This two shot starts from the storyline when Sejal got kidnapped by Kabir.
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Riddhima looks at the watch tensed “Where are you Sejal? I’m not able to find you” Mumbling to herself, she climbs down the stairs and saw Dadi in front of the idol.
“Riddhima, did you see Badrinath?” Riddhima heard Dadi and looks around shaking her head in no.
“No dadi” She said and looks at Dadi doing work “Why are you doing this, leave it” She said and moves to take it from her.
“It’s a small work, I thought to do it by myself” She said stopping her from taking it.
“Where can he go? Dadi, you wait I’ll search him” Saying so she starts to move from there.
“Leave it, you go and get ready, there is less time for puja. Vansh would be coming.” Riddhima remembers of Vansh words and smiling nods at dadi.
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Kabir looks at Sejal’s red teary eyes and mouth tied with a handkerchief, messy hairs. He joins the two ends of the wires passing the current from one another and adjusts his mask.
“Now answer all my questions truly or…” Before he could say anything he felt his phone vibrating in his pocket. Keeping the wires aside he picks it up to see Anupriya calling him.
“Mom, Sejal is with me. Situation is under our control.” He said taking a deep breath and looking at Sejal’s pleading eyes while she was wriggling to come out of the ropes.
“Thank God Kabir, or by Riddhima’s question I thought she got to know everything.” She said keeping her hand on her waist and looking out of the window.
“What? Riddhima knows about Sejal.” He said and saw Sejal’s face but there was no reaction as she was aware that Riddhima knows. “Hell mom, she and her sixth sense of spying.”
Saying so he disconnects the call. Ruffling his hand through his hairs, he looks again at Sejal.
“Sejal listen, answer all my questions truly or whatever will happen to Riddhima you will be responsible for it” He looks at her scared face and smirks “Did you tell anyone about Riddhima and me?”
Signing her head in no, she makes him relaxed. He smiles at her.
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Riddhima threw the towel on the bed as soon as she heard her phone ringing. A wide smile came on her lips as she saw Vansh calling her.
“Riddhima, which color of rose do you like?” She heard him as soon as the call got connected.
“You just come, that’s enough for me.” She said getting down from the bed.
“Just think I’m on the way. I’ll be there soon.” He said and keep his hand in his pocket.
“I’m waiting for you.” He smiles hearing her and disconnects the call. Picking up her photo, he smiles looking at it.
“You didn’t told me the color of roses you like.” He says and looks at different color of rose and picks up the red one. “But I know you want me to give you red roses. I can’t wait more, I’m going to reach soon than you think.”
Riddhima keeps her phone on the bed and again looks at the watch. “I have to tell you a lot, especially about Sejal” She said and recalls of him shouting on her when she told him about Anupriya giving him poison in watermelon “I know you will be annoyed, but I doubt mom this time also, did she call anyone home this time?”
She closes her eyes frustrated and thinks of the person recalling Anupriya’s words “I’m not scared, I will always be ahead of you, you can’t prove anything.” She recalls of Badrinath “Did he come to help mom, I will have to find out.”
Moving to the drawer she took out the gun and looks at it.
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“Good. Excellent. Now….. you will die if you try to run away, you will be responsible for it. So don’t act smart.” Sejal looks on at him as he again joins the wires. “Maybe I pity you, else these two wires are enough to kill you, trust me.”
She closes her eyes as she saw him getting up from there. “Everything will happen according to my plan.”
Riddhima enters in and hits on his legs. “I know your plan.” Saying so she saw him falling on the floor “Tell me why you came? Anupriya called you for help, right.” and then getting up he turns around. Sejal looks at her from behind the sofa.
He removes his mask and looks at her shocked face. “Kabir… you here?” She said shocked and he held her shoulders which she jerks away.
“Yes Riddhima it’s me. Badrinath is my friend, when you called the agency, I was talking to him. I decided to come here to help you.” He said and was about to move close to her. “I have come here for you, you aren’t happy, you are lost where, what happened to you?”
“What happened to me? Nothing Kabir. Actually something has happened with you” He heard her and she saw his confused face. “Let me consult you to a doctor.”
“Riddhima, what are you saying?” He asked frustrated by her question.
“No Actually Kabir. You tell me about yourself, you always take new disguise, you come to help me and you never told me that you are coming” She said and took a deep breath “You don’t trust me.”
“Riddhima, What are you saying? Look at your state, your eyes are red, are you okay?” He says and held her hand in his.
“Leave all that Kabir. I have to tell you something.” He nods and saw as she takes her hands from his. “Sejal is here, she is in danger, I tried to find her but I’m not able to. She is my family, my friend, I feel she wanted to tell me something but she got kidnapped. I don’t know where is she? I can’t help her, once I know where she is. I will save her.”
He heard and smirks knowing she is still on doubt. “Don’t worry, I have come. I’m sure that Vansh is behind Sejal’s kidnapping.” He said and saw her signing him a no.
“No” She said confidently and he clutched his mask tightly. “He can never do this, once we get Sejal, all the truth will come out.”
“Riddhima, how can you be so sure?” She raises her eyebrows while looking at him. “I mean, how can you say so confidently that Vansh is not behind Sejal’s kidnapping?”
“I trust him” She said and he held her shoulder in a tight grip.
“You don’t trust me” She heard his voice holding anger.
“Even you don’t or you wouldn’t have came here without telling me” She said and loses his grip on her.
“Riddhima, don’t forget that you love me. You came here to get proof against Vansh. Don’t make him get a proof against you.” Her breath hitched listening to him.
Knock on the door disturbs their conversation. She felt shiver ran down her spine and she looks at Kabir in front of her.
“Go and open the door.” She heard him and saw him hiding behind the sofa.
Moving to the door she looks behind and taking a deep breath opens the door. Only to get another shock.
“Vansh…” She said and her eyes welled up seeing him in front of her.
“Riddhima….What are you doing here in mom’s room?” She heard him and saw him moving towards her.
“Woah…I came here in search of mom but she is not here.” She said and gave him space for coming in.
“Then you should have left the room. What was the need to stay here?” He asked looking around and then at her.
“I came just now and was about to leave only when you came” He raised his eyebrows on hearing her and holding her waist pulls her closer to him.
“Door was locked from inside. Why?” She realized that by mistake she had locked the door. Looking at him she saw him looking at her.
“By mistake I did.” She said nervously.
“Vansh, Riddhima. You both here in my room?” They heard and looking at the door found Anupriya standing there “When you came Vansh?”
“Just now” He said and left Riddhima from his hold. Moving to Anupriya he hugged her “Mom, we came to meet you.”
“We will talk later. Go and get ready. After that come down mummyji is calling you both for puja.” He nodded passing her a smile.
Holding Riddhima’s hand he moved from there. Riddhima looks at his hand and his tight hold on hers. Why is he behaving like that? She thought and shuts her mind as soon as they reached their room.
“Vansh…” She called his name and saw him turning around. Moving to him she hugged him tightly. “I missed you”
“Really?” He asked with sarcasm in his voice. She confused looked up at him and before she could read his eyes. He hugged her back keeping her head on his chest. “I missed you too.”
She smiled feeling his warmth engulfing her, forgetting about everything she just wished to stay in his arms.
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After 5 days. Riddhima looks at Vansh confused. He was standing pointing the gun at her forehead.
After everything had happened, she knew she is in love with him, his nature, his care and everything about him but today he was again back to his own self. Same. THE VANSH RAISINGHANIA, which she didn’t even wished to see ever obviously not after falling for him.
Her thoughts made her drift back to the time when she had told him about Sejal’s kidnapping.
Flashback starts:-
Riddhima’s POV starts:-
After we came back from pooja, I thought to tell him before everything goes more wrong. I came and stood in front of him. Turning back, he looked at me expressionless. This…this face of him, its’ just enough to scare me. His this expressionless face makes me go confuse of his mood. Stupid.
Still I had to tell him and taking a deep breath. I again looked up at him.
“Vansh…I actually want to tell you something.” I said calmly. Looking at him, I saw him raising his eyebrows at me and making himself comfortable on this couch. Over here, I’m serious and scared of his reaction and look at him.
“Woah…I told you about Sejal, my best friend. Sh…She was here, I even had seen her wrist watch in corridor. One of the watch is with me and other was with her but now it’s with me. No, I mean I found it in the corridor that means she is here in VR Mansion.” I said and paused before continuing and looked up at him to see him confused. Seriously, I said it out clearly and much more clearly than I would have said to anyone else
“Can you elaborate?” I heard him.
“Someone from your family had kidnapped her.” I said it fearlessly and saw him glaring at him.
“Are you in your senses?” I nodded hearing him and saw as he got up.
As he came forward and stood in front of me. The fear that I had lost before saying that line again entered in through my veins, his gaze that’s enough to scare me.
“Why would my family try to kidnap your friend?” I again heard him.
“Because I have the proof also. I had heard her voice coming from bathroom’s sink.” I said and pointed towards the bathroom. “It was coming from the basement.”
“Come let’s see.” I nodded and we came to the basement. I looked at everything. Cartons fallen on the floor even floor was wet. Looking around, I saw a chair kept there with ropes still tied to it. I holding his hand pulled him in front to show him.
“See…I told you.” I said angrily because he don’t trust me, my words aren’t enough for him proofs are damn important.
“Call her.” He is MAD, best word for him. I was about to give him a reply “Riddhima”
I dialed her knowing she won’t be able to pick it up but she did. What the…? Was I imagining her over here? How come that is possible?
“Hii Riddhima…” She said so calmly as if nothing had happened. I looked up at his face to saw him giving me that reaction which I really didn’t wish to see now.
“Where are you?” I asked her suspiciously and turned my eyes to look at the blank cartons.
“I had told you, in Dubai.” Before I could say something to her. Vansh snatched my phone from me and disconnected the call.
“You can talk to her anytime but for now end it and come to the point. What were you saying?” He asked me and I saw him moving forward “She was in India and in VR Mansion, She was kidnapped and by my family. Whom you had the doubt? Mom? Chachi? Ishani? Aryan? Or me?”
“I…I had heard her voice and I’m sure she was here.” I said as I saw him coming close to me.
“Where is she?” I looked into his eyes not knowing the answer. “For god sake Riddhima, Stop blaming my innocent family.”
Ok…I agree to everything but his family and innocent. Biggest lie of the world.
He held my hand and pulled me to him making me come out of my thoughts. His hold on my waist tightened as he looked into my eyes. Tracing his fingers on my cheeks I felt shiver ran down my spine.
“I thought you were going to say something else.” I can feel blood rushing through my veins.
“What?” I asked and looked at him with a hope. Don’t know what kind of hope.
“I thought…” Pause. Now what the hell? What was the need of this pause and such a long one? “I thought…. Leave it if you didn’t said it then what’s the need to tell you? Leave it”
He said and left from the basement. May I get the permission to bang his head? Idiot, what he said ‘what’s the need to tell me?’ Then who the hell is he going to tell?
After 4 days. I don’t know why and how I fell in love with him. And his behavior after coming back from the trip, he is always in romantic mood.
I should be happy but his behavior is making me suspicious of his mind. Now that’s not my fault, he is behaving like that only. Sometimes he will send bouquet for me, or he’ll directly call me. These things are doing no good except these are making me more guilty for hiding the truth from him.
So finally I took the decision of telling everything to Kabir clearly and I knew he would understand and he did. He didn’t pulled the matter further, he was different infact but Vansh I don’t have the courage of telling him everything. What will be his reaction when I will tell him?
Entering the room, I sat on the bed tensed, when I heard his voice. “You want to tell me something?” I want to but how he came to know. Feeling the time was wrong I thought to tell him later. I shook my head in no. How would I come to know that it was my worst decision? He left the room without uttering a single word.
After few hours, I was going to enter the washroom when someone blindfolded me. I was shocked.
Flashback ends-:
He proposed me. That day, he was the one who had blindfolded me and then he proposed me. I was shocked, I mean suddenly. Why? I wasn’t excited and happy because I knew the truth is still left to come out and I decided to tell him everything but only if he would have listened to me. And then finally it came out, I don’t know how he was again back to his own self after knowing it. And from where he got to know it.
Riddhima’s POV ends-:
Riddhima looked at him. “Why you didn’t tell me anything?” He said and she saw as he loaded the gun and again focused his aim on her.
“I tried…I tried to tell you but you only….” She was interrupted by him.
“Stop lying. I had even asked you many times if you want to tell me something but each and every time you lied” He yelled at her. She looked around to see everyone looking at her disappointed. No, she wasn’t at fault only. Even they should give her a chance to explain.
Pulling out the gun from the nearby drawer she pointed at him. “Vansh…please will you let me explain?” Riddhima said and looked at the gun with the tears. Dying from his hand wasn’t the thing she was worried about but without telling the actual truth.
“I don’t want to listen anything.” He shouted shocked and kept his index finger on the trigger. “You know that I hate betrayals and still you did. You betrayed me. But now that’s it. There is only one punishment for betrayers and that’s death”
“Vansh…please let me tell you the truth.” She said and kept her finger on the trigger trying to scare him. But was that even possible. Before she could say anything else, she felt the bullet hitting her with a jerk and the trigger by mistake got pulled by her.
Unknown to the surrounding, she looked at the blood oozing out from her abdomen. Keeping her hand there, she looked at the blood shocked. Her head started spinning and soon she fell on the floor. Looking back at Vansh, she saw the blood marks on his chest and his figure lying on the floor taking deep breaths. She closed her eyes not able to digest the fact that she actually had shot him.
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