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CHAPTER ONE: PART ONE-
Kabir rehearsed to the dance steps, looking at himself in the mirror, and observing each of his move, just forgetting about the world he was in. His students gawked at him in astonishment, as, he no more, remembered, that he was teaching them. He just continued dancing his body, in sync, with the song, lost in his thoughts, when a loud screeching sound, that indicated the opening of that, old, rusty door, of the hall, with which, also, the music stopped, and it brought him back to reality.
He stopped in his position, and looked at his lost self, in the mirror. He couldn't, for a second, understand, what was happening, until he saw his students, and Saurabh, looking, at his reflection in the mirror, in confusion. Saurabh asked Kabir's students to move out of the hall, as he proceeded towards him, asking him, what his problem was. "What the hell, Kabir? Are you even interested in teaching the students--?" He asked, arching his eyebrows. "Now, I don't want you to start! My mind is all messed up, just leave me alone for sometime---" Kabir said, raising his hand infront of Saurabh, and looking down in anguish. "I have been seeing you like this since almost a month, and today, I am not going to leave, if you aren't going to tell me anything! Trust me, brother, and tell me, what happened, What is your problem?" He asked, placing his hand, on Kabir's shoulder. "Saurav--, please, just leave, there won't be any use telling you all this, since, eventually, you are going to support Nisha --! " Kabir said, moving away from him. "It isn't like that, Kabir-- , you know, I'll support you, if it is you, who's right--" He said, in concern, moving towards him again. "The thing isn't about right or wrong, Saurabh, it is about Nisha, and me,--- " Kabir told, to a, confused, yet irritated, Saurabh. "Kabir---, maybe I can be of atleast some help, if you tell me, what the actual problem is?" Saurabh managed to ask. "Do you want to know, what the problem is--? Then, it is your bestfriend, Nisha, who is a bitch! You understand? A, B-I-T-C-H, bitch---!" Kabir screamed, as Saurabh gawked at him, in surprise, and anger. "Shut up, Kabir! Don't you dare, call her that---!" Saurabh screamed, at Kabir. "Yeah? That's the reason, I didn't want to tell you this--- you may leave now---! f**k off, seriously--!" Kabir said, as he turned to grab his bag, which lied, uselessly, on the floor. "What the hell is wrong with your behaviour, Kabir---? She is your goddamn, wife, too---! You love her, don't you--?" Saurabh said, pulling Kabir's arm, and making him, face himself. "Yes---, that's what she makes use of! My bloody love---, the fact that I love her, more than anything else---, she knows where to hit me, to hurt me the most--- She used me, Saurabh, she used me---! You know what, you still won't understand, what I feel, because eventually, she is your bestfriend, and the truest person for you--- " Kabir said, as tears brimmed in his eyes, and, his mind was completely blinded in anger. "Okay--, now calm down, and tell me, what happened, I'll help you," Saurabh said, trying to console Kabir.
"That moron---" Kabir started, as he slid his body, against the huge, wall-sized, mirror, and Saurabh, sat on his knees before him. "Who---?" Saurabh asked, trying to put pressure on his little brain, making it think. "Who else, is a moron, Saurabh--?" Kabir asked. "I am confused! Tell me, who is it---?" Saurabh asked, scratching the back of his head. "Riteish---" Kabir said. "Oh---, Riteish! But who, Riteish---?" Saurabh said, and asked, scratching his head in confusion, yet again. "Your bestie's f**ktard boss---, who else!" Kabir said. "Oh---, but what happened, with him--?" Saurabh asked. "Do you know, what? It effing burns me everywhere, when he touches her--- , it feels, as if, I'll turn to ashes---" Kabir started.
"Bro, what is the Problem---?" Saurabh asked, for the umpteenth time. "He, bloody, takes my wife, everywhere, and even, to his private parties, as if, she is his girlfriend--- , And Nisha, she just doesn't deny him--- You, bloody, won't believe, if I say that, last night, when we were making love, after like, so many days, and we were so happy about it, and just, when I was about to enter her---, that moron calls, and says that, she needs to go to his f**king party urgently, and guess what---? She left me, in the middle, and just went off to him, and that too, at 12:30, in the midnight,---! Like, bloody, what the hell----? And for your information, she did not even come back in the morning, while I left for my work, and she did not even call me, once, till now---" Kabir said, or rather, almost shouted, while Saurabh just kept oggling at Kabir, in surprise, and pity. "What the hell is wrong with this girl---?" Saurabh asked. "Who, bloody, calls a married woman, this late at night, and asks her to come to his private party---? Explain me that---!" Kabir asked Saurabh, in a deep, broken, voice. "I'll talk to her---, don't worry!" Saurabh said, assuring me.
"There's no use, Saurabh, she's done with me, she has used up my love, I don't f**king know, what to do, and where to go, because, she is all, that I have, but she, has found, a man, better than me----" Kabir said, wiping his tears. "It isn't like that, Kabir---, there must be some misunderstanding---, you know, that she loves you so much, and if you remember, it was her, who went against her family, to marry you---!" Saurabh tried, making me think over ir, again. I just wagged my head, and asked him to leave. "You just can't stay here, like this, Kabir----, you need to go home, and talk to her---" Saurabh said, placing his hand, over my arm. "She isn't at home, I called up, on the landline, but no one took the call---" Kabir said, looking up to Saurabh's face. "Then where is she---? Aren't you worried, for her---?" Saurabh asked, and Kabir nodded. "She didn't even inform me, where she went---" Kabir said, in displeasure. "Get up, now, Kabir---, we need to search for her---" Saurabh said, pulling Kabir up, holding his arm.
"I won't be able to bear with it, if she's with him---" Kabir said, looking down, not able to face Saurabh. "What if, she is in a problem, Kabir---? What if, she needs you to be there---?" Saurabh asked Kabir, trying to make him realise the possibilities. "I know, that she must be safe---, even though I don't trust that moron, but, I trust her---" Kabir said. "Kabir---, focus on the 'what if?' too--!" Saurabh said, in a serious tone. Kabir just stood up from his place, and followed Saurabh out of his dance academy, and sat in his car, while Saurabh, drove it. "Where should we go----?" Saurabh asked. "Home, first---" said, an uninterested, depressed, Kabir.
They reached home, but it was locked, from outside, like the way, he left it. And then they went to her parents' house, and she wasn't there, as well. "Where must she be---?" A worried Saurabh asked. "I just can't bear this pain, within me, anymore---" Kabir said, punching his fist, on the nearest wall, making it bleed. Saurabh assuaged him, that everything will be alright, but Kabir was in just no mood, to listen. When suddenly, Kabir received a call on his phone, from an unknown number. He avoided taking the call, and cut it, but then, it rang again. "Hello---" Kabir spoke, in a depressed tone. "Hello---, is this Mr. Kabir Singh Rathore? Mrs. Nisha's husband?" Came a serious voice, from the other side of the call.
"Yeah---,Yes---, w-who is it?!" Kabir asked, in a fumbly voice. "This is inspector Shahnawaz here,--- I am sorry to say this---, but I guess, we found your wife's dead body here--- And we found a wallet, and a phone, with it--- so I called you up----" The person spoke. Kabir was just in a shock, after what he heard. The phone slipped off from his hand, and fell to the floor, and a lone tear escaped his eye, and ran down his cheek, as he fell back on the stairs of the Gangwal house. Saurabh just didn't know what happened. "Nishaaa----" Kabir mumbled. Saurabh tried to move him, but in vain, he was in a shock. "Hello----, Mr.Rathore,---" the person on the call kept speaking, when he received no reply from Kabir. Saurabh immediately took the phone, and kept it against his ear.
"Hello---" Saurabh spoke. "Mr.Rathore--?" The person asked. "No---, it's Saurabh, You can tell me what it is, actually Kabir's not in a position to talk---" Saurabh said. "Mr. Saurabh, Tell Mr.Rathore, that he needs to come here, and identify his wife's body---" The person said. "What are you saying---?" Saurabh asked, in a shock. "Mr. Saurabh, I am afraid to tell you this, but last night, there was a bus accident, on the Jaipur Highway, and everyone, travelling in the bus, had died. We had identified all the bodies, but this one, which we are afraid, if it's Mrs.Nisha's dead body, as we found the wallet, having Mr. Kabir's visiting card, and also, there was this phone, from where we found this number, and I wanted to inform you, that you'll have to come here to identify the body--- so we called up to inform you---" The police inspector said, and it was Saurabh, who was blank this time.
"Mr. Saurabh, are you listening---" the inspector asked. "Are you going to come here, Mr. Saurabh--?" The inspector asked again. Saurabh, however, controlled his senses, and managed to say a yes. Tears brimmed in his eyes, but he needed to console Kabir.
"Kabir---, get up, we need to go there---" Saurabh said, shaking Kabir holding his hand. Kabir wasn't replying, nor was he crying, he was just in a shock, and his face had turned pale. "Kabir---, WE NEED TO GO THERE! GET UP!" Saurabh shouted, bringing Kabir back to reality. "Nish--Nishaa, I need to go to her---" Kabir started mumbling. "I will take you there--- " Saurabh said, as he made Kabir, again, sit in the car, and he drove the car towards their destination. Kabir was completely blank, throughout their journey. Somewhere, within, he just wished, that it must not to be his Nisha. He was ready to forgive her, for everything, he just wanted her safe.
Kabir wasn't ready to get out of the car, even after they had reached their destination. The situation there was completely in chaos. Fire engines on one side, fire on the other, people crying and screaming, on one side, holding on to the dead bodies that lied there, on the floor, lifelessly, in a morbid silence. Saurabh, just, however, dragged him out of the car, and held his hand, as Kabir walked midst of this chaos, lifelessly. Saurabh enquired for the inspector, who had called them, and, walked up to him, dragging Kabir along. Saurabh wasn't in a too good state, either, he was just doing all this, for the promise, that he once made to his best friend, that if something happens to her, it was him, who was going to protect her stupidest, dumb, husband. Saurabh showed up, before, Inspector Shahnawaz, as Kabir, stood, lifelessly, behind him, looking all around, in a complete shock. "Glad that you are here, Mr.Rathore, and Mr.Saurabh, ---" the inspector said, looking at Kabir, who was lost. "Where's the dead body?" Saurabh asked. "Just behind you---" the inspector said, pointing to a dead body, covered in a white cloth, lying on a stretcher behind them. Kabir looked at it, and slowly moved in that direction--- He removed the white shroud from the body's face, and just closed his eyes, in fear---- he cried, and screamed, holding to Saurabh. "This can't be Nisha's body---" Saurabh said, in disbelief, as the body was completely charred, and it was difficult to even recognise the face. "Just take a look at the clothes, then---, what was she wearing, when you saw her last time---" The inspector said. "Kabir---- Just have a look at the clothes, once, I am sure, that it isn't our Nisha---" Saurabh said, convincing Kabir, into looking at the dead body. Kabir looked up, and moved down the shroud, a little more, revealing the almost burnt clothes on the body. Kabir was shocked. It was the piece of the dress, that he gifted her, on their first anniversary. He just fell back, slipping away, from Saurabh's hold. "This can't be Nisha----, Nishaaa----" he started screaming sitting on the road, and looking at the dead body. "And these are the rest of the things, that we found along with the body---" the inspector gave Saurabh a packet, containing the belongings of the dead body. Kabir snatched the packet from Saurabh, and had a close look at it, and he hugged it close to his chest, once he realised that they were his Nisha's belongings. "This can't be Nisha----" he blabbered, as he stood up, and moved towards the car, not looking back. Saurabh couldn't stop him, inspite of his attempts, as Kabir sat in the driver's seat, and just went driving the car away, and it all ended, with another accident, and this time, it was, with Kabir.
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