Sukoon wali love story: Kareena

Dooriya

HM reaches the village, she meets the people she will be working with. She directly goes to the guest house and not the police station.
She tells them the plan. The plan is that she will not stay there as a police officer but an archeologist. She will be a govt employee who is there to offer special heritage status to certain havelis and help them win big rewards. She tells them to spread the news in the village and make an appointment to meet the mukhiya of the village.
She puts her uniform away, takes the dagger gifted by KS and puts it inside her jacket near her heart. It's 5 in the evening, she decides to take a walk and talk to some people randomly. She locks her room and heads out.
The weather is soothing, the village is beautiful. She wishes Karishma there. It is the first time since they met they are so damn far away from each other. HM feels a void inside her heart. She wants to call her but she doesn't want to make it a habit. "It's better we only talk in the morning as promised" and sighs.
She is walking on the roads of village and people are looking at her curiously. She lets them, as she wants them to know her presence.

Her phone beeps, it's a voice note.
VN: hum nahi reh pa rahe hai aap ke bina. Aap thik se pahunch gayi? Bhot jyada miss kr rahe hai aapko. Kaise gujrenge 7 din? Hum aapke cabin me baithe hai. Aapki muskurahat ko dekh rahe hai.
HM smiles but she has tears in her eyes. Before she could decide weather to reply, someone comes forward to talk to her.

Man: aap wo Sarkar ki taraf se haveliya dekhne ayi hai na?
HM: Ji.. aap?
Man: mujhe Chaudhary Ji be bheja hai. Aap se milna chahte hai.
HM: Kaun Choudhary?
Man: is gav ki sabse badi haveli ke malik.
HM: oh interesting. Hum kal dopehar ko aa jayenge.
Man nods and leaves.
This is what she wanted.

She turns back and heads to the guest house.

In MPT
KS is just fidgeting sitting in HM's cabin. She is not able to focus on anything. It's been just 8 hours since HM's gone but it already feels like a month to her.

She comes out and goes to the gym room then to the record room. She goes to PJ who was already noticing her.
KS: PJ koi naya case hai?
PJ: nahi KM
KS: kuch to dijiye PJ hume
PJ makes her sit and gives her water.
PJ: shant Ho jaiye. Ek kam krte hai, wo jo sports day ke din box Rakha tha usme dekhte hai aage aur kisine kya kya likha hai. Thik hai?
KS nods
PJ: santu wo complain box lekar aao.

All 4 of them gather around. KS takes out a chit and starts reading it.

Chit: KM aur HM ko dekhke hume bhot josh mila hai. Hum bhi chahte hai ki achhi zindagi jiye. Humari padhai bich me hi ruk gayi shaadi ki vajah se, kash hum wo Puri kr pate. Khair problem wo nahi hai. Problem ye hai ki kyunki hum independent nahi hai, hum ye shadi chodkar nahi ja pa rahe hai. Aur mere sasural me sab mujhe jatane ka ek mauka nahi chodte ki kaise hum free ka khana khate hai. Kaise hume sab aramse mil raha hai. Aur is bojh ke tale hum har wo kam krte hai jo shayad hume nahi krna chahiye. Kya aap kuch kr sakti hai?
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They all look at each other and think for a while.
KS: PJ kya lgta hai? Kya inke husband inse pyar krte honge?
PJ: pata nahi
SS: lekin agar krte honge to aise behave kyun krenge?
CC: santu ji kabhi kabhi insaan anjaane me waise behave krta hai jaise usne humesha apne ird gird logonko krte dekha hai.
KS: sahi kaha cheete. Aur agar pyar hai to hum madat krenge ki unhe galti samajh aa jaye. Aur agar nahi hai to hum Rupal ki help krenge wahase niklne me.
PJ: Bilkul. Hum use call krte hai aur baat krte hai. Dekhte hai agar wo humse milne aa sakti hai.
KS: Ji PJ. Haseena hoti to badhiya idea deti.
All look at her, they all think the same.

KS goes to her desk. Again, she feels the same void. She looks at her phone but there's no reply.

At night,
HM is working on her laptop, Researching for her new disguise so that she can talk to them confidently. After a while, she just shuts all the tabs down and opens KS's photos. There are dozens of them, all of them are taken by HM when KS wasn't looking. She smiles. "Kitni khoobsurat hai aap. Hume dekhke aap ki ankhon me jo chamak aati hai, hume khud pe naz hota hai. Hum aapko khulke jite dekhna chahte hai. Bas isliye kr rahe hai ye sab. Hume dar hai ki kahin is koshish me hum aapse dur na jaye. Bhot pyar krte hai aapse."
She takes out her phone and listens to the voice note again.
"Aapki awaj!"
She lies and hugs a pillow. "Kash aap yahan hoti"