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"Kuddi patola, aag ka gola.. Shehnaaaz.. kaisi ho?", Aaryan sang.

"Kaisi lag rahi hoon?", Shehnaaz asked raising her eyebrows

"Mind blowing.. super hot and super sexy..", Aaryan complimented.

"By birth..", Shehnaaz smirked making him chuckle.

"No doubt.. and I love your dress.", Aaryan said

"Thanks.", Shehnaaz said.

"So, Shehnaaz, Julie aur Mona. Aap teeno danger zone mein ho. Kya lagta hai aapko? Aap mein se kaun aaj yeh show se alvida kahega?", Aaryan asked.

Shehnaaz was lost in her thoughts.

Flashback:

"Utth gayi chhorri?", Iravati asked Shehnaaz who went towards the bathroom to freshen up. Sidharth was drawing water from the well nearby. He had finished his early morning workout in his akhadha and was here to bathe.

"Haan aunty. Weekend hai na aaj, toh aaj shoot pe jaana hai.", Shehnaaz said.

"Hmm.. thik se chhorri.", Iravati said turning to leave.

"Aunty..", Sana called Iravati.

"Ke..", Iravati was stunned when Shehnaaz took her in embrace unannounced. She looked at Sidharth from over Iravati's shoulder. Sidharth was flabbergasted when he glanced at them.

"I will miss you, aunty. Aaj shayad aakhri din hai iss gaon mein mera. Agar audience ne mujhe vote nahi kiya toh mujhe yaha se jaana padega.", Sana spoke, disappointment evident on her face and in her voice.

The rope slipped from Sidharth's hand and the bucket fell back with splash into the wall. He was overhearing their conversation.

"Jee chota na kar chhorri. Sab thik ho javego. Manne bhi thaari ghani yaad avegi", Iravati said patting her back. Moving back from Iravati's embrace, Shehnaaz nodded her head in yes.

"Pata nahi phir milne ka mauka milega ya set se hi laut jaana padega. Isiliye aapko abhi bye bol rahi hoon.", Shehnaaz spoke with a faint smile.

"Khush reh chhorri..", Iravati patted her cheek with a smile.

"Aunty kya main Prerna ka ek dress pehen ke jaa sakti hoon. Main Mumbai jaate hi waha se post kar dungi. Woh mere saare kapde jal gaye isliye..", Shehnaaz asked.

"Tu usse apne pass hi rakh. Tu bhi toh maahri Prerna jaisi se.", Iravati said

"Thanks Aunty.", Shehnaaz smiled and gave her another quick hug before going into the bathroom. Lost in his thoughts, Sidharth poured the cold water on his head from the bucket.

When she returned to her room after taking bath, she saw a red sharara suit on the bed. Her lips formed into a smile as it was beautiful.

Aunty ne mere liye itni achchi suit rakha hai. She is so sweet unlike her khadoos son jisne mere saare kapde jala diya. Aaj eliminate ho jaungi toh sirf do hafton ki fees milegi. Unn kapde ka, jisko maine rent pe liye they, unke paise chukaane ke liye bade papad belne padege ab. Khaaya piya kuch nahi glass todda barah aana.

Her expressions soon turned into a puzzled look when she saw two unfamiliar big bags kept on the bed. Whose bag was it and why was it here, she wondered.

Out of curiosity, she unzipped it and her eyes went wide looking at the contents. She stood up and sprinted towards Sidharth's room. Without knocking, she barged inside. He startled and turned around to look at the person intruding his space without his permission. Standing in his white pajama, he was about to wear his kurta.

Before he could open his mouth to scold her for barging in, he received a sudden slap from her on his face. He closed his eyes momentarily and took a deep breath. Enraged he gripped her wet hair, pulling it backwards.

"Agar chhorri na hoti toh maahre pe haat uttana thaare ko bahut bhaari padta..", he spoke gritting his jaws while his face was dangerously close to hers. She fearlessly stared into his eyes.

"Kyu kiya tumne aisa?", She asked staring intently. His grip loosened and he closed his eyes yet again to calm down. That was the exact words she had said to him when he had burnt all her belongings or that's what she had thought all this while. Else how would all her belongings be safe in his bag which she just saw a few minutes ago in her room.

When he opened his eyes, he found himself in her embrace. Her presence itself made him weak, here she was hugging his half nude body. He could feel electrifying jolts running in his whole body as her face was pressed against his bare chest. Even though his mind and heart were at war, he hugged her back. Was she really going to go back today? Away from him? Would they ever meet again? His heart didn't want to let her go, even though his mind told he should because his mother had ordered him to get married to...

"Kalyani..", he uttered in disgust lost in his thoughts.

Shehnaaz's blood boiled at the mention of Kalyani's name. She loathed that evil lady who had been making her life hell by ordering her to do every petty work she could think off. But more than her bossing attitude, Shehnaaz was irked by the fact that she was Sidharth's fiance. Pushing him away from herself, she left his room angrily.

Flashback ends.

"I've given my best. Aage dekhte hai, kya hoga. It's not the end of life..", Shehnaaz replied.

"Kya baat hai.. that's the spirit. Toh chalo pata lagate hai ki woh kaun hai jo safe hai aur kaun unsafe.. Oh oh!! Main toh ek zaruri baat batana bhul hi gaya tha. Aaj double elimination hai, matlab ek nahi do log jaane wale hai.", Aaryan declared.

"Huh?", Shehnaaz and the two contestants in the danger zone, had their mouth wide open in shock. Diya Dutta smirked.

"Ab aage badhe? (Contestants nod) Okay, Aapko results jaane ke liye thodi mehnat karni padegi.. aapke saamne kuch kadam dur kuch matke rakhe huye hai. Iss matke ke andar janta ka faisla chupa hua hai. Aapko ek ek karke yeh matka phodna hai. Jiska naam red mein likha hai woh out hoga aur jiska green main woh safe. Thik hai?", Aaryan asked and the contestants nod their heads in agreement.

The contestant picked up the catapult and aimed at the pot set in a row it took them some shots to break the pots, the first three pots came empty, but the third had Mona written in red. Aaryan gave a little speech and declared that Mona would leave the show. The aiming continued between Shehnaaz and Julie. A few more empty pots were broken and the last two were remaining. Their hands shivered and hearts thudded aiming the pots. Julie missed her shot, Shehnaaz aimed at the pot. For a strange reason she could see Kalyani's face instead of pots. Clenching her jaws, Shehnaaz pulled the catapult and hit the pot.

"Yay!!" Julie jumped in joy to find her name in green.

"Congratulations Julie aap safe ho.. iska matlab pata hai kya hai?", Aaryan asked.

Shehnaaz's face hung in disappointment. Nevertheless, she congratulated Julie and got ready to leave.

"Arey Shehnaaz, aakhir ka matka nahi phodogi?", Aaryan asked.

"Isko kya phodhna? Results toh pata chal gaya na?", Shehnaaz said.

"Haan.. par rules are rules. Saare matke phodne hai..", Aaryan said.

Shehnaaz shook her head in disappointment and picked up the catapult yet again to break the last pot. Her jaws hung wide open to see her name in green as well.

"What's this?", Shehnaaz asked puzzled

"Arey haan.. woh humne suspense badhaane ke liye maine thoda sa jhoot bola tha. Aaj do nahi sirf ek his eliminate hoga.", Aaryan teased Shehnaaz earning a smack from her.

"Congratulations Shehnaaz aap bach gayi.. aaj tum chali jaati na, mera dil hi tutt jata.", He flirted making her roll her eyes.

"Toh ab aage badte hai aaj ke task ki aur. Jo isse jitega, usko milega Pizza Treat walon se gift hamper. Par yeh task aap akele nahi karne wale.. aapko milne wala hai ek partner.   Aur aapke partner honge aapke ghar ke ek sadasya. Let's put our hand together for the hosts jinhone apne vyasth jeevan se samay nikaal ke yaha aane ka kasht kiya, sirf aur sirf aapke liye.", All the contestants clapped their hands as one by one the hosts entered.

While Shehnaaz contemplated who could come as her partner, she was stunned to see the person she had least expected. It was none other than Sidharth Thakur.

Toh hum task shuru karenge ek chotte se break ke baad. Tab tak aap contestants ko apne kapde change karke aana padega.

While the contestants went to change, the hosts were served with tea and snacks. One by one the contestants came back and occupied their seats. As usual, on the screen played some of the unseen footage of each contestant which happened a day before.

Being the contestant number 10, Shehnaaz's scene was played last. To her surprise it showed Sidharth carrying her unconscious figure out from the back door of his house which had smoke coming out. She looked curiously at the screen as she was unaware of what exactly happened while she was unconscious.

Sidharth's face in the video was showing too much concern and pain as he patted her cheek to wake her up unsuccessfully.

Watching this Shehnaaz and Sidharth stole a glance at each other.

"Maaf karde chhorri.."

Shehnaaz looked at the screen and her eyes went wide in shock as she saw his lips covering her lips giving her mouth to mouth breaths. Her lips quivered and her cheeks flushed looking at the scene while Sidharth pressed his lips thin, his cheeks giving tough competition to the colour of her cheeks. Everyone watching the clip, clapped when Shehnaaz gained consciousness.

"Thakur saab, aapka bahut bahut danyawaad. Aapne humaari Shehnaaz ko sahi samay pe bacha liya. Hamaari team doctor ko leke pahuchne hi wali thi ki humko pata chala ki she is safe. But we are very grateful for your presence of mind and brave act. Hum sab toh parde par hero bante hai, aap toh sach ke hero nikle.", Aaryan praised Sidharth while Shehnaaz kept staring at Sidharth intently in adoration. Sidharth humbly folded his hands in reply which brought a slight smile on her face.

"Waise aap CPR kaise jaante hai?", Aaryan said.

"Chaar mahine pehle humaare panchayat mein training camp lagvaya tha humne aur apne gaon ke pathsala mein bhi sabhi bacho aur shikshakon ko train karvaya tha.", Sidharth said earning another round of applaud from all. However, there were three jealous souls who were very unhappy, Vikram Singh Thakur, Diya Dutta and Ashima Riyaz.

"Okay, chalye ab task ki shurvat karte hai. Aapka task hai.. yeh..", Aaryan pointed at the flour grinding mortars lined up in a row.

"If you want to staying in game.. you better be chakki peesing and peesing and peesing..", Aaryan imitated Dharmendra's voice while moving his hand gesturing grinding.

Shehnaaz smiled remembering that Sidharth had already trained her in this task.

The contestants and hosts met at their allocated place near their mortar.

"Thank you.", Shehnaaz muttered.

"Huh? Kis liye?", Sidharth asked.

"Meri jaan bachaane ke liye.", Shehnaaz said.

"Woh toh maahra farz se..", he replied.

"Hmm.. Sorry..", she said.

"Ib yeh kis liye?", He asked.

"Subah.. woh.. room mein.. thappad..", she stuttered.

"Hmmphh hmmphh..", Sidharth cleared his throat to avoid the topic and she chuckled.

"Jiski chakki mein jyada atta, samjho wahi task jeeta..

"Maahre ko haarne ki aadat na se chhorri.. toh task pe dhyaan dena..", Sidharth said and she nodded her head in agreement controlling her smile.

They both sat opposite to each other. The whistle was blown and the task started. Shehnaaz and Sidharth quickly started off with grinding the wheat into flour. The other contestants found it difficult to turn their hands in coordination with their hosts.

Diya's host Vikram Singh was old for his age and Divya seemed too frustrated by her partner, though she herself didn't possess much strength to pull the mortar. Ashima's being born as male before identifying herself as transwoman, had more strength over other contestants. However her host was a skinny male who couldn't co-operate with her pace. Ashima yelled at the poor chap continuosly while doing the task.

"Maine sapne mein bhi nahi socha tha ki tum aaoge..", Shehnaaz said turning the mortar.

"Manne bhi..", Sidharth said.

"Toh phir kyu aaye?", She asked.

"Gehu daal chhorri.. bola na khel pe dhyaan de.. manne haarne ki aadat na se..", Sidharth replied. Shehnaaz poured a handful of grain into the hole before holding the handle. Their hands were continuously brushing with each other.

"Thank you..", she said yet again.

"Bola na chhorri thaara jaan bachana maara farz se.. phir kitne baar thank you bolegi?", Sidharth asked.

"Uske liye nahi..", she said.

"Phir kis liye..", he asked.

"Thank you for coming.", She said.

"Hmmm..", he hummed not knowing what to reply.  He poured the grains into the hole before speaking again.

"Woh manne pasand na se ki maahre ghar ki aurton ko parde pe dikhaaye.. isiliye manne aana padha", Sidharth said. His fear of not meeting her again had made him accept the proposal of makers to come here. He couldn't send his mother who was old, nor Kalyani because she would surely make her lose and Jagadish was out of question as he couldn't bear any male close to her.

"Ismein bura kya hai? Itna ganda profession lagta hai kya tumhe acting? Isiliye tum mujhse itni nafrat karte ho?", She asked hurt by his words.

"Thaare ko maahre harr baat ka galat matlab nikaalneki aadat se.. Manne bas maahre ghar walon ko logon ki buri nazar aur kaali zubaan se bachaana se.. Manne thaare se nafrat ke hogi..", he replied.

"Nafrat nahi hain toh kya hai?", She asked.

He looked into her eyes staring intensely.

"Aakhir ke 3 minutes bache hai..", Aaryan's word brought them back to present.

"Jaldi jaldi kar chhorri.", Sidharth said. She smiled because more than her he was taking interest in winning the task.

The whistle blew marking the end of the task. While the flour ground was weighed, Shehnaaz went to change her dress. When she returned, Sidharth was already gone.

Shehnaaz was the winner of the task with 10 points and got a gift hamper from Pizza Treat. Ashima was second and Diya was 5th.

The hosts point were displayed anonymously on the screen for the week. Shehnaaz felt even more hurt to see her points this time which was worst than earlier. She had got 7, 10, 0 and 0 from Sidharth's house members. This put her back in danger zone.

Two zeros?

Koi rocket science nahi hai Shehnaaz. Ek toh Sidharth ne diya hai aur dusra uss Kalyani ne.. woh dono hi hai jo mujhe iss ghar mein nahi dekhna chahte..

I hate them both..

Shehnaaz wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes.

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