KR OS: You and I...ToGeThEr FoReVeR (Pg9 pms ltr)

"I'm here after five whole years. Dehradun, the name itself has brought the aged memoirs back. The waft of this place is still the same; pleasant and tranquil. This was the place where I first met her. I don't know if she still lives here or not but all I hope is that I don't meet her except for once. I want to meet her once to get the answers for my questions. I so badly want to know why did she leave me?? I've moved on with Taani and I really don't want any more snags in my life. But I can't rebuff the fact as well that a part of my heart still hankers for her. Taani is a sweet girl and we love each other but don't why right now I feel that she is the base of our relationship." Rey reflected in his mind while standing at the airport absorbing the cool ambiance of this place.

"Dehradun, the place where she belonged from, the place I'm visiting for the first time ever with a hope to meet her. She's been my companion through the thick and thin phrases of my life, till she was with me. She was oops a correction is my best friend. I regret my action for not attempting to locate her. I know that she can never ditch anyone. No matter what the consequences would be, she's not the one to dike anyone: especially her friends and love. I was so preoccupied with the proceedings of my life that I almost forgot that she did exist. I wish I meet her once to make an attempt to set things right." Swayam thought while escorting with his friends to the cab.

The so popular D3 team had landed on Dehradun for their concert organized by one of the famous event planners in the town. On seeing her brother as well as boy friend lost somewhere, Taani spoke "Bhai, rey, where are you both lost??"

On hearing taani's voice both of them broke their trances. They looked at each other giving a 'knowing' look. They knew the other was thinking about the same person Kriya Ghai. She was the reason behind their friendship. Hadn't she created her own team, none of them would ever know the existence of the other. They really thanked her in their minds for introducing them, for giving them a pillar of support of the other.

On the way to their accommodation, both rey and swayam were lost in their respective thoughts. Sharon placed a hand on swayam's shoulder, questioning him through her eyes whether he is fine or not. Swayam gripped her hand in his and squeezed it to assure her that he is fine. Sharon understood what he was thinking at that moment. To his surprise the whole team was quite. It was an unusual silence.

Everyone was brought back to the reality when the cab driver applied the brakes forcefully, giving a jolt to them.

"Is everything fine???" Rey asked the driver.

"Yes sir, actually a small girl's standing on the middle of the road crying" replied the driver.

All of them got down the cab. On seeing the girl weep bitterly rey rushed towards her. Rey knelt down before her and asked "why are you crying baby??"

The little girl still kept crying.

"Arrey, princess rote nahi...aapka name kya hai??" Rey asked her again whilst wiping her tears.

The girl stared at him with wide eyes for a few seconds.

"Mumma ne bola stlangels(strangers) se baat nahi karte" she spoke in her kiddish tone while hitching in between. From her voice rey guessed that she might be nearly of 4 years.

Rey smiled at her and picked her up in his arms.

"Hello I'm rey and aap" rey said with a smile.

She thought for a moment and then replied "I'm Riya."

"She's so cute" said Sharon while patting her cheeks.

"Aap yahan kya kar rahe ho baby??" Swayam asked.

On hearing this she again started weeping.

"Mumma nahi mil rahi" she said in between her sobs.

"Don't worry, hum aapki mumma ko dhundenge" rey assured her to which riya hugged him tight.

Riya mingled with everyone soon.

"Rey iski eyes aapke jaise hai, brown" said taani.

The sat on a nearby bench and were talking to Riya. Rey got up from his seat and went towards the cab to get a chocolate for riya from his bag.

"Riya, kahan ho??? Riyu baby where are you??" A voice came from a distance.

Rey was shocked on listenting to that voice. He could identify her voice from miles apart. Not only him bit swayam and the rest except Taani were stunned too. Taani didn't know whose voice it was but was confused on seeing everyone's face as if thet had seen a ghost.

As the voice neared, rey closed his eyes.

"Riyu??? Kahan ho???"

On hearing her mother's voice Riya climbed down from Rey's arms and ran towards her mother.

"Mumma" Riya called out to her mom.

As her mom faced her; riya ran into her mother's arms.

"Mumma ne mana kiya tha na aapse ki vahan se kahin nahi jaana, toh aap kyu chale gaye??" Asked her mum.

"Sowiee mumma" Riya said while catching her ears. Her mother smiled at her and kissed her cheek.

"Mumma aapko pata hai, mujhe na ek uncle ne chocolate di"

"Kisne"

Riya simply pointed towards the gang. Kriya stood up and faced the direction in which riya pointed and was apalled to see them. She stood there rooted to her spot dressed in simple jeans and shirt with het hair open only clutched with a side clip; looking beautiful as ever.

All the memories of her with them played as a movie in her mind. She always remembered them but didn't expect that she would have an encounter with them in such a way.

Riya ran towards rey and tugged onto his jeans indicating him to pick her up. Rey looked at Riya and then stared back at kriya. All their moments were flashing in his mind. Slowly he bent down to pick riya in his arms.

"Uncle, vo meri mumma hai" said riya. Rey just gave a faint smile to her.

Taani was aghast as well her. Automatically her hand gripped rey's free hand tight. This didn't go unnoticed by kriya. She guessed taani as rey's girl friend. It pained her heart on seeing them together.

Tears welled up in her eyes on seeing her love and friends after a long time. But she held them back. Swayam was the first one to make a move. As he stood in front of her, kriya bit her lip. In an instant swayam pulled her into an embrace. If felt so nice hugging you bestie after a hell of five years.

"How are you??" Kriya asked him as they pulled back.

"I'm good and you??"

"Yeah, me fine"

Soon one by one the weaklings team members hugged her. After all they missed her as much as swayam did. Sharon was the first out of the dazzlers to hug her. Soon the rest of dazzlers hugged her except rey, who was still staring at her in dismay. She was. None of them asked her the reason why she left. And she was glad they didn't ask her that.

"Hii...I'm Taani" taani introduced herself. Kriya reciprocated the same.

"Kriya riya's your daughter!!! You married so soon??" Asked swayam in disbelief.

Kriya knew this would come sooner. What was she supposed to say to them?

"Uh...you guys are here for your concert right??" Kriya diverted the topic.

Rey was shocked. Why didn't she tell them about her marriage and riya.

Understanding that kriya doesn't want to talk about it, Sharon replied "ya, but how do you know??"

"You guys are famous plus I work in the same event planning company 'Spark Planners', which is handling your event." Kriya replied back.

"Oh wow, that's nice" said taani.

Kriya so badly wanted to hear rey's voice. But he purposely kept himself busy with riya.

"Riyu, let's go bacha" kriya said looking at her watch.

"Mumma, I want to stay with rey uncle..pweesh" riya asked in her sweet voice.

"But..."

"Don't worry we'll drop her safe and sound later" rey spoke for the first time but coldly.

"Hmmm" was all kriya could say. She bid bye to the gang and left. While the gang was returning to the cab rinni spoke "isn't it strange guys...riya is kriya's daughter but her eye color matches rey's"

Rinni was loud enough for Kriya to hear, as kriya wasn't at a long distance. Kriya closed her eyes for a moment. She snapped opened her eyes on hearing rey's voice.

"Riya's father might be having brown eyes too...it's not a big deal" rey said callously.

"But I never saw my daddy" riya said surprising everyone.

Before the gang would question her, kriya paced up her speed and took quick steps hurriedly.

*****

A day had already passed by and it was the end of the other day. The mother-daughter duo was in their house. Kriya was running behind Riya with a bowl of rice in her hand. Riya being a naugty kid, loved to irritate her mother and would purposely play hide and seek with her to skip food.

On hearing the door bell ring, kriya stopped chasing riya and went to open the door. She was suprised on seeing the gang standing outside the door.

"Uh, hey...you guys here at this time??"

"Yea, we were getting bored so thought why don't we visit you...hope you don't mind" replied sharon.

"Of course not...come in...Guys make yourself comfortable...I'll be back in two minutes" kriya said.

"But where are you going??" Asked swayam.

She indicated him towards the bowl of rice. The gang was impressed on seeing her house.

"Riya come out now and have your dinner...please baby" kriya called out to riya.

On not getting reaction from here kriya sighed in defeat.

"Aisa roz hota hai???" Neha asked.

"Yup...after some time she herself will be out"

"Do you mind if I try??" Rey asked.

"Uh...ummm...as you wish."

"Princess it's me, rey...come out now"

On hearing rey's voice riya came out running. Kriya was amused on seeing this. She was happy as well as sad. She was happy because riya shared a good bonding with rey and sad because her heart would break when rey would return back.

Rey asked kriya to give him the rice bowl. Kriya got up to hand him the bowl but mistakenly slipped and was about to fall. Rey on seeing this went towards her to prevent her from falling. His hands surrounded her waist while hers were around his neck. They were staring at each others eyes. But their eye lock lasted only for fraction of seconds.

The bowl of rice came down flying and fell on rey's head reversed.

"Oww" rey cried in pain.

"Im...I'm so sorry rey...wait let me help you"

Saying this kriya got on her toes and slowly began removing the rice from his head. Her lips were right in front of his eyes and he just couldn't stop himself from staring at them. Oh lord! He thought. He so badly wanted to taste those luscious lips of hers that were quivering.

Rey's trance was broken by taani's voice.

"Rey, why don't you go to the washroom to clean your hair" taani suggested.

Kriya showed him the way to the washroom.

After a while, he stepped out of washroom. He was searching for a towel and accidentally opened one of the cupboards of kriya's room. The whole cupboard was empty. Only two photo albums were placed in the whole cupboard. The first one was named 'Friendship' and the second one as 'Love'. Rey opened both the albums and was shocked on seeing the pictures. The 'Friendship' album contained all the pictures of the gang and her. And the 'Love' album consisted photographs of rey and her together.

On sensing a hand on his shoulder rey dropped down the picture book. Luckily it was taani instead of kriya. Taani had come to call rey for dinner. Her eyes fell on the photos. She glanced at them and then at rey. Exhaling a breath she spoke "let's go, everyone's waiting".

Everyone was seated on the dining table with riya on rey's lap. There was some connection between him and riya, rey thought.

"Kriya, rey's allergic to mushroom" taani spoke.

"Yea, I know that...I was passing it to you" kriya replied back.

"Same pinch uncle, I'm allergic to mushroom too" riya said while pinching him.

Except rey, swayam and taani no one else paid heed to this. On seeing swayam lost in his thoughts sharon nudged him. He replied with his eyes that he'll talk about it later.

After the dinner, the gang bid bye to kriya and riya and left. After they reached the hotel , sharon decided to talk to swayam. All the couples were sharing the same room. As soon as SwaRon entered their room Sharon spoke.

"Swayam what's wrong?? You've been thinking something, since dinner" sharon asked concernedly.

"I'm thinking about rey and riya"

"What do you mean??"

"Isn't it strange?? Rey and riya share the same eye color and are allergic to same vegetable??"

"Swayam, it could be a pure coincidence"

"I don't think so...I've a strong intution that rey and related to each other...kriya tried to divert the topic of riya's father...I feel as if Rey is riya's father"

"But hows that possible??"

"I don't know"

Suddenly sharon's eyes fell on taani who was standing at the door. On seeing her expression, sharon guessed she heard their conversation.

"Taani, you??" Sharon spoke grabbing swayam's attention as well.

"I actually came to return bhai's phone" saying this taani handed back his phone and left.

Later at that night, in taani and rey's room, taani was sleeping on her bed whilst rey was sitting beside the window abstracted in his own comtemplations.

Taani woke up from her sleep feeling thirsty. On finding the adjacent bed empty, she scanned the whole room in search of rey. Her eyes spotted rey near the window pane. She got up and moved towards him.

"Hey, what's wrong??" She asked while making herself comfortable beside him.

"Uh nothing"

"Thinking about kriya???"

Rey immediately looked towards her and found a smile on face.

"Huh?? No...not at all"

"I know you are"

"I'm not...you know I love you taani" rey replied in an anger tone.

"I know...and I love you too but the fact is you love her more"

"Huh...no ways"

"Really?? Then why did you feel jealous yesterday on seeing her happily converse with her boss, rohit...even today when she was about to fall you were more worried than anyone else. I've observed those lines of anguish on your forehead. And when you were going through that picture album, you were actually rejoicing those memories...I've seen rey...she loves you equally...and I don't think that my love can match up to hers...think about it"

"What about riya?"

"Well you have to figure out that" saying taani kissed his cheek and went back to her bed giving some space to rey.

Before sleeping again she spoke "tomorrow I'll shift in with sharon and send bhai here."

Rey smiled at her and then drifted back to his perceptions.

"Thanks taani, for making me realized that she was, is, and will always remain an integral part of my life. I know I love her and she reciprocates the same then why did she leave me??? And who is Riya's father????"

Soon sleep took over his mind and he drifted to a peaceful sleep with his head against the window pane.

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