caution to all the readers,, this part is an extremely emotional one.. not for the faint hearted 😊.. keep tissues and then read
Part 18
Astha reaches home with gauri.. She walks slowly like a dead body.. totally heart broken and drained..
As she walks she remembers all her moments with shlok.. the guy she always dreamt to be with.. the guy she fell in love from when she realized love in her life had shattered her into a million pieces which can never be joined again.. the album she made for him, to the time she waited for him in the college function, to the first time they kissed and consummated.. everything came to an end in front of her eyes..
Gauri tries to hold astha and support her.. but astha keeps walking.. with no tears left to shed..
Astha enters her house and walks away to her room.. Her father tries to stop her and ask " Astha beta, what happened? Please tell me I am scared to see ur condition"
Astha doesn't speak a word and just walks to her room and shuts the door and lies down on her bed..
Suddenly she remembers something and gets up.. She opens her cupboard and removes the album of shloks pics she had made.. She opens it and turns all the pages.. finally she turns angry and tears into two and throws it in the dustbin..
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Shlok reaches home..
NA comes to talk to him " are u alright shlok?"
" yes dad.. I am fine.. I am very happy today.. I taught her a lesson.. she defamed u and I have dealt with her now.." shlok says softly
NA nods his head and leaves from the room..
Shlok keeps thinking and remembering what all had happened.. the good moments with astha..
He gets up and starts drinking.. he keeps remembering astha's words in the court
" your honour.. I agree to all the allegations Mr.Shlok Agnihotri has put on me.. everything that was told against me in the court is true..."
Shlok cannot believe that astha told that.. he tells to himself
" y did astha do this?"
He starts to drink a lot and fall asleep
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The next day...
All the newspapers have lashed out the divorce between shlok and astha..
The headlines of the leading newspaper " Leading businessman's wife caught cheating"
" Shlok Agnihotri a victim of wife's infidelity" etc...
Loads of terrible comments against Astha has been written.. Astha's father reads it all... he is shocked
He goes to astha's room and throws the newspaper on her and asks " Astha what the hell is this?"
Astha keeps looking out of the window without any reaction.. Her dad goes and puts his hand on her shoulder..
Astha suddenly turns back and hugs him and starts crying inconsolably.. " dad.. Shlok cheated me.. he took his revenge on me cos I got his father arrested and they were publically humiliated.. he got u arrested in the drug case and blackmailed me.. he even went to an extent to get u beaten up in the prison.. I was scared dad.. scared for ur life and mom's.. mom is still so unwell unable to even speak properly.. please forgive me dad.. I did not know how else to deal with everything"
Her dad's tears roll down as he holds his daughter in his arms.. totally broken and distressed.. he is a state of shock.. " no my child.. don't cry.. u dint do anything wrong.. u don't need to cry.. I have failed in being a dutiful father and dint save u from the trouble.." her father tries to console her
" if someone needs to cry it is Shlok Agnihotri not u astha" enters gauri..
Astha and her father both look at her..
Suddenly some noise outside their house... lots of people knocking the main door
They all go down and open the door.. there is the house owner and some other people from the colony
The owner of the house starts saying " hey kirloskar, y are u hiding ur characterless daughter in ur house? I always knew this girl will do something like this.. aren't u ashamed of her.. I don't like such people staying in my house.. u need to vacate straight away"
One another man says " yes we don't need people like u all in our colony.. such shamelss people.. this is what u taught ur daughter.. ur upbringing shows its true colours"
One guy suddenly throws something on her father and it hits his head..
All the people scream abusing astha and her father.. gauri tries topush them away and takes astha and her dad inside the house and closing the door ... but they can still hear people screaming outside..
Astha's dad walks away from there..
Astha goes and sits next to her mother who is asleep and holds her hand.. Astha's mom is still not in good condition.. she is unable to speak much and is very sick..
Astha keeps sitting there and gauri offers to bring something to eat..
Astha's dad walks to another room and sits there and starts to think.. he keeps remembering all the words that all those people told them... every word they said hurt him like an arrow..
Gauri tells astha that there is something prepared to eat.. Astha nods and goes to call her dad..
" dad don't worry about all that they said.. lets eat something"
He doesn't respond... Astha calls him again
Suddenly she gets a sinking feeling and goes to her father and touched him.. and he has no movement.. he is not breathing.. he passed away..
Astha screams " DAD" and starts crying...
Gauri comes running to the room
" gauri... Dad... Dad is ..."
Gauri breaks down and runs to astha and checks he father's pulse that's its not running.
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Shlok is sitting in the office next morning
Suresh who is Shlok's main manager comes into the cabin..
Shlok starts dictating him some work.. he sees that suresh is not writing down anything.. he questions him " what happened y r u not taking the notes?"
Suresh gives him a letter.. " sir this is my resignation letter.. I cannot work here any more"
Shlok is shocked and angry " what the hell is this?" he questions suresh
" I cannot work with u sir.. I had lot of respect for u always.. but now I don't have any respect left for u.. it's a shame for me to be working with u.." says suresh
" shut up suresh.. u wanna leave u can go.. I can find thousands like u to work for me" shlok fumes
" sure sir.. I came here to leave only" he says and starts walking out..
Suddenly he turns back and says " anyways one more thing that I had to tell u..u will be very happy to know that Astha's father passed away last night"
And he leaves
Shlok gets taken aback and sits on his chair in disbelief.. he picks up the phone to call.. but then he disconnects suddenly.. some kind of a guilt hits him on his face..
He runs and takes his car and starts driving..
He reaches astha's house and sees many people collected there... and some people are preparing for cremation..
He drives away without going there
He reaches home and starts drinking.. he says to himself " I never wanted something like this.. I never wanted ur father to die astha.. its not my mistake" and drinks a lot
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Astha and gauri is at the door as everyone who had come to mourn are leaving.. her mother is sitting near avdoots pic like a corpse..
Astha goes and holds her mother..
Gauri questions her " what are u going to do now astha?"
Astha looks at gauri.. she has an anger in her eyes... like she will never forgive Shlok..
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Shlok is at home..
Gauri visits his house.. the maid goes to shlok and says " sir there is someone here to see u"
Shlok walks out to the hall and sees gauri.. " gauri. What do u want?"
" nothing shlok" says gauri.. " I never need anything from a guy like u.. I just came to congratulate u.. so did u party hard.. u won right.. wow u won ur revenge.." she claps
Shlok is irritated
" u have won mr.Shlok agnihotri.. u have won only lonliness in ur life.. what ever u did to astha will always haunt u.."
"Shutup and leave gauri" says shlok
" yeah shlok I will leave .. but let me tell u that u destroyed the only person who truly loved u.. u have lost ur true love in ur lifeand u will never get it again.. u will lead a lonely life .. and for whom u did all this ur father .. when u will see his true side u will want to die.. and that day u will have noone to hold u.."
Gauri hands over the album astha has made with his pictures and had torn it..
" Astha has gone shlok.. she went away.. from this city and ur life"
Gauri says and leaves
Shlok takes the torn pieces of the album and looks at it..
He keeps drinking that night remembering gauri's words.. finally he throws the bottle in anger and walks out of the house in the car..
He drivrs very fast with all the flashbacks... suddenly he sees someone in the dark.. he almost hits the person and tries to avoid her and rams the car into a tree
Shlok hurts his forehead.. its bleeding.. suddenly he realizes that he had hit someone.. he gets out of the car and runs to the person..
Its an old lady lying on the road.. she seems hurt..
Shlok slowly walks to her " excuseme.. are u alright" he questions
She doesn't move.. Shlok is worried.. he slowly goes and holds her turns her around..
Suddenly shlok gets a shock of his life.. the woman is none other than his long left mother.. shlok's tears roll down his eyes " maa?"
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waiting for all ur lovely comments guys.. do let me know how u liked this emtional roller coaster update.. i have personally ended up with a shooting headache trying t think and write so emotionally 😆😆.. anywayshappy times waiting ahead 😊
Edited by namratavyas - 11 years ago
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