FF:Two sides of the same coin. - Page 4

Lakhan came to his room, completely worn out. Waking up at 4 in the morning for wrestling practice, College, going to auction for a mall with Manu and Jagan and dealing with the Bajwa who always waited for an opportunity to fight with the them or to try to degrade them was really tiring. On Neha insistence Lakhan agreed to help his father with his daily duties and to learn wrestling. Despite he made it clear that he is not interested in wrestling or any sport, Neha still pleaded with him to give it a try at least for their parents' happiness. After an argument Lakhan finally gave in to his sister wishes. The moment he agreed Balvinder burden him with so much work now, he didn't even have time to even sleep properly. Looked like his father was trying to make sure that he won't go back to play music. So he filled his schedule with unnecessary and tiring tasks so that he won't get any time to play his music. And it night.ork till now... But not today

Lakhan went towards his desk where he had kept his flute. He unlocked the drawer and slowly opened it. Lightly, he touched the woodwind instrument with his fingers. The flute was plain yet beautiful. The flute always reminded him of her. She was the other main reason for his passion for music. Besides Preet she was the only one who understood him. But even if he told his parents about it they wouldn't understand. From his room he could hear, the chattering sound of his brother and his friends from downstairs. Lakhan sighed and took the flute from the drawer, put it inside his jacket and went towards the window. He took a deep breath and jumped from the window, grasped and swung at the branch of the tree that was conveniently in there at the back of his house and gracefully landed on the ground. Lakhan was not interested in sports, but that didn't mean he was unfit or unathletic In fact, he was quite good at sports. On the first few days when he first started to learn wrestling everyone was astounded seeing Lakhan skills. None of them had thought that Lakhan will exel at sports, they always thought that he would lack in agility and muscular strength, cause of his slender built and his disinterest in sports and wrestling, this irked Lakhan. Tej was amazed and Balvindar was shell shocked seeing his son talent Lakhan was a quick learner and it didn't take him much time to learn the basics of wrestling.

Lakhan started to walk aimlessly around the fields. Finally, he reached the woods; away from his house and pavaniya clan. He looked around to make to see if anyone was around. If one of his clansmen found him in here with his flute then... And worst, if a bajwa found him, then he was a goner as it will create a chaos in his house. After inspecting the area seeing that he was alone, Lakhan sat down under a tree tried to relax. Today was a really peaceful night the weather was very pleasant and comfortable. Lakhan took out the flute from his jacket held it horizontally and let out a deep sigh and brought the opening end of the flute closer to his mouth. He slowly blew at the opening, placing his finger in the finger holes of the flute and slowly moving his fingers in a rhythmic motion playing the flute. At first he melody was sad and depressing as if he was lamenting his sorrow. But moments later it turned into a joyful and beautiful melody, and Lakhan completely lost himself in playing the music, into the beautiful melody along with the memory it played and reminded him off, completely unaware of his surroundings.

"Veerji!" suddenly a male voice cried out. Lakhan came back to his senses and swiftly turned around to find Rajveer standing behind him. The boy was completely battered, his head was bandaged and eyes were bruised and was practically limping.

"Rajveer, what happened to you? Who did this to you?" Lakhan asked, suddenly a bit concerned at Rajveers' condition. Rajveer looked down, dejectedly and murmured something with Lakhan couldn't understand.

Rajveer was silent for a moment still looking down at his feet when he finally said, with venom in his voice" My friend did this to me"

" What kind of a friend does this" Lakhan thought out loud.

"Ek dhoke bas dost" Rajveer said, clenching his fist forgetting about his injury and suddenly winced in pain.

"Are you ok?" Lakhan asked raj cautiously, moving closer to him.

"Yes, I'm fine." Raj said with a sad smile on his face.

Suddenly Lakhan remembered and thought 'Wait, wasn't he...' "Rajveer, What are you doing in here in the first place? I thought you went back to city?"

" Oh, I missed my bus so..." Raj said hastily rubbing the back of his neck.

'He is really bad at lying ' Lakhan thought " Wait, let me see... where are you going exactly... Amba Aunty said you are from Delhi, am I right?" Lakhan asked.

" Yes, that's where I was going" Raj said dumbfounded.

" There is still a bus going to Delhi and it will leave to Delhi in about 15 minutes. So you still have 15 minutes time and the bus stop is also not far." Lakhan said looking at his wrist watch.

"oh..."

"Look, don't get me wrong. I know your condition is bad and I wouldn't have insisted you to leave. But after what you did, its dangerous for you to stay in here any longer. Our clansmen won't leave you alive. So the sooner you leave the better. I'm saying this for your own safety."

"I know, I know" Rajveer said laughing nervously "Well then I'll get going. Don't wanna miss this bus" With that Rajveer turned around was about to leave when Lakhan called out to him

"Raj!" he called out . At that Rajveer turned around startled, a worried expression spread on his features.

" Raj, if you want I will accompany you to the bus stop..."

"No ,no its ok you don't need to. I'll manage on my own" Rajveer said hastly and briskly walked away ,disappearing into the woods.

'What was all that about?' Lakhan wondered ' I was just trying to help him...And why did he called me veerji when I'm much younger than him...'

Your vocabulary and writing style have improved drastically. Keep going?

thank you Deila😳.

@italic Lol! 🤣 Sorry it was funny 😆. I thought my writing style is bad ad I wrote this chapter in a hurry😳.
And yes, Raj suddenly reminded of raman when he heard Lakhan playing the flute. In preleap episode when twee leads were kids Lakhan used to play flute and harjeet didn't like it and scolded him for it

Preet father is not like Jagan, he loves his daughter. And here is very loyal to the pavania And I'll show more mannu scene.
@Bold Sure, I'll show you this scene, but it will take time as gunjan scandal is yet to come. 😳

Sorry Dear I had a lot of work today at the office just came home. I'll try to update tomorrow.Ok? 😳

What?? But how?

Chapter 5 (Part II)

"Preet...Preet...Preet" Preet heard a voice calling out to her. She looked around, but she didn't see anyone. Scared she started to run faster and screamed louder. The ground started to shake and the voice called out to her again a bit louder this time. "Preet...Preet...Preet...WAKE UP PREET!!!"

Preet jolted up awake in the bed, sweating and panting loudly. She turned around and saw Tej standing beside her looking worried, his hands on her shoulder. "Preet you ok? You alright?"

Tej asked softly, handing her a towel. Preet quickly grabbed the towel and buried her face in the fabric.

Tej sat beside his cousin and gently stroked her head as she sobbed."It's okay baby. Relax. Everything is fine, it was just a dream. A nightmare." Tej said, trying to console her. Preet quietly nodded and tried to calm down.

Preet took a few deep breath and relaxed. She then looked up and saw Tej still sitting beside her. Confused, she asked "Veerji, When did you come back? How long was I asleep? And What's the time?"

"I have been back home for quite some time now. You have been asleep for half an hour. And about the time" Tej quickly glanced at his wrist watch and said "It's half past 10 now..."

"What!" Preet quickly jumped up. As soon as she did that, a sharp pain shot through her right arm. Preet hissed and held her arm.

"Preet, relax! Didn't the doctor say you are not supposed to move to much." Tej scolded his cousin. He then inspected her hand. The blood had seeped through the bandages, again."See I told you." Tej, then opened the bedside table drawer, took out the first aid box and started to tend Preet.

"Where is Lakhan Veerji? Didn't he come with you?"

Tej shrugged and said "I don't know, even I'm looking for that idiot. It's past bedtime and he still didn't have his dinner. He was with me when he came in the house, I saw him heading to his room, but when I went to call him for dinner he wasn't there. I was about to search for him, but I stopped when I heard you screaming for Chacha Ji, in sleep" Tej removed Preet bandage and suddenly growled.

Preet flinched at that, "Veerji is everything ok" Preet asked cautiously.

Tej didn't replied for some time, which scared Preet. Tej kept glaring at Preets wounds. There was a huge, deep cut from her forearms to her wrist, which was stitched up. The wound was so deep that the doctor had to perform a small operation and stitch her wound.

"I won't spare him." Tej eyes darkened a devilish and almost a murderous look spread acrossed his features that it frightened Preet ."Rajveer, that bas***d. Bas ek bar mere hath lag jaye, I'll rip of his arm or his head."