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Hello! Yes, I was to update my story but I'm not getting enough time to write it. This shot was written for another couple some months ago and I don't know, when I recently heard this song again, I wanted to write it for SamAina as well so here it is. This song is very very close to my heart and I would want you to listen to it once (I'm sure you'll like it.) Enjoy reading and forgive grammatical and spelling errors. Also, bold manjhe flashback.
Saathi Re...
"Am I speaking to Mrs. Sameer Maheshwari?" Naina heard an unknown voice asking a strange question. "Yes. What's the matter?" Naina asked. She was already feeling uneasy. "Mr. Maheshwari met with an accident and I'm sorry to inform but we couldn't save him." The stranger who sounded like a doctor informed. The world crashed. She felt like it was some sort of joke, a joke she hated. She looked around and didn't understand what to do. She felt like she couldn't breathe. "Maa. Maa jaldi aaiye." She shouted for Vishakha. Vishakha came in to find a devastated Naina. "What happened beta?" She asked in concern. "Maa dekhiye na. Someone said Sameer humein chod ke chala gya. Uska, uska acc..accident ho gya and they couldn't save him." Naina forwarded her the phone and sat near the foot of the bed clutching her dupatta. Vishakha dialed to the last received number and was left numb.
The marks of the stitches were still on his forehead. Caressing them for one last time, she smiled. She didn't cry for once. The priest kept the last piece of wood log, covering his face and began chanting some mantras. His father did the last rites and she stood by the pyre seeing him go. Everyone departed to home but she waited until he turned to ashes looking at his pyre with frankly no emotions whatsoever.
Saathi re thoda thehar jaa
Abhi raastein kuch badal se jayenge
O saathi re thoda thehar jaa
Yeh paanv bhi ab sambhal se jayenge
Returning to her bedroom was never the same henceforth. His smell was all around but he wasn't. She saw his shoes lying near the couch. She wore them and picked up his jacket that he wore for the last time and that had his blood still on, and hugged it. She sat by the wall and held the jacket as if her life depended on it. She let all the pain to wash away in the tears. She got up and laid on his side of the bed just to have that feeling of being close to him.
"Sameer!" She woke up because of the loud thunder and found him nowhere. Seeing his blood drenched shirt reality struck her. It was raining cats and dogs outside. She got up from the bed and went to the balcony. She stretched out her hand to feel the rain. "Naina yaar. How can you not like rains. That's the only thing I love." she remembered him say that. Sliding the glass wall behind she went inside.
Phir wohi barsaat hogi
Aur ashq saare dhul se jaayenge
Roshni din raat hogi
Aur sab jharokhe khul se jaayenge
Drying her hair with a towel she sat on the dressing table. She picked up the vermilion box. "Tumhein sindoor lagane ka haq sirf aur sirf mera hai." He had said once and he made it a ritual to always put vermilion in her hair parting all by himself. That was cheesy for Naina but that's what he did and she giggled on. Keeping back the box she got up and retired to balcony.
Yaara tu hi toh bandagi hai
Yaara tu hi dua
Yaara kaisi ye berukhi hai
Kyun judaa tu hua
Kehna tha aur kya kya mujhe
Neend kyun aa gayi phir tujhe
Na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na..
Na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na..
Na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na..
"Tumhein mere bina sirf ek hi mausam toh guzaarna hai. Jaise hi mausam badlega, I'll be back." That's what he said before going on a long business trip to Calfornia this summer. She couldn't accompany him because her doctor strictly prohibited travelling. "Ab toh do mausam guzar gaye Sameer, kahan ho tum." Six months passed and her life was no better. People lie when they say that time heals everything. Time never heals anything, it's just that people try to live by, because they have no other option. Time never heals anything. Time never fills the void, it never does!
Hmm saathi re thoda thehar ja
Abhi mausam ka badalna baaki hai
O saathi re thoda thehar ja
Kuch door saath chalna baaki hai
Phir unhi raaston pe
Tere mere kadmo ka milna baaki hai
Dard mein, ranjishon mein
Sang bujhna aur jalna baaki hai
She hung her picture with newborn 'Vihaan' beside Sameer's portrait thus completing her family. She smiled looking at the wall and then looked at Vihaan, her dawn when everything was dark around her and smiled seeing him play in his crib. She still sleeps with Sameer's last memory, not that blood drenched jacket but Vihaan.
Yaara tu hi toh bandagi hai
Yaara tu hi dua
Yaara kaisi ye berukhi hai
Kyun judaa tu hua
Kyun judaa tu hua
Haan tere aur meri darmiyan
Ab bhi baki hai ik daastan
"Am I speaking to Mrs. Sameer Maheshwari?" Naina heard an unknown voice asking a strange question. "Yes. What's the matter?" Naina asked. She was already feeling uneasy. "Mr. Maheshwari met with an accident and I'm sorry to inform but we couldn't save him." The stranger who sounded like a doctor informed. The world crashed. She felt like it was some sort of joke, a joke she hated. She looked around and didn't understand what to do. She felt like she couldn't breathe. "Maa. Maa jaldi aaiye." She shouted for Vishakha. Vishakha came in to find a devastated Naina. "What happened beta?" She asked in concern. "Maa dekhiye na. Someone said Sameer humein chod ke chala gya. Uska, uska acc..accident ho gya and they couldn't save him." Naina forwarded her the phone and sat near the foot of the bed clutching her dupatta. Vishakha dialed to the last received number and was left numb.
The marks of the stitches were still on his forehead. Caressing them for one last time, she smiled. She didn't cry for once. The priest kept the last piece of wood log, covering his face and began chanting some mantras. His father did the last rites and she stood by the pyre seeing him go. Everyone departed to home but she waited until he turned to ashes looking at his pyre with frankly no emotions whatsoever.
Saathi re thoda thehar jaa
Abhi raastein kuch badal se jayenge
O saathi re thoda thehar jaa
Yeh paanv bhi ab sambhal se jayenge
Returning to her bedroom was never the same henceforth. His smell was all around but he wasn't. She saw his shoes lying near the couch. She wore them and picked up his jacket that he wore for the last time and that had his blood still on, and hugged it. She sat by the wall and held the jacket as if her life depended on it. She let all the pain to wash away in the tears. She got up and laid on his side of the bed just to have that feeling of being close to him.
"Sameer!" She woke up because of the loud thunder and found him nowhere. Seeing his blood drenched shirt reality struck her. It was raining cats and dogs outside. She got up from the bed and went to the balcony. She stretched out her hand to feel the rain. "Naina yaar. How can you not like rains. That's the only thing I love." she remembered him say that. Sliding the glass wall behind she went inside.
Phir wohi barsaat hogi
Aur ashq saare dhul se jaayenge
Roshni din raat hogi
Aur sab jharokhe khul se jaayenge
Drying her hair with a towel she sat on the dressing table. She picked up the vermilion box. "Tumhein sindoor lagane ka haq sirf aur sirf mera hai." He had said once and he made it a ritual to always put vermilion in her hair parting all by himself. That was cheesy for Naina but that's what he did and she giggled on. Keeping back the box she got up and retired to balcony.
Yaara tu hi toh bandagi hai
Yaara tu hi dua
Yaara kaisi ye berukhi hai
Kyun judaa tu hua
Kehna tha aur kya kya mujhe
Neend kyun aa gayi phir tujhe
Na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na..
Na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na..
Na-na-na-na-na Na-na-na..
"Tumhein mere bina sirf ek hi mausam toh guzaarna hai. Jaise hi mausam badlega, I'll be back." That's what he said before going on a long business trip to Calfornia this summer. She couldn't accompany him because her doctor strictly prohibited travelling. "Ab toh do mausam guzar gaye Sameer, kahan ho tum." Six months passed and her life was no better. People lie when they say that time heals everything. Time never heals anything, it's just that people try to live by, because they have no other option. Time never heals anything. Time never fills the void, it never does!
Hmm saathi re thoda thehar ja
Abhi mausam ka badalna baaki hai
O saathi re thoda thehar ja
Kuch door saath chalna baaki hai
Phir unhi raaston pe
Tere mere kadmo ka milna baaki hai
Dard mein, ranjishon mein
Sang bujhna aur jalna baaki hai
She hung her picture with newborn 'Vihaan' beside Sameer's portrait thus completing her family. She smiled looking at the wall and then looked at Vihaan, her dawn when everything was dark around her and smiled seeing him play in his crib. She still sleeps with Sameer's last memory, not that blood drenched jacket but Vihaan.
Yaara tu hi toh bandagi hai
Yaara tu hi dua
Yaara kaisi ye berukhi hai
Kyun judaa tu hua
Kyun judaa tu hua
Haan tere aur meri darmiyan
Ab bhi baki hai ik daastan
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