Hey all! Here is a new chapter of Criminals, Love & Death!
A lot of revealing in this update! Compensating for my last update 😳
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Chapter 5 - An Eventful & Lucky Night...For Me.
Shlok was feeling all funny, yet bothered. He stood up suddenly and started walking towards the door to leave his cottage.
"Whe..where are you going?" She asked, curious at his sudden movement.
"Going to get you some food... I don't want you to faint every now and then... I won't be there to help you..every time" he flatly stated and left.
"Khadoos" she said under her breath.
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Shlok had returned with something wrapped in newspapers. It had started raining sometime after he had left.
Astha very much enjoyed the rain so as soon as she heard the sound of the rain, she rushed towards the door to see whether it was actually raining, and seeing the rain she squealed with joy and ran outside.
She enjoyed the rain thoroughly. Feeling each and every drop on her face, she twirled around, just like a small kid.
Raindrops were her best friends. All problems, worries, difficulties in life are forgotten, for a little while, when she was with her "best friends".
The cottage was located somewhere near the sea. The raindrops hitting the sea gave sounds that were like music to her ears. She completely forgot where she was, was she in trouble, with an unknown man, kidnapped...everything.
Shlok returned with the only thing he could catch hold of to eat, Vada Pavs.
He was about to enter the cottage when he felt a movement near the sea. He got alerted and ran into the cottage searching for Astha. She wasn't there. He thought those kidnappers had found her and taken her. He ran back outside looking for her, near the place where he felt some movement and was shocked.
There he saw her, twirling and playing with the water like a small kid. He couldn't believe it. Here he was getting all the possible negative thoughts wondering where she was and here she was, playing in the rain? PLAYING?!
He ran towards her like lion runs behind a deer, but here, the deer wasn't running.
Astha was busy jumping and twirling around and suddenly she felt someone grip her arm and pulled her. She being her clumsy self, since she was too fragile or petite you can say, went crashing into something hard. She was shocked to see Shlok staring at her, with anger filled in his eyes.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE?" He roared.
She got scared. "YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO STEP OUT OF THE COTTAGE, DONT YOU KNOW THAT? DONT YOU HAVE COMMON SENSE?! THOSE MEN ARE OUT, SEARCHING FOR YOU! EVEN IF THEY GET A LITTLE IDEA BAOUT YOUR WHEREABOUTS, THEY WILL KIDNAP YOU ONCE AGAIN! AND LIKE A FOOL, IM TRYING TO SAVE YOU! I WAS WORRIED THAT THEY TOOK YOU AWAY AGAIN!" He finished, staring right into her eyes, shaking with anger.
She looked at him. Right into his eyes. She saw anger...and fear? But why? Why would he be scared for me? Why is he even saving me? He is nothing to me..he doesn't even know me! I need answers...and I'll get them in sometime. I should just quietly go in, or else he is so angry, he could kill me himself.
"Why are you staring at me now? GET IN THE COTTAGE !" He said leaving her and pointing towards the cottage.
She was confused, all questions on her mind but she quietly walked away to the cottage.
Shlok followed her after sometime. He felt like smacking himself. He shouldn't have shouted at her. Not so much at least. 'I need to apologize for that' he thought to himself and quietly followed her after his anger was cooled down by the cold rain drops.
He reached the cottage and when he entered, he saw her sitting on the little bed munching away on the Vada Pav. She looked at him. "Aren't you eating?" She asked. How could she be so calm after all the shouting I did at her? He wondered. With a small no he politely ignored.
He noticed she was drenched. 'She must've played in the rain for a long time I think... Should I ask her to change? No, it's okay. But if I don't, she will fall sick, and I cannot afford to leave this cottage with her at any cost, she will be in danger. I think I'll just ask' he thought to himself.
Astha heard him clear his throat. She looked at him. "Do you want some clothes? You are drenched and if you don't change you will fall sick." He said.
"Why do you care? Don't pamper me so much, I'll get used to it. And once I'm gone, you won't be there to take care of me" she finished jokingly with a wink while biting into her last bits of Vada Pav.
Astha was shocked at her own words. She stopped eating. 'I don't even know him! How am I being so calm and composed? I'm kidnapped.. No wait, saved but still with some unknown man!' She thought to herself. She looked at him. She felt a something, like she knew him. She kept looking while he continued.
"I'm not pampering you, I just thought I'd be kind but I don't think you want it. Your wish, fall sick if you want" he finished mockingly.
"Stop lying. Why are you doing this?" She asked.
"What am I doing?" Shlok asked, trying to change the topic and behaving like he doesn't know what she is talking about.
"Oh stop it please. Why are you saving me from them?"
"Because you saved me."
'I saved him? When?' She thought to herself, confused.
"And when did that happen?" She asked him with confusion written all over her face.
He thought he should tell her, or else she would bombard her with too many questions.
"The night when you were kidnapped."
"That night? I didn't save anyone. The only thing I remember was me getting down the car, and in sometime I was hit at the back of my head and I fell unconscious. That's it...right?" She looked up to him.
He nodded his head in a no. "A lot happened that night. And I'm glad you didn't see it." He gave a small smile.
"What happened that night?" She asked him curiously.
Flashback
Shlok's Point of View
"Woh bhaag raha hai! Pakad use!" (He is running away! Catch him!) Sahab ordered his men to get hold of Shlok.
Shlok had gotten the secret information about the next plan of Sahab's criminal gang. He was sent by his master to report him about their latest plans. He was his masters best man. Shlok would get the most important information, that no other man could get, and would escape without getting caught. But this night was something else.
He heard the men running behind him, but he managed to get a little far away from them.
The men had tried to stop Shlok from running, and the only opportunity they found was in to shoot him on his leg. But they were unlucky because when they shot the bullet towards him, it hit his shoulder, and his arm started bleeding heavily.
He knew he couldn't stop, they would kill him. He ran and ran as fast and far as he could until he saw someone on the road. Was it a girl? What was she doing all alone on the road at this time?
She was wearing a nice, white Churidaar, looking like an angel.
But she couldn't see him like this! What if she called the police? So he ran quickly I to the bushes. But his hand brushed into the leaves and suddenly he saw the girl turned around. She looked towards the bushes. Her face wasn't all clear, but he could see a little. She had a familiar face. 'Why is she reminding me of Astha?'
He heard someone shout out a name. She turned around once more. Did she see him he thought.
Suddenly he saw those goons come and they stopped near the bush where he was hiding.
"Yeh ladki kahan se aagayi? Usne sab kuch dekha hai kya? Hum musibat mein pad jaayege! Chal, use utha lete hain!" (Where did this girl come from? Did she see everything ? We will be in trouble! Come, let's kidnap her!) Said the goon member to his other mates and they all ran towards her queitly and hit her head with and she fell down with one hit. The goons were about to take her away when another man came shouting a name. "Astha?! Where are you?!" He shouted. Shlok couldn't believe it. It was her. He was seeing her after a long time. A VERY long time he thought to himself.
"Tu kaun hai? Aur ise kaise pehchaanta hai?"(who are you and how do you know her?) The goons asked that man.
"Main..a..Aakash hoon aur is se meri shaadi home wali hai" (I'm Aakash and I'm going to get married to her) he finished pointing at an unconscious Astha.
"Kitne paise lega is ke liye? Tu hume ise bechde aur hum tujhe bohot saara paise denge..kya kehta hai?" (How much money will you take for her ? We will give you lots of money...what do you say?) The goons asked Aakash.
Aakash was shocked at first but was greedy enough to sell his fianc for some money. He agreed to their deal.
"Chal, use apni gaadi mein daal aur gaadi shuru kar" (put her in your car and start the car) the goons told Aakash and they started and left the place.
Shlok knew the place where they would go. He has gone to their locations where he would get info to report to his master. He knew that was the place where they would do this "business".
When the car was out of sight, Shlok came out from behind the bushes.
'Im alive only because of her. If it wasn't for her, my dead body would be laying down here. She truly is an angel, sent from above, who saved me. But now the angel is in danger, and I have to save the innocent one. After all, it was his Astha.' He thought to himself.
Flashback ends
He narrated the story to Astha, except his deep and inner 'thoughts' of course.
Shocked was not enough to describe the expressions on her face.
She looked pale. She didn't say anything about the incident.
"Can I have some dry clothes?" She asked, behaving like she didn't hear a word Shlok said.
He slowly got up, gave her some clothes and she left for the corner to the small washroom of the cottage.
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Precap-
Astha was crying on Shlok's shoulder loudly and saying something between which he couldn't understand because of the pain he was experiencing.
Astha suddenly felt something on her face. It wasn't her tears. It was something warm. She touched her face, and was shocked. It was blood! Shlok's wound was not treated and now he is bleeding!
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Edited by .Farah. - 11 years ago
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