she said she will be careful but still continued to date him.
"Okay, leave it Trish, don't cry for that creep" I tell her as I drive my car to Trish's house to drop her home.
"Do you think I m cry for that creep? I m crying for you. Because of me you were nearly attacked by him but thanks f**k nothing happened to you" she side hugs me.
"Thank Rishu. He only taught me how to defend myself in time of danger" I tell her.
Then I drop Trish at her home & head back to my home. Well, not my parents house, my home, the home Rishu & I shared after our marriage. I dig in my purse to see if I have the spare key of the apartment & luckily it's there in my purse. It's a very small key which I never bothered to take out from my purse. I open the main door & walk in. After our first wedding anniversary, this is the first time I m coming to this apartment. It looks the same like how I have seen it last, nothing has changed. But feels so empty, void, null & aching because Rishu is not with me in this apartment. I wonder why Rishu is still keeping this apartment instead of selling it. I walk straight to Rishu's room instead of mine. I see the huge wedding photo hanging on the wall, for which I fought hard to Rishu not to put it in front hall or in my room. He looks so young in our wedding photo, I can't believe he is 7 yrs older to me. My smart handsome man! Then I walk towards his bed & lay on it hugging his pillow & looking at the ceiling as I remember the laser gun night.
I come awake hearing continuous ringing of door bell. Who the hell is here at this time? I sleepily walk to the door & open it after checking on the peep hole.
"What the f**k you are doing here, you little brat?" Sultan screams at me.
"What are you doing here?" I ask him rubbing my eyes. Why he is screaming at me? & why he & Rishu use 'F' word for every single thing. Bad boys!
"Your parents were worried but you are sleeping peacefully here" he shouts at me. Oh no! I forgot to inform them. What's the time now. I look around & see the clock showing 3 in the morning.
"Did my parents asked you to find me? & how do you know I will be here?" I ask him softly looking down at the floor. I know he will burn me with his angry glare if I look into his eyes.
"Your parents called Rishu & that dog called me disturbing my sleep to find you & he only told me to see whether you are in the apartment first & see madam is sleeping peacefully after making everyone worry"
"I'm sorry. Can you do me a favour?" I ask Sultan.
"No I won't. I will take orders only from Rk" he says arrogantly. Then he gets a call & I bet it's from Rishu. He straight away hands me the call.
"Hello, Rishu" I says softly.
"What the f**k you are doing in the apartment?" he shouts at me.
"Rishu, I will tell you everything but please send this Sultan home" I tell him.
"No. he is there to take you back home" he says.
"I'm at home only."
"Your parents are waiting so just go to your home" he snarls.
"I will go tomorrow. Ask Sultan to inform my parents. If I go now they will kill me for scaring them so let them calm down first or you convince them." I tell him stubbornly.
"You itself tell Sultan what you want him to do"
"Highness Sultan will take orders only from you huh Rishu. He wont do me any favour huh as I spoiled his sleep" I tell over the phone looking at Sultan who is growling at me.
"Pass the phone to him" Rishu says.
"Okay. And cut the call after talking to him as Sultan needs his phone so that he can move his ass from here & go sleep well at his home. You call me to my phone number"
"It's switched off you idiot. You scared the hell out of us, your parents & I were trying your number to catch up with you but you..." he blasts me & pauses. I guess restraining his anger by counting one to ten.
"I will put it in charge, you can call me back after 10 minutes" I says & pass the phone to Sultan.
"Just Shut up Rk... Don't say a word... I will never forgive you or this little brat for spoiling my sleep... Okay... okay... she is fine... Nothing will happen to her if she didn't eat anything for one time... I can't cook or get anything for her to eat in this wee hours... Hmm... okay... I will come & take her back home in the morning... You don't worry... I will take care... bye" I hear Sultan talk with Rishu as I put my phone in charging.
"Are you hungry? You had something?" Sultan asks drily after hanging up the call. I nod my head in yes.
"Will you be fine staying alone or you want me to stay here with you?" he asks.
"No. I will be fine.. I want to be alone here" I tell him. He nods.
"Then lock the door & be safe" he tells & turns to walk.
"Sultan, will you inform my parents?" I ask running behind him to the door.
"Do I have a choice? But don't think I m doing this for you little brat, I m doing this for my Rk?" he says possessively.
"My Rk? Are you both GAY!!??" I ask him laughing.
"f**k" he says & slams the door hard making me jump.
"Hi" I say picking up Rishu's call exactly after 10 minutes.
"Hi" he says after a moment.
"How was your day?" I ask politely to start the conversation.
"Crap. What you are doing in the apartment?" he asks.
"Staying the night" I tell him coolly.
"Why the hell you want to stay there?"
"Why the hell you are keeping this apartment still instead of renting it or selling it?" I ask him back.
"That's my apartment & I will do whatever I damn well please with that apartment"
"just answer me honestly Rishu? Why you have this apartment still? Everything is unchanged in this apartment. Why you are maintaining it as if we are living here?" I ask him.
"That apartment holds memories of our time together" he says after what feels like eternity.
"I miss you Rishu. This apartment holds memories of our time together for me too. It makes me feel I m nearer to you" I tell him sadly.
"Don't do this Madhu. There is nothing to look back in our past" he tells me.
"You were right about Mukkund" I come to the main matter.
"What? What that f**ker did? Are you okay? Why the hell you are staying on your own? I will call Sultan back & the next moment you are going back to your parents" he barks over the phone
"No I won't go"
"Don't be stubborn madhu"
"I'm okay Rishu."
"What the hell happened?" he asks.
"I went to pub with Trisna & Mukkund tonight. um.. yesterday night" I correct as it's next day morning. "there he tried to misbehave with me & in the end I took him down" I tell little proudly.
"That f**ker" he says, I know he is gritting his teeth & his hand fist to a ball ready to punch the asshole Mukkund if he was in front of Rishu.
"Did he harm you" Rishu asks.
"No. he just...um.. touched me & that's enough a reason for me to kick his balls after all I do have knees" I tell him giggling & I m blessed with a reluctant chuckle from Rishu from the other end.
"I'm glad you know to defend & protect yourself. But be careful baby"
"Thanks to you Rishu for teaching me to handle such situation"
"Glad you got a target in real to practice what I taught years back" he says & I laugh.
"So how you wrote your exams?" he asks.
"All went good" I smile.
"Good. Okay baby, it's late, you go sleep. I will talk to you tomorrow" he says.
"Rishu, wait"
"Yeah, tell me?"
"Um... I.."
"Don't hesitate. Tell me" he encourages me.
"Can I come to Singapore for my vacation?" I asks. He didn't say anything for a moment.
"You really want to come here?" he asks.
"I miss you so badly, Rishu. I do want to see you... besides I have never been to Singapore" I tell him. Please please let me come to you, Rishu.
"Hmm... okay" he says after a beat.
"Thank you, Rishu. And ask permission from my parents to let me go & see you in Singapore" I tell him. My parents will never deny anything Rishu asks. They love him more than me.
"Okay, I will." he says.
"Good, Bye" I jump in joy.
"Bye, Baby" he says & hangs up.
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Hope you all liked this update.
I felt bad for making few or most of my readers cry by giving emotional updates continuously so thought to make it light with some funny scenes.
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Edited by madhurish - 9 years ago
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