My Soulmate (Chapter 4)

Chapter 4:

Scene 1:
Location: Maheshwari mansion, dining hall
Sanskar is having breakfast and then he calls his maid.
Sanskar: Saabira!
Saabira: yes sir!
Sanskar: come here?
Sanskar: you were telling one day that your daughter works at Gagodia mansion.
Saabira: yes sir!
Sanskar: (takes a packet of cell phone) give it to her…
Saabira: thank you sir! You are very generous. May Allah b…..
Sanskar: (shouts) shut up you idiot! This is not for you. Give this to your daughter and ask her to hand it over to Swara. (gritting teeth and dangerous tone) and nobody should come to know about it. Understood?
Saabira: Swara bibi…… that daughter of Mr. Shekhar?
Sanskar: yeah! And nobody should come to know about it. Nobody! And if you or your daughter opens mouth in front of anyone, then I would fire you.
Saabira: no sir! Why would I tell your secret to anyone? I assure you this secret will remain in my heart till death.
Sanskar: (smiling) good! Very good! Now go fast and do my work. And… (takes his wallet and pays her five thousand rupees) this is your reward. Now go!
Saabira: yes sir! Don’t worry. (she goes out)

Scene 2:
Location: Gagodia mansion, Swara’s room
Swara is sitting in room when her maid (Nighat) comes.
Nighat: what would you like to eat?
Swara: how many times I have told you that I am not going to eat anything, so why are you after me? Get lost! (Nighat comes in and latches the door.) what are you trying to do Niggi?
Nighat: calm down mam! I have brought a gift for you. (hands over the phone to her)
Swara: what is this? it is very expensive, so you could not buy it. From where did you got it?
Nighat: Sanskar sir has given cell phone for you. If you want to give anything for him, then give it to me. I will give that to him.
Swara: no, I have nothing for him. Did anybody see you holding this?
Nighat: no.
Swara: ok, you can go now. (she goes and Swara starts dialling a number from the new phone)

Scene 3:
Location: Bhattia house.
Someone knocks on the door and a young boy opens the door.
Boy 1: Is this the house of Adarsh Bhattia?
Boy 2: yeah! I am Adarsh Bhattia.
Boy 1: I am Sanskar Maheshwari. Can we sit somewhere and talk?
Adarsh: yeah sure! Come. Mom dad are not at home. (he leads Sanskar to drawing room)
Sanskar sees his house and wonders what did Swara saw in Adarsh. He was not wealthy, he was not very handsome, then why did a beautiful and wealthy lady like Swara was behind him. Wait! Did I say her beautiful? Urgh! What is happening with me? She did not talk to me nicely even once and she also slapped me that day. She says that I am strange and she does not find even one good quality in me. She thinks of me very bad and here I am praising her. Wow! I have become dumb after meeting her. Very good Sanskar Maheshwari. You agreed to help a girl that hates you. Good job! (he was snapped out of his thoughts hearing sound of Adarsh)
Adarsh: you wanted to talk about something?
Sanskar: yeah! I wanted to talk about Swara. She wants you to marry her.
Adarsh: I clearly refused to her then why is she behind me? I will not marry her. I did not even propose her.
Sanskar: look, she is in very difficult situation and she needs your help. She said that you can divorce her after she comes out from there. She will never come in your way.
Adarsh: who are you to her?
Sanskar: I……I…. actually, I am her best friend.
Adarsh: (strange gaze) from when? She never told me about you.
Sanskar: we are friends since childhood. We are next-door neighbours and she shares everything with me. So she told me to meet you. I like her.
Adarsh: if you like her this much, then go and marry her. Why are you dragging me in between?
Sanskar: I would marry her if she agrees. But she would never agree for this because she does not love me. She loves you.
Adarsh: but I don’t love her. Tell her that I am not ready to help her.
Sanskar: (angrily) ok! Go to hell Mr. Adarsh Bhattia. But listen carefully that if she gets harmed from her family, the sole reason behind this will be you and I would never forgive you. I will find you even from below the earth and then I will punish you that way that you will beg for your death. (points index finger towards him) mind it! (goes from there and Adarsh stands there frightened)
Adarsh: poor Swara! This guy loves her like anything but she is running behind me.
On the other hand, Sanskar is wondering why he fought with Adarsh for Swara. He reaches his house at night.

Scene 4:
Location: Maheshwari Mansion, Sanskar’s room
Sanskar is pacing to and fro in his room thinking about Swara.
Sanskar: why Swara is behind Adarsh? I am more handsome than him. I am more rich than him then what is the thing which Adarsh have? I can’t understand. Anyways, why am I thinking about her? I have to tell her about the decision of Adarsh and why was I comparing myself with Adarsh. It’s not that I want to marry her. Well, what would she do when she would hear refusal from Adarsh. Usually, girls do suicide in this condition. So, she will…… she will request me to provide her with some sharp thing, drug or a gun. Yeah! (he dialled the number of her cell which he gifted her and she attends the call) Swara!
Swara: yeah! It’s me. Did you meet Adarsh?
Sanskar: yes, I met.
Swara: and you told him about my condition?
Sanskar: yeah, I told him.
Swara: and…. You asked him to marry me or contact me?
Sanskar: yes I did!
Swara: then what did he said?
Sanskar: he refused. He said he will never contact you. He will never marry you.
Swara: what? No, he cannot refuse me.
Sanskar: (irritated) he has refused Swara! Accept the reality.
Swara: Sanskar please! Could you go once again and request him to marry me? Please!
Sanskar: what do you mean by this? (angrily) don’t you have any self-respect? He has refused and still you want me to go and beg for you? He is not a good person so stop running behind him.
Swara: he is not bad. He is a very good person. He will be helpless, that’s why he is behaving like this. I know him….
Sanskar: (cuts her) he refused to help you and still you are taking his side?
Swara: please can you…
Sanskar: no!
Swara: (pleading) please!
Sanskar: (angrily) no!
Swara: this is the matter of love. You will never understand.
Sanskar: ok mother! Now don’t start any lecture. So tell me if you want anything else I am cutting the call.
Swara: ok, bye! (She cuts the call and he is surprised. He was expecting her to ask for something with which she could take her life but she simply cut the call.)
Sanskar: maybe she has arranged something for this. It’s not necessary that she would ask for everything to me. (After sometime, she calls him again and he is surprised) yes Swara!
Swara: did Adarsh said anything else to you? I mean you met him face to face and it’s not possible that he uttered no and ran away. He must have said something else also. So what’s that?
Sanskar: yeah! He gave me an advice.
Swara: what advice?
Sanskar: that I should marry you.
Swara: (shouting) what? (after a long silence, he heard her sound) could you marry me?
Sanskar: (now, the turn for shocking news was of Sanskar) what? Are you mad?
Swara: please Sanskar! You don’t know how my dad treats me. I am stuck in this hell. I can’t marry Sparsh. He does not even know abc of religion. He doesn’t even believes in God.
Sanskar: and you think that I am a saint?
Swara: no! I know you already. But please! This will be only a paper marriage. My dad is marrying me tomorrow and I cannot take any risk. Please Sanskar! Once I am free from that hell, we will apply for divorce.
Sanskar: ok, but how will I marry you. Your dad has locked you in the room. Am I right?
Swara: yeah! But my presence is not necessary. It’s a court marriage so you can arrange a lawyer and send me the papers to sign through Niggi. You can take help from your friends in this matter.
Sanskar: and how do you know that my friends will help me.
Swara: they are involved in these types of works. Bhai was telling me that your company is not good and they are involved in these types of works.
Sanskar: (angrily) what type of works?
Swara: you know already Sanskar!
Sanskar: (in mind) and here I was thinking of spending my life with her. She does not consider me good even if I cut my head and keep it on her feet. This will be only a paper marriage, nothing else! Good job Sanskar DP! She showed you your place in her life. Every girl would be ready to accept me as life partner except the girl I love. (to Swara) ok fine! I will talk to my friends.
Swara: thank you so very much. And please don’t tell your name to the lawyer else my family would reach you and you will be trapped. I do not want it. You can take any supposed name and don’t talk directly to the lawyer.
Sanskar: bye! Take care. (He cuts the call and calls his friend and arranges the lawyer. After some time, at night, he was sitting in his room as Swara’s groom. Their paper marriage was done and Sanskar gave the papers to Saabira and asked her to give it to Swara and have her signatures and then take it back to him. Swara signed the papers in a hurry. She was thinking about her life. She never thought that she will marry someone whom she hates the most. But now it was done. She was the wife of Sanskar.