HriIsh :)|Collab|4Shot::Uncertainty|Ch1 Up Pg7 17/4/16 - Page 5

Originally posted by: harshi2000

Just cant wait for the first part

Super excited😃

Originally posted by: 3dancelover

just the teaser of ur collab has got me intrigued

continue soon!

Originally posted by: SweetSau

So just read it had gone for some work related to an NGO so had to visit an IT company so came home late and read this late!

God if the teaser is so awesome then how will the main story be!?

Can't wait for you to update!

Update soon!

Originally posted by: tikit

Well the teaser is definitely interesting. Collabs are always nice. Waiting for first chapter. Do update fast and thanks for pm hrideyy.

Originally posted by: Aalina.

And I m at cloud nine.. Oh god.. Two of my fvrt people n writers collaboration...

Let me dance first..

Waiting waiting n waiting... Update soon

Originally posted by: VIMAL.M

Sounds interesting.

Waiting for chapter 1 .

CHAPTER 1: WISH GRANTED

"Kaash main tujhse kabhi mila hi na hota! Toh shayad aaj Bebe ki yeh halat nahi hoti"

"Jabse tu humari zindagi main aayi hai, life mein problems hi problems ho gayi hai"

"I wish you never existed!"

Kunj wakes up with a start. Last night's events still fresh in his mind, last night's word still leaving their bitter taste on his tongue. He yet can't believe he yelled at Twinkle like that, slapped her at her own Birthday party, blamed her for pushing Bebe down the stairs.

Of course, he knew in his heart that Twinkle could never do such a thing, but in the heat of the moment anger overcame logic and words that shouldn't never have been said were poured out like a gushing geyser.

He looks around the room, trying to locate her to apologize but finds her nowhere.

"Woh, apne ghar chali gayi hai." Bebe informed him last night, after Anand had bailed him out of jail. He starts for the Taneja mansion, determined to bring his wife back, but "Puttar, kal sawere chale jaa. Aaj usse wahi rehne de, apne Maa ke paas."

He quickly pushes himself off the bed, casually wondering how he had ended up on the bed, when he distinctly remembers falling asleep on the couch and makes his way to shower. Fresh and dressed in her favorite shirt of his, he skips down the stairs. His heart his fluttering with guilt, embarrassed of his behavior towards her. His mind doesn't help either, because every time he blinks, her tear stricken face flashes in front of him. Her quivering lips, begging him to believe her, her hands folded in front of him in prayer that he shouldn't utter such painful words. Her blubbering apologizes for a crime she hadn't even committed, it all flashed in front of him as penalty for his deeds.

He needs flowers too. A simple verbal apology isn't any compensation for the heinous act of his. Orchids, he needs orchids. They are her favorite.

He arrives back with the flowers, later than he would have liked. The traffic and the florist were to be blamed. First of all, who even goes to work the day, after Christmas? Shouldn't everyone be resting, recovering from their party hangover? And which florist doesn't keep Orchid in their stores? Didn't they know Orchids were Twinkle's favorite? Ridiculous!

He steps out of his car, bouquet in hand and nervousness in mind. How should he even begin? He had hurt her a lot yesterday, will a bouquet and a verbal apologize even be enough? He quickly shakes his head, trying to rid it of any more negativity and enters the house.

"Twinkle?" He yells for her. "Twinkle, kaha hai tu? Mujhe tujhse kuch baat karni hai, please neeche aa."

Leela comes out of her room, hearing the commotion. "Arey Kunj puttar tu yaha?"

"Maa, Twinkle kaha hai? Mujhe usse maafi maangni hai. Kaha hai woh? Twinkle!"

Leela comes down and stands next to him, her brows furrowed in a frown. "Kaun Twinkle, puttar?"

His heart freezes over in cold tread, thinking that Leela and Twinkle had disowned him, that they no longer consider him as their family. "Maa, please aisa mat kaho. Mujhe Twinkle se sirf ek baar baat karne di jiye. I promise, I promise main sab kuch theek kardunga. I promise, Maa, please. Sirf ek baar Twinkle to neeche bulaiye."

"Kunj puttar, yeh tu kya kaha jaa raha hai? Kaun Twinkle? Tu kya theek karna chahta hai?"

"Maa, please..." He starts again but stops knowing well that Leela wouldn't allow him to meet her daughter, especially after last night. He also knows that Twinkle wouldn't willing come down to him-not yet anyway. So he knows what he has to do.

He quickly commands his legs to carry him towards Twinkle's room. He jumps over two steps at a time to reach her faster, stumbles once or twice on the way due to his misty eyes and only breathes when her teal door is right in front of him.

Banging his fist against her door, he desperately calls out to her. He can hear Leela calling out to him. He knows he only has so much time, before Leela comes up and orders him away. He can't let that happen...he can't, he can't, he can't!

He calls out to her, slams his fist harder but receives no reply.

"Kunj puttar! Tu waha kar kya raha hai?" Leela says walking towards him.

"Twinkle, please! Twinkle darwaza khol Twinkle. I AM SORRY! Twinkle please!"

Silence.

He tries one last time. Only this time the door, gives way under his heavy knuckles and slips open an inch. That was enough opportunity for Kunj and he slips in.

The room was bathed in darkness. The curtains pulled close, lights switched off. He can barely see a thing. He blindly reaches for the light switch against the wall behind him, all the while calling out her name. His fingers finally find the switch and flicker it on just as Leela enters the room.

There is no Twinkle in the room-heck there is nothing in the room! It's just a store. Furniture covered in white sheets, dusty cupboards and junk filled chests. It was supposed to be lavish curtains, racks of shoes, perfume and cosmetics filled dresser and Twinkle.

His mind spins in confusion.

"Kunj, beta, tu theek toh hai na? Yeh tu kisse doondh raha hai? Kaun hai yeh Twinkle?" Leela comes up in front of him. She smiles lovingly at him, before placing her hand along his forehead. "Lagta hai, tujhe bukhaar chadi hui hai. Kaise behki-behki baate kar raha hai." She switches on her mobile and dials a number on it. "Rukh, main Bebe ko call karke bata deti hoon ki tujhe bhukkar hai. Woh tere liye soup bana degi."

Nothing makes sense anymore to Kunj. What happened to all of Twinkle's furniture? Did she shift her bedroom to another room? But more importantly where was Twinkle? And why was Leela talking as if she didn't know her daughter at all.

Were they so furious at him that wanted him to suffer like this? Did they want to torture him so, by playing such a vile and dirty prank?

Well lesson learnt! He promises on the life of everything pure and holy on this planet that he will never raise his voice at Twinkle like that ever again. He swears on himself that he would never again-never-raises his hand on Twinkle. HE PROMISES!

The tears that were so far, welling his eye, brim and overflow. His legs wobble and he falls to his knees against Leela. "Maa, please! I am sorry! I am sorry! I am so so sorry-please" His voice quivers and shakes and breaks repeating the same thing over and over again. It frightens Leela to him this way. Something was definitely wrong with him. "Please Maa, bas ek baar Twinkle ko bula do, please! I have to apologize to her, I have to make things right. Maa please"

"Kunj. Puttar, uth. Tur o kyu raha hai?"

"Twinkle..."

"Kunj, puttar ki hua?" It's Bebe. She quickly makes her way towards her nephew's lethargic form and puts her hand on his head. "Kunj puttar. Tu theek toh hai na? Leela ji kya hua hai isse?"

"Pata nahi Bebe. Bas achanak se yeh ghar aa gaya aur pagalo ki tarah koi Twinkle ko dhoondhe jaa raha hai."

"Bebe, Twinkle" Kunj says hoarsely.

Anand decides to intervene and help Bebe pick Kunj up, trying to carry him back to Sarna Mansion. Kunj leans heavily against them, muttering just one Word-Twinkle. Leela follows them.

They manage to get Kunj to his bedroom with great difficulty. He drags his feet every step of the way, refusing to go with them. He remained defiant that he wouldn't leave Taneja Mansion until he meets Twinkle.

So they bribe him, cheat him almost. Tell him that Twinkle would come to Sarna household to meet him. And if it wasn't for his exhausted mind frame, he would have never believed it, but he did.

"Kunj puttar tu apne kamre mein jaa kar aaram kar." Somewhere in the deep recesses of his mind, he knows Bebe is right. He needs to rest, Twinkle would be very disappointed to see him like this. Oh, he can only imagine her taunts and abuses. He can imagine how she could yell at him, for completely disregarding his health and becoming a basket case. So he trudges up to his bedroom, falls face first on the bed and promptly falls asleep.

He wakes up to his photo smiling back at him. His senses kick back in, in an instant. That was wrong! Twinkle's photo was supposed to be the one smiling back at him. He always kept Twinkle's photo by his bedside.

He quickly rolls over to her side of the bed and picks up the frame there.

It's his photo again. His frown only deepens.

Next he walks over to their dresser, maybe Twinkle had accidently kept her photo there. He is wrong. In fact now that he notices it, there was an obvious lack of Twinkle's photos in their room.

Panic surges his veins in a flood. Maybe she had kept all her photos in the cupboard. Yeah that sounded right. Yeah, he should just check their cupboard.

He dashes the short expanse of inches from their dresser to their cupboard and yank the doors open.

Why are all her dresses missing?

He pulls open her jewellery drawer-empty again.

His heart starts racing thousand miles an hour. Did she leave him? NO! No, she can't leave him like that. He has got to bring her back.

He runs out of his room and down the stairs, thinking maybe she told Bebe were she was going. Bebe and Twinkle were close, of course Twinkle would tell Bebe everything.

"Bebe! Bebe!"

Bebe rests her tea cup against the table, before turning her attention to Kunj. "Arey Kunj puttar, tu uth gaya. Ab kaisa lag raha hai tijhe?"

He dismisses Bebe's question. He had more important matters on his mind than his wellbeing. "Bebe, Twinkle kaha hai?"

He watches Bebe's disappointed frown. "Tu phirse shuru ho gaya? Kunj, kaun Twinkle?"

And the nauseating feeling is back with a vengeance in the pit of his stomach. Only this time he is more frustrated. "Aapki Twinkle, iss ghar ki choti bahu! Meri biwi TWINKLE!"

He is sure that there was nothing comical about the situation and yet Bebe was laughing until tears run down her cheeks. "Puttar ji, apne sapne mein tu ne shaadi bhi kar li. Bhai, hume bulaya bhi nahi."

"Bebe yeh mazzak ka samay nahi hai. Mujhe Twinkle se milna hai. Mujhe usse maafi maangni hai. It's very important Bebe, please." Bebe sobers up at this, watching his patience running thin and the desperation etched on his face.

"Kunj. Tu yeh kya Twinkle, Twinkle laga rakha hai.Teri toh abhi tak shaadi bhi nahi hui hai. Shayad tune koi sapna dekha hoga."

He runs his hand through his hair, just having lost the last ounce of patience and shredding sanity he was holding on to and runs back to his own room to grab their marriage certificate and album. To prove Bebe wrong.

He yanks the drawer designated for important documents and rips open the first file. It wasn't their marriage certificate. He grabs the one underneath it, it isn't that one either. With his heart in this throat he reaches for the third one and is faced with the same discontent.

His hands quiver as he reaches for the last file. Surely this must be it.

He lets out a frustrated guttural groan because it isn't. He then notices that their wedding album was missing as well.

He trashes their room wildly like a mad man. Until everything is either broken, torn up or shattered.

His knees buckle again until he has to lean on the walls for support and when that doesn't help, he slids down to the floor.

I WISH YOU NEVER EXISTED!' His words echo back to him.

Was his wish granted?!

No! That was silly. Wishes are never granted like that. He was being silly. Twinkle was just at Taneja Mansion. Yeah, that sounded right. She would be there. Where else could she go, right?

Kunj quickly wipes his tears with the back of his sleeve, wipes his nose and fixes his mussed hair. He stops by the mirror on the way, and makes himself look more presentable. Twinkle wouldn't be happy seeing him like that.

He forces a smile on his face as he enters Taneja Mansion only to have it falter again. Twinkle's picture was missing from-everywhere. He quickly runs out-his wish was coming true! HIS WISH WAS COMING TRUE!

HE DOESN'T WANT HIS WISH TO BE GRANTED DAMN IT!

He whips out his phone in a last ditch attempt to confirm her existence. He could call Chinky and ask her about Twinkle. He forces his mind to disregard the Lamborghini on his lock screen-it was supposed to be a picture of Twinkle's-but he doesn't want to dwell on it. Scrolling down to C's , he quickly taps against Chinky.

Three rings and she answers. "Hello?"

"Hello Chinky? Main Kunj bol raha hoon."

"Oh, Kunj. Leela aunty ke padosi right?"

"Haan, haan. Leela aunty ka padosi." It's strange why is Chinky referring to him as a neighbour when all other times she regarded him as Jeeju'? "Acha sunn, Twinkle tere saath hai kya?"

"Kaun Twinkle?"

He feels his world shattering.

He does the next logical that comes to his mind. He runs home, boots up his laptop and opens the first search engine on the computer. How to reverse a wish'

There are articles upon articles and then some more on how people accidently made wishes they now regret and how they have tried every trick in the book, prayed and sung every holy hymn but the wish was cemented and all they have now is a soul full of regret.

Kunj feels the tip of his toes grow cold, feels the baby hair on the back of his neck raise and goose bumps race down his body.

Was this how it was going to be now? Had he committed the gravest mistake of his life in a fit of rage that wasn't even reasonable anymore?

He mentally smacks himself in the head-he was being absurd. Twinkle just didn't cease to exist just because he wished she never existed-naah, he was being silly. She was fine. You know what this was all a dream. He must be lying in bed right now and conjuring up this nightmare. Yeah, that seems about right. This was all a bad dream.

He pinches himself once, twice, thrice but doesn't wake up. He lets of a frustrated roar Main uth kyu nahi raha? UTH KUNJ, UTH!' It's the sixth pinch that scares the life out of him, because this is reality...

And Twinkle was the dream!

TO BE CONTINUED...

Well fellows, that the end of chapter 1. We hope you liked it. Please comment down below to let us know. Thanks for taking the time to read, like comment and shower us with your love. You guys are the best!

Love,

Mehwish and Hrideyy.

omg this was mind blowing. Such an amazing concept.Loved how kunj was not ready to believe that his wish was granted.you guys are epic. plsss continue soon.

Amazing first chapter.Both of you are awesome.

Wow...its amazing.. Continue soon...waiting for next...