"Fresher??"
Naina hears a voice from the back. It succeeds in making her heart to skip a beat. She closes her eyes out of nervousness and fear. The first thought that comes to her mind is, what if the person caught her red handed.
Automatically, Naveen's photo slips from her hand and ends up in the garbage, that was just in front of her. Out of fear and breath, she manages to turn around.
As soon as she turns around, she finds a young and a handsome man standing in front of her, directly looking into her eyes.
"Ye kon hain? Kahin inho ne mujhe Naveen Bhaiyya ki photo ke sath dekh toh nahi liya? Ye Cadet toh nahi lagte. Kahin ye yahan ke koi teacher toh nahi?", thinks Naina.
That man is none other than Captain Rajveer Singh Shekhawat. Rajveer just stares at her, waits for her to reply. The fact that she did not even bother to reply, it irritates Rajveer.
"Fresher??", Rajveer asks again raising his left eyebrow, loudly this time. His voice reflects his irritation.
Naina comes out of her trace.
"Yes, sir?", Naina replies immediately.
Rajveer senses something fishy. Naina's voice reflects her nervousness and fear. Rajveer senses from Naina's behavior that she is hiding something.
"Naam?", Rajveer asks curiously.
"Naina ah", she begins to say something but stops in between. The fact that she was about to say "Aaluwalia", it makes her a little nervous.
"Singh!", she completes her sentence.
Naina manages to speak, but her eyes are cascaded downwards. She does not dare to look into Rajveer's eyes. She feels vulnerable in front of him, she does not even know why.
Rajveer finds this really odd.
"Naina ah Singh?", asks Rajveer getting surprised, with a smirk on his face.
"Interesting!!", says Rajveer.
Taking few steps towards her, he comes and stands close to her, with his arms crossed over his chest.
They lock eyes for few seconds. Rajveer can see some different emotions in Naina's eyes. Pain, hurt, guilt and what not. Rajveer gets attracted to those beautiful brown eyes. Her eyes are the way to her heart, and Rajveer gets determined to know the reason behind her strange behavior.
"Kyun aayi ho tum yahan?", asks Rajveer with a strict tone, no emotions on his face.
Naina gets shocked by Rajveer's sudden question. The only thing she is thinking right now is, what if he saw Naveen's picture in her hand. What if he knows who she is.
"Excuse me?", asks Naina immediately as she lowers her eyes out of nervousness.
With this, Rajveer comes out of his trace. He gets shocked by his own question. Why did he even ask this. This is the first time he is meeting this girl, and he feels some kind of strange feelings towards her. He feels like she is up to something. But what? That is what he wants to find out.
"I mean", Rajveer starts to speak, "aap is Wall Of Fame ke pass kya kar rahi hain? Cadet Naina 'ah' Singh?"
The way he says her name, it makes her heart to skip a beat and her heartbeat picks up pace. She gives a sigh of relief that he was talking about being near the Wall Of Fame.
"Wo...sir...", stammers Naina.
"Haan mein sun raha hoon", says Rajveer and he smirks seeing Naina's vulnerability.
Naina takes a deep breath to calm herself down.
"wo sir mein apne room mein ja rahi thi toh bus yahan aise hi ruk ke Wall of Fame ko dekhne lagi", utters Naina, completely nervous and out of breath, her eyes lowered, not daring to look him in the eyes.
This behavior of Naina irritates Rajveer. Why is she avoiding making eye contacts with him?
Taking two more steps, Rajveer comes closer to Naina. Naina's heartbeat starts racing fast with this action of Rajveer's.
He stares at her for few seconds. A silence takes place between them, an awkward silence. Finally, Rajveer decides to break the ice.
"Cadet Singh! Jab Army mein seniors baat kar rahe hotay hain toh naazre jhuka kar nahi, aankhoon mein dekh kar baat ki jati hai", says Rajveer with a stern voice.
Naina immediately looks into his eyes and they enjoy another eye-lock. After few minutes, Naina lowers her eyes and decides to leave from there.
"Sir, mein chalti hoon!"
After saying this, Naina leaves from there, without waiting for Rajveer's reply, leaving a smirk on Rajveer's face.
Taking another step, he puts both of his hands in his pant's pockets, while smiling.
"Cadet Naina 'ah' Singh, kuch hai baat jo aap chupa rahi hain. Aap ki aankhoon mein ek ajeeb si aag hai jo aap ke raaste mein aane wale kisi bhi shakhs ko jala sakti hai. Kahin aap woh toh nahi hain jisse mein... khair, aap ke baray mein pata karna padega", thinks Rajveer.
With that, Rajveer also leaves from there.
-_-_-_-_-
This is the famous cafeteria of KMA, which is known as "Mess!". It is considered as one of the best cafeterias in any Indian Military Academy. Not because of how it's designed, but because of it's food. The famous food and of course, world's best coffee.
"Oye khotay de puttar, coffee khatam kar apni warna tere kaano wich mein sar kar doonga!"
Comes a cheerful voice from the back, in Mess. An old, but handsome man is seen standing near a table, talking to a cadet, ordering them to finish their coffee.
After yelling at the cadet, he turns around.
(Sanjeev Mehra as Subedar Surindar Suri/Suriji)
He is subidar Surinder Suri, head of KMA's mess. Pyaar se inhe log "Suriji" bulate hain. Or agar inhe gussa aa jaye toh ye sab ke kaano mein sar kar dete hain! He is extremely sweet, adorable and loving.
A lady enters the Mess, dressed in her military uniform. She walks up to Suriji. Tapping on his shoulder, she gets him to turn around.
"Suriji?"
Suriji turns around and a smile appears on his face seeing who the lady is.
(Subedar Major Lolita Sen (real name unknown))
She is our strict Subedar Major Lolita Sen, warden of girl's hostel. She seems really strict from outside, but from inside, her heart is as soft as foam.
"Aray Lolita ji aap? Aap aaj itni jaldi aa gayi?", asks Suriji blushing
"Come again suriji?", asks Lolita, crossing her arms over her chest.
"M-mera mathlab hai..aap ko koi kaam tha Lolita ji?", asks Suriji, rather stammered.
"Ji haan Suriji, wo aapse bahir koi milne aaya hai, kisi naye cadet ke sath!", replies Lolita.
"Theek hai mein abhi jata hoon", informs Suriji and he leaves.
Suriji and Lolita ma'am have a crush on each other for the longest time ever, but they have never expressed it. They fight like husband and wife, and flirt like boyfriend and girlfriend. Everyone in KMA knows about their crush on each other, except them!
-_-_-_-_-
Outside KMA's building
"Nautanki saalay choor apunko...CHOOR"
Yells a person as he tries to free himself from an inspector's grip, but fails as he is handcuffed.
Just then Suriji arrives there. Suriji gets shocked to see a young guy who is trying to free himself from an inspector's grip.
(Arjun Bijlani as Cadet Alekh Sharma)
Suriji's heart melts seeing him. An innocent looking guy is suffering like this. Suriji walks few steps towards the inspector.
"Ay ki ho raya ay?", asks suriji looking towards the inspector.
"Suriji, ye hai aapka naya Cadet, Alekh Sharma, Qaidi # 121, remand home, Mumbai. Aap isse jo banana chahte hain bana lijiye!", informs the inspector.
"Wo sab theek hai lekin is ki hadhkadi kholo. Ye tumhara jail nahi ek Military Academy hai. Yahan koi qaidi nahi hai, yahan sab baharat maa ke laal hain!"informs suriji.
They open the handcuffs from Alekh's hands. Leaving Alekh with Suriji, the inspectors leave from there.
Suriji checks out Alekh from top to bottom. He notices a wound on Alekh's forehead and he gets worried.
"Alekh puttar, ye tujhe kaise lagi?", asks Suriji getting concerned.
"Ye rooz ka hai suriji. Wase bhi ab apun ko adat ho gayyi hai. Wase bhi ye Academy bhi koi jail se kam nahi. Aap kyun itni tension le rahe ho? Ek qaidi se itni hamdardi mut jataye.", informs Alekh without any emotions.
Suriji can see pain in Alekh's eyes. Something has hurt him a lot. He has gone through many difficulties in his life . But Suriji can also see love in Alekh's eyes, love for his country.
Just when Alekh tries to go from there, Suriji holds his wrist. Stopping him from leaving, he puts his arm around Alekh's shoulders and indicates him to walk.
"Chal puttar infirmary!", says Suriji
With that, he takes Alekh towards the Infirmary.
-_-_-_-_ -
In Rajveer's Room
Rajveer is seen talking to someone over the phone.
"Yes sir!"
"Ji sir agar ho sakay toh usse kal hi bhajh dijiye!"
"Nahi sir, abhi sirf shak hai, yakeen ke sath nahi keh sakta!"
"Thanks sir! Good day!"
Rajveer disconnects the call and puts his phone in his pocket. Reaching a glass of water, he picks it up and is about to take a sip of water when the glass slips from his hand, accidentally. This makes his hand to bleed a little from the side.
"Kuch toh tha jo maine tumhari aankhon mein dekha tha Naina. Lekin kya, ye mein jaan kar rahoonga. Tum zayada dino tak mujhse chupa nahi paaogi!", thinks Rajveer
Grabbing a napkin from his table, he tries to clean his wound. But, unfortunately, the wound is a little bit too deep. He decides to go towards the infirmary.
-_-_-_-_-
Naina walks in the girl's hostel towards her room, lost in deep thoughts about Rajveer and the incident that took place few minutes ago.
"Mujhe aise kyun lag raha hai ke maine unhe kahin dekha hai. Lekin kahan..kuch yaad nahi aa raha.", mumbles Naina under her breath.
As she was walking, she abruptly stops when a thought crosses her mind.
"Kya unh ka bhaiyya se koi taaluk toh nahi? Lekin bhaiyya ne kabhi bhi kuch nahi bataya. Mein toh unh ka naam bhi nahi janti...kaise pata lagaon?"
Walking again towards her room, she does not even realize when she reaches in front of her room. She comes back to reality with Pooja's voice.
"Aray oye missed call, tu kahan ja rahi hai? Tera signal aaj subha se kahan hai? Yehi hai hum dono ka room!"
Yells Pooja from behind which drags Naina's attention.
Naina stops and turns around listening to Pooja's voice. Taking few steps towards her room, Naina finally gets inside and shuts the door.
"Aray Pooja tu yahan?", asks Naina putting her stuff away.
"Haan hum dono ka connection jo ek doosre se jodh gayya hai!", says Pooja cheerfully!
Naina looks towards Pooja blankly. She has no idea what Pooja just said. Understanding Naina's confusion, Pooja speaks further.
"Aray mera mathlab hai ke hum dono room mates hain!", replies Pooja.
Giving a big smile to Pooja, Naina prepares to go to bed.
-_-_-_-_-
With a bleeding hand, Captain Rajveer walks towards the infirmary to get his hand bandaged. After few minutes, he finally reaches the infirmary. With his other hand, he knocks on the door.
"Come in!"
Comes a voice from inside.
Pushing the door open, Rajveer finally gets inside.
"Wo mera hath..."
Rajveer begins speaking, but stops abruptly after seeing who the person is. A huge smile appears on Rajveer's face.
"Aap yahan?"
(Aparna Tilak as Dr. Captain Shalini Singhal)
"Hello Captain Rajveer Singh Shekhawat, I'm Dr. Captain Shalini Singhal! Nice to meet you!",says Dr. Shalini, putting her hand forward for a handshake in a very dramatic style.
Another big smile appears on Rajveer's and Shalini's faces.
"Doc, aap yahan kya kar rahi hain? I mean...", asks Rajveer, smiling continuously.
"Kyun Captain mein yahan nahi aa sakti kya?", asks Shalini faking her anger.
Rajveer and Shalini, they have known each other since their academy days. They are from the same batch and they passed out of KMA together. Then, Shalini did her further training in Military Hospital and Rajveer was posted to his next posting. Today, they are seeing each other after a very long time.
Without waiting for a single second, Dr. Shalini throws herself in Rajveer's arms. Understanding her situation perfectly, Rajveer also hugs her back with the same intensity.
After few minutes, they finally break their hug. Rajveer looks at Dr. Shalini shocked because of seeing tears in her eyes. Smiling a little, he wipes her tears with his left hand, the one which is not bleeding.
"Hogaya aap ka drama shuru? Ms, Drama queen!", teases Rajveer
Shalini punches him on his upper arm, playfully! Checking his hand, she finds his right hand bleeding. She grabs his hand out of concern.
"Captain..ye..ye aap ko kaisi lagi?", asks Dr. Shalini, getting concerned, constantly looking at his hand.
Rajveer looks at his wound and then looks back up at Shalini.
"Wo doc mere hathon se glass gir gaya toh us ka chota sa kaanch ka tukra lag gayya.", explains Rajveer.
"Chaliye mein bandage kar deti hoon!"
With that, Dr. Shalini signals him to take a seat, so she can bandage his wound. Rajveer takes a seat and Dr. Shalini starts her work.
While dressing his wound, she decides to ask him a question.
"Captain, aap se ek sawal poochon?", asks Dr. Shalini.
"Of course Doc! Poochiye jo poochna hai!! Wase aapko kab se kisi se kuch poochne ke liye ijaazat ki zaroorat padne lagi?", teases Rajveer, hiding his smile.
Dr. Shalini gives Rajveer a death glare which makes him to laugh out loud. And this makes Dr. Shalini to smile!
"Captain, hum dono itnay saalon se ek doosre ko jante hain. Hum ek doosre ke itne achay dost hain, phir bhi aap mujhe 'Doc' keh ke kyun bulate hain?", asks Dr. Shalini
"Wo issi liye Doc ke aap pe yehi naam suit karta hai! Mujhe pasand hai aapko ye bulana!", replies Rajveer.
Shalini smiles at this. Then after few seconds, a smile creeps on Rajveer's lips.
"Wase Doc, aap bhi toh mujhe Captain keh ke bulati hain na! Aisa kyun?", Rajveer asks further!
Dr. Shalini smiles at Rajveer's question.
"Kyunke mujhe bhi aapko Captain bulana pasand hai!", replies Dr. Shalini.
By the time Dr. Shalini answers Rajveer's question, she gets done with dressing his wound. Just then, Alekh and Suriji walks in. Both Dr. Shalini and Rajveer look towards that direction.
"Suriji aap yahan?", asks Rajveer getting up from his chair, with a huge snile!
"Oye puttar tu? Tu wapis yahan? Wahh! Teri posting hui hai na yahan?", asks Suriji with another big smile!
Rajveer was Suriji's favorite when he was a student in KMA! They were really close to each other! Suriji loved Rajveer just like his son!
Without wasting a single second, they both walk towards each other and give each other a tight hug! Suriji gets emotional and ends up crying, silently.
After breaking their hug, Rajveer notices tears in Suriji's eyes. With a smile, Rajveer wipes Suriji's tears.
Rajveer notices Alekh there standing by the door,
Pointing his left hand's index finger towards Alekh, Rajveer looks towards Suriji.
"Ye kon hai Suriji?", asks Rajveer.
Suriji looks towards the direction in which Rajveer is pointing. He finds Alekh standing there.
Looking back at Rajveer, Suriji informs,
"Wo puttar ye wo naya cadet hai, Cadet Alekh Sharma! Is ke mathay pe choot lagi thi toh mein usse yahan le aaya!"
Rajveer looks towards Alekh and finds a wound on his forehead. Walking up to him, Rajveer places his hand over Alekh's shoulders and walks him to Dr. Shalini.
"Acha Suriji and Doc, mein chalta hoon!", informs Rajveer.
With that, Rajveer leaves from there leaving Alekh and Suriji with Dr. Shalini.
-_-_-_-_-
"Bhaiyya mujhe meri chocolate do abhi!!"
Yells a little Naina as she runs after her brother, Naveen.
Naveen has taken Naina's chocolate from her hand. Running towards his father, he hides behind him from Naina, so she won't be able to find him.
But Naina is Naina! Without giving him any clue, Naina sneaks from the left side to reach towards her father.
Going behind Naveen, she finally snatches her chocolate from his hand. As soon as she is about to run away, Naveen grabs her by her wrist. Snatching the chocolate from her hand, Naveen runs away.
"BHAIYYA MERI CHOCOLATE!!"
Yells Naina out of breath as she sits up straight on her bed. Her whole body covered with sweats. Her eyes starts brimming with tears as she realizes that it was nothing, but a dream. She was remembering her childhood days that she has spent with Naveen.
Reaching her table lamp on her right side, she turns it on. Naina looks towards Pooja and she finds her sleeping peacefully. Naina looks up on the wall to check what time it is. Realizing it is 10pm, she looks towards her side table to get a glass of water, but she finds the jug to be empty.
Getting up from her bed, she grabs the jug and decides to sneak into Mess to fill it up with water. Slowly and carefully, Naina gets out of the room and makes her way towards the Mess.
As soon as Naina reaches there, she finds no one there and all the lights are shut off. She takes a sigh of relief after realizing that the whole Mess is empty.
Putting the jug on one of the tables, she heads towards the fridge to get some cold water.
As soon as she takes another step, due to something very slippery, her foot slips and she gets unbalanced.
Just when she is about to fall, a pairs of strong hands grabs her by her waist, to save her from falling, while her eyes are closed out of fear.
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