KaYa OS: Patching Up

KaYa OS: Patching Up

Ananya gulped, still in shock.

“Yes you heard it right Ananya! I want that money back right now otherwise you are fired on spot. Go and look for another job and then pay it back with interest.” Shreya told Ananya.

Ananya couldn’t see the reason as of why Shreya was being so mean with her all of a sudden. She tried to reason, “But Shreya why can’t I pay it back by working in KKN? You can cut it off from my salary. Why will I be fired?”

Shreya gritted her teeth, if Ananya doesn’t leave KKN then Kabir will never be able to forget her and she will never be able to win Kabir. She had to fire her somehow and using the 5 lakhs money payback she wanted to throw Ananya out of KKN as soon as possible because she had no other excuse to do so as Ananya was exceptionally good at reporting.

“I said you are fired!” Shreya shouted. She was really furious after what Kabir had done with her the previous night. He had told her that she will never be able to take Ananya’s place in his life and that had hurt her ego to such an extent that she just could not keep the “I’m such an angel” mask on anymore. She had to come into the field to play.

“But Shre…”

“Oh just shut up! I don’t want to see you in KKN ever again, just leave will you! That money I gave you was with terms and conditions and it says that if you don’t pay back within 24 hours then you are legally fired.” Shreya scorned.

Ananya was shocked. Shreya had played a very big game with her and now she had no choice but to leave the job. Until now Shreya was always trying to be a well-wisher but all of a sudden she was saying that she didn’t want to see her face. Was this her true color? Did she do everything on purpose? What could be her main purpose?

A male voice that Ananya more than just recognized broke her out of her thoughts, “…Ek Minute Shreya!” Both Ananya and Shreya turned around and saw Kabir walking in, in his elegant manner, it was almost like there was a really cool background music with every step that he took.

Kabir came and stood in front of Shreya, “Yeh lo…” he handed her an envelope.

Shreya opened the envelope and saw a cheque with an amount of ‘8 Lakhs’ and it was signed by Kabir.

“Kabir yeh…” Shreya looked at him in surprise.

“Pure aath lakh hai Shreya, “Kabir smirked, “Tumhare contract mein likha hai ki Ananya ko within 24 hours 5 lakhs plus 3 lakhs interest pay karna hai, haina?”

“Magar yeh toh tumhare paise hai Kabir aur Ananya ke nahi so technically she’s fired!” Shreya was boiling with anger now, but she tried to sound shrewd and still in a winning position.

“Contract mein likha hai paise lautana hai…and yeh hai paise Shreya…who kahin se bhi laut ke aaye…” Kabir told her and Shreya’s smile disappeared.

“Ek minute Kabir sir! Main aapse paise nahin lungi!” Ananya told him rudely, by now she was out of the shock. Hearing this Shreya’s evil smile returned again, she loved this fact about Ananya. She had such a huge self-respect that she would never take money from Kabir and voluntarily leave the job.

Ananya tried to continue, “Main yeh job…”

“Chup Ananya! Bilkhul chup!” Kabir said in a very stern voice making her gasp loudly. “Tumhe har cheez khel kyun lagta hai? Job koi bachon ka khel hai jab jee mein aya chor diya?” he scolded her.

“Meri job hai. Meri marzi! Loan maine liya hai aur mujhe aap ke paise nahi chahiye. Kyun aap meri help karna chahte hain?” Ananya retorted.

“Kyunki yeh sab meri wajah se hua hai. Shreya is trying to make your life miserable because of me. Wo yahan mujhe haasil karne aayi thi aur mujhe paane ke liye wo tumhe target kar rahi hai aur main nahi chahat ki iss khel mein meri wajah se koi aur harm ho, samjhi tum? Yeh sab tumhare bare mein nahin hai! Tum sirf ek mohra ho iske khel mein! Yeh khel mere saath khel rahi hai toh sahi lekin tumhare saath nahin khelni chahiye!” Kabir shouted, trying to knock some sense into her head, “So Miss Kashyap I am not ding you a favor. I am just keeping you out of the game because I don’t want this shrewd woman to spoil someone’s life because of me as at the end of the day I am the one who has to live with all the guilt, you get that straight?”

Shreya looked at Kabir, astonished. He had turned the tables in less than one minute. He was on the winning side in no time and her brain was just not functioning as to how to bring things in her favor now. She was losing the game. Ananya stood rooted to the spot, staring at Kabir as he was huffing in anger after conveying his point. She realized that this was Shreya’s reason for acting all goody-good since the start, she wanted Kabir back in her life and Ananya was the hindrance. She was shocked at her evil motive yet she was not willing to forgive Kabir because whatever the case was, the fact remained that he was involved in her father’s murder and she could never forgive him for that. She could not take the money from Kabir, no matter what.

“Maine kaha na ki main aap se paise nahin lungi!” Ananya told him.

Kabir lost his cool, which he had been trying to keep all this while. “Ananya!” he held her by the shoulders and pulled her close, “Tum ek baar maturely kyun nahi soch sakti??” he asked angrily.

“Aap toh bahot mature hai, haina?” Ananya asked rudely, “Maturely kya kiya aapne? Mere papa ke murder ko chupa liya? Mature hone se kya mila aapko? What the bloody hell happened from being mature Kabir!?” Ananya shouted, struggling in his strong hold.

“You’re alive Ananya! for god’s sake!” he screamed, tightening his hole on her, “Can’t you see that? Because of being mature you are still alive, your mom is still alive, Armaan is still alive and my family is still alive! Yes everyone is alive because I behaved maturely. I had no gain from your father’s death. Do you have any idea how much I cried because I couldn’t bring justice to him? But no I couldn’t because I had to take into consideration the lives of people involved. I could NOT risk the lives of everyone!” he left her abruptly and punched a photo-frame on the wall which came crashing down loudly and blood oozed out from his hand yet he did not care but it had shocked Ananya enough that she was ready to listen to him once in for all.

“Tumhe kya lagta hai haan, ki RG doodh peeta bacha hai jise khilaona dikha kar jail mein band kar sakte hain? Usne tumhare papa ke sath jo kiya uska ek bhi sabot nahi chora..Khiladi hai wo iss khel mein! Agar main chup nahi baitha toh aaj hum yahan nahi hote balki humari laashein aise jagah gayab kardi jaati ki kisi ko kabhi milti bhi nahi! Mujhe sab ke bare mein sochna tha Ananya. Mera kya haq tha itne saare zindagiyon par ki main sab dao par laga deta ek sach baahar lane ke liye? Tumhare dimaag yeh baat kyun nahi jaati ki yeh koi bachhon ka khel nahi hai? Ek galati aur sab ko khatra ho sakta hai…samjho iss baat ko damn it!” he banged his hand on the desk and left the office, leaving a crying Ananya behind.

Finally Ananya had understood why Kabir had done what he had done. He was extremely helpless, and if he had not acted maturely then no one would have been alive today. He could not risk so many lives. She dropped to the floor crying, she had lost trust in the man who could die for her. Why was she so blinded by the half-truth that she refused to listen to him. If only she had been mature enough to give him one chance, why couldn’t her brain think that a man who was literally ready to die with her would never ever hurt her. He was just trying to protect her. She herself tried looking for proof but failed, Kabir was right RG could kill a person and get his entire identity disappeared in one night and no one would ever know what happened. She had to talk to Kabir. She had to apologize to him, but before that she had one more thing to do. Ananya stood up, wiping her tears.

She walked to Shreya and looked her in the eye, Shreya was still shocked at all that happened minutes ago. “Shreya, I forgot to say thank you…” saying that Ananya gave a tight slap to Shreya right across her face so hard that when Shreya looked up, Ananya could see the print of her fingers on Shreya’s cheek. “Stay away from Kabir and me! You are never going to get him. He. Is. Mine.” Saying that Ananya walked out of her cabin, she had to manofy her man.

Ananya stood at Kabir’s doorstep, skeptical how to face him. She had hurt him more than he could bear. She had totally torn him apart. He had given her so much love and what she given him in return? She had to make things right, now.

She tried to knock on his door but it was open, she slowly walked in and her eyes fell on blood spots on the floor. She saw a few broken glasses and knew that he had hurt himself further after coming home. Ananya walked to the living room and saw Kabir sitting on the sofa, looking down. She saw his hand, it was bleeding profusely. She gasped in pain, “Kabir!” she ran to him and took her hands in his kneeling in front of him, that made Kabir come out of his thoughts.

Kabir looked at her for a moment then pulled his hand back and stood up, “Ananya jao yahan se please! Mujhe akele chor do…”

“Kabhi nahi!” Ananya told him abruptly standing up.

She ran to the kitchen and fetched the first-aid box. 

Ananya tried to take Kabir’s hand but he snatched it back, she took it again and he again snatched it. “Kabir!” she shouted and pushed him on the sofa and sat beside him. She took iodine and tried to clean his wound. The wound was so deep that he winced loudly as the cream made contact with it. “Sorry!” Ananya mumbled and brought his hand to her lips and blew on it. Fresh tears streamed down her eyes as she saw the amount of pain he was going through, she slowly cleaned his wound and applied anti-septic cream then carefully bandaged his wound. Kabir did not look at here even once, she knew he was trying to hide his hurt and his eyes spoke volumes. If he looked at her then his eyes would reveal everything to her.

“Kabir…” Ananya said and cupped his face slowly, trying to make him look at her but he stood up looking away.

“Jao Ananya!” he said sternly.

“Nahi!” she retorted.

“I said leave!” he shouted.

“Nahi jaungi! Nahi jaungi! Nahi jaungi! Kya karloge aap haan? Kya karoge?” Ananya challenged him. Kabir looked at her angrily but she did not back off, “Boliye boliye kya karenge mujhe yahan se dhakke maarke nikalenge? Bol…” and Ananya could not complete her sentence, she was pinned to the wall and Kabir was kissing her passionately. He bit her lower lip, angrily and she gasped from the sweet pain which gave him access to her mouth. Kabir deepened the kiss and Ananya closed her eyes, pulling him closer. The amount of passion in the kiss could break the scale of passion. Ananya tried to keep up with his rhythm but he was too demanding, not that Ananya minded. The way he was exploring her mouth, gave Ananya goose-bumps. She had never felt this way before. She felt his hands under her top and a moan escaped her mouth as she felt his hands exploring her waist and stomach.

He moved from her lips and gave open mouth kissed from her neck to her shoulders. In one moment, her shrug was on the floor and the straps of her top lay loosely half-way on her shoulder. Kabir pulled her hair and bit the soft spot on her neck. She didn’t realize when her hands went under his chest and she was feeling his chiseled chest and back, pulling him closer, wishing he would never stop his sweet torture.

Thirty minutes later, clothes lay scattered around the house as Kabir and Ananya lay panting, thankful they had made it to the bed. They had never imagined that their passion would cross all limits today. Kabir and Ananya lay sideways, wrapped in white sheet looking into each other’s eyes. Ananya kissed the tip of his nose, “I love you…” she placed her hand on his cheek and he moved his head a bit and kissed her palm as she continued, “I am really sorry for not listening to you. Aaj ek waada karti hoon aapse ki kabhi aapki puri baat sune bina main react nahi karungi…”

“I’m sorry too!” Kabir said, tangling his hand with hers and kissing the back of her hand, “Mujhe aaj apne limit ko…”

“Shhh!” Ananya said, placing her finger on his lip which he kissed, “Humaare pyaar ki koi limit hai hi nahi…my love for you is limitless and forever…” she smiled at him.

“Never leave me again Ananya…” Kabir said pulling her closer, engulfing her in a beautiful hug.

“Promise… but aapko bhi ek promise karna hoga…” Ananya looked up at him, as her head was on his chest.

“Kya?” Kabir asked, kissing her forehead.

“Aap mujhse kabhi kuch bhi chupayenga nahi…khud bata denge…aur main bhi yahi karungi taaki kabhi dobara galati se bhi koi misunderstanding nahi ho…” Ananya told him, caressing his hair with her free hand.

“Pakka promise!” Kabir said, smiling.