Kalpana and Raghav start staring at Manish and then look at each other. Kalpana tries to free herself from Raghav's grip but Raghav has held her so tightly that she is unable to even move slightly. She looks angrily at him asking him to free her but he keeps looking at Manish.
Manish says "A...I guess I need to catch the other lift."
Raghav says "Oh no no Manish. You can board this
lift. We are leaving now. Right Kapana?"
Kalpana looks at Raghav as he releases his grip and
takes a deep breath. She says "Yes sir, please come in. I need to go and
check the new dresses."
Kalpana leaves the lift and then rushes in the cabin,
closing the door in a rush. She hears a squeal and opens the door. She notices
Raghav standing outside holding his hand in pain.
Kalpana holds Raghav's hand and blows on it when
Raghav drags her inside and closes the door.
"You did not answer me Kalpana. What were you
telling Prem?" Raghav says angrily.
Kalpana says in an irritated tone "Leave my hand
and why should I answer you?
Raghav says "Because I have asked you this
question. Listen Kalpana, Prem is not a good person to talk to. You forgot how
he used to behave with you earlier? I don't want history to repeat itself
again. If he does or tells you anything, I will lose my temper and till this
fashion show does not get over, I don't want things to get spoilt. Stay away
from that jerk."
Kalpana says "I know how to handle him. And when
you were not there all this while, I managed my life and so don't need any
advise from you." She says to herself "Anyways, when we needed you
the most, that time where were you to help us? Now you are trying to set things
right after it has gone worse."
Raghav caressed her face saying "I know Kalpi,
you are angry with me for staying away for 10 years but I needed to find my
identity. I needed to become someone on my own so that I could benefit the
village. I was aware of the problems but without having any money, how could I
come back. I was not angry with you or dad or anyone else but just wanted the
knowledge and power to deal with these problems and Sammy was the person to
guide me all these years. This fashion show is my one and only hope and I know
Prem is trying his tricks to create problems. I don't want him to do anything
to you or dad or Sunaina bhabi and so till then please stay away from him. He
is very smart and can get information out of you without your knowledge. He
instigated me years back because of which I spent months in jail. I know him.
He is a very evil man. Please stay away from him."
Kalpana looks at Raghav and sees the pain in his
eyes. She nods her head in an approval and leaves from there. Raghav offers her
a lift but she refuses.
Kalpana takes her scooty and drives off. She keeps
thinking about Raghav's words and says "He is right. I only lose my cool
and tak senseless things without understanding what he is trying to tell me. He
has done so much for me and his family and I keep taunting him that he left us
for 10 years. He was always thinking about our benefit only and I always
concentrate on those models, Suhana and other people. I need to focus on the
fashion show and leave other thoughts out."
Saying this, her scooty stops working. She gets down
and notices that the tyre is punctured. She kicks it in anger saying "WTH!
This uselss scooty had to get punctured now only. I'm left stranded in the
middle of no where. There is no repair shop nor any human over here who can
drop me hom. Damn it! Raghav was offering me a lift but I trusted my super
digusting scooty. I should file a case against this company for manufacturing
defective bikes. Every now and then it just stops without a warning else the
useless tyre gets punctured."
Kalpana notices a car and stands in the middle of the
road and waves her hand. The car stops and the man in the driver seat lowers
the window asking "What happened lady?"
Kalpana notices the man wearing a brown jacket, black
goggles and many gold chains on his neck. He was quite plump as well.
Kalpana says "My scooty got punctured. Can you
give me a lift till the village?"
The man tells her that he will drop her till the
village. Kalpana thinks that the man is trusted and enters his car. After 15
minutes, the man stops the car and Kalpana says "Uncle, why did you stop
the car here? Is there any problem with the car?"
The man says "Yes, there is a problem and I need
your help for that. Come with me." He opens the door and makes Kalpana to
come out of the car. He says, come to the back seat and holds her waist tight.
Kalpana gets angry and says "What is this? Leave me else you will have to
face a serious problem."
The man smirks and removes a gun saying "Not me.
You will have a serious problem if you don't do what I say."
Kalpana laughs and says "Toy gun. Lol! You are
scaring me with this toy."
The man hits a shot in the air and Kalpana jerks
thinking "OMG! This is a real gun. Mumma, what am I going to do now?"
Raghav leaves his office and on hsi way back home, he
notices Kalpana with an unknown man and then hears the bullet shot. He gets off
his car and before he goes to help Kalpana, he notices the man on the floor.
Kalpana without getting scared jams the man's foot
which makes the gun fall to the ground. She hits his stomach with her elbow and
he screams with pain holding it. She then boxes him on his face and he falls to
the ground.
Raghav keeps watching this and is unable to digest
this. He keeps turning his head from one side to another as the man keeps
falling from one side to another with Kalpana's kicks and she finally pulls his
hair and puts him on the ground throwing all his chains off. She says "You
bloody pirated copy of Bappi Lehri. First look at your size and then think of
molesting girls. You jerk, cheapo, useless old man. I am as old as your
daughter you fool. Have some shame." She keeps slapping him and Raghav
sits on his car and folds his hands saying "This girl has magical powers.
Never knew that she had so much energy to hit such a fat man." He starts
laughing.
Kalpana keeps boxing his face till it turns red and
he pleads her to leave him but she does not stop till Raghav comes and holds
her by the waist taking her away. She says "Raghav leave him. He will die
like this. Let the police deal with him."
Kalpana says "The police can't do anything. He
will be released within few hours by bribing them. He needs to be taught a
lesson so that in his entire life he cannot tease a girl. Leave me." The
man keeps asking for forgiveness and touches her feet to leave him.
Raghav says "Kalpi, Kalpi leave him."
Kalpan keeps releasing herself but he takes her and
makes her to sit in the car. He calls the police who come at the spot and
arrest the man. Kalpana grumbles "Raghav also made that man free so soon.
I should have left him bald but he did not give me a chance only. Old
budda."
Raghav drives off and Kalpana keeps grumbling the
entire way. She keeps arguing with him and he tries to make her understand that
such molesters need to be arrested only but she does not agree and due to the
fight, Raghav does not pay attention to his driving and the car bumps into a
tree.
***
Sammy goes to call Raghav as it is 8:00 p.m. and
neither Kalpana nor Raghav have reached home. He passes Sunaina's room and
notices her dancing with the ghungroos on. She plays the marathi song
"Disla ga bai disla...." and practices the steps.
He stands outside the room admiring her dance and
feels satisfied and happy that his gift brought a new life in Sunaina. She was
finally living for herself and enjoying her life.
Sunaina keeps dancing and smiling repeating each word
of the song and one ghungroo piece breaks. She stamps the piece and is about to
fall when Sammy holds her and protects her from falling. She looks at him with
a surprise and stands up, adjusts her salwar and says "What are you doing
here?"
Sammy says "I was just passing by and noticed
you dancing here."
Sunaina says "I know that you are Raghav's boss
and a guest here but getting in someone's room without a permission is not
right."
Sammy says "I am sorry if I did anything wrong.
I was just..." He tries to hold her hand and she pushes him away.
Sunaina says "I guess it was my mistake only. I
told you about my past and you thought you can come close to me. I have been
noticing you since many days. You keep asking about my husband, my child and
buying these gifts for me. I don't want anything." She takes off her
ghungroos and puts it in his hand.
Sammy says "You are misunderstanding me Sunaina.
I just wanted to be a good friend to you, that's it."
Sunaina says "But I don't need any friend. I am
happy this way itself."
Sammy says "You are not happy. I can see the
pain in your eyes till today. You have not been able to forgive yourself for
your husband's and child's death. You feel somewhere that you are responsible
for it."
Sunaina says "Yes, I feel that I am responsible
but this is my problem and not yours. Why do I feel that you are telling me
this because you ... " She looks down and controls herself from talking
furthur.
Sammy says "I am telling you this because I care
for you." Sunaina looks at him with anger in her eyes. Sammy continues
saying "Yes, I do care for you. I feel for you. I ....I love you."
Sunaina raises her hand to stop him from saying
anything and he says "Slap me for saying this. But this is the truth. I
love you and I ahve no shame in admitting it. I came here from London for
starting a new business here but I did not know that I would find my soul mate
here. For so many years my mom dad kept telling me to get married but I was so
engrossedin working and achieveing something that I had not time to search a
girl for me. I found you and you are a perfect woman. Your heart is of gold and
if you come into my life, I will give you all the happiness you deserve. I
promise you that."
Sunaina says "Enough. Just stop it here. Don't
want to hera anything more. You just leave my room just now. Go. I said
leave."
Sammy says "OK. If you want me to leave then
it's fine. I guess that me staying here also may be wierd now. I'll leave the
house and go but before going I just want to tell you one thing. I have been
noticing that you have been an excellent daughter to your parents and Vikram,
wife to your husband, mother to Raghav
and Kalpana but one thing is missing. You have not been a happy woman. You have
lived for others but have lost your own identity. Your dance class could have
been your identity today as you love dancing and today when you were dancing
now, I could see the happiness and love you have for this art. You should not
leave it. At the end, it's your decision."
Sammy leave the room and Sunaina bangs the door on
his face and keeps crying.
***
Smoke stars coming out from the car which makes
Raghav furious. Kalpana gets off the car and says "Another defective car,
just like my scooty."
Raghav looks at her angrily and thinks "Not now
Raghav. Because of the argument only the car broke down. Don't respond to her
else she will increase your BP. It's 8:30 p.m. now and I need to think how to
reach home. At this time, no car or other vehicle will come to help us as
well."
It starts raining heavily and Kalpana goes under the
tree to save herself from getting wet. Raghav comes near her and says
"Kalpana, I can see a small shed 2 km from here. We need to wait there
tillt he rain stops else we both will fall ill."
Kalpana ignores him and Raghav says "OK fine.
You remain here and I will go there alone. I cannot afford to fall ill."
Raghav leaves and Kalpana stands there for 20 minutes
waiting for the rain to stop. Raghav come there and drags her to come inside
the shed.
"WTH! Why did you drag me here?" Kalpana
says loudly.
"Because you would stand there for another 5-10
hours, falls sick and take a leave tomorrow from office which I cannot afford.
The show is next week and neither of us can fall sick" Raghav answers her.
Kalpana thinks "Idiot, he brought me here not
because he cares for me but he does not want me to take a leave. Selfish
fool."
Kalpana starts shivering due to the cold weather and
curses herself for wearing a white kurti which is looking a bit transparent
today as she was drenched completely.
Precap: Kalpana wakes up and finds herself in Raghav's arms...
Disclaimer: The character names in the story are fictional characters and owned by the creators of the show "Ek Mutthi Asmaan" on ZEE TV.
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