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Nurse startles when she finds a hoodie guy standing infront of a crib in a neonatal ward. She could only see the person's back.

"Kaun? Kaun ho tum?", She nervously yells at him from far.

The hoodie guy puts down the new born baby back into the crib carefully.

"Bachcha churaane aaye ho..? help help! Chor chor chor..", she screams when the guy dodges her and runs out of the ward. Bumping into few people on the way, while being chased the guy sneaks into a private ward to escape. There was a pin drop silence in the ward. Only thing he heard was his loud pounding heartbeats and the beeping sound of ECG monitor behind the curtain. He slowly peeps through the curtain and finds a patient lying on the bed. When he hears the footsteps approaching him, he runs into the attached toilet to hide himself.

A young, handsome man dressed in three piece suit enters the ward. He goes and sits on the chair beside the bed and holds the patient's hand in his. He caresses the patient's visible side of the cheek with his thumb delicately.

"Maya, aur kitne din logi sweetheart? Mujhse ab aur sabar nahi ho raha.. himmat haar jaaunga agar tum jaldi thik nahi huyi toh..", he cried grasping her hand into both his hand.

The hoodie guy peeked in through the little gap between the bathroom door. His eyes filled with tears upon witnessing the man's helplessness and the fight with his fate to save his loved one. He reminisced the day when he helplessly lost his love.

Flashback: (1 month earlier)

Phone rings

"Hello", said Sidharth.

"Hello Mister, when are you returning my Yacht? You took it on rent for 3 days and today is the fourth day. I have yet another customer who wants to hire it?", the owner of the yacht barks annoyingly.

"I will return it today itself.", Replied Sidharth in his depressed tone before disconnecting. He had been waiting at the same place where she bid goodbye to him three days back. His eyes glued at the same place where she immersed herself with that sweet yet a sorrowful smile on her face.

If it was old Sidharth, he would have ended his life instantly but this Sidharth was built in pain over the years. For the promise he had made to his mother that he would never take any extreme step in life, come what may.

When he got the call he realised that his Shehnaaz would have been happier with her family in her world and she won't return ever to him and his world. He would return to his world as well but he was sure that his heart would never return from this place where she left him. It will be still there waiting for her to return to him one day.

As he maneuvered the yacht to leave, his eyes kept staring back with a hope until he lost the sight of it.
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"Keshov", called Sidharth standing outside the gate of IRC.

Keshov turned around with a surprised smile recognizing the voice however the smile turned into a puzzled expression when he saw an unfamiliar face.

"Aap kon?", Asked Keshov.

"Si.. Sidharth..", he said with tear filled eyes.

"Kon Sidharth?", He asked with a doubt to confirm.

"Sidharth Adhikari", the tear which he held, escaped his eyeslids and now continued it's journey towards the south.

"Sir? Aap..?", He said surprised. Sidharth hugged him and sulked softly. All he wanted was a shoulder to cry and the only person he was close to after his mother and Shehnaaz was Keshov, who came into his life on the same day as Shehnaaz. Keshov couldn't control himself from getting emotional. He patted his back until he successfully closed the lid of his overflowing sorrow.

"Sir, aap kidor chale gaye the? Aor Flora kidor hai?", Asked Keshov.

"Woh apni duniya mein laut gayi Keshov aur jaate jaate mujhe mera purana chehra waapis kar gayi. Main ussey chodd aaya Keshov, apne pyaar ko apne se dur chodd aaya. Yeh jagah uske liye nahi thi..", Sidharth spoke with grief filled voice.

"Ochcha kiya Sir. Usko yoha rokte toh uske saath bohot bura hota. Por aap ab waapis IRC noi aa sokte na sir.", Expresses Keshov.

"Jaanta hoon Keshov. Main toh bas tumhe milne aaya tha. Kaise ho mere dost?", Asks Keshov.

"Main thik hoon Sir. Aapka aur Flora ka bohot yaad aata tha. Unn logo ne mujhse enquire kiya tha.. par mujhe kuch pota nahi tha toh mujhe dusre project mein shift kor diya.. aap yaha se chalo Sir, mere ghor. Yaha kisine aapko pechan liya toh gorbor ho jaayega..", suggested Keshov

Keshov takes him home with him. Keshov was an orphan and stayed with his sister who was an acid attack victim. Both brother and sister welcomed Sidharth into their house and family. Sidharth needed a new identity which he got illegally. He now went by the name Agastya Rao, which earlier belonged to an orphan who had lost his life in an accident.

The person who got him identity for money, also got him a modelling assignment. Agastya accepted it as he had no other job. Besides he needed money not to survive but to unite with his love. He had been conducting a research on his own to find out how can he stay underwater forever without breathing. He was studying the underwater creatures minutely. Today, he wanted to learn how an unborn child can stay in fluid for 9 months without breathing. He cluelessly wandered into the neonatal ward and picked a new born baby in his hand, when the nurse caught him.

Flashback ends

Phone rings

"Maya, main abhi waapis aaya thik hai?" Said the man getting up from his chair and kissing the forehead of the unconcious lady. He strolled out answering a call on his phone.

Agastya came out of the bathroom finding it to be a brilliant opportunity to escape. However, he was extremely stunned to find a familiar looking face lying on the bed.

"Shehnaaz.." he uttered.

Agastya ran towards her bed and brushed off the strands of hair from her face with tearful eyes.

"Shehnaaz.. Shehnaaz.. utto Shehnaaz.. dekho.. main tumhara kullu.. kya ho gaya tumhe meri jaan? Utto na please", Agastya cried cupping her face.

"Who the hell are you? Tumne meri Maya ko chune ki himmat kaise kiya?", Yelled the young man pulling Agastya away from her.

"Kaun Maya? Woh meri Shehnaaz hai..", Agastya retaliated.

"Shut up!! Woh meri patni, Maya hai. Mrs. Maya Vikram Rajvanshi.", Vikram bellowed.

"Nahi.. tum jhoot bol rahe ho. I can prove it ki woh meri Shehnaaz hai. Woh ek mermaid hai. ", Agastya pulled her blanket expecting to find a tail whereas he was shocked to see legs instead.

Vikram was raged to find someone pulling his wife's blanket. He pulled Agastya by his collar and punched his face with his fist causing his nose bleed.

"Tum paagal ho samajh mein aa gaya mujhe kyuki tum kisi mermaid ki baat kar rahe ho. Par tum chahe koi bhi ho, meri Maya ko chune walon ko main hargiz nahi maaf karunga. Woh sirf meri hai aur mujhe ye prove karne ki bhi zarurat nahi hai.", Vikram barked in anger.

Agastya didn't for once felt any pain on being punched because he was shocked that the lady had striking resemblance to his Shehnaaz. He kept staring at her face as he was dragged by Vikram by his collar and pushed out of the private ward.

"Doobara meri Maya ke aas paas bhi bhatakte huye nazar mat aana. Warna aaj sirf naak todha hai, agli baar tumhe pura ka pura todh dunga.", Vikram warns Agastya.

Meet the Protagonists:

(Agastya Rao, alias Sidharth Adhikari, Model)

(Maya Vikram Rajvanshi)

(Vikram Rajvanshi)
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To be continued.. ❤️❤️

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