PART - 3 ARMAAN DECIDED TO SPEND SOME TIME WITH RAHUL IN SHIMLA
BUT NOONE KNEW WHAT ARMAAN GONNA GET THERE IN SHIMLA , LET SEE HOW DESTINY WILL PLAY WITH THEM NOW
After many pleadings from rahul , for armaan to come to shimla , finally armaan agreed ,
Next day armaan left Mumbai , after giving the charge of his office work here in Mumbai to atul ,
Armaan was now in rahul's house where rahul was waiting for him ,after meeting him ,armaan preferred to stay for night in rahul's house only , as armaan house , there which he bought to live for few months was not yet properly furnished for armaan to live in
rahul tried a lot to cheer armaan mood and was successful a bit , as armaan was looking a bit relaxed today , indeed he was smiling too , and rahul was surprised to see armaan like this , he wondered what happened to armaan
actually the reason for armaan smile was somethink else , it was armaan's encounter with someone on his way to rahul's house when he reached shimla
FLASHBACK
Armaan reached shimla , it was late in afternoon ,
it was really plesant there and moreover the place was really peacefull away from the hectic and busy life of Mumbai , armaan was feeling really relaxed coming here , he was in the car , going towards rahul's house when his eyes fell on a small garden , and he felt like staying there for sometime , soo he asked driver to stop the car , and he went towards that garden , it was very quite there not much people , it was a children part and children came there in evening ,
He sat on a small bench there ,
he was sitting there , lost in his thoughts , when he felt somethink crawling near his legs , he looked down to find a small baby , trying to stand up , taking the support of his legs ,
he felt really happy seeing the baby , immediately a smiled played on his lips ,the baby was showing his dimple smile to armaan , he picked the baby and make him sit in his lap, and then starting observing him , the baby was exact carbon copy of armaan , same blue eyes and that cute dimple smile , which automatically got a smile on armaan face too ,but he found that baby got scared of him when he picked him up ,
"krish beta" came a voice of a lady from behind and armaan immediately looked towards the lady ,
there was an old lady standing there , [well it was bi] , she came towards armaan and krish , krish got excited by seeing her , and started jumping from armaan lap , towards her , as he was a bit scared of armaan , actually he though armaan , to be a big toy , yes a fascinating robot type , as armaan was sitting there without any moments , soo krish thought that he was a statue , but when armaan moved and picked krish in his lap , krish got scared of him , as he was not at all comfortable with meeting new peoples or strangers , he moved from armaan lap ,and crawled towards bi and hide himself behind bi's legs
armaan was kind of surprised by his behavior and loved his cuteness, as he looked really cute with that scared expression on his face
bi picked krish up and he hold her tightly and trying to hide his face in her shoulder , and armaan went and stand near him , he want to take him back in his arms , he felt soo good by seeing his small angelic face , he went near krish , "hey little boy hi" he tried to talk to him but instead he looked away from him and hide himself more in bi's neck , keeping his head on her shoulder , "vo actually , ye naye logo ko dekhkar thoda darr jaata hai , issiliye" said bi , to armaan , who felt really disappointed as he wanted to talk , to play with him, but instead he was giving him a negative response , but then he again smiled as he can understand it , " its ok , he is a very sweet baby" said armaan , and W*H that he ruffled krish hair a bit , as his back was facing armaan , and he then went back towards his car , as it was getting late and he had to reach rahul's place soon
FLASHBACK OVER
soo like this it was just a small encounter of armaan with krish , and armaan was having a smile on his face remembering it , he didn't understood why , but that sweet and fascinating face of that baby was not getting out of his mind and he just feel like meeting that baby again and again , and this was keeping a sweet smile on his face , when he reached rahul place and met him , well ater a long chatting session of armaan and rahul they both retired in there respective rooms
RIDDHIMA'S HOUSE
After a long tiring day at work , riddhima returned back home , as she knew that after seeing a small smile on the face of her angel , all her tiredness would just vanish , and it happened ,
riddhima entered the house only to find her little jaan playing with a small sponge ball ,in his hand , he was enjoying squeezing the ball, as it again get back to its normal shape , noo matter with how much strength he squeeze it , and he was trying his best to change the shape of the ball , but was not able to doo that , ths was making him frown , and that expression on his face was like awww , and riddhima just can't stop herself from giggling on seeing him with that annoyed expression on his face , with the sound of her giggling krish looked up and got excited by seeing his mum back home , he quickly crawled towards her to get a big tight hug from her , and riddhima immediately lifted him up in his arms and hugged him tightly, that was riddhima's world ,he was the world to her
"ma mum ma I micheed u"[mum I missed you] , he said to riddhima in his language , "oh my baby , mumma missed you too" she said kissing him at his cheeks where he get that small dimples , which maid his dimple get deeper, [hehe I know this is used for armaan ,soo what hai to armaan ka hi beta naa]
"So aaj mere sweetu ne kya kya kiya , bi ko jyada pareshaan to nahi kiya naa", she asked krish in babyish language while sitting on a sofa , and making him sit in her lap , while bi came from kitchen to find riddhima back home , "mumma aaj ghumme ki" said krish with excitement , in his babyish language , "ghumme ? kahha gaye the aap" asked riddhima curiously , to which bi answered "vo krish ghar pe akele bore ho rahha tha, to hum garden gaye the" , "haa park mein , majja aaya" he again added in his excitement, in his tutte foote language , "pel main dall gaya" he added to it with a sad face , and riddhima got serious to that "kyon , kyon darr gaye aap" , "kuch nah beta wahaa ek ladka tha , krish uske paas gaya , bas usne krish se baat ki , aur ye" , said bi , to which riddhima immediately got serious "bi aapse kitne baar kahha hai, ki mere bete ko ajnabee logo se door rakhha kijiye , I just don't want my son to meet strangers"
"Per beta , kab tak tum krish ko is tarah duniya se chupa ke rakhonge" ,said bi in a really concerned tone , "jab tak main zinda hu , main usse kabhi apne se dor nahi hone donge" , replied riddhima with moist eyes , and then she again talked to krish "sweetu , how many times I have told you not to go near strangers , then why do you went near that person hmm?" , she asked krish very politely , "vo big bunny thaa" replied krish very cutely , "aww aapko vo big bunny lagga , oh my baby , you like bunny ok then , mumma will get a big bunny for you soon ok" said riddhima to krish hearing to which krish got really excited .
NEXT DAY ,
It was around 11 in the morning , when armaan waked up , as he was here for some relax , soo he had no work to doo , and he was getting bored there , as being a workaholic armaan just can't stay away from work , soo he decided to go to the office
[note : rahul and armaan were partners in that company , infact armaan was the owner of Roshan's and rahul was the managing director for his shimla branch] ,
Armaam went to office
RAHUL'S OFFICE
Rahul was busy with some meeting in the conference hall, and here riddhima was working on some files in rahul's cabin , when armaan came there , and saw a lady in white salwar suit standing there , her back was towards armaan soo he can't see her , as riddhima senced that there was someone in the cabin , she immediately turned towards him , and saw a man in his black business suit standing there ,
As she turned armaan saw her , and armaan first saw her eyes , and was soo much lost in that green eyes , he was soo lost in remembering about the past, his thoughts were broken by the voice of that girl , "yes how may I help you" , said riddhima , her voice sounds really sweet to him , he was soo busy looking at her , that he didn't replied , "excuse me r you ok" asked riddhima again , as she was soo much confused with him not replying , "well actually I" , said armaan confused over it and still fighting with the words , "can I ask who r u ?" , asked riddhima again, this time a bit annoyed ,as to why this stranger was not at all replying ,here armaan was lost in his own world his own world of memories of that 2 months , which he still remember , yes she was the one , she was the same girl , how can he forget her , he was never able to get her out of his thoughts
And today he is again seeing her ,after long 8 years, yes he last saw her 8 years back , and had always remembered her , why ? he also don't knew that.
ARMAAN was lost in his memories , and riddhima was by now getting annoyed by this stranger in his boss office , standing like a complete dumb there in front of her , she wonder who was he and how come he came in like this , and there thinking session was disturbed by rahul , entering the cabin
"Rahul sir , thank god you came this man is here , I think he is dumb he is just not replying and" she said a bit annoyed and scared by his indifferent gaze, and with that armaan also came back to the present world , seeing rahul in front of him , "armaan , how come you here in the office, I told you to rest back at home" said rahul to armaan , "actually I was getting bored there , soo came here to just look around the office" said armaan ,
who was now facing rahul but was still watching riddhima with a corner of his eyes , as she was still standing there, confused , at to what all was happening , "oh , that's good you came here , come with me I will show you your cabin" , said rahul to armaan , "yaa sure , and this miss" said armaan pointing towards riddhima , as he was curious to know that why was she here and all , only then rahul realized that riddhima was still standing there , for an introduction , "ohh yaa that's riddhima , my PA , and riddhima , that's mr malik , armaan malik , our chairman , and he is not a dumb at all" said rahul a bit chuckling over it , riddhima was like , confused, then shocked , then felt guilty for saying him dumb and then scared as to the fact that he was the chairman , "oh I m soo sorry , I mean hello , noo mean good morning sir" said she as she got really scared and nervous with the fact that he was her boss,
on the other hand , armaan was like really pleased to see the changing expressions of her face ,and he just can't stop himself from admiring her , she was still the same with that same innocence as she was 8 years back , and then he smiled after seeing her being soo nervous , "its ok , good morning" was all that armaan said to her before leaving the cabin with rahul , who was kind of surprised , noo actually shocked , of armaan being soo calm and also smiling , after all this , he was again looking like the same old ammy , who was there friend, before all that miseries in his life ,
Rahul , showed armaan the whole office and make him meet with all the staff , but armaan was not soo much attentive as he was still lost in his thoughts ,
"Well armaan, here you goo this is your cabin , said rahul entering the cabin that was just next to his own , "well armaan I seriously think you should not join the office soo soon ,I mean you came here for some time to relax , and you r coming to the office here" , said a concerned rahul , "rahul what will I do alone at home , I will get bored there , and moreover your chatter box is also not at home" replied armaan , "well as for muskaan ,well she will be back in about 10 days ,she also want to came back soon , but she can't do anythink , as mom is just not allowing her to leave like this , after all its her 6 month now" ,
"yaa I know , well I think we shall complete with our hotel project till the time she came back , and then after she is back we can goo on an outing together" said armaan ,
leaving a shocked and a surprised rahul again , he was soo much surprised to see soo much of change in armaan , from the time he came here , and he was really happy with that , "yaa sure why not , we will , ok as per the project , you wait I will send riddhima , and she will give you all the details regarding the project" said rahul , while leaving armaan's cabin ,
and here armaan after listening to riddhima's name again got lost in his old memories , how he saw her , but never got the guts to came in front of her and talk to her , he sat back on his chair , lost in his life 8 years back
FLASHBACK
8 YEARS BACK
MUMBAI
Armaan did his graduation from SK COLLEGE, where he had spent , 3 years of his life , but still the college don't knew him much , the fact was that armaan was not a kind of person ,who loved to became popular , he always liked to remain quite , and not much fun loving or famous in girls and all, as he never showed his original identity in front of the college , and he despite of having all the good looks keep them hidden by wearing not soo happening clothes , of show off of any kind , he was a shy kind of person and don't have much friends ,except for atul , whom they met in college and became great friends in 3 years , and rahul who was armaan's childhood friend , soo always been together ,
Armaan atul and rahul , have just given there final exams , and the result is still awaited , for the final years students , that 2 months after the exams , till the result , were like the time for full masti and dhamaal for there group of friends , and now armaan atul were preparing to go to London for there post graduation , as rahul has already left for there, to make all the arrangements for there accommodations and all , while atul and armaan were still there in Mumbai , as they still have 2 months before going there ,
He liked his college very much ,that was the fact that he sometime visit the college with his friends , to relive there college days and all , it was the day of new entries in the college , today it was the first day of first year new batch , armaan and atul, with few of his friends ,were busy with 2'nd and final years students in ragging and all of many of the freshers ,
Atul was busy with others and armaan was like feeling bored, in that , he was just sitting in corner , looking here and there , when his eyes fell on the gate , from where entered she , wearing a simple pink suit , he was caught by the moment , there was she , dressed very simply , not any makeup , or artificialness , looking nervous for her first day , and was just concentrating on reaching for her classes soon ,yes she was riddhima , she just passed out her school life and now was all set for her new life in the college
armaan don't knew what maid him doo that , but he can't stop himself from getting up from there , and to just go behind her , he kept on following her without any noise , or letting her came to know that someone was following her , she entered her classroom , and armaan stopped there outside , seeing her , she was looking soo innocent , yes she had some kind of charm on her face that armaan was not able to avoid her .
He left the college that day , but just can't stop thinking about her , and only her , that was the reason that maid him visit the college again , after 2 days , he went again ,and hide behind just to see her , and just keep on looking at her from a corner ,
This , keep on happening for almost another 2 months , armaan without telling anuone used to goo to college and secretly see her studying in the classroom , sometime sitting and chatting with her classmate in the canteen , he was really attracted towards her , and used to observe her , he knew that she was a very bubbly , innocent and friendly type of girl , and that's all , he didn't knew any think else about her , not even her name , and he didn't even had guts to go in front of her and talk to her , and he was sure that she never came to know that anyone was following her looking at her ,
One day armaan was standing behind a pillar and watching her as she was passing the corridor , when he heard her name , as someone was calling her with that , "hi riddhima ," was all he heard and he came to know that it was her name , and that was all
Like this he saw her secretly , for around 2 months , 2 or 3 times a week , and that was all , after 2 month , he left for London for his post graduation , and then maid a mind to keep his this attraction as a sweet memory for himself , and that was all , he never met her and never came to know about her ever again after that , he went to London , where he changed completely ,he changed his dressing sense and yes after that he definitely got really popular in his surroundings
FLASHBACK OVER
And today after 8 years he again saw her , and over here , like this , and he heard her voice for the first time , and found her being soo close to him , and talked to her , saw her eyes , he eyes which were the best , he had never seen them earlier , may be because he always remained at a distant and soo never came soo near to observe them , his chain of thoughts were disturbed by a knock at his cabin door , and there was none other than riddhima there ,
"May I come in sir" , said she still sounding a bit nervous , "yes" , was only word armaan said , not even daring to look up at her , "sir there r the details of the new hotel project , rahul sir send these for you" , said riddhima, while keeping the files over his desk, "thanks miss riddhima" , said armaan , "you r welcome sir , but its mrs riddhima khanna" , she said as to clear her identity him
[she had maid this fake identity , as for all of them here riddhima was married but her husband was no more that's what riddhima had said here to everyone , as she was a single mother and it was very tough for a single mother to take care of a baby whose father's name is unknown , soo she kept it a secret]
and armaan was left in daze , MRS ? ,she is married , may be , but she doesn't looked like , but she is married , it was all armaan was thinking , and he don't knew why he felt bad on hearing that
PART - 4 RECAP: armaan in shimla meets krish n a play ground and riddhima in rahul's office , armaan remebers his past where he used to secretly watch riddhima in her college days , and then he came to know that she was married
and armaan was left in daze , MRS ? ,she is married , may be , but she doesn't looked like , but she is married , it was all armaan was thinking , and he don't knew why he felt bad on hearing that
After discussing all the details regarding the project, working over it , the whole day past like that working in the office
Later in the evening ,
Armaan was back at rahul's place , he don't knew why but he wanted to talk to rahul about riddhima , he wanted to knew about her ,
"Well I really liked the office environment , and the staff as well" , said armaan to rahul in order to start a conversation regarding that
"yaa it is , our staff is really efficient and friendly too" said rahul , generally ,
"Specially with you all of them r very comfortable , they weren't soo with mee , specially your PA she was like very nervous" ,said armaan intentionally , and was side by side observing rahul reaction too ,hoping that he don't take him wrong in any way
"oh riddhima , yaa she is like that , she don't get comfortable soon with others , its been almost an year to her now in our company ,still she is not much friendly with others" , said rahul , generally as they were talking about all the workers
"except you , she was very nice with you" , said armaan , again raising a hope to know more
"yaa a bit , that too after a long time ,earlier few months , she was same with mee to , she take time to adjust with others ,but she is very efficient in her work" said rahul
"oh, ok now I think I will take a leave , I m tired" , said armaan , as he thought that if he ask further about her , rahul will get suspicious about him
The night passed away like that , armaan was thinking about her , and the past , when she used to be very bubbly and friendly , full of life type girl , that was what he found nice in her, when he used to secretly watch her, but now she was not the same , she had changed , changed a lot
NEXT DAY
The work at office went smoothly , armaan was busy with the project with rahul and riddhima with her regular office work
Later in the evening , it was 6 pm time for riddhima to leave the office , as riddhima was rahul's PA , soo she was required to work till 6, managing all his appointments for the next day , that was her work , while whole the other staff leaves the office as 5 only ,
As riddhima was about to leave the office , it started raining heavily , she was standing outside the office gate waiting for rain to get less so that she can walk , same time armaan and rahul also came out of the office , and saw riddhima there ,
"God! This rain" exclaimed rahul , as armaan was standing there beside him , "hey riddhima , do you need lift" , asked rahul looking towards her
"no rahul sir , I will manage" , said riddhima awkwardly ,
"I don't think this rain would stop early ,and you will get all wet to , come we will drop you , and moreover your house is in our route only , soo it won't be a problem" , said rahul trying to be nice , as he knew that she will not agree soo easily , and the rain was actually very heavy
"But sir", but before she could say further ,
"come on , now don't be soo formal , moreover I will even get a chance to meet krish , its been long time I last met him" , said rahul , while armaan who was standing there only got confused , over who krish
"ok , as u say" , finally riddhima agreed and they all went towards the car , rahul took the driving seat , while armaan sat with him on the passenger seat , and riddhima sat on back seat
The whole car journey went in silent from riddhima and armaans's side while rahul was like a non stop tape , kept on speaking about all general stuffs ,
"here you goo , riddhima we reached your house", said rahul while stopping the car in front of her house , while armaan was looking towards her house , it was a small , actually very small house ,
"yaa , thanks a lot rahul , for the lift , please come in , bi would love to meet you" , said riddhima while getting out of the car
"you r welcome , and I wish we could have met her, but its already getting late and moreover its raining , soo better next time" , said rahul , he thought that armaan was also there and might be he won't feel comfortable being here , soo he avoided her invitation
"ok as you say , ok then bye", said riddhima finally getting out of the car ,
"yaa and riddhima , give my love to krish" , said rahul to her while she went out , and he started with the car and moved from there ,
"krish ? who" , asked armaan as he can't hold his curiosity more than that
"oh krish riddhima's son" said rahul generally
"Son?", again another shock , she was married and she even had a child
"Yaa , oh he is a very cute little boy , I m sure you would love him ,he is too adorable" , said rahul smilingly , "infact you know what ,he is very similar like you , he also have blue eyes and a perfect dimple smile just like you" , said rahul adding more to his information
"oh , may be that's the same child from the garden , yes may be , his name was also krish, that lady called him that , soo he was riddhima's son" , armaan was thinking all this
"what happened , where you got lost" , asked rahul , as he found him deep in his thoughts ,
"I know what all you r thinking , armaan why don't you forget about the past and just move on in your life" , said rahul with serious thought
"How did rahul knew about that , no one knew about my past , regarding riddhima , and how come he came to knew that" , were all thoughts coming in armaan's mind as he thought rahul was talking about him thinking about riddhima
"now you again got lost , listen ammy ,I know its tough for you to forget all that I know you were thinking about your child , when I mentioned about krish" , said rahul
"gosh he was talking about that past , wait a second I was not thinking that , how can I forget about my child like this , gosh what's happening to me I not even once got to remember about that till the time I came here, what kind of signal is that" , armaan was again lost in there kind of thoughts , and now rahul was finally getting irritated by him not at all replying to him , but he kept mum , as he knew that armaan never wanna talk about all that
Next few days went normally ,
now armaan was getting comfortable with the working environment there ,and yes he was still same armaan mallik ,lost in his world , thinking about and wishing for only getting his child
It has been a week , that armaan came here in shimla now
"Riddhima what happened why r you getting nervous tell me what's the matter", asked rahul to riddhima as she came to him in his cabin for getting some permission but was getting nervous to ask him
"rahul , sir actually I , actually rahul I need 2 days leave" , said riddhima nervously
"That's it ,ok you can get them , but next week , you know naa the deadline for our project is here and we still have lots of work to doo" , said rahul ,
"Yes I know that rahul , but its urgent ,I need a leave from tomorrow only" , said riddhima
"is there any problem" asked rahul in concerned voice
"yes actually , bi needs to go out of town for 2 days , and soo I can't leave krish alone , I need to be with him" , said riddhima
"oh yaa , you can't leave him but , you work over here is also important now let me think what can we do" , rahul said normally , "yes , why don't you bring him along with you over here , I mean then both the problems would be solved , you can take care of him and work over here simultaneously" , said rahul
"how can I bring him here , I mean , you sure there won't be any problem with that" , she asked unsure of it ,
"oh ho there won't be any problem , infact it would be great , this way atleast I would get a chance to meet with that sweet boy , soo final you bring him over here , for the next 2 days" ,said rahul smiling as her
"thanks rahul , you r really nice" , said riddhima being grateful to him
"I know that , ok now , lets get back to work , there's still lots of pending" , said rahul
and the day passed on
Later in the evening , some close relative of bi was not soo well , so she need to be with them , and soo she went in the same evening leaving riddhima and krish alone there
NEXT DAY
As bi have already left , soo now riddhima have no choice but to bring krish along with her to her office , after all there regular morning activities , and krish all naughty yet cute acts for irritating her , they both were finally ready for there day in office,
[it was babies day out , lol's lets see what this baby do now]
Riddhima reached her office like always half hour earlier than rahul , she went to her small cabin adjoined with rahul's and then made a comfortable sitting for krish there ,she had already bought all useful stuffs as well as few toys for him , soo that he don't feel bored
And on the other side krish was more than just happy , to get to be with his mother , at this time of the day , when she was never with him , as she was always at office this time , he was loving to just have her by his side
As the day started , riddhima got busy with her daily routine , and in between she easily got some time to look after krish , when she got a call from rahul's cabin ,
"Bachaa mumma will be back soon , soo you just stay over here ok" , she said to krish , who was busy with playing with his toys , as she was going to rahul's cabin for submitting some files to him , she left her cabin , leaving krish behind
And here krish after sometime got tensed for being alone , and soo he started moving here and there , finally he started crawling outside towards the main corridor as he found the cabin door bit opened enough for him to move out of it
He was just there outside her cabin which was next to rahul's cabin , looking here and there to find his mom somewhere in sight ,
On the other side armaan who just came to the office was moving towards his cabin , which was opposite rahul's cabin in the same corridor , when his eyes fall on a small baby crawling in the corridor , unknown smile formed on his face seeing a baby there and then he automatically went near him and picked him up in his arms, just to find him the same baby he met in the garden just a week back
While krish found himself being lift up by some unknown person , got scared as usual , and maid a cute scary face, as he can cry any moment
"Hello baby , we met again ,so what you doing here" ,said armaan smiling to him
While krish was getting uncomfortable in his hold ,he was scared of meeting new peoples and moreover he was all alone here with him , so he started sweeping slowly, tears start forming in his eyes , as he was too small to speak , soo his only way to express his feelings were his gestures ,as he was trying his best to get out of armaan's hold ,he was trying to push him away by his tiny hands , but soon he realized that it was of no use , as he was strong enough for him , he didn't had any other option but to cry , and his sobbing got more harder
"what happened baby" , asked armaan trying to calm him down , he don't knew why , but he felt bad in his heart seeing that tears in his tiny eyes , he just wanted to clear them and make him smile , he don't knew what to doo for that ,
And here riddhima came out of rahul's cabin ,and saw krish in armaan's arms ready to burst out in cry at any moment
She came near them ,and as soon as krish saw her there he started calling her and with his gestures trying to get in her arms , and armaan as he saw her there , let krish goo from his arms , he didn't wanted to but still as he loved being with him ,he don't knew why he really wanted to meet him again after that garden encounter , and now he even knew that he was riddhima's son ,
She took krish in her arms ,as soon as he got in her arms ,he hugged her tight as he can hiding his face completely in her neck , the best place he had for him , this was the most secured and protected place for him , all his fears get away the time she is with him ,
"arre kya hua mere baby ko" asked riddhima to him in his babyish language as she was confused over what had happened to him
"Actually, I saw him and just picked him up and he started crying" , said armaan , trying to tell her the cause of him being soo scared ,
Only then riddhima noticed ,that it was armaan , her boss standing there ,she got nervous that may be he will get angry over her for getting her baby to office and then leaving him free to move here and there in the office
"sir actually, he is my , actually I went to rahul's sir cabin , I m soo sorry for him , hope he didn't disturbed you" , said a nervous riddhima
"relax mrs khanna , its ok , and yaa your baby is really sweet" , said armaan with a smile on his face , and as he again tried to touch krish on his cheeks ,he again turned his face and hide in riddhima's neck , "I think he is scared of me" , said armaan , with a bit disappointment as he wanted to hold him again , to talk to him , to play with him
"actually sir he is scared of meeting unknown peoples, but he get well with them soon" , said ridhhima, as she noticed armaan's disappointment with krish rude behavior towards him , she even felt it strange ,that her always rude and angry and never smiling boss, was trying to be all nice with a small child , it was a complete new side of him which she had seen now , he was smiling and looked a bit happy too ,
"I will take your leave sir , I need to complete my work" , said riddhima to armaan
While she went back in her cabin , and armaan was standing there in his thoughts of krish , he don't knew why he just loved being with him ,
As she came back in the cabin , she tried making krish sit on the seat , but he was not ready to leave her may be he was still scared ,
"arre sweetu , maama yahe hai , kya hua aapko , why r you soo scared" , sad riddhima in babyish language , trying to calm him down
"vo bunny , big bunny , main darr gaya" , said he, tried his best to explain her in his babyish language ,
"bunny , kahha hai bunny" asked riddhima , trying and understanding to what he was trying to say
"udhal [pointing towards the door, as in outside] , park walla bunny" , he said again trying his best to make his mom understand what he was saying,
"no baby , vo bunny nahi the uncle the , and vo park mein bhi uncle the , and aap to mumma ke strong baby ho , aap kisse se nahi darte , hai naa" , said riddhima lovingly
"mera baby strong hai naa" , asked riddhima smiling at him , while he immediately nodded to that ,
"That's like my good baby , chalo ab aap apne toys se khelo , mumma ko kaam karma hai" , said riddhima finally , seeing him smiling a bit , and soo she maid him sit comfortably on the ground , and he got busy with his toys , while riddhima resumed back to his work
Armaan's cabin
Armaan was till lost in krish thoughts , he was smiling remembering the little boy he just met , rahul entered his cabin and saw armaan smiling to himself ,
"someone looking really happy today" , said rahul , which maid armaan get out of his thoughts ,
"when did you came here" , asked armaan
"just now , when you were lost in your thoughts , well who is the lucky girl" , asked rahul smilingly
"girl ,? Who girl", asked confused armaan
"the same yaar whom you were remeberring while smiling to yourself" , said rahul in a bit teasing way
"its nothing like that , I was just thinking about that little boy , I met outside", said armaan normally
"little boy? , whom r you taking about" , asked rahul getting confused
"well riddhima's son , I just met him in the corridor" , said armaan
"oh yaa I forgot to tell you , actually the lady that take care of riddhima's son in has gone out of town , and soo I permitted her to bring her son here , as I can't give her a leave right now , and there was no one to take care of her son" , said rahul to him
"What about her husband , can't he help her with this" , asked armaan normally
"Husband! how can he help" , exclaimed rahul in a bit sad way
"What do you mean?" said armaan a bit confused and curious too
"Actually he is no more" , said rahul sadly
"What" , exclaimed a shocked armaan
"yaa he died 2 years back , even before krish was born , since then riddhima stays here and she is a single mother" , said rahul
While here armaan was just listening and then his expressions changed from shocked to sympathetic for her ,
"That's sad life is full of miseries for many just like mine", said armaan in a sad tone
"ammy why do you always consider yourself as unlucky, I m here for you , we friends r here and we all care for you , please don't get sad like this , I cant see you like this , cheer up man be happy" , said rahul , finally tired of cheering armaan now
"Enough rahul" , very loud as he was very sad and highly pisse of now with this endless tries of all of them to cheer him up ,
"I don't want your sympathy and support , I m all alone and I don't need anyone for me now , my life will be always like this only full of sadness , and loneliness , so please stop this trying of yours now for whom should I cheer u and why should I be happy I don't have any reason for that" , said armaan angrily and left the cabin , while rahul was still standing there , very sad and depressed with armaan behavior
Riddhima who came there when heard armaan loud voice ,and heard what armaan said , got a bit confused over what was happening , soo she went in the cabin after armaan left from there ,
"rahul is everythink ok, I mean why sir left in soo much anger" , she asked in a bit concerned tone
"do you know what riddhima, the armaan whom you r seeing right now , full of arrogance and not talking much to all , armaan was never like this , till few years back he was soo full of life , and a happy person , and now , his life had changed soo much , I really wish to get my old friend back" said rahul , in a sad tone , and all this time his eyes were still towards the door from where armaan has just left , riddhima noticed that rahul even had tears in his eyes .
Riddhima then went back to her cabin , thinking and only thinking about what all just happened there , armaan angry tone and then rahul getting emotional , she understood that armaan was not at all a bad person , his miseries and condition had maid him soo , later she got busy with her work
In the evening ,
she was about to leave , she went out of the office holding krish in her arms as he was deep in his sleep , when her eyes fell on the small garden just in front of there office , she saw armaan sitting on the bench in the corner , lost in his own thoughts like always ,
She don't knew why , but since the morning incident ,she was just thinking one think , that armaan was not bad he is just sad and depressed and need some moral support , she don't knew how she got that guts but she went near him and stand in front of him ,
"good evening sir , you still here didn't went to your home yet" , said riddhima normally
"home [with a sarcastic smile] , you mean the house where people rest , sleep and eat everyday, because home is maid with a family , not with cement and bricks , and I only have a house ,not a home" , said armaan sarcastically ,
"but you still have someone who still care for you" , said riddhima in a positive tone , and with that she settled next to him on that bench , and put sleeping krish carefully in her lap holding him carefully
"what do you mean" , asked confused armaan
"I m sorry actually I heard you saying all that harsh words to rahul sir today" , said riddhima a bit guilty , as it was there personal talks
While here armaan was still sitting there lost in his all that thoughts
"sir may be you must have lost a lot in your life , but still our like has to move on and soo we with that , I m sorry I know its your personal matter and I don't have any right to interfere , and I even don't knew why I m saying you all this" , said riddhima normally
"its very simple to say mrs khanna ,that like has to move on , but you won't understand how difficult it is to live a life like this all alone ,and with no one and no happiness at all , do you know how much it pains to loose someone very dear to you , pain of separation is not easy" , said armaan all this just being self concerned and not even thinking about what he is talking and to whom
"may be I know , how it feels being away from your loved ones" , saod riddhima with slight tears in her eyes remembering her father death ,
While armaan after seeing tears in her eyes , realized that she has also lost somethink special and he thought that she is talking about her husband
"I m so sorry , actually I heard about your husband from rahul , I m sorry I should have not said all this to you" ,said armaan feeling guilty for him saying all that
As he mentioned about husband , she remembered that she has to live in this fake life only ,
"its ok sir , I understand how it feels , you know what god has taken a lot from me ,destiny and its cruel games , 2 years back I was left all alone thinking what to do where to go , for whom shall I live for now , but then my luck gave m this , [keeping a hand on krish head] , my son , a reason to live for , and since then I m just living my life for him , he is my life ,and I m happy and satisfied with the fact that atleast there in someone in this world for whom I m important who needs me , who wants me , and soo I m living this life happily" , said riddhima all this getting a bit emotional over this , while armaan was just staring at her , and listening to her carefully
"you r lucky riddhima atleast you have got a reason to live , but here I don't have anyone for me, I m all alone" , said armaan sadly
"who said that , no you r not all alone , you r lucky also lucky sir that you have a friend , yes you have such a good friend like rahul sir , who can do anythink to make you happy , who r here for you ,who care for you , you r lucky to have friend like him , isn't that enough reason to be happy" , said riddhima , while armaan was listening to her , and realized his mistake , he did till now and was determined now that he will try and remain happy , not for himself ,but atleast for rahul , atul , muskaan ,and anjali , all of them were just soo good ,want to see him happy , he can be happy for them
"you can atleast be happy for them , and for the fact that you have such a nice friend" , said ridhhima again and trying to read armaan expression what was he thinking right now
"you r right riddhima , I can be happy for them , I will try for that , I know I m lucky to have a friends like them , and I suppose now I have one more in the list of them , soo what say friends" , said armaan bringing his hand ahead for handshake ,and smiling at her
and she smiled and shaked hands with him , "friends" said riddhima , in approval
PART - 5 RECAP: krish in office ,ar meet krish , some riddhima krish moments and then , armaan krish moments,
ARMAAN AND RIDDHIMA BECOMMING FRIENDS,
now ahead
"you r right riddhima , I can be happy for them , I will try for that , I know I m lucky to have a friends like them , and I suppose now I have one more in the list of them , soo what say friends" , said armaan bringing his hand ahead for handshake ,and smiling at her
and she smiled and shake hands with him , "friends" said riddhima , in approval
Finally a beginning of a new friendship , but armaan and riddhima both were unknown of the fact that a pair of eyes was also watching them secretly from a corner , and it was none other than rahul , who saw armaan and riddhima together there and had heard there conversation
Later that night ,armaan was just looking in space lost in thinking about riddhima , that poor she had lost soo much , he don't knew the truth , as for him riddhima is a widow and a single mother that is very tough and cruel for a girl as such small age
He was feeling bad for her ,he then compared this riddhima , with the sweet young girl he saw in her college , 8 years back , her life cruelty had changed her soo much , that she had almost forgotten to smile , armaan don't mind accepting the fact that riddhima's smile the way she used to laugh when armaan secretly watched her was her charm when he saw her 8 years back , which was now lost somewhere , he somewhere deep in his heart wanaa see that laugh that straight away went to her eyes , then his thoughts shifted from riddhima to krish and thinking about him unknowing a smile formed on his lips the night went on like this for armaan thinking about the two ,
While on the other side , riddhima and krish , just like any normal day spend there time with each other , played for sometime , and then went to a comfortable sleep , krish as usuall , slept holding riddhima tightly like everyday , he just cant sleep without her
Next day
Like every normal day riddhima came back at her same routine , and along with krish with her , as bi was still out of town
Riddhima was working in her cabin on some file , while krish was playing in the floor near her
Armaan on the other hand don't knew why but just feel like meeting krish for once , as he knew that krish was there in office , he wanted to see him to be with him , he was just thinking of any appropriate reason to just goo in riddhima's cabin , and too his good luck , he needed some details regarding a project, and inspite of calling riddhima he personally went to her cabin
As armaan knocked and went in riddhima's cabin, she was so lost in her work that she didn't looked up at him, while krish saw him coming in , and as usual got conscious seeing him ,
"mamma , mamma bunny" , he said looking towards riddhima , telling her that that bunny had come here ,
While armaan got confused as to why krish said bunny , pointing towards him
And here riddhima looked up when krish said that , and saw armaan standing there at the door
"armaan sir , you here you should have called me if you had some important work" , said riddhma a bit nervously as he was still her boss , despite of the fact that they were soo called friends now
"Firstly , noo sir ,we r friends now I think , soo no formalities in friends , please call me armaan" , said armaan looking at her , while she just nodded her head , not saying anythink , she still have that uncomfortable level with him ,as for her he was still her boss
"actually I came here to get the hotel project report", said armaan
"you should have called me ,I would have brought it for you" , said riddhima politely
"I though you would have been busy , and it may have been tough for you to leave krish alone here", said armaan bending down towards krish , as he was sitting on the floor with his toys scattered around
"hello big boy" , said armaan smiling at him , and pinching his tiny nose a bit,
While krish did the same , he also hold armaan nose in his tiny hands and squeeze it a bit , as they were face to face now
"bunny" , said krish giggling a bit after pinching armaan nose
"bunny , where is a bunny" , asked confused armaan
"krishuu baby , main kahaa tha naa , ye bunny nahi hai , uncle hai" , said riddhima coming towards krish and scolding him a bit
"I m sorry for him armaan sir actually", sadi riddhima lowering her head , as she thought that armaan would get angry by listening krish saying him a bunny
"hey hey riddhima its ok , you don't have to say sorry for this", he said smiling at her and then again came face to face with krish , "hmm soo you like bunnies big boy" , said armaan ruffling krish hairs a bit , but this time he did not reacted as he got scared with his mom scolding , and finally he scrolled back towards riddhima
"I think I shall leave now , he is again back to his normal ,when today he smiled back at mee , I thought he had started liking me , but then my hard luck" , said armaan in a bit disappointment with krish behavior towards him
Later the day went on normally ,
Rahul went home early , as today muskaan was coming back to the town , and he wanted to be with her for sometime and soo today riddhima also got free early and was leaving the office ,
Armaan was getting out of office gate in his car to go to his house ,actually now armaan has shifted to his own house , as he don't want rahul and muskaan privacy effected due to him , soo he has shifted before muskaan came back
Armaan saw riddhima walking out with krish , he stopped his car in front of her,
And offered her lift till her place, while she was a bit hesitant , but agreed due to armaan's constant pleading
In the car
They both were silent , he as driving while she was sitting quietly , it was only krish whose baby sound can be heard , and moreover he was trying to play with cars accessories fisrt he was playing with the door knob, then he got a new time pass , with the button used to open window frame , he deliberately hit it again and again , he was enjoying all that, till as usuall his Hitler mom scolded him for not doing soo , and holded his tiny hands soo that he cant touch anythink , he was now getting impatient and bored with all these , and making all possible cute faces , making armaan who was constantly enjoying watching him smile more and more
They stopped at a signal , there a man was selling balloons , that was all to make krish impatient he just wanted that balloon now
"mamma boon , boon" , he said riddhima pointed towards that man , that hewanted that balloons now , whereas riddhima when saw that , also wanted to get that for him but she didn't had the courage to ask armaan wait for her till she buy them , how can she order him , he was her boss after all , she tried to stop krish and explain him that she will get him that later , she was still lost in her thinking about all this , and here armaan had already bought all the balloons from the shop for krish
Actually armaan had also seen the balloons and he wanted to get them for krish , and before krish demanded for them from riddhima , armaan was already called that balloon guy towards him , and had bought all the balloons
"here you goo" , he said giving the bunch of around 10 baloons , to krish which he immediately holded caring not even to look over who was offering her that , he just grabbed them , as if it was th last chance for him to get that
"sir its ok , I will pay" , as usuall riddhima was hesitant to take them from him and soo she offered to pay when she saw paying money to for the balloons
"comeon ,don't be soo formal riddhima we were friends right , soo its ok, and moreover I got them for krish, I knew baby loves playing with these , right krish" , asked armaan watching krish , who was soo busy and lost in his own world with the balloons , and not even cared to listen to anyone else
"sweetu bad manners , first say thanks to uncle" , said riddhima to krish , as she saw him baby with balloons as usuall all mom's r same want there child to learn all manners
But when she saw him not even caring to what she said , she got annoyed and snatched the bunch of balloons from his hand , making the poor baby groan , his favorite think taken away from him, he watched her ,and then with his gestured asked for that bunch again
"no first say thank you to him , then you will get this" , said riddhima in a authoritive voice, giving her final verdict , making poor small baby sad , and soo krish maid a sad and cue puppy face allmost on a verge of weeping
While armaan don't liked it at all he loved seeing that sparkle in his eyes, when he had offered himn with that balloons , which he soo impatiently grabbed, making armaan smile on his cute antics , but now , he was not al all happy to se that sad face of him
"its ok riddhima ,he is a small baby, its not required" , said armaan supporting the poor baby
"no sir, he need to learn all these" , said riddhima, like a typical mom , as mom always want there child to learn all the manners and all
"say thank you to uncle , then you will get these" , she said krish again , while poor baby don't have any choice left ,he faced armaan
"thanku" , said he, making a sad and cute puppy face ,making armaan smile grew wider , with his small cute gesture
"its ok" , he said while caressing ,his small cute dimples with his hand ,how he wished he can hold him tight , he don't knew why but he was getting attached to him like anythink the mare he saw him the more he got attracted towards him
Later ,
he dropped riddhima and him , and then alone headed towards , rahul's house , as today he want to meet muskaan , she had just arrived today
He entered there house , and the first think she heard was a loud voice , as if someone shouting loudly , and it doesn't took him mush to realize , that it can be none other than muskaan
"oye khotee de puttar tujhe samajh nahi aataa , maine kahaa mujhe abhi ke abhi aloo ki tikki khaane hai matlab khaane hai , samjhaa" , said rather shouted in typical Punjabi style , it was a girl sitting in the living room dressed in a typical salwar kameez , yes she was muskaan , who had just came back from patiala , where she went to stay for few days at her mom's place
"muskaan , araam se baat kar , dekh jyada chilana bachee ke liyee theek nahi hai hai naa" , said rahul lovingly , trying to calm down his overloud wife , who was in her usual mood swing , being in her 7 month of pregnancy
"tu kehne kya chahataa hai main chilaa rahhe huu haa" , said muskaan angrily
"nahi nahi tu chilaa kahaa rahhe hai , aapke muh see to phool baras rahhe hai" , commented armaan sarcastically , as he entered there living room
Muskaan at once looked towards him , and as usual got over excited to see her friend after such long time
"oye hero , tu aa gayya , kahaa tha ab tak, mujhe ghar aaye hue 3 ghantee ho gayye hai , aur tu a baa rahha hai mujhse milnee" , said muskaan again tuning angry at him, while armaan smiled at her , thinking ye kabhi nahi badlege
"mere maa mujhe maaf kar de , galte hoo gayye" , said armaan joining his hands in front of her making rahul happy with his changed behavior today he was behaving like there old friend , while muskaan to calmed down a bit ,finally smiled
Finally they met each other , like 2 civilized people ,later after few chit chat they had there dinner , and armaan was not like his usual self today , he was looking happy and was even cracking jokes and participating with sarcastic comments over muskaan , rahul was happy to see this change in him , but he was confused over the reason for that , but in anycase he didn't wanted to spoil this moment soo he kept quite
"waise armaan , what took you soo long , I mean office to ka kaa khatam hoo gayya tha , why you got late coming home" , asked rahul generally
"yaa actually I had given lift to riddhima , soo I got late" , said armaan normally , while rahul got triggered with that , he was already confused after listening to there talks yesterday , and today also ,armaan was kind of showing a bit over interest in her
"riddhima kaun, your secretary riddhima" , asked muskaan from rahul regarding the matter ,while rahul nodded
"arre how is she , kaafe time hua usse mille hue , and how is her son , armaan have you met him , bahut cute hai" , said muskaan in one goo ,as usual getting exciting over small thinks , actually muskaan have met riddhima a lot of times , as she used to come to there home a lot of time for work purpose , and muskaan and she got together a bit well , and as muskaan just like rahul loved kids ,soo she had also spend some time with krish
"yaa he is indeed very cute , bahut pyaara hai" said armaan thinking about krish and his gestures in car , which again maid him smile over it and rahul more and more suspicious
Next days went very normally
As bi came back , soo riddhima didn't bought krish along with her , as now bi was there to take care of him and soo armaan was a bit sad , moreover side by side he never stopped his search ,and hope to find his own child too but till then he just loved being near with krish , it helped him in forgetting about all his miseries
It had been 3 days since armaan met him last , he wanted to meet him
It was Sunday and hence it was off for all
Armaan was just thinking about krish , when he remembered his encounter with him in riddhima's cabin , and the way he said him as bunny , suddenly armaan got an idea he immediately went to a toy shop and bought this , and then headed towards riddhima's home
the bunny he bought , chose the one you like more , i loved them all soo i putted them here
To his good luck , the door of the house was open ,as krish was sitting there in front of him on the carpet , busy with his soft toys as usual , while riddhima was cleaning the house she was there her back was towards the door
armaan entered the house , covering his face with the toy , and as krish saw that cute toy , he got fascinated by that and started giggling seeing that moving toy
"hehe mumma vo bunny" , he said pointing towards the door , while as riddhima turned towards the door , she saw armaan standing there , actually by the time riddhima turned armaan putted that toy down and had hide it at his back
"krishu , maine kitne baar kahha hai ye bunny nahi uncle hai" , said riddhima in an angry voice , really annoyed by now with her son repeating the same mistake again and again
"arre why r you scolding him , he is not saying bunny to me , he is saying it for this" , said armaan showing riddhima the toy "actually I bought this gift for him" , said armaan
"armaan sir aap yahaa" , said riddhima confused to see him
"actually I was just passing out from here , soo I came here to meet him" , said armaan looking towards krish , "and then I remembered that he thinks of mee being a bunny , so I bought this bunny for him , maybe after this he wont say mee that" , said armaan trying his best to make her convince
"oh , but sir it was not required, I mean this toy" , said riddhima hesitantly
"I didn't got it for you , I got it for krish and I m sure he would love it , and cant I give him some present , may be after this we can became friends and he will not be scared of mee" , said armaan looking towards krish , whose eyes were stuck on that bunny toy only , he just wanted to have that in his arms now
Armaan went near him and bend down and offered him that toy , but this time krish being decent enough first looked towards her mother and when he saw riddhima approving him to take it , he gently took it from armaan hands "thankuu" , he said softly after taking that toy from armaan
"my god , riddhima you tough him all this , I mean that day he soo quickly took that balloons and today he was soo hesitant and even said thanks before taking ,you maid him learn this" , asked armaan from her
"don't you think he is too small for learning all these manners and all" said armaan "by the way how old is hee" ,asked armaan normally
"sir he just completed his 1 year and 4 months few days back" , said riddhima normally , making armaan got lost in his deep thoughts
"what's his birthdate" , said armaan still in daze ,
"25 july" , said riddhima normally , making armaan more shock over this coincident ,
"what a big coincident , according to medical reports that would have been the due date for my child delivery too" armaan thought , yes that was the day when armaan assumed his child to have born on and he even celebrated his first birthday on the same date , assuming that his child will be with him soon
"what happened sir where r you lost" , asked riddhima , looking at him
"hmm noo nothing , its getting late I shall leave now" , said armaan still looking lost and he quietly left from her house , still lost in his own thoughts
As he reached his house , he entered the living room , only to find a lady dressed in saare sitting there
"mom !" said armaan in a shock , yes it was Naina Mallik, armaan's mom
"hi beta , how r u, I missed you soo much" said naina , coming near him and engulfing him in a tight hug leaving armaan confused, first over her sudden arrival and then her being over sweet with him , which she never was normally
Many more plans were cooking around him , lets see what was the reason behind naina mallik sudden appearance
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