Shabhana's POV

"Mujeh Shalini se milna hai (I want to meet Shalini)"

These lines kept on ringing in my head even after I hung up the phone.

"Kya hua Shabhana koi problem hai? (What happened Shabhana is there a problem?)" Sahil asked.

"Koi hai jo Ishaan aur Nazneen ke baarein main humeh information dena caahthe hai, lekin woh Shalini se milne ki demand kar rahe hai (There is someone who wants to give us information about Ishaan and Nazneen but they are demanding to meet with Shalini)" I said looking at him.

"Dekho Shalini ne kahan hai woh help karengi hamari aur hum dono hai na uski safety ka khayal rakhne ke liye yeh good news hai Shabhana (Look Shalini has agreed to help us and we both are here to take care of her safety this is good news Shabhana)" Sahil said.

"Tum log jahan bhi jaaoge main bhi chaloonga tumhare saat (Wherever you go I am coming with you)" Ayan who was still there said.

"Abey chuthiye tum abhi thak yahan pe kya kar raha hai? (You idiot what are you still doing here?)"

"Shabhana teek hai na lekar chalthe hai isse warna yeh peeche peeche aa hi jaayenga hamare iss tharah hum nazar toh rakh paayenge ispe (Shabhana it's fine let's take him he is going to follow us anyway at least this way we could keep an eye on him)" Sahil said.

I shook my head giving up.

***

Mumbai

Sahil's POV

"Tum sure ho na ki yeh wahi jaghan hai na jiske baarein main usne kahan tha? (Are you sure that this is the same place that the person told us about?)"

"Haan Ishaan theater kartha hai yahan aaj raat uski performance hai yahan pe (Yes Ishaan dose his theater here, he is performing here tonight)"

"Woh perform kaise kar saktha hai usko patha nehi hai kya ki hum log usko doond rahe hai? (How can he perform don't he know that we are looking for him?)"

"Shayad nehi (Maybe not)"

The curtains opened and as expected he was on the stage performing, we sat through the play and kept an eye on him throughout as we waited for backup to get there and as soon as we were ready to go, me and Shabhana went to the backstage, there was a crowd there so I and Shabhana split up, after a while I spotted Ishaan through the crowd. He was talking to a women I was trying to get to them but couldn't I saw him take her hand and walk away.

***

Ishaan's POV

She pressed me against the wall and started kissing me, I held onto her and kissed her back, it was not very unusual for me to be making out with a random stranger I just met but today something felt off. It felt like it was wrong, and that's when I got a wave of familiar feeling and through the corner of my eye I saw something or rather someone who I have been looking for.......I stopped abruptly and pushed the girl slightly away from to look at my side but there was no one there.

"Kya hua? Everything okay? (What happened? Everything okay?)" She asked.

"I am sorry mujeh jaana padega (I am sorry I have to go)" I said.

"Wait what?"

She said even as I rushed away from there I looked here and there desperate to find what I was looking for but tough luck there was no one there maybe I was imagining stuff again but that's when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I turned around hopefully but it was not her......to my surprise it was Shabhana and she did not look happy.

"Tumeh kya laga ki tu mujeh aise hi chunna lagakar nikal jaayega aur main tumeh jaane doongi? (What did you think that you will fool all of us and just leave and I won't come looking for you?)"

"Kya? (What?)"

"Ishaan you are under arrest"

Sahil said coming from behind. I looked at them confused as they took me with them. I had no idea what was going on. But my eyes still kept looking here and there because in my heart I knew she was close by.

***

Nazneen's POV

I watched them take Ishaan from behind a wall, if I wasn't too busy hiding from Ishaan maybe it would have been me who got arrested. I mentally kicked myself for not being able to do anything if Shabhana finds out what I had done it will ruin everything, I saw his turn around towards my direction and all I could do was stay hidden.....

***

Shabhana's POV

"I love you se bhi zyaada saste aur chutiye shabt konsa hai patha hai? Who haar ek word jo there mooh se nikala hai (Do you know which words are more cheap and stupid than I lobe you? Every single word that came out of your mouth)"

I said leaning over the table as Ishaan looked at me clueless.

"Kya plan banaya tha na tum logon ne maan gayi main, ek tooty-fruity love story sunakar sabko distract karo aur peet peeche murder karao, drama mask, theater artist connection toh already ban rahe hai boss abb tumeh decide karna hai ki tum seede confess karoge ya mujse aur mehanat karayega (What a plan did you make bravo, first of all distract everyone with a tooty-fruity love story and then make people commit murders using that distraction, with the drama mask, theater actor the connections are already there now its up to you weather you will confess or make us do more hard work)"

"Aap kehnana kya caahthi hai ki main murderer hoon? Mujpe aur Naaz par attack hua tha hum victims the yeh kya bol rahe ho tum log? (Are you trying to say that I am a murderer? I and Naaz were attacked we were victims what are you even saying?)"

"Abey iski toh....... (Damn him.....)"

I said and tried and almost leaned into smack his pretty face on the table but Sahil heald me back.

"Shabhana we talked about this, tum logon ko nehi maar sakthi interrogation ki beech (Shabhana we talked about this, you cant hit people in between interrogations)" Sahil said.

"Toh tu hi sach ugalwale isse (So you only make him tell the truth)"

"Teek hai main baat kartha hoon (Okay I will talk to him)"

Sahil said sitting down infront of Ishaan.

"Dekho Ishaan humeh patha hai tumne humse jhoot bola tha, naa hi tum writer ho aur naa hi Naaz tumhari girlfriend tumhari magethar se baat karke aa rahe hai hum toh abb bina koi bhi naatak kiye sach bathado humko (Look Ishaan we know that you are not a poet and neither is Naaz your girlfriend we have talked to your fiancé before coming here now without doing any drama tell us the truth)"

"Yeh sach hai ki Naaz meri girlfriend nehi thi, haan main thoda sa charecter main guss kar jhoot bol diya ki main poet hoon leking iska mathlab yeh toh nehi hai na ki tum murder case daal do mere saar pe (Yes it's true that Naaz is not my girlfriend and yes I got into the character and said I was a poet but that doesn't mean that you will accuse me of murder)"

"Lekin tumne jhoot bola kyu? (But why did you lie?)" Sahil asked.

"Naaz ne mujeh hire kiya tha uska boyfriend hone ka natak karne ke liye, woh ghar chodkar jaana caahthi thi baahar padayi karne ke liye leki uski ghar waale uski shaadi karaa rahe the uski marzi ki khilaf, toh shaadi toodwane ke liye kiya tha yeh sab hum donon ne humeh thodi patha tha ki yeh baat ithne baad jaayegi (Naaz had hired me to pretend to be her boyfriend she wanted to leave home to study but her parents was trying to get her married against her will so we did this drama to break the wedding but we didn't know that things will get this complicated)"

"Tumeh idea bhi hai tumne kya kiya hai ek ongoing murder investigation ki dhorahn leading investigating officers se curtail deatails ke baarein main jhoot bolkar investigation ko compromise karne ki koshish kiya hai (Do you have any idea what you have done you lied to the leading investigating officers about curtail information related to an ongoing murder investigation and tried to compromise the investigation)"

"Maine koi information compromise nehi kiya hai infact aghar main aapse yeh jhoot nehi boltha ki Naaz meri girlfriend hai toh aap shayad uss case ko seriously nehi lethe aap dono se pehele maine batha lagaya tha ki Julie murderer hai tum logon ko uska location bhi issliye patha chala kyui usne meri saar pe maara tha aur mera aawaz sunke neeche se kissi ne tum logon ko inform kiya tha aur aghar aap dono ko yeh nehi patha hotha ki woh Naaz ki behan hai toh tum log kabhi usko pakad hi nehi paathe (I didn't compromise any information if I hadn't lied to you about Naaz being my girlfriend you wouldn't even have taken the case seriously, even before you guys I found out that Julie was the murderer the only reason you got to know her location is because she hit me on the head and after hearing my voice someone from downstairs called you and if you guys wouldn't have known that Julie was Naaz's sister then you would never have caught her)"

"Wahi toh problem hai Ishaan, Julie Naaz ki behan hai hi nehi (That's the problem Ishaan, Julie is not Naaz's sister)"

"Kya baat kar rahe ho tum log? (What are you talking about?)"

"Hum uske ghar gaye the jahan hum log uski asli behan se mile jiska actually uski husband ne rape kiya tha Naaz ne uski story ko Julie ki story banakar humko sunaya tha unke parents ne bathaya humko ki Julie uski beti nehi thi (We went to her house where we met her real sister who was in fact raped by her husband Naaz told us her story as Julie's and her parents told us that Julie was not their daughter)" Sahil said.

"Maine pehele din se aap logon ko yahi bol rahe the ki uski gharwaale Julie ko unke beti nehi maanthe mujeh nehi laghta ki jo uski doosri behan ke saat hua uska iss baat se koi lena dena hai (I am telling you from day one that they don't consider Julie their daughter I don't think what happened with her other sister has anything to do with all this)"

That's when Sahil got a text on his phone and I know what exactly it was so I signaled him to leave.

***

Zaira's POV

I stood at the police station nervously, I was at my job when I got a call saying that they had found Ishaan I wasn't sure what was going to happen next while I was trying to control my anxious self Inspector Sahil walked out of a room and walked up to me.

"Hello Zaira thanks for coming" He said.

"Sir aapne mujeh yahan kyu bulaya hai? (Sir why did you call me here?)" I asked nervously.

"Hum log Ishaan ka statement le rahe hai bas uska statements verify karwana tha aapse please chaliye mere saat (We are taking Ishaan's statement we need you to verify it for us please come with me)"

He said and I followed him into a room with many computers and I could see Ishaan in one of the screens he made me sit in front of it and made me listen to him speak.

"Tum Zaira se kahan mile the? (Where did you meet Zaira?)"

"Hum dono ek competition mein mile the (Actually we met during a competition)"

"Beauty pageant?"

"Haan"

"Tum wahan kya kar rahe the? (What where you doing there?)"

"Main apne girlfriend se milne aaya tha (I went there to meet my girlfriend)"

"Abey kahan kahan kaatha khol rakhan hai tumne? Yeh konsi ladki hai abb? (oh god how many girls are in your life? Now which girl is this?)" Shabhana asked.

"Meri uss time ki girlfriend thi abhi ex hai, jeetha tha usne competition issliye aaye tha main usse milne (She was my girlfriend back then she is my ex now she had won the competition that's why I came to meet her)"

Sahil looked at me wondering weather I knew about it, I shook my head indicating a yes. I remember that day just like yesterday.

_Flashback_

"Yeh sahi hai bahi saal bhar mehanat hum log kareein aur haar saal iski tharah koi na koi aakar jeethkar chale jaathe hai (This is just great man we are the one who works hard all year long and someone like her always soops in and wins)"

My friend was complaining as she looked at the winner of this year I however wasn't listening to her as I was busy staring at the hot guy who just walked in.

"Chod na ithna bhi kya jelous ho rahi hai tu (Leave it na why are you getting so jealous now)" Naaaz said.

"Zaira tu kisko taad rahi hai? (Zaira who are you staring at?)" Someone asked.

"Isko peheli baar dekh rahi hoon yahan pe, patha nehi kaun hai (I am seeing him for the first time here, don't know who is it)" I said.

"Accha....ruko main patha lagakar aati hoon (Oh really......wait I will find out and come back)"

Naaz said as she chugged down her drink and walked up to him, they exchanged pleasantries as we watched from a distance after their quick conversation Naaz returned to us.

"Uske liye aaya hai, tumhara toh chance hi nehi hai uske saat sorry babe (He came here for her, you don't have a shot with him sorry babe)"

Naaz said pointing at the winner of the evening as I watched him hug her and kiss her on the cheek looking clearly pissed off.

_Flashback ends_

"Tumeh sachme laghta hai ki Naaz innocent hai? Usne tumeh hire kiya tha uski boyfriend hone ki naatak karne ke liye kuch galat nehi laga tumen? (Do you really think Naaz is innocent? She asked you to pretend to be her boyfriend you didn't feel something was wrong there?)"

Shabhana's voice bought me back to reality. I watched Ishaan's expression change as Shabhana had clearly asked a tough question. But he didn't had to answer it as guy barged in and held Ishaan by the collar.

"Ayan tum yahan kya kar rahe ho nikalo yahan se (Ayaan what are you doing here get out)" Shabhana shouted.

"Iske wajah se Kavya jail mein hai abhi, tumeh patha bhi hai ki pregnant hai woh mera hone waala baccha already jail mein hai tumhari wajah se (It's because of him Kavya is in Jail right now, do you even know that she is pregnant because of you my un born child is already in jail, all because of you)" He screamed at Ishaan.

"Excuse me maine kuch galat nehi kiya hai okay, aur tum kon hothe ho mujeh blame karne wala jabki tumhare wajah se ek innocent ladki hospital mein hai abhi (Excuse me, I have did nothing wrong okay, and who are you to blame me when because of you a innocent girl is in the hospital bed)"

Ishaan said as he pulled himself out of Ayan's grasp.

"Baat ko taalo mat, tumhen kyu uski ithni figar ho rahi hai? (Don't change the subject, why are you so worried about her?)"

"Kyuki behan hai woh meri (Because she is my sister)"

Ishaan shouted, there was an ominous silence in the room as everyone looked shocked.