Chapter Four
Pehla Nasha Pehla Khumaar
...Next day
Maan's friends invaded his room and were creating a ruckus. And for some reason he let them, cuz he was not the same after that day. His brain was boiling with anger and he wanted revenge.
Maan lets go to the hillock which Nakul kaka was referring to. It sounds like an exciting adventure.
"Yeah okay. It's getting boring in here."
"Guys are you coming?" asked Adi, but they barely heard him from all the shouting and screaming in front of their video games.
Pari wanted to tag along, but Maan refused, asking her to stay there.
...
Maan drove the jeep to the hillock, and suddenly turned back.
"Maan what happened? Why are you turning back?"
He didn't reply...
He stopped in front of a cliff...
"Let's get down."
Adi wondered what was he up to...
Maan saw her talking to her friend in front of the book shop. The anger brewed in him. He took long strides and reached her. Without giving her any prior warning, he scooped her and dumped her on his shoulder. She was dumbstruck, and only when Meera's screams hit her, she realized the real situation she was in.
She kicked and hit him.
"How dare you? Neeche utharo mujhe."
She succeeded in slipping down his shoulder, but he again grabbed her hands and dragged her into the jeep. Now Meera was all charged up to give this kidnapper cum idiot a piece of her karate.
She jumped and threw a kick on to Maan's face, who ducked the attack. But poor Adi, who was momentarily numb cuz of all the sudden happenings, didn't see the flying kick and felt his jaw being dislocated.
"OH MY GOD!!!!" he cried in pain and horror.
Maan pushed Geet into the next seat and started the jeep. Adi was left behind, and Meera followed the jeep, but it was too fast.
She turned to Adi, who was rolling on the ground with pain. She bend over him and pulled him by his collar, "Where did the jerk take my friend?"
"I ...ooon know" he manged to speak.
You don't know, then what the heck were you doing here with him. You better tell me the truth"
Adi cried in pain, "Please help me, my jaw is broken. I am telling you the truth I don't know where he took her."
Meera realized he might be telling the truth.
She went inside and dialed 100, and also the ambulance.
Meanwhile...
"Stop the jeep. What do you want?"
"REVENGE!" he gritted.
"You are such a child."
He didn't like that, her arguing even at this point.
"You'll see the child in me in a minute."
She looked at him and pulled his collar, "if this is some stupid prank, you are going to feel so bad for this. Look, I won't tell anyone, just stop the car and let me go."
She tried to negotiate, as she realized she can't overpower him physically, as he was much stronger.
He just kept silent and drove the jeep deep into the woods with tall trees...
The jeep stopped and she fell over due to the sudden brakes.
He got out and walked to her side. He pulled her arm, and dragged her out.
He made her stand facing him...
"Hit me," he ordered, and Geet was like are you crazy?
"I said hit me."
"Shut up...I am not your slave to follow your orders. Now, just take me back, if your brain has started working again."
She turned and walked to the jeep to get inside.
He didn't allow her to get into it.
She was scared now, she was never faced with such a situation in her life. She was just a girl, who was always protected by her dad and her best friend. This guy was scaring her.
"Tumne suna nahi...maro mujhe."
"Tum pagal ho kya...stop this nonsense."
"Maaro mujhe," he repeated.
Now she had had enough.
"OKAY"
She slapped him with all her might, as she too lost her nerve with his arrogance and misbehavior.
"Slap me," he repeated.
And she hit him again and again.
"Ho gaya...your wish has been fulfilled...ab mujhe wapas le chalo," she taunted him.
The forest was dark, and the night was blanketing the light that was seeping in through the leaves. The owls hooted and strange voices chilled her spine.
She looked at him, and he was simply staring at her.
He was approaching near her, and she moved back and hit the jeep.
She looked back and then at him.
He was so close to her, that she could feel his breath on her face.
She saw his cheeks had turned red with her slaps, and his eyes were stone cold.
She cringed at the proximity, but had gone numb to even move away...don't know why she thought of her mother at that moment, and tears filled her eyes.
He was so close to her, and what was he doing. He just wanted to scare her, but then he lost all his cool, and acted like a maniac. He looked at her face, tears brimming in those hazels, and felt the innocence hitting his heart, making him hold his breath. She was not like the other girls he had come across till now. He unconsciously lifted his hand and wiped the trail of tears from both her cheeks.
"They are so soft like peaches," he thought.
She looked at him surprised and sad. And he smiled to himself, looking at her childish pout.
She pushed him and got into the jeep. He also got in and drove out of the forest. They both didn't know what just transpired between them, especially Maan who felt so calm and peaceful after drowning himself in those hazels. What was she, a witch perhaps or a fairy.
Geet was still in shock, and was unable to speak or move. She just kept staring at the road ahead, tears running down her cheeks. She never felt this vulnerable.
The moment they reached the outskirts of the town, they were surrounded by police jeeps.
And she was temporarily blinded by the head lights. She simply covered her eyes with her hands. Maan turned towards her, and held her hands, gently parting them, and looking again into her eyes. He was in a trance and whispered, "Pari."
Her heart missed a beat, and she felt the breath caught in her throat with his addressing her so.
The police circled them, and pulled him out, but he simply smiled at her.
She was so relieved when her dad came and hugged her. But she simply couldn't take her eyes off him, who was being dragged to the police jeep.
She heard the sounds of more cars, and turned to see people frantically coming out of them, and moving towards the police jeep.
"Maan!" screamed a lady in a beautiful peach sari and running towards him, followed by a man who looked just like him, an older version.
The whole fiasco took a toll on her mind and body, and she felt everything before her going yellow and then dark and then --------------------------------------
She fainted...
Edited by pj2012 - 7 years ago
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