SECRET OF MY HAPPINESS

chapter 1 - The beginning

It all starts, when harsh run towards his examination hall , to write his last tybms paper. He was so tensed , as he was so late. It was 3:15pm on his watch and exam started by 3:00pm.
As soon as he reached to his examination hall , he snatched his question paper and answer sheet from his invigilator,who was shouting at him for appearing late to examination hall but he just simply ignored her and took a sip of water and started writing his paper. Reena , who was his irritating girlfriend at that moment ,she was sitting exact behind his seat number . she asked him "where were you? , i was calling you since 8am".
He simply replied "sorry, i dont have time for your romantic bullshit".
Her face turned into angry red and she kept looking at him furiously until invigilator interrupt her. Harsh had one thought on his mind at that moment,  that was, to complete his paper and run towards his beach garden outside his house and play cricket with his friends. He wanted to become a cricketer. Cricket was his passion, dream, love and that one emotional goal. His parents were against his wish. They wanted him to increase his family business and become next CEO of his 500cr turnover company name, ' patel industries ' .
Harsh hates business and so his dad, but he doesn't have any other choice except following his dad's order, because if he doesn't, then that night would be bad for him and his mother and harsh hates tears from his mother's eyes.
Having a relationship with reena was not his choice. Harsh's father paired them up, so that reena's father , Mr. Rajiv seth, who has 3 companies on his name, give him 60% shares to his company, when they get engaged with each other . which was scheduled after 3 years. So back to the pavilion! , As soon as time got up, harsh finished his paper and reena already finished her's  half n hour ago but she waited until harsh complete his paper , so she can ask for explanation on his rude behavior to her. As soon as he wrote his last word of his paper, he gave the answer sheet to the invigilator and ran outside the college , where his examination was centered. He looked up to the sky and closed his eyes and first thing he saw was his bat, ball and stumps. He opened his eyes and got on his Audi A6. Ramlal, his personal driver says him " chote sahab, bade sahab ne kaha hai ki seedha aapko office lejaya jaaye (master, boss has said me to drop you at his office today). Harsh bluffly replies "kaka, aap seedha ghar leke chalo mujhe, meri tabyat kuch theekh nahi lag rahi"(uncle, take me towards home, i am not feeling well tho). Ramlal - "theekh hai, chote sahab"(okay, master). As soon as ramlal started driving towards home, reena comes outside running, searching for harsh and when she spot his car and harsh sitting inside his car and when harsh found reena, caught him without waiting for her, he quickly orders ramlal to maximize his speed. As soon as car takes his speed, tears started rolling out from reena eyes. Harsh on his way to home gets a text from reena saying "ITS OVER". Harsh after seeing her text smiles and says "aaj toh double celebration banta hai"( its time for double celebration).
He text his friends to assemble outside his beach garden , where they are going to start their 10-10overs match. Yes, his house was located in beach side of juhu beach (most popular beach in mumbai).As soon as he reached home, he freshened up and rushed to the beach garden, while running towards his garden, her mother asked him in loud voice " how was your paper? " he replies with same voice tone " lovely!, like you!". His mother laughs and says " your gang is waiting for you since past 15 mins". He replied saying "roger that captian!". As soon as he reached to his garden, he hugged his best friend jignesh, who was one year younger to him and belongs to a middle class Gujarati family. Harsh's Dad hates jignesh because of his low class status. After hugging jignesh, he says to him "guess what, no more reena problem " . Jignesh replied " what? How? Did you just?,Gosh! Bro, she was pain, literally pain.. Everytime she is like babu, shona, khaana khaaya, ghumne chale, dawai le lena (all cute names and caring which reena used to do with harsh).
Harsh replied him " i know right, its time for double celebration, today we will play 10-10 over match".
His other friends reacted by saying "woah!". Jignesh interrups him and everyone. He takes harsh in corner and ask him in soft voice "what about your dad, yeh sab sunke unko toh heart attack aaya hoga, (he mimicry harsh's dad) gaye mere 60%"(after hearing about your breakup, he would surely got an heart attack for losing his 60% share).
Harsh replied " i know, but who cares, this match will happen! , i dont care whether this match end till 9pm , we will play! "
Jignesh replied him while going towards stumps "tu itna bold kabse hogaya? "(when did you become so bold?)
He replied him by saying "jabse tu mere zindagi me aaya, meri jaan!"(when you came in my life, my love). Jignesh quickly adjust stumps and other friends in fielding position and shouts to everyone "aaj saale ko kaise bhi karke out karna hai"(we need to out this bastard anyhow today!) . Yes!, harsh was the first one to bat and he was the best batsmen in the gang. Jignesh send ramesh to start the first over of match, ramesh is the spinner of the gang, he holds a record of having atleast 6 wickets in his account in every gully match.
Harsh looks at him and says "arey bhai! Tu hai kya? , aaja! " (oh bro, its you? , okay, bring it on!) and as soon as he delivers his first ball , harsh swings his bat and here it goes his first six of his match and jignesh furiously looks at ramesh and says to him "kya kya sapne dekhe the mene tere liye" (what kind of dreams i looked for you). Ramesh reply him "ek aur ball aur yeh out"(one more and he is out). Harsh smiles and says "what are we waiting for?". And then after 10 overs he is still standing over there and score was 150 in 10 overs and jignesh was like "bhai! Yeh 11pm ke pehle khatam nahi hone wala" (bro, this won't end before 11pm) and it was already 8pm on clock.
He replied "so what? Kal kaam pe jaana hai kya? " (do you wanna go for work tomorrow?) jignesh looks behind harsh and replies to him "shayad tujhe kal jaana ho" (maybe, you have to go tomorrow) and tells everyone to run away.
While everyone was runing away from his house, he looks behind and his father was standing behind him, angrily looking at him. Harsh goes 3 steps behind and his dad slaps him hard and ask  "who the hell are you to breakup with reena, dont you know? how important that deal was to us!" harsh replied, "i was not comfortable with her". His dad replies him back "who are you to feel uncomfortable with her, dont forget i saw that love for you in her eyes, she was perfect for you!". He replied with loud voice "how can you deal your business with my life decision". Again his dad slaps him hard and says "awaz neeche kar apni, aaj jo tu lifestyle jee raha hai sab meri wajah se hai".(lower your voice, the lifestyle which are you living is all because of me) . Harsh looks down and his dad says to him " bahut hogaya ab yeh cricket, abse tu apni MBA ke enterance ki preparation pe dhyaan dega aur aage toh tujhe pata hi hai" ( no more cricket from now!,  your focus should be only and only on MBA entrance exam and later on you know what to do) . He walks away and harsh replies him "actually reena broke up with me"
His dad looks at him angrily for moment and then walks aways and he again interrupts his dad saying "please, mom ko kuch mat karna"(please, dont do anything to mom). His dad didn't react to him and goes to his room and shut his door with full force. Harsh closed his eyes and tears rolled off from his eyes.

(blackout)

Another scene
Location - mosque , in streets of masjid bunder

A girl wearing hijab, goes slowly slowly towards masjid . After half way to entrance of masjid, she runs towards masjid and goes in front of allah. IN background a sufi is being played, which says devotees are waiting for that miracle from god. She brings both her hands in front of her face, and there she was , zoya ! . While praying to allah, she closed her eyes and her tears started dropping off. While everyone was asking for miracle from allah, she asked only one thing from him, that was mercy! .

(blackout)
Story to be continued on second chp " chapter 2 - zoya"

Chapter to be out soon!