Chapter 35 : Pavizha Mazha

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A strong auroma of Bru coffee filled his nostrils, as soon as he entered the hall with his drowsy half closed eyes.... Like a lost iron chunk getting pulled towards its magnetic soulmate, he forwarded his baby steps following the fragrance...


A Beautiful milky sky with few lines of dark curled clouds floating on the surface.... half Moon was still there, streched towards the peak...
That's what caught his sight... She was standing there, resembling to a mesmerising view of nature.... He can see reflection of sky on her face with her hairs playing hide and seek around... Her lips were smiling as if someone secretly ticklled her....

Colliding with his Sunshine, sleep turned away from him...
He stood right behind her, feeling her presence.... Simply breathing in the fact, she is right infront of him.... All that wasn't his dream....
Her hairs recognised him and instantly traced his facial features, asking him to stand in a different angle...

And like a obedient kid he followed their order.....changing his position, he stood parallel to her....to tell he is already woken up from his sleeping session....

The next second,
A cup came crawling to his fingers... She didn't even turn to face him, simply sipping her drink...
He took a sip... without uttering a word, and observed the hotness of the coffee, to conclude it was just made for him...
May be she had seen him opening his eyes...
A smile unknowingly visited his lips, brightening up walls of his heart with peace..

Both cups turned empty.... And without questioning she smoothly tried to get hold of his mug as well...

He tightly held the other end, forcing her to look into his eyes and she did listened to him... It's her new found favourite subject to learn where his emotions lays.... And she is almost on the path of mastering it....

They had a eyelock, as if trying to learn what's going on in other's heart....

Rajveer - " Naina...."
He called her name grabbing her attension. And she raised her eyebrows, humming in return....

Rajveer - " Woh....
Kuch bologi nahi???...."
He asked expecting a set of questionnaire from her...

Last night, was emotional for both of them... He poured out all his compressed feelings, and slept peacefully after receiving assurance from her that she wasn't going to leave him alone...
She is with him now.... Forever may be!!!
His heavy head and a content heart forced him to give them few long hours of rest...
And she allowed him to have his own time...
But now, he wanna know if he missed something...

Naina - " Sam ka call aaya tha... We missed their Roka.. lunch ke liye bol rahi thi woh...
Aap chalenge???..."
She asked softly, properly looking at his messed up state, this time....

Rajveer instantly uttered,
" Sure...
Bus Naveen ko ek call karlu, main..."

Scratching his head, he added the last line...
He must need time to submit details of all the happenings to his yaar... then only He will feel light....

Naina - " Nahi nahi... "
She held his arm, earning a look from him,

" It's already 11.30... Hum late ho jaayenge..."
She suggested him pointing at the clock...

Rajveer slapped his head comically like a kid, who missed his school bus,
" I over slept.."
He murmured...

Naina - " But you look fresh..."
She admired his gleaming eyes...and stepped out...leaving a confused Rajveer behind, in the middle of timelines....

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After 40 minutes...

He came out the loo, wiping his over grown hairs, wearing jeans and a singlet... His clothes were still in the jeep... He left them in hurry... yesterday night...

Now he was stuck not having proper clothes to enter the traditional ceremony...
He searched for his phone to call the Watchman....

Naina - " Maine aapki kapde ander rakhdii he... We are getting late...
Jaldii ready ho jaayiye... Please...."
A voice came from dressing room...and he heard some tinkling sound of bangles...

He smiled at her despirate voice.. but he can't help.his typical habbit of spending time in bathroom... Standing under the hot water and washing away all dirt along with the worries, had it's own perks...

He hurried towards the room and found a pair of Indian attire... That cloth of light orange color, was reminding him of something.....

He brushed them slowly to inhale a familiar scent which was away from him for few months.... A gang of flashes from his past attacked his brain, displaying how Ananya was adamant to make him wear this one... She recited a whole day that he would look really cute wearing them and at end groomed him up like a Handsome King on their Ethnic Day....
He grinned hard recalling how they ended up making out in KKN's editing room, hiding themselves from tbe whole crew....
Then a dark shadow of emptiness wrapped his heart, mixing up his miseries....

Naina who was out by now, saw him holding those clothes,
" Ise Maine aapke almari se nikal li.. "
She whispered observing his expression whether it will turn to painful or offensive... But she read the blankness written on it....

Rajveer - " Lekin..."
He blabberred not knowing what to say....

Naina - " Woh Watchman Kaka aaye the subhah aapke bag lekar... Shayad aapne bahar chod diya tha aur baarish ke wajah se....."
She looked at the wall, then at his face and followed his hands which were protectively holding the attire...

Rajveer - " Yeh toh Anu... "
He tried to convey those delicate things to her...and volunteerly his eyes brimmed shaking Naina's strong courage a bit...

She cannot let him drown in a ocean of pain...

Naina immediately held his hand, and sat on her knees,
" Rajveer... Idhar dekhiyee...."

He looked at her holding his lifesaver....

" Yaadonka pitara jitne hum dafan karne ke koshish karte he, woh utna hi gehra ghav humare dil mein chod deta he...

Yaadein achchein ho yaa bure, woh toh humare hi zindagi ki hissa he na... Hum aaj joh bhi he humare Kal ke wajah se he...
Toh usko kyun khudse chupana... Bhulana..."

Rajveer - " Tum bhi jaanti ho Naina, yaadein insaan ko tabah bhi kardeta he.."

Naina - " Agar woh khoobsoorat ho tab bhi aap yahi kahenge??

Yaad kijiye Rajveer,
Aap hi ne kaha tha mujhse ki, Ananya aapke liye bahot anmol he... Unse judi yaadein yakeenan aapke chehre pe muskaan hii laayenge...nahh ki ghutan.... "

Rajveer - " Naina main...."
He resisted walking on the path she is insisting him to give a try....

Naina - " Main bahar hi khadi hu... Aap jaldii tayyar hoke aana..."
Without waiting for his reply she flew away stuffing her hand with accessories...

Not having any options, he picked up the hair dryer... closing his eyes, concentrated upon her words....

He didn't want to forget Anu or her memoriea... But those forces him to step inside the house of guilt which is not his home...

Suddenly a strong wind of white powder covered his entire face.... Some of them curiously entered his nose, letting few sneezes escape it...and some kissed his lips, turning it into whitish one....

He opened his eyes, horrified with this sudden attack and witnessed his face completely painted with fairness powder...

Hair dryer was filled with ponds powder, which instantly reached his face as soon as he switched on the button....

A background music of her chuckles reached his ears to explain him the entire sequence... After few seconds of realisation, he too joined her in the fits of laughter, and saw her retreating figure disappearing from the door....

His Naina is back now... It's his turn to step inside her paradise with lots of attention, otherwise she surely gonna make him take part in clown party of life....

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Naina tapped Huda's shoulder from back, shouting loudly,
" Wahhh!!! Aaj toh tu barabar Bhainsonka MahaRaja lag raha...."

Huda - " Phooolaaan....."
He turned to her with a broad smile and hugged her tightly.....

Sameera joined them happily,
" Achcha Hua Naina you came..." then giving a warm hug to her she whispered,

" Warna is Auntiyonke baarat mujhe aaj hi Huda se break up karne majboor kardete..."

Naina - " Hahahaha.... Ristedaar bhi na riste kam aur chugliyaan zyada nibhati he....."
She whispered back....and went to meet Huda's Mummijii....

Huda after having a basic talking with Rajveer, passed him a glass of juice, and took him aside,
" Sir jii, Naveen bhai aapke baarein mein pooch rahe the... Bole aapne subhah se unke calls nahi utaya... "

Rajveer eying at Naina, from afar,
" Main shaam ko karlunga...

Waise Naveen ka bahot man tha yaha aane ka... He is so fond of your family, especially tumhara bhaii... " remembering the name,

" Haana. Yaad aaya... Rajesh...
Rajesh se milwana chahta tha mujhe..."

He said genuinely as he heard several times about Rajesh's bravery acts from Naveen...
Even he heard that how single handedly Rajesh whooshed away porcupines from khets....

Huda proudly, upheld his collar,
" Rajesh... Woh toh yahi he... Naveen bhai nahi he toh kyaa hua... Main hi aapko mila deta hu usase... Chaliyee... "
He walked ahead, and Rajveer with a curiosity followed him...

Reaching exact opposite of food counters, Huda pointed at a tree,
" Woh raha Mera aankhona Taara, Mera Dil ka tukdaa, Mera Veer.... Rajesh.."

Rajveer shrinked his eyes, looking for a well built man, like Tarzan.... That's what Naveen described about Rajesh...
And found none...
" Kaha he???..."

Huda - " Sirji, Wahi toh he Rajesh... Dekhoo, usne mere jaisa Neela kurta bhi pehna he...
Twining Kiye he hum do ne...."
He narrated clearly about Rajesh, happy to have a such a Handsome Brother....

( Just imagine subka pyaara dulhara Rajesh dolled up in a blue shawl and lots of jewellery..)

Rajveer - " Waha toh bhains he...."
He said sighting a buffello there...

Huda - " bhains nahii, Mera Rajesh he woh... Kabhi pyaar se Raaju bhi bulata hu main..."
He called Rajesh with love, and his bhai arrived there within seconds...with noises of anklet tied around his neck....

" Rajesh....Inse miloo...
Yeh he Capt. Rajveer Singh Shekhavat.... Apne Phoolandevi ke Dev.. aur humare badhe bhaiyya, Naveen bhai, ke Veeru..."
He introduced Rajveer...with perfect taglines.....

And Rajesh tried to lick Rajveer's feet to take ashirvad.... Afterall Indian Sanskars are flowing in his blood too....

Rajveer was about to faint, with this sudden revealation And all those stories of Rajesh's bravery got settled in his head... now he got to know why Naveen used to laugh, aftee narrating stories of Huda and Rajesh....

This Bhai and Behan are truly lifelines of Rajveer who had the power to on and off his life with a blink of an eye... Ufffff.......

He felt something wet on his toes and bowed his head.... as soon as his eyes fell on the buffalo, upsss Rajesh, he jumped saving himself and caught Naina's hand, who just arrived there, sensing an interesting scene shooting at the spot....

Huda - " Sirjii... Lagta he aap Rajesh ko phehle nazar mein hi apna sa lage... Warna itna jaldi kisiko apna tha nahi he.... "

He carresses Rajesh's head with care...amd Rajesh reciprocated his feelings.... Even animals expect and express the kind of love humans crave to have for himself.... and Huda may seem to be a little dumb but loved his brothers beyond eternity....

Naina observed Rajveer's shocked face and thought of taking in charge of the situation,
" Bilkul sahi kaha tune... lekin dekh, Rajesh kabse dhoop mein khada he..usko pyaas lagi hogii....usko kuch pilaa khilaa.. Warna dubla ho jaayega..."
She tried to shoo away those two brothers...

Huda - " Yeh toh maine socha hi nahii... Chal Rajesh... Tujhe mein apne haath se desi ghee ka laddu khilata hun..."
He took few steps along with Rajesh and then turned calling Naina,

" Waise Phoolan, aaj tu bilkul patola lag rahi he..."
He winked at end, earning a glare from her... And flew away not wanting to eat garamagarm laatii from her hands....

Rajveer - " Yeh bhi prank tha na, tumhara..."
He asked with hopeful eyes...wishing all this to be her plan to fool him...
May be Huda's brother Rajesh is somewhere else....

Naina playfully looked at him, controlling her laughter at his innocent expression,
" Bhai ko call kardun... Lekin woh toh patrolling pe honge ab...

Ek minute rukiye main Rajesh ko pukaarlungi... Woh firse aajayega toh aap...."

Rajveer gave a look asking her to be serious and slowly believed the reality as he saw Huda serving lunch to bhaiiins...nahh...
Subka pyaara Rajesh...

Rajveer deserved such kind of surprises in life.... And this duo of Bhai behan will make sure he will get them on time....

Naina pursuing her lips, snapped him,
" aap itna soch kyun rahe, aapko Rajesh pasand nahi aaya???..."

Rajveer - " Jab gadha (Naveen) pasand aajaye toh Bhains kyaa chese he..."
His mutters didn't go miss her ears...and then he chuckled how, for the whole one year Naveen made him a Bakra....
He really imagined of a Gym freak Rajesh by Naveen's talks.....

Naina - " Aapne bhai ko Gadha bola??..."
She asked taking her behenly avtar... sending draggers to chop Rajveer into pieces....

Her words brought him to reality, and he fixed her eyes on her, intently staring her from head to toe.... Huda's compliments hit him hard, strongly asking him to agree that she is the angel descended from heaven, only for him....

And with hypnotised eyes he uttered,

" White suits you so well....
Bilkul Parii jaise.... "
He complemented her...and she saw his smile reaching those black round marbles of pupils....

Naina - " Smile.... "
She dragged the word,

" Smile suits you more.... Hasa kijiye... "
She too answered him in his style... happy to see him joyal....

They started casually walking towards fountain away from the crowd... enjoying each other's presence... and their backpalms kept on colliding, making them aware that there is still a long journey left towards their unknown destination...

Suddenly Naina's steps took a halt, as her brain rewinded a particular memory....
" Bilkul pari jaise..."
Next moment, playing another scene where Rajveer was describing about the Angel he met previously who changed the direction of his life...
She started fighting with herself, thinking whether she should ask him or not...
He has given her every right.... But!!!!

Rajveer sensed her unmoved steps,
" Kyaa hua Naina???..."
He asked breaking her trance...

Naina - " Parii..."
She unconsciously spilled the beans...not having any reasons to answer him...

First five seconds confused Rajveer not knowing what exactly she was murmuring and soon his Army brain, took the lead that where her mind got stuck...
Yesterday, he unfolded every secret of his life....showed her every pages of his written life, that he read about himself, still hiding two things from her...

One, in which circumstances he killed his own love... What made him to do so? She didn't asked him the reason and he didn't let her know...

Two, who is that girl? He did mentioned her as an Angel, further disclosing that neither his mother nor his Yaar knww about her... He left that topic untouched...
Somewhere he felt that Naina has the right to know this truth....as she herself was unknowingly involved in this mystery...
He wanted to try his luck another time, as he knew surely one or the other day truth is going to take away it's masks... And may he that day Naina wont forgive him for hiding this truth...

Naina seeing him in plunged in some other world, thought of not making the things complex,
" main toh bhool hi gayi... Woh Col. Dwivedi ka call aaya tha, kisi transfer ke baarein mein bol rahe the woh.... Aap unko dobara call kar lijiye..."

She tried to change the whole topic...

Rajveer blinked his eyes, acknowledging the fact that she is real, and felt him so small infront of her... She is trying to be with the broken him, taking careful steps so that she wont scatter him.more... and look at him, still stuck between the truths and secrets....

He forwarded his right hand asking for her one... and without questioning, she dipped her palm in his, slowly feeling the manly roughness.... He guided her towards him and made her sit beside, on the round edge of the fountain.... Electricity was not connected to it, causing the fountain to look silent, without any movement....

Rajveer - " Samajh nahi aa raha ki shuru kaha se karun... "
He looked into her eyes, and found trust in them....

" Yeh paani dekh rahi ho Naina!!!..."
He asked gauging into the water staying still in the fountain tub... it was mirroring the color of sky...

" Yeh meri zindagi thi... Sub kuch hoke bhi soonapan tha... Lagta tha ki kuch toh he joh meri daastan ko adhoora banaraha....

Fir ek din, maine fizaonse kisike kadamonke nishani ko mere zameen pe paaya.... Ek khushii ki lehar sii utha tha man mein, aisa laga wahii shuruvat he mere sukoon ki... Aur wahi anth he mere har dard ki...... "

His eyes were fixed at the water, glancing at Naina's reflection,
Where as she was still waiting for him to utter the whereabouts of the girl....

Rajveer - " Maine gaur se dekha tha uske chehre ko, Bina palke japke, apne dadkanonko rok ke... Woh khudmein hi ek rangeen duniya thi, maasoomiyat jaise uske ankhonmein basa tha...

Pata hi nahi chala ki kab aur kaise woh main usmein dhalte gaya...."

He lifted her hand, and rhythmically took them into the water, dragging her attention towards the puzzle he was revealing there...

She shifted her gaze from his eyes to the fountain, filled with water, and as she observed before it was of sky blue... It did look beautiful... But his words were digging her mind...

He was quiet by now, giving her time to understand his unsaid secrets... He give her the key to the locker where they were all kept..
And was sure about her intelligent brain...

On the other side, she was intently staring at the water, to catch the clue he left for her...
And all that visible to her is water, sky and her reflection....

His code was in the process of decoding... Her pupils kept on dancing here and there, to pick up the hints one by one...Her heart froze for a moment when her brain finished it's work telling her fiza is the sky and zameen was the water means his life.
At end the one who left the footsteps in his heart was none other than...

Water reflected her blurry picture.....

It's her...

She instantly looked at him... questioning without opening her mouth...

And his eyes were all set to answer her.

Indeed it was her..
That girl was none other than she... herself.

Naina Singh Ahluwaliyaa...

But still, she was unsure... She didn't know about him, until she saw him on Mandap... Few times, she accidentally heard Naveen taking Rajveer's name as " Veeru" but all of them weren't pointing at tje things Rajveer was referring...
There was no door to the path that she would have met him or encouraged him to lead his life happily....

Rajveer understanding her dilemma, thought of disclosing her,
" Father. Michael Anthony.."
He observed how her eyes brightened up automatically with that name....and continued,

" jinse tum mili thi, jisase tum apni choti choti baatein share karti, hastii hasaati, apne dar ko bayan karti, apne kartootein naaz se batati,
woh apne aap mein hi ek bada sa khudgarz tha... tumhe sudharne ki naam leke tum mein khudke liye panah dhoond raha tha....

Woh aadmi wheelchair pe tha hi... lekin uske rooh maut ke kinare pe khade hoke lehronka intezaar kar raha tha ki kab woh aaye aur isko apne ander sama le...

Farista thi tum uske liye...
Mere liye bhiii..."

He mixed up his emotions with the words leaving heaps of truths for her....

Naina - " Michael aur aap..."

She asked to confirm.... After that few months he completely disappeared from her life, leaving a letter for her saying he shifted to Paris for the better treatment... Little did she knww was he timley sent her gifts on her birthday and on Christmas day... But what rajveer is revealing was out of syllabus for her...

Rajveer - " Ek hi he Naina... Jis gham ke barf ko tumne phigal ke usko zinda kiya tha, ab woh firse tumhare saamne khada he apne asli phehchaan leke... Bus is baar barf ke jagah poora pahad he....."

Naina - " Aapne kabhi kuch...."

Rajveer - " Maine bahot koshish kiye the Naina ki tumhe sub boldun... Lekin kabhi himmaat juta na paya... Dar tha ki kahin tum mujhe apna ne se mana na kardoo..

Maine jisko bhi apna maana he, mere kismat ne unhe mujhse cheena he... Aur tab main tumhe apna batake khudke lakeeronse tumhara naam mit ne bhi mitne nahi de sakta tha...

Tum soch rahi hogi, ki ab main yeh sub tumhe bata kyun raha!!
Main yeh sub baatein tumse chupadeta toh shayad hum pass toh reh jaate lekin dilonki beech joh dooriyaan hoti usko kabhi paar na kar paate...."

With his last words reaching his ears, like a first rain on the earth, Beautifully spreading its lovely scent, she stood up abruptly.... finding it difficult to deal with all his secrets at once.....

He noted that she wasn't moving from the place, let his heart overpower all his emotions.... He stood close to her.....

" Naina, Mere Kal mein Ananya ke saath tum bhi shaamil thi.... Duniya sirf Mere aur Ananya ke pyaar ko jaanta he naah ki Rajveer aur Naina ki Kahanii ko....

Tum nazm ho Naina... Aur tum raag bhi ho...
You are the background music to my soul, without whom I'm nothing...

Main tumpe koyi dabav nahi daal raha... Tum aazad hoo jaise phehli thi... Bus tumhe apne saath paake main firse khudgarz ban Raha hu... Tumhari khushiyaan meri aadat banti jaarahi he.... Aur...."

His voice choked thinking of the second option..... Still continueed as it was necessary for botn lf them...

" Aur baaki tumhe joh sahi samjhe kardena.. I'm with you..."

He closed his eyes tightly, diverting his mind to marathoned heart beats... Last night, he expressed that he badly needed her to live.... And she supportted him... May be out of sympathy or gratitude she agreed to him...

But he needed something more from her...

His hands felt few drops of water on them and his hairs, shoulder and nose were in line to feel them...

Naina - " Ankhein kholiyee..."

Her words opened his eyes....

And saw a mesmerising view of fountain unfurling drops of water all around them.... The fragrance which was glued to his clothes was long gone now.... The thing left with him was her (Naina's) perfume soothing his heart...

Naina - " Yahi rahe toh bheegh jaayenge... Chaliyein..."
She held his hand tightly and almost dragged him towards the stage where everyone was present.... without uttering what's there in her mind...

She is in a fix now....

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