The Media Circle-Scene 3

On the another hand, he sighed again, and went up to room but found her intently seeing the photograph of her parents, turning her around gently to face him. And received the shock of his life when he saw the unshed tears in her eyes. The indomitable Priyashi Kelkar, crying? He lost it, then. Drawing her into his arms, he smoothed his hands along her back, trying to soothe her with his touch. "Sshh. Why are you crying?"

She tried to pull out of his arms, but he didn't let her, only loosening his grip a little so he could look into her face.

"B...Because you don't understand!"

"Why don't you try to make me understand? I'm tired of this, Piu. I'm tired of the chase, the games, and the arguments. I think it's time to be honest with each other here. Tell me, what exactly do you want?"

“What kind of man are you?”

“A desperate one, obviously. What else could I do when you refused to even give us a chance?”

"There is no us!"

"There could be, if only you would look past your fear or whatever it that is stopping you...”

"You know nothing about me!"

"I know enough. And I am honest enough to acknowledge what I feel. What about you?"

“I fear your intensity, why don’t you understand we are not meant to be together. You had seen me today and this was not first time, that I am violated but never destroyed. Why don’t you see the fact that my beauty has become my worst enemy and then it happens like factors? And you also know your nature will you able to handle all of this with woman you claim to love. You need to understand, Shankar. That there are many things which don’t make it possible .let’s just leave this the way it is. If you can’t complete a story, you should leave in a beautiful turn. Let’s not make things worse between us. Please listen to me in the matter. Your flamboyant nature and my exquisiteness make the things complicated. What if you fall out of love with me? I may not be able to handle this. This will lead us to nowhere.”

But he proved her wrong by taking her to his room. It was a beautifully large room, it was situated in the first floor, it had a half terrace where she saw a nice balcony setting was there, just as she liked, low lying beds under which you could snuggle with the view of whole city. The room was of lilac colour where she saw her graduation photo and his photo with his father in a business circle. She also saw that the room was clearly in the pattern she liked, with a fully round bed and curtains trailing from centre around the bed. Then he took her to almirah where she saw he had brought various sarees and his hand stopped at a green lace saree which he stated he wanted her to see in. She took it silently. Shankar then told “We are not meant together because we are not two persons we are one….”

“Ok, you always tried to convince in conventional way. Now woo me the Shankar Dobriyal style. Why you are so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out. I would like to be persuaded by the way Shankar Dobriyal would treat his girl. But you need keep our relationship under wraps. I don’t want any media circle in the matter. Only papa and uncle.”

“Piu you would regret this because, Shankar Dobriyal is a ruthless person who gets what he wants I was polite only to you but now you lead devil out of cage. And it’s not uncle but dad. And for media circle, you are too precious for me to lose you in baseless rumours. So it’s under utter secrecy but from today you have given me some rights which I think that I will utilize up to fullest.”