Hello Arjunians...Today morning, i am in a philosophical mood...and the result is this OS...yes its Arisha but more essentially Aisha And Arjun...
This goes to you Mithu...I hope i have fulfilled ur request in the most possible way i could! PMs not sent as i dont know how many of you will like to read it...
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So here it goes..."Woh lamhe woh baatein..koi na jaane.."
Months flew by...Aisha was a significant part of ETF by now...She had a strong foot hold among the team members as well...Shree and Chotu her best of friends...Sameer had also extended his boundaries and had become more of a friend and guide to her..
Arjun's state of mind was still in a complex mode...yes he and Aisha did share a great professional rapport...Infact, they worked together in nailing Sikandar and Aisha was the backbone of the entire mission supporting him at every single step...Her daredevil brave attitude and brilliant instincts gave him all the required support! Finally, they were successful in encountering him... Arjun had gunned him down and fulfilled his promise to Roshni...
Sikandar's death had left him in a void state...in a vacuum...a feeling that he had nothing more in life! And he had to finally come face to face with the obvious realization that Roshni is gone forever...never to come back...Come what may, the truth remains that she doesnt exist anymore in his world! Just her memories remain...
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His relationship with his chief Rathod was slowly getting better and closer to a stage where he has started longing to get back his Sam, his best friend! yes of course, oblivious to himself!
Aisha's instincts about Arjun and Sameer's had turned her to the right direction...She realized that they had a happy past where her ever conflicting seniors shared a cordial friendly relationship...she wished to see them back there...And so she left no opportunities she got to do that...
She was happy to see that happening finally even if it were in a slow pace...
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One evening...a long hovering case was solved and the entire team was relieved off the tension...Rathod left office soon after as he had to meet the commissioner...
Shree was in a prankster mood and that day he had found something to tease Aisha...he walked up to Aisha and coughed to grab her attention...Aisha who was engrossed into her laptop knew Shree's prank calls and so she grinned to herself and tried to ignore him...But as he started reading something out from the paper he held in his hand, her eyes went wide open and she looked up
Shree started reading...
"A surprise call during the day to say "I Love You"
A small hug when I least expect it..."Arjun: bohat dher ho gayi hai...akele kaise jaavogi?...main tumhe drop kar dehtha hoom...chalo...
Aisha was too exhausted to protest today...So she nodded and went with him...
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The drive was silent...Aisha was looking out of the window not wanting to show him her tears which were becoming uncontrollable today...She never wanted anybody to see her tears nor her grief struck face...She put up a brave and stern face always...
But Arjun wasnt naive not to notice her vulnerability...He had seen her tears too...He also knew the reason...
She was a woman of different shades...and he had seen almost every shade of it...Nothing went unnoticed from him...be it the arrogant egoistic side which always gave him back tit for tat replies...or the dare devil brilliant side who shouldered him equally in his entire operation to kill Sikandar...or be it the bubbly girlish side which he had seen tonight during her friendly casual conversation with Shree...But that side also brought with it her memories of her happy and tragic past...
And he understood that her tears were remnants of those haunting memories...
When he had killed Sikandar, he had tears of joy and a sense of content in his eyes...and he was stunned when he had seen the same in her eyes too...it wasnt just a cop's victorious smile that adorned her face when she thrust all the bullets into his already dead body...it was much more...it was anger, a sadness, a satisfaction, a sense of a vow fulfilled...He had sensed all of it on her face...
And it was much later that he had known from Rathod that she too had a similar past as his in which her entire family was brutally murdered by Sikandar...Only difference being that she wasnt a witness to it...She had been away on a college tour when her dear ones were killed...She had regretted the time when she had decided on going for that tour...If not for that, she would have been with them today...but then, she realized that she had a purpose now...and swore to herself that she would avenge their death...and thats when she decided to join police force...her only aim being at that point was to kill the demon who had brutally taken away every dear one she had in her life...who were much more precious than her own life to her...
Both were lost in their own world...not wanting to break that line of thoughts...Both knew the others past but never made it evident to the other that they knew it...
Some things were best left undeclared...unspoken...
Arjun halted the car near her house...She thanked him and opened the door after bidding a faint bye...
As she got down, he called her "Aisha..."
Aisha looked up at him "yes sir"
Arjun: [after a long pause when they kept looking at each other] kuch nahi...[after a little moment]..take care...
Aisha smiled and nodded...
A song crooned out from a not so far road side tea stall...
zindagi ke safar mein guzar jate hain jo makam,
woh phir nahin aate,woh phir nahin aate!
zindagi ke safar mein,guzar jate hain jo makam
woh phir nahin aate, woh phir nahin aate
phool khilte hain, log milte hain
phool khilte hain,log milte hain magar
patjhad main jo phool murjha jate hain
woh baharon ke aane se khilte nahin
kuchh log ek roz jo bichad jate hain
woj hazaron ke aane se milte nahin
umr bhar chahe koi pukara kare unka naam
woh phir nahin aate, woh phir nahin aate
A song which teaches the most cruel reality of our life...the time, the moments, the people who have gone past us will never ever come back into our life...
But...but "Life doesn't stop at that...it goes on...and for that, we have to move on..."