Ishq Bulaava

| 22. Incomplete tale |

It had been three days to the terrace incident now, the five (Sid, Sanju, Koel, Faizi, and Karan) were really confused by Monami and her normal behavior, especially the way she was behaving with Karan, she was behaving with him just like she behaved before he went for the mission, she did not ignore Karan, did not stay away from him, she was not angry, not upset, not sad and neither had she cried after that day, in fact, it seemed like she was in her best mood after that day.

Sid and the others had tried talking to her a few times, but she had nothing to talk about what had happened, "Ab agar Karan ko mujhse rishta nahi rakhna hai toh main jabardasti toh uski life mein ghus nahi sakti naa..." was her only, constant answer.

Karan who had heard her answer once did not understand whether he should be happy that she was fine and keeping herself strong even after what he had done with her, or he should be sad, that she did not fight with him for them, he was really confused by the fact that Monami had given up on him and not tried, because the Monami he knew never gave up, no matter what happened.

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Like every other day, everyone was sitting in the mess, having their dinner, Monami was talking to Suman ji and Bala who were telling her something, she was laughing hearing their talks, Sid and Koel were a little happy seeing that she was fine.

"Monami sach mein duniya se kafi alag hai..." Sanjana said seeing her happy, Karan stopped eating and looked at her, Faizi also looked at Monami and turned to Sanjana, "Itto sab ho gaya par usne khud ko sambhal hi liya..."

"Acha hai naa Sanju ki usne khud ko sambhal liya..." Faizi said, "Warna aise insaan ke liye kya rona aur dard sehna jise aapki takleef se koi farak hi nahi padta hai..." he said and Karan looked at him, he was hurt by his words, but maintained a straight face.

"Faizi..." Karan was about to say something when his hand hit the glass kept on the table and it fell down, the glass broke and pieces shattered on the floor, everyone looked at them hearing the sound, Karan without thinking much picked up the pieces, it pierced his hand, and blood started coming out.

"Sir ji..." Sanjana said as she saw the blood coming out, "Aise kon kanch uthata hai... batero khoon beh raho hai ab..."

"It's okay Sanju, kuch major nahi hai..." he said, he pressed his thumb on the cut to stop the blood from flowing.

"Mujhe dikhao..." he heard her voice and immediately looked up, she was looking at him and signed him to show her the hand, Sid, Koel, Sanju, and Faizi all looked at each other.

"It's okay, jyada kuch nahi hai... I'll manage..." he said, but she held his hand and pulled it towards him, and started checking the cut.

"Yaha doctor main hu Khadoos Shergill... toh main decide karungi, kya major hai aur kya nahi..." she replied, he was surprised to hear Khadoos Shergill from her after a long time, she continued to examine the cut, "Bala, first aid kit le aao..." she said and immediately nodding he went to fetch the kit.

"Aisa mat karo Rani Sahiba, mere dard ko kam mat karo... sehne do mujhe yeh sare dard... maine tumhare saath jo kiya hai, uske baad toh mujhe dard mein hi rehna chahiye..." he thought to himself.

"Yehi toh baat hai naa Karan, chahe kuch bhi ho jaye main kisiko bhi dard mein nahi dekh sakti... phir us insaan ne mere saath kuch bhi kyu naa kiya ho..." she said in a low voice only audible to him, he looked at her surprised, Bala came with the first aid kit and gave it Monami, she took it and started dressing his wound, while Karan was only looking at her.

"Sir ji ko dekh kar toh lagto hai aaj bhi Monami se bohot pyaar karte hai woh..." Sanjana said to Faizi in a low voice, seeing Karan looking at Monami.