Roohi was taking a nap in the cab placing her head on the window while Anvay who was sitting beside her was trying to figure out features of his first Android phone.
"Sir, location is here" the driver informed while Anvay nodded his head in yes and called Roohi to wake up.
After some time Roohi was standing outside the cab yawning ,rubbing her eyes and doing stretches to wake herself while Anvay was taking out roohi's bag from cab .
Cab took a u turn and went .
"One hour , does normally this long from one bus stand to another here?" Anvay asked peeking in his wrist watch and then wearing Roohi's backpack on his shoulder.
"No, it is not but I intentionally took you here as we can get direct bus to udaipur from here or else we would have to change two to three buses."
Roohi said lazily.
"Oh ! But this place is not looking like that big bus stand , i mean there is no such crowd here"
Just when Roohi realised that he is right and there is actually no usual crowd there and even it was looking all empty there.
"You are right" Roohi whispered and started walking towards entrance of bus stand where a guard was sitting .
Anvay tried to follow her but as he was walking he stepped on his own shoelace and was about to fall so he bent to tie his shoe lace first while Roohi went to the guard to ask .
After tying his shoelace Anvay stood up and saw Roohi coming towards his pressing her lips in a thin line looking tensed .
"What happened,what did he say?" Anvay asked
"Actually , bus hartaal is going on in Delhi" Roohi said biting her lower lip ,looking towards Anvay in anticipation as he was looking at her narrowing his eyes.
"What is hartaal?"
"Huh?," roohi asked getting surprised but realised he is from US and might not be familiar with this word " It means strike , the bus drivers are on strike so there is no bus today".
Anvay again looked at roohi before saying " 1:1 now we are in equal points i don't remember my family's no. and you didn't knew about this strike "
"How can we be on equal points, i didn't knew about a random strike and you don't know about your parents no."
"Excuse me I remember my parents no. but can't contact them.
Forget that , what we have to do now".
Roohi looked at him confused but shrugged his previous line and answered "now only train's option is left , let me book a cab for railway station from here" .
"I have really heard bad about Indian railways don't we have any other options"
"Bad about Railway!?" Roohi said getting offended,
"how can someone say anything bad about Railways it is best in every way , do you even realise you have hurted my and Imtiaz Ali's soul by saying this"
Roohi was continuously blabbering without giving a chance to Anvay to speak , so he placed his hand over Roohi's mouth and once he felt her stopping he started "Shaant devi Shaant and I am sorry I didn't knew you were this sensitive about it"
Anvay completed his sentence, removing his hand from Roohi's mouth and here was Roohi standing numb while staring at him .
"Shaant gadadhari Bheem ,shaant"
How bad she missed the two words her maate used to say when she used to get offended earlier at simple statements.
"Now tell what should we do now" Roohi's trance broke as he spoke.
" It's decided we are going by train and too without reservation , no other option is left anyways" Roohi said after composing herself and booking a cab in her phone.
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It was almost half hour after that but still Roohi and Anvay were standing on same place as before and Roohi still finding cab in her phone .
"I am done" Roohi said frustratedly turning towards Anvay .
"I tried 3 apps still they don't have cab here "
"So what now?" Anvay asked and gave bottle of water to Roohi to calm her .
"Let's take lift from someone to atleast enter in Haryana as strike is limited to Delhi so we could find bus there".
Roohi said handling Anvay her phone and taking bottle from there .
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"Huhh..."Roohi exhaled in relief closing eyes and resting her head on the back seat as they finally got lift in a car.
But the relief didn't last a few minutes before the lady sitting on the passenger seat started taking .
The car was of a elderly couple who just came seeing off there son at airport as he was going abroad for studying and for next 30 minutes Roohi and Anvay were bound to hear her talking and bragging how good their son was at studying and how much he got scholarship.
Anvay was still being good and acting as if he was interested but roohi on the other hand was barely managing to smile.
After half an hour the lady got silent , enjoying the silence for few Minutes Roohi took out her phone.
"Which city did you told you were going" Roohi asked as she opened location app .
"Beta ,narnaul and it is not a city it's a town ,we are local there....." The lady continued and continued.
Squinting her eyes Roohi massaged her temple as she realised her question ignited another conversation.
From periphery of her eyes roohi looked at Anvay who was already glaring at her .
"By the way what does your father do beta" the lady asked roohi after some time .
"Actually he died before I born aunty" Roohi said getting uneasy .
"Oh, sorry beta and your mother"
"She was a cardiologist"
"Oh! Doctor " Aunty said with excitement but got intruppted by her husband .
"Was?" He asked
"She also died four years back " Anvay also looked at Roohi who was scratching back of her wrist uncomfortably , he was also new for these informations.
"How?"
"She had brain tumor"
"So, you live with your other family there,"
"Uh, k.." Roohi strumbled trying to answer although she didn't knew what she was gonna say but thankfully the lady again intruppted her with another question.
"What are you doing now , i mean study or job"
"I am pursuing Architecture , college"
"Why , you could have been doctor like your mother and save other patients who dies because of brain tumor like your mother"
No more Roohi was uncomfortable but now she was angry the lady had gone far with her words .
But before Roohi could confront or yell at lady Anvay kept his hand on Roohi's arm to stop her.
Even on the front seat realising what his wife was saying the Uncle also kept his hand on the lady's arm to stop her from talking.
Anvay changed the topic but Roohi was still angry turning towards her bag taking out her earbuds from it as she was turning back she realised Anvay was still holding rim of her shirt .
Roohi remembered the time when once Arohi was also holding it to stop her from confronting Goenkas.[ Arohi died ( last part) - Yrkkh]
Removing his grip from her shirt she plucked earbuds in her ears , turning on music she leaned towards window closing her eyees but again and again she was trying to wipe her tears coming out of her eyes.
Roohi felt someone calling her turning her head towards Anvay she saw him forwarding her sunglasses probably only thing he had left after getting robbed .
He kept them on her side and turned again to the front talking with the couple.
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Ye Roohi Ki Kahani Hai 2 (Yrkkh2)
FanfictionRoohi After her mother died she did her best to stay away from the people and the house she was said to live with . just for some peace if there was any for her left
