Rabba vey...

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Chapter 28

Rabba vey...
Rabba vey …
Rabba vey ...

Khushi slowly opens her eyelids, facing the mirror. Her eyes are lined with deep black kajal and golden starry eye shadow. She gives a big smile to herself slightly biting her peach and cream shaded lips and  blushes to herself. She  turns her face towards us and giggles.

Ishq ne dobaara
Bheja hai bulaava
Phir se who aayi hai sadaa

She  had looked forward to this day since such a long time! This day had come at last ! The day when she and her Arnav were going to become one forever. Arnav, yes, he doesn’t like her calling him Dev. So she stuck to calling him Arnav. Moreover Arnav is  a better name, she felt.   Just like his eyes, chocolate pools as deep as the ocean itself.

Dard kuch puraane
Ishq ke bahaane
dhunde mere dil ka pata

She put on the beautiful diamond and pearl necklace which Arnav had gifted her, round her neck and smiled. The necklace  matched the light blue saree he had gifted her with so much love and affection in his eyes.

 The necklace  matched the light blue saree he had gifted her with so much love and affection in his eyes

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kaanch ke yeh khwaab saare palko pe rakhe taare naazuk badi hai baat yeh rabba vey

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kaanch ke yeh khwaab saare
palko pe rakhe taare
naazuk badi hai baat yeh
rabba vey...!

She remembered the first time she had made him her friend. She was a six year old little girl with big bubbly inquisitive eyes looking around for answers to her innocent questions . 10 Year old practically mathematic and scientific, Dev was quite amused by her questions like:

Why do we live on the earth?
Why do my hair grow downwards?
How did Ira and Esha come out of my mother’s tummy?
How did they go there in the first place?

besabab hai
beadab hai
buri ishq aadat hai

Irritated, he pulled her ponytails and walked away. Dev’s  friends  started teasing her and pushed her to the ground. Tears welled up in her eyes and she started crying. Not able to see her tears, Dev  lifted her up and scolded his friends for touching his 'friend' . Since then he was her love, her saviour, her best friend! He might be the one who gave her pain but he was always the first person to cure her and support her.

hai yeh shola
hai sharaara
yeh hi sharaarat hai

Dev was very strict with her when it came to maths. On the other hand, she just despised the very thought of studying math. So she would just scribble stuff like ' matrix dev! ” and make funny faces in his maths notebook and textbook. He would be dead angry at her at that time but her one smiley sorry was enough to melt him .

sharaarat bhi mithi hai aur
shikaayat bhi meethi
meethi badi hai raat yeh
naazuk badi hai baat yeh

She came down the stairs holding Arnav’s gaze. They had got married in the temple just a few hours ago and he had decided to take her out.  They spent the whole night staring each other and the stars above them, in each other’s arms loving each other with all the passion they had.

kaanch ke yeh khwaab saare
palko pe rakhe taare
naazuk badi hai baat yeh
rabba vey...

He had almost to killed her twice.
It was because of him that she was now homeless, family less.
He lied to her many times.
He was betrayal come alive.
He  had used her.

woh khafaa hai
bewafaa hai
bairi piya hai

But he was the one who saved her life from all the deceit and lies Indrani had made. If he wouldn’t have married her she would have never known Indrani’s truth.
Afterall it was only to take revenge from her that sweet innocent Dev become ruthless ASR.

aag bhi hai
raakh bhi hai
behrupiya hai

She remembered the night when Arnav had beautifully decorated the terrace for her, offered her food when her mother had kept her hungry and brought her favourite sweets for her when people had behaved so sourly with her.

oh piyaji yeh ratiya
tumhari na hogi
khushi ki hai raat yeh( changed lyrics on purpose)
naazuk badi hai baat yeh

She remembered the day they parted  from the airport forever never facing back. The day when her dreams made of glass had shattered on the hard floor of reality.

kaanch ke yeh khwaab saare
palko pe rakhe taare
naazuk badi hai baat yeh
rabba vey...

She clutched on to her Mangalsutra and cried. 5 years had passed without contact and now this ASR was in front of her eyes in her office. She had got a promotion  and had shifted to New york where the main office was there.

Was it not enoughthat he is in her office that he is now living in the company guesthouse, just a door away? Every time she sees him her mind goes into rewind mode. He had forgiven her, he had to and she was faultless and innocent. But she... she could never  forget or forgive him and move on  for all the lies and betrayal he gave her.

Arnav was sitting, clutching his forehead. Meeting Khushi after so many years had been emotionally exhausting . She was his one and only love since the day he had seen her. But after everything that had happened between them, he didn’t want to come in front of her again. That wouldn’t help her to move on. There wasn’t a single moment in his life when he hadn’t remember the time when he and Khushi were together. He was trying to ward off those sweet memories but they played in his head like an infinity loop every time he saw Khushi. On top of that she was living just a door away from the guesthouse where he was.

kyun khwaabon pe tere saaye hain
dil kyun hai tanha mera
kyun khamosh hain zubaan meri
ashkon se keh paaun na

All hope is lost. They both might never be together as one again.

kyun dard hain itna tere hi ishq mein
rabba ve

The next morning when Arnav came back from jogging he saw a woman slightly kissing a little girl before helping her ascend a school bus. The girl looked around 4-5 year old. He remembered how his mother used to send him to school and smiled.

The woman was dressed in a light blue kurti and white salwar. Indian dress?  There were more Indians in this building except khushi and her roommates?

“ Bye mum!” the little  girl shouted from the bus smilingly. The woman waved back and went inside the building.
Arnav was taken aback when he realised that the woman was no one but Khushi .
Khushi is a mother to a baby girl ?
I had no news of this!

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