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Hello!
How are you all?
I know that there is more than 2 stories in waiting list!
But updating this to put a memory point on this one as today is not only the 1000th episode of my fav show but also 1 year of travel in the company I'm actually.
Hope you all enjoy reading this!
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Happy reading!
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Quest!
"Yeah Mom!" The man on his phone said "I'm on the way! What more you want me to do Mom!"
"Okay Okay! I will talk with respect! No worries Mom!"
"Sure! I will make it on time Mom!"
"It would have been better if you have sent a pic."
"You should have asked them!"
"Mom! Tell me her name!"
"Yellow tops and blue jeans!"
"Yes Mom I have worn grey pant and black shirt!"
"Hmm grey tie is here!"
"No coat! No glasses!"
"I don't even know if I came to UK for my company meet or to meet the girl of your long lost relation!"
"Okay! Calm down!"
"Yeah!"
"Bye!" And he looked at his cell as if it's an alien thing "Not even a bye!" He murmured.
Putting his phone in his pant pocket, he got out if the taxi and entered a restaurant in an alley where thousands of different varieties of food shops were there.
Removing his coolers, he looked around but didn't see anyone in yellow.
Enquiring a servant, he got nothing as needed information.
Thinking of waiting for few minutes, he went towards a corner table and took a place in there after ordering a glass of water.
Minutes started to tickle and he got his phone out to check the trending post in Instagram.
"Excuse me sir!" A waiter.
"Yes!" Locking his mobile.
"Sorry for the inconvenient sir! I just now went upstairs of our restaurant and I saw a lady in the same attire as you have described!" With a genuine sorry look "I'm really sorry sir!"
Getting that it was a human mistake, the man in black shirt smiled and got up saying "It's okay!"
"This way, sir!" The waiter directed his client to the stairs before he got back to his work.
Getting to the floor, he fully analyzed before finding one lady in the corner table, facing the garden outside, with headset on, talking to someone agitatedly.
As he stepped closer, he started to hear her. Her words which sounded familiar but it was distant at the same time.
"Look Maa! Just because you said I got ready in this flashing yellow dress to meet the man you have chosen for me! Yak how can he like this colour!
Whatever he is doing or wearing doesn't matter to me. Black and grey or fully grey! I will be out of this restaurant in max 10 mins! If he didn't show before that he is saved else I will chop him and parcel to his home address."
Standing not far from her table he heard everything, not one word left his ear.
With a happy smile that this marriage is already cancelled, he neared the table and stood there.
"Excuse me!" He said getting her attention from outside to his leg. As she lifted her eyes, she finished her call saying "See you in 30 mins Maa!" In anger.
With her head bent, he couldn't notice her face and waited for her to show up.
Lifting herself from the chair "This alliance is cancel" and her words stuck in her throat as she came face to face with him.
He who was waiting to say sorry, looked stunned to see the lady standing in front of him.
"Chakor!" His words came as a whisper.
"I I a am sorry!" She stammered as she bent her head.
"You remember?" He questioned silently.
She hummed in reply "You here?" She questioned.
"I think you know the answer!" He said "So are you going to chop me or do something else?" He asked with a smirk.
"I'm sorry Leader!"
"Suraj!"
"Huh?" She looked questioningly.
"That was something I never wished to be called he said! So call me Suraj!"
"Hmm!" she hummed.
"Who is the real one? The one I see here or the one I know years before?"
***** PAST *****
"Yo Leader! We have to make at least one person cry today!" a young man said.
"Whose crazy idea is this Vivaan?" Suraj asked.
"Mine!"
"I should have doubted! That is why it's so disgusting!" he said facing a girl who was one among the small gang around the car.
Getting down from the car, he said "Well even if this college is of my uncle's friend and I'm the College Student Committee President, I have to attend my classes. And I welcome you all to come too."
"Are you gone mad?"
"I'm not going anywhere on the first day!"
"Classes are not for me!" and one by they said what they are up to which is to not attend the classes.
Shrugging his shoulder, he went away from there telling "One more year and it's done!"
As he just mentioned, only one more year is left for them in this college.
Minutes started to pass and new admissions and old students filled the college.
"Suraj!"
"Yeah!" he replied to the call of his professor.
"You are called to the Chairman's room!" the old man said as he passed the permission paper to the peon next to him.
"Excuse me sir!" standing out of Chairman's room.
"Ahaan Surah! Come in!"
With a smile he entered and saw a girl seated in front of the old man in his late 50's.
"You are in the last year?" the man asked.
"Yes sir!"
"She is Chakor, my friend's daughter. She was ragged at the entrance of our college" and that is when he noticed the droplets of water falling from the girl's hair "You being the leader have to know about what is going around the campus." and Suraj nodded his head getting the message "She is in your class" the old man continued "Take care of her being!"
"Sure sir!"
"Chakor beta (dear)!"
"Hmmm" she hummed and lifted her head to see him.
"He will take you to your class!"
"Hmmm" she nodded and got up from her seat.
"You may leave now!" he said "See you in lunch hours beta!"
"Hmmm" she hummed and followed him.
"Hi!" he said with a smile.
"Hi!" she replied meekly without seeing his face.
Getting that she is not a person to speak up easily, he directly asked about the persons who attacked her.
For which she replied "I don't know!"
"If you see them, tell me!"
"Hmmm"
"Wasn't she the one?" inside the classroom.
"Yeah yeah! That 'Please let me go! I will complain!' case!" one of the person who was on a table said "So complain did?" he asked as she got close to them by trailing behind Suraj.
"So you were the one?" he asked.
And his small gang showed their teeth as Chakor looked shocked seeing where she was standing.
"Say sorry!"
"What?" echoed in the class room?
"Say sorry I said!"
"No way!"
"Can't!"
"Impossible!" were the replies he got.
"In that case, let me tell you that she is the daughter of the new ACP of this region!" hearing him everyone opened their mouth wide in shock, including her.
Stressed, she pulled a bit his shirt to get her attention "Yes!" he said looking at his friend but being attentive to her.
Getting close to his ear, she whispered "My dad is not a Policeman but military commando!" and it was his turn to get a small shock which he got recovered easily.
"Then! It is up to you all to see if you want to be here or in jail!" he continued his play.
"But" she in her kitten voice.
"Let me handle it Chakor!" he cut in.
"Hmmm"
And everyone excused one by one to her.
"This is our classroom!" and his friends started to chit chat between them "Take a place where you wish for!"
"Hmm" she said and went to the last bench, to the corner seat.
"Let's see what he does now!"
"Yeah!"
"Is he going to ask her get up or leave her?"
"Once I put my bag there and he burnt my bag without any mercy!" his friends cum gang.
"That is my place!" he said calmly.
"Oh! Hmmm" not looking at him "Can I sit here?" he started to mess his hair "Please!" she added.
"I can't sorry!"
"Hmmm!" she picked her and got.
"Leave it!" sitting on the remaining place on the table "Stay there!"
"But"
"I said sit!"
"How come she is listening to him and he is talking with authority to her?"
"I have the same doubt!"
"May be relatives!"
"May be!" his friends.
"First period has ended!"
"Hmm"
"Can't you say anything other than Hmm?" he asked her.
"Hmm Iii"
"Leave it!"
And days started to pass with her being always silent, doing her work and giving replies to the people only when she is asked for else no emotions visible on her face, nothing.
She was not the best student but did best in exams.
And Suraj on the other side started to have a lot more of soft corner for her than anyone else. He even started to admire her calmness.
"Thank you!" he said as he took a piece of cake from the tiffin box she passed to him. Taking a bite, he asked "Can I know why this?"
"Hmm Nothing Leader!"
"Tell me or else no need for this!"
Holding his hand that she left immediately "My brother found a job in UK yesterday!"
"You have a brother?"
"Huh?" she looked in a way asking what this question is.
"Tell me about your family!"
"Me, one brother and"
"Chakor!" Vivaan interrupted "Can you please help me?"
"What do you want?" Suraj.
"I'm talking to her, not you Leader!" turning to Chakor "Can you ask your father to arrest my dad for taking my phone from me and abusing me please please?"
"Who bought that phone?" Leader asked.
"My dad!"
"What are the abuses?"
"Calling me names!"
"Like?"
"Tortoise is faster than you! Monkey, donkey, idiot, useless!"
"When he calls you Vivaan, do you have any problem?"
"No!"
"Then?" he smirked and she for the first time smiled gaining his attention "Your smile is nice!" and she got back to her shell. Being disappointed on himself a bit, he continued "For your kind information, she is not a daughter of police but Army!"
"Then that day" and as someone called him, he left from there and went away.
"You look cute when you smile!" he said.
"Hmm" she said with a simple nod.
"Are you always this silent?"
"Students!" the professor of the next class interrupted.
"I will talk to you later!" he said as he got to know that she doesn't like to be spoken to during lessons.
"Hmm"
"Leader!"
"Chakor! I'm fed up with that designation! Please call me Suraj!"
"Hmm But"
"Okay! Leave it! Tell me why you called me for the first time in the last 7 months!"
"Hmmm Happy Happy Birthday Le" and she stopped.
"Thank you!" with a smile "Finally you said it before you leave the college for today!"
With no reaction, she got to only sprain her ankle "Aiii"
"What happened?" he asked as she sat back and he took hold of her hand.
"Sprainnn" she cried as tears started to treat her eyes.
"Let me check!" he said distancing himself to pick her feet and put it on the bench to check it. "A simple one! Being in house full of doctors, I think I can try one thing!" And CLAK he turned her feet in one direction to free her from sprain, making her scream in the empty room as she held his hand tightly.
"No please!"
"Just a small massage, it will be alright!" he said with an assuring smile.
"Hmm" she left his hand free so he could massage her.
"Done!"
"Thank you!" she said.
"Thanks to my mom and sis!" he said.
She smiled.
"You look beautiful when you smile!" and she no more smiled "Chakor!"
"Hmmm"
"Why are you like this?"
"Hmmm?"
"Always reserved!"
He eyes moved here and there as she searched for a reply but no words came out.
"I love you!" he simply said smiling.
"What?" she got up to sit immediately as a small pain erupted in her ankle.
He smiled and said "I think I love you! I'm not sure! I don't know why I wanted to say this! I never thought about this! It just passed my mind and I expressed!"
She was still in a state of shock.
"I like how your eyes move when you concentrate on lessons. You lips that moves when you write something!" she bite her lips "Your calmness! You are different! You are unique in my point of view! May be it is a small crush that I'm expressing as love but you hold a place here" pointing to his chest "I didn't expect I will tell it this way but no moment is more precious than now! Now or never was, is and will always be my way! I didn't mean to hurt you! Think about this and let me know!"
She without any word, just got up with the little pain and moved from there as he left space for her to get out.
And that was the last day she was in that place.
From the next day, she took another place.
And whenever he came to talk to her, she was in her shell, closed to herself.
"Happy Birthday!" he said as he blocked her way when she got up to go. "This is the last day of our college! Won't you talk to me?" he questioned.
"Thank you!" she said as she extended her hand which contained toffees.
"You might have brought it for someone!"
"HmmHmm" she shook her head.
"For me?"
"Hmm"
"Why?" as he took the toffees from her hand and sat "Sit!"
She sat "Last Day College!"
"And?"
"Birthday!"
"Why not for others?"
"We are outside Leader!" Vivaan screamed as he was the last one to quit the room.
"Leave him!" he pushed his friend's action away "Tell me! Why just for me? If I didn't come and meet you, would you have given me these?"
"Hmm"
"How?"
She got up in reply, got out of her seat as he left space for her, facing him "Ich liebe Dich!" and she ran away from there with him following her as she disappeared in one of the collider.
"She is strange! What is this IchlibDich?" he questioned himself as he made his way towards his friends.
***** PRESENT *****
"I have never forgot you! I still don't know if it is crush or love!"
She smiled and hummed.
"At least now talk!" he said as he sat on the opposite chair of hers.
"Hmm How are you?" sitting.
He smiled "I'm good since the time I got to know what that 'Ich Liebe Dich' means!"
"Hmm"
"Won't you ask how I got to know?"
She just looked at him.
"From you only!"
"Hmm?"
"I was the only one to whom you talked in our college! When you distanced yourself, I thought you started to hate me! But then, the last day. You made me feel special! Your eyes said something I wasn't sure of. Your words kept on ringing! And one fine day, I got what you meant! Ich Liebe Dich! Then searched for you! Everywhere! But didn't find you! Until today! My Quest has finally got an end!"
"Hmmm"
"Is that still valid?"
"Huh?"
"Ich Liebe Dich?"
"Hmmm!"
He smiled "I love you too!"
"Hmm"
"Two years since we last spoke! Two years since you last said those words!"
"Hmm"
"Why are you like this?"
"Iii"
"Leave it! Yellow looks good on you by the way!"
"Hmm"
"But it is not my fav colour!"
"Oh!"
"Mine is black" after a pause "I love the talkative Chakor more than this silent one!" he added.
"Only with family!" she replied.
"Then soon it will be!" he winked making her cheek flash red. "So is it a Yes from your side too!" without waiting for an answer "I know the answer!" and imitating her "Hmm" making her smile.
RING RING
"Excuse me!" he said as he picked while she pulled out her phone to call her mother.
"Mom"
"What?"
"Then!"
"Wait!" he said as he closed his phone.
"Maa! He is here only!"
"But"
"Maa! I will call you later!" she cut the call.
"You are not the person I came to"
"See" she completed.
"Then?" he questioned and she shrugged her shoulder "Would you mind if I click A Pic of you?"
"HmmHmm"
He immediately clicked a pic and sent it to someone in WhatsApp. And composed a number before fixing the phone to his ear.
"Mom! How is your daughter-in-law?" for which Chakor opened her mouth wide.
"Cool!" he said as he closed her mouth with his fingers.
"She is exact opposite of me! Calm and composed." he winked making her blush.
"Yup! My girlfriend only!"
"No no no!" he grinned "We didn't breakup! We never loved before!"
"Tell them that your son got booked years back!"
"She will not think badly about me!" he said on phone "Will you?" he questioned Chakor for which she just shook her head negatively "She is on my side only!"
"Want to talk to the result of your Quest?"
"Adjust with her Hmm Huh HmmHmm Mom!"
Passing the phone to her "My mom!"
"Hello!"
And after that, all he could hear was her Hmms and HmmHmms
"Life is the most interesting thing! Human the strangest!" he talked to himself in his thoughts "And she, the only piece available! Just for me! The answer for my 2 years wait! The result of my Quest!"
THE END!
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