SCENE 1: Riddhima is talking to her parents…
Sulekha: I guess he really loved you dear!
Riddhima: I also know, but without feeling anything for him, i just can’t get married to him! Anyway, i have a lot to do before i settle down completely…And also now i have to pack my bags, i am leaving for Mumbai tonight with Vansh Sir…
Sulekha: Since your college studies started you are hardly there with us! You spent 3 years in banglore and then worked 1 year here and again you are working in mumbai! You hardly spend time with us! And your work was for 1 week right?
Riddhima: As much i would love to spend the time with you guys, that much i want to have a successful career! Yes it was for 1 week, but the work got completed yesterday, it didn’t take as long we expected it to be….
Paritosh: Yes sulekha, she is right! Let her do what she feels like…i trust the decisions she takes!
There is a knock on the door….
Sulekha: I will see who is it…
Opens the door…
Vansh: Good morning Auntie!
Sulekha: Good morning dear! Let me call Riddhima…
Riddhima: Sir? What are you doing here? I mean the flight is tonight right?
Vansh: Yeah, but we have some work, with reports, so i thought to pick you up…
Sulekha: Can i ask you something, Vansh?
Vansh: Sure auntie…
Sulekha: Can you both work in the home itself?! So that we will get to spend time with her! Because once she leaves she hardly calls us….
Vansh: Oh, definitely auntie, i don’t mind..
Sulekha: Riddhima, take him to the study room and work there, i will get something for you to eat….
SCENE 2: Kabir comes back home
Asha: I am planning with the wedding! Do you want it to be destination or…
Kabir: MOM! She rejected my proposal! She doesn’t want to marry me!
Asha: But..
Kabir: Mom, can you leave me alone for today…I just need some space…
kabir leaves to his room..
Asha: My son, he is broken! I, as a mother can sense it in his eyes! I will talk to Riddhima, maybe she will try to understand him after she gets to know about his past…
Kabir: No Mom! You will not do anything, and that includes you not talking with her even, i thought to open my past only when she accepts my love, as she was going to be my wife and she deserves to know, but now if you tell her it will be like sympathy love, which i don’t expect from her!
Asha: But kabir…
Kabir: PLEASE STAY OUT OF THIS!! I have overcome a heartbreak before, i think so it shouldn’t be too hard now also!
He leaves…
SCENE 3: Riddhima & Vansh are busy with work when someone knocks on the door…
Riddhima: Come in…
A girl: Hi Didi (sister)!! No one told me you came back! Since you came back at the correct time, i need your help!
Riddhima: Mishti! Hi! I would love to help you but i am busy in work shona (dear)!!
Mishti: But didi, you came after so long, and you promised me that you will spend time with me, now i know that you are busy that’s why i am asking a small help na!
Riddhima: Mishti understand..
Vansh: You know what we can take a 30 minutes break, help her..
Riddhima: Fine! What do you want me to help with…
Mishti: We are doing a play in our college! And it’s a Shakespeare play! So i need you to help me and my friend with a scene….
Riddhima: What is the scene?
Mishti: Ok! The girl comes back to the guy who proposed her and that too after a long time, but she rejected him before due to some reasons…now she realises her love for him and comes back…so we need you to act with emotion! Because we both are miserably failing at it!
Riddhima: Acha fine…
Vansh’s attention shifts from his phone screen towards riddhima…
Riddhima: The only time I don’t feel ………
Mishti: No..no you are not having the emotion i want Didi…Wait! Excuse me (to vansh) can you help us?!
Vansh: I would love to, Mishti right?
Mishti: Yes, now this is your dialogue…
They restart the scene…
Riddhima: The only time I don’t feel like a ghost is when you look at me, because when you look at me, you see me. You see me. This is me.
Mishti: *laughs*Vansh sir, that is not your dialogue! Look at the paper…
Vansh: Sorry..
Riddhima: Lets do the scene again!
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Riddhima: The only time I don’t feel like a ghost is when you look at me, because when you look at me, you see me. You see me. This is me. I hurt you so much! And
Vansh: Though you’ll hurt me many times, I’ll come right back to you again when you do. I accept the risk. Because you’re worth it. Because you matter to me. Because I love you. And I’m not going anywhere. And My world is a better place with you in it!! An eternity would fall short in front of my love for you…
Riddhima: Now that i realise, I Love You! I have always loved you! I hope i am not late…
Vansh: You never are! *they hug*
Mishti: WOW!!
They both jerk back…
Mishti:That was soo realistic you guys!! Thanks! Though you improvised the dialogues, It looked like a treat for eyes! Ok bye, continue with your work…
She leaves..
Riddhima: I..i…Think so we should get back to work…we took a long break….
Vansh: Yeah, you are right!
SCENE 4: Vansh and Riddhima come back to Mumbai, and the next day Riddhima goes to Vansh’s office…
A guy: Hello!
Riddhima: Hi! I am..
That guy: Riddhima Mishra, originally from hyderabad and worked 2 years for Mathur Industries and now working for our company!
Riddhima: Wow, you seem to know everything about me! Now would you care to tell me your name also?
The guy: OH yes, i am Rishi! I am your team leader and also i happen to be the security head, that doesn’t mean i am a body guard or something, i handle the security system of the office that’s all! We have teams around here for different projects and you happen to be in the team that is well lets say, that is absolutely wonderful, come let me show your work space…
Riddhima: Thanks sir…
Rishi: Dont call me sir, makes me feel old..
Riddhima: I have to make a call, i hope you don’t mind..
Riddhima makes a call…
Riddhima: Hello? Nithya? I am in his office, you have come to Mumbai right?
Nithya: Yes! I am working on our plan, we have delayed it already so much…
Riddhima: Soon i will get the keys of his cabin, through rishi, he is the head of the security system, it will be easy to get the keys from him…
Nithya: Good! I am also searching the hospitals and facilities, to find the guy we were searching for!
Riddhima: Good…
PS: DON’T BE MAD AT ME FOR MAKING THEIR CONFESSION AS PART OF A PLAY! I ACTUALLY HAD AN IDEA OF MAKING IT AS A DREAM SEQUENCE THEN I THOUGHT THAT THE SHOW ITSELF HAS SOO MANY DREAM SEQUENCES, SO BETTER NOT MAKE IT A DREAM SEQUENCE HERE ALSO!!
STAY TUNED TO KNOW WHO IS NITHYA? WHY IS SHE HELPING RIDDHIMA? AND ALSO WHO ARE THEY SEARCHING FOR!!!
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