Gangaa

Chapter 10

Krishna comes towards him, while sagar sees her and is reminiscient of ganga and his childhood friendship with him. an awkward silence follows, as each eyes the other tensedly. she is talking, but his ears hardly register anything. she then nudges him and asks if he is a wrong person and shall kill her.he wakes up and registers what she said. he smiels at her. she gets tensed. he denies being a bad person and then asks how she landed in the junle. she says that she got lost. he shows her the house, and she screams in pain, as his hand grazes past the wound of her hand. he is apalled, and says that he shall take care of her, in the house.

he picks up the rifle too and then gets to taking her inside. inside the house, they find the scarf, and realise that its her scard, which fell on him. she says that her mother gave it to her. he hears tensedly. he then eyes the wound, and thinks that it needs to be bandaged, to spare her the infection. he asks her to use the scarf, but she vehemently denies ruining it, with her blood.

he continues to insist, but she refuses. he presents the handkerchief, and asks if this is okay. she asks if its clean. he verifies. after several complaints, she throws another tantrum, that it shall pain. he is reminded of ganga and her adamant nature. he tries to bandage her, but she refuses saying that she wishes to go back. he asks her to go then, as its late, and her friends are home, and she can happily become the wild animals’ feast. she resignedly sits down then.

he thinks that she has completely taken on her mother. she smiles. he asks what. she says that the pain went. he says that he was explaining exactly the same thing, and even her mother used to do the same. she asks him to speak up when he shuts up after that. he distracts her. she says that she wishes to speak to her mother. when her phone doesnt get through, then she starts talking to sagar about his family and background, and how he landed in banaras. she says that she too stays with her mother.

he asks about the father. she says that she doesnt have a father. he gets tensed. lightning strikes, and she clutches at him, with fear. he asks if she got scared. she denies out of ego. but she does it again when lightning strikes, and as she clutches onto him, he assures her that its nothing, and that its just a storm, and it shall go soon. she asks if he doesnt get scared. he says that he was when he was small. she asks who used to care for her then. he is reminded of ganga doing the same to him too. she asks if she can hold his hand, and he readily complies, though nostalgic of old memories. she takes his hand and then he hugs her, so that she feels safe.

she says that when she saw the gun, and the scarf, she thought he was a bad guy and a liar, and apologises for her presumptions. he says that its okay. She starts playing dumbcharades with him, and he is horrible at this. sagar asks what movie is this. she says that her mother and he are exactly the same, as she too doesnt have any knowledge of films.

she says that she too shall have to explain just like she has to, with her mother. they animatedly start playing, while sagar is an ardent learner. she says that she is thirsty. he looks around and then rushes out to get water, and asks her to stay put.

In the van, niranjan tells the police that ganga is still unconscious, and she needs to be rushed to the nearest hospital. he asks the police to continue their search for krishna. meanwhile, ganga wakes up suddenly and screams for krishna and then goes back unconscious. seeing her condition worsening, he wishes to hasten and asks kashish to stay back with the police for their search of krishan.

Kashish vehemently admits that she shall stay with ganga. but niranjan makes her understand that krishna needs someone, when the police finds her, or else she shall get scared. she complies then. the police is asked by niru to find out about krishna anyhow and inform him. niranjan says that he shall call him the minute ganga wakes up. niranjan leaves. kashish stands tensedly.