
Come back soon bhai, neil hugged his brother tightly, after putting all his luggage in the car, rajat did not want to go, he wanted to spend some time with neil, who was recently back from a a business trip, he desperately wanted to have his share of family time but he had to go, it was a professional commitment, he left for ambala for a month long training session with some college students which he himself knew were least interested to be a part of some physically demanding activities in NCC but he was helpless after all, work is work!!!
she woke up from her bed tying her hair properly and folding the comforter... she smiled complimenting the bright morning sun, she was fresh, happy and mentally prepared for yet another exhausting and tiring day, over the years it was all about surviving and not living for her, she hardly found any peace in her life when she worked like a machine but her angel baby was someone for whom she thought her life was worth giving a chance...
hridu, bachhaa get up, time for school, u should not be late, she was not able to complete her sentence but her prince jumped out of the bed and ran towards the bathroom... HRIDAAN- a 4 year old naughty but disciplined baby of his affectionate mother... she was so proud of his such habits, he did not like to go to school like any other boy but did so because his mother wanted him to do... hridaan walked out of the bathroom struggling with his towel after which she got him ready with his uniform and shoes, serving him breakfast, she went to pack his bag , put in all the required books and then looked at one of the labels which read HRIDAAN SAREEN...
while driving back home after dropping him at school, some thoughts of how her life is and could have been were knocking her mind, but she thought of such things very little, she wanted to ignore them but she very well knew that some facts of her life are to be left unattended intentionally... at home while playing with the food on the breakfast table she stared at the solitaire on her finger... when pammi chachi, her landlord clicked her fingers in front of her face, AASHI r u ok??? ohh yes pammi aunty she said coming out of her dream world and getting a reality check...
no more ANUSHKA SAREEN, she is AASHIMAA, a financially independent single mother, working as the junior economics professor at the Stephen's college of commerce and arts in ambala, it is her new life, a life she never wished for, a life which gives her no reason to be happy, she is incomplete, but satisfied that she atleast had her baby angel HRIDAAN with her to pacify her aching soul...
rajat got back on his way aftr getting the punctured tyre of his car repaired, and as the pitter patter raindrops started pouring he thought of how h romanced his ladylove in their firs rain, the way she looked at him, the way he held her, the way she hugged him, the way he kissed her but his trance broke as soon as he reached his destination... he reported in the air force base and was asked to take up the training session from the next day
the day was as usual for anu, she came back from work when pammi chichi was pestring the vegetables and hridaan was watching a new episode of doraemon, she went in to freshen up, following her pammi chichi got some more photographs of some men who had showed up interest in marrying anu or for now AASHI... anu was actually fed up of all this nonsensical drama and she responded so infuriating her pammi who cursed her on being a single mother, who did not even carry her husband's surname...
more than taunts or humiliations, such words were heartbreaking for anu, they were not new but her wounds never got a time to heal when she was badnamed to be a characterless woman in front of the whole world, bringing up a child single handedly was never easy for her but right now no one was there with her to understand her plight... even her tears had dried up
rajat lay on his bed with an empty stomach like most of the days...nobody cared to ask him of how is he and where is he, right now the only thought to and fro his mind is that maybe anu is dead...MAYBE!!! but if she is alive, she will have no objection if she has moved on, if she has someone special in her life but he just wants to see her once and apologize, just ONCE!!!