SUNDAY
“mother!!!….”girls screamed and hug her.
“i am not talking to you all…”mother said and break hug.girls giggled and pulls her cheek.
“you look so cute when you are angry….’ragini said while giggling.
“i missed you so much…”kavita said and hugged mother tightly.mother caressed her head and kissed on her head.
“we are also here…”trio said in twitched nose.mother kissed them one by one.
“go get fresh….i will arrange breakfast.”mother said with love.girls nodded and left.
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“i am going to sleep whole day…”kavita said and fell down on bed with thud,beside kavya.
“swara i never thought i will say this to you….but i missed sleeping with you like this.”ragini said ang hugged swara tightly.
“ragini!!!…”swara screamed and push her back,turns to other side and close her eyes.ragini also pulls cover on herself.
AFTER SOME TIME
Swara changes her side being frustrated and tried to sleep.Then change position and starts staring at roof.
“f**k!!!…’swara muttered,stepped down from bed and went out.she stands beside window and keeps head on its edge.
“what’s wrong….”Swara turns and looks at kavita.
“nothing….”swara said in composed tone.kavita crossed her arms and stands beside her.after some time ragini and kavya were also standing beside them.
“i am not getting sleep…”kavita spoke sadly.
“me also…’ragini said in frustrated voice.kavya sighed in audible voice.
“let’s have a match….it will divert our mind from them.”ragini said and girls looks at her.
“i am not missing him…’kavita said firmly.ragini looks at her dryly then puts arm around her neck and drags her out.
“am i missing him?..”kavya whispered to herself.then shakes her head and walks after them.
“swara…are you coming?”kavya asked,turning at door.swara shakes her head and moves her gaze toward window.
FLASHBACK
“you came back?…”sanskar asked,laying against door.
“i forgot keys…”swara said and open drawer and takes out keys and walks back.sanskar keeps hand on door,blocking her path.
“it was my idea but now i am regretting it…”sanskar said in regretful voice.
“let me go….”swara said angrily.
“that’s the problem…i can’t”sanskar said,moving close to her.swara takes one step back but sanskar holds her from waist.
“will you miss me?…”sanskar asked while his breaths were fanning her face.
“No…”swara said in firm voice and struggled to come out from his grip.
“but i will miss you a lot…”sanskar said in deep voice and plant a feathery kiss on her forehead.goosebumps raised on her skin.
“try to miss me a little….”sanskar whispered softly,turned and left.
FLASHBACK ENDS
“jerk!!!!…”swara said in furious voice and rubbed her forehead and went outside to join game.
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“lakshaya where are you going?”sanskar asked in strict voice,seeing him walking toward door.
“bhai actually…vo…i”lucky stammered nervously.sahil and karan giggled.
‘you will not meet ragini today….give them their space”sanskar said in same tone,not diverting eyes from news paper.
“bhai you don’t understand….that little progress i had made in these two weeks,she will forget that.”lucky said worriedlykaran and sahil laughed lightly,sanskar also smiles a little.
“lakshah…bhai is right.they need their space.and who knows they may miss us like we are doing”sahil said in light tone.
“mthat red chilly will never miss me….only i am getting thin”lucky said in dramatic tone.
“i agree with lucky…’karan said while making face.
“today i miss dad…if he had alive,i would have get married till now but bhai don’t even let me go to see her”luckly said doing full drama.sanskar chuckles at his dramatic nature.
“okay go….”
“i love you bhai…’lucky said and walk toward door,whistling a romantic tone.
ORPHANAGE
“ragini…..arjun came to meet you”mother said loudly and girls stopped playing.ragini closed her eyes and walks out.kavya tried to go after her but swara stopped her.
‘don’t become her walking stick…let her learn to deal things herself”swara said in her usual composed tone.kavya sighed and nodded.
“what?…”ragini asked in angry voice after standing with crossed arm.man turns and throw news paper in her feet.
“why are you ruining our respect and name….wasn’t that enough which your mother did”arjun said angrily.he was in his twenties.
“your so called respect…..”ragini said in hatred filled voice while picking newspaper from ground.Someone has write something about her and a small picture.ragini smiles seeing that.
“characterless mother….characterless daughter”arjun said in furious voice.ragini looks at him angrily.
“what you think about my mamu jaan when he spends his nights at his mistress home.”ragini said in mocking tone.arjun raise his hand to slap her but swara holds his hand and kneed him.he flinched away and groaned.
“let’s go…..”swara said,holding ragini from shoulder and take her inside.
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“dad she is crossing her limits…..today i will teach her a good lesson.”arjun said on mobile and cut the call before listening anything.he turns back when lucky pats his shoulder and gets hard punch on face and falls down.Arjun wipes blood from corner of lips and looks at him.
“get up….”lucky said in controlled tone.
“who are you?…”arjun said angrily,stands in front of lucky and grabs his collar.lucky frees his collar with jerk and twist his arm in painful grip.
“how you know ragini?…”lucky asked through gritted teeth.
“that charct….”
He was not able to complete because lucky twist his arm at that extent that one little force could break it.
“maasi’s daughter….”arjun said with red face,controlling pain.
“she is elder than you then what should you call her?….”lucky said in same tone as previous.
“didi!…”
“better…”lucky said and left his arm.arjun holds his arm with other hand and looks at him with wide eyes.lucky looks at him deeply.he was just stupid immature kid with warm blood.
“she is your didi and i am your jiju…..”lucky said,coming back to his dramatic mood.Arjun cursed at him in his mind.
“because of men like you….i am facing so much problems in my love life”lucky said,shaking his head a little,puts arm around his neck and make him walk with him.
“my brother is in police….if i saw you near her again then you will spend your whole life behind bars”
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NIGHT
“drinking is a sin…’kavita said ,glaring at girls.they make face,cheers and drink it in one gulp.
“i will tell mother…’kavita said in threatening voice.
“kavya you know…i am feeling to kill someone from long time.”ragini said,looking at kavita.
“my favorite song…..i am going for dance…:kavita said quickly and went toward dancing floor.kavya and ragini laughed.swara smiles and shakes her head.they pick up another shot and gulped it down.
“i didn’t tell mother about it then my name is kavita.”kavita said while making face.She release a deep breath,closes her eyes and starts enjoying.humming song and waving with it.suddenly she felt someone’s warm breaths on her shoulder.someone was really close to her.
she quickly turns and steps back seeing sahil but he restrained her from going back by holding her hands.he keeps her hand on his shoulders and keeps his hands on her waist.
“you are looking beautiful…”sahil whispered in her ear slowly.kavita could not help blushing.they were dancing slowly,standing so close that it seemed they were hugging.
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swara looks at group of girls.they were looking at her with strange eyes.swara rolls her eyes,she understands that look.she was in her usual cloths.Loose t-shirt and lenhanga with bangles in both hands.ragini was in her sports cloths and kavya in shalwar kameez.kavita was in short dress.
“i am also going…kavya?”ragini asked from kavya.she shakes her head but ragini drags her with her.swara picks up another but sanskar snatches it.
“i don’t like it…’sanskar said in serious tone.
“what is he doing here?.and who the hell is he to order her.”swara thought and snatched her shot back.
“that’s your problem not mine.”swara said and gulped the drink down her throat.
“one more please…”swara said avoiding sanskar completely.sanskar rubbed his temple,she is testing his patience.
‘i don’t like drinking…its injurious to health”sanskar said through gritted teeth,moving his face close to her.swara rolls her eyes at that.he slid his hand around her waist and pulls close.swara strikes with his chest.
“what the hell!….you can’t pull me like this”swara shouted but it was hardly audible because of loud sound.
“you don’t care about your health but i care…..”sanskar said in his usual soft,composed voice.sanskar stares at her eyes as he was reading her from inside.they share a eyelock.swara avert her eyes from him quickly,suddenly afraid of something.
“stay away from me…”swara said in low voice,pushed him back and leaves.sanskar was going after her but suddenly there was sound of fighting.sanskar sighed went toward voice.
“karan!…’sanskar muttered in shocked voice and went their quickly.karan was beating the hell out of a man.sanskar pull him out from fight and looks at him angrily.karan slows down seeing him but looks at man angrily,who was bleeding.sahil came there quickly.
“sorry bhai!…”karan said in low voice,looked at kavya for a second then turned left.sahil goes after him.
“you three come with me….”sanskar said to girls in serious tone.kavya just followed him silent.ragini and kavita cursed him and went after kavya.
“why he looked at me like that?”kavya was thinking while going out from club.
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“you beat someone”lucky said in full dramatic tone.
“what was that karan…i can expect such things from lucky but not from you”sanskar said in serious tone,not expecting him being so violent.
“bhai!…why are you dragging me in between.i am very peace loving person”lucky said in shocked voice(drama).
“peace loving..’ragini mimics him in low voice.which only kavita heard.
“bhai i want to open a club…only for girls…no men”karan said while muttering some curses.girls looks at him with open mouths.brothers laughed at his cuteness.
“bhai! we will continue this later…now its time for our tradition.karan beats someone first time”lucky said excitedly.sanskar holds his head.girls were looking at him confusingly.lucky switch off lights and give candles to everyone.
“five minute silence…in honour of my little brother”lucky said.
“queens please step down from there and sit on grounds.”sahil said,seeing them sitting on couch.girls look at each other and sit on floor.
‘what is this?”ragini whispered in lucky’s ear
“its our tradition to keep silence if something shocking happens..”lucky said loudly.
“this would have been your idea..”ragini whispered again.
“how do you know?”lucky whispered back.
kavita and kavya puts hand on mouth to hide smile and swara was blinking at candle rapidly.sanskar smiles seeing her.
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