Episode 95 - Rise and Shine

In the night, after dinner, Angela was seen dragging a sleepy Utkarsh through the corridor,




U (sleepy, complaining) - Arey yaar! Bohat neendh aa rahi hai. Sone do na yaaar!


A - Don't be a spoil sport Utkarsh!!




She dragged him into the medical room. As they entered they saw Vidurshi fully covered up in blanket and sleeping. Seeing her sleep, Utkarsh tries to escape but Angela holds him and makes him sit on the chair near to Vidurshi. She goes to Vidurshi and tries to wake her up,




A - Rise and shine sunshine!!


Vi (sleep) - It's night!!!


A - Rise and shine moonlight then!! Utho! Utho!


Vi (angry) - Soney de na meri maa!


A - Nahi!




Angela strips her off her blanket making an angry Vidurshi sit up and look at Utkarsh who was holding his face with palm on his cheek. Angela briskly sits on the other chair with a folded blanket on her lap and,




A - So! India ki story katham. Switzerland ki shuru karo.


Vi (complaining) - Come on!!! Meri story mein tumhe itni diljaspi kyun hai ke soney bhi nahi deyrahi ho!


A - Sirf tumhari nahi. Hum toh sab ki story mein interested the! Be it KriArsh or CharNiti or Parth-Vibha Ma'am and obviously SidYali. Abhi ViHan mein thoda interest aagaya toh galat hai Kya?




Utkarsh raised his hands with bowed head and looked up at Angela,




U - Yeh hum kaun hain. Main kab interested tha!?


Angela stared at him in disbelief!




A - Interested nahi tha? Tu toh SidYali mein poora ka poora invested tha!


U - Aisa bilkul nahi. Main pehley un dono ke against tha. Baad mein bura laga. Isiliye for ki side main aagaya. Warna mera koi interest nahi hai tum ladkiyon ke saath romance discuss karne ka!


Vi (teasing) - Utkarsh trying to be all manly and all huh?


U - What trying? Hoon manly!


A - Tu Alia Bhatt hi theek hai.




As Vidurshi and Angela started laughing,




U - Stop calling me that!


And continued to persuade them into not calling him Alia Bhatt anymore. After they calmed down,




U - By the way Vi, Tu bimaar hui kaise?


A - How else? Iska khayal rakhney ke liye koi nahi tha na, is liye.


Vi - Aisa bilkul nahi hai. Mainey apne aap ka khayal bohat hi ache tareekey se rakha tha. Aur iss bimaari ki wajah main nahi, Rohan hai! Mere upaar paani phek diya!


U - Rohan ney!? Not very gentleman-ny!




Angela looks at Vidurshi with interrogating eyes and,




A (suspicious) - Aur usney aisa kiya kyun?


Vi (unwillingly) - Kyunki mainey pehley uspe paani pheka.


A - I knew it. Kyun?


Vi - I had my reasons. Usne pehley mujhe stupid kaha. Then "kid" kaha and then in the airport he asked me (whispers into Angela's ears) if it's that time of the month.


A (teasing) - Is it!?


Vi - Angela!!!




The two divert their attention to Utkarsh who seemed to be talking to himself,




U - Bichara Rohan. Ussey kya kuch sehna padraha hai? Girls!!


The two look at each other with funny expressions on their faces,




Vi - Isse kya hogaya?


Angela with her palm of her cheek gestured with her other hand meaning she didn't know.




U (like a reporter) - Vidurshi ji, Kya wajah hai ke tum Rohan ke saath aisa salook kar rahi ho?


While Angela was sure that Utkarsh has lost it, Vidurshi looked at him rolling her eyes not sure how she had to respond.




Vi - Well! Yeh sawaal agar tumne pehle poocha hota toh jawaab alag hota. But now.. it's different. And for that, you need to know the backstory!


Utkarsh noded his head and Vidurshi started the story,




Vi - Switzerland jaaney se pehle, packing ke time pe, your friend (Shreya) gave me a peice of advice.




[Flashback resumes]


Vidurshi remembers,




Sh - Mainey suna ke tum ek bohat hi bubbly, positive, cheerful ladki thi. It hurts to see you like this. Woh bhi mere aur Gautam ki wajahse.


Vi - Tumhari koi galti nahi hai.


Sh - Ah! So is it because of Gautam and Rohan?


Vi (surprised) - Tumhe kaise patha?


Sh - I think the whole school knows.... About Rohan.




Vidurshi narrates, Shreya smiled as she packed and spoke to Vidurshi,




Sh - Just because 2 logon nee tumhare saath galat kiya, iska mathlab yeh nahi hai ki you lock yourself up. There are 1000s of people who love you and did right by you.


Vi - Par bura toh lagega hi na!


Sh - Of course! Tumne suna hoga na "Forgive and Forget". I'm not telling you to forgive. But just forget! You're the one suffering, unhe toh kuch nahi milraha hai. Then why let them affect you. Don't hold grudges. Buss bhool ja'o.




Vidurshi rolled here eyes from left to right wondering if she should take Shreya's advise.


[Flash back pauses]




Vi - So I decided, I'll forget my anger. Par friendly bhi behave nahi karoongi. Just act like he was a stranger.




[Flash back resumes]


Vidurshi and Rohan arrive at the campus the music festival was talking place. The campus consisted of acres of land and their residence was arranged inside. But the campus didn't have any fence to restrict itself. It was an open place.


A female staff escorted them to their room which was more like a suit which had two rooms in it and a common area for a table, sofa, television and few other essential items.


Rohan and Vidurshi entered into the suit, looked around and entered into their rooms.


A while later, Vidurshi was seen sitting on the sofa changing channels. She looked at Rohan's room that had closed doors ever since they came. She was bored and explored the room and finding some snacks. She went to her bed, trying to sleep, rolled around. Unable to sleep, she walked out to the balcony on her room stretching herself. Seeing Rohan on the other balcony, she stopped stretching herself and became cautious.




Vi (embarrassed) - Neendh... nahi aa rahi thi.


Rohan just looked at her and gave a little nod. The two looked outside from the balcony. They could enjoy the beautiful view along with a gentle breeze.




Ro - Agar needh nahi aarahi toh, why don't you go for a walk?


Vi - Huh? Nahi!




Vidurshi turned back towards the corridor admiring the view. Rohan looks at her and senses that she was nervous and scared to go out.




Ro - Main walk pe jaa raha hoon. You wanna come?


Vidurshi looked at Rohan with surprise and few seconds later noded her head. The two head back in. Vidurshi takes a duppatta and puts around her. Looking at the mirror, she brushes her hair with her hand, then asks herself who was she trying to look good for and messes up her hair and leaves.


The two walk through the campus and onto the streets side by side but silenly and not talking to each other. In one of the streets, Vidurshi sees three guys almost their age cornering a younger girl




Vi - Hey! What do you think you are doing!


She just walks into the narrow alley angrily wanting to help.




Vi (stern) - Leave her alone!!


They let go the little girl who runs away from there leaving Vidurshi alone. The guys walks towards her,




Boy - Don't worry! Do you need help going somewhere? But a pretty girl like you shouldn't be all alone at a time like this.


Vi - Alone?




Vidurshi turns back to see that Rohan was not behind her, he was far away in the beginning of the alley,




Vi (scared) - Rohan?


He looked at her, shrugged and left. Vidurshi looking backwards widdened her eyes looking shocked. She turned front towards the guys who stood in front of her and didn't seem to have any good thoughts for her.


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