FF : AJNABEE
PART 49
Khushi just slumped down on the couch holding her head by her palms .. Can her mother really stoop so low to harm her own grand child .. ? Arnav must be mistaken !! It’s the truth that Her Mother have not able to accept Ashi whole heartedly but then She cannot imagine her mother to harm ashi at this extent ..
And Arnav ? He is not ready to hear any of her statement ? and talking to him at this point would have just worsen the situation ..
She gulp down the lump forming inside her throat, when she felt a comforting hand on her shoulder She glance up at Ayush who just sat beside her
Ayush : What are you so worried of ?
Khushi : Nothing papa ..( she let out a sigh wiping out her tears who have escaped from her eyes without her knowledge )
Ayush : You know What fathers are expert of ? they can read their daughter’s pain very well .. Your eyes are saying everything Khushi .. tell Me .. what is bothering you
Khushi : I don’t know papa .. I am just confused ..Did you heard what arnav threatened to me ? He would rather prefer to divorce me if I get in touch with my Mother again ... He think that my mother is behind what ever happens with Ashi today
Ayush : He do have a valid reason isn’t it Khushi ? Your Mother have not given him any good reason for not doubting her ? and what ever He said was in anger don’t you know my son when he get’s angry ..
Khushi : I know ...Papa .. that Maa have given every reason to Arnav for not trusting her with Ashi... I know she is wrong .. but still despite of everything I cannot just let the fact away that she is my mother .. The Person who have shown me this world ... I cannot make you understand my situation .. One is Arnav .. My Husband the person I love the most and the other is my mother the person who have given birth to me ? tell Me how can I choose anyone between them ? They both are important to me papa How can I choose anyone ? I felt so helpless
Ayush just caressed her hair and said
Ayush : Calm down !! Why don’t you just talk with Arnav ? I am sure he will listen to your words .. He was just angry .. I am sure he does not mean any words he blurt out ..
Khushi : Thank you Papa . ( she smiles looking at ayush who smiles in return)
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Khushi just let out a sigh as she receive her mother call after a numerous miss call she find in her mobile
Garima ; why were you not receiving the call ?
Khushi : I didn’t check my phone ..I was busy ..
Garima : Busy ? what kept you so busy that you are unable to pick your mother’s phone ? I have been trying you since the time I heard that man’s voice over the call ? What was he doing with you ?
Khushi closed her eyes as anger started bubbling inside her
Khushi : My daughter is in pain Maa .. I was in verge of losing my daughter and you asked me what I would have been busy with ? How would any mother be in sane of her mind seeing her daughter suffering ? And Maa the person you are cursing ..For that man only my daughter is safe today .. If Arnav wasn’t there today I don’t know what would have happened
Garima : You are supporting that criminal ? Are you letting him influencing you all over again ? Did you forget all that happened in past ? Khushi what is wrong with you ?
Khushi : I didn’t forget anything Maa .. Neither I am supporting anyone ... I just know one thing if ashi is safe today it’s because of him .. Maa .. Did for once asked me how is ashi ? you didn’t but just arguing with me .. despite of all the bitterness Me and Arnav have between us .. We cannot deny that Arnav Singh Raizada is Ashi’s father ... In all the thick and thin He would be standing for her , guarding her despite of our disliking .. You know What Maa I don’t find anything in his behavior .. this what any father would have done being in his place .. and Maa .. The truth to be said how much we try to keep Ashi away from Arnav .. They are inseparable. Both of them would find a way to reach each other .. He can be wrong to so many people but I can trust him with my daughter ...
Garima : Do you realize what are you saying ? and tell me one thing what he was doing with you ? You were been to Holi party ? Was He there ?
Khushi : I don’t know anything apart that he saves my daughter’s Life and I owe to that ...
Garima : you owe to that criminal ? Khushi don’t forget your alliance have been fixed and once you returned back you will be married off ... Better you should just stop what ever you are doing and return back ..
Khushi : You won’t be deciding my day and time for return .. and about marriage .. I have given my consent I agree .. Would the groom will able to give the same and comfort and love that Ashi felt with Arnav .. Would the groom able to be the father of ASHI in true terms like Arnav Singh Raizada is ... but I don’t think He would be able to do so .. Thus this marriage alliance is null and void ..
Garima : have you gone insane ? you are cancelling your marriage alliance ? is it all about AShi ? What about you ? What about your Life and future ? How can you just ruin your life for that illegitimate child ..
Khushi : Maa .. don’t give names to Ashi .. She was not an unwanted Child ... Whatever happened between me and Her father was a separate issue but you can badmouth my daughter about my happiness .. My happiness lies in my daughter’s smile .. you are saying I a, ruining my life by being a single mother to ashi but trust me I would prefer being a Single mother than marrying and bring a buggage in name of a father to her .. and maa If the question to be asked why did not you marry again ? You were also young when Our father left us ... .... We are hardly few years old when papa died ..You could have married anyone and bring a father to us ... but you didn’t because you thought that The person you will marry ... can be your husband can never makes space in our life being a father .. then why now .. Well Maa .. and whatever happened with ASHI today I know one thing very well who ever is behind my daughter’s life would be regretting very soon for eyeing my daughter .. and Arnav will make sure of it .. I trust him with My daughter ..
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Garima slumps down on the couch closing her eyes tight as she holds the mobile phone in her fist ..
What is wrong with her daughter ? what is happening in their life ? after so many years, she feel something some kind of emotions playing in Khushi’s voice ..
Arnav Singh Raizada!! The gush of anger passed through her every veins hearing his name .. The one person who have turned their life into a mess .. How much wrong may akhilesh have done in his life but still He was her son .. and No mother would want such a tragic end for her child ..
Akhilesh does not deserve to be killed in such a tragic way !! Tears filled in her eyes as s he remembered the corpse of her Son ..and Swati ... her daughter in Law .. what wrong have happened between her son and daughter in law .. she knows Swati have her own doubts over Akhilesh .. but then she can have try to work out on her marriage rather than giving up .. She have heard Swati supporting that ASR over Akhilesh .. she have seen Swati siding ASR rather than crying on her husband’s loss ...
She have feel some weakness in Swati towards that Arnav Singh Raizada but she cannot just name it at all ... she still remembers the day when Akhilesh dead body has been brought to their house .. and garima has lost all her sanity seeing her young son’s dead body ..
*** Flash Back***
Garima stood numb as Akhilesh dead body was brought in the house early in the morning and his face was hardly been recognized ..
He was badly murdered that even one would shivered thinking about the tortures He would have underwent before death engulfed him .. His Private parts were badly effected .. and injured ..
Terror was the name that reflect in the eyes of Every One .. and though they have not express in words but It was quite clear the person behind this ... A.S.R The initial was properly Curved in the body that makes every one shiver in fear ..
The police have done their initial enquiry .. and then have stepped back knowing the horror that was engulfing the city in the form of ASR these days ..
Garima was horrified seeing the state of his son ... who would have thought a morning like this .. just yesterday he was all fine , they have evening tea together and then He left for somewhere saying that he would return in an hour .. But hour turns into hours and night turns into morning .. but he didn’t return back .... and when he returns all she find her son corpse ..
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Garima looks at Swati who seems have no emotions contains on her face learning the news of her husband .. And She can see her lips forms into a smile as she gaze at her husband corpse ..with some kind of strange satisfaction reflecting in her face
Garima : did you realize that Akhilesh is no more with us ... You have lost your husband
Swati : I know .. ( she whispers with a weird smile adorning in her lips 0
Garima : and you have no regret in losing him ? His death does not effect you .. it does not matters to you that your husband has been brutally killed by A.S.R
Swati : Unfortunately , I feel nothing to mourn on his death .. and A.S.R .. I have no hard feeling for him .. I would always owe to him
Garima : owe ? did you realize sawti what are you speaking about ? how can you speak all these about your husband or is it the sorrow that taking toll on you
Swati : Grief is the least thing I have for him ... Maa .. Akhilesh can be a good son for you but he cannot be a good husbands for me ..!! you have known everything but You have decided to turned deaf .. wish you would have the courage to speak against your Son then today May be he would have alive to be a better person .. and A.S.R He did nothing wrong from killing a bustard like him .. otherwise who may know how many innocent lives he would destroy . he deserve the more worst death than he get ( Swati could hardly complete before She felt garima slapping her making her hold her stinging wife)
Garima : what kind of wife are you ? How dare you to speak so bad about my son standing in- front of me.. he is the worst of a husband right ? then what about you ? why cannot you able to be a better wife for him ? This what you have always for my son ? Hatred ? and today you prove it ? Isn’t it ? and wait a minute wasn’t it you Who told Akhilesh yesterday . that someone from the news room called in the land line saying that he need to report near the NH 3 immediately as there was an urgency .. You send him purposely didn’t you ? You knew it somewhere ..
Swati : ( sigh ) I played well for the first time ( She wipe off her tears with genuine smile playing across her lips ) and for the very first time I stood for the right .. It was so easy to lie the person who have till now keep fooling every one isn’t it ?
Garima : You helped that ASR ... Why ?
Swati ; because I feel so .. I didn’t helped anyone I just helped myself standing for the right
Garima : What right did you find killing my son by emptying a mother’s lap ..
Swati : did you give a thought about it when your son have make many mothers like you shed tears of blood .. I cannot say in words about the satisfaction I feel seeing him like this .. The same satisfaction the ASR must have felt tearing the live out of him ..
Garima : why ? ( she yelled )
Swati: can you answer me why did he do all the things that he did with me ? What harm have I cause that he did all the wrong in the name of marriage .. I was been trapped in the marriage with your son ? did he ever tried to know where did he take me in name attending parties and then return back alone without me ? Where I stayed all the night ? did you ever try to poke your nose when you have learned that he bait me for his benefits .. I know you have known but still you keep mum ? why ? Why didn’t you stood up for me ? You also have a daughter right ? will you be silent even if it was her instead of me ? Why just because I am your daughter in law ... I have no respect in your eyes ..
Garima : I ..I thought you both would sort out yourself and you both are husband and wife I cannot just poke my nose between you both .
Swati : husband and wife .. I am just an whore that your son uses for his own benefits .. He deserve this .. You know I did have my own dreams but your son ruined it all since the day he laid his eyes on me .. and I am grateful to ASR for what he have done ..
Garima : I will inform police about you being behind my son’s death and then the day will not be far when they will trace ASR and you will help the police
Swati : what makes you think Maa I will let police know anything about ASR .. He is like a Dark Knight ... It won’t be easy for anyone to trace him
Garima : what is it with you and him ? you take support from a criminal like him ? Ohh sorry How can I forget !! I have heard somewhere that your father was also belongs from such troupes isn’t it ? So this is where your weakness is .. people says right !! A bad Blood remains Bad!!
Swati closes her eyes in humiliation as she speaks
Swati : I don’t mind your words ..you have lost your son but maa think wisely ..who is the bad vine .. well what relation I have with ASR is beyond someone’s understanding ... I don’t want to give any explanation to it .. But may be there was day I thought to find some solace in ASR’s arms if Your son would not have happened to me ... Leave all these .. time is running you should do the funeral ...
Garima closes her eyes letting out a sigh as she recalls how she find Swati’s body hanging up the ceiling after returning back from the funeral with a letter kept on a table
I told you Maa .. time is running ... you will not able to use me to trace ASR any more because when you would be reading this letter I will be nowhere in this world .. you have asked me what relation I have with ASR and I told you that It’s beyond someone’s understanding .. some relations are not given names .. it happens ... Such is Mine and ASR’s .. You may name it as Love .. I name it friendship ... friendship it is .. or more than it .. I don’t know .. I didn’t even get time to bind the developing feelings together .. You said I belong to a Bad Blood!! May Be I am .. but maa my father have always taught me to stand against the wrong .. But I felt weak isn’t it ? Wish I have given my father’s words an ear then may be the future would have been different ! You may give me names ..i don’t mind .. I know you are a mother .. and for a mother her son can never be wrong ... despite of all the Sins Her son commits a mother would be shielding her Son away from the reality and that is the reason I decide to bid the bye to the world .. I cannot let myself becoming another mother to shield her son from understanding the lines of right and wrong .. It is a mother’s affection I name it .. and I don’t want my son to grow up into an another Akhilesh Gupta and I being another Garima Gupta shielding away somewhere between the lines of rights and wrong .. call me coward or by any name .. I will not mind because I would have been meeting the peace by then I was searching till now beyond those unknown fields . ..
You are angry on me .. and your anger is justified ... I don’t mind any of your words .. I have think several times and Now for the first time I feel it right so right !! I have shown some bravery in these years standing against the wrong .. May Be I have not get the Justice I deserve but somewhere someone may have got the justice with the news of your son’s death ..
It’s the PAIN That binds me with ASR ..
Have a Good Life Ahead Maa !! don’t forget to take your medicines on time and don’t neglect your health I won’t be there to keep check on you now onwards .. And Ask Khushi to study well .. her exams are nearing isn’t it ? My wish remains unfulfilled .. to see her journalist .. but can you request her one thing .. Please say Her .. “ TO SERVE JUSTICE “
Bye Maa !! Well Let’s find your son somewhere there .. May be I can fell in Love with him over there and change him to a better person and who may say we can even start a life together ..
Ek Choti Si Aashiyan !!
Chalti hoon Maa ...
Swati
That day , Swati have make garima shown the mirror of reality but yet she decides to turn her face away from the truth and she didn’t even realize when an immense hatred have born inside him for that ASR ... She just want to know what have Swati seen in that man that He have supported that criminal over her son comparing him with Akhilesh ?
If She would have said about swati’s suicide it would create rumors in the society and that can defame their name and she cannot let that happen
She can change the past but she has a daughter to worry about .. She cannot let these dark secrets to reveal in front of her daughter who is studying abroad ....
She will not let Khushi know about the dark secrets that can becomes into a grey cloud surrounding her ..
Garima wipes off her tears as she walks towards the window and stood there gazing up at the Night sky ..
Let out a deep sigh , She have always tries to keep Khushi away from the dark truth of her family .. She have always considered her brother as a role model and she does not want her to have any other impression than what She thought about him ..she does not want the shadows to fell on her daughter but yet it cast on her .. in name of Arnav Singh Raizasda !! she was afraid during those time when Khushi decides to fight against ARNAV SINGH RAIZADA to Serve justice to her brother .. and Khushi has burnt herself in the process of serving justice ... !! How much Khushi says but being a mother She knows there is some soft corner Her daughter have for that Criminal ...!!
Ashi , she have no enmity with the little child except that the child resembles Arnav singh Raizada in every sense ..
The truth to be told that despite of all the maze , She cannot stop herself admiring the nature of Arnav singh Raizada!! Wish every men could have same nature .. then Women would have a safer future
To be contd
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