PART 8
Rishabh hung the call and threw it on the floor. It clattered with a large sound which made him jerk from his position He looked at the phone whose LED flickered twice and then went off. He looked away from the phone towards the sleeping Madhubala. She seemed oblivious to the fact that what all happened between them in the past few hours. Resting her head on her palms, she was lost in a world of her own. Her kajal was smudged all around her eyes and her clothes showed the signs of the intimacy which they shared a few minutes ago. He closed his eyes as a few drops of tears rolled down and rested his head back on the wall. Flashes of him pulling Madhubala to himself and then losing his control with her kept pacing to and fro in his mind. He kept his eyes closed and shook his head frequently.
"Don't leave me...ever Rishabh!" moaned Madhubala. Rishabh caressed her forehead, "I promise, will never do that..." Madhubala smiled and tightened her hug across his mighty chest. Rishabh bent his head and touched his cheeks with her forehead. She responded to his touch and moved closer to him... he pulled her closer and started removing her cover of clothes from her body...
...Rishabh's eyes flew wide open. They were red and swollen; his forehead was filled with beads of sweat. He shook his head and sniffed loudly. He got up and dragged himself to the jug of the water...after one big draught he splashed the entire jug of water on his face. A few drops of that water reached Madhubala's face and she opened her eyes. Rishabh shivered. "What if she's still under intoxication? What if she repeats the same? She?? (he cross-questioned himself) You did that!! Yes Yes!! Mr. Rishabh Kundra...! (smirked) you were the one who lost control... you were the one... (lowering his volume) you were the one..."
"TUM??" Madhubala's eyes flew wide open and she pulled the spread over her and sat up on the bed in utter shock. "What the f*** are you doing here??" rebuked the tigress. Rishabh was speechless. For the first time, his guilt made him dumbstruck and he stood still as a criminal. "...and wait a bloody minute... (looking around the room) where am I?? Don't tell me you've brought me to a C-Grade Motel??... Yuck!! Dekho... if you had to take me somewhere...kisi achche hotel mein le jaate..." she just blabbered casually. Rishabh popped his eyes wide open. "Are you sure...Madhubala...that the choice of this room is the only thing you're worried about...?" enquired Rishabh. "Stop staring at me like that...!! Alien Kundra!!" chattered Madhubala. Rishabh shied his eyes away in guilt. "This girl is so..." he sighed. Madhubala stretched herself and twitched her brows accounting for the pain which engulfed her head...in lieu of the drugs and alcohol. "Dekho...tumhari wajah se my head is burning..." she remarked naughtily. For Rishabh, even if Madhubala had said he had murdered her, he would have agreed without even a second thought. For him, losing control with her had been a mistake which was as grave as a sin for him. He had already declared himself lost, in front of his late father and his own sane self. So when she said her head was burning because of him, he nodded in guilt...accepting a mistake he never did...such was his state.
Madhubala got up and then stopped when she realized her clothes were all torn and scratched. She held her hair with one hand and dropped her head down to check the damages...touching those places. She went dumbstruck and dragged herself to the mirror. She looked at herself in amazement... for the first time, she felt different when she saw what had she done the entire night. She had been through it umpteen times but this seemed different, she felt annoyed...angry...irritated and most of all...she felt hurt... for somehow she never expected Alien to do something like that to her... she touched her body all around as her face fumed with rage. "KUNDRAA!!" she yelled and turned towards him. Rishabh turned his face away as he realized that Madhubala was in her full senses now... She rushed towards him and pulled him by his collar. He dropped his eyes down...unable to meet her questioning ones. "You!!" she pulled him closer so that her lips were only a few centimetres away from his lips. "For a second...just a second I thought!" she questioned him painfully and with full rage. "But NO!! All boys are the same! Freaking Despos!!" raged she. "I..." stammered Rishabh but she wouldn't listen at all. "You...yes you! You are a freaking moron...you get that...?" she poked his heart with her pointed sharp nails. Rishabh narrowed his brows in pain and guilt. She shook him wildly as a few drops of tears dropped from her kohl smudged eyes. "How could you... Kundra!! You were the one who saved me the other day...didn't you??" she asked him. He looked away as he nodded. "Then...aaj kya hua...lost your control...huh?? Lost in front of your manly emotions?? Huh!! *smirked* all boys are bloody cowards!!"
Rishabh:I am really very...
Madhubala: sorry huh?? Tum ladko ke mooh se sorry achcha nahi lagta!!
Rishabh: please...Madhubala ji...
Madhubala: ji?? *chuckled* yeh ji tab kahan gaya tha jab raat mein you tore my dress??
Rishabh: dekhiye...
Madhubala: stop your bloody damn non-sense!! Mujhe tumhari sorry waali bakwaas nahi sunni!
Rishabh nodded. He turned to walk away but she held his hand and turned him back.
Madhubala: I am not done yet...!! Samjhe tum??
Rishabh: Madhub-
Madhubala: SHUT UP!! Tere gande mooh se mera naam achcha nahi lagta... so don't you DARE!!
Rishabh: sorry...
Madhubala: listen...just zip up your mouth!
Rishabh: umm...
She pushed him to the wail and nailed him to it. "Madhu" stammered Rishabh but Madhubala sealed his mouth with her fingers. "Ssshh!" she ordered.
Madhubala: tell me clearly...
Rishabh(nodding): umm...
Madhubala: did u make love with me??
Rishabh (closing his eyes in guilt)
Madhubala: TELL ME!! Kundraa!!
Rishabh muttered something from below her fingers. She realized and removed them.
Madhubala: abhi bolo! Did. You. Make. Love. With. Me???
Rishabh: umm...
Madhubala: bolo yaar!
Rishabh: noo...
Madhubala: I knew it!! Tum log aise hi hote... what?? You said "no"?? Tumne no bola??
Rishabh: hmm...
Madhubala: matlab...you didn't make love with me??
Rishabh: no...not exactly...just went quite close to you...I am sorry for that! I am really very sorry!
Madhubala: matlab...you didn't even have sex with me??
Rishabh: no...
Madhubala: are you sure?? Bol do..! I'll need get it tested if you think we made love!
Rishabh: I am sure...I just went closer to you...tried to open your clothes...but then I realized my mistake...and I backed out!
Madhubala: I hope you're not deceiving me?
Rishabh: no... (he stammered out his innocence at last)
Shivu wonders, this guy is so... 😳 I mean...he was guilty when he didn't even make love nor have sex with Madhubala...
Madhubala released his collar. He struggled to maintain his balance as he stumbled back on the table. Madhubala rushed to the mirror and corrected her hairs, combing them with her fingers. She looked around and spotted her purse lying under the bed. With an angry stare at Rishabh, she picked it up and rushed back to the mirror...with a cotton and some cream, she removed the smudged kohl from her face and then washed her face. Drying it with a sterilized white face-wipe, she applied light make-up, without which Superstar Madhubala never stepped out in public. After the final touch-up, casually her hand went over to her neck to caress her necklace, but when she didn't find it, she looked in the mirror and then re-called everything. Her eyes moistened as she took a deep breath.
Before leaving, she turned to Rishabh who was standing with his hands crossed on his chest and his shoulder resting against the wall. Turning his body to face her, she asked "By any means, have you seen my necklace?" Rishabh turned and recalled her necklace, but before he could take it out and give it to her, Madhubala concluded, "tumhare paas kaise hoga...you know what...I think ki some despo might have taken it away to sell it off and earn some money!! Anyways..."
"Madhubala," Rishabh called her back to give her the necklace but she was in such a hurry. She rushed out waving her hand as a good bye leaving Rishabh in a very confused state. He paid the room tariff and then proceeded to the hostel to meet Bittuji, his mentor and his guide; also the only fatherly figure in his life.
Boys' Hostel
Batuk Patel stood near the drainage area of the hostel instructing the plumber to fix the leaks when he saw Rishabh opening the gate of the hostel and entering in. He excused himself and walked down the stairs towards him. His head was low and his confidence seemed to have shattered. Batuk asked his worker to get a glass of water and made Rishabh sit on the stairs.
Batuk: kya hua...ab bata tu mujhe!
Rishabh: Bittu ji...I met Madhubala...
Batuk (popping his eyes out): Superstar Madhubala?? Ohh my god!!! Superstar Madhubala!
Rishabh turned and gave him a "can you focus" look: Bittuji... we're here to talk about my problem!
Batuk: ohh yes...carry on!
Rishabh: she dragged me to the disc, and danced with me...
Batuk: ahaan! And then??
Rishabh: she fainted...
Batuk: so!
Rishabh (stared): SO? I carried her to the room...
Batuk: alone??
Rishabh: YES BITTUJI!! Now let me complete!
Batuk: I am sorry...carry on!
Rishabh: so she forced me...to
Batuk: to?
Rishabh (stared again)
Batuk: okay...sorry no more words! (he made the sign of sealing his lips)
Rishabh: to make... *pausing for a while* love with me...
Batuk (bursting into a series of dry cough): what??
Rishabh: hmm...
Batuk: so...?
Rishabh: I tried to stop...
Pausing for a while again...
Rishabh: but then at last...couldn't *he dropped his head down*
Batuk: YOU MADE LOVE WITH SUPERSTAR MADHUBALA!!
Rishabh: can you be slow?? (yelling)
Batuk (looking around in guilt): I am sorry...
Rishabh: I didn't make love with her...
Batuk (heaving a sigh of relief): then what is it...which is irking you??
Rishabh: I just feel...I lost in front of my dad!
Batuk patted his shoulders comfortingly.
Batuk: I knew it! I knew it something like this was coming... Rishi! Jab tune khud kaha, you didn't do anything wrong with that girl, why are you so worried?
Rishabh: because I can't believe I just thought about it for a moment!
Batuk: it happens!! You're a boy! Still so young... such mood swings are absolutely okay!!
Rishabh: what if I couldn't have stopped?
Batuk: I knew you would have!! You know why?
Rishabh shook his head.
Batuk: because...those are your values...
Rishabh: are you sure...
Batuk: o'course I am!! You're Mohan ji's son!! and he was the most amazing guy I've ever met in my life! Thats why him and I were best friends! You know that!!
Rishabh: hmm...
Batuk: just trust yourself Rishi!! And then! Everything will fall in place!!
Rishabh hugged him tightly. "I could do nothing without you..." Bittuji smiled as he caressed his hair in a fatherly manner.
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It was a quick update, I might not update for a week now! So please bear with me...! I have college assignments lined up...! Edited by .BadtameezDil. - 12 years ago
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