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WHAT HAPPENED IN VENICE….( CHAPTER 2)
Abhijeet: kya Tarika, aaj yaha ana jaruri tha kya? Aaj hum hotel mein nahi reh sakte the, sirf hum dono? Just you and me?
Tarika: abhijeet yeh karna jaruri tha! Ese kaam akhri samay tak nahi rakhne chahiye!
Abhijeet made a face and said: Tarika kal hum ne itna adventures chej ki and aaj "shopping"?
Tarika looked to him and said in a consoling kind of voice: abhijeetji, hume saab ke liye kuch na kuch lana hai, itni baadi list di hai saab ne, saab lena hi hai, samjhe? So jab hum taxi se bahar nikle, tab hum saari chije lenge and then vapas challenge, okay pati ji?
Abhijeet smiled even though he did not want to
Abhijeet: thik hai, pehele kiska gift?
Tarika: hain, good boy! (she pinched his cheeks, he smiled, she continued) okay pehele (she took out a list, and looking into it….) pehele, shreya ka lele? Usne kaha tha uske liye chocolates and necklace lana hai, yaha ek special milta hai, that one….
Abhijeet : kitni deer lagegi issmein tarru?
Tarika looked up from the list to him, smiled sympathetically: abhiiiiiiiiiiii, time ka muze nahi pata, I am trying my best, hume yaha, kaha kuch milega, kioi idea nahi hai, aur dhundhane mein din bhar lag jayega na! come on….. please, aur salunke sir ka toh pata nahi kaha milega! (she said, thinking something) time toh lag hi jaye ga abhi.
Abhijeet whispered to himself : yaar yeh dr sahab toh muze apne honeymoon pe bhi Tarika ke saath shanty se beithne nahi deinge!
Tarika: tumne kuch kaha ?
Abhijeet: mein…meinne, kaha, nahi toh… um….. dekho hum aagaye! Chalo, cahle?
They both got off the taxi, abhijeet paid and after he did, she held his hand and they started walking.
They both were talking to each other, joking, flirting, and having fun.
Tarika: abhijeet…..ah ah ah ah!abhijee….
Suddenly she started coughing badly, she could not stop, and she was bending down, and coughing which seemed to really hurt her, abhijeet was trying to make her feel better,
Abhijeet : Tarika, Tarika, upar dekho, are you okay? Tarika…. ek ek ek minute hain!
He ran to bring some water for her, he asked around and a generous old women gave him some, he came back to where Tarika was standing, coughing her lungs out, to not find her there anymore.
He came to where she was standing; he looked around to not find her anywhere, where the hell was she, where did she go?
Abhijeet started looking around trying to find his wife. He asked around, no one seemed to see her, here or go anywhere, oh god, now he started panicking, he just showed her that he would not ever leave her side, her hand, never leave her alone, and now he was here, trying to find her in a country that was so unknown to the both of them.
Where was he supposed to find her? Where should he go? Back to the hotel? Some shop? She could be in some shop nearby maybe! Maybe she thought he went there? He should try. Thinking this he was about to go into a shop, when he thought he should call her, he should have thought about it before! God losing her messed with his brain!
He called her, the phone was ringing, but she was not picking it up! He kept trying again and again, he remembered she had kept it on the table in the hotel room after she finished talking with shreya and Purvi, she must have forgotten it there!
Now he had no other choice, he started searching for her, here and there, he went into every shop there was, and he searched everywhere asked everyone. She was nowhere! Where was she?
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She looked up coughing to not find abhijeet, she heard him say something, but she did not understand what, she looked around still coughing bad, desperately trying to find him, where did he go? How could he leave her alone, in a country that she had no idea about!
"trika, yeh time nahi hai usse dosh deneka, usse phone kar ke dekhti hu!" she thought before putting her hand in her pocket that was empty,she searched all her pockets to find no hone in them! Oh god she had forgotten it in the hotel room!what was going on? Now how was she supposed to find him? Where the hell was he?
She started asking around. She asked a little boy, a young girl, a couple,
She was scared, angry, desperate, disoriented, no one seemed to have seen him, no one know him, and no one had a clue of where he was.
She was trying to find him for a long time, about an hour or so, she was going round in circles for half an hour but now she was quite away from where she was when she lost him, she had no idea how she came here, and no idea how to go back to where she started, now she was regretting the very idea of moving from the place, he would have come back in a second maybe, why did she have to move," oh stupid, stupid, me" she thought , now there was no going back, she could go back to the hotel, or call him from a phone booth, yes this was good!
She looked around asked around and found a booth, and thank god she had money with her, little but still she did!
She went into the booth, picked up the receiver, and started to dial, half way through she realized that he had a different no here in Venice; he was using another one, which she did not remember.
He was giving up now; it had been an hour more, she had been searching for 2 hours straight, were they going to find each other or no, she was considering the thought of going back, back to the hotel, but the key to the room was with abhi, this was getting worse by every idea she had!
She was too scared to stand up, the whole universe was going against them meeting, she put her back to the booth's wall and slid down, she gave up ,"now let him find her" , she thought as tears streamed down her cheeks.
She was sitting in a booth, in Venice, Italy, away from her husband on her honeymoon, in an unfamiliar country, with a brain full of stupid ideas that would take her back to him, a extremely scared and heavy heart, watery eyes, and no ray of hope whatsoever!
But then she felt something, her heart twich, something, like a feeling that he was near, like the clichéd feeling they show in the movies, but she was desperately in need to find him, she was going to take the chance, she stood up with a little hope that he would be standing at the booth's door, with his beautiful eyes and sweet, caring and soothing smile, and open arms that she would run into when she see him.
She stood up to find a guy with black jacket on, somewhat similar to abhijeet's, but when she looks at the face, her hopes churched, it was a gross looking man, with filthy long beard and 'stach and hair, a bikers t'shirt, jeans that were too dirty to wear, he had a bad bruise on his right cheek, he had lost his tooth second to the left, maybe in a street fight, his expression were too damn scary, she tried to come out of the booth, but the man kept blocking her way, on purpose.
If she was scared before, she was terrified no,she did not think a thing, she just pushed the man, which was difficult because he was quite heavy, and ran away, in the middle of a quite isolated street, though the street had shops on both the sides, the streets did not have that many people, she ran through the people present on the street, pushing some, hitting some, she was too terrified to turn around and say sorry, she was hurting people that was hurting her and worse she had no idea where she was going…..
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Abhijeet was in a shop trying to find Tarika, only god knew where she was, the shop was on a comparatively secluded street, he was about to ask the owner if he had seen Tarika, by showing him her photo on his phone, when he felt that he saw her run on the street outside the store, he ran outside the store, to see whether it was her, but he did not see anyone running on the street, and besides why would she run right?
He was praying and hoping she was safe and sound and alright,
"oh muze jane ki kya jarurat thi hain?"," usse akela chodne ki kya jarurat thi hain?"
Hey got out of the store, and started walking on the road, that last thing he could do was to make a police complaint, he was a cid officer, maybe they would help him better, great now that's what left, this was ruining their honeymoon.
He was walking on the road, he had reached a beautiful location, there were tresses and bushes and a stunning church, great, Tarika wanted to visit a church, and here I am without her.
He was looking at the church with a painful expression in his eye, he was not looking he was staring, suddenly someone patted on his back, he turned around in a hope that it was her but it was an older gentlemen, not that much maybe in his 40s, with a white long beard, and long hair, in a white long dress , the ones fathers wear, he smiled at abhijeet and abhijeet did not, not that he was being rude, just he had no reason to smile, he had lost the reason he smiled-tarika.
The old man smiled again, this time understanding that something was wrong he asked
Older man: hello, young man, is something wrong?
Abhijeet: yes sir, fa…father? He asked(the older just kept looking at him, he gave no answer)
Abhijeet cont: I, sir I actually lost my ….
The older man said "wife" before abhijeet did. Surprised abhijeet asked "how he knew?"
The older man: son, you are not from Venice, I can tell that, so you are a tourist, and normally people come here for honeymoon, and the way you are searching for her, she is your "WIFE", and you seem to love her a lot, beyond measure! Don't you?
Abhijeet just nodded, he asked to the person,
Abhijeet : sir , umm have you seen her?she….
Before abhijeet could finish the older gentlemen said
The older man smiled : oh son, I have seen a lot of people, and I can see you love her too much, and when two people love each other a lot, they are never too far from each other, and if they are god brings them back together!
Abhijeet just looked down a moved his head, the older man continued
The older man: son, why don't you go in.
Abhijeet looked up: in sir, where in?
The older man: the church, son.
Abhijeet looked irritated now: no sir, I think I should go to the police and report that she is missing.
The older man smiled a compassionate, sweet and reassuring smile; he looked into abhijeet's eyes and said: son, believe in me, and go in, maybe a prayer would help.
Abhijeet did not know any other way, maybe a "dua" would help.
He went into the church, the church was a beautiful one, the carving and paintings the statue, everything was pleasant that gave his unsteady heart a steadiness, something about the place soothed him down, he around, but there was absolutely no one in there, that was better, no one would see his tears while he prayed to get Tarika back, but then he heard someone, someone was crying, not loudly, but softly weeping , he went closer, halfway through, he saw a women, with curly hair, and beautiful yellow dress the same Tarika was wearing, sitting on the steps in front of the big Jesus painting,
He called her name "Tarika" and the woman turned in a flash of a second, he was too happy to even move, he just stood there thanking god to give him back his life, his wife, oh his smile was back, this just proved that she was the source of his smiles.
He could not think about anything but her when she got up and ran to him, when he stood there, right there thanking god that she was back with him, safe and sound, crying and unhappy/now happy, but safe. She came to him and buried her face in his chest, she did not utter a word, and she was just close to him, clutching on his coat, with her face buried in his chest, suddenly she came back, still holding the his coat, she held on the coat tight and started to move him by the coat as she said, eyes still watering
Tarika: pagal ho? Hain? Pagal ho? Kaha chale gaye the? Kal bata ya, dikha ya na tumne ki tum muzse kabhi dur nahi jaoge? Fir kyu? Hain? Kyu? Kyu mera haat choda, thodi der ke liye hi sahi kyu muze akela choda? Meri jaan nikal li tumne abhijeet! Kyuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu? Bolo….
She said, she was the angriest he had seen her. He just placed his hand on her hands, stopped her from moving him, and pulled her closer, he placed his hands on her cheeks and kissed her, she was surprised in the starting but she gave in, her anger seem to subside and she became calmer, he knew she could feel how sorry he was, how angry he was on him for leaving her side, how scared he was that he would lose her.
As they parted away, she smiled through the tears, and abhijeet's heart did a back flip, like it always did when she smiled at him.
Abhijeet: I am so sorry Tarika, I am ….. muze please maaf kar do! Please! Main toh bas tumhare liye paani lane gaya tha, vapas aya toh tum nahi thi! I am sorry meine tumhe akela choda!tumhe nahi pata ki muze…
Tarika : nahi, mein bhi toh ruk sakti thi, vahi ruk jati toh ye naubat nahi aati, mein toh bas daar gayi, aur…..
Abhijeet pulled her into a hug and kissed her on the top of her head, he asked
Abhijeet: tum, yaha kese aai Tarika?
Tarika: muze ek bada dangerous sa insaan mila, mein jab tumhe ek phone booth se phone karne vali thi tab…., usne muze pareshan karne ki koshi ki, mein dar gayi aur bhagne lagi, yaha iss church ke saamne ruki, iss church mein chupne chali aai, aur yaha baith gayi, lekin tumhe kese pata chal mein yaha hu?
She asked confused but thankful about his random decision to visit a church!
Abhijeet did not say anything for a while, Tarika looked up at his face when she saw tears in his eyes, and the way he was looking at the painting of Jesus, she did not understand anything.
Abhijeet smiled to himself: you know Tarika, two people who love each other are never too are away, and if they are, GOD finds a way to bring them back agar believe kar key aha andar nahi aya hota toh mujhe tum kabhi nahi milti!
Tarika looked up at his face with a curious expression; abhijeet just brought back a stray strand of hair from her face and smiled at her.
Abhijeet : hotel vapas chalte hai, tab bataunga. You know par muze ek baat aaj samajh aa gayi!
Tarika: voh kya?
Abhijeet: yahi, ki agar galti se humare haat chut gaye , tab bhi humara saath nahi chutega, humara pyar bohot strong hai, hum eek karne keliye toh bhagvan bhi try karta hai!
Tarika was calmer now, she knew he was indicating towards something, but what, she did not know. But she agreed with what he said, their love WAS quite strong….
Tarika: toh tumhara haat pakde bina chalu?
She said mocking him, to which he just smiled, thank god he got her back and vice-e-versa. They were incomplete without each other, this honeymoon was teaching both of them new things about their love and abhijeet like it, and so did Tarika.
Tarika: lekin shopping toh hui hi nahi!
She said disappointed
Abhijeet smiled: koi baat nahi baad mein kar leinge! Abhi chale "abhi" ko bhuk lagi hai.
Tarika smiled and they started walking, but then she stopped in the middle, turned around, made a cross on her heart and thanked god and started walking again, while she did her part abhijeet did his too, he said his thanks to god too.
Then they both walked back to find a taxi to their hotel….. as they wondered what the next day had in store….
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Soooooooooooooo? Liked it? I hope you do! I so hope you do! And I know this is not the typical honeymoon stuff but… I hope you like this too!
Also next one will be private wala, not too much, just a little and thnxs all of you for understanding late updates! I did this fast but next might take time! Though I will update asap!
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