Judwaa

22. 'The Mysterious Past'

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The most awaited update of Judwaa is here!! This chapter is dedicated to Mishti7593 and TheWhistlingThrush  as they were the first ones to guess the things and fit it perfectly!!

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Over the next few weeks, Sonakshi drowned herself in a sea of sorrow. She woke up every morning in the hope of seeing Rehaan that day, but there was no more information on him than was available the day he had disappeared. Sonakshi roamed around aimlessly at times, sat for hours at the beach where Rehaan had first kissed her, she even visited his beach house in the hope that he might pay a secret visit there. She would sit around in his music room and caress his guitar with her fingers, listen to his CDs, play some of the other instruments, sing songs for him, in the hope that one day her voice would strike a chord in his heart somewhere and bring him back. She had stopped going to college for her Master's program. Asha and Samaira were extremely worried about Sonakshi's health and well-being.

Bijoy kept a hawk eye on her, and would let her leave home only if she was going to college, little did he know that she had not showed up for any of her classes lately. She barely slept at night, and many a times would sit at the edge of the window and gaze at the moon all night, as Rehaan's words echoed in her thoughts, "jab main tumhare paas nahin hoon toh uss moon ko dekh lena, samajh lena main tumhe dekh raha hoon."

Samaira spoke to Prithvi on the phone, but was disappointed to find no new information. He denied ever having another brother. She even went to meet Ishwari one day, but she just ridiculed such an absurd idea. Samaira tried her best to contact dadi and Iqbal, but reportedly they had both gone to Haj for a pilgrimage.

Dev and Samaira's friendship became stronger by the day; they went out for lunch and meetings together most of the time. Dev never told her about his weird dreams though. His dreams had become more and more disturbing lately; he was usually distractible and could barely function properly in the day time either. Samaira knew something was going on with him; she decided to be his support rather than probe too much- she was confident that he would tell her what was bothering him when the time came.

Ishwari had organized several pujas and havans to ward off any black magic on her son. She knew Dev was behaving weirdly these days; she had seen this behavior in the past, and it was only after numerous pujas, fasts and havans that he had 'recovered' from this 'black magic' in the past. Little did she know that it was Vicky/Iqbal who had found the 'cure' for Dev's plight, and not her puja-paath.

FLASHBACK: (here are the answers to all your confusions)

27 YEARS AGO:

Ishwari had just been married into the Dixit family. The Dixit's were a well to do business family with two sons, the older Jay and younger, Vijay. Vijay had left for the US in his early 20s, so it was Jay, who took care of the business and household in Mumbai. Ishwari came from an extremely religious and conservative Hindu family. Jay's family was more liberal and secular in their beliefs. Jay's father had an old time Muslim associate, who had died in a car crash. Jay's father had then given shelter to his Muslim associate's wife, Fareeda. Fareeda had soon become an important member of the family. As Jay's mother had passed away when Jay was still young, Fareeda became a mother-like figure to Jay and his brother. Jay even addressed her as "Dai-ammi"

Fareeda had no kids, nor did she have a big family. She had a nephew Iqbal, born to her brother 3 years before Ishwari came to the house as a bride. Iqbal's parents had gone over to Saudi Arabia to earn some money, and left Iqbal with his phoophi, Fareeda. Jay had no objection and loved Iqbal like his son. Unfortunately, Iqbal's parents died in a bombing while in Saudi Arabia, so Iqbal now had his phoophi and Jay's family only as his sole support.