Hi friends, here is the next chapter.This is kind of a summary about how ishanya changed O’bros’. Hope you enjoy reading.
Chapter-44
Introspection
O’bros’ are in the lobby outside of the Ishanya’s room. The doctor who came to check Ishanya came out of the room. They all looked at the doctor to know the condition of Ishanya.
“She is stable, but is still unconscious due to the effect of medicines.” The doctor said to them.
“By the way, I have told the management to arrange a special room for you to stay as you can’t stay with the patient in the personal ICU.” He said.
“Room, for us?!” Omkara asked.
“Yeah, for how much time will you sit in the lobby?” The doctor asked.
Shivaay just nodded at the doctor and he left. He looked at OmRu and said, “As you guys don’t want to go home take some rest in the room, I will be here.”
“Why bhaiyya? Only you get to stay with slapping fairy? I too want to be here.”Rudra said to him.
“I am not staying with Ishanya Rudra, I am staying outside of her room.” Shivaay answered.
“Still you are going to stay near her and get the updates of her, right. If we want to be away from her we should have gone home only!! I am not going to leave from here till I see Ishanya conscious.” Omkara said with finality in his voice.
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Me too.” Rudra said.
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Ok then, let’s stay here only.” Shivaay said agreeing to them and sat there in one of the chairs.
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Anyway, where did you guys left before?” Omkara asked them.
ShivRu looked at each other and Shivaay nodded at Rudra denying telling anything to Omkara. He noticed it and asked, “Please don’t hide anything from me, and I want to know what you guys did with those bastards.”
Shivaay took a deep breath and said, “We have gone with the plan Ishanya made.”
“We have made the lady who was going to fire on me believe that kapoors had put all the blame on herself and we even showed her the proofs which says that her husband not committed suicide during maha arti but it was a murder made by kapoors.” Shivaay said.
“Then she gave her statement to police and revealed every plan of them. So, we didn’t get much to do, as police did everything by filing all the cases possible and by arresting them.” Rudra said.
“But how did you got know that the man was murdered during maha arti and that it is kapoors?” Omkara asked.
“The credit goes to yadav Ishanya’s informer and our Rudra.” Shivaay said surprising Omkara while Rudra looked down feeling shy.
“Rudra? How?” Omkara exclaimed looking at him.
“Rudra and yadav only went after all those clues and got proofs about it.” Shivaay said feeling proud at his brother.
“Really, Rudra. You have grown up now, it calls for a moment.” Omkara said and opened his arms.
The trio hugged and Rudra said, “It is all because of slapping fairy she made me do all this. She made me realize my inner strength and that I can help people with it.”
ShivOm looked at him in pain as he let his tears fell from his eyes.
“Arey, just now we have complimented him for being grown up and here he starts showing his childishness.” Omkara said and Rudra whined “O!!”
“yes, he is absolutely right, look at you cry baby!!” Shivaay too pulled his leg.
“Ah!! You guys always make fun of me!!” Rudra whined.
“Ok, Ok, cry baby. Don’t cry. We won’t pull your leg.” Omkara said trying to laugh.
“O, stop trying. I know you are also very upset.” Rudra said looking at him.
“But he is trying to cheer up us, which is very new. What brought this change in you Omkara?” Shivaay asked.
Omkara stayed silent without saying anything. “Slapping fairy!” Rudra said while ShivOm looked at him being surprised.
“Yes, bhaiyya. It is slapping fairy’s magic.” Rudra said and looked at them and continued saying, “Me, who doesn’t have any motive in life has now got a motive to live my life.”
“And O, who can’t tolerate lies and used to punish himself for the other’s lies has now developed tolerance to lies.”
“Bhaiyya, you, who don’t think anything else apart from us and business not even about you, have stated to think about you and also thinking beyond business.”
“It is all slapping fairy’s magic.” He said to them making them surprised.
‘He was completely right. It is all her magic that they have changed for good.’ They thought to themselves.
They spent the whole night in the lobby trying to absorb the new realization brought by Rudra.
Shivaay is trying to understand the changes which got recently imbibed in him. ‘Rudra is so correct, Ishanya brought changes in me.’
‘She not only changed my perspective towards the priority of my life and business, she changed my prospective towards women in general too.’
‘I used to think women as mere but she made me realize how much strength a women possesses and what all a women can do if she got determined.’
‘It is her magic that I got able to realize that I can prove myself with my hard work not on the name of my kaandan.’ Shivaay thought to himself.
Omkara too was lost in the thoughts of Ishanya and how she affected him and his mentality. He can hear her voice saying, “Listen, Mr. Truthful . It is completely fine to lie sometimes. And truth is really very precious. It doesn’t worth everyone.”
“Ask your heart, it will tell you who deserves.”
He remembered the first time he lied which is to Rudra’s friend about the Rudra getting fired incident as she made him realize that not everyone need to know everything.
“In my view, morals are nothing but feeling of doing right. And about knowing what is right you yourself will know it no one can guide you in this because what is wrong for me can be right for you, it’s just about perspective.”
He remembered her words about the other side of the lie making him realize that the other side can be right too.
“Because they are feelings, emotions, Omkara. They aren’t in anyone’s hands. They just happen then why blame anyone?”
He remembered how she made him accept feelings as feelings not right or wrong.
‘You made me realize that this world is full of colours not black and white, but I failed to see that your life also don’t contain colours even after I got so many hints from you.
He remembered the first time when he walked with her to her house and then allowing her to drive his car on the rainy night, her getting lost on the party night and her words about the daang of the moon on party night.
“Iss daang ka hi toh hai dard
Jab chamak pe laga hai daang
Kaisa chamak? Kaisi Khubsurati?
Sirf dard, sirf dard.”
That time he hadn’t understood her words but he can now. He can understand how she got stained.
He remembered how she rejected him to message or even talk to him which was after the panic attack she got, he knew it now as Shivaay was telling to the doctor about him noticing her panic attack for the first time.
He remembered her words asking him to leave when he got to know that she was hospitalized because of panic attack, from which Shivaay and her friendship started it means something had happened that compelled her to make her insecurities out accepting Shivaay as her friend and he must have done something, help her in something.
“I need some time to trust you.”
He remembered her hesitation in trusting him.
“It was not about you Omkara, I remembered something which made me upset and sad.”
He remembered her words when he enquired about it, later on their lunch date.
“It’s complicated to name , right? Then why don’t you leave it like this unanswered, unnamed, when we are happy with this! Like this we don’t keep any expectations on each other and won’t get hurt.”
He remembered her hesitation in naming their relation, he got to know that it was insecurity now.
“I too think of you as my friend from now onwards Omkara. Thanks for doing what you did for me. You earned more respect from me today.”
He remembered her words after the fight with police. ‘she thought of me as a friend only after I fought for her respect with that police.’ He thought to himself.
He remembered her reluctance to talk to media even after her image was being tarnished. He remembered that she helped ex-pr*stitutes to get a life of their own.
He remembered the recent panic attack she got in their farm house. He remembered how she was pleading him to not touch just like today. And that day dushyant came to their farm house to pick tia. He is the reason of her condition today. So, he might be the reason for her panic attack in farm house too. He thought to himself.
He now understands her pain. He now guessed the reason of her pains.
‘She might have got raped by dushyant. Every clue is pointing to this only!!’ He thought and let the tears flow from his eyes freely this time.
‘I am so sorry, Ishanya. Your wound was in open and I couldn’t see it. The reason of your pain was infront of me and I couldn’t realize it and got busy in my own world to solve my own feelings and ignored yours which were more important.’
“Because they are simple. It’s us who complicate things.”
He remembered her words and thought,
‘I am so sorry, I couldn’t be a good friend to you as the lover in me woke up. But now, I promise to myself that I won’t let the lover in me crowd my senses again and not let it come between our friendship. I will be a good friend to you by helping you deal with your pains.’ He promised himself.