It was the end of the first day for the interns in Sanjeevni. During the day, Riddhima and Armaan did not see each other because their patients and procedures kept them busy for the rest of the day. Doctor Keerti had also given some details about Armaan and Riddhima's first medical mission: Radhaa's heart. Since Anjali had to do an extra-duty, Sapna had to go back to her house and they were all dead tired by the end, they all decided that they would go to the movies the next day.
GUPTA HOUSE
The next morning, the alarm rings. Anjali puts a pillow on top of her head and screams in agony.
Anj - (whinning) Jogging tumhe karni hoti hai, tho alarm laga ke saari dunya ko uthana zuroori hai kia Ridz? Vo bhi subha subha 5:30 am ko?
Rid - (smiling as she puts her clothes on) Sorry di, lekin aap bhi chalo na mere saath jogging ke liye? Aap dekhna, it's so fresh outside, din ka start ekdam amazing hoga!
Anj - No way Ridz! Papa ne mujhe extra duty pe lagadiya tha...abhi I just want a long slumber...aur 7:00 am se pehle main nahin uthne vaali!
Rid - Ok di, aap so jayo (she goes over to Anjali and kisses her on the cheek) have some rest for one and a half more hours.
Riddhima zips up and is ready to take off on her jogging. She'd been missing being out at this time to take in the fresh air before the day starts because she hadn't been able to do it for some days now. She thinks 'sab kuch itna thik raha sanjeevni main, I was so worried, and for nothing'. Thinking this, she smiles to herself. She stops for a short break to drink some water from her waterbottle near the basketball court and as she's doing this, she feels a thump and suddenly realizes that something had landed on her head with quite a force. She looks down and realizes it's a ball. Then she hears a familiar voice.
Arm - Bull's eye!
Rid - (astonished, turns around and completely forgetting about yesterday's little incident outside Shashank's office between her and Armaan...she yells out in anger) Tum?
Arm - Yeh question to mujhe tumse poochna chahiye! Mere peeche peeche kyun aajaati ho...tumhe na, medicine mein nahin, police force mein hona chahiye tha...kyunki jab tum kisika peecha karti ho na, tho vo chahke bhi tumse door nahin jasakta!
Rid - (still holding the ball) Bohot smart samajhte ho apnay aap ko jo mujhe yeh suggestions deterehte ho?
Arm - (taking steps towards her) Samajhta nahin hoon...as a matter of fact...main hoon.
Rid - Agar aisi baat hai tho...abhi tak mujhse ball kese nahin lepaye?
Arm - (goes near her to grab the ball but as soon as his hands come near the basketball that Riddhima's holding, she starts dribbling it) Come on Riddhima...you're going to embarass yourself...basketball me score karna tumhare bass ki baat nahin hai. (with a smug grin)
Rid - Kya hua Armaan...ball haath mein nahin aarahee? (she says menacingly and dribbles past Armaan)
Arm - Kya Riddhima...you don't want to do this...varna bohot pachtaogi.
Armaan turns around and tries to grab hold of the ball, instead he ends up knocking into Riddhima and sending her for a fall to the ground. She lands on the ground and following this, Armaan loses his balance and falls as well right next to her. She looks straight in his eyes. Her piercing eyes seemed to be talking to him and he felt like a tiny little current had gone through him as he was so close to her and her bare shoulder was touching his. Then he suddenly remembered that that's exactly how he felt the last time he was close to her. 'What is this?' he thought still looking into her deep dark eyes. Riddhima still determined to score that basket quickly gets up and starts dribbling the ball again. She was only a few inches away from the basket. By the time Armaan realized that she had gotten back to the game, she had already thrown the ball into the air and even though Armaan jumped to stop it, the ball landed perfectly in the basket. Armaan turns around to look at her. She was wiping the dirt off her clothes with a swift motion and the wind blew, wrapping her hair around her beautiful face which she then secured into a ponytail.
Rid - Agli baar, dusron ko underestimate karne se pehle, do bar sochna zuroor.
Arm - (at a loss of words) Basket...
Rid - Kya kaha?
Arm - Maine kaha...
Rid - (her cellphone rings) Oh no!!! Late horaha hai!! (grabs her waterbottle and runs out of the basketball court towards her house)
Arm - (shouts) Yo basket...Sanjeevni main milrahe hain na?
Rid - (hears Armaan loud and clear and turns around) Haan...meri bad luck ke mujhe tumko Sanjeevni main bhi sehnaparta hai.
Arm - (quietly to himself) aur meri good luck...basket. (looking at his watch, he realizes that it's time to get home too)
ARMAAN'S HOUSE
Armaan arrives at his house, that's unusually large for a bachelor pad. He unlocks the door and plumps down onto his comfortable sofa. Thinks 'I still got about half an hour' and closes his eyes and as he's doing that, an image of Riddhima enters his head. Her hair is open like it was in the basketball court and the wind is blowing it into her face and then he sees a hand touching her face contouring her forehead, then touching her cheek while pushing her hair out of the way and tucking it behind her ears. As he concentrates, he sees that that hand belongs to him. His eyes open in surprise.
Arm - (talking to himself) main pagal horaha hoon...I've gone mad...ya that's it...ab mujhe Sanjeevni main doctor ke vajaye, patient banna parega, vo bhi mental patient. Riddhima...main uss ke baare mein kyun sochraha hoon, vo bhi aise? Main sub larkiyon ko chorke...yahan tak ke katrina aur kareena ko bhi chorke Riddhima ke baare mein sochraha hoon? (reassuring himself) nahin nahin...main tho Armaan hoon...Armaan Malik...koi era gera mental patient nahin...(he hears a ring)Great...ab mere kaan bhi bajne lagey...(realizes it's the alarm clock and quickly heads to his room to get ready)
SANJEEVNI
The day at Sanjeevni went quite busy for the interns. There were many emergencies and so many patients came in and the interns got a really good feel for the Emergency ward. They got a quick briefing from Dr. Keerti and were busy with their patients the whole day. They were all tired, but not tired enough to forget about their celebration this time. They all went to their locker rooms to put away their things and get ready for some relaxing time at the movies!
LOCKER ROOM
Atl - Thak gaye yar! Arey haan Sapna, tum chalrahi ho na?
Sap - Atul, mein chalna to chahti hoon lekin main mummy se kaise kahoon ke...
Atl - Kyun? We're all friends yar...aisi kya baat hai batao na.
Sap - mere papa-ji thore...well...hamari puri family kaafi conservative hai
Arm - To kya hua? Hum hain na, koi bhi tumhe chehre na, to main aur Atul uss ko achee thara se dekh leynge! (gunda style) Kyun champ?
Atl - b..b...b..bilkul armaan bilkul (brings him to the side) yar, tere paas itne dolay sholay hain na
Arm - (laughs) haan...vo to hai (comedically puts his sleeve up and pulls up his collar)
Atl - To tu larkon se fight karna aur mein tere peeche driving force bankay rahounga
Arm - ok done! (they shake on it)
Atl - hann Sapna...to hum kehrahe the ke of course, hum tumhari raksha kareyngay!
Sap - Lekin mummy-jee nahin manayngee!
Atl - Arey yar unko call lagao...phir dekha jayega
Sap - Na baba na...tum dono larke ho, chahe tum mere dost hi ho...lekin tumhari avaaz sunkay tho vo mujhe bilkul hi naheen aneydengee...
Atl - Arey to Ridzi baat karleygi na!! Lo dekho vo aagayee
Armaan turned around so quickly. He hadn't seen her the whole day. He'd wanted to see her, tease her, watch her go red in anger and then cool down and punch him on his arm like she did that day. She was walking towards him and he just stared at this ethereal pure beauty dressed in white that was Riddhima. Atul accidentally nudges Armaan.
Atl - Sorry Armaan
Arm - It's...it's ok Champ (hides his face behind his locker)
Atl - Ridz! Acha hua tum aagayeen...hum...
Rid - Haan haan atul, maine sab sunliya tha. Sapna, mujhe mila ke do na.
(Sapna calls her mom. Anji walks in and doesn't say much...rearranging her locker...she doesn't like Sapna one bit anymore. Riddhima talks to Sapna's mom and she agrees to let Sapna go...but only if her raksha driver drives her to and from the theater)
Arm - (in his teasing mode) Arrey Anji, kahan ghayab ho gayeen thi? Vaise tum dono behnain ho, mujhe yakeen nahin aata..I mean ek itni laraku, bilkul basket (looks at Riddhima) aur ek itni awesome and beautiful (winks at Anji, still looking at Ridz from the corner of his eye to watch for her chidahua reaction).
Rid - (hides her face behind the locker door mumbling under her breath 'pagal, stupid, idiot, pehle tho ball maari, sorry bhi nahin kaha, phir kehta hai ke main ladaku hoon')
Anj - Armaan...shut up (of course Anji knows by now that he's saying it to make ridz annoyed) Acha...ab hum chalein...main bike lekey...
("DR. RIDDHIMA REPORT TO DR. SHASHANK'S OFFICE")
Arm - Arey!!! Ye kaisa hospital hai yaar...duty ke baad bhi doctor ko bulathe hain?
Rid - Koi baat nahin, koi kaam hoga, tum log jao, main dekhloungi.
Arm - No way! (in a loud voice)(everyone stares at him)...I mean...tumhe hi kyun bulaya? Tum special ho kya?
Sap - Nahin...hum tumhara wait kareynge...tum jaake dekho.
Anj - ya ridz, go and check what's up.
Rid - ok
SHASHANK'S OFFICE
Sha - Sit Riddhima
Rid - Kya hua Dr. Shashank?
Sha - abhi maine tumhe doctor shashank hokay nahi lekin tumhare papa ke haq se bulaya hai.
Rid - Kya hua papa...aap ki avaaz mein ghussa kyun...
Sha - Riddhima tum ye kaise karsakti ho? Aur mujhe bataya bhi nahin????
Rid - (worried) kya papa?
Sha - gaari pe aaj mujhe dent mila! Ram Singh se pucha to uss ne mujhe bataya ke tumne drive ki thi med exam pe? Tumhara accident hua aur tumne mujhe batana bhi zuroori nahin samjha?!
Rid - (Shashank sounded so angry and worried. He was trying his best to control his anger but Riddhima knew he was so serious. Her eyes started to well up) Papa, mein aapko batane hi wali thi...
Sha - tho bataya kyun nahin???
Rid - Main apko pareshan nahin karna chahti thi papa...main..
Sha - Riddhima...tumne ye nahi socha ke tumhare naa bataane se mujhe kitni parishani hogi, kitna dukh hoga...ke meri hi beti mere saat hi apni mushkil share nahin karsakti? Bas aaj se, tum aur Anjali dono gari nahin chalao gi.
Rid - (tears flowing down her cheeks, stands up, is very nervous) I'm sorry papa.
Sha - (sees how terribly sorry Riddhima is and goes to her side and sits her down and calmly explains) bete aap mujhe trust karogi to main apko trust karsakounga na?
Rid - Papa (between her sobs)...main...phir aisa nahin karoungi, I promise papa, main...I'm so sorry papa, main apko dukhana nahin chahti thi...I'm sor...
Sha - It's ok beta (hugs her like a dad hugs his little girl) mera acha bacha hai na...ab rona band karo shabash(he wipes her tears)...I wanna see a smile. Accident main kuch serious tho nahin hua, tum theek ho na? Aur next time...
Rid - Nahin papa (still sobbing), nothing serious happened aur main thik hoon (smiling though still sobbing). Next time, kuch bhi ho, main pakka aap ko bataooungi.
Sha - Good. Tum aur Anjali mere liye sab kuch ho, agar tumhe kuch hojaye to main nahin sehpaounga.
(Awhile of cheering up ridzi gets beeped on her beeper, she looks and it's armaan)
Rid - Papa vo...
Sha - Kya hua beta kaun tha?
Rid - hum sab, mera matlab main, Anjali di, Sapna, Armaan aur Atul movie dekhne jaarahethe...lekin main mana kardeti hoon unko abhi...
Sha - Kyun? Aap kushi se jao, sab ke saat milo jhulo...ab inn logon ka saat lambay time ke liye hai.
Rid - Par Papa...main gari...
Sha - Haan...gari to nahin milsakti aur na Anjali motorbike chalayegi...raat honevali hai, aur abhee to tumhara accident...atul armaan aur sapna ke saat chali jaana tum dono...vo log bhi to jaarahe hain.
Rid - (Riddhima didn't want to argue at all. She was so happy he agreed to let her go and was happy to see he wasn't angry or sad or hurt anymore) ok papa.
Sha - Jao and have a good time, aur haan...be careful out there.
Rid - ji. Love you papa.
Sha - Love you too betay.
Riddhima leaves and heads to the locker room.
LOCKER ROOM
Arm - (Armaan sitting on the bench trying to dial Riddhima's beeper again looks up) Agayeen jhansi ki raani!! kahan regayi thi Basket? Itni der say beep karraha hoon
Rid -(takes his beeper from him) Armaan, ye beeper kam ke liye hai, koi khel ke liye nahin (gives it back to him)
(Anjali walks in)
Anj - (angry) Ridz!! Tu itni irresponsible hogi mujhe bilkul nahin pata tha!!!
Rid - (thinks 'lagta hai papa ne di ko motorbike lejane se bhi mana kar dia')di main...
Anj - teri vaja se, papa ne mujhe motorbike leyjaane se mana kardia
Rid - Ahista di...I'm sorry di, main uss vaqt aaj bataane vali thi aap ko
(Armaan, Atul and Sapna are confused and kind of surprised at how rudely Anjali was talking to Riddhima. Riddhima starts to tear up again, she was quite embarassed by all this and sad that she dissapointed her di.)
Anj - Mujhe batadeti to main garage se gaari thik karvadeti aur papa ko pata nahin chalta...lekin tum to Ridz ho na...aisi baatein batana hi bhool jaati ho aur phir tumhare saat saat mujhe bhi saza lagjaati hai.
Atl - Arey koi batayega hua kiya hai?
Anj - Ridz ki vaja se main apni motorbike nahin leyjasakti to hum movie nahin jaasakte.
Atl - ye kaise ho sakta hai...of course jaasakti ho...vo bhi tum dono
Anj - kaise? tumhaari choti si bicycle pe? (Anjali gets a little rude when she gets angry)
Arm - nahin yaar anji...meri motorbike hazir hai na. I can take one of you (looked towards Riddhima innocently trying to catch her glance)
Rid - (Riddhima shot an angry look at Armaan)
Sap - Aur mein apnay rakshay mein ek aur ko lejasakti hoon.
Atl - dekha anji...problem solved! (smiles at her)
Anj - (thinks for awhile 'agar Sapna aur Ridz saat bhet gayeen tho abhi to Ridz bhi mujhse naraaz hogi aur Sapna iss ka faida utha ke uss ki bohot achi friend banjayegi, aur main aisa honay nahin doungi!') Main Sapna ke riksha main chali jaoungi.
Rid - Nahin nahin di, aap kaise...aap armaan ke saat jao, main Sapna ke saat chali jaoungi. (looking at Armaan) Vaise bhi mujhe Armaan ke saath jaane ka koi shauk nahin hai!!
Arm - Vaise tho mujhe bhi tumhaare saat waqt guzaarne ka koi shauk nahin hai Basket...main tho Anji ko offer karraha tha. Tum ne tho pehli mulakat mein hi meri baby ko almost maardala...ab pata nahin kiya kardogi
Rid - (realized she was back at square one talking about the accident...and stopped talking)
Anj - Ridz, teri vaaja se ye saari problem hui hai na?
Rid - (embarassed, shakes her head in a yes)
Anj - tho pehli choice meri hai, it's only fair.
Ridz quietly agrees. They all get going and start heading to the front parking lot.
Arm - Yo Basket...kahan jaarahi ho?
Rid - Parking lot, aur kahan?
Arm - Hamari savari uss taraf hai (points to the back parking lot with both hands)
Rid - (looks at Anjali and makes a last attempt and looks at her with a "I'm so sorry look")
Atl&Sap&Arm to each other - See you guys there!
BACK PARKING LOT
Riddhima is still lost in her thoughts ke vo apni di ko kaise manaye. Armaan sees her innocent face looking so sad and walking towards his motorbike with him, but she's not with him, vo bilkul khoyee hui hai with tears in her eyes...tears of sadness. For some reason Armaan ko dard honeylaga Riddhima ka utra hua chehra dekh kay, tho he decided 'aaj ka mission: basket ko khush karna')
Arm - (softly) Riddhima.
Rid - (keeps walking without having heard Armaan)
Arm - hey Basket (holds her hand to stop her)
Rid - (looks towards Armaan but doesn't raise her eyes. A tear slithers down her cheek and with a broken voice, she manages to say something) kya Armaan?
Arm - Jaanti ho...aik baat
Rid - (wipes the tear off her cheek. She didn't want Armaan to see her like this, crying over something) kaunsi baat?
Arm - (hastily, like he's confessing something) Mujhe bari vali needles se bohot darr lagta hai
Rid - (realizes that Armaan just admitted that he's afraid of something. Her agony vanishes and a tear drops from her cheek into the palm of Armaan's hand.) KIYA?? TUM? Aur needles se darte ho?
Arm - SSSshhhhhhh ahista...aas pass log sunleynge. Vo main vaise tho nahin darta...bas jab mere lagti hai tho...(looks over at Riddhima thinking 'mission complete')
Rid - (puts a hand in front of her mouth and forces herself to stop laughing but she can't help it and she cracks) tumm...hahahahha...Tum doctor hokay needles se darte ho???? hahahah
She's in hysterics now and can't stop laughing, for some odd reason itni chohti si baat ne iss gham bharay moment mein Riddhima ko itna hasaya...While Riddhima was holding her stomach laughing away, Armaan secretly took a look at the palm of his hand that was wet from Riddhima's tear and thought to himself 'uss ki ankhon main, you tears are not welcome...sirf hassi ke tears are welcome'! and started laughing at the sound of her laughter...he laughed for awhile and then eventually stopped when he looked at Riddhima. He forgot everything that was around him and just saw her. Her white dupatta was flowing in the air and her silky black hair followed her dupatta with the flow. Her laugh was so innocent and pleasant and her beautiful dark eyes were gleaming from the reflection of the sun and he thought 'god...I could watch her laugh all day, was she always this beautiful from the start? Ye hamesha khush rahe yun hi hasti rahe' and he can't help laugh again because this girl brings a smile to his face. They finally gain their control back but are still chuckling.
Rid - Armaan! Tum bhi na, bilkul bacche ho!
Arm - Kyunki main needles se darta hoon?....I mean vaise tho nahin darta lekin..
Rid - haan haan janti hoon, sirf jab tumhe lagni hoti hai tho...phir bhi (smiles again, closing her eyes like a little girl) bilkul bache ho! They headed to the motorbike.
Armaan sits on the motorbike. Riddhima sits too. She hesitates and then just sits and doesn't hold Armaan from the back (like you usually are supposed to do when you're the person in the back on a motorbike :P)
Arm - Riddhima...
Rid - Umm haan?
Arm - thik se pakro
Rid - (holds the side of the motorbike)pakar liya.
Arm - mujhe Riddhima...mujhe thik se pakro
Rid - nahin...I'm fine
Arm - main puch nahin raha hoon...bol raha hoon.
Rid - Armaan aise thik hai.
Arm - to phir thik hai...main atul ko phone karta hoon aur uss ko batadeta hoon ke hamara ticket naa le
Rid - Kyun?
Arm - Kyunke main tumhe yun to nahi leke jaane vaala...too unsafe.
Rid - Acha theek hai...pakarti hoon na...just wait.
Riddhima holds Armaan by putting her hands on both his shoulders. He looks back at her.
Arm - ye tumhari di ki scooty nahin hai...ye Armaan Malik ki fast motorbike hai! (he takes both her hands while still sitting on the bike and places her hands to wrap around his waist. She's kind of embarassed. She's never been so close to a guy before.)
Arm - that's better. Ready?
Rid - Haan (she says quietly)
Armaan kicks it off and zooms away. Riddhima closes her eyes tightly and is scared for her life so she grabs onto Armaan even tighter without thinking about what she's doing. Armaan can feel this and his heart starts beating faster *thump thump thump*, he gets chills down his spine and tries to concentrate on driving the motorbike. He can't help smile. Without thinking about it twice, he picks the longer route to get to the movies. Riddhima opens her eyes.
Rid - (screams) Armaaaaaan...mujhe abhi nahin marna! I want to live!! Aahista chalaaaao!!!
Arm - (while driving, screams back) Fikr nahin karo Riddhima! Main ek bohot ache doctor ko jaanta hoon...jo bari se bari problem theek karsakta hai...actually problems usse dekhte hi bhaag jaati hain!
Rid - Kaun?
Arm - Me of course!
Rid - Mardaloungi tumhe Armaan!
Arm - Tum mujhe nahin marsaktin!
Rid - tumhe kaise pata ke main kiya karsakti hoon aur nahin?
Arm - Issliye kyun ki tumhari zindagi abhi mere haathon mein hain (increases the speed)! To agar mujhe mardalogi tho tum kaise bachogi?
Rid - Armaaan!!!!!!
They reach a bump and the whole motorbike shakes and this causes Riddhima to scoot closer to Armaan, their bodies collide. Unaware, she starts praying for all to be well under her breath and closes her eyes again tightly. She's never went this fast on a motorbike before. She ducks behind Armaan even more and ends up resting her head on Armaan's back.
They finally reach the parking lot of the theater and Armaan puts the motorbike in park. He looks down at his waist and is surprised to see that Riddhima's hands are still around him and her fingers of one hand are intertwined with those of her other hand, that's how tightly she's grabbed on. He takes the key out of his motorbike slowly subconciously trying to not disturb Riddhima so the moment could last just a tiny bit longer. Riddhima was still praying under her breath and was so afraid that for a minute she didn't notice that they had stopped. Armaan kept looking down at her hands and his own hands, as if on their own, reached for hers. As soon as the tip of his fingers touched her tender soft hands, Riddhima quivered and then realized that they had stopped so she quickly let go of Armaan.
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