The bus broke down… But it was for good… The place where it broke down was nothing less than a tourist spot… Both in the aesthetic view and the number of people present…
The driver and the conductor was changing the tyre…
The regular passengers know that it happens at least once in a month…
A man was sitting there with a small child… The man was handicapped and the child looked very ill…
The man was singing songs…
Mithra was seeing this… There was a cloth spread on the ground… Just few 10 rupees notes were there…
Mithra went near the man and started singing…
Everyone, came near her hearing her sweet voice, so did the Mehras…
Abhi and Ranbir were impressed by her voice and the way she sang…
She finishes her song and everyone there were clapping…
She puts a hundred rupees note on the cloth spread… Everyone else does the same…
*°*°*°*°*
Aaryan takes the phone from the ground…
The phone’s screen was broken…
Aaryan: This is Shahana’s phone… When I called her, it was switched off…
He goes to the man..
Aaryan: do you know which hospital the girl is taken too??
Man: sorry…
Aaryan (in mind): was it Saritha aunty?
Aaryan: who helped the girl? Was it an aged woman?
Man: no… Not so old… It seemed like the woman knew the girl… Are you her acquaintance??
Aaryan didn’t reply anything…
Aaryan (in mind): let me go to her house and check…
Aaryan leaves from there…
*°*°*°*
Man: Did they get any details about her?
Man 2: No Maharaja… Not yet…
Man: what are they doing… It has been 11 hours…
An old woman: calm down …. I have told them to keep the search a secret… If she gets to know that we are after her… She will go somewhere far making it difficult for us to find her…
Man: Amma…. I can’t lose her….
The old woman calms the man…
*°*°*°*
Ranbir: Oh… Wonderful… (Looking at Mithra)
Abhi was smiling looking at Mithra… But hearing this, he turns to Ranbir…
Abhi: open flirting?? Remember… You are engaged to my daughter…
Ranbir face- palms himself…
Ranbir: chief… I am telling about the song and her voice… Look the way she sings… Yes… She is dressed traditionally, but, the way she sings, she looks like a professional singer…
Abhi: hmm… This is true…
The Mehras also donate money…
Abhi and Pragya smiles at Mithra…
Mithra feels dizzy…
Pragya catches her…
Both feel something…
Mithra: Thank you…
The driver cries out “the bus is fixed…”
Everyone board the bus…
*°*°*°*°*
Aaryan reaches Saritha aunty’s house and finds it locked…
Aaryan: Prachi and Pragya maasi now live with us… They are on a trip now… But where is this Sarita aunty?? What happened to Shahana?? God!!!
Aaryan feels defeated and dejected…
He sits in the car, leans his head back on the seat and closes his eyes…
Shahana’s image comes to his mind…
Once….
(Before they confessed their feelings)
Aaryan was reading a book…
Shahana: Romeo and Juliet?
Aaryan: hmmm..
Shahana looks away…
Aaryan: what happened? Don’t you like this book?
Shahana nods no…
Aaryan(dramatically): what!!!
Shahana: Mr. Drama King…
Aaryan: if someone else hear it, they will kill you…
Shahana: why?? Everyone’s taste is not the same…
Aaryan: so… You mean… You don’t like love stories?
Shahana: I never told so…
Aaryan: then???
Shahana: people should not fall in love…
Aaryan raises his one eyebrow with a questioning at the same time confused looked…
Shahana: people should rise in love…
“Pyaar mein girna nahi…
Pyaar mein udna…
Pyaar ke liye ladna…
Pyaar se jeetnaa…”
Aaryan opens his eyes…
He starts asking people about where Sarita aunty went…
One of the man told him that someone came in the car and took her…
Aaryan: Someone took Saritha aunty in a car?? Hey wait… People were telling about some lady taking Shahana to hospital… Hospital… Aaryan… You are a fool… Go check in the hospital…
*°*°*°*°*
The Tripatis reach Mumbai…
Uma was sitting in the room… Lost in sone thoughts…
Uday notices that…
He comes near her…
Uday: what happened Uma? What are you thinking about? About him?
Uma nods in a yes…
Uma: After that incident… I found him laughing and talking openly after Prachi came to our lives… That day… When he told us about that… We wete surprised… But happy… When he told me that he feels a special bond with her and he feels proud hearing someone praising her… I thought it is because he loves her… But that day… That day.. we all came to know the truth… Still… I asked PRACHI’S hand in marriage hoping to bring some change in him… Even she wishes that… But he is still stuck with that age-old childhood thing…
Uday: what did he say?
Uma: 20 years have passed… Still he believes that she is alive!!!
Uday: may be that is not a childhood thing for him…
Uma: I know… His and her relation was made the day the sanyasini told that they are destined to be together for seven births… But… She is no more…
Uday: but he is ready to fight the world to prove it wrong…
Uma: that is what the problem is…
Uday: but… His predictions were never wrong…
Pranav takes his seat… Mithra is passing by…
Uma: what about this time?
Uday: let us pray…
Uma looks at the idol of goddess…
Uma: hey maa… Meta beta ki raksha karna…
The pallu of Mithra’s saree gets stuck on Pranav’s seat…
Wind blows… A flower fall on the goddess’s feet…
Mithra turns…
Pranav finds her saree stuck…
He and she tries to get it out at the same time… They touch each other’s hand and feel something…
A spark???