"Shivaay Bhaiyya, don't tell anyone about this secret, not even to Omkara." Gauri had taken the promise. "He might be hating Chulbul already, now I don't want him to hate Gauri. Let it be a secret... forever!"

Her words were echoing in Shivaay's mind as he came back to the building the following day, after making sure that Gauri would not go back to Bareilly alone. "For now you can live with Anika. We'll decide everything later." He had told her.

Even Anika didn't know anything.

"Gauri and Chulbul have a break-up! That's why she is upset." Shivaay had told her to end the topic altogether, but Gauri's presence in the same city with Om was a nuisance now.

Shivaay tried to forget all the drama in his life as he opened his room door.

'A shower is must to get rid of this migraine!'

He thought pressing his temples when he was tapped by Rudra who was going impatient to unravel the news. "Rudra I don't want to talk about anything. I need some rest." Shivaay dismissed him but Rudra couldn't stop now.

"Shivaay Bhaiyya. There is so much going on that you would be sleepless tonight!" Rudra was adamant.

Shivaay, who was already guessing about the letter, didn't react much. As Rudra started to utter all the happenings of the day Shivaay had to listen unwillingly. But the last sentence of Rudra was a bit unexpected.

"What did you say Rudra? Om is doing what!" Shivaay wanted to confirm it.

"Yes Bhaiyya, Omkara is going back to Mumbai forever. He doesn't want to live here anymore."

Shivaay threw towel in his hand, "Have all gone mad?" He left everything to run upstairs, followed by Rudra, only to find Omkara's luggage ready there. While he was not seen in room.

"Did he go away without luggage!" Rudra commented when they heard some noise from Chulbul's room.

There Omkara was finding something in the cupboard as Rudra and Shivaay looked in confusion.

"Chulbul's clothes won't fit you Om! No need to take them!"

Omkara got startled finding both of them looking at him while Shivaay glared at Rudra for the bad joke.

"Have you gone crazy Omkara?" Shivaay moved ahead while Om was rubbing his neck, with nervousness. "How could you even think of vacating?"

"I am getting bothered by the memories of Chulbul with each passing second." He spoke honestly, "I can't live here Shivaay, please!"

He had made his mind, while Shivaay pressed his head again, which was on verge of exploding.

"Shivaay Bhaiyya please stop him." Rudra was expecting him to do something but Shivaay was worried with the complications.

"Rudra, please try to understand my situation!" Om was also feeling bad, but he was having this horrible feeling, with all the memories of Chulbul haunting him. "I need a break!" He mumbled going back to his room, followed by Rudra.

"But what were you doing in Chulbul's room!" Rudra wasn't going to leave it so easily, "To find if she had left any clue, isn't it?"

Omkara on the other hand was embarrassed to hear this. Because the real reason of ransacking Chulbul's room was not related to Chulbul at all.

"No...actually...!!!" Omkara had all the colors fade away from his face, making Rudra doubt.

"Don't tell me you were again thinking of Gauri!" Rudra was for first time in life was angry on something. While Om hung his head low.

He was again in that forbidden room of Chulbul, to find any contact number of Gauri, whom he wanted to meet.

'Just one last time!' He was telling his heart.

"You know what Shivaay Bhaiyya, this man is not that naive as he looks to us!" The tone Rudra used was too much serious, "He, from the very first day, was behind Gauri!"

Omkara gulped the nervousness as he heard the accusations against him by his own friend. He shook his head in denial, "No Rudra please don't talk like this. I never had any bad intention towards her!"

"No bad intention?" Rudra walked to him, "Your every action was directed towards separating them!" He had all the proofs ready with him.

Omkara was frowning, as Rudra reminded him of all those gifts and those praises.

"Just a minute Rudra! I was never between them ok! Chulbul was a girl...she and Gauri were never meant for each other!" The fight between two friends was worsening. "And mind you, Gauri is not lesb... I mean she is straight!!! I know that."

Saying so, Omkara lifted his luggage angrily as he started going downstairs while Rudra and Shivaay were surprised on his instant behavior following him.

"Om, you had lost Chulbul due to that girl and now she is creating distance between us!" Rudra was trying to stop him, using his weird logic as he realized that matter had gone serious.

Shivaay also tried his pleadings and warnings, "Please Om, don't act so hastily...Om!" They were in the gate where Om was waiting for his cab, while Shivaay and Rudra were tired of the stubbornness of their friend.

Finally Rudra gave up, "I won't stop you if you are so firm to go Om, but at least have a group hug together!" He accepted Om's decision.

Omkara felt a lump in his throat, listening to those emotional words as he turned back to them. Enclosing each other in warm hug, they lived the moment.

"Forget Gauri, please Omkara!" Shivaay mumbled, more like a request, as he tried to end the chapter, "And forgive Chulbul! Let's respect her privacy." He made him understand, giving him final goodbye.

"Fine Shivaay, if you guys think so." Omkara decided to forget Gauri, as he was still unsure of his feelings towards her.

'Just an ex-girlfriend of my ex-neighbour!'

"But if you meet her ever again, say my goodbye to her!" Well that's the only thing he was going to do. What can one expect from this Brahmachaari!!!

Just then they saw, none other than Swetlana approaching them.

"Om where are you going?" She was back to her gaggingly sweet tone.

"He is tired of looking at your cake-face. So running away to become an ascetic!" Rudra taunted to ward off Swetlana.

"Hmph." She made a face to Rudra, "Om when are you coming back. Actually Kali Bhaiyya wanted to talk to you something!" She tried to fake blush making everyone around to cringe.

"I am going forever Swetlana. Good bye!" Om clarified making her eyes go wide.

"You can't!" Swetlana was shocked, "That Chulbul had promised me that you would marry me!" Swetlana's comment made Om and Rudra to go surprised and Shivaay was panicking. "Where is that bitch? How can she break our deal?"

"Deal!!!!"

._._._.

"Why are you getting so many hiccups?" Anika offered water to Gauri, "Seems someone is missing you!"

Gauri chose to remain silent as she took the glass, involuntarily thinking about Omkara.

"So what happened to your job? Shivaay had mentioned that you work with Chulbul in same boutique!" Anika posed the question making Gauri to flinch on one of her own lies.

"I don't want to work there anymore Bhabhi." Gauri wanted to go back to Bareilly anyhow, as living in Delhi was not a safe option now.

"Gauri, love and breakups are not the end of life." Anika didn't want Gauri to leave such a good job, "I would suggest you to rejoin, maybe in some other department. It would help you to come out of your worries!"

Gauri contemplated the thought but just then she got a message from her childhood friend Richa.

"Gauri, your Chachi had sold your Papa's home here!" The apt message at wrong time read, as Gauri felt the ground slipping beneath.

"What happened Gauri?" Anika asked, seeing her so panicked.

"I am ruined Bhabhi!"

._._._.

"You blackmailed our Chulbul that if she didn't make Om to marry you, you would reveal her secret of being a girl to everyone!" Rudra was angry on Swetlana while Omkara was gritting his teeth.

Shivaay on the other hand was worried that Swetlana would disclose about Gauri and Chulbul being the same.

"It was not blackmail, it was a deal ok!" Swetlana tried to defend herself, "But she cheated me and ran away!"

"Just shut up!" Rudra spoke with all swag, "She had told us the truth. So your so called deal is null now. She had sacrificed herself in order to save Om from marrying you!" He indirectly insulted Swetlana.

"What!!!" Swetlana stood up, "That cheater, deceiver, how dare she!" Swetlana had no control on her mouth as she started using slangs for Chulbul, "What could I expect from that lowlife?"

"Enough Swetlana." Omkara was losing his patience as he stood up from his chair in the roadside cafe. While the pindrop silence spread there he dropped the other bomb, "Is it about the deal!!! Fine, I am ready to marry you!"

The mouths of Rudra and Shivaay detangled from jaws as they heard Om.

"Ask Kaali to arrange for masala tea and samosas. We are coming with proposal."

Though Om went away without waiting for a second more, everyone remained rooted.

While some tiny flies around them were deliberating whether to enter those gaping mouths.

._._._.

"Are you mad Om?" Rudra and Shivaay shouted in unison.

"Which fool gets married like that, to any possible woman?" Shivaay came, following Omkara in his room.

"Chulbul left the job, left this city for you Om! And you are wasting her sacrifice like this! Are you that desperate?" Rudra was on top of his voice.

"But it all started due to Chulbul. If she had told us everything, this problem wouldn't have occured." Omkara mumbled, while putting back the luggage he had packed, "Now I have promised Swetlana, I can't back off!"

"And what about your vow of celibacy! How can you break that?" Shivaay was not getting the logic, "You won't talk to Kali anything. I'll talk to him. This marriage can never happen!"

"Shivaay Bhaiyya is right. You are not going to marry her!" Rudra had a final tone.

"Why don't both of you understand?" Om didn't know how to let them know, "Chulbul has promised Swetlana! If I didn't marry her, she would accuse her of cheating!" He was already disturbed by those words of Swetlana.

Rudra and Shivaay were speechless.

"Oh. So you can call Chulbul a cheater. But won't like Swetlana to do the same!" Shivaay was serious.

"That is because I still consider Chulbul as my friend", although he was hurt by her lie, "In her absence it's my duty to fulfill words given by her!" Omkara couldn't bear the insult of his friend. "I don't like when someone talk bad about her!"

Shivaay sighed, not understanding the matter and of this Crazykara, "Om, you know what you are doing!"

Om had cooled down a bit as he replied, "Yes Shivaay", but he had to clear one thing, "But it doesn't mean that I have forgiven Chulbul. I can't forget how she lied and ruined my life." He was deeply hurt by the betrayal.

Saying so, he ended the conversation, leaving Rudra and Shivaay to look at each other.

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