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17. In Search of Love - Sandhya

Where are we going?”

Prabakar who was driving the car, turned and looked at Nikhil but didn’t reply to his question.

“I hope you are not planning to take me to a remote place and finish me of…” said Nikhil with a grin.

In search of love

Prabakar again turned his face but this time gave a very angry glare at Nikhil.

“Prabakar, I can understand how you feel. I have a sister and I would have probably done the same thing if someone had done what I did to Pooja…”

Prabakar kept is eyes fixed on the street and pretended as if he didn’t even hear what Nikhil said.

“Now let’s be frank Prabakar. Tell me what I should do to make you happy?”

“You are really asking this question to me?”

“Yes I am! I want to patch up things. Let’s get this all cleared up… Tell me, what I should do?”

“Go away from Pooja. Just fade away from her life…”

“I can’t do that Prabakar! I won’t leave Pooja”

Nikhil’s smile had vanished. Though his face was devoid of any emotions, his voice and tone were firm.

“Ok… Then I will make you do that the hard way.”

“Why? Why do you do this? Look at me! Don’t you see my love for your sister in my eyes? Just give me one more chance Prabakar”

“Life is not a trial and error process Nikhil. See, I warned Pooja about marrying you. She didn’t listen to me… She trusted you. But what did you do? You dumped her minutes after registering your marriage. I would have given a second thought atleast if you had taken her with you... Atleast that would have made me believe that you care little bit for her…”

“But…”

“Shut up” scorned Prabakar!

“You just left her in the streets and flew away from the scene. Anything could have happened to her! Now just because she helped to bring your father back, you come back and say I adore her, love her blah blah blah… Where were you when she was struggling with her life?”

“I did…”

“Shut up I said…! You don’t have any rights to talk about Pooja!”

“Do you have any such right sir?”

“How dare you ask me this? She is my sister. My aunt left her in my responsibility…”

‘Good that you remember that. Pooja has been always a fragile character. I can understand that… You knew everything about your aunt and how she treated Pooja… But still you decided to punish her, just because once, ONLY ONCE she didn’t listen to you. Yes I am a bad person I left her in the streets and I didn’t care about her… But go to a mirror and ask the same thing yourself Prabakar. If you were her real brother would you have left her like that…? Would you have asked her to go away from your sight when you could clearly see that she was dejected? I stayed away from her for so many years, yes and you also did the same thing sir. If you have rights to consider as sister now, why can’t I???’

Nikhil wanted to scream back his response. But he didn’t utter a single word. He kept quiet.

He didn’t want to fight with Prabakar. He knew that Pooja likes him. Whatever she likes will stay in her life. He will not let her suffer even a little bit again!

“Why are you quiet Nikhil? You don’t have anything to reply now?” asked Prabakar sarcastically.

Nikhil looked at him with a smile in his face.

“I thought anyways you are going to say shut up…! Why waste your energy and mine!”

Prabakar looked at him without trying to hide his irritation.

“So you will not go back yourself?”

“Yes… I will go…”

Prabakar gave a curious look, as Nikhil continued,

“…along with Pooja. Whatever be it, she is my wife and I will take her back with me.”

 They both were quite for the rest of the journey.

The car stopped in front of Chandalal's shop. Nikhil was surprised but he tried to hide his emotions!

Prabakar went inside the shop and Nikhil too followed him.

"Are you Chandalal?"

"Yes sir, you need some help from me?" asked Chandalal giving a curious look towards Nikhil.

Nikhil signaled him not to indicate that he knows him!

"Yes… sort of! I want to buy back few jewels sold by my relative" said Prabakar.

"I will have them with me if you are lucky sir. Do you have details about the jewels?"

"Yes, few months back my sister Pooja and a family friend sold them to you…."

Prabakar said that glancing at Nikhil with an accusing look…

Chandalal was again surprised and he again looked at Nikhil! Again Nikhil signaled him to pretend as if he knows nothing.

"I do remember them… The jewels they sold were of very high quality… But I don't have them with me any more… I sold them all to another person"

"Oh! Is there any way I can contact that person?"

"It's…. Very difficult… First of all I don't know if that person would be ok to share his contact details… And I am also not sure if he would be willing to sell those fine jewels…"

"But they are family jewels Chandalal. My sister sold them due to an emergency… I need to get them back… I am sure you will have some record of the buyer…"

"But I can't share it with you.."

"I can understand that… How about you contacting the person and letting him know that someone wants to buy them…"

"That is…"

"Please it's a request… Give it a try…"

"Ok, I will try to contact him…"

"Thank you. This is my card… You can call me in my mobile any time if you hear back from that person…"

"Ok…"

Prabakar turned and started walking and Nikhil too joined him…

When they were about to enter the car, Nikhil said,

"Oh Prabakar, I left my sunglass in the shop, I will be back in a moment…" and rushed to the shop without noticing Prabakar who was standing there with a suspicious look.

"Chandalal"

"Aree Nikhil! What's this yaar? You come with a person who is looking for you? What should I tell him?"

"Tell him that the person is willing to sell the jewels…"

"Ok, what about the rate?"

"Don’t worry about that… I can give it for any amount that he quotes…"

"What's going on Nikhil?"

"Love story in progress Chandalal…." said Nikhil with a wink.

"You people are crazy… Anyways don’t lead me into any trouble…"

"No no don’t worry about it…"

"Why can't you just talk to him directly and give those jewels? Why do you need a middle man like me???"

"Yes, that's the same question I have too…!" declared Prabakar's stern voice.

Nikhil was stunned for a second but then immediately he regained composure and turned around to face Prabakar with a smile.

Will conclude with the next episode.

In search of Love # 16

In search of Love # 18

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  • Sandy,<br /><br />Evalo naal final touch pannuveenga.. podhum update pannunga adhukulla naan series-a oru vatti revise pannittu vandhudren :Q:

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