#1 Guzarish [My version D3] Parts 1-3 - Page 70

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G u z a r i s h .

Color key:

Kriya

Shivam

Smriti

Swayam

Rey

Sharon

Vishakha

Neha

(rest will be added as they make their entry + will add them all on first page with CS and include at top of each update till the time you automatically remember that this color belongs to this person 😛)

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Part 3

Minutes later, a doorbell rang and before Smriti would come out, Kriya rushed to open it knowing it would be Vishakha. Before Vishakha could ask anything, Smriti was out. She said nothing seeing it was just Vishakha. She went back in her room. Kriya pulled Vishakha in her room and closed the door behind her.

"Kriya, what is this all about? And your mom looks really mad."

'Yea'" Kriya told her all about how Smriti didn't like Kriya dancing and how she had promised not to dance. About how the way things were at college and the divide that forced Kriya to lie to her mother and make a team and how she had now found out about it. Vishakha listened to it all.

"So what now? There's no way aunty will let you out of her sight tomorrow."

"I know' You guys will have to do something to convince my mother. I've tried but no luck. She won't hear a word from me! I can't just sit here and let you all down."

Vishakha held Kriya's hand and pressed it lightly to console her. Her next question surprised Kriya. "Does Rey know?" Seeing Kriya's expression, she laughed and explained. "What? You guys really think everyone's dumb?" She paused for a second and then continued, "Ok, others might not have but I have definitely noticed you too and the way you act around each other. Wasn't hard to put the pieces together."

Kriya blushed and then she too realized. She hadn't thought about Rey at all. She was so immersed in thoughts about the competition and her friends. She somewhere felt a sting of guiltiness but quickly overcame it. "I ' I can't tell him." She said voicing out her fears.

"You have to Kriya. Even if we convince your mother to let you perform tomorrow, there's no saying about the future. If she takes you with her, he deserves to know why the person he loves the most just left like that."

"I know' He does' but I just can't tell him. I love him too much to bear losing him. If I have to leave, I won't be able to see him again. Ever. It is better he hates me for leaving and forgets about me and moves on in life. If he knows, he will never move on and keep hoping for me to return. Vish, just listen' I don't know how to explain to you but it'll be better for him if he hates me and forgets about me and us. Promise me, you will never ever tell anyone about this. Please!"

Vishakha felt like Kriya was making a silly decision but she did understand part of what she meant by Rey holding himself back in hopes and all that. He could hate you after you do this but he will never forget you. She wanted to tell her. Half of her wanted to drill sense into Kriya. But she nodded deciding that it was Kriya's decision to make. It was her life and if she wanted her to stay silent, she would.

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The next day, Vishakha watched the rest of her friends pace around waiting for Kriya. At that moment, how she wished she could go up to them and tell them to stop worrying and work on convincing her mother. But she just had to let things go the way they would till they would realize they'd have to go get her from her house.

Rey called Kriya non-stop and even though she saw each of his calls, she didn't have the courage to pick it up. If she did, she would end up spilling everything and then wouldn't be able to fill hatred in his heart for her so it would hurt less to him when she left. She felt like the devil alive for making him suffer like that then but she didn't have much of a choice.

Rey looked at Swayam with the same misfortunate look. Sharon was there as well and seeing Swayam so worried made her worry as well. But she kept it in control. The other Sharon wouldn't let this warm Sharon come out. She said, "We've wasted enough time already. We should be on the bus now if we have to get there on time."

Vishakha would have hated this if it was any other time. But right now, she jumped on the opportunity. "She's right. Some of us should get there at least. How about this? Me and Neha will go to Kriya' house and get her. You guys get going? Swayam can register for us."

Sharon, at first, was surprised to see Vishakha not retort back but instead support her! Nevertheless, she quickly agreed to that as well. "Yea, that should be good." Rey and Swayam were both hard to convince.

Vishakha continued, "Swayam' Rey' I know you both are worried. But this is the best for now. If not the whole team, then some of us need to be there at the event to take care of it. Swayam, as you're also the captain of the team, you go and register us. And Rey, your team needs you right now as well. We'll see you there, okay?"

The boys couldn't refuse to that and had to go with the rest. Neha and Vishakha quickly stopped a cab to reach Kriya's house. Vishakha sneaked a text to Kriya. 'We're on our way.'Kriya got her bag ready with things she would need for getting ready.

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Neha rang the doorbell and Smriti answered. "Aunty, where's Kriya? Today is our performance!"

She replied, "She's in bed. She won't be coming. She's sick."

Vishakha continued, "Sick? No, she can't be! At least let us talk to her please?"

"I'm sorry." Smriti said strictly and was about to close the door when Neha stopped her.

"Aunty please. Just once, tell her we're here to see her? She can't leave us like this. She gave us the courage to stand up for ourselves. Because of her, everyone at college respects her. Things changed since the time she came. And today is the day to prove it that we are capable of doing things just as well as others. Please don't do this today."

Seeing the honesty in her words, it was hard to say no to them. One thing she knew for sure' No matter how much Kriya lied to her' she had chosen the right friends. She said to them,"Wait here. I'll get her." Neha and Vishakha smiled. Vishakha was happier than Neha knowing the whole truth.

Smriti opened Kriya's room door and closed it behind her as she came in. "Your friends are waiting outside. They've come to take you. Go."

Kriya couldn't believe her ears. She grinned happily and hugged her. "Thank you so much!!"

And then came the catch just when she was about to exit her room. "I'm not done. You can go today and perform. But you have to choose: Rey or your friends and this performance which means a lot to them."

"Mom! I can't'."

Smriti again wasn't ready to hear. "You have to choose. If you go today, then you will never see Rey again. It's either him or them - your friends who are waiting outside."

Kriya shut her eyes hearing what she feared. But she made the decision. She would choose her friends and their happiness over her own. She preferred to live the rest of her life in misery rather than not go today and make her friends' life a misery and full of embarrassment.

"I'm going." She announced. Somewhere inside, Smriti was proud of her decision. She was being a bit selfish. She was ready to accept that Kriya danced one last time rather than continue seeing the person she loved.

"Then I'm coming along." Kriya wasn't sure she heard right. Smriti cleared the air. "What? You think I'll miss my daughter's last dance? I might be against your dancing but I know how magnificently you dance! I won't miss seeing that for anything in the world."

Kriya just ran up to her and hugged her. She still hadn't figured out her mother! One minute, she was the 'Jhansi ki rani' and the next; she was the loveliest mother in the world' a mother whose world revolved around her daughter.

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Erm long enough? Now now, don't get mad! I know you all expected a happy twist over here. But that will take some time. This is temporary decision of Kriya 😉 Smart would understand what I mean 😛

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