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Bang... Bang... Bang...
Chandu was shot... three bullets... that was horrible to take... he fell rite there in sarja's arms... Niru who was standing behind the tree was dumb-struck.
Sarja looked blankly at his wounded brother... he remembered all the events from childhood... how tiny and fragile chandu's body was when he first when to see his newly-born brother, how chandu had taken his first baby step, his first word was dada, how they used to play together, how sarja used to ride chandu on his bike, how chandu fed him food whenever he was angry with his dad... for sarja, chandu was like a baby... he wouldn't mind getting shoutings from anyone, but would never allow anyone speak to chandu in a harsh tone... n today, his baby brother's half dead body was lying in his lap... he was bleeding profusely...
Albela was shocked, he wanted to kill sarja, but from where did chandu appear??? He never expected this to happen... Niru and sarja liked each other, dint they??? Or was it a misunderstanding???
Silence prevailed... Niru cried out loud "chanduuu" and came running towards him... each step of hers toward him reminded of each moment they spent together...
How he saved her from the truck, how he saw her sitting in the rickshaw, how he met her near the school bus, how they met at anton uncle's hotel, the times they spent at the beach, their date at anton uncle's hotel, their acceptance of each other as they consummated their relationship, the morning hug, the final hug before he ran with Niru into the jungle and his promise of being with her forever...
She was breathless when she saw his plight... he was soaked in blood... she fell the earth spin round her... the ground beneath her feet just slipped... they both looked into each other's eyes. It had fear ' fear of losing each other, fear of being separated, fear of how the other would live...
Albela dropped the gun from his hand and began to run... sarja was like a wounded tiger now... he said to Niru "tu chandu ke paas ruk, usey kuch hone mat dena, main uss haraami ko doondkar aata hoon... kahin jaana mat... "
he then looked at chandu who was finding it difficult to breathe "chandu, baccha, main abhi aaya... tu bilkul thik ho jayega..." he carefully got up and placed chandu's head on Niru's lap...
"nahi dada... ruko... main... mere paas ... waqt... nahi..."
Meanwhile sarja was already gone...he had gone chasing albela like a wild bull... chandu look at sarja, disappearing in the forest...
"haraami saala, main tereko chodega nahi..." declared sarja as he began to hunt for albela...
Niru looked at chandu in her lap... she caressed his cheeks and his hair, while he only looked at her, into her eyes...
"yeh tumne kya kar diya chandu? Kyun? Tumhe mera khayal nahi aaya? Ab main kaise jee paaungi??"
"waada karo... Niru... tum... kabhi... kabhi.. aansoo ... nahi bahaaogi... mere ... mere jaane ke b...baad... zindagi... jeena nahi... chod... chodogi... "
"nahi chandu, meri zindagi tumse shuru hokar, tum par khatam hoti hai..."
Meanwhile sarja who was running after albela, met his gang members on the way...
"sarje, kya hua??" asked a nervous pakkya..
"chandya ko us kutte ne goli maardi, chodega nahi main usey... tum log chandu ke paas jaakar usey hospital le jaao... main us albela ko thikane lagake aata hoon..."
"kya ???chandu??? goli..."
"mere paas time nahi hai.. tu jaa na..." saying this, sarja ran hunting for albela and the gang members ran towards the place where chandu was shot...
"Niru..." he clutched her arm tightly... his vision blurred... his body ached... each nerve was aching... he felt each drop of blood oozing out of his body... he was losing his consciousness...
"chandu... nahi tumhe kuch nahi hoga... " she cried for help
"koi hai... bachaao..." but all in vain... there was not a single soul in sight...
"i love you ... Niru..." he said this and his hand slipped out of her grip...
Chandu stopped speaking, he stopped breathing... he died,...
Niru stopped crying... she was in a shock... she placed chandu's head carefully on the ground... she got up and went a little forward... albela's pistol was lying there...
"tum nahi, toh kuch bhi nahi chandu... i love you too..." she came back to where chandu's lifeless body lay...she placed the pistol in her mouth and ... bang... she shot herself... she fell right next to his body...
"i love you too, chandu..." saying this, she closed her eyes...
The gang members reached the spot and found not one, but two dead bodies...
They rushed them to the hospital... both of them were taken into the OT...
After a while, the doctor from one OT came out and said "im sorry, chandu nahi raha..."
All of the gang members broke down, chandu was like their brother too... they had seen him grow up since he was a baby... and now, he was no more??? Now the only thing they hoped was for Niru to get better...
Niru was struggling between life and death... she was breathing in difficulty... her pulse was dropping... and ... she went into coma...
"Sorry, woh coma mein chali gayi..." the doctor said from the second OT...
Sarja reached the hospital...
"chandu... kaisa hai woh???" all of them were blank...
"bol na??? Doctor ne kya kaha??"
"nahi raha ... chandu ... nahi raha..." pakyya spoke after a long silence...
Sarja said nothing... he just sat on the bench. He just couldn't react...
Niru opened her eyes... everything was normal... she got up and realized she was in the hospital... no one was in the room...she sat up on her bed... and smiled... she saw chandu in front of her... he was standing near the entrance of the hospital door...
"chalein???" he asked as he forwarded his hand...
"kahan??" she asked him...
"wahin jahan hume jaana chahiye..."
She smiled at him...she placed her hand into his and was about to go outside the door, when she heard the long beep of the machine... she looked back to see her own lifeless body on the bed...
Yes, Niru was free from her body now...
"chalo chandu..." she smiled at him...
All the doctors rushed to the OT to see what just happened and after several attempts, they announced her as dead...
Both chandu and Niru walked out of the room, to see sarja and his gang members crying and consoling each other...
But for them, well, they couldn't wait... they walked hand in hand towards the light... and disappeared into thin air... finally they were together, they were there, where they were supposed to be...
ADHOORI SAANS THI, ADHOORE THE DHADKAN...
MAGAR AB CHAND POORA HAI FALAK PE,
AUR AB POORE HAIN HUM...
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