Forbidden Love ft. Kareena

6. SPEECHLESS PEOPLE?...

Karishma wiped off her tears with the back of her hand and stood up from the chair. She fixed the creases on her shirt and checked her watch once. Then she looked up at Cheetah and Santosh. Sanotsh was yet to recover from Haseena's sudden attack, while Cheetah was kind of jumping around, asking her if she was okay, while Santosh told him to shut up. When they noticed her eyes on them, she just passed them a genuine smile and then took a few steps ahead.

Pushpa ji seemed relieved. She was sure confident that she had been able to install some sense into Karishma's brain. She, like any Indian Aunty, had judged the girl within the first ten minutes of meeting her. But her conclusion was filled with mostly positives, except, being a 'boyfriend-dependent, underconfident, insecure, self-harming, suicidal' nalayak.

But she couldn't deny that she had an immediate attachment to the nalayak, like a mother to her newborn child. Looking at Karishma's face, she felt mixed emotions that she couldn't explain. A part of it was a distant longing, which only Pushpa ji knew. She reminded her of someone. Maybe...

She was grateful to be pulled out of her thoughts when Karishma stood in front of her, holding her palms with her own hands.

She started talking in a way so dramatic that it even exceeded Pushpa ji's acting skills."Aapko bohot shukriya, hume samjhane keliye. I'll try to move on and start a new life. I am reaaally looking forward to it. LOVE YOU ZINDAGI!"

Santosh took a 360-degree turn. Cheetah mumbled a 'gazab' under his breath. Haseena who was staring at the FIR register, jumped up. Pushpa ji almost dropped her notebook.

"Humare bal aise hi safed nahi hua hai. Itni si samay mein itni dilchaspee ho gayi duniya se? Sach me samajh gayi ya hume yakin dilane keliye keh rahe ho?" Pushpa ji asked with teasing suspicion.

"Nahi nahi! Okay maybe. Par hum sach mein aur koi ulta seedha harkat nahi karne wale hain. Hum samajh gaye", Karishma reassured with a toothy grin.

"Bohot badiya", Pushpa ji said.

Karishma took her two hands and kissed her knuckles one by one. Pushpa ji chuckled at the girl's antics.

She then moved towards where Santosh and Cheetah were standing.

"Aap logo ko bhi dil se thank you," She said gratefully. But her expression changed as she turned towards Santosh. "Sirf gali dena kyu, man toh kar raha hain usko aise kute, aise kute, ki woh dhanya patte ban jaye. Tab suicider nahi, sidhha murderer ban jayenge hum. Par idea bohot achha hain"

Santosh and Cheetah passed her wide smiles, shaking hands with her, one by one. They made Karishma take out her phone which was half-broken from the earlier events, and forced her to save the phone numbers of each member of MPT.

"Aapko iss ladki pasand hai?" Karishma whispered-asked Cheetah out of the blue, leaving him startled.

"Ha?.. K-k-ky-kya? Kya bol rahi hain aap?" Cheetah whispered back, trying to avoid being seen by his Santu ji.

"Hume bata sakte ho, hum setting karwane mein ezpert hai." Karishma whispered back.

"Alia Bhatt hume bhi pasand hai. I like you already." Santosh interrupted thinking the two were discussing the incident, and tried to lighten the formerly serious mode.

"Alia's my idol too constable ji, zindagi ke sahi track pe ja rahe ho aap. Waise police ke sath dosti karna toh hamare liye bohot achhe bath hain, baad me kaam me laga sakte hain hum!" Karishma skillfully distracted her from Cheetah's now blushing face with a wink at the end, leaving Santosh as speechless as her fellow colleague.