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"Independence day, a great day in the history. But what's really independence for this generation? The generation of people who were present at the time of declaration of independent nation had independence as freedom from the unwanted rulers but passing time, new generation , I guess each of you have your own though for  the word "Independence"  .

When kids grow up and move out and start making their own decisions, this is an example of independence...they say.

But if I ask now to many of them about if they agree to it then I guess many will contradict the idea saying being with parents , making decisions as per our choice but with their experienced thoughts can too be considered independence for it's us who are the real choosers for ourselves and always moving out does not mean being independent.

So students this independence day let your thoughts be free, let them run wild and let us know what is independence for you , not any specific theoretical meaning given by any dictionary .Don't go after the literary meaning of world  just  feel the word and rock it.

Show us a unimaginable world of your Imaginary INDEPENDENCE. 

"You guys have just 1 day for everything as we want something out of blue then something rehearsed and planned through a long time."

The words from the morning assembly were ringing in her ears . Don't know why but she wanted to do this , not to win the prize or not to show others her capability but for herself. 

For a break from the hectic schedule of day where her imagination will run free like the ink spilling in a white paper from soul of poet , like the brush of painter that makes strokes imperfect yet flawless without fear, like filling life to a blank canvas.

Also may be because it was compulsory for each and every student to participate.

And this feeling will come only when she will relieve the only moment of her life ,

Her childhood. 

Her world of freedom.

Her only meaning to independence.

Childhood. 

 A time where we could let our thoughts run wild. 

A time where we could wish any impossible and no one will  laugh at it. 

A time where we had freedom to laugh, cry , play, wish, and live more lively. 

 A time where oblivion was the best thing . 

"But but but isn't childhood all about dependency then how come independence" 

"I know navya , it's about dependency so our play will be about.." the girl stopped speaking while the ones who were surrounding her gave her a curious look..

"Yaar, curiosity kills a cat and I can't die so fast. So keerthi, please do the honor of stating it out that what are we going to do?"

"I agree with mukti . Also, if I get the details then I can start to work for the dress required for the play also na." alya chipped too all excited while talking about dresses..

"So presenting to you all the play for independence day..."

" Childhood Imagines: Independence to imagine the unreal "

All were awestruck or shocked, okay that was difficult to decide seeing them. Their mouths were left open while jaw hung down but the eyes spoke volumes with those twinkles..

"Childhood imagines..as in.." navya was the one to ask this as she as the first one to come out from shocked state..

"As in..the only thing that we could do independently in childhood was to think..to imagine and most of us imagines about being someone or something or having someone or something...So we are again going to imagine the same .."

"So may I know what comes under this imagines" alya asked

"Yes it includes the unreal world.." keerthi spoke with a smirk while navya and alya rolled their eyes for she again didn't disclosed anything but this time mukti spoke..or say squealed..

"SON PARi.. Oh yes, unreal world..a fairy " mukti hugged keerthi in excitement..

"I love u for this okay..Okay I have a long list for those shows..let me.." mukti was going to start but before that only navya and alya stopped her..

"No no, not only you muku, we all will say one name one by one..what's say?" navya suggested.. it started with navya followed by alya, kreethi and mukti.

"Shaka laka boom boom"

"Karishma ka karishma"

"Jeniee aur Juju"

"Shararat"

"Ring rong ring"

"Gili Gili gappa"

"Hatim"

"Vikraal Aur Gabraal "

and the list went on and on.

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"Finally script is done.." keerthi sighed in relief and went to lie down beside alya in the bed..

"Yes, I too talked with the boys and they agreed after a lot of convincing." mukti said while coming inside the room from the balcony..

"Yes, I too made all the arrangements for the theme and decorations " navya said while slumping down in couch and closed her eyes with a sigh escaping her mouth..

"And I am done with the dresses design ..will mail it to the store asap so that they all arrive in time tomorrow" saying so alya started to sent the mail..After it was done alya too lied down beside keerthi..

"Wait.." mukti shouted at once making everyone startled..Alya and keerthi who were about to get in deep slumber groaned in frustration and threw their respective pillow at mukti while getting up..Though mukti was close enough to dodge them , they landed on navya who woke up by the hit as mukti's shout didn't matter to her ...

"What about nandini?" mukti asked while navya and alya hit their heads realizing about not including nandini in any of the plans so they all turned their attention towards one person who can know the answer to this..

"Where is your best friend keerthi?" alya asked with narrowed eyes while keerthi shrugged casually..

"I don't know and I don't care" alya, mukti and navya shok their head in disbelief..

"Don't tell me you guys again fought? " navya asked while keerthi replied..

"No, I don't fight...It's just that I don't want to talk to her..Do you guys even know what happened?" others nodded in no so she started to tell her phone call with her best friend..

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"Haan bol" nandini said from other side over phone while keerthi started to speak ..

"Nandini, there is a program for independence day and I have so many work or which I need your help..Please come fast" keerthi said while she got no response from other side..

"Nandini, you there.." 

"Nandini.."

"haan haan sun rahi hoon, phir se bata toh kya kaha tune.."

"Aree I was saying.."

"Yes sir , bas ek minute" 

"Keerthi I will call you later.."

"Okay but are you coming tomorrow...you know right what is it?"

"No keerthi, I know it's important day for you but I cannot come..

understand sorry bye." and the phone went dead.

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"She cut your call.." navya spoke in daze..

"She said sorry against the rule of your friendship"alya said in a whisper

"And most importantly she forgot.." mukti spoke not believing..

"Yes she forgot, she forgot that tomorrow is not only independence day or rakshya bandhan but our friendship day..It was the first day when nandini and kreethi met each other for first time in a independence day program "

"every year we used to celebrate it by rising a small flag made up of our favorite colors in our room that will remain till we change it next time on tomorrows date but this time she forgot " keerthi said but her face lacked sadness...she looked happy still..

"But You look happy madam? What's the plan?" the girls asked while keerthi grinned..

"Plan nothing much..I will just make them regret tomorrow for many things" keerthi said with a wicked smile..

"Them as in.." alya spoke..

"Aree bhai bhi hai.." saying so she started to say about her conversation with her brother..

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"Bhai you are coming tomorrow ,right?..I have surprise planned for you"

"Sorry baccha, I can't come. You know right I am here for 1 week

and it's just three days.Okay okay bye, they are calling me."

And the phone went dead.

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" I hate both of them.."

"And I hate bhai more..Atleast nandu had courtesy of  speaking five line but bhai spoke once and phone is dead and he didn't even try to call back.."

"So what are you going to do?"

"I am quiet sure that both of them will be here tomorrow but I have a dhamaka for them..I will give them Rakshya proposal ..." the girls were going to speak but keerthi didn't let them..

"Also I am not going to say what is that now as the fun is tomorrow and the boys are going to help me for this ..You girls just enjoy" the girls nodded like a good obedient kids ..

"So girls let's sleep, we have so many things to do tomorrow" 

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https://youtu.be/YhUECUr-a5w

And the national anthem was being heard all around..

Dressed in while clothes along with orange and green border line , be it anyone was standing in a straight position while raising their heads like the flag swaying with the wind rising high and singing the anthem of the country.

This was the celebration, celebration of being free. Celebration of being a citizen.

As the anthem come to an end all once again gave a salute to the flag and dispersed to see the play of students to show what independence day means for them.

"And the next play is of keerthi and the team..."

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And finally the play begins:

" Childhood Imagines: Independence to imagine the unreal "

Childhood is an oblivion from all the reality where we have our own imaginations but today the teenagers are going to imagine of the same childhood shows as their life and characters as themselves. 

Welcome to a world of fun and laughter :

"Hello everyone mein hoon alya, jiya ki parpoti. Haan haan , wahi  shararat wali jisne kabhi koi jadu thik se nahi kiya and same is the case with me..."alya was the one saying so "par ulta hi sahi isis jadoo ke meherbani hai mera pyaar dhruv.."

"Alya...alya  .where are my clothes ??" Dhruv said while coming towards her and after listening that alya smiled sheepishly and turned towards dhruv..

"Wo dhruv, actually all the dresses were messed up so I was arranging them but I got an important dress order so i used my magic and they all flew away.."

"What do you mean by flew away? Didn't you reverse your magic then.."

"I did dhruv but all the dresses come muddy so I had kept them for washing.."

"And what should I wear I have meeting yaar alya?" 

"Why to fear when pari alya is here.."and before dhruv could stop her she started..

"Shring bhribg sarbaling bhoot bhabisyat bartaman ...."

"Stop...." dhruv shouted before alya could continue further. .

"Alya..don't even think of doing that..navya aur cabir aarahe hai and like always our house will become jenie aur juju ka show..."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that like always your magic will become wrong and i will either way end up being a clown in front of them I am better off this way.." alya pouted at this but before she could say anything door bell rang while she went to open the door. .

"Mukti..abhi..you guys..come in.."

"Alya..do you know he just proposed me .." mukti said while abhi nodded with a sad face ..

"Why abhi are you not happy after proposing. Did you realized it too early? "dhruv asked while abhi shrugged and girls were glaring at them..

"What happened mukti? Tell me did he forced you to accept his proposal?"alya asked while abhi pouted as he could never do so..

"Nahi alya..it's that after he proposed me I kept a condition that he should give me 'The sath sawalo ke jabaf' (the seven questions answer ) but he didn't knew.." but before alya could speak dhruv spoke..

"Abhi you seriously don't know them..too bad..mukti jab tak ye saat sawalo ke jabaaf na bole le tu accept mat karna okay.." dhruv said while side hugging mukti and she grinned and abhi looked towards alya for help.. 

"Wait wait wo saat sawal kya hai.." alya asked while abhi nodded in denial saying he don't know..

"Alya don't tell me you don't know them. Hatim and Jasmine got married already and hobo too already said their entire journey in their marriage and you still don't know about saat sawal aur uske jawaf..you always used to ask me about shararat and you don't know about Hatim..this is not fair alya.." dhruv said while mukti supported her alya and abhi were left gaping at them...

But before they could continue they heard someone else..

"No cabir don't talk to me till you bring son pari's tiara for me.."

"Naya..I am relative for frooty's ancestors not frooty's that I will ask her to ask her sona aunt to give me her tiara "

"Cabir..you can't even try for me.."

"Navya try to understand yaar.."

"No this time i am not going to understand as last time you didn't understood and you forced me to bring the pencil of shaka laka boom boom and wanted me to be bring food you drew to feel like that pencil is for real.." navya said and cabir grinned sheepishly. ..

"Alya and mukti see ma cabir is not  bringing me son pari's taira.." navya complained while now it was mukti and abhi who spoke..

"Haww cabir you denied her the taira..how can you?"

"Abhi you know about son pari.." getting positive reply from abhi, mukti pounced on him and said..

"I accept your proposal and about hatim we can sit and watch it together " and that was it for abhi  he twirled her around..

"Dhruv.."alya too pouted ...

"Okay but on one condition..you won't do any magic again as you are a magic for me.."alya bobbed her head and hugged him which he reciprocated equally..

Seeing the couples agreeing cabir and navya to came to conclusion of getting a normal tiara and cabir will treat her like the queen she us..

"Guys..let's watch bikram aur gabral" all agreed to alya and they all settled in sofa but before that only they heard someone shout..

"Guys..I hate her..how can she.."

"What happened keerthi?" navya asked to keerthi who settled in sofa..

"Navya,my friend karishma don't know about karishma ka karishma. .can you believe.."

"Karishma. ..who is that? And karishma ka karishma what's that?" and looking at their face any one could they seriously didn't knew about it..and keerti wanted to  bang everyone's head in nearby wall..

But before she or anyone else could  say anything someone shouted.

"Keerthi..I am so sorry. ." .

"Nandini..tu yaha kya kar rahi hai.." keerthi spoke while bringing nandini in a corner and whispered in a low voice so that the audience could not listen them..

"Aree what do you mean by kya kar rahi hai..yaha mein manglore se sirf tujse milke hamara day  celebrate karne aayi hoon and you asking why?" nandini spoke in loud voice and the audience to could hear her..

"Wo toh thik hai par tu stage pe kya kar rahi hai.."keerthi spoke and that's when nandini realized she was there in between a play and audience were looking at her..

"Stage..aiyoo aiapaaa.."saying so nandini ran from there..and now they were not able to decide what to do..deciding to continue the play keerthi spoke looking towards cabir..

"Let's  watch bikram aur gabral " and she was again going to sit in sofa but before that only someone else took her in a bone crushing hug..

"Keerthi don't  ever do that to me again...do you even know what I went through when not finding you in home waiting for me to tie rakhi..and on top of that where in the hell is your phone?I was so worried and madam is here watching childish shows.." but before keerti could say anything others spoke..

"Malhotra..how dare you say vikram aur gabral  as childish show.."

"Yes you may be a 70 year old buddha but we child who still enjoy watching childhood show unlike you who even forgets rakshya bandhan and makes his sister sad by leaving her for work..." but before manik could speak nandini too came on stage and said..

"How dare you manik..how dare you make her sad.."nandini said furiously..

"Nandu..you should not say anything to bhai..you to are equally responsible for making me sad..." and now it was manik's turn to be furious..

"Wait you made my sister sad..how dare you murthy.."

But they both were stopped by keerthi's shout..

"Stop it both of you..I don't want to see or listen both of you" kerthi said and turned other side while others too mimicked her and turned to next side from manik and nandini as they were left with no option as the play was already messed up..

Manik and Nandini exchanged looks and spoke one by one..

"Okay so what should we do to make it up.."

"Yes we will do anything.."

"Anything.."kerthi spoke and they both nodded..

"Okay then..I have a rakhi proposal for you too...nandini you tie this rakhi to bhai.." keerthi said while putting a rakhi in nandini's hand...

"What..why?" Manik asked horrified ..same was the case with nandini..

"Keerthi he is not my brother then why should I?" nandini asked and manik too nodded..

"Okay if not this then proposal is there...bhai propose nandini for marriage. ." She spoke again and manan gasped..

"And why do you think so that I will propose her when I don't even like her.." manik spoke..

"I don't know anything..you guys have to do either of the thing and other should accept it whole heartedly  then only you guys will be forgive otherwise not.."

Manan exchanged looks while nandini finally spoke..

"Manik forward your hand..you don't like me then theirs no point to argue..let me tie you the rakhi.." and manik gave her have you gone mad wala look..but nandini had expressionless  face...manik was pissed so shouted..

"I don't like you but what about you? Don't  you like me?" Manik asked and nandini had teary eye but she denied without meeting his eyes..

"Nandini tell me..look at me and say..." manik hold her by shoulders and made her look at him but her teary eyes were enough to make him soft...

"Be mine nandini..." manik asked and nandini stared with those big doe eyes as she could not decide if it was real..did her best friends brother really asked her that ..the same guy with whom she always fought..

"But didn't you said you don't like me.."

"That's true i don't like you.." and her face fell..

"Cause I have already fallen in love with you.."

"I love you nandini murthy..I love u a lot.."

"I love you too manik.." and finally they were in each others embrace..

"Ab rakhi nahi chahiye na tujhe toh mujhe dede..His is my brother yàar..mein toh bandh sakti hoon.."keerthi said and manik pulled her too in the hug..

He was the happiest man for the moment for his two lifelines were in his embrace...

And the curtains fell as all others too pounced on them for group hug...

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Finally done...a long update..

Hope you like it.

Love,

CrazyButSweetReader