***RECAP
Riddhima opens her eyes and feels armaan's refreshing scent, the scent of his cologne, all too close to her and senses that they have stopped. She quickly jerks back, letting go of his well-built waist.
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Rid - Vo main...mujhe pata nahin chala...ke kab hum ruk gaye...(looking down at the ground)
Arm - It's ok Riddhima...um...(heart racing, thinking of something to say to her)..vo...helmet...
Rid - oh haan, yeh lo (takes off her helmet and hands it to Armaan)
Arm - Thanks...Basket, vo...
(Atul screams from behind Armaan)
Atl - Finally! Tum log pohonchgaye!
Arm - Hey champ (mumbling under his breath sarcastically "vaah...kiya great timing hai teri bhi")
Atl - kuch bola tu ne Armaan?
Arm - nahin...nahin tho...
Rid - Atul, di aur sapna aagayeen?
Atl - haan ridzi, vo log popcorn ke liye lineup mein khari hain..mujhe bahar rakha tha tum dono ki nigranee karne ke liye...James Bond ki tarhan
Rid - So sweet Atul (gives him her beautiful loving smile)
(Riddhima Atul and Armaan walk towards the lineup and greet Anji and Sapna.)
Rid - Di...aap ke liye butter popcorn? Ya phir salty?
Anj - (cooled down about the whole situation, afterall, they are sisters) Ridzi, maine hum dono ke liye order karliya...I know you like butter popcorn
Rid - Thank you di! Aur I'm so sorry ke vo...
Anj - It's ok Ridzi, mujhe itna ghussa nahin hona chahiye tha.
Rid - (Hugs her di and she hugs her back)
Atl - Arrey, hum me se kissi do log ko seat bachane ke liye andar jaana chahiye varna bari sari hui seats mileyngi humay
Arm - Riddhima...chalo (Atul looks at Armaan with an inquisitive look)...uh, vaise bhi tum itna butter popcorn khahogi tho moti hojaogi...
Rid - Shut up Armaan...tumhe kiya lagta hai, jaise ke TUM bohot perfect ho? huh?
Arm - Aisa question hi kyun poochti ho jiska jawab paani se bhi zaada CLEAR hai?
Rid - Please!! Tum na...
Sap - Arrey arrey, tum dono abhi phir se larne lagey? Chalo! Chalo Armaan (pulls him by the sleeve towards the theater. They search for seats.)
Sap - yahan kaisa hai?
Arm - bohot kareeb hai
Sap - (picks another set of seats) yahan kaisa rahega?
Arm - Haan! Perfect seats!
They signal Atul Anji and Riddhima to come their way.
Sap - (still only with Armaan) Vaise...agar tum dono main itni larai rehti hai, to iss puray raaste tum logon ki kaise bani rahi?
Arm - bass, Sapna (looking at Riddhima as she's coming their way with Atul and Anjali. She looks like an angel to Armaan in this dark room) some things are just...impossible to explain.
Sap - (confused)
(Atul jumps into a seat)
Atl - ahh (settles comfortably with his popcorn)...yaar bare dinon ke baad ek picture naseeb hui hai. Anji baito na...
Anj - Chill...betrahi hoon!
Sap - Riddhima...come, ye seat tumhare liye bachaaee hai.
Anj - (quickly sits in the seat beside Sapna and looks at Riddhima) Oh...Ridz...if you want, I can move.
Rid - Naheen naheen di, aap araam se behto, main dusri seat leleti hoon.
Rid - (looks around. The only seat left is the one beside Armaan. She sits down beside him rather grudgingly and when he is reassured that she sat down right next to him, Armaan starts chatting with Anjali, to make it seem casual)
Arm - hey beautiful! tho...rasta kaisa raha?
Anj - mat pucho tho hi acha hai. Itne saare bumps on the road aur hamari speed...it was so slow! Humse zaada tez tho road pe choonti chal rahi thi. (Saying it so Sapna could hear)
Sap - Anjali, vo mummy ne rakshey vaale uncle se kehrakha hai ke slow chalana..iss liye...
Anj - ek to tum, upar se tumhari family...I just don't get you all...pata hai Sapna, tum kuch zyada hi old fashioned ho...aaj dunya kahan se kahan phonchgayee aur tum log vaheen ke vaheen, stuck in time...(talks to Sapna, or rather lectures her on her being so old-fashioned.)
Arm - (glances over at Riddhima. She's waiting for the movie to start. She's sitting as far away from him as possible while sitting in the seat right next to him and staring at the screen. Armaan looks at the armrest between their seats. He slowly puts it up so there is nothing left between him and Riddhima.)
Rid - (realizes what Armaan is doing) Ye kya karrahe ho?
Arm - Mujhe armrest nahin pasand Basket...they're so bothersome...aur vesay bhi ek pareshani tho already mere paas behti hai na (raises both eyebrows as he looks at her)
Rid - Who me? Main tumhe pareshani dikhti hoon? (pulls armrest back down in its place) Aur mujhe pasand hai! Vapes lagao isse sahi tarha se.
Arm - Nahin! (pulls it back up)
Rid - Armaan main...(pulls it back down in its place between them)
Arm - haan Riddhima...(with a mischievous cute look, he pulls it back up)
Rid - Uff! (She turns and puts her hand on the armrest to pull it back down one last time and looks at Armaan with anger, and the next thing she sees, that her heart realizes before her eyes, is the intense gaze of Armaan. He looks at her with an emotion she never knew existed. There wasn't even a spec of anger in his gaze...but something else she couldn't quite put her finger on the emotion. He's about to place his hand on hers to stop her from pulling it down but she takes her hand away.)
Arm - (in a soft voice) kya hua basket?
Rid - Main...(self-conscious, and sees that the movie has started) picture shuroo ho gayee...(points at the screen.)
Arm - hmm (smiles to himself, his cute little dimpled smile, still looking at her without her noticing. Throughout the movie he gazes at Riddhima without making it apparent. Her expressions change with every event in the movie. She starts getting worried at the suspenseful parts and pouting at the sad parts and getting tears in her eyes when the lovers in the movie separate. She gets lost in the moments of the movie...and Armaan...well, vo tho Riddhima ki jheel jaisi kaali ankhon mein doob jata hai. He savours her every expression and watches the movie through them. When she gets tears in her eyes, he instinctively wants to reach over and wipe them off her face and give her a long and tight hug, but he stops himself.)
About halfway through the movie, a guy comes to sit in the empty seat next to Riddhima. Black gelled hair, he's wearing a heavy chain around his neck and a couple of large rings in his hands.
Guy - Hi. I'm vivek (extending his hand out to Riddhima to shake hers)
Rid - (distracted from the movie, but she doesn't want to be impolite) Uh...Hi.
Viv - And you are...
Rid - Umm (thinks 'maybe agar main apna naam batadoon, then he'll stop asking me questions and leave me alone') Riddhima...I'm Riddhima. (his hand is still extended as if waiting for her to shake it. Riddhima shakes his hand.)
Viv - Aap se milke bohot bohot khushi huee. Itne sundar haath hain aapke aur aapka chehra tho..wow.
Rid - Excuse me!(He keeps shaking her hand, and Riddhima starts to dislike him. She abruptly pulls her hand away from his) movie (points at the screen).
Viv - Arrey, aap se acchee cheez iss kamrey main hai hi nahi jo hamara attention deserve karti hai.
Rid - (doesn't pay attention. She scoots over a bit, and in doing so, scoots over near Armaan who notices all this)
Viv - (scoots near Riddhima's seat inch by inch)
Armaan overhears it.
Arm - (places his arm over Riddhima's lap and his hand where her seat ends as if to say that 'iss ke kareeb aane ki sochna bhi mat !' his face is sideways to hers and inches away from her face. He addresses Vivek in an angry tone that Riddhima could clearly see in his eyes and sense in his voice. He tries to control it as much as possible.) Aap yahan movie dekhne ayen hai na? Tho kripya karke apni ankhen screen par, aur haat paaoon apne paas rakhiye!
Viv - Tujhe kiya problem hai. Hum to bas kisi ko admire karrahethe (looks at Riddhima with an utterly ghunda-type disgusting look).
Arm - Teri tho...(he's about to stand up and give this Vivek dude a piece of his mind, when Riddhima stops him by the arm)
Rid - Armaan, please.
Arm - Riddhima...yeh...
Rid - Jaane do Armaan.
Anj - Kya hua guys?
Rid - Nahin...kuch nahin di. Armaan...please...just let it go.
Arm - (with anger still bubbling inside, he sits back down and quietly whispers in Riddhima's ear) Tum meri jaga pe aajaao. Ye character mujhe chichora sa lagraha hai. I don't want him to sit near you at all.
Rid - (Wishing exactly what Armaan had just said, agrees)
Arm - (Stands up and waits for Riddhima to scooch over to his seat. As soon as she does so, he sits between Vivek and Riddhima. After he sits down, the first thing he does is look over at Riddhima, who seems quite bothered by the whole situation. Her hand on the edge of her seat. He puts his hand on Riddhima's to comfort her by giving her hand a gentle and light squeeze and shakes his head in a motion as if to say 'you're safe now'. She looks at him and then his hand on top of hers. She feels the warmth and heat of Armaan's strong manly hand enveloping her own slender hand. The comfort she felt now sitting between her di and Armaan, who she knew for a short time till now, but was feeling immensely secure next to, unlike the feeling she had sitting next to Vivek. This time she didn't pull her hand away from under Armaan's.
Viv - (moves away from what is now Armaan's seat and starts staring at the screen.)
Arm - (moves the armrest between him and vivek down and purposely ends up hitting Viveks's arm hard with it, which was in the way)
Viv - AAAHH!!
Arm - Ohoho...mujhe tho dikha hee nahi ke that's your arm man...mujhe laga koi toothpick pari hui hai...dard...dard tho nahi hua (asks with a fake concern pasted on his face) arrey, main bhi kaisa pagal hoon na, tumhe kaise dard hoga...you look like a brave guy huh? (taps his back hard, purposely, to which Vivek gives another yelp)
Viv - AHHH....kya karrahe ho? P..p...pagal ho kya?
Arm - Nahin, Armaan hoon. Disgusted to meet you. (Armaan holds his hand out with the thought that if vivek decides to shake it, he could probably make him do a 180 rotation thereby causing him to land on his head. Yeah...that's how angry he was.)
Somebody from the back tells them to stop yelling.
Viv - (gets up, feeling insulted) Dekhlounga tumhe! Dekhlounga!
Arm - Abay chup! Pata nahin kin gutters se aajaati hai tujh jaisi gandagee.
Viv - (walks off in anger)
Arm - (looks at Riddhima. She's still a bit bothered. He says quietly.) Basket..
Rid - Haan?
Arm - It's ok, vo chalagaya...kaho tho, I can see it through, abhi door nahin gaya hai. (looks at Vivek about to step out of the theater...Armaan's ready to do it.)
Rid - nahin Armaan, tum aisa kuch nahin karoge. Please.
Arm - (Riddhima's eyes make his heart melt instantly and all feelings of hate go away...now he felt something completely different) Thik hai...lekin phir kabhi dikha na...tho uski khair nahin hai.
Rid - (smiles) Thanks.
Arm - (smiles back at her, then, still with his hand over hers like it was the most natural thing in the world and so forgetting that he's doing this, he relaxes back on his seat and starts watching the movie.)
Rid - Armaan...
Arm - Haan Basket?
Rid - Kuch nahin (she thought to not disturb him anymore, she'd caused enough trouble for today...she tried to inch her hand out little by little, but there suddenly came such a loud blasting sound from the scene in the movie in which a car crashed, and pretty soon Riddhima was completely taken in by the movie.)
The movie ends. The lights open.
Sap - WOW! That was such an amazing movie!
Anj - Mujhe tho koi khaas nahin lagi. The car crash was so fake! Saara CGI tha.
Atl - Kya love story thi!
Sap - Dekha...Atul ko bhi pasand ayee!
Atl - Nahin mera matlab love story tho mast thi, lekin (looking at Anji) car crash tho...ekdam fake...jaise Anji ne kaha, right Anji.
Anj - (looks at Atul with a 'whatever' look) Ridz
Rid - (Armaan and Riddhima's hands separate) Ji di?
Arm - Main bike lekar aatha hoon (quickly walks off...his heart felt like a connection just broke, like some of it has been left behind as he walked away from Riddhima. He was excited at the thought of Riddhima with him on the way back to their houses.)
Anj - Armaan arey....suno tho...(but Armaan leaves too quickly, so Anji turns to Riddhima) Papa ne call kiya tha mere cell par, unhone gaari bheji hai...driver bahar hai, he'll be driving us back home.
Rid - Thik hai di (they all walk towards the parking lot. Riddhima looks around for Armaan but he's nowhere to be found.) Di, mujhe pata hai ke Armaan ne bike park kahan ki hai, main usse batake aajaaoun?
Anj - Ridzi, we really need to get going.
Atl - Don't worry Ridz, maine apni bike vahan khari ki hai, tho main bathadounga Armaan ko...Bye Anji, apna khayal rakhna.
Anj - I know Atul, Chal Ridz.
Rid - (still looking around the parking lot) Ok, bye Sapna and Atul (sits in the car)
Atl&Sap - bye!!
Armaan arrives with his motorbike, only Atul is left.
Arm - Hey Champ, yeh Basket kahan rehgayee yar?
Atl - Armaan, finally... usske papa ne gaari bhejee thee, tho vo usme gayee hai...aur Anjali bhi (sighs)
Arm - Oh (His excitement vanishes. Armaan wonders why Riddhima didn't let him know. Thinks 'Aisi kya baat thi, I could have driven her home')
ARMAAN'S HOUSE
Armaan arrives at his house. The whole way, he'd been thinking about why Riddhima didn't let him drive her home. Did she not want to spend more time with him? Did she hate him that much? Did she not want him to know where she lives? Why was he thinking about her? He thought.
Arm - Main kyun uske baare mein sochraha hoon? Vaise, usko itni problem thi kiya mujhse, ke papa se gari bulvali? Mujhe kiya pari hai, bulvali tho bulvali...lekin...no no...ye tu kiya soch raha hai Armaan...cool it, just be cool...cool (goes to the kitchen and pours himself a glass of water. When he looks at the water in the glass, he sees Riddhima's image in it)
A breeze blows through the window, caressing Armaan's face...
Asmaani rang ho
pyaar ki boond ho
roshni ho
dhoop ho
chahaton ki goonj ho
He goes to his room, takes out a towel and heads to the shower. As he feels the cool sensation of the water dripping onto his body, he thinks about how Riddhima grabbed him tightly, he thinks about how having her right next to him was such a wonderful feeling.
aanchal mein hai dhanak chandni
haaton mein vo chand hai
gairon se bhi hai wasta
apno mein pehchan hai
ta ra rap ta ri ra
ta ra rap ta ri ra
ta ra rap ta ri ra
tu zindagi
He clears the water from his eyes with his hands and looks at it longingly. He remembers how tiny and delicate her hand felt in his.
mera izhar hai
pyaar hi pyaar hai
yaaron ki yar hai
tu zindagi
He gets out of the shower and sees his cellphone. He could call her and ask, but then remembers 'mere paas tho uska phone number hi nahin hai'. With a tinge of dissapointment at his forgetfulness of not asking for her number, he puts on his clean shirt to head to bed. He closes his eyes.
tujhse main kiya kahoon
tu hi mera sukoon
sang tere rahoon
tu zindagi...
And as much as he tries not to think about her, he falls asleep with Riddhima's thoughts in his dreams.
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