The Journey Ahead

9. Invitation

"What was Mr. Khan's relation with Aditya Malhotra?"

"Umm.. You are sure that you want to know."

"Yeaah"

"I will tell you but don't you dare to tell your father that you two got to know all these because of me." Faizzal told Aryan and Ayaan.

"We won't. Our relation isn't that close that we will go round and talk all these shit with Mr. Khan." Aryan's tone was dripping with much displeasement.

"Then... Mr. Malhotra was Mr. Khan's childhood friend. They were neighbour but were like brothers. Eventually grew up together. Though they were much of friends they didn't have a same personality." Faizzal stopped as he got interrupted.

"What do you mean by same personality?" It was the Khan brothers who only interrupted Faizzal.

"Mr. Malhotra isn't the one who would do anything wrong just because of some money. But Mr. Khan was totally opposite. Mr. Khan can kill one just because of money. I don't think anybody else knows this well other than you." Faizzal told over phone.

"How can we even forget his deeds. We are not having our mother by our side only because of him." Ayaan said. Aryan and Ayaan's mother was much of a bold lady. She never appreciated wrong nor she did it herself. She got married to Mr. Khan at the age of just 20. She was being forced to marry.

"Then Mr. Khan married Bhabi, I mean your mother. That's when he reached at the peak of success." Aryan and Ayaan were amazed to see Faizzal still having the very same respect for their mother which he once had.

"Um... Why?"

"Your grandfather..."

"Our mother's father. Right?"

"Yes! Your grandfather had a lot of property by his name which would later be by your mother's name once he died. Your mother was the only child. And Mr. Khan had an eye upon this since he got an idea about this. So he couldn't think of any other idea other than marrying bhabi and having all those properties by his name. Well he was succeeded also. And that's what made him reach at the peak of his success." Faizzal told this much and was again questioned,

" But as much as I have an idea about my grandfather, he was not the one who would easily agree to all the cunning plan of Mr. Khan."

"Well You are right. But.. Your mother had an relationship with a boy from her college. Back in those days having relationship were never encouraged. Society makes the woman feel tainted. Mr. Khan knew all about this. So he went to your grandfather put forward a deal."

"A deal??"

"Yess! A deal. Your father told either your grandfather will be giving his daughter to him as his wife or else he will make sure that your mother won't get to live peacefully a single day. With much displeasement and frustration your grandfather agreed to let Mr. Khan marry your mother. Your mother was forced to marry Mr. Khan in just a tender age of twenty. Eventually your mother became a toy for his pleasure and the source of his immense money." By then Aryan and Ayaan's eyes stared turning moist. Till now if there is any lady they loved to the moon and back is their mother.

"On the other side when your father was..."

"Stop calling him our father. We are much ashamed to have him as our father. We don't want you to remind us that he is our father.", Ayaan declared.

"By the time Mr. Malhotra was much depressed getting failed in each attempt he made to become financially strong. He just want Mr. Khan to be by side as a friend does in the toughest time of the other. But he was not their. He was getting ambitious. For him nothing mattered except those notes even his brother like friend didn't have his least value infront of money. Mr. Khan's ignorance in friendship and ambition led to a fight between him and Mr. Malhotra. Mr. Khan thought Mr. Malhotra was getting jealous seeing his rise while Mr. Malhotra never expected his friend to betray him such a situation. And then your mother's death. Mr. Malhotra believed that it was all planned and that made him hate Mr. Khan more. There after Mr. Khan got married. And again Mr. Malhotra believed all this are interconnected maybe Mr. Khan's another way to increase his bank balance." Faizzal finished.