Orchid Hotel

Vikram was sitting on the couch, and Poonam sits down beside him and held his hand. She cleaned his wound and glanced at him he wasn't reacting at all. It seems like he is habitual in bearing the pain. She wraps the bandage around it and takes the painkiller.

"Ye lo.. Isse dard nahi hoga" she said and forwards the glass of water.

"Kyu Poonam? Maine tumhe ghar se nikala phir bhi tum meri itni parwah kar rahi ho?" he asked

She doesn't speak anything and tears escaped from his eyes.

She got up and was about to leave but Vikram held her wrist and hugged her from the waist. "Mat jao Poonam.. Bahut akela pad gaya hun main.. Himmat toot gayi hai meri.. Sab khatam hota nazar aa raha hai mera aaru bhi mujhse door hai" he cries his heart out.

Poonam's eyes turns moist, she kept her hand on his head and lightly moved her fingers in between his hairs. She felt weak for a moment, she took a deep breath and controlled her emotions. 

"Main shayad deserve karti thi tumse door jaana par Aaru? Use kyun tumne khudse door kiya?" she asked

Vikram parts away and shouts "maine nahi kiya! Tumhe kya lagta hai Poonam mera bhai mujhe marega toh main use bhej dunga mental aslyum? Har kisine mujhe kaha maine tab nhi bheja toh ab kaise bhej dunga haan?"

She takes her Ipad and shows him the newspaper article and in bold it was highlighted "Finally Aarav Malhotra is sent to Mental Asylum by his brother"

"Ye raha saboot.. Uss din tumne mujhe saza di Vikram aur aaj tumhe main kya saza dun??" she asked

"Mai.." he paused, Poonam sits on the bed in front of him and crossed her arms across her chest.

"uss din jo tumne mujhse pucha tha aaj main tumse puchti hun kyun tumne Aaru ko mental asylum mein marne ke liye chod diya?" she repeated his words.

Vikram closes his eyes for a moment, today he realized how badly his accusations had hurt Poonam. "Maine nahi choda Poonam.. Maine nahi choda.." he said in low tone.

"Toh kaise pahucha mera Aaru waha pe haan?" she yells at him.

He looks up at her and was about to speak something but she showed her hand "nahi sunna hai mujhe! koi safai nahi chahiye tumhari ab main tumhe iske liye kabhi maaf nahi karungi" 

"tumhe sach mein lagta hai maine?" he asked

"haan lagta hai mujhe.. kya zid thi uski? bolo kya zid thi mujhe wapas bulane ki na wo tumse hota kaise? apni akad mein jo they tum.." she said angrily 

"main gaya tha tumhe dundhne lekin tum kahi nahi mili mujhe" he explained

"tumhe kyun laga main apni itni insult hone ke baad delhi mein rehti Vikram?" she asked crossing her arms across. 

"meri galti hai main manta hun.. par ek baar sunlo please" he said

"no nahi sunni hai tumhari baat, tum as a husband toh fail hue lekin maine yeh nahi socha tha tum as a brother bhi fail ho jaoge.. jiske liye tumne mujhe khudse door kiya use bhi khudse door kar diya.. kya mile tumhe ye sab karke haan?" she asked harshly 

He looked at her silently, tears slipping down his eyes. He wished he could go back to the past and fix everything. 

"Poonam mai" he didn't have words to justify his actions. 

"maine kaha na mujhe nahi sunna hai kuch tum jao ab yahan se and dubara mujhe apni shakal mat dikhana tum!" she turned around and closed her eyes. She had been extremely angry at him for sending Aarav to a mental asylum when he was in the stage of recovery. 

The door opens and Shruti gets inside "Poonam yeh manager kabse phone kar raha hai tu utha kyun nahi rahi hai apna phone?" she asked worriedly

She then noticed Vikram, he walked out of the room with teary eyes. Poonam turned around and took the phone from her hand. 

"haan bolo sharma" she asked

"Mam legal work ho gaya hai bas aapko papers sign karne hai kal phir aage main dekh lunga aap phir wapas jaa sakti hai Mumbai" he informed her. 

Poonam inhales deeply "fine kal subah 10 baje" she agreed and ends the call. 

Malhotra Mansion

Vikram returned home, he wanted to share everything with her but she didn't give him any chance. Why would she listen to him? Did he listen to her 2 years back? It is all his mistake that he is suffering and so are the other two most important persons of his life. 

The guests were still present, Nitin walked to him and asked "kaha they tum?" 

"kya chahiye aapko?" He questioned looking straight into his eyes. 

"udhar New York waale clients hai, get the tender renewed" Nitin orders him. 

Vikram looks at the director and refuses "aapki company hai toh sab khud hi handle kijiye mujhe aur bhi zaroori kaam hai" 

He walks but Nitin grabbed his wrist and pulled him back. He warned him "yeh ghar mera hai samjhe.. tumhe meri har baar manni padegi" 

He jerked his hand off and walked towards the clients. He looked at him "Hey Claire.." 

Claire shook hands with him "Hey Vikram it's been a long time how you have been?" he asked

He nodded "I am fine.. I wondered if you are again renewing the tender," he asked

"No Vikram I can't do that, the other company had offered a very good package and I had to accept it," he said 

"But you are dealing with us for the past 10 years" Nitiin interrupted their conversation. 

"And he is not involved with the business for the past two years I can't risk my investment now" Claire made a clear statement and left the party with his family. 

Nitin fumed in anger and scolded him "tumse ek deal bhi nahi li gayi?" 

Vikram gazed at him "aapne suna na kya kaha usne? isme main kya kar sakta hun?" he asked softly and moved away. 

The party gets over, the guests leave the house and the servants began to clean up the mess. Vikram looks up and sees flames from Aarav's room. He runs upstairs and tries to open the door but it was locked. He glanced at Nitin in anger and shouted "chabi dijiye kamre ki.." 

"deal nahi li sakte tum kam ke kam iss kamre ko jalne se toh bacha hi sakte ho" he said with a smirk on his face.

Kavya smiled "jaldi karo warna kuch nahi bachega andar" she laughed. 

Vikram tries to break the door with all his energy. He managed to break it and rushes inside. The curtain had caught fire and had been slowly spreading into the entire room. 

He sees the photos on the floor burning, he kneels down and taps a few times to stop them from burning into ashes. 

"no no... nahi ye kamra nahi jal sakta" he panicks. 

Maria enters the room along with a water hose, Vikram takes it from her hands and runs to the bathroom. He attaches it to the tap and opens it. He quickly sets off the fire before it could burn the room completely. 

"pani band karo" he said to Maria.

She goes to the bathroom and turns off the tap. Vikram pants heavily, he looked around the walls two walls of the room had turned black. Tears escaped down his eyes as the room had been entirely redecorated by Poonam just a month before he had abandoned it. 

"jo tumne kahun wo hamesha hona chahiye Vikram.." Nitin said and left. 

Vikram attached the photo closer to his heart and cried. Maria asked "Sir bhabhi se baat hui?"

"hmm..nahi suni usne meri ek bhi baat! bahut gussa hai mujhse kuch nahi sunna chahti hai" he said

"ek wahi hai jo sab thik kar sakti hai" she explained

"nahi maine pehle hi bahut galat kiya hai uske saath, phirse main swarthi nahi ban sakta" he refused. 

He goes out of the room and heads to the terrace. He sits on the chair and looks up at the sky. He felt lonely, helpless, and lost all his hope. 

The next morning, he went to the office and found Poonam sitting down with others. Poonam noticed his burned hand but didn't let the concern be shown on her face. She signed the legal papers and Chopra smiles "thank you Poonamji.. aajse yeh company aapki aur yahan ke log bhi" 

"get lost.." she said in anger. Chopra left taking the papers. 

Poonam looked at her manager "get everything renovated the way I want.. mujhe ab Mumbai wapas jaana hai agle mahine main aaungi tab tak tumhe jo kaha hai sab ho jaana chahiye" she instructed him

Vikram was shocked that she is leaving the city again. Poonam left the office while Vikram followed her. He comes out and sees her car fading away to the end of the street.