Hi ? buddies, this is Shivika back with the fifth part of “MANZIL… The unknown destination…” “TIME TO UNVEIL…”
MANZIL… The unknown destination…
TIME TO UNVEIL…
Kahi dur jab din dhal jaye
saanjh ki dulhan badan churaye,
chupake se aaye
mere khayalo ke aangan me
koi sapno ke dip jalaye, dip jalaye
kahi dur jab din dhal jaye
saanjh ki dulhan badan churaye,
chupake se aaye
kabhi yuhi,
jab hui,
bojhal saanse
bhar aai baithe baithe,
jab yuhi aankhe
tabhi machal ke,
pyaar se chhalke
chhuye koi mujhe par nazar na aaye, nazar na aaye
kahi dur jab din dhal jaye
saanjh ki dulhan badan churaye,
chupake se aaye
kahi to ye,
dil kabhi,
mil nahi paate
kahi pe nikal aaye,
janmo ke naate
thani si ulajhan,
bairi apana man
apna hi hoke sahe dard paraye,
dard paraye
kahi dur jab din dhal jaye
saanjh ki dulhan badan churaye,
chupake se aaye
mere khayalo ke aangan me
koi sapno ke dip jalaye, dip jalaye
kahi dur jab din dhal jaye
saanjh ki dulhan badan churaye,
chupake se aaye
The song ends with the three O Bro’s, Gauri and Saumya standing at the door looking at the kids inside. Sahay was singing the song while strumming the guitar, Asya was playing the piano and Ariana was playing violin.
At the end Ariana sees Shivaay standing there and looking at them.
Ariana in fumbling and scared voice: Papa… Vo…
Shivaay to Sahay: How do you know that tune?
Sahay: This… It’s written here.
He says pointing at the paper stand near him.
Shivaay smiles.
Ariana apologetically: Sorry, papa. Actually…
Shivaay: No Aru. Fine you guys go and play outside.
He ends changing his tone and the three leave.
OmRu place their hand on each shoulder of Shivaay and smile at him while his eyes tear up and trio share a hug.
@OUTSIDE SHIVIKA’S ROOM
{Note the room in which Shivaay and kids were till now, since the starting isn’t ShivIka’s room but another room.}
Asya: Aru, whose room is this.
Ariana while dribbling the ball: Mumma and papa’s room.
Asya and Sahay make confused look.
Sahay: Matlab?
Ariana with confused expression: Itna difficult bhi nahi hai samajhna.
Sahay: I mean, buddy’s room is the one where we were at night.
Ariana nods: Yup!
Asya: And he is your papa.
Ariana: Yo!
Asya: Then this room?
Ariana: Oh ho! It’s mumma and papa’s room.
Asya hits the ball on Ariana’s shoulder who wails dramatically.
Ariana: What di?
Asya: Confuse kun kar rahi hai, ek insaan ke ek ghaar mai ek hi room ho sakta hai do-do thodi na.
Ariana patting her forehead: Oh! Ho! Di. Ye mumma and papa ka room hai.
Asya and Sahay drop the idea of further questioning. But while passing the ball the ball enters ShivIka’s room.
Asya: Let’s go and get the ball.
They enter the room and find a lean, white figure laying on the bed. Asya and Sahay’s gaze get fixed on the bed while Ariana randomly moves her eyes around the room searching for the ball.
Sahay pointing at the lean figure: Who is she?
Ariana looks at the place where Sahay is pointing and walks to the bed and climbs over it. She gently places a kiss on the forehead of the figure lying their.
Ariana: Mumma.
Sahay: What happened to her.
Ariana sits beside the pale figure and with a dull face speaks: She is in coma. Papa says that she is sleeping as she isn’t well but she never talks to me. He says one day God will send Angels and those angels will heal mumma and she will wake up and talk to me.
Seeing Ariana’s dull upset face the duo walk to either side of her and tickle her and she starts laughing.
Ariana: Okay, let’s go and play.
The duo nod. Ariana jumps from the bed and walks towards the door while Asya and Sahay follow but something pulls them back. Not any power but a hand stops them, both confusingly look at each other and then the hand that griped theirs, both try to remove the hand but nothing works as the hold was really very tight.
Ariana turns and looks at the duo: What are you two doing? Don’t you both want to play?
Asya: We want to but see this.
She shows her hand to Ariana who being confused walks to the duo and tries removing hand of her mother from the duo’s hand but the hand holds her hand too. Asya and Ariana’s hand is held by one hand while Sahay’s hand by other. Sahay sits on bed and slightly creases face of the lean figure and the person seems to calm further.
Asya: What are you doing Sahay?
Sahay looks at her and simply nods in no.
Meanwhile, Saumya enters the room wearing the white doctor coat with a tray carrying medicines. She gets confused seeing the kids situation.
Saumya: What happened guys? What’s going on?
Ariana with a puppy face: Look mumma has held our hand and isn’t leaving us.
Saumya’s eyes go wide open: What?
Three of them nod and Saumya rushes to them and sees their tight held hands. She shifts her gaze to the ECG machine, putting on her stethoscope she checks Anika. Here eyes depict mere shock.
Shivaay too enters the room: Saumya, here is the report….
But he stops looking at the view.
Shivaay: What’s going on?
Before the kids could speak, Saumya says: MIRACLE.
Shivaay: What?
Saumya: Bade bhaiya take the kids out, I need to check Bhabhi.
Shivaay: Fine. Come on guys.
Asya: Oh! Hello! What come on? Here our hands are entangled and you people are gossiping and your chit chat is going above our heads.
Shivaay: What entangle? Show me.
He walks to Sahay’s side as he shows Anika holding his hand. Shivaay’s jaw drops and meets the floor and jumps back to it’s place. Shivaay cups Anika’s face as tears freely flow from his eyes.
Shivaay: Anika…. Anika….
The name wouldn’t have sound more sweet and loveable if it wasn’t dipped in the affection and love of Shivaay’s heart.
Saumya placing her hand on Shivaay’s shoulder: Bhaiya please, please go out.
Shivaay nods and places a kiss on Anika’s forehead, the flare so produced on her forehead, burns her body alive as if bestowing her with her life back.
Shivaay untangles the hands and takes the kids out. Only to catch up with OmRu and hugging the duo his eyes overflow with his overwhelming emotions.
Om out of concern: What happened Shivaay?
Rudra being highly worried: Bhaiya, is everything fine.
Shivaay in an emotionally chocked voice: Anika… Anika…
OmRu yell with worry: Bhabhi!!!! What happened to Bhabhi?
Both were about to walk in the room but Shivaay pulls them back with a smile plastered on his lips and eyes gleaming with tears: She… She is…
Om being unable to handle his emotions: What? Say it fast Shivaay. Is Bhabhi fine.
Shivaay nods in yes: She is fine. And she is getting back to life.
OmRu: What?
Shivaay nods in yes.
Both OmRu smile with teary eyes and hug their elder brother tightly. After a while they brake the hug and wipe their tears.
Rudra jumping in joy: Bhabhi will be back!!! Yay!!!
Shivaay nods ruffling his hair.
Ariana doubtfully: What happened papa? Why are you all crying and smiling all together.
Shivaay smiles and bends to Ariana’s level and hugs her without saying a word, confusing the little head more.
Ariana hugging Shivaay back: What happened, papa?
Shivaay cups Ariana’s face: You use to ask, when mumma will wake up?
Ariana nods in agreement and Shivaay continues: Very soon. She is getting fine.
Ariana with gleaming eyes: Really.
Shivaay nods in yes and Ariana hugs him.
After breaking the hug, Ariana looks at Sahay and Asya, she walks to them and holds their hands. Everyone looks curiously towards her.
Ariana kisses the duo’s hand: I told you na, papa use to tell me that one day angels will come and get my mumma back to me. You both are our angels. Thank you!!! Thank you for getting my mumma back.
Both Asya and Sahay look at each other, their eyes speaking a story of their own. The language only the duo could understand.
ShivOmRu smile at the kids. Shivaay cares Sahay and Asya’s hair and sits on his knees.
Shivaay: She is right. You both are, our Angel’s. Thank you for coming back.
Sahay: Back????
Shivaay smiles and nods.
Asya: Meaning!!!
Gauri bends behind the duo: Remember you both were searching your parents.
The duo nod.
Gauri: You are his kids.
Shivaay nods.
Ariana: Meaning… Shivu di and Shiv bhaiya.
Om: Ya Aru. They are the one. Your brother and sister who you wanted to meet for so long.
Ariana smiles happily.
Shivaay moves forward to take the duo in a hug but both move back shocking him and the rest.
Shivaay: What happened?
Asya and Sahay look at each other as Sahay forwards his hand to her and she holds it tightly, both run from there shocking everyone.
Shivaay: Shiviaansh…. Shivika… Wait…
Gauri: It’s okay Bhaiya. They will be fine, it’s normal you see they can’t accept this fact so soon…. You see they have been away for so long. It’s difficult for them to understand too.
Om: Gauri is right, Shivaay. We don’t know what all they have gone through and it’s not easy for them also. We will have to be patient.
Rudra retaliates: Why O? They would remember us at least. They weren’t so small too. I will ask Shivika, she won’t hide anything from me.
Om holds him back: Rudra, wait. Give them some time then we will talk to them. Please…
In between all the discussion Shivaay walks behind the kids while the rest try to stop him.
@SHIVAAY’S ROOM…
Both Sahay and Asya are sitting hugging each other and crying. Shivaay approaches them and places his hand on their shoulder. Both look at him and move back. Shivaay sits on bed.
Shivaay: I know you both have many questions but at least I deserve a chance to answer them. Please…
Asya: You sold us to them, we hate you.
By now the rest too had arrived and hearing this all were shocked and baffles to extreme.
Shivaay: What? Who said this to you? And who them?
Sahay: Don’t act as if you know nothing.
Shivaay feels offended by their words. Selling them the word itself was abhorrence. He felt being accused and the accusation was like strangling him. He couldn’t even breath with the accusation and from where it came was even more astonishing. Keeping his kids away from him for even a second meant like killing his own self and only he knew how had he been able to live for these years – Zombie. That was his life. His eyes tear up seeing his kids being scared of him only. He lost all his courage and moved back only to be held by OmRu who nodded in no as if trying to bring alive a wave of hope which they new was dead by now.
Gauri: Bhaiya, don’t feel disheartened there is lot we don’t know.
Shivaay: They won’t say anything to me, that feel I so….
He bursts out in tears while Om consoles him.
Gauri: Bhaiya, I have a way.
Shivaay: What?
Gauri smilingly wipes his tears: Don’t cry and show some strength. You sit here we all will be back.
With that she takes OmRu and Saumya with her. While Shivaay sits back at a little distance from the kids who are crying terribly causing something to die in Shivaay.
In a little while the lights go off scaring Asya who clenched to Sahay and Shivaay rushes to the duo pulling them in a protective hug all of them forget everything for a while.
Shivaay: Shhhh….. I am here only. Nothing will happen to both of you.
He kisses their foreheads to calm them down. For the first time both Asya and Sahay had a shoulder to rely on without any worry. Shivaay’s love and care had made them feel protected.
After a while light come up and Shivaay cajoles Asya to open her eyes and she feels relaxed and as soon as the realisation strikes the kids they push Shivaay away. Who looks on helplessly.
Just then the blinds go down and a projector appears as few pics and videos starts projecting.
Asya, Sahay and Shivaay look at the projector.
A pic from their childhood where Anika is holding a baby Shiviaansh and Shivaay a baby Shivika is projected, with that the next family pic is projected that’s of Shiviaansh with Om and Shivika with Rudra. Another is a video of Shiviaansh and Shivika with Shivaay, they are showing tantrums and he is obediently fulfilling those tantrums, another video has them cooking where Shivaay and Om are only cooking, Shiviaansh, Shivika, Anika and Rudra are busy styling the two chefs. The next video is of the time before Ariana’s birth where Shiviaansh and Shivika are sitting over Shivaay’s shoulder and jumping followed by Shivika sitting on Rudra and Shiviaansh and Om teasing the duo while Rudra is doing sit ups with Shivika on his back. Next video has Shivaay, Anika, Shivika, Shiviaansh, OmRu and family doing masti.
Sahay and Asya watch the videos emotionally and others eyes also tear up. Both understand that they were told wrong about their parents, they turn to Shivaay and hold their ears in apologising manner but he nods in no and extends his hands for the duo who fall in his embrace and cry hysterically. Shivaay’s eyes to tear up but he still consoles the duo with OmRu’s help.
Sahay: They are very bad please save us, papa.
Asya: Please papa.
They say while crying.
Shivaay: Shhh… Don’t they won’t be able to do anything. We are here for you. Just relax.
Om: He is right you both just calm down nothing will happen to you both. Nothing.
Ariana enters in the room and asks innocently: What happened?
Rudra: Nothing. And what are you all doing there come on come here it’s O Family hug.
All join in.
Shivaay: Saumya, how’s Anika?
Saumya: Commendable improvement bade bhaiya, she will be fine soon.
Shivaay smiles and tightens the hug further.
Asya: But what had happened?
Shivaay and the rest sit on floor. Asya on Rudra’s lap, Sahay on Om’s and Ariana on Shivaay’s.
Shivaay: It’s happened about four years back.
Om hugging Sahay and kissing his forehead: You both wanted to go on an expedition with your class and after fighting with everyone you both had made everyone agree.
Rudra: Then you all went for four days. When you had to return, on that very day Anika Bhabhi and Ishaana di had gone to temple. The route from where your bus had to return and from where they had to come was same.
Shivaay sighing heavily: At that time we were expecting Ariana too. She was to come in our family and Om had to get married even Rudra had proposed Saumya we had secretly planned their engagement everything was going more then perfect but when Ishu and Anika were returning somebody had failed their car’s break and when they were coming they had encountered your van, in order to save you Ishaana pulled the breaks but they didn’t work so she took a sharp turn because of which car had hit the tree and on other hand to save you the driver too had pulled the emergency break and the van met with accident because of which few kids fell to the other side landing in a cliff. Five kids were supposed to be dead and out of them…
As Shivaay trails with tears and unable to recall the horrible past, Shiviaansh supplies: Two were we both.
All nod.
Saumya: Anika Bhabhi was taken to emergency and after giving birth to Ariana she had postpartum haemorrhage, it was really difficult to save her but when news of your death reached her she almost left her hopes on her life and ended up drifting to coma.
Asya: What happened to Ishaana aunty…
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