chapter-----5
the train had arrived...huffling and puffling... arohi had been buying water for her journey so it took some time for her to reach it... bt she was careful nt to miss it this time.. before the guard cud give away the signal..she boarded the train. .... she verified her ticket frm the TT and then walked slowly along the corridor towards her seat..... to her relief it was a window seat... at frst she placed her bag on the berth above and then looked around her... only one person was there...and he was probably sound asleep covering his face with a magazine... arohi sighed----luks lik its gonna be soo boring..... she murmered to herself...... then she edged towards the window... it was tightly shut.. she tried to look outside thru the glass and found that it was raining.... she felt delighted.. and raised up the glass pane.....allowing a gust of cold wind to enter the compartment followed by the chilly rains... as the rainwater touched her face...she giggled.... it felt so wonderful...bt probably nt to her companion whu got up immediately and shouted----hey wat do u thnk u are doing...close the windows at once......
arohi turned back quickly and gasped-----YOU?
same was the case for arjun....his eyes became wide as soon as they recognized her------TUM? tum yahan kya kar rahi ho?
arohi faced him smartly-----excuse me..ye mera seat hain....
arjun----yeh tumhara seat hain? oh my god....iska matlab mujhe TUMHARE saath sari raat travel karna padega? SHIT....!!! he clenched his fingers into fists.....
arohi became really annoyed at his way of behaving with her-----oh hello...muhhe bhi koi shauk nhi hain tumhare saath travel karne mein....woh to bas meri majboori hain....
arjun grumbled...----woh jo bhi ho...iswaqt tum meri baat suno aur khidkiya band karo abhi......
arohi----tumne shayad suna nhi maine kya kaha... ye MERI seat hain...khidki ke paas...to ye main tay krungi na ki ise band karni hain ya khula chodni hain? tum hote kaun ho mujhe direct karnewale?
arjun----tum aise nhi manogi... he walked up to the window and tried to close it himself bt arohi struggled with him to keep it open... in the process the glass pane rattled down and hit arohi's finger.... she yelled in pain...----aaahh!!!!!
arjun was alarmed... he quickly took her hand in his and looked at it carefully..... her finger was bleeding....
arjun----am sorry...am really sorry... tum idhar aao... he made her sit down and took out his handkerchief to wipe out her blood.. she sobbed...... he tied his handkerchief around her finger and said agen----am soo sorry....
arohi----its okay.....galti meri hain.... mujhe istarah khidki nhi kholni chahiye thi.....
arjun----no...its fine...i thnk i over reacted......
arohi smiled at him for the frst time..... he smiled back.....
arjun-----am arjun....u?
arohi-----arohi Singh.....
arjun----isiliye...
arohi looked surprised----isiliye kya?
arjun----sikhdi ho na...isiliye itna zaban chalati ho.....
arohi giggled----wo to hun............
after almost one hour,armaan came out of the bathroom,rubbing his wet hair with a towel.
this was their room...
he noticed a stranger sitting on his bed and realised that he was his roommate... he smiled at him----hiii.....
manav looked up----hiii.....
armaan strtched out his hand-----am armaan mallik...ur roomy.....
manav-----manav sharma.. he shook hands with him.......
armaan---aa..manav if u dnt mind....u r sitting on my bed....actually am really tired and wanna sleep.....
manav smiled politely-----dekho...main yahan tumse pehle aya hun..aur ye bed mera hain..... tum us cornerwali bed mein kyun nhi so jate?
armaan laughed----dude....mujhe ek bht buri adat hain.... mujhe window side ke ilawa aur kahin neend nhi ati...aur agr mujhe neend na aye to tumhe bht prblm hogi...
manav---mujhe? mujhe kya prblm ho sakta hain?
armaan----wo kya hain...agr mujhe neend na aye to main logoko pakane lag jata hun...aur unhe apne boring love stories ke kisse sunate sunate puri tarah paka deta hun.....samjhe?
almost instantly manav stood up frm the bed....
armaan patted him on his shoulders---good... tum bht intelligent ho... okay dude.... gud nyt..see u in the morning...sweet dreams... he jumped onto manav's bed...turned over to the side of the window and closed his eyes......
manav sighed...he cudnt argue much with anybody....and hence most of the times people took undue advantage of him.... so this wasnt the frst time..... he walked over to the cornermost bed and laid down on it... in the morning he had to go to the station to receive arohi...so now he needed a good sleep..... he covered himself up with a bedsheet and closed his eyes......
keshav singh felt really irritated and disgusted..... he had been trying arohi,his daughter's mobile for over an hour now...still it said not reachable.... he just saw it in the news that the weather was really bad in the north and it had been raining heavily since the past few days.... he was anxious.....
keshav-----uuf...ye arohi bhi na... ek fon to kar sakti hain....? pata nhi kahan hogi kaisi hogi..... mausam bhi bht kharab hain....
purvi,whu was preparing coffee smiled at her uncle's wrds.. she had been observing him for the past one year and she knew him quite well... he used to get worried over small reasons.. she said----uncle...aap to aise pareshan ho rahe ho jaise ki arohi koi scul ki bacchi hain....wo bht samajhdar hain...aur apna khayal khud rakh sakti hain...
keshav----haan haan...beta tum to hamesha hi uski side logi kyun? par hume ek baat samajh mein nhi aa rahi hain... ek fon karne se kya ho jata hain? bas ek fon karke bata de..ki papa meri chinta mat karo main thk hun...kyun? itna to kar hi sakti hain...
purvi----off ho uncle...shayad woh train mein hain... aur chalti train se network nhi milta..aapko to pata hi hain...
keshav sighed----shayad tum thk keh rahi ho... he sat down on his rocking chair while purvi came over to him with his coffee...----ye lijiye...coffee pee lijiye...aur befikar ho jaiye... jab woh train se utregi tab zaroor aapko fon karegi..... aap istarah tension karke apni tabiyat mat kharab kijiye...... main aapki dawai lekar aati hun...
keshav smiled at her-----tum kitni acchi ho...hamara kitna khayal rakhti ho.... aisa lagta hain ki tum hamare hi ghar ki beti ho..... pata nhi bhagwan ne tumhare saath hi aisa.... he checked himself all of a sudden and realised his mistake......
keshav---am sorry beta...main firse.....
purvi forced a smile----its okay uncle...main....main aapki dawai lekar aati hun... without a single more wrd...she ran into her own room.....and closed the door behind her...... his last wrds echoed inside her mind..."pata nhi bhagwan ne tumhare saath hi aisa...".... she hid her face in her hands and sobbed....
it had been one year since she had been living with this small yet sweet family... keshav singh loved her as his own daughter and considered her no less than his own daughters arohi and ashvini.... they also treated her as their elder sister and loved her vry much..... she was satisfied.... bt her heart wasnt..... she had evrythng bt yet her heart,her mind and soul longed for somethng....somethng wich she cudnt explain....cudnt understand....somethng wich she felt was terribly missing in her life...an important part of her life..... she had tried to remember it often... often she had ended up in becoming unconscious...for straining her brains to their extreame level..... ultimately she had to give up digging into her lost memories..... yes her LOST MEMORIES... she DID NT REMEMBER ANYTHNG BEYOND THE LAST ONE YEAR OF HER LIFE...... she had heard frm keshav singh... that his nephew whu was a doctor...came across her in his hospital....an year before in Shimla.... she was vry critical then.....and had minimum chances of survival.... she was found by some natives...on the bank of a river at the bottom of a cliff..... and they had brot her to the hospital in their small cart... she owed her life to those natives as if it wasnt for them...she wud nt have been alive...... Dr arun,keshav's nephew had almost done a miracle in saving her life...bt as her head had suffered a major injury...... and brain haemorrhage...she lost her memory permanently.... she cudnt evn remember her name...... after that she was brot to mumbai and treated on by many neurosurgeons...bt none cud do anythng...... keshav had become quite attached to her by then... and he was also worried abt her...so he adopted her and named her purvi.....
thus purvi got a family...a perfect one..with two pretty sisters...and a loving father... a part of her was happy.....bt another part of her longed for those years of her life wich had faded permanently into the darkness.... many a times she wanted to go to shimla to search for her identity bt it used to make keshav feel insecured.. he feared that if she comes to know abt her past...maybe she wud leave them.... it wasnt that he did nt want her to know abt her past...bt the old man had become soo accustomed to her presence..her beautiful voice and her pretty face that he cudnt afford to lose her.... and purvi understood and respected his feelings... she stopped worrying abt her past after some time...........
now the suspense......😆 this is purvi.....😳
Kumkum Bhagya
Tu Dhadkan Main Dil
Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi 2
