[FF] Barsaat - Part 19 (pg. 25) - Page 7

Suhani continues to pace back and forth. Thinking about what Sharma aunty had said before, it's all about her now. To not dwell in the past but think about the future. She begins to debate whether she should take up Krishna proposal of joining him in Australia for a couple of days. Suhani phone rings, she picks it up to see it was Krishna call. She answers the call "Krishna I don't want to talk now, can I call you later?" "ok but I want to tell you something, just two minutes." Suhani felt a sadness in his voice, "ok." "I hope you didn't feel pressured when you called earlier. Suhani... Suhani it's just I am feeling lonely and needed a friend. But I understand if you do not want to come. There is no pressure." Suhani felt that loneliness too. "Krishna I need some time, I have some questions that need answers. I can't tell you anything yet." "I understand." Suhani cuts the phone and begins to think. What is she waiting for? There are no question left that need answers. Everything was clear now. What else was left to know?

Yuvraj comes out of him room and heads to Pratima room. Pratima was walking out of her room when she almost bumps into Yuvraj, "Yuvraj, why are you so dressed up? Are you going anywhere? Yuvraj sadly replies "Yes. Its Samir anniversary party today. He said he will cancel if I don't come." Pratima puts her hand on his shoulder to give him support. "Then you should go. He is very stubborn. He does what he says but eat something before you go. Come." Pratima holds his arm to pulls him towards the kitchen. Yuvraj holds on to her hand "No Ma." Pratima looks at him surprised, "What no! You haven't had anything since this morning." Yuvraj looks at her and lightly removes her hand from his arm and cups it between his hands, "I had juice." "Juice!? Juice is not food, come have something." Yuvraj looks at her and holds on to her face. "Ma I promise I will eat something at the party." Pratima looks away not believing him. "Ma please let me go, the quicker I go, the quicker I will come back." Pratima looks up at him. "Promise you will eat something there." Yuvraj hugs his mom, "I promise." Yuvraj lets his mom go and heads out the door. Pratima worries as she sees Yuvraj head out the door. Pratima turns to see Ramesh walking into the kitchen. "Ramesh tell the driver not to go home yet, I need to run to the market." Ramesh was about to head out when Anuj calls him from behind. "Ramesh, forget it. You go and do something else." Ramesh shakes his head as he walks back towards the kitchen. Anuj walks up to his mom, "Mom, I told you I am here for you then why disturb the driver this late, let him go home. Where do you want to go? I will take you." Pratima looks at Anuj and wipes a tear that had formed in her eyes. "I want to buy a cake for Saurabh. It was his first day." Anuj smiles, "Great idea! Give me five minutes, I'll go and change." Pratima stands there smiles thinking about how she finally feels happy and content with life. The only thing missing was her daughter-in-law. She stood they praying for her to come back soon. She had already messed up both their lives. She didn't want to interfere with their decision this time.

Suhani is laying on her bed. Her dupatta soaked with her tears. She jumps up when she hears a knock on the door. She begins to wipe her tear as the door opens. Sharma aunty walks in with a tray of food. "Suhani beta I brought you your dinner." Suhani looks away trying to hide her face, "No aunty I am not hungry." Sharma aunty puts the tray on the side. "Not hungry? You haven't had anything all day except for the juice from morning. Which we forced you to drink or else you wouldn't have had that either." Suhani stays quiet, still looking away, trying to fight her tears back. Sharma aunty sits next to her and hugs her, "You don't need to hide your tears from me." Suhani breaks down in her arms and begins to tell her about the call she made to Yuvraj. "Don't cry if he has moved ahead with his life. Why are you crying about the past." She pulls Suhani away. "You are a big believer in moving forward. How can you let yourself fall behind." "Aunty I love him. I trusted him and he broke my trust. Not just him, Aunty you know how inseparable me and Soumya were. We told each other everything. How could she have kept such a big secret from me. First Krishna and now Yuvraj. If they had told me from the beginning I would have them married. This would have never have happen." She lowers her head crying, "I would have not fallen in love." Sharma Aunty lift her head slowly with her hand, "Suhani, forget the past. What happened has happened. You can't change it. Think about what you want to do now." Suhani grabs her hand, "Aunty I am afraid. Please tell me what to do, I feel lost. Its only been one day and he has already forgotten me. Everything is in front of me clear as day but nothing makes sense. My heart says one thing and my mind another." Sharma grasps her hand tighter and lays it on her lap. "Suhani, when nothing makes scene, listen to your heart, it will not steer you wrong. What does your heart want?" Anger slowly begins to develop in her, "My heart wants answer. Why did they do this to me? This whole time both were in front of my eyes, how could they play with my feelings this way. You know after coming home from the police station after Soumya accident, I was so afraid of losing my family, Yuvraj promised me he was never going to leave me. Why did he make these fake promises? All the talks and concern, what was all that? Why this act with me?" Sharma aunty gets worried knowing that even if she get the answer to her question it will not help her get rid of this pain. She places her hand on her cheek "Suhani.." They get disturbed by a knock on the door. Sharma aunty walks up to the door and see her husband standing outside. "Come with me, I need to talk to you its something important." Sharma aunty nods her head, "You go, I will be there soon." Sharma aunty walks back in and grabs the tray of food and places it in front of Suhani. "Eat. I will be right back." Sharma aunty leaves the room. Suhani sits there looking at the food thinking about the time she spent with Soumya and Yuvraj. She begins to feel like something is wrong. She gets up off the bed and puts on her slipper. "I will get the answer to my answer." Suhani heads out the door.

Yuvraj is at a table with his friends. "Arrange marriage is better than love marriage. At least you don't need to worry about your wife constantly telling you 'you use to say I love you everyday before marriage and now i only hear it on special days.' " one of his friends, Dev, said as he poured Yuvraj a drink, laughing. Yuvraj shakes his head and stands up, drunk "I disagree." Yuvraj unable to hold himself up, falls back in his chair. He grabs the glass his friend poured and takes a sip. He points to Dev holding on to the glass, "Wrong. Both type of marriage is wrong. In a love marriage, the girl acts like she loves you then betrays you and runs off with someone else and arrange marriage." He takes another sip of the drink. "A marriage by force, the girl comes and lights up your life." Dev laughs, "What is wrong with that?" Yuvraj finishes his drink, "She slowly begins to enter your heart and not just your but your family as well. But after one mistake, she leaves. She leaves without saying anything, breaking your heart..." Suhani teary eyes flashes in his eyes "and breaking her's too." Yuvraj stands up to grab the bottle but slams it down seeing it empty. He begins to stumble over to the bar. All his friend were surprises to see Yuvraj in this shape "Rahul, come lets see if he is ok." Dev and Rahul get up and begin to walk towards him.

Dadi and Soumya both are sitting in the living. Soumya dresses in the sari Yuvraj had gifted Suhani on her birthday. "Wow Soumya this sari looks better on you then it did on that girl." "Of course Dadi, this sari belongs to me so why will it not look good." Soumya says as he plays with the sari. Dadi lifts the necklaces of her neck, "and it seems like this necklace was made for you." The bell rings. Soumya gets up excited, "Dadi, Yuvraj is here." Dadi stands up "Do exactly like I say." Dadi quickly walks over to her room and Soumya heads for the door. Soumya turns to see if Dadi left. She turns back and opens the door, "Yuvraj I been waiting for you.." Soumya takes a step back surprised.

Soumya takes a step back surprised, "Suhani!" Suhani stand at the door surprised to see her friend wearing her sari. Soumya smiles as she grabs on to the drape of her sari, "Suhani what are you doing at the door, come in." Soumya walks in as Suhani slowly follow but stops after a few steps. Suhani eyes followed her unable to decide is this was in fact her friend or someone else. "I am fine right here." she said making Soumya stop. Soumya turns and smile at her "as you wish. What brought you here?" Suhani couldn't fight the bitterness that she began to feel towards her friend. She was surprises to see after everything that happened here the night before her Somu was so comfortable. Soumya didn't show any sign of concern or regret. She couldnt decided on how to speak to the woman who stood before her, was she a friend or her husband old love. As she looked at Soumya play with her necklace she regretted her decision to come here to talk to her. Somuya smiles as she notices Suhani silence "Suhani" Suhani shakes off her thoughts, "Where is Yuvraj?" Soumya smiles, "Yuvraj! He went to a friends party. I was actually waiting for him to come home so we could have dinner together." Dadi peaks out off her room and sees Suhani. Dadi thinks "What is she doing here? She will mess up the plan?" Dadi gets an idea and goes back into her room. Soumya shows off the sari to Suhani as she wraps the drape around her from behind. "If you like you could wait for him." Soumya invites her knowing that Suhani will not accept. "Soumya bahu" Dadi says with a smile as she approaches Soumya and Suhani. Soumya turns around to look at Dadi, "Yes Dadi." Dadi hands over a box to Soumya, "This is for you." Soumya looks at the gift surprised, "For me." Dadi smiles as she looks at Soumya ignoring Suhani, "of course for you, who else?" Soumya quickly begins to open up the gift, she gets happy seeing the cell phone. She jumps and hugs Dadi, "Thank you so much Dadi." Dadi pulls her away, "Dont thank me, Thanks Yuvraj." Dadi looks over at Suhani from the corner of her eye. Suhani looks at the phone, shocked. Dadi slide her hand over Soumya head, "It came earlier but I forgot to tell you. He told me he wanted to gift you a new phone for your new life together." Soumya looks at the phone, "Dadi it is perfect." Soumya looks over at Suhani, "ohh Suhani, I am sorry I forgot you were standing there. I get so lost when talking about Yuvraj. He has given me surprises after surprises since this morning." she said as she ran her hand over the sari to her necklace. Dadi looks over at Suhani and then at Soumya, "Soumya, you are the daughter-in-law of the house, don't you know we don't keep guest standing at the door." Soumya was about to say something but Suhani speaks before her, "No its ok. I just came to see if Yuvraj was here but since he isn't I will take my leave." Suhani turns to walk out the door. Soumya calls out from behind her, "Do you need me to pass a message over to Yuvraj?" Suhani answers over her shoulder, "There is no need for that anymore."Suhani walks out the door. Soumya closes the door behind her, smiling.

Yuvraj sits at the bar asking the bartender for another shot, "one more shot." Rahul stands next to him, "Yuvraj stop, you had too much to drink. You are not used to drinking this much. Why are you drinking so much?" Yuvraj laughs as he grabs and takes the shot. He looks at the shot glass "trying to put out the fire in my heart." He puts the glass down. Rahul looks at him confused, "that is it, you had enough. Lets go." He tries to pick up Yuvraj but he shoves Rahul off. "I don't need anyone." Dev comes over and puts Yuvraj phone in his pocket, "It was Yuvraj mom, I told her he will be late. I told her to go to sleep. If Aunty sees him this way, she will get so worried and Yuvraj will never forgive us." Rahul looks at Dev, "Dont worry about that lets just get him out of here first."

Pratima walks over to Anuj, "Beta let's get the cake ready. Just got off the phone with Saurabh. He will be here any moment." "What about Yuvraj?" Anuj asked as he taps the lighter on his hand. "Yuvraj will be late coming home." Anuj walks over to the kitchen and begins to put candle on the cake. He brings the cake into the living room. Everyone gathers at the living room. Saurabh comes home and was surprised when he walked through the door. "What is this?" He says as he hugs Anuj and then his mom. "This is to congratulate you on your first day at work. Come cut the cake." Saurabh walks over to the cake. He smiles looking at everyone, "Where is Yuvraj?" "He will be late coming home, go ahead cut your cake." Pratima tells him as she hands him the knife. Saurabh grabs the knife and cuts the cake. He begins to feed everyone one by one, Pratima, Anuj, Menka. He turns to feed the next person but stops when he sees its Ragini. Ragini grabs his hands to take a bite. She blinks her eyes to let him know she is with him. Saurabh smiles at Ragini as he moves to feed Dadi, "Bless you Beta." "Thank you Dadi" Saurabh says as he feeds Dadi the cake. He turns and looks at Soumya who stood with her mouth partly open. Saurabh lowers his hand and walked back to where the cake was kept . Soumya looked at Saurabh annoyed. Dadi looks at Ragini smiling at Soumya. "But beta what is the need for you to work. We have people to worry about all that stuff." "Dadi, I know we have Saxena looking after company but i wanted to go myself." Saurabh said as he licked the frosting off his fingers. "You wanted to or did someone in abilities make you run to the office." Dadi said as she looked at Ragini. Ragini smiles at Dadi, "Whatever the reason is I am happy with my husband decision." Saurabh looks up surprised at Ragini.

Dev holds on to Yuvraj as him and Rahul take Yuvraj to the car. "Rahul I got him, you go and bring the car out front."

Suhani walks into her room and turns on her light. She sits on her bed, crying. "Did you get your answer? Are you happy? Suhani how can you be so stupid. Wasnt the call enough proof that he moved on that you needed to go to the house. Were you happy seeing Soumya in your place?" She begins to get anger at herself. She wipes off her tears and grabs her phone. She search her phone and then pulls it to her ears. The phone rings "Hello Krishna."

Rahul helps Yuvraj out of the car and up the stairs. Once up the stairs Yuvraj shakes Rahul off, "Look I am home, you could go now." Rahul looks at him, "Are you sure you don't want me to drop you inside?" Yuvraj laughs "I am a couple of feet from the door, if I do stumble and fall it will be inside my house." Rahul lets him go and watches him stumble into his house. Rahul walks down the stairs and drives away after seeing him Yuvraj close the door behind him. Yuvraj leans against the door unable to see anything in the dark. He sees a figure walking towards him. He wipes his eyes and looks again able to make out the sari. Yuvraj smiles and begins to walk towards the person. He stumble and falls on to the person. He pushes himself off and smiles holding on to their shoulder, "You are finally came back to me." Soumya looks at him and smiles, "Yes Yuvraj, I am back and I will never leave you again." Yuvraj begins to caress her cheek "You know how hard it is to live a day with out you." Soumya looks down, "You don't know how long I have waited for you." Yuvraj stumbles. Soumya helps him to stand straight, "Let me take you to your room." Soumya helps Yuvraj walk to his room, "Not my room, our room." Soumya smiles as she couldn't believe her luck. She finally had everything she wanted, the luxury she once lost, a family that praises her and a guy like Yuvraj by her side. "Yes, our room." They enter the room. Soumya turns Yuvraj around, "Here is your bed, go and lay down." Yuvraj falls back sitting on the bed. Soumya bends over to help him lay on the bed. Soumya get up and turns. Yuvraj grabs her hand, "Where are you going?" Soumya turns to look at Yuvraj, "Yuvraj.." Yuvraj pulls Soumya on to the bed. Soumya falls on to Yuvraj. Soumya looks up at Yuvraj smiling.