CHAPTER 3:
Everything was perfect. The day was clear from clouds, letting the sun rays fall straight on her face and she was standing there waiting for someone with confused expressions. It looked as if she was in great dilemma. Her face reflected her anxiety but it lit up as soon as she saw another girl approaching her.
" Hey sheen is you alright?" asked the girl after seeing her facial expressions.
Sheen gives her a half smile" I am happy that you are here. You don't know but nothing is good here."
Mannat gives her a confused look.
"Tell me openly" asked mannat.
Sheen gives a long sigh. "It's about a new boy who joined college 3 days ago. You were not here so you are unaware of that. He had made my life hell. I mean he dared to challenge me. You should have seen him. He is so irritating."
Sheen was cut by mannat." So it's no big deal. You know how to handle these types of guys after all you are diva of college." She said in teasing tone.
But sheen did not respond." It's not like that mannat. Its not that easy. I cant handle this by myself. So I need your help."
Mannat looked seriously towards her. " hmm if u want then I don't have any problem. Bdw who is that boy?" Sheen gives her an evil smile and said. "Hero..He calls himself hero".
Sheen excused herself for sometime while mannat strode towards the girl's hostel, with memories of the past flooding her mind. 2 years ago she helped her friend sheen against hero and now again sheen needs her. Mannat was coming back to her college after a long break. She came to know about the death of hero and about sheen but she couldn't come at that time. Yesterday when sheen called her she got to know about the new development in college, about the new guy who calls himself hero. Hero word triggered many memories of her past. The innocent face still flashed before her eyes. 2 years ago she helped her friend against hero and now again the same situation. It's like karma bites back and everything is repeating. Only time will say how it will end this time. Sheen needs her help again. She doesn't know what she will do. Yesterday when sheen called her, she knew the name hero will come in between their conversation but she never expect that early or in a way the name came up. Someone is here in college who reminds sheen about hero. Is it just coincidence or something is going to happen? The news of death of hero was a hard blow for mannat. She never thought one prank will become the cause of his death. She just wants to hurt him. But not death. She just wanted to show him his place but everything got destroyed. Nothing went according to her plan.
WHILE IN HOSTEL
"omg looks who is here" a girl screamed and run towards mannat. She hugs her tightly. Mannat gives her a big smile and then tease her." Leave me kirti. You will kill me by hugging so tight." Kirti left her in embarrassment. Then they both laugh and jump on the beds. Kirti dialed sheen's number to inform her that both of them are chatting in their room. In a secluded corner of the college Sheen was sitting lost in her haunting past. She was trying hard to concentrate on the present but the one face was not letting her do that. That innocent face was still there in her mind. Hero..She knew this name will never leave her alone. Before she further fight with her emotions, kirti's call brought her to the present.
Sheen entered in the room and find both of her friends waiting for her. She just sits on the bed and gives half smile to mannat.
"Don't worry. I am here" mannat gives her assurance.
"I never think it will go that far. I never want his death." saying this sheen starts crying.
Mannat and kirti touch her shoulder. "listen sheen... he shot you, you did not shot him so it was not your fault. U can't be weak. Here are many things which we have to fight. So pls be strong." Saying this mannat hug her. The old gang reunites when kirti too joined them in hug.
After pacifying sheen to some extent when mannat found her talking to kirti, she walked a few steps away towards the window to give her neurones a much needed break from all these. Her inner turmoils were getting too much for her to bear alone and she needed to sort out some things clearly before everything went out of her hand. She was hiding a truth much too grave which was churning her up from inside. True , that she was helping her friend sheen in teaching hero a lesson 2 years back, but was it the complete truth?? No, this was for the others to know. There was something more to it, much too deep a reason to be comprehended by the rest, which she was hiding. How much she tried, she couldn't deny this fact. Her plan was going right but then again who was at fault..it was sheen or she herself? There was something else behind that ugly prank. Didn't she desperately wish to make HIM realise the pain of heartbreak through hero, though knowing very well that he was completely innocent. Hero paid a big prize of his innocence. A tear escapes from her eyes thinking about his death as like sheen she also didn't want his death. She too was living in the guilt of destroying a life to this extent, but again something else struck her mind and her expression changed into anger. This time it was a different face which crossed her mind. Amidst of all these she couldn't forget the sharp, intelligent eyes that she fell for only to be refused at the end. She was hurt, rather she felt insulted which resulted in her sheer determination to make HIM pay the prize of HIS mistake. Back in present she thought, " No, it can't be a coincidence, it has to be u. Let's see how long can u play this game of hide and seek with me? Let's see who win this time? Its time to play and I promise u this time it will end once and for all. This time you will face a different mannat, your destruction." Smiling evilly, she engaged herself in preparing her game plan and the much awaited face off, with HIM.
AT UNKNOWN PLACE :
He could hear the screaming and shouting all around himself. "You are orphan, You are orphan. No one loves you. You don't deserve anyone's love and care. You will always remain alone." He wake up suddenly with a jolt. It was nightmare. The horrifying reality of his life, the nightmare was back again and he screamed. "No I am not orphan...I am not. "But there was no one to hear his screams. He was alone suffering in the darkness of his life. Silence was only thing surrounding him. He was never an orphan and he hates that when people called him that. He never understood ,why his life was full of sorrows. His parents left him when he was child. But there was a little ray of sunlight in his life. His brother, who used to made him feel alive. His brother was the one person who always showered care and love upon him. The one person who made him believe his existence in this huge world despite being surrounded by darkness. The only ray of his life, and now that ray was vanished.. The person who was always by his side was no more now. And he knows this cruel reality will always haunt him how much he tried to run away from it. So he decided to face it and finish it once and for all.
On the other side rihaan, his childhood friend who was always on his side in every ups and downs of his life was looking forward to him. He had just arrived there and found him struggling with the past memories. Rihan was a person who can go to any extent just to make him smile once. But today he was also feeling helpless because he knew sahil's loss could never be filled. The loss of his brother was too much for sahil to handle and rihaan knew he will never sit silent. Rihaan was not unaware of the storm which was devastating his friend from inside. Sahil wanted to avenge his brother's death. Rihan don't know the end of this fight but one thing was clear that sahil will definitely get burnt in this fire of revenge. And that's the thing he was fearing. Rihan does not have any sympathy with the peoples who were responsible of sahil's loss but he was afraid for sahil because he knew now no one can stop sahil and this fight will change the dynamics of many lives. He knew this time sahil will not take any precautions and the fire in his silence was too dangerous than the explosives. He only prayed that sahil will not get burnt in this fire but little did he know, that his prayer will not be accepted. Rihaan was looking towards his friend who was getting ready to go in the college... the college where his friend lost his life... his brother... hero...
Kabhi Neem Neem Kabhi Shahad Shahad
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