Dealed love

part 5

Engagement day
GM

It was a big day for both the maliks and the guptas …. A huge mob of people were present at GM and The Maliks had also arrived …. Everybody was meeting and greeting …. When RIddhima showed up on the stair case …. All eyes stuck on her …. She was looking mesmerizing in her long white maxi that had a tail at the end …. She had her dupatta over her head like usually the brides do … Volume
had been added to her hairs at the crown of her head and they were left open and a bit curled ….. She wore silver jewelry and minimal make up ….. Armaan was wearing a silver short sherwani … he for once could not take his eyes off her …. How could he ? She was looking like an angel descending from heaven …. Riddhima was smiling brightly … She was talking to muskaan who was also wearing a champagne colored gown …. Along with Anjali who was wearing a peel colored suit …. Riddhima reached the stage … and the rings were exchanged ….. Both to-be-bride and to-be-groom sat on the sofa while the guests were enjoying …..

Riddhima trying to initiate a talk : aah .. umm … the ring .. its … it’s beautiful …
Armaan : hmm …
Riddhima : um … u … u look nice today …
Armaan looking in front : tumhe lagta hai me tumse pyaar krta hun … ?
Riddhima looking in front and blushing : umm maybe … I do think so though ….
Armaan still looking in front : well … then ur wrong ….
Riddhima shockingly turns her head towards him : sorry ?
Armaan looking at her : Oh no no … u do not need to be sorry … in fact … I am sorry … for everything that u have to suffer after this marriage ….
Riddhima : matlab ?
Armaan : matlab ye ke I don’t love you …. Infact I hate u …. I hate u for ruining my life …..
RIddhima : or … pr wo tumhara mere qareeb ana and …
Armaan : that was all just a part of my plan ….
Riddhima shocked : plan ?
Armaan : you know u break heart with a style … like I am doing right now ….

Saying so he smiled and started looking in front …. Riddhima looked at him for a while with tears in her eyes …. She then started looking in the front …. Trying to control her emotions ….. Little sobs could be heard by armaan …. But it did not affect him anyways …. When the guests had left …. Armaan stood up from the stage and went to stand where all the Maliks and Guptas were standing …. Riddhima got up from the stage too as she could not control herself any further … she was feeling suffocated ….. Muskaan came to her so as to help her to go to her room …. But riddhima was just not having it right …. She picked up the tail of her maxi and ran towards her room …. Everybody was shocked …. As she was never a girl who would do such a thing ….. But among all those shocked faces …. There stood a face perfectly contented ….

Riddhima room

Riddhima entered the room … she pulled the necklace and threw it on the bed … she took out all her jewelry except her engagement ring …. She took off her dupatta and ran to the washroom … she splashes water on her face …. She came back to her room …. And breathed heavily …. As if trying to push out all her stress …. But everything in vain …. She layed on her bed and cried for long …. Soon she gathered herself up,changed her clothes and went to the washroom to perform Wudu/ ablution … She came out and offered her namaz …. Throughout her Namaz she was crying …. She finally raised her hands high to make dua ….

Riddhima crying : Allah … ye sab …. Ye sab jo ho rha hai …. Plz isse theek kr dein …. Mein .. iss shadi se inkaar bhi nahi kr skti …. Papa … unki tabiyat bht khrab hain …. Mein apne dad ke liye ye shadi krungi … lekin apko … apko mera sath dena hoga … plz make this easy for me ….. plz don’t shatter all my dreams …. Plzzz ….

Downstairs ..

The maliks had left and the guptas were sitting there … discussing about how great today’s function went …. And simultaneously planning about the upcoming functions …..

Riddhima room …

Muskaan entered her room …. Only to find riddhima sitting and writing her diary …

Muskaan astonished : ridzzyy … ye kya … tu … tu ro kyun rahi hai ….
Riddhima hugging her : wo mujhse pyaar nhi krta … wo .. wo to mujhse nafrat krta hai …. He hates me muskaan … he hates me …..
Muskaan : what ?
Riddhima : han aur wo … wo shadi ke baad meri xindagi azab bna dega ….
Muskaan : to pir ab kya karein …
Riddhima : ab mere paas ye shadi krne k ilawa koi aur option nhi hai ….
Muskaan : par …
Riddhima composing herself : nahi muski …. Papa ne mere liye zindagi bhar bht kuch kia hai …. It’s time to pay him back …. I just want him to be happy ….
Muskaan : lekin armaan …
RIddhima : let’s see what he has got for me ….

Muskaan hugged her …..

Next day
Mehndi Ceremony

Riddhima is sitting in a yellow short frock with a yellow palazzo… Jewelry made out of flowers was adoring her ….. She had already put the mehndi in her hands … and now the guests were feeing her sweets one by one … the boys and the girls had a wall between their function venues … but our heroes were sitting on the wall like a boss …. wink emoticon Riddhima was happy to be around people who loved her …. But as soon as she turned her face towards the wall she saw armaan and Rahul sitting there …. Rahul was busy admiring muskaan … while armaan smirked at Riddhima …. And fresh tears made their way to her cheeks ….

Ananya : are beta tum ro kyun rhi ho ?
Riddhima : wo bas aunty … u know all of this shadi wala part and rukhsati wgera ….
Ananya higging her : aww …. But don’t u worry …. Tumhe uss ghar me iss ghar se xyada pyaar milega … and I will make sure of it ….

Riddhima smiled …. At least she would have a mother by her side in that house ….

To be continued