EARLIER THAT NIGHT

DEV'S P.O.V.

A while ago I was all carefree and relaxed.........driving to my dii's place with my buddy Pranay besides me has always been fun.........now you must be wondering if my dii stays in Bharatpur, well if that's your question than all I have to say is no........not at all.........my dii stays very much in Jaipur..........infact she stays very close to my place.......it's just that we have been driving back to Jaipur to my dii's place..........

Now you must be wondering what's Pranay doing with me.........well both of us had gone to Bharatpur to visit our factory site.........the factory site has been under maintenance for the past 6 months and me and Pranay make it a point to give it a personal visit atleast once in a month...........so that's the reason why we are here right now......

Yaar Dev.........main soch raha tha ki ab tujhe shaadi kar hi leni chahiye..........

(yaar Dev.........I strongly feel you should get married now)

Throwing daggers at my one and only best buddy, I punched him lightly in his stomach, as he coughed his breath back much to my amusement..........now common, I hadn't punched him this hard to get this reaction from him........

Bass karo jeejajii.........itni nautanki acchi nahin.........dii se complaint kar dunga main.........phir khana unki maar.......

(enough jeejaji.........this much of drama isn't good........I'll complain to dii.........then be ready to be whacked by her.......)

He pulled the bottle of water lying on my car backseat and gulped down almost half of it before answering back........

Haan haan dii ke chamche.........kar de meri complaint apni dii se......main usse darta hoon kya........waise bhi teri dii sirf tere saamne sher hai..........mere saath to bheegi billi banke rehti hai woh.........

(go ahead dii's favorite..........go ahead and complain about me.......I'm not scared of her..........as it is she's a tigress only infront of you.......she stays like a timid kitten with me........)

He pulled up his imaginary collars as I scoffed at his audacity.........just last week he had been forced to sleep in the living room of his 2bhk...........reason?...........he had forgotten to wish dii on her birthday.........now which man forgets his wife's birthday?.........that too within two years of marriage.........

Yes, they had been married for the past two years...........happily married I would say..........the opposition from my Dad and the society buffs on a whole didn't bother them at all...........for them their love alone is enough...........Dad had been always against their relationship............if it was upto him than they would have never got married.........I still remember how voraciously he had reacted when he first came to know about their affair from Pranay's father........just like dad, he too wasn't in favor of their relationship........

But then why fear when dii's baccha Dev's here..........as always I convinced dad and he allowed them to get married..........but on one condition...........they would never step into our villa, not at any cost.........dii agreed instantly, coz she knew for sure that Pranay loves her truly, and not her wealth..........but then she's her father's daughter too...........she moved out of the Villa on a condition that although she would be denied an entry into the Villa, she will retain her position in office, no one would snatch that away from her.....and so it was...........

Just when we were driving towards Jaipur, we happened to spot a girl at the entrance of the Bharatpur Railway Station, he state dismantled.......her expressions worried..........she looked scared as she shivered in the cold December night, stranded and alone.........she was constantly looking behind her to check on someone.........and as I guessed it right, someone was following her..........

We halted our car at once and walked upto her.........she looked scared, very scared.........her breath was heavy and her hair was all sprawled over her face..........she dropped her suitcase at one side before approaching us for help.........Pranay did manage to ask her why she was here at this hour of the night before she ran towards me and clung to my blazer..........

Please help me out..........there are these guys who are following me.........please take me out of this place..........I need to reach home..........

Will I be called a despo if I say that I enjoyed every bit of this situation..........on a chilly december night, a girl as beautiful as this one was clinging onto my blazer as if her life depended on me........I know this situation was supposed to be a serious one........it was supposed to be that hour of the night when we were supposed to be helping out a girl in distress..........but still I wished the night would stall there..........Pranay and the rest of them just disappear from the scene...........and then it would be just the two of us........

Just as my thought process was catching up its pace, I see 4 hefty build guys move towards us, all set to grab hold of the girl in my arms.........I managed to push her behind us as me and Pranay got busy fighting the goons........they were quite tough to be frank, Pranay managed to ground one of them while I held on to two with a lot of difficulty..........just as Pranay was about to catch hold of the 4th one, he managed to leap past us and tear off her top sleeve........

Now that was enough to raise my temper..........he had to be kidding me, how dare he touch my girl infront of me?...........I wonder what's got into my head, why am I constantly referring to her as if she's some treasured possession of mine?.........anyways, before the situation could get out of control, I managed to grab a rod lying nearby and smash it into his head before he could touch her again......

She opened her mouth for a second and closed it immediately thereafter, but before I could react further or frame a sentence, she collapsed into my arms...........she seemed as delicate as feather as me and Pranay tried to wake her up from her slumber.........but she chose to remain as dazed out as she was............probably this was how our destiny was written, together...........may be this was how the two of us were supposed to meet...........my angel, my lifeline..........Sonakshi Rathore!!!!!!!!

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Yaar Dev...........ab ise kahaan chodein?........na naam pata hai na ghar..........aur kriti ko pata chal gaya ki humari gaadi mein ek ladki hai, woh bhi itni beautiful.........yaar tujhe to luch nahin karegi par mujhe pakka peet degi..........

(yaar Dev.........where do we drop her now?.........we don't even know her name or where she stays.......and if kriti comes to know that we have a beautiful girl in our car along with us.......she won't say anything to you but she's definitely going to beat me up.......)

Kriti.........that's what Pranay fondly called my dii........he's so madly in love with her that he would never bother to defy any word of hers..........just a while ago he was busy boasting how my dii is scared of him...........and look at him now........he seems to be so scared of her...............

Abhi kuch der pehle tu bade dinge haanp raha tha..........ki dii kaise tujhse darr darr ke rehti hai.........aur ab aise baat kar raha hai jaise koi saanp tujhe soong gaya ho.......

(just a while ago, you were busy boasting about how scared dii is of you..........and now you are behaving as if you have seen a ghost.......)

Chuckling at his sorry state, I continued driving towards Jaipur as the person in question continued being unaware of the incidents happening around her..........she continued lying still on the backseat of our car where I had put her after rescuing her from those dangerous looking goons.........purely angelic, that's all I could say about her right now...........

Itna mat ghoor use............nazar lagayega kya use..........

(don't stare at her so much.........do you want to cast an evil eye on her...........)

Oh god............this Pranay I tell you...........he always has his hawk eyes on me..........even if there's a crowd of around 5000 people, this man always succeeds in guessing what all I have been thinking about in this brilliant brain of mine.........

Shut up yaar Pranay..........main toh bass yehi dekh raha tha ki use hosh toh nahin aaya?

(shut up yaar Pranay...........I was just wondering if she's awake)

Pranay titled his head and smirked a devilish one at me...........I could see him from the corner of my eyes, but I chose to conveniently ignore him............dii's right, this man's got the nerves to change the most dreadful situation into a light hearted one..........just like he did a while ago, when he managed to relieve all my stress when we had to fight the goons..........

Waise jabse yeh ladki tujhe mili hai..........tabse dekh raha hoon, tujhe toh mera dhyaan hi nahin hai..........kahin tujhe isse pyaar vyaar toh nahin ho gaya?...........toh kya ab main kriti se keh sakta hoon ki woh apne bhai ke haath peele kar sakti hai?

(I have been watching you for a while now, since the time you have met this girl, you have hardly paid any attention to my talks.........have you fallen for her or something?...........should I tell kriti that she should be prepared to watch her brother walk up the aisle?)

Over dramatic Pranay...........how can he even feel that I've fallen for this girl...........infact how can he even think that I can fall for any girl.........that too at this point of my career.........when preparing for the admissions at MNIT University..........and the only condition to get admitted in my dream college was that, you need to be single........

No ways Pranay.........main iss waqt shaadi ke baare mein soch bhi nahin sakta..........tujhe pata hai na, mujhe MNIT university mein admission lena hai..........duniya ka sabse bada architect banna hai........isiliye please, tu dii se meri shaadi ki baat bilkul na karna........please...........

(no ways Pranay...........I can't even think about getting married at this point.........you know I'm preparing to get admitted into the MNIT university, I wish to become the best architect in the country..........and that's why I want you to avoid talking about my marriage to dii.........please)

He nodded understandingly, if there was anyone in this world who could understand me entirely after dii, then it has to be Pranay.........he had always been there for me in need........whenever I found myself in a fix, unable to make a decision...........Pranay had been there to help me out...........whenever I had fought with dad, I had turned to Pranay who would calm me down instantly........

You are right Dev.........aur waise bhi, main toh bass teri taang kheench raha tha.........tu na tension mat le..........tu khoob padhai kar, main hoon naa baaki sabko sambhaalne keliye........

(you are right Dev..........and I was just pulling your leg, you don't have to worry about anything, you just concentrate on your career, I'm there to take care of the rest.........)

We search this girl's bag and find her ID card, so she was a student of the Meera Girls college...........a commerce student..........she belonged to Jaipur and probably had been stranded at the Bharatpur Railway station unable to find a train which could take her to Jaipur.........no issues, we would take her to her place..........tracking the address written on the reverse of her ID card on our GPS, we managed to drive her to her residency, where another storm was waiting her us........

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