Sanyukta
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Randhir
Yoyo had told me she was in danger. Then what the heck was he doing, sitting there, and gossiping with his gang?
I rushed outside. My heart accelerated its speed. I'm concerned, and I am admitting it, before my ego kicks in and pushes the former out of my system. I was worried, and I am sure my voice clearly expressed my tension----my nervousness. I ran into the courtyard, only to see an extremely tensed Parth frantically rubbing Sanyukta's palms and feet. Vidushi stood beside him, looking unusually scared.
I decided to look into that matter and investigate in detail, later. Seeing Parth, my blood should have boiled. He'd saved Sanyukta after all. He'd saved her, instead of me. So he'd practically snatched my job away from me. My job, that is, bodyguarding Sanyukta, helping her across every hurdle and saving her from every danger. But well, he hadn't yet saved her, I knew, from what I could see.
I strode to him, pushed him aside in one swift move, and bent down to look at Sanyukta.
I was surprised that Parth did not react. He wasn't angry at me for pushing him away, or even if he was, he didn't show it. He started interrogating Vidushi instead.
My thoughts went back to Sanyukta. I looked at the lifeless figure laying before me, on the bench.
Her eyes, they were closed. Her lips, they weren't parted. They were shut tight. Her hair, it was wet completely, and lay there, splayed all over her face. Her clothes, they were drenched. I shivered at the thought of how cold she must be feeling.
But then again, how would she cold if she felt lifeless?
But ofcourse she isn't lifeless.
She can't be. She can't. She just CAN'T.
I shook her vigorously.
"Sanyukta?! Sanyukta?! Get up. God Damn it. Are you crazy? If you wanted to die you could have come to me. I'd have helped you in the task. But come on. Drowning yourself? You can't give yourself such an easy death. Oh damn. You can never die so easily. Get up girl. Get up!" I screamed.
Parth looked up. He seemed worried, and this time it looked like his worry was for me.
I knew what he was thinking.
He must have been thinking that I was suffering through Post Traumatic Dis Order.
But how the hell am I supposed to suffer that when nothing traumatic has happened? She is NOT dead. And I just know it.
" Get UP Sanyukta. Now. Get Up Now. You can't just leave me here! You're letting me win, are you? Damn. I didn't know you'd give up so easily. I expected more of a fight from you Sanyukta Aggarwal. Come on. Get up now. Come and lecture me about being an MCP." I shook her roughly.
Tears escaped my eyes.
She just wasn't responding.
"Sanyukta please. PLEASE. Wake up. You can't leave me alone. Not like this. Our battle isn't over yet. And you just don't leave a war unfinished. Let one of us be victorious first. How can you be such a coward and leave me already? Get up Sanyukta Please." I cried.
Never in my life had I shed as many tears, as I shed now. Atleast not after my mother left me.
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So he was here. Finally. I did feel him shake me. God this guy is always so rough.
But I could hear his voice better, although it seemed distant, the words were clear.
OMG. I just heard a please!
What?! He thinks I am a coward?
I left him?
What the heck is going on.
Is he crazy. How can I just leave him to enjoy his life happily? Has he gone mad. And hello?! Ia m in no way, a coward.
How dare he call me one.
Arghhh. I have to return there.
He's right. I can't just leave, without defeating him. I WILL defeat him. It will do him and his ego some good.
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Randhir
She still wasn't breathing. She seemed to have a weak pulse. But even that seemed to be faltering.
Where the hell was the doctor? I'd sent Yoyo and his gang to call him.
Sanyukta still lay on the bench, motionless and lifeless.
I was really scared now.
I feared. I feared I'd lose another woman close to me.
Yeah. I don't know when she managed to get so close. But well I can't help it, can I?
I slumped onto her stomach, resting my head, crying uncontrollably.
This was so unlike me. Crying away for a woman, with a woman, because of a woman.
This is why I always hated women. And stayed away from them.
They always hurt me.
Although I know that Sanyukta hadn't intended to hurt me in this way.
I cried more. I wrapped my arms around her waist and hugged her tight.
"I love you Sanyukta. Yes I do. Don't leave me. I can't live without you. I won't be able to. Please, Sanyukta. Don't break me. Don't break me Again. Please. Don't let me stay the MCP that I am. Don't leave me, without changing me completely. Please. I love you Sanyukta." I broke down.
And there came another flood of tears.
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Sanyukta
Oh God.
He's really gone crazy today.
Is he on drugs?
This guy. He always has the wrong timing. God I have to get up and give him a tight slap. Why did he have to wait till I am nearing my last breath, to confess his feelings to me?
God this guy was so adorable.
Arghh. I just can't let go of him like that.
No ways am I letting him break.
And no way am I letting him stay an MCP.
And no effing way am I letting him turn into this love struck tearful Romeo.
I forced my eyes open. I tried atleast.
But yet again they didn't give way.
I tried again.
I had to go back. I just had to.
I tried to open my eyes.
Again. And this time I succeeded.
Painful. But I did open my eyes.
And in poured the daylight.
Almost as if on cue, Randhir hugged me tighter, making me wetter with his tears, and I choked. I choked out all the water I had got into my system, when in the water tank.
" Cough. Randhi...Cough. Randhiiir. Aaah. Marwaa...oge... K..y..kya?" I stammered with difficulty, coughing in between.
Randhir's head jerked up almost immediately.
"Sanyukta! Thank God tum theek ho." He spoke before grabbing me into a warm bear hug.
Out of the corner of my eyes, I saw Parth smile with relief, and Vidushi watch with and expression of disgust mixed with jealousy. God. This girl was so full of negativity!
I pushed Randhir off me and gave him a hard slap.
"You're such a MCP. But I want you to stay like that. Just be the MCP I know, I want, I chide. This love struck Romeo avatar, just doesn't suit you. But you know what? I love you too!" I chided him, before the red color crept across my cheeks.
Now when did this happen? I was shocked. When did I fall in love with him!
"And this confused love struck Juliet avatar doesn't suit you! Just keep on being the idiotic, feminist Sanyukta I know, I want, I tease and disturb. Casue you know naa. I just love to hate you. And hate to love you!" Randhir said, making me confirm my doubts.
I just loved this guy. He was so damn adorable.
I leaned in and pulled him in for a soft,love-filled kiss. The kiss was needed. Desperate times called for desperate measures, no? He needed to know I wasn't dead...He needed to be relieved. And I needed to know I was alive...Needed to feel alive.
But one question was still stuck in my mind. Even after the kiss. Imprinted in my mind would be more the word.
Was it the fact that he'd called me a coward and then started crying, giving up and breaking down, losing his MCP, I-know-it-all, I-hate-women-especially-Sanyukta, attitude that brought me back? Or was it the I love you and I can't live without you avatar?
I was puzzled and still confused but well. Who cares about such stuff when you're having such a romantic kiss, with the love of your life?
Not me atleast!
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*Guiltily peeks out of her hiding place*
Udne Ki Aasha
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