After he left, Jodha felt lighter... Finally she told him, she turned to go around... But a gasp escape from her mouth, seeing her dad standing there with anger in his eyes...
****
Jalal reached home... And almost ran upstairs, he eyes are tearing up... He doesn't know what to do?? How to save his nonu?? How to save their 'BOND'??
Her words were ringing in his ears...
"Maa taunts me every now and then... They are really heart piercing..."
"di doesn't talk with me!!"
"Papa now don't even look at his princess... He hates me Jalal..."
He tightly pressed his ears to shut the voices up!!
"Ya Allah!! Show me path..." He closes his eyes in despair... For the first time he felt so helpless... His clever head running in every direction to find solution for her problem...
His whole self was trembling badly at the mere thought of her suffering... His eyes are shimmering with the liquid in them...
Only he knew how he felt when she is hurt or upset... This makes him more upset...
FLASHBACK
"ugh... This girl always late..." He fondly cursed his adorable friend, for whom he is waiting for more than half an hour...
Today he wants to make her meet his girlfriend... She came on her scooty and untied the cloth that was tied around her face till now...
He looks oops glared at her...
She held her ear and cutely pouted... He tried hard to maintain a stern face but all his efforts gone into drain... When she almost jumped on him Coz he has wore her favorite tee... Which she gifted him on his birthday with her pocket money, which she saved since 4 months... He let out a chuckle watching his bestie's excitement...
"see I told you... It suits you..." She exclaimed while adoring the tee on his torso...
"idiot!! Let's go..." He said while dragging him with her... They are in the mall... He pressed the elevator's switch... And waited for it...
Jalal felt a tug at his wrist... He looks at her... She childishly pointed out to an ice cream parlour... With that world famous pout of hers...
Jalal sighed and shook his head sideways...
"She can never change!! She will remain a child only... And this quality of hers attracts him the most!!" He smiled at his thought..
And headed to the parlour... Jodha squealed in excitement when she saw him bringing her favorite vanilla cone...
They headed back to elevator which has opened now... Jodha is busy in licking her ice cream while Jalal is replying Abdul of some of his stupid text...
The elevator door closed in front of them... With them some more people are there... A group of three boys are there, who are continuously eyeing Jodha... Jodha who noticed it... Felt disgusted and maintained a little more distance... While one of them shifted more closer to her...
Jalal who is till now busy in his mobile seen this... He gives a murderous look to that boys and pulled Jodha on the other side...
And clutches her waist, indicating them to keep their filthy eyes away from her...
Soon elevator door opened and they stepped out of it...
Finally they reached where his Abdul, Sana and amyra are waiting for him...
Amyra is Jalal's girlfriend... And she didn't liked Jodha a bit... Coz whenever Jodha is around Jalal lost the track of his surroundings and got busy with her...
They chit chatted a little and done lots of masti... Whole time Jalal and Jodha are into each other, seems like only they both are there others don't even existed for them...
Till they returned amyra's anger hits the roof... While girls were waiting for boys in the parking lot... Amyra goes near Jodha...
Jodha is aware of amyra's jealousy, so she chose to ignore it...
"why are you not going when you have your own vehicle..." She said venom lacing her words...
"Jalal would not like it..." Jodha replied calmly... While leaning against her scooty...
In anger, amyra pushed Jodha a bit hard ... Jodha didn't got chance to balance herself due to sudden push... And accidentally falls down on broken glass pieces of wine bottle which are scattered there...
Jalal's throat went dry watching the bruises and cuts on her arms and legs...
Jodha shrieked loudly as glass pierced through her soft skin... Blood started to ooze out...
Jalal heartbeats literally picked up... He ran towards her...
That was the first and last time... He has slapped a girl... Sheer anger bubbled up in him... His nonu's condition hit hard on his soul... In his anger and her worst condition he just slapped amyra...
END OF FLASHBACK
Jalal lips automatically curved into a dashing smile as now he knows what he has to do...
****
Jodha is sitting numb in her room... She closed her eyes and clutched their sketch which he gave him, tightly near her heart... She reminisce what happened few hours ago...
Her father dragged her roughly inside the house... Soon the door closed... Slap landed on Jodha's face... Bharmal's body was shaking vigorously due to rage...
" You are a shame on my family Jodha... You distraughted my pride... Not anymore... In the coming weeks only you are getting engaged with surya..."
Bharmal roared and paced to his room with moist orbs... He can't believe that his princess has brutally butchered his trust...
****
Weeks rolled out but his greedy eyes didn't even get a glimpse of her... He wants to just hear her point of view... He was ready with the solution for her problem... He was waiting for the right time... Gradually his wits gave up...
****
That day..
Mohammeds made an surprise appearance on Singh's house hold...
Jodha was flabbergasted while whole family is shocked... They crack the hard shell of Bharmal... And fixed Jalal's and Jodha's engagement...
Jodha would have fainted by the news... She is shocked would be an understatement... She is completely bowled with it... But to her amusement, she is happy...
****
Next day Jalal reached to school...
And is happy to see Jodha there...
Finally Jodha and Jalal sneaked out and bunked their class...
Jodha wants to confront Jalal...
As they reached library... They Sat down on different benches..
Jodha is looking towards Jalal so that he sees in her way... Jalal smiled but didn't look in her direction he is enjoying her irked face...
Jodha slammed the book from which she is reading and throw it on his face which targeted his nose...
Ouch!! That what a good shot!!
Jodha giggles while it was Jalal turn to become irked...
Now she carefully look around nobody is present in the library and librarian is busy so she slid beside him...
"Jalal... I want some answers..."
Jalal took a deep breath and close his eyes...
"just one answer to your all questions...
'I Love you Nonu'..." Jalal confessed so innocently...
"I love you too jallad" Jodha muttered slowly...
That was starting of Jodha and Jalal to become "Akdha"...
~The End~
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