It was an early Monsoon night. It began drizzling lightly. Darkness engulfed the whole colony. Most of the flats didn't have lights on except a few here and there.
She felt she is being dragged on the floor. The cold floor was sending shivers through her body. All of a sudden she felt some electric shock ran up through her and she opened her eyes with a lot of struggle. The light in the room almost blinded her. She squinted. After a few seconds gap, she understood that she is really being dragged. Her head burnt in pain. She felt some hot liquid running down her face. She touched it and her fingers got stained by some red colour liquid. In that daze, she could notice a figure over her, dragging her by her hands. Slowly her senses began coming back. And understanding everything, she began shouting for help.
"Help! Somebody help...! Let me go! Please!", seeing her going into a frenzy, the person dragging her got tensed. The person left her hands and began pacing tensedly.
Over here she began shouting loudly for help and this made the person more nervous. So the person hurriedly took a cloth nearby and ran towards her and she tried to protest but the person held her both hands and with the other hand stuffed a cloth in her mouth. All her screams now turned into groans. Tears began flowing out of her eyes. She looked horrified.
The person looked over the room for options as to what to do with her and after sometime and horrific thought came into mind.
The person looked at her and said,
"Sorry Riya! I don't have another option. Forgive me!", saying so the  person grabbed her hair and dragged her into the restroom, took the nearby blade, pinned her to the floor and sliced the blade through her throat. Blood spilled out of her throat in response and that sudden response sent shivers through her petite figure. Seeing that response of hers, the person panicked and immediately held her down fiercely and cut through the same slit, again and again, so as to kill her soon.
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He stood there in white shirt and blue jeans with some documents in his hands. The thick grey clouds began roaring above him. Cool breeze blew past him. He stood there and kept looking at the entrance, as if waiting for someone.
Time passed, he became more restless. Rain drops began falling. He runned back inside in order to find some shelter.
It began pouring down heavily. Just then a cab stopped at the entrance. The back door opened and a girl in her early 20s slowly stepped out.
His heart jumped in excitement on seeing her. He immediately ran towards her not caring about the pour down.
She wore a dark red saree, paured with an yellow sleeveless blouse.
She left her hair free which by now became completely wet.
By the time he reached her, he was completely drenched.
He first hugged her tightly and then asked cupping her face,
"Hey! Why are you late? Is everything alright?".
"Ah! Yeah! I am fine!", she said nervously.
"You have come alone! Where are your friends?", he asked seeing no one present with her.
She was about to say something but he stopped her saying that they should go inside as it is raining.
After reaching to the earlier place where he took shelter, he asked once again about her friends.
"They didn't come. I waited and waited and waited, still they didn't come. So I thought it's better if I get started and came alone. They are not even answering my calls.", she said in a disappointed tone.
"What? Do they have some sense? We informed in the beginning itself, didn't we?...Such a great friends you have!", he said frustrated.
"What do I know? May be they are scared of my father!",
"By the way, where are Sameer and Ayesha?", she asked.
"They..",
"Oh ho!!! So the bride is finally here!", Sameer said in happiness.
Ayesha was also with him.
The girl smiled in response and Ayesha gave her a sidewise hug and said,
"All the best, everything's going to be fine!".
"Accha, Listen! None of her friends turned up, God knows why! Now what do we do about the witnesses?", the boy asked Sameer worried.
"No one came? Weird!", Sameer stated and all of them remained silent, thinking what to do.
Sameer then spoke again,
"Okay, you guys don't worry. We will find someone. We still have half an hour for our slot. Till then, you both go inside, dry yourself and stay relaxed. We will take care of everything. Go inside".
They both went inside, dried themselves and sat on a bench inside the Register Office.
There was one couple getting married then.
They both sat there, with their hearts pounding. Tension was written all over their faces. During the whole time, they didn't talk to each other. They didn't even look at each other. They just sat holding each other's hand, lost in their own thought.
Time passed and they came out of their trance when the officer called their names.

"Arjun Rawte,
Anamika Madhavan"
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He reached the terrace and it was early morning and dark clouds were rumbling over his head. He moved to the other end of terrace and began observing the surroundings.
After sometime, it began drizzling and his eyes fell on the opposite building. 
He saw a girl running upstairs towards the terrace. She came to pick the dried off clothes.
The distance between the two buildings is not much, so he could almost clearly see her.
She might be in her mid 20s. Her face isn't so clear. But yeah! Her hair is black, long and wavy and was almost left free, which by now started becoming wet due to the early morning drizzle.
As she was picking the clothes, a small boy, may be of 2-3 years age came running upstairs.
Seeing him there, she asked him to go back, but he didn't comply. All the time, he kept clinging to her, running behind her. But she didn't shout at him even once. May be he is her son.
After few mins, they ran downstairs with the clothes and entered into one of the flats and closed the doors.
Standing there in that rain, he wondered what would be happening inside that flat now!

Inside the flat,
She came inside, kept the clothes inside, dried the boy's hair and came out drying hers as well.
In the hall, there were some 7-8 people sitting. Perhaps her relatives.
As she came, an old lady spoke,
"Beta! See you have to think about us also right. Now that your Husband is gone, that doesn't mean you don't have to care about us. We are still your family. You should once think about your in laws also.".
That statement brought a fierce look on her face.
She replied angrily,
"Yes! You are all my family. But I am not a part of 'your' family, right? I should think about my
in laws, but they won't think about me. They just want to take away this small piece of shelter from me.".
Then a man in his early 30s got up and spoke angrily,
"Hey! You already got Anand's job. Now you want this flat also! If we give away everything to you, should we beg then?".
"I am not asking anything from you Arun! I am just asking for that flat which Anand earned on his own for Jay. And to be frank, you all have no right on this. If someone has some right on this, that's only me and later Jayanth. So, you better stop visiting us this way, showering your fake love.", she replied, anger spread all over her face.
"Sakshi!!!!" her mother-in-law shouted loudly at her arrogance.
"What is it?", Sakshi shouted back in the same pitch.
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