short story the dark nights(mars)part6,pg32:)

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Samrat really wanted to bang his head sumwhere.

Nupur= and that's how we r going to prepare for the worlds best farewell party ever..

Any questions guys???

Samrat raised his hand like a four year old

Nups= yes samrat, what ur question??

Sam= when the hell will u shut up?? I am hungry.

The whole gang broke into loud titters of laughter.benji falling on dia in the process n getting a spanking and a blush in return..

Nupur scowled , while adi patted samrat on his back for his awesome question..

Samrat glared back at nupur..it was lunch time n he was hungrybut for the past opne hour , nupur was just droning on n on about the farewell party they had to give to the fourth year students of their college.

On an empty stomach , nupur's high pitched shrills were nothing less of a torture for samrat..
nups= u u u u r such a lazy git and a monkey too

Sam= thanks for heart wrenching compliments.. can we now eat pls??

But apparently nupur was in no mood to relinquish, samrat sensed this and sighed.

Though nupur sumtimes irritated him to the boundaries of sanity,yet she was his best friend.no matter what happened , imagining life without her stupidity was unbearable.

He stood up from his seat n sat besides nupur on her bench.

Nupur purposefully turned her face away from him.

Sam smiled this time then holding his ears n making a cutest possible face he said

Sam= acha baba sorry galti ho gayi maaf kar do

Nups= (looking at samrat from the corners of her eyes )= nai..

Sam= pls

Nups gave a tiny smile and turned to face him finally.

N= ek sharat par.

S= kya??

N= tum aaj gunjan se baat karoge n will ask her to be ur friend..

S= WHAT????

Samrat looked at nupur totally stunned, this had been so unexpected,

The others from their group , who till now were avoiding both of them , now turned there attention their full attention back to the duo

N= kya what??? Ek baar kehne se sunayi nahi deta?? U will talk to gunjan samjhe!!

S=w..w..w..w..hat??? no no I won't..

N= by god, normally u behave like this highly cool guy, lekin gunjan ka zikar hote hi bheegi billi ban jaate ho..

Samrat looked at his feet totally embarrassed

He heard benji and dia's giggles. All of them were enjoying..

Believe nupur to torture him at every possible chance..

Yeh bhi koi sharat hui???? Gunjan se baat karo..

Doesn't she know k hum dono ek dusre ko dekhte hi''.

N= samrat pls answere..

S= (still looking down) look this is not a joke, i.. she .. we'. I mean I think she is not comfortable with me. And I wont force her to do anything she doesn't want to'.

With a finall stare at his shoes samrat got up n glanced back at his group..

All of them looke stunned..

Huh??? Maine aisa bhi kya leh diya k in sab k tote hi udd gaye???

S= what happened??

No one answered, that was when samrat noticed that no one was looking at him. All were looking at someone standing behind him..

A cold feeling of dread reached him as he turned around..

There'.

He saw a stunned gunjan standing behind him.

Apparently she had heard everything..

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N= no no no pls pls leave him pls , he doesn't know anything..

A man (coming closer to nups who was tied against a pillar)= really?? As far as I know you share everything with ur best friend don't u???

May be you also told him the secret I want to know..

May be with just a little bit more persuation he will spill all out for me!!

N= no no no'.. pls he doesn't know any darn thing plsss leave him..

Man= hhhmmm..

The heavily built man turned his face away from nupur, and moved towards a young boy slumped on the floor, the boy looked almost unconsiocous, he was bruised and badly beaten

On his way, the man picked up a broken arm rest from the nearby broken wooden chair'

And as he approached the boy

And raised the bar to hit samrat , he turned towards nupur for a little while and winked..

A few seconds later both samrat and nupur screamed..

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Samrat had no idea how to react to this situation, neither did gunjan , she was just a shy girl, who grew overcautious around the people she liked

And she liked samrat a lot..

From thr first day of college.

So obviously she never spoke when she was around him , , neither did he

He seemed to be as much shy around her as was she around him..

And today she finally got to know the answer

Samrat thought that gunjan was uncomfortable around him.

Great!!! Splendid!!

Gunji had never meant to give samrat this impression, but now what could she doo to change it???

She wanted to say sorry for the silence and shyness among them from the past three years but she couldn't conjure up the right words to do so..

In front of her samrat was facing a similar trouble,, words kept drowning in his throat..

What was he going to say to her??

He knew she was shy ,, way too much..

He was like this too

N he couldn't help it

N now in this highly awkard situation no one of them knew what to say

All that they were able to do was keep looking in each others eyes'.

Nup= ahem ahem..

The small throaty chukle by nupur made gunjan cum out of her trance

She spoke

G= I .. I am sorry .. I .

She moved a little bit ahead got fumbled in her own dupatta n fell forward on samrat,

Completely taken by surprise by gunjan's sudden fall samrat lurched forward to save her

Instinctively his arm wound around her back and with other hand he stabled he weight

Both of them started tumbling backward

Samrat hit the table with a loud thudm spilling th books on t everywhere..

But sumhow he managed to stable his balance and save gunji and himself from any further injury..

Being soo close to this boy who had been her dream crush for pat three years made gunji feel dizzy.. she had to remind herself to keep breathing,

The boy looked way to angelic. If she should remain in control..

On the other hand samrat was too , lost in her to notice her inconvenience

'

She was way to beautiful then he had ever dreamed, without any conscious thought he straightened up from table's side , pulling gunjan along with him''

As he stood facing her his body burned,,, her flesh on him made him feel completely out of control, if he didn't check himself out he might end up kissing her there n then in front of everyone else'

N= samrat I thought u were angry???

S(still looking at gunji )= huh???

Benji= khana bhai sahab khana , ladki ko chod do n tiffin pe haq jamao.

At this comment everyone started laughing , gunji blushed deeply, and samrat finally let go of her '.

Too embarrassed to look up and meet her eyes again..

Precisely at this moment another boy entered the room and stopped dead in his tracks..

Nupur??? Nupur bhushan??? What the hell is she doing here???

Thinking so mayank sharma entered the third year class'..

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Samrat felt his head splitting into pieces as he screamed,, his scream mixed with the scream of agony coming from other side of the room..

Nupur???

Were these guys torturing her too???

What did they want???

Why r they doing this too use.. did they hurt nupur too..

Where was gunjan???

As far as he remembered the three of them were braught to this old rickety mansion together, each of them had been blindfolded and handcuffed and thrown unceremoniously in the back of a truck'.

After reaching this place they had been separated

Samrat and nupur were braught in this room, they had toed both of them to the pillars .

Removed the blindfold

And started asking senseless questions to mupur..

They were asking her about dark nights and sum other paper stuff..

What the hell was that supposed to mean???

Even nupur had been clurless abt all of it..

Then suddenly they had thrown samrat on floor and started beating him mercilessly,, nupur shouting for mercy all the time'

Samrat could feel the burn of pain throughout his body ..

He could taste his own blood

His vision had turned a shade of blurry red'

The last blow over his head had completely disoriented him

The things stopped making sense anymore...

And With this samrat slowly drifted away to blackness..

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all his life mayank had received to many shocks, the sudden death of his murder, the secrets of his father,, the secrets of an agency , his estranged sister n many more yet this was a shock he was not prepared for even in his mutest dreams..

nupur bhushan????

What was she doing here???

This was much more complicated then i had imagined

Mayank stared at nupur, a plethora of memories engulfing him , last year

He had first met this girl

The incidents of that time had bound both of them in a strange relation,..

He had saved nupur's life and in turn changed the complete direction of it

But then their time together had ended..

They had returned back to their respected lives

Never to meet again'.

So what the hell was he doing here in front of her???

Nupur at that time had no idea of mayank's trepidation'

She was busy in her friends

Finally gunjan n samrat seemed to be talking

Well at least they muttered a small hi n sorry to each other

After three years of being together

This ought to be their first conversation..

An enormous progress to boast of..

Benji as usual was upto sum mischief

Without letting anyone notice

He slipped sum chilli powder in the nupur's tiffin

N then smiled at his job

Benji= are nupur tujhe khana nahi khana hai kya???

Apna tiffin nahi kholegi

N= haan baba kha rahi hun

Pata hai aaj mein rajma chawl layi hun

Gunjan tujhe yeh bahut pasand hain na

Yeh le iski sase pehli bite tu hi le ..

Saying so she opened her tiffin n offered it to gunjan '

Gunjan looked around timidly n was about to pick up a spoon to take a small bite when benji stopped her..

B= are gunji kya kar ri hai???

Tujhe nahi pata nupur apna khana khud banati hai??

N samrat se puch uski cooking kitni disastrous hai.. by god

Gunji looked at samrat totally confused , n samrat looked at benji totally confused

N benji winked

Samrat understood

This was one of benji's mischief..

And apparently today his target was nupur..

He smiled

S= haan gunjan tumhe pata nahi nupur se ghatiya khana koi nahi banata hai

I know I have gone through enough

Then both he and benji started laughing ..

Nupur fumed..

She was a fairly good cook , and samrat knew that

Every Sunday he makes her cook numerous sweedishes for him , especially gajar ka halwa. Today he was ..

Ughhh

How insensitive !!!

Nupur lurched forward and took her tiffin back from gunjan

n- acha samrat to tumhe yeh lagta hai k mera khana itna darawanna hai???

Koi baat nahi bachu aab aana mujhe se gajar ka halwa banwane k liye

S= are are baba nahi mein to mazak kar raha tha'.

N= tumhare mazak ki to mein'

B= koi mazak nahi kar raha tha yeh

Gunjan tumhe pata hai nupur khud apne khane ko khane se darti hai , varna dekho abhi tak isne chawal bhi taste nahi kiye

Tumhe bali ka bakra I mean bakri bana na chahati hai yeh ' by god

N= benji tujhe to mein'

Benji gets up n hides behind uday

B= dekha dekha gunji ab yeh mujhe dhamaki bhi de rahi hai.

N= mujhe mere khanne pe pura vishwas hai samjhe

Aur tum log kal tak to mere haath ka khana ungaliyan chaat chaat kar khaate the aaj achanak kya ho gaya hai tumhe???

Huh???

Koi baat nahi aaj chawal kisi ko nahi milenge

Mein akeli khaungi

Shakal dekhte rehna meri

Saying so , fuming too much nupur picked up the spoon n took the first bite..

No one (read gunjan) was prepared for what happened next ..

Nupur jumped with in seconds of taking the first bite

Her eyes started watering almost instantly, samrat and benji started laughing like mad while uday, adi, and suhani were doing their best to hide their giggles..

Gunji was shocked..

Nupur was in pain.. how could everyone enjoy this so happily???

Even samrat

??

Wasn't he supposed to be nupur's best friend???

She got up n picked the nearest glass tumbler filled with water

And handed it to nupur who drank the water gratefully..

G= nupur tum theek to ho???

Nups(between hiccups) = haan haan mein theek hun, mujhe pehle hi samjh lena chahiye tha k yeh inka koi mazak hai'

Gunji= jo kisi ko itni takleef de vo kaisa mazak hua???

This sentence by gunjan shut everyone up.

Samrat looked totally stunned ' he had , they had hurt gunjan'with nupur

N= nahi gunji aisi koi baat nahi hai yeh to humara roz ka kaam hai'

G= acha??? Nupur tum log roz ek dusre k saath aise mazak karte ho??? Tumne apni aankhein dekhi hain ??? they r still red n wet!!!

Agar yehi sab mazak karna is group ki aadat hai to I am really happy k maine aaj tak samrat se baat nahi ki..

Saying so n with one disappointed fleeting look at samrat , gunjan collected he books n staggered out of the room,, leaving a awkward silence in her wake..

On her way out she collided with the same boy who had been observing their smaal group for the past few minutes

The boy picked up gunji's fallen books and handed her back..

Muttering a silent thanks gunjan left the room..

N then the boy turned and proceeded towards the group

Boy= nupur ur eyes r still red , take ur medicine , u have allergy from chill powder..

Shocked nupur turned around

And saw mayank standing their '..

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Nupur couldn't believe that this had actually happened

All her life had turned upside down n with her samrat gunjan's life had been destroyed n now both of their lives were on the brink of getting ended brutally

Just because of her

N''''''mayank

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The voice' that voice' mayank????

What was he doing here?? Am I dreaming???

May be the chilli has started to get over my head..

May be the allergic reaction I usually incurred from chillies have started played with my senses..

All nupur's senses were playing havoc on her..

She turned briskly to make sure that the voice had no origin in reality..

But froze when she saw him.. standing there in front of her

Care clearly written on his face..

He was having a glass of water in his hand ..

What was he doing with water???

Was he thirsty???

M= nupur pls ur eyes r getting more red by every passing second..

Drink this n take ur med. Tere bag mein hi hogi..

Nupur looked at him dumbfounded

Too shocked too process the meaning of his words.

Meds?? Eyes ?? red?? Mayank???

Mayank sighed .. he actually looked a little irritated at nupur's confused look.

Tilting his head a little way too the right he scanned where the bags of this group were lying on a side bench, piled over one another..

One look through them, told him which bag belonged to nupur!!

Obviously the one brightly coloured..

He bend down n picked it up..

Searched for any outer pockets to it,

He remembered, last year too when they were together, nupur had suffered from this allergy of chilli after eating food at a local dhabba ..

That day she had told her that she usually kept her meds for the allergy in the outer pockets of her carry bag..

He remembered that little bit of information even today..

Opening the side zipp he took out a silver paper wrapped tablet, opened it n offered it to nupur, this time telling her in a little bit stern voice to eat it..

Nupur took the tablet as if in a trance , still unable to take her eyes of mayank.

His sudden unannounced n totally unexpected arrival had taken nupur completely off guard

Memories of the past year came crushing down on her..

Those days which had been a terrible mess as well as a blissful experience for her were currently too much for her to cope up with..

After taking the tablet she could feel her eyes stinging less within few seconds.

She could feel her coughing fit relaxing a bit. Her head going light'

She couldn't comprehend anything for any longer..

Her sorroundings had started to appear as a total daze..

What was happening to her???

Has her allergy gone of too a higher stage this time???

Or was it her confusion making her vision blurred??

Whatever it was it made her black out and fell in mayank's arms withing few minutes..

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is it that bad??

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thanx dolly, the concept is n the starting is way too gud..I think this ff/ss gonna make me hooked!😉

hope i will do a good job with it

@ faria.. hmm confusing

fiqe not :)

hopwfully as the story unfolds it will be much more clearer..

cureently the story is shuttling between two time ranges

happy past(flashbacks of that college day when mayank enters the college

and the disastrous present

(torturing of sam nups gunji n all that things

as the story unfolds , tujhe pata chal jayega k aisi ajeeb si situatio kaise aayi:)

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