Woah, we made it till 50th chapter 

#HalfCentury 

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"Uttamamm dadh-dhadhatt paadham,  madhyam paadham thuchuk thuchuk,  khanishtam thud- thudiya paadham ...  sur-suriya praan ghatkam!" 

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Chatur 'SILENCER' Ramalingam when tried to open his mouth for a praiseworthy speech dedicated to their beloved 'Virus' sir, he never would have imagined it to be this fascinating. With so much of clarity and poise, was each word framed, which gave away an impression of the creativity the writer possessed. 

Truly amazing.

"Oh f*k! I-I- I can't!" and she landed on the couch with a massive thud. 

He was probably trying to laugh while keeping ossy on bay. "This is so... impressive!" their laughter barked across the apartment he lived. It felt like older times, with friends over at home, laughing at movies and lame jokes, weaving memories together. But this was special because he is sharing all of these with the person he is in love with. 

And we would not dare to forget his adorable pet Oscar.

Sidharth had launched himself at the base of his couch, on floor with ossy sitting near. Alia meanwhile was giving stand up cheer to silencer's awesome speech. Their eyes had become glossy with laughing so hard. 'Paadham' part was what made her collapse onto the couch. Poor ossy was too confused at what his mister and mistress were trying to do. 

He thought they had fix or maybe he was thinking to dial asylum, sensing their condition. Anyway, the huge thing tried to get sidharth's attention by getting on his lap while he was leaning away with howl. 

He too wanted to know what was so funny about a tiny human speaking on microphone, inside the TV box. Seeing his blank expression, sidharth patted his head and grinned "Alia, kindly explain our baby. He seems lost with what happened here." Alia now sat upfront and stared at the cute him to give an explanation as if he will grasp that. 

"He meant : A loud fart is respectable, a medium fart is tolerable, a slight fart is fearful.... but a silent fart is unbearable!"

Eww! 

Even oscar had to cringe at that and he barked loudly at the translation epicness. 

They had finished their dinner and were leeched in to watch the movie with so much concentration that their mothers could have been proud if so ever they did the same during examinations. 

"You know what, whenever we have mutter paneer at home, dinner scene gets too colourful. We make it a habit to glance at each other for 'bin byahi sister' , 'almost dead paralyzed father' and 'smoke choked poverty ridden mother'. Then as usual we burst into hysterics before attacking the delicious platter." That made him roar again but his phone beeped with distraction. 

"Pick the call baby. I'll get water for us." Alia went towards kitchen while Sid took out his phone to see the caller.

"What?! My god... when ? 

Just a minute, I'll inform the other or wait! We'd do that later. I am coming with alia. Yeah, I'll reach soon. Calm man, everything is going to be fine."

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[Alia's POV]

The air around got thicker with the fowl smell of disinfectants and yucky medicines. If it was some other day, I would have thrown a tantrum to not tag along. Since the longest time I remember, I hated hospitals and their atmosphere. 

But now it was pretty serious of us to barge into Hinduja Hospital at West Mahim. 

When I went to fetch a glass of water for us, I heard sid's literal shriek into the call he got. That panicked me and I saw him approaching me with a fearful face. I waited for the worst and got what I wanted. It was Varun calling in from Karan's house to inform us that Hiroo maa got a sudden massive cardiac arrest and was rushed in to their family consulting hospital, that is here. 

We were so thankful to Almighty that VD was there to get things quickly done otherwise even a slight delay could have turned much more dangerous. 

Without wasting time, we both ran outside to get driving. On our way, we tried to inform immediate friends and family. We surely don't want the entire industry and media to line up outside and create ruckus. As we reached fourth floor of I.C.U , my heart made its existence known. It thumped badly as panic rose in my bile. I had never faced such critical situations before and now going to see your beloved one's going through pain, made it an even badder experience.

The second last floor, i.e the one we are at now, had I.C.U and ventilator sections, so it was quite painfully silent than the other floors. As we neared the block, I saw someone's back, leaning to the wall beside, wearing a jacket. I knew who it was. My feet felt frozen. 

Sidharth gently held my hand in his and led me towards the unit. There were others too, like abhi, kayu and punnuz from dharma, our friends, anshula and off course, karan. He looked so heart broken that my own heart got squeezed with pain.

I put my hand on his shoulder, warmly to let him know that we all were with him in this hard phase. He turned around to give me a tight hug which was his way of telling me 'everything is right'. 

But today he needed that assurance more than me. Therefore I rubbed his back while others kept their silence, waiting for the doctors to come out.

"How did it happen, karan ?" I was never good with situational talks but I wanted to know. He glanced with sadness and gulped before speaking "Sh-she was alright. Happy and working. Varun and ayan came to visit us for lunch. She was helping with dishes, is when we heard the dropping of glass bowl from kitchen. We rushed in to see mom lying on floor, still. You have no idea how panicked and worried I was. My head blew away and I did not knew what to do next. We tried to wake her up by shaking, water drop spray on her face but nothing worked. 

Then we checked her heart beat to get shocked because it was almost nil. Her body getting colder like ice. I just screamed for help because I thought I'd lose her! Varun and Ayan then helped us to get here and doctors were thankful that we reached on time or else things could have gone all wrong."

I heard him speak with pain and I realised I was tearing up. I had to be strong for him and maa. We can't get emotional ourselves. Sidharth came next to us and held his hand "Karan, she is going to be fine. Just keep hope. Doctors are there, they will do their best. You better sit now." he adviced and made him to sit at the bench. We looked at the others and went to another side to have a silent discussion. 

Anshula and Fubu looked distraught. Maybe they got reminded of their mother, who passed away so soon. "Di, I wanted to talk to you. Can you come with me ?" anshu came up and asked with those innocent big eyes of hers.

Before I could nod yes, ayan had something really important to discuss with me regarding what doctors had to say. Since I am a part of this huge family, I had a right to know, so he felt it appropriate to let me know. "Anshu, I'd come back to you in a bit. We have something to know here." I made her understand while she gave a sad look. "Aloo, come here. Don't want karan to listen yet!" scolded ayan from a secluded spot in a whisper. 

"Just listen to what she has to say and then leave, na ?" now it was rannu who wanted me to go with the first one. 

"Yeah but -

I had Sidharth dragging me to where ayan, shraddha who just joined and others stood. It might have looked rude to cut in from what they had to say and leave like that but at this moment, everything seemed wrong! Rannu gave me a disapproving look and it bothered me to a great extent. 

I had to concentrate in what ayan had to share with us. So according to him, doctors credited this case as the most critical one where chances of survival was less but they were trying their best. They just did not knew how to share this with karan since he is too sensitive when it comes to his mother. After the death of his dad, it was hiroo maa, who made him the person he was today! 

Her support and guidance had minted all of those accolades and success, following him. Naturally he lived for his mother and now, we wanted him to be away from more strain. "I am glad that all of us are here with him." spoke bunny after listening carefully. My mind wandered at a person who was supposed to be here at the moment but one fall out and it got all over.

"Not everyone is here. I wish it never happened that ugly way. It hurts to know how difficult she became. Success does changes you!" spatted ayan. " She was no global icon for success to get on her head. It was pure jealousy and other factors that ruined her and our friendship." spoke shraddha for the first time after that incident. 

I felt guilty now. 

Sure me and her had a fall out, blame her wicked brain for that but that does not mean she had an end with others. I felt like a bitch who separated her from others, unintentionally. "You don't have to avoid her for me. What happened was between us guys. Thank you for support but honestly speaking, I feel like a bitch, ruining all of your bond with her" I voiced myself with a tone drop.

Sid had his arm around my waist and gave me a slight squeeze, showing his disapproval. "I don't think so als. You were nothing but extreme kind to her and look at her. We all were friends, at once, but if one of us wants to break that bond and be all wicked on someone, the rest of us can't keep the normalcy going. Whoever hurts you, hurts us too. Your enemies, our enemies. That was the motto right ?" 

For the second time in my life, I wanted to hug this man like he was the only wise soul on this earth. Ranveer did had a wise bone, hidden beneath the funny exterior. They all nodded their head at his wisdom and gave me a supportive smile. 

"Karan!" I detected the voice to be my dad's. We turned to look at my family, rushing over to karan. I wonder who informed them. In my hurry I forgot to do the same. My mom spotted me among others and asked for whereabouts while dad and shaheen went over to karan. I went forward with sid to listen what they had to say. 

I felt karan giving me a suspicious glance. He checked both of us from head to toe and gave a vile look. I felt conscious of my outing look and I guess Sid felt that too. But who had the time to change when we had to reach as quickly as possible.

"Sid, alia! I did not cared earlier but why are you both dressed up like for an outing ?" asked karan and I wished for him to not smell anything. My dad gave me a same doubting look while I glanced at shaheen and sid to come up with something. Heck I don't want to disclose my romantic relation when someone is hospitalised! 

Sidharth gave me a blank look and I wanted to bang his head for not helping. "Because I was thinking to go out somewhere and got dressed is when you called and I rushed in." 

That has to sound convincing. 

"She came at my place and we had another date!" 

I put on a brave face and had everything plotted to bury the guy whom I had accidently fallen in love with. What a brain he had. They called me dumb, now he was acting dumb! If only Superman and Mr. Bean existed! Like they knew how to save a situation from getting rotten. 

"I will kill you before I kill myself" I whispered it to him who looked not at all affected by the glares boring into him from me and from my fathers. 

He resembled a brave soldier, ready to battle on field. 

It is no huge deal to man up and speak about your current status but not at a time like this. 

"Date! I thought you both were well aware of the first rule. It seems that with each film, you people are losing your memory." And then I got reminded of what that 1st rule and all of that was about. 

When we had our very first film contract with Dharma and Karan, like a father he made us understand the way things work and the do's and dont's we had to keep in mind. Also we made a promise to try all our best to not be in relation with a co - star until we reach a phase where we can be free to take such step! 

He had his own theory which felt stupid even till now but since he had much more experience in this industry than us, we had to agree in. 

Now when I look back, it feels like yesterday we promised him. And today two of us broke it. 

Darn! 

Sidharth stiffened under the excruciating glares thrown at our way but kept his firm resolution. 

"Can we discuss it later ? We do want it to be private and special, sharing something really crucial of our life, with you." 

I swear, me and the gang wanted to slow clap for him for his bravery. Maybe a Padma Shri, was what he needed the most. We had our mouth gaping at him and even karan did not expected him to answer so well. 

Seems, the roast master got roasted in turn.

"If you both have decided it all on your own, what do we have to say then ? There is no need for anything to share because it had to be done, long back." My shoulder fell back and I could hear my chest rising up and down. There was this pricking pain somewhere inside me and I had to hold back my scream. I know we were at fault by not declaring it to them before but we did what was right to us, then. 

And so karan did what was right for him, silently stood up and made his way towards the escalator. I wanted to catch him before he leaves but sidharth stopped me from doing.

I think I saw something flash in his eyes for a tiny second. I was frustrated too but we all needed time. So it was wise to let him go for now. I looked back at my dad to see him already making his way towards the exist. 

We have messed up, big time but we are also ready to make up for it. I looked at Sid to see what he had in his mind. 

He leaned in to whisper " Tomorrow we march up to Dharma and Vishesh Films. We have a huge deal to crack!" 

Yes, boss.

Note : I have all of this planned a certain way just that the words aren't flowing the way I want it to be, lol! So upcoming chapter will be frustrating for some, deal with it please. Their status had to be out in open anytime soon and it got! 

Fingers crossed right ?

Love always,

Jemi :)