Armaan walks towards his love, the dream he has had for so many nights and days, finally coming true.... meeting his Jaan.... his love, his hope, his faith, his life..... So many emotions in those bright eyes.... Tears welling in his eyes out of the joy of finally achieving the one goal he had wanted in life.... to be able to meet his Riddhima again and to make her his own for life..... still unaware that the latter part is not the same now.... but his innocent ignorance leads him to believe its true... and so he holds his beloved in his arms as if nothing has ever changed since the dreadful day they had been separated, the day of their engagement....he has faith in his love so much that he knows his Riddhima cud sense he is there.... just as he could sense her presence.... he cannot believe his eyes when he actually sees her.... he is cherishing looking at her.... after soo long... trying to soak in as much as possible with his moistened eyes....he sees tears welling up in his beloved's eyes, mirroring his own....he moves a strand of her hair from her beautiful eyes moistened with all the love for him.... and when he touches her face, he feels her porcelain skin, and caresses it with his feather-like touch as if she were made of glass and he had to be careful not to break it.... he just wants to embrace all of her being.... embrace their love for each other, their time lost and their final reunion after all the pain.... as if embracing her would take away all her pain....seeing her makes him forget whatever they'd been through.... and with all those intense emotions, he pulls her to him, and engulfs her in an embrace without speaking a word to her...and yet his gesture says it all to his Riddhima.... his happiness, his anguish, his pain, his sorrow, his apologies, his relief, his love... everything.... and then, when he sees her still in shock, unable to find words to speak, he reassures her, not with any words, but simply with the love in his eyes, that he is back for real.... and then when she speaks his name, it is like his name had never sounded sweeter before....and then their hug is of acceptance, acknowledgement of the reality of this moment coming true finally.... But suddenly, she pulls away, breaking not only the beautiful embrace, but also ripping away his heart.... he is unable to understand why.... and she just runs away from him, without saying a word... crying with some inexplicable pain....to which he is blissfully oblivious....and he runs behind her, to stop her from leaving so abruptly... so abruptly that it pains....but he still thinks its her anger because he'd left her and went away.... and he still believes he can make her forgive him.....
Riddhima is standing there, waiting for Sid, waiting to say to him that she is finally ready to start life afresh with him.... but senses something strange... a feeling which she is so familiar to, and yet hasn't felt in a long while.... a pull so gravitational, a feeling so strong she is not able to understand how..... and when she turns, she sees a sight she has dreamt of and nearly gone crazy to make possible... the sight of the one person she has loved more than her own life.... those beautiful bright eyes full of love like none other, those beautiful lips that have caressed her so often, those broad shoulders on which she has wept like a child, those arms that have embraced her such that she has forgotten the world during that moment...the man she had dedicated her whole being to.... she sees him... Armaan.... and she doesn't have words to say anything....she stands still as if she has been paralyzed by the pain of their love.... she sees him, finally, in flesh and bones, walking towards her, with all those memories of their past lives flashing in front of her eyes.... she cannot believe her eyes... her heart is beating furiously with each step he advances towards her... her breathing is uneven, gasping for the air as if she is drowning in the emotions she is feeling... a whirling tsunami which she is being engulfed into.....pain, happiness, relief, curiosity, grief, confusion, ecstasy, love..... when he comes to her, she is unaware that her eyes have given away all those emotions she is unable to find words for.... and they are brimming with the love her heart feels, seeing the love of her life in front of her eyes....when he touches her face to move a strand of hair from her eyes, she gasps with the familiarity of the touch of his hand....the touch of his skin against hers sends a jolt through her body.... and when he finally hugs her, she is still unable to accept the fact that this really is her beloved Armaan....the Armaan she loved beyond all boundaries and limits... she fumbles to find her voice, and as if making sure this moment is for real, she says his name.... and when she does, she sees the reassurance in those eyes which she is so familiar to... and finally comes to terms with the fact that he is really there in front of her... and then she opens the gates to all the feelings she had been guarding all this time and flings herself into his arms..... and just then, her eyes fall on a small golden band on her ring finger....a band depicting the promises she has made to someone... and brings her to the reality that she no more belongs to her Armaan... but she belongs to someone she has promised to spend her life with, who she has married.... Siddhant..... she pulls away from him... and it breaks her heart to do so... after all, he was the one thing she had wanted more than her own life... but her cruel fate has brought him to her at a point where she can't go to him even if her heart wants to.... she is bound by her ethics, her obligations, her gratitude, her sympathy... and most of all, she is bound by the sacred bond of marriage.... she runs away from there, cursing her fate as to why this is happening to her now.... the precise time when she was going to give her new life a chance with all her heart....
She is walking lost in thought.... thoughts of what had just happened to her life.... when she sees him... her husband... the man whom she was just about to begin a new blissful life with.... the man whom she knows loves her just as much....and she asks him why he din't come there to meet her.... with pain in her words as if accusing him for not being there, somehow venting on him the anguish she felt when she saw the ghost of her past in place of the man in her present and future.....he fumbles for an answer, and gives her a lame excuse for it... and she is once again pained by seeing him and thinking what would happen if he knew what had just happened in his absence..... when he asks her if she's alright, she is stunned and pained.... pained that he does notice her not being herself... stunned because she doesn't know in which context he is asking her.... she says she has to go, and leaves from there, leaving behind a bewildered man who has been anxious to understand what just happened.... she shuts herself up in her room... and lets all her thoughts out, and the one memory which keeps reoccurring in front of her eyes is her marriage... she keeps on reminding herself of Sid.... the man who took care of her when she had lost her willingness to live....the man who gave a new meaning to her life.... and just when she is wondering what to do, cursing her destiny for doing this to her.... her phone rings.... and when she answers, it is him again.... the love of her life... wanting to talk to her... she hangs up, angry at him for coming back now when she can't accept him the way she always wanted to.... angry at him for leaving altogether.... but she knows he is Armaan.... he won't stop at anything.... so she answers his call finally... and tells him she doesn't wish to speak to him.... saying this with so much pain.... so much anger, it hurts..... but she does it.... coz she feels it is the right thing to be done.....
On the other side is the man who knew of the storm that was approaching.... Siddhant... and yet he is desperate to know what really had happened between the two once-inseparable lovers.... he is unable to understand why Riddhima din't mention her meeting with Armaan... he is wondering whether they met or not.... and if they did, why she din't tell him....he has faith that she will at least tell her the truth when she does meet him.... but is bewildered at her not mentioning it.... he is pained to imagine what path she would've chosen... and yet is almost certain of her choice.... but still, somewhere within him is a hope that she may have chosen what fate has led her to... and so he decides to ask the one person he knows who will tell him the truth.... the one person who considers him his angel and who shares his secrets with him.... the same person who might have taken away his life from him today.... but he is courageous and strong, and makes up his mind to find out the truth.....
And today, we cry for all three of them.... there is no team SR or team AR today..... its everyone who feels the pain.... and only one word to describe this pain.... HEARTACHE....