Sagar's POV
" But we are partners we must have a discussion together. " Sahil said.
" I understand bhai but please handle it this time. Next time I will definitely come. " I said to him.
" No Sagar you need to get over this silly thing. You need to get on with your life. You have already wasted one precious year of your life. We almost lost you... You kept looking for her for many years and I know that you are still looking for her. But enough is enough !! If she doesn't care about you, then why are going mad after her. "
" Sahil, please you know I loved her."
" Yes, you loved her... But she is not here. You can't keep running after a mirage. I can't see you like this, Bhai"
" What do you mean by like this?? I am fine... "
" Oh please, shut up or I will beat you to death. I don't want to see you half-dead crying for someone like this. It's better, If I kill you with my own hands." Sahil said furiously.
" You are overreacting... " I said with a smile.
" No Sagar... I am not. You are overreacting. I have had enough of it. All your friends are getting settled and you are still holding on your past. You don't even know, if she loved you back or not. Please, Sagar, come out of her shadow. I beg of you. It kills me to see you like that. "
" All our friends are getting settled and you are telling me to settle down then why don't you settle down? " I said.
" I am not the marriage type... I don't believe in love. Look what has love, done to you. I don't do love, I don't want to get involved with anyone. I am happy like this. " Sahil said.
" Ok calm down !!! What do you want me to do..? " I asked him.
" Come with me to meet Samar. Even a new architect is coming from Dubai tomorrow. I have heard that she is amazing and has designed some of the very famous buildings there. Let's concentrate on our new business. "
" Ok fine... You go tomorrow. I have some work here which dad told me to do. He has a meeting with the owner of a big land which dad is interested in then he has a meeting with a minister tomorrow itself. I will come a day after tomorrow. Is that fine?? "
" Hmm ok. "
" Now go and sleep, you have to get up early tomorrow. "
" No, I want to sleep here like old times. " Sahil said, slipping in my bed. "
" No, get out of my bed you moron. You always push me from the bed. I don't want to share a bed with you. " I said with fake anger.
" You have no choice, we even shared mom's womb so what is the problem in sharing this four-poster bed? " he made a funny face at me.
" Ufff... you are so stubborn, Sahil. Fine sleep here. " I said and he hugged me and slept within minutes.
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I got up to see that Sahil was gone... I did my daily routine. I attended the meeting with the owner of that land and then attended the meeting with dad and minister. The day proved to be fruitful. It was 3 PM and now as I promised I need to go and pack for my trip to Chandigarh.
My phone was on silent mode. When I opened the phone I was shocked to see 45 missed calls from Sahil.
What is wrong with him? I got worried and called him back. He picked up on the second ring.
" Where the hell you were?? I have been calling you for two hours. "
" Calm down, Sahil !!! Are you alright?"
" I am fine, but you need to be here right now. Just get into the car and come here right now."
" Why are you behaving like this? What happened? "
" Just get into the car and come here... I want to finish it once and for all. "
" Calm down Sahil... Bhai please tell me what happened?"
" Listen either you come or I am going to pretend that I am Sagar and do the needful. Just don't blame me afterwards. "
" What ?? I am coming. But tell me What is wrong?? Why are you so worked up? Why do you need to pretend to be me? Sahil say something dammit. "
" I can't tell you anything while you are travelling just come here as soon as possible before I lose my temper and kill someone. "
" You are scaring me, please tell me what happened? "
" No !! Come fast. "
" Coming, I am coming. Don't do anything stupid. Sahil, please Bhai, I love you... mom dad loves you... Swati loves you too. Don't do anything stupid. "
" Shut up and come fast. " He disconnected the phone.
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" Dad, I need to go to Chandigarh right now, Sahil needs me. "
" Ok, go. "
I reached there and called Sahil. He gave me an address and asked me to come there and I went there.
I saw Sahil he looked like a wounded lion. He looked so angry, I have not seen him like that. I went to him and hugged him tightly.
" What's the wrong Bhai?? Are you alright? C'mon, tell me." But he was panting in anger.
I gave him a glass of water but he pushed it.
" Sahil, what is wrong with you?? Why are you so upset?? Have some water. You will feel better. "
" I want to kill someone, I won't feel better even if I drink the whole bucket of water. "
" Now enough of this nonsense and tell me whom do you want to kill? " I asked.
" Her..." he blurted.
" Her?? A girl ?? Why ?? "
" Because, she might get married to someone else..."
" What?? You are in love with someone ?? She is getting married to someone else... "
" I am not in love and would never be... Not after seeing what love did to you. "
" You are confusing me... Why don't you tell me everything properly? "
" Ok fine... She is here about to get married to someone while you were living like a half-dead zombie... "
" What?? Will you please..."
" Just shut up. I am talking about Damini Shrivastav, the love of your life. She is here... soon, she may get married to Samar. "
" No... " I was shocked.
" Yes... "
" She is here?? "
" Yes"
" You saw her?? "
" With my own eyes. "
" Oh, God ! Thank God !! She is alive. I thought that may be she is no... " I said with relief.
" Thank God??? Did you hear what I said ?? I said she is about to get married very soon. "
" What??? No... She can't do that. "
" She is doing that, Sagar... "
" But she is not married yet. Right?? Tell me, did you meet her? "
" I saw her getting out of the office and slipping into a car. I thought maybe I was wrong. I was on the other side of the road. By the time I reached the other side, she had gone. I had a meeting with Samar but he was not there, so I met with Samar's dad. He was telling me that he was getting old now and want his son to settle down with a nice good girl. He said that he wants Samar to down with a smart, beautiful and talented girl. Then he showed me her pictures. I was shocked to see her so to confirm if I was right or not, I asked her name and he said that her name is Damini Shrivastav. "
" Did you see her?? How does she look now? " I was going mad... I wish I had come with him.
" Sagar.... " he was annoyed.
" Please.... "
" Even better than she used to look earlier. "
" Does Samar knows about it? "
" What ?...That she looks so good? "
" No idiot... that his father is planning his wedding. "
" I don't know... He was down with a high fever today, so he did not come to the office. But how does that matter? "
" It does matter... Maybe he doesn't know... Maybe he doesn't want to get married. Maybe she doesn't want to marry him. "
" Why would he not want to get married to her. She looks much better now than the way she used to look earlier. On top of that, she is a successful architect. "
" What about love... Maybe they don't like each other. "
" Just don't get optimistic now... She doesn't care about you... Or she would not have left without saying anything. "
" I need to see her, Sahil. "
" You will meet her tomorrow... And if you get hurt one more time because of her, she will have to face me as she has to work with me. "
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Damini's POV" That's good, so let's have dinner for now and tomorrow you all can have the meeting, get comfortable with each other and start planning for your big and prestigious project. I have full faith in you Damini. As I would not invest so much in this project as both Samar and I don't know anything about it though I know that it is profitable. "" Thank you, uncle, for having so much faith in me. I will not let you down. Tomorrow, I will study your concept, requirements and tentative plans so that I know what is to be done. We will start working tomorrow. "" My friends are already here, I could not meet them today but we all are meeting tomorrow. " Samar said. We had our dinner and then, I said good night to both of them.The driver dropped me at the guest house and I was about to enter the main door when I saw someone in the balcony of another room. He seemed to be a tall, well built, young man. I couldn't s
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Damini's POVFlashback" Anyway, Thank you, Sahil. "" Hmm?? Oh, ya... by the way, I am not Sahil, I am Sagar. " He said with his killing smile.I had my doubt as he was looking at me in the same way as Sagar used to..." But ma'am made, Sahil sit with me? " I said." So what??? I wanted to sit with you. Did you prefer, Sahil sitting with you? " He said looking at me with some weird expression on his face. The look he was giving me was very intense.I shook my head and looked at his brother, he was grinning again just like his friends.This guy was crazy...I wanted to leave, but I was caged between him and the wall. So I asked him to excuse me. But he kept looking at me." What?? Just now you were smiling when you thought that I was Sahil... and now you know the reality, you want to get away from me? You can smile at Sahil or Yash or that guy whom you gave chocolate, but not me?? "
Sagar's POVFlashbackWe came out of the school and saw an older guy talking to Damini and Anshu. She looked very comfortable with him. He was saying something and they both were smiling at him.He said something to her and she took out the chocolate out of her bag and gave it to him. Why was she giving him chocolate?? I wanted to know what was going on, so I went near them." What?? No arguments, no fights... Are you Damini or someone else? Are you not well?? " He touched her forehead and then her cheeks with the back of his hand. I wanted to break that hand." I am absolutely fine. "You don't have a fever. Did you get an electric shock?? You are not annoying me. Are you upset? Did anything happened today ? " he held her hand and looked concerned. She shook her head and smiled." Are you sure?? You know you can tell me if you are in any problem? " He asked and she smiled at him. Who was he??Why was he talking
Sagar's POVFlashbackAll of a sudden someone whispered yelled her name. She bent to see who it was and I was curious too.I saw It was Anshu... As she was very short she was sitting in the front row." Damini ??? " Anshu whispered loudly again." Hmmm " She bent sidewards to look at her." Damini... Aunty... " Anshu said." Aunty ?? Who ?? " Damini was confused." Mom... " Anshu replied." Mom ?? Whose mom?? "" She is here?? " Anshu face looked tensed." What are you saying? Mom, aunty??? Who is here?? " Damini was irritated." You stupid... Your mom and my aunty is here," she said and Damini looked in that direction and her face became white...So, her mom was here... But why??"Apparently, her mom was the chief guest our principal was talking about.Her mom was also very pretty. It was evident from where, Damini got her gorgeous looks. So all