PART VI
The Furnace
(Re-edited my apologies girls as firstly I lost what I wrote initially and then rewrote but got a bit mixed up with the classes. As I am trying to sync with the solo eye my girl post, Suraj needs to be completing 12th. As per the post he is in third year engg and she steps into college so logically he should complete 12th. Thanks bossy for pointing it... uggghh though I try to be logical but got a bit mixed up)
There were the other boys too who came to Rahul with wound marks on their forehead. What happened to you all he asked. We tried to manhandle a boy when that girl from nowhere came and catapulted stones at us.
Whaat he shouted… this is our area and the boys should be scared of us. Who is she he asked.
Don’t know but I have seen her always running past that big play ground he said with her face always covered in a dupatta… What? Why?
Oh ok then bring her let me teach her a lesson he said…. How dare she hurt you both.
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Amarpura
KNji the elections are going to come up in two year, so please gear up and try to bring in your son too for the youth wing said the Party Head.
And ….. you will be responsible for the Rural development and welfare like now (yes I need that he told within himself)
We have long time KN said….But I have to lay the path fine and get the minister post… Only then I can rule autonomous. Now and then the media keeps taunting me of that old murders too though there is no proof…. Hmmm hope this kite flying the CM is going to visit the village after 6 years hope things are fine so that he gets pleased.
Raam Singh he called, ensure everything is properly planned and set he said.
Ji Maalik he said… he was stocking the embroidered finished products in the godown.
When is Suraj coming he asked.
Chota Malik finishes the 12th exams next week and will return over the weekend.
Ask him to come soon KN said. I have organised for him to get into my friend's Engg college.
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Jaipur
The boys were trying to find a suitable time to bring Chakor as Rahul was irritated that his friends were hit and more so he does not want anyone to be not scared of him.
Do you know her name? No… hmm but we know she runs in the big playground. Run???
The next few days they could not get to her as either Dhrona or Keshav was with her always. Jaipur was very cold too so she always covered her face with a dupatta though Dhrona always tells her to wear the monkey cap.. but she would desist saying the wool irritates and cotton duppata works fine.…
She would be at her room and just look at the hand band… this looks very expensive and its written SR.. What’s SR.. hmm she kept it in her bag… who knows if I will ever meet him…. She just remembered that day at the school and the powerful eyes….and the attitude. Ugh what an attitude… bilkul paagal.. wanted to fight those thugs with big knife. Thinks he is a big Don …. But why am I thinking that.
She was at the dining when she saw on the TV informing that the CM was planning to visit the kite flying ceremony at Amarpura after six years.
Tears rolled down her years…that day changed her fate…… Anjali just hugged her when she just cried… as she remembered the brutal murder of Kaushal…..her parents, her village, that shed, her fellow… suddenly she had a flash of the Chota Malik……….the way he tried to hit Katju… She looked at her bandhuva stamp…..
Dhrona stroked her and said within a month you are participating in your first National Marathon. Focus on that and keep your Goal to win that so that your voice is heard.
National Marathon!!! She looked at her bandhuva stamp again.
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The High School
The Head Master of the School was infact worried as he was informed that thugs were there and also that Rahul and Suraj are getting into scuffles too much… He was infact waiting for the school to close that week once the 12th exams are over for the vacation so that these boys get off the school and join some college.
It was the last day of the exams
He was driving his Haya …..just could not come off the thought of the hold, that dupatta covered face which was so close to him. Chup ekdum closing his mouth while looking out through the hinges of the door.
He searched in the PT room for his hand band… my favourite one and very sentimental too.
He saw Rahul talking to the boys and out of inquisitiveness he walked stealthily and over heard, catch the girl tomorrow else we all will be off on vacation. How dare she hit and first remove her dupatta to see her face he said.
Dupatta??? Girl??? Which girl??? Before he could hear them out completely the bell rang and they pushed off.
The past one week he had been looking out if she was studying in the same school but he could not get details. Today is the last working day.
The next day early morning he sets off to Amarpura on his bike though KN chides him but he is not the one who listen. SR has his own way.
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It was wee hours…..
She got ready for her usual run ………………… it was quite cold and unusually dark…………..
She did not want to disturb Dhrona. The Ground was just few Kms away from the house.
Very softly she locked the door and carried her bag which had her water bottle, her basic mobile, a biscuit packet. She looked to see the hand band in her bag. She covered her face with the dupatta..
She started to Sprint slowly….Today its quite cold and unusually dark she told to herself.
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The boys were getting ready…we need to catch her today…………………… they were in their WagonR.
Where is Katju they asked. Oh he left last evening to his native. Hmm coward… he runs away…
The two boys were waiting at the corner while two were inside the van and one was on the steering. Are you sure is this the route? Yes she will go past this route to the Ground..
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Chota Malik please go by the car… A stern look at them and he wore his helmet and vroomed his bike… a quick words of those boys….girl with dupatta???
He went his usual route unknowing the route was past the big ground which was in the outskirts of the city leading to the highway to Amarpura.
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He was riding when he saw her running…. It was dark and her face was covered with the dupatta…
He went past her when he saw the van and the boys…it was dark. He took a U turn and went past her revving on the left side of hers opposite to the oncoming of the van
Is it Rahul and the boys???and why a van and the thugs is this the girl they mean?? But why ??? he was thinking to himself… But why am I bothered… I never bothered about any one… but an unknown feeling… He just slowed his rev….
The boys were getting ready coming on the opposite side while oblivious to anything she was running slowly as she runs to the Ground, does her stretching and then does her sprinting.
The head lights were so bright that it was blinding her… she kept her palms to avoid the beams when she realized the van was coming very close to her right side… the door opened and the thugs extended their arms….
Heyyyy there was a big noise!!!!!Vroooom came the hayabusa to her left …. She closed her eyes and was swirled……….
The van could not slow down and went forward and then stopped. Hey she is gone….. who is that….. follow that bike………………. They shouted. By the time they could swirl around the haya went gaya in the wind in the darkness.
She slowly opened her eyes to realise she was on something speeding at jet speed and she was literally on the petrol tank clinging on to a hard surface … her legs were hanging on the side.
She looked up scrunching her eyes to see only the eyes through the fully covered helmet.
Stop Stop ……she shouted…… hey you fool don’t shake we will fall he shouted through the helmet. Whaat she asked ….. she soon realised they were being chased. Get back he said…Whaaat She said.
Peeche bait…. He just grabbed her waist and made her get down and realising there was danger she got on to the pillion with her legs on both sides and was holding his shoulders. Hold me tight he said… a rev on his bike she just clung to him.
He vroomed vroomed through the lanes and reached the dry river bridge which had shrubs and trees grown allover… it was more like a small forest.….He went down the bridge below while they drove past fast above.
As it was sloppy and sandy he had to park the bike behind the shrub and pulled her towards huge pillar holding the bridge
She was heaving…. Leave me what are you all doing to me she shouted. Whaaat??? We??? Hello??? Not we … its they tried to abduct you???
Why??? Who are they she asked…who are you?…. Leave me she shouted when he heard the sound of the car over the bridge.
He pinned her to the wall,closing her mouth over her dupatta and holding her other hand. Chup, shut up he said looking above ….he said softly they are there…
She froze… he held her mouth and was holding her right wrist…
Where are they ???search down….. No No its too bushy and dark….. they waited there for sometime and left….
They heard their voice and the van receding slowly….
It was brightening up when he saw her face covered in dupatta… her eyes…..
hmmmmm , she was squeezing her hands to free when he said whaat???
Realising he was closing her mouth over her dupatta, he removed it but was holding her wrist…
He was in his helmet his eyes were revealed… both were lost for few moments…
She thumped his feet and pushed him when her bag fell down as he went backwards but was holding her right hand.
He slowly removed his helmet and looked up to see her removing her dupatta…
Uff… she coughed….. how hard you closed my mouth and my hand is paining too… she was pouting angrily.
He was lost in that face, ….She was so innocent, plain, beautiful… a simple pony tail with her tracks, a simple stud and a small bindi. She must be 15 or 16?? But why I am feeling different, for the first time….
She looked up to see him. Hellooo???
He came to his sense… what he asked…
How do you know they were trying to abduct me? And how dare you rode me like that on your bike
The hand band fell down…. he saw that he left her hand and took the band…
Hey this is mine… how did you get it.
Yours??? She scrunched.. this is from that boy in that school…..
So you were the one….. last week…. Who saved me…. In the school….You study there? he asked. I have not seen you???
So you were that Gundaa…. No I came to do my 10th exam. I wrote privately. if everything goes fine I will join there for the Higher Secondary..
But why are the boys and the thugs behind you..??? he asked.
I don’t know but were those the thugs in the school too. she questioned
Did you scuffle with anyone he asked…
Hmmm haan yes I catapulted those boys who were harming a meek one.
Oh that was you… Lokmaatha. No wonder they were trying to harm you.
Whaat she said..
Anyways thanks for saving me today…
Mutual thanks he said....
He took the band when she was rubbing her wrist… murmering.. so hard it is…
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The turmoil……………….emission of the lava………………………the furnace…………………… burns or blooms
Whats SR she asked, caressing her wrist..
When he looked at her wrist…his eyes was widening…
He pulled her hand…. Looking at it….
This stamp….. she quickly pulled… nothing…
He grabbed her head all of a sudden tell me who are you? Whats this?? How did you get this stamp? Are you from Amarpura???
She got scared… Whats your name….His eyes were in red.
Leave me she said, yes I am from Amarpura and you how do you know about the stamp. Are you from Amar….. her eyes were fluttering….
Who are you??? What is SR….
That stamp is bandhuva stamp… You are a bandhuva and how come you are in Jaipur. Tell me he shouted….
Who are you to ask me… leave my hand she shouted… You are real Gundaa…
Shut up he said…I am Suraj Rajvanshi ….. her eyes froze…..
Whaatttt???? Su…rajjj….babu….. sabkuch (she mumbled within herself)……
He held her head…. Tell me who you are????? Don’t ignite my anger he said.
She bit his wrist and said I am Chakor………………..
Chak…oor….. bandhuva ……………..Mine he mumbled.
So you ran away from Amarpura… six years ago…after bringing embarrassment to my father, Kamal Narayn Rajvanshi..
I will not leave you now…. Come with me to Amarpura he said….How dare you ran away.
She was angry and at the same time shocked.
What??? embarrassed your father… Who??the so called Maalik who is none other than a cold blooded murderer.
What ???he murderer, mind your words. You asked him to provide you with studies but you did not want to and you embarrassed him by running away and all the media were hounding him.
And god knows what happened to that media guy,he went missing… and was found in the woods. Because of his death my father was targeted for no reason. He was constantly troubled and pulled up by the opposition and he was so much depressed and one day he drank poison and my mother drank the rest and she died… luckily he survived.
You killed my mother he shouted.
What your mother is dead… Maalkin is dead?… she drank poison?… your father drank poison?. Are they such a coward to drink poison….No I cant believe… can you believe.?
Yes !!! all because of you…. I lost my mother and my father worried so much that I was left all alone. He searched for you everywhere so that he could keep his promise but you….
Stop it she shouted… she grabbed his collar stop it.. I did not run away… and the media guy Kaushal did not fall in to woods.
HE WAS KILLED I saw with my own eyes….. he was brutally killed and your father and your men saw me so they chased me to kill me too, but I ran away and escaped in the bus.
You are lonely you claim… what about me… at that small age I was like an orphan, in this new city… she cried….luckily the event management bhaiya and Masterji helped me.
Your father did not search me to provide me with studies…. He searched to kill me…
No I cant believe this he said…
Yes I know no one will believe,even if I had told that day no one would have believed me. I have no proof but I saw that bhaiya was talking to your father when they held him and he started to run when he was caught and stabbed… he shuddered.
He was completely confused….
I cant believe this…..
Don’t believe but that is the truth she said…..
Just imagine, Suraj Babu I was too small to know anything and I wanted to study…. Why would I run away…I was in the shed
Yes I searched for you in the shed…. You were told Mine.
Yes I was told that Maalik and you were sabkuch… but your father is selfish…he made everyone his bonded labour and made their life miserable without any development.
But my mom….
She said I know Maalkin is also very bold lady why will she drink the poison unless she was misguided.
What do you mean he was still raging.
I don’t know but think…you said KN was pulled by the opposite party and also by his party and by the media… and he is not a coward to drink poison, may be to divert the attention did he sacrifice your mother? I wont be surprised as he is capable.
He was shocked….. she is just too young but she is thinking so deep..Well he remembered the way she solved the puzzle at the young age....
He sat on the stone nearby…. I just cant believe… Will he do it…..How can I believe you….He always told me that he was embarrassed and felt bad that he could not keep his promise. He wanted me to follow like him…. I did not want to study but wanted to get out of Amarpura, out of the lonliness…
And why did you not come to Amarpura he asked… His eyes was eager to know. Why did you leave he thumped the tree…. Leaving me…. Alone……. You are Mine they said…I searched for you…..
I ran for my life and I felt my voice will not be heard She said. I will come when I reach that time when I know my life is safe.
She was completely shocked.... You searched for me??? Did you know???? I saw you only few times…
He was in tears, he was banging his hands when a small piece from the bark pierced his palm…
Suraj babu she got up stop it … you are hurting she said, quickly holding his palm sucking it….. she tore her dupatta and tied it around his palm.
Please….. you can always pull me to Amarpura but just think and try to find out about your father…. Why your mother had the poison…. If she had it after he had, how come he survived???
His head was pounding ……you are confusing me too much he said
No!!! please she held his hands and said just think through….
I have my national marathon close to the kite flying ceremony….
Just believe me…
Her hold was making him calm…. Her hand is firm but tender he felt….. When she sucked his palm he had the feel of her sucking his thumb as the baby…..
Is my father so selfish that he killed mom for his benefit????
Does he not love anyone…even his own family????
His phone was ringing…..it was Raam Singh…..
Chota Maalik where are you????
Maalik is waiting for you…..
He looked at Chakor…….
I will try to find out the truth but if I find what you say is not true…
I will come myself as a bandhuva to you She said without a word more.
Vaadha…. Pucca
She had a call from Masterji….
Chakor what happened I am at the ground where are you.
Masterji there was a small accident I am fine…. My friend helped me….. I will be coming she said.
Friend he said……………hmmmm lets start friends……………
Ok… it was new the furnace blew emitted the lava but still was trying to rise from the ashes…
She covered herself with the dupatta…… he wore the helmet… tied his band…. Took his bike..
He took her phone and dialed his number… save it he said….
She saved SabKuch
He saved Mine…..
He left her well before the ground…. When she ran to Masterji……………….
The bike was raging towards Amarpura with a new determination to deal with the selfish to find the truth….
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You have to study.., the evil said...
She stepped into the 11th he stepped into the Engg college....
She was gearing up for the marathon.
The evil was planning the kite flying ceremony…
Raam Singh was high arey Suraj Baabu……………… you are drinking with us……………
Daddy is very smart hainnaaa Raam Singh ……….. Yes he is indeed……………….. he is the ruler……………… he knows how to shut everyone to achieve what he wants……………………
He dusted the attic……………………..while a pair of eyes was watching…………………
No No it cannot happen….I will be completely lost… I cannot loose………………
They drove together ………………………….She came running………………………….
The car turned ……………………Booooomup it went in flames……
Suraj Babu…………………………………she froze………………………………..
Edited by sumsukor - 6 years ago