Meant to be

Chapter 7: Heartbeats Synching....

"Mammma! Please you are now doing everything you promised Sid that you wouldn't do! Usnay aapse bola tha na ki ya show dekho lekin emotional na ho ya to phir show hi math dekho. He knows what he is doing. Everything that bugger does is calculated and well planned. Uska toh dream life hai yeh big boss! Talk to no one, be as khadoos as you want to be, haftay mein ek do bar aggression Dikha diya, task jeet liya aur phir sonay ko bhi milta hai! Har vaqt bed pe leta hua hota hain. Baaaki Kay contestants idhar sey udhar planning plotting , character certificate, uska past uska present bas iskay baarey mein hee charcha ho raha hain aur aapka laadla bed pe leta hua hain aur uska naseeb dekho ek walking talking doll mil gayi andhar. Sana paani, sana khaana, sana now dance, sana now champi! Bloody fellow aur hamaari mom hai ki hummey Bhool key bas uski yaad mein dukhi!" Neetu belted our to her mum on the phone. Knowing part of what she was saying was true but mostly she wanted to calm her mum down so also decided to lighten things. She sitting all the way in Singapore this was the only thing she could do. Perhaps amongst everyone else in this world she and Sidharth were the most similar in personality and thought. They had the winning streak, they played straight and they played hard and took nonsense from no one and tried their best to be good assets to the society.

She loved how Sidharth was playing his game on television. Without bias he was a cut above everyone else. She thought to herself the others were just playing for the first runner up and downwards. The funny thing is it was so evident, everyone went either guns blazing or pandering around him. Everyone except that sweet girl Shehnaaz. All their lives Sidharth was their little baby. He was so a big brood outside and that much of a bigger baby at home. He would never admit it to a living soul even to himself actually but he was the biggest attention seeker, even her own boys and Preeti's kids gave him special attention. It was amazing to watch how he transformed with Shehnaaz, Neetu was able to see a side of him that none of them had seen before . Nurturing, fostering and downright funny and playful. When she saw him with Shehnaaz she somehow wished that he would not find himself a good girl and settle down. He had so much love to give she wished he experiences the joy and satisfaction of passion, love, family and building something that is intrinsically your own. He was a beautiful human being and she wished that he gave himself a chance, a chance to build a world that will fully satisfy him. She sighed and got up to finish her work before her son got home from school.

Back in Mumbai, Rita Shukla against everyone's repeated request once again sat down and watched the bits of videos she got Adith sidharths assistant cum driver cum constant to edit and compile. She had told him before the show that she wanted to see the unseen he was most angry and most happy in the show. Apparently these kids had access to some unseen footage which was not aired as part of the episodes. She would take every little bit of her son she could find. She never had to worry about his conduct in public and she never had to worry about his ethics. She also knew that he was a desirable young man and that when one was so desirable it would elicit both good and bad responses from people. She would never admit it to her daughters but she was worried if a girl would wrongly catch his attention, she was worried if Rashmi will push him to the edge. She felt helpless when girls like Mahira and Devoleena sat in a coterie and spoke of him with such hatred and disdain. He did not even look their way and yet so much of I'll will for him. And nowadays that girl Sana also got the brunt of it because she herself was friends with Sid. If she was just a viewer she would have been able to casually conclude that the rest of them wanted to have an access to Sidharth the way Sana did. For some reason from the time of the stage performance she liked that girl, there was an authenticity to her that was rare these days. Yes she was immature and loud but never untruthful or in compassionate. Even the first week when both Sidharth and sana recieved messages from the families the messages were so similar to play well and not worry about winning or losing. She sighed deeply and thanked God for Sana when she saw the unseen clip of her going to Sidharth and gently encouraging him to talk to BB about rashmi's allegation. It is exactly how she would have dealt with it. Sidharth did not listen to anyone, love was his only
Compulsion and he did not allow too many people to get it out of him as well. She liked how this girl never asked anything or never pushed him beyond what was needed.

Later in the day when she met Preeti she jokingly said "kal ka unseen dekha tumnay? Woh apni Sana Sid ko imitate kar rahi thi, leth
Gayi sofa pe aur bilkul woh Jaisay bina expressions key lettha hai na aur pair hillakey sotha bai ekdum like him onky! Bilkul bhi darthi nahi ussay! Aur sid ka expressions dekhna ka tha! usko dekhna ka bhi tha lekin isko chup bhi karaaney ka tha! Bohot sweet laga!"

"Han mummy Sidharth jitna khadoosi dikhaata hai sabko utna softly rehtha hai Sana Kay saath. Sweet their friendship is. Lekin people are going to make it very difficult for both of them. Hope they both remain supportive towards each other. Housemates tho try hi karenge issues aur misunderstandings create karne ke
Liye. Aap na lekin thoda
Kam dekha karo, yeh sab chalta rahega! Agar aapko kuch healthwise ho Gaya na toh Phir muhjhme sid ko Rashmi hee dikhega!"
Saying this Preethi gathered their lunch plates and went in to keep everything inside. She smiled to herself because she liked Sana and she did not care how inappropriate it sounded or seemed but she quite liked the idea of Sid and Sana! She had told him that if he was so lucky to come across a compatible girl inside the house there was no harm in thinking marriage. What better place than spending time inside that intense environment and understand each other's personalities pressure points, culture, hygiene, food habits and general comparability. And so far what she saw was that Sana was that girl who they would have chosen for him even if this was an arranged marriage . Their age gap and also this whole Paras angle were hurdles and because of that for now she held this desire of hers close to her heart and prayed that if it is for the best it should
Come true.

Back in beas Baaz and his grandmum we're sitting and watching Sana doing the bhumro on national television and cheering their girl on. Probably these were the only two people in this world who really without any agenda or malice wanted Sana to succeed, and when during the weekend ka vaar boman irani said that he too a Shehnaaz fan Baaz had tears in his eyes. He knew exactly why Sana too had tears in her eyes, years before just after watching Munnabhai MBBS he remembers them sitting together and gushing over the actor his talent and his craft. And Shehnaaz in wonder had told him "baaz sochna ki ek din mein and boman irani ek saath khaday ho aur voh bol rahein hai ki sana to kitni talented hai!" They both stared at each other and burst out laughing. Sitting in beas with the kind of culture they came from and with the father they had this was nothing but a joke to both of them. In their laughter back then was a hidden sadness because they both knew that while chance was a big thing to make it big in Bollywood Shehnaaz could
Not even give it a go because she would
Never be allowed. Look at where fate and destiny had brought his sister though. Exactly what she had said. Baaz wished he was with his sister when this happened but he felt comfort that even without knowing any
Of this there was another guy sitting next to her who had an equally big and proud smile for his sister and for that he was very grateful.

He knew his sister and how much love she had to give for others and so when He saw Sid and Sana together he felt relieved that
Sana'a trust would not be misplaced. He could see that steadily with all the appreciation she was getting the contestants were now behind her and he wished that life always did not have to be so difficult for her. She deserved the attention and for once he irrationally wished that no one ever stood in the way of it.

Thus both Sidharth and Shehnaaz has started belonging to each other and their families even unbeknownst to them had started seeing how they were building the other up. Fate and life has set them upto sync with each other and their families and their fans were now in for a rare occurrence to unfold in front of all their eyes.

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