३-४ वर्षांपूर्वी पुन्हां एकदा राजेश ख़न्ना-अमितभचा ‘आनंद’ बघितला,कितव्यांदा ते नाही आठवत. त्याच सुमारास तात्यासाहेबांनी नाट्यरुपांतर केलेलं ‘आनंद’ ही वाचनात आलं.
‘आनंद’, . . . प्रत्येक वेळी आनंद बघताना एक नवीनच ‘आनंद’ कळत गेला, सापडत गेला.
‘आनंद’ ची व्यक्‍तिरेखा सर्वप्रथम समोर आली ती कॅन्सरसारख्या रोगाशी लढतानाही म्रुत्युलाच क्षणोक्षणी मारणार्‍या एका माणसाची म्हणून, आणि म्हणूनच लढायची वेळ येते तेंव्हा ‘आनंद’ आठवतो, त्याच बिनधास्त जगणं अन्‌ जगाला अखंडपणे आनंदाचे क्षण देण्याची धडपड आठवते.
आपल्या आयुष्यात घडणारी प्रत्येक गोष्ट, प्रत्येक घटना आपल्याल ‘घडवत’ असते. तसंच काहीसं माझ्याही बाबतीत झालं. ‘आनंद’ ची प्रत्येक revision मला घ्डवत होती. एक स्वप्न आकार घेत होतं . . . मला ‘आनंद’ व्हयचंय ! माझ्या सभोवतालच्या प्रत्येकाल मझा आधार आसावा. कोणालही रडायला मझा खांदा आसावा. ‘सगळ्यांना आपल्यात समावून घेण्याची क्षमता असलेलं’ हे स्वप्न होतं माझं!
स्वप्न तर बघितलं, . . . पण ते जगायचं, पूर्ण करायच ठरवलं, तेंव्हा मी काय होतो?
आयुष्याच्या प्रत्येक परीक्षेत नापास झालेला, लोकांसाठी फक्‍त problems, निर्माण करणारा मुलगा. खूप प्रयत्नपूर्वक मी स्वतःला बदललं. ज्या मुलाला बोटावर मोजण्याइतकेही जवळचे मित्र नव्हते, त्याच मित्रपरिवार वाढायला लागला. ह्या स्वप्नानं मला खूप काही दिलं. सगळ्यात महत्वाचं म्हणजे, ‘इतरांसाठी जगायचं असतं’ हे शिकवलं.
पण आता ४ वर्षाँनंतर . . . पुन्हा एकद मी हरलो, नापास झालो, ‘आनंद’ हा अवतार आहे आणि आपण एक अतिसामन्य माणूस याची जाणिव झाली.
आता मी नुसतंच माणसासारखं जगायचं ठरवलंय, म्हणजे मी ‘आनंद’ विसरलो अस नाही. पाण आता तो माझा फक्‍त एक हिस्सा आहे आणि मी ‘आनंद’ नाहीच! कारण . . . मी अजूनही स्वर्थी आहे.
हा ‘आनंद’ आपल्या प्रत्येकात आहे, त्याचा शोध कोणी कसा घ्यायचा हा ज्याचा त्याचा प्रश्न आहे. मला माझ्या्तला ‘आनंद’ सापडला आणि त्याने माझं आयुष्यचं बदलून टाकलं.

जगीन प्रत्येक मनात आनंद म्हणून

राहिन प्रत्येक मनात आठवण बानून

दुःखाची नसेल सोबत कुठल्याच क्षणाला

सुखाचा देईन ओलावा प्रत्येक मनाला !!

ठेवेल प्रत्येकजण मला आठवणीत,

मी म्हणून, . . . माणूस म्हणून !

दिसेल प्रत्येकला सुर्य-स्वर्ग माझ्यात,

पण नसेल मोह माझ्या सह्वासाचा !

असतील प्रत्येकाला स्वप्न…

मी होण्याची, आकाश बनण्याची

जाणवेल शितलता चंद्राची मझ्यात,

तरी नसेल इछा तिला मिठीत घेण्याची !!

असेल फक्‍त जाणिव

माझी. . . माझ्या आधारची

जाणवेल माझं प्रेम प्रत्येक श्वासात

तरीही नसेल मोह . . . श्वास घेण्याचा !

तेंव्हा मी असेन तिथे

माझा श्वास तुला द्यायला…

आणि जाणवेल तुला माझं अस्तित्व

मॄत्युच्या पलिकडे दिसणारं. . .

सोडेन माझा श्वास

तुझ्या श्वासात मिसळून

पाहिन वाट उद्याची, पुनः जन्माची

पुन्हा एकदा जगण्यासाठी. . .

ह्या वेळी असेन एक माणुस सामान्य

तुझ्याकडे, त्याच्याकडे आधार शोधणारा

आधार शोधतांना अनेकदा पडणारा

आणि. . .आधार मिळाल्यावर सिंह होउन गरजणारा!!

त्यावेळी मी प्रयत्न करेन,

‘तू’ बनून जगण्याचा

तेंव्हा तू प्रयत्न करवास ,

 मला पंखाखाली घेण्याचा !

मी थांबीन विसाव्याला तुझ्याजवळ थोडावेळ,

 घेईन अनुभूती, तुझ्या स्पंदनांची

बघीन ठोडी स्वप्न - नव्याने जगायला,

वाकेन, मोडेन – पुन्हा नव्याने धावायला !!

पण . . . पण तेंव्हाही तू नसशील तर?

तर . . . तर मलाच व्हवं लागेल मोठ . . . खुप मोठं

व्हावं लागेल तोच सुर्य – तोच स्वर्ग,

ठेवावी लागतील मनाची दारं उघडी,

तुझ्यासाठी, त्याच्यासाठी. . . प्रत्येकाचंसाठी !!

सांग ना…तू असशील ना तेंव्हा ?

मला थोपटायला, निजवायला,

 मला मिठीत घेऊन कुर्वाळायला

मी रडलो तर माझे डोळे पुसायला,
माझ्या बरोबर रडायला

आणि रडता-रडता माझ्यात हरवायला !

सांग ना… आसेल ना तुझी जणिव

माझा श्वास जिवंत ठवायला ?

असेल ना तुझा आधार

मला पुन्हा रुजवायला ?

कदाचित तू नसशील तिथे

तरीपण . . . माझी एक आपेक्षा

तुझ्यात असाण्याची,

माझा आत्मा असण्याची !

आणि तू असतांना सुद्धा

कदाचित मलाच व्हावं लागेल मोठं

द्यावा लागेल तुला हात,

द्यावाच लागेल मझा श्वास

तरी पण घेईन मी पुःजन्म पुन्हा जुन्याच अपेक्षेने,

एक ‘माणूस’ होण्याच्या, तुझ्या पंखाखाली जगण्याच्या

त्यासाठी कदाचित पहवी लागेल मला वाट

तुझी, तू आकाश बनण्याची

विसरून स्वतःला तुझ्यात,

‘आनंद‘ होऊन. . . फक्‍त  ‘आनंद‘ होऊन जगण्याची!!

 – ॐकार बापट

It has been so many different stories till date, starting way back when I took admission in MCA and came to Pune. When I came to Pune, Amruta my closest friend in BCS had already joined MCA, and she shifted with Rucha.

Rucha, a very strong character, dusky skin average height and good looks with very beautiful curly waving hair. Rohit calls her “Ashoka” because of her wavy hair. I knew Rucha as my classmate first and then the senior in BCS but we never had any kind of interaction before that “Dugar-wadi” trek where Rucha and Rohit met for the first time and it did strike a spark between them on that day only. Eventually Rohit –Rucha got married about 3 years after that trek, in December last year.

Rohit – my younger cousin, but hardly behaved like younger one, It always felt that he is my elder brother. About 5’9”, dark, good physic and very dreamy and hopeful eyes. His most amazing and striking characteristic is he is too convincing on what ever he says and wants to do. It is very difficult to convince Rohit otherwise.  I guess that is what happened to Rucha, she could not stay away from Rohit. Well they make a very good pair. Rohit is very interesting character, always energetic and ready to try different things, in fact he always wants to try new things.

Swati was other roommate of Rucha & Amruta. I got introduced to Urjit around the same time when I joined MCA, he joined PSPL and he too shifted to Pune. We happened to meet outside Rucha’s room and in the very 1^st meeting we developed very good understanding levels and slowly with time we became best of Pals.

Swati – better half of Urjit by all means. Well we met for the first time when she also moved to Pune for the job. Very simple character to understand, very hipper, enthusiastic, very supportive, she is too sensitive, pure at heart. She invented a “Sutti” dance recently. She was so tired of work over number of weeks without a break, that she danced saying “Sutti-Sutti” for about an hour on one Friday after she realized she has a weekend to enjoy end rest and to add to that no one is coming over to stay and bug her. She is the most energetic kid in our group.

Urjit – - very brilliant guy and very fast learner too. He is not extraordinarily tall but well built and yes he is extra ordinarily fair. He too is a very strong character. He thinks at least 10 times before taking any decision and usually comes to right decision in the end. Like Rohit it is not easy to convince him otherwise about what he thinks. He and Swati got married in Jan this year. They both complement each other so well that even in the smallest things like eating Biryani Swati will eat rice part and pass on most off the chicken pieces to Urjit which he likes most. We used to call him and Alok as perfect IT couple.

Alok – my best friend. You need anything, any dam thing, you call Alok he’ll be ready to help you. He is always ready to help anybody. A straight forward guy, he never keeps any bad memories of anybody in mind. He is crazy about shopping; he likes to buy new things every now and then. He talks non stop about how he handles cases at work and will always have a story from office to tell you. Alok and I used to stay together when I was doing MCA while Alok was working. So everybody in the group used to tease us by calling us Husband & wife. After I shifted back to Nashik for some time Alok also shifted to another place. But he used to come and stay with Urjit over the weekends and that is why I started calling them “Perfect IT Couple”.

Alok got married to Shilpa recently and since then we do not call him my wife nor link him as IT couple with Urjit. Alok-Shilpa is the only pair in the group who got engaged and then the love happened and then the marriage followed. They are the most recently married couple in our group.

Shilpa – barely 5’ fair and so slim that she might actually fly with wind, she is a very sweet girl, quite open to speak her heart out.

Everybody in the group has come together and gel in very well, the common background we had was everybody belong to Nashik (except Shilpa), and everybody loved being “Nashik-kar”.

I met Manasi last year through a common friend and we were committed within 8 days. She is the baby in the group, pampered and loved by everybody. She is the best thing that could have happened in my life. She knows me in & out. She is kiddo at times but will surprise you by her maturity when it is demanded most. Most importantly she has the innocence of a small kid in her which makes her even adorable.

                “I”? Well let me tell you about myself now, name Omkar, almost everybody in the group calls me “Omki” or “Jaadyaa”. 

Ch. 1

                It all started 2 months back when an idea of a trip was proposed by Rohit and almost everybody jumped in support of the idea. We had a great longest discussion on trip destination. For about 2 weeks we had discussion going on for deciding the place. Through out the Discussion Urjit was forcing for MURUD-JANJIRA…. He was so enthusiastic to go there that he almost bugged everybody with it.

                We had a voting for few short-listed destinations like Murud-Janjira, Harane, and Dive Agar etc. After a discussion about for 2-3 weeks we decided to go to “Dive-Agar, Shrivardhan and Harihareshwar”.

                Lists of people interested in coming for the trip was made many of the names were confirmed before hand and we decided to book a 14 seater Bus. But …

                1^st shock to the plan came as Alok-Shilpa decided to drop-out due to unfortunate reasons. Well then many people dropped out; finally only 6 people were confirmed.

It was Wednesday 11^th and   most enthusiastic member of confirmed 6 was down with fever. Swati was so badly sick that she took 2 days leave from office, as a very good caring (sometimes over caring) husband Urjit also opted out of the trip, and then Alok-Shilpa joined back again and we were back to 6.

                Even though Urjit-Swati were uncertain about there availability for trip till Friday night everybody else was too confident that we’ll take them with us for the trip. We decided to gang-up at Urjit’s home to convince them to join us before leaving for the trip.

                On Wednesday we called owner of Bapat-bungalow in Dive-Agar for accommodation booking, but the information about the beach was not at all encouraging. And we decided to change the trip destination. Rohit Found out the details of Alibag and near by beaches and we decided to go to Kihim beach. Rohit took the initiative and book a bungalow in Kihim called “Deval Vadi”.

Rohit and Rucha were in Mumbai and other 4 people were in Pune, so Ro-Ru decided to come down to Pune on Friday night. Rohit booked tickets for them and they stared for Pune @ 8.00pm 

                Friday Swati was getting better butt she had a lot of weakness and Urjit-Swati decided not to come even if Swati recovers from fever.

                As Friday evening was coming closer “I was already into trip mood”. I rushed home from office. I was at Manasi’s home @ 7. Shilpa and Manasi were preparing for the “Aalu-Paratha”. I dropped Shilpa home around 9, and we all had decided to come to Urjit’s place at 11-12 in the night. 

                After dropping Shilpa, I went home packed my bags and took off for Urjit’s place. I took water bottles for trip on the way to Urjit’s.

                Swati was quite okay and did not have fever for more than 12hrs, so my hopes of Swati-Urjit joining us increased, even though both of them kept saying they won’t be coming.

                Alok called @ 11 and said he won’t be coming to Urjit’s place as he needs to “REST” before starting for the trip. We teased him for sometime about what kind off REST he needs.

                It was 11.20 Rohit called me that he is reaching Pune in 15-20 min. Along with Urjit I went to pick him & Rucha. We drove back home by 11.45.

                Swati prepared magi and Tea. We had small discussion and “Gappa” over a coffee (Tea). Then I wanted to go to station and have Maska Pav @ night, so I forced everybody for coming to Station and then we actually went off locking Swati in the house. We reached station @ 1.30 in the morning and to our surprise every shop/bakery was closed, we returned home disappointed though we had a nice late night ridding after about 2-3 years. After coming back home we chatted for some time, kept Rucha awake for some time, then we all went to bed at around 3am, dreaming about next two day’s fun and enjoyment.

Ch-2

                “Chanda mama so gaye Suraj chachu jage” my alarm went off 5.30 am and there were no signs of any sleepiness or “Yaar mujhe nahi uthana hai kamse kam Saturday ko to sone do” attitude. In fact I was waiting in my bed for the alarm to get me out off bed.

                “Rohit….Rohit get up” I tried to put my hands on the next bed and get Ro off the bed, but  then I realized Rohit was not in the bed. So I opened my eyes and looked around, Rohit was all dressed up and ready for trip. His enthusiasm levels were even higher than mine.

                “Common Omki getup the Tavera will be here anytime” Rohit said, I got up quickly and suddenly Rucha’s mobile started ringing and she sat up in bed rubbing her eyes. “Oh hell not again Rohit, you didn’t let me sleep yesterday also, 5 minutes more please….” Rucha said in a very sleepy voice. Typical Rucha characteristic we used to call her “Sleeping beauty” seems things have not changed much since marriage.

                I was ready in just 10 minutes. “Urjit “I called him so loudly that he came out off his bedroom in a minute. “What? Are you leaving? Tavera is here? What time is it?” Urjit bombarded us with Q’s …

“Nope Tavera is not here yet, but its time now, vehicle will be here any minute” Rohit replied. “How’s Swati now? Fever? Weakness?” I asked.

“Well fever is not there at all, but still some weakness might be there. We will come to know only when she gets up” Urjit replied, while Swati was already in the door in half awake state. “I am alright now feeling much better” Swati said. “Good so you can join us now” we all turned to that direction of voice, Rucha was standing in the door of kitchen, she was fully ready and charged up for the trip.

                “No ways, are you nuts?” Urjit said and suddenly we all started arguing. For a change we made Urjit think otherwise as he himself was too interested in the trip. We convinced him and even Swati. But the bigger problem was yet to come. It was even more difficult to convince Urjit’s mom to give permission to Swati to go for the trip. Well Urjit spoke to her on the phone for about 15-20 minutes and he was about to give up, I literally snatched the phone and started talking to Kaku. “Don’t you worry Kaku, we all are there with her and we’ll take very good care of her” I said. “This is probably our last chance to come together and go for the trip” I bluffed. “Don’t give me reasons Omkar” Kaku replied. “What about strain? She still has some weakness!” “Oh weakness will go off once we hit the road she will feel fresh and energetic as everybody is here, and we have hired an A/C vehicle so there should not be any problems of cold wind and travel stress etc.” I answered. We had this discussion for about 15-20 minutes, I made most irrelevant and impossible statements during those 15 minutes and finally Kaku allowed Swati to come with us. Then we called Swati’s mom but she didn’t take much time to agree.

                At last Urjit-Swati also joined us. As Urjit-Swati were packing up we called up he travel agent with whom we had booked the “Tavera” and he said He’ll be reaching in another 30 minutes. “30 Minutes?” Alok shouted! He along with Shilpa had come to Urjit’s place to see whether we have started or not.

                “What the hell why Tavera is not here? Where is Manasi?”  Shilpa asked. “We have to pick her from her home” I said and my phone started its “Baby Laugh”. “Think of devil and devil is here” I whispered while picking up the call. “Manasi he called you Devil” everybody shouted. “Ssshhhh…”  I tried to stop them but in vein…. “When are you starting? I am ready and waiting for you all to come since past 1 hour and how dare you call me Devil?” Manasi barked on the phone. “Oh Ga tadi…..”  I teased her and said “Yah we’ll leave as soon as the Tavera comes I will call you again when we start from here” and we signed bye, and just then the Tavera Driver knocked the door. He said he is waiting in the car and ready to leave.  “Ok” we all said in chorus “we’ll be out in 5 minutes” Urjit continued. Alok-Shilpa went home and I also took my bike and drove off to my flat.

                I burned an audio CD and literary ran to Manasi’s place. Urjit-Swati, Rohit-Rucha had already reached there. Manasi was so happy to see Swati & Urjit that she was actually jumping in joy. We put ourselves in the car and headed towards Alok’s home. He and Shilpa had already come down and were waiting for us. Both Alok & Shilpa accommodated themselves in the car and we hit the road. Our next destination was “Kihim beach- Deval Vadi”

Ch-3

                “Hey we haven’t had the breakfast yet” I shouted…. “I want Alu Paratha”….. Alok followed….. “Calendar khana do, Calendar khana do” everybody else joined….. “Ok Ok at least wait till we touch the highway!” Manasi tried to cam all of us…. But we were not ready to listen. And finally she opened the Tiffin full of Parathas and almost everybody jumped in, we literally had a fight over parathas and at the end Manasi was left with on 2 parathas for her to eat.

                “Hey Rohit sing you trip favorite song for us” everybody was surprised by this request as it came from Shilpa. “Which song?” surprised Rohit asked. “yaar who Trimurti film ka…” Alok joined in the demand “Bol Bhole bol”…. “Common Ro sing it for us” Rucha requested. And how could Rohit turn down her request? … Well he started singing in his special trip voice for the song and I joined him. Then many songs followed which we used to sing during many of our treks and picnics or even while driving the bike along side of each other. Shilpa and Manasi were so amazed that how come these least heard (by them) songs are by heart of most of us? Well then we sang loud for quite some time and suddenly Swati pulled Strepcils and gave our throats much needed break. By this time we entered the tunnel near Lonavala”

Alok and Shilpa were seating on the front seat next to driver and we lost them……. Means after some time we 6 realized that the newly married couple is lost in trance.

“Hey Alok” I break into his trance… He and Shilpa looked at me like “Kya yaar thodi der to akela chodo” I smiled and just nodded they both turned their face and again I called “hey Alok just look outside”. Everybody started looking outside. It was truly amazing, clouds were so heavy that they were actually in the valley and we were above the clouds. We could barely see the mountain top. It was all fog and pure white with some green peaks at far distance, it felt like heavens. And almost every pair lost in romantic trance then. It was me again who brought everybody back to earth (that is because I was seating at the back with Urjit and Swati and manasi was on the middle seat with Rohit and Rucha).

We reached the “Khopoli” Toll point and our vehicle moved out off express way and now we were “Pen” highway. And this was even more beautiful that what we had seen on the trip so far. Small two lane road with too many curves and turns, lush green mountains on either sides, dense forest, sweet sound of cuckoo. We opened windows and that smell of sand almost everything was perfect like a beautiful dream. We took a halt for some time and Rome around. We changed seating positions. Alok – Shilpa shifted to last seat and Rohit Rucha moved to front while myself, manasi & Swati were in the middle seat, and Urjit was accompanying Alok – Shilpa on the last seat.  We started again and the new set of songs along with us. We reached “Kihim- Deval Vadi”.

The Bungalow was too good, 2 huge rooms with one huge kitchen. Kitchen was well equipped but none of us were in mood to us it. We called the care taker of the Bungalow and ordered for food, and decided to go to beach.

Ch-4

                Beach was about ½ km away from “Deval-Vadi”. We took a bag to put our wallets and purses and moved out of house. We were teasing each other having all the fun on the road, as we came close to the beach the roaring sound of water was getting even louder, while we walked through the Coconut tree garden it felt like a huge jungle of coconut trees. Slow wind coming across the sea was touching our faces making us feel on seventh heaven.  We reached the last narrow lane of the road which had other end on the beach and we actually could see the sea and huge water waves. And then we realized it’s a high tide and sea was on song roaring and asking us to jump in.

                As Swati was still recovering from fever, she was to sit out on the beach. Manasi stayed back to accompany her. Everybody else was running and jumping in joy. The remaining six of us literally ran into the sea and the first huge wave simply went over our heads and in a fraction of a second everybody was under water.

It was Shilpa’s 1^st time in sea waters so she was bit scared by the wave and its force. Then we made a chain and stood in front of the next wave. The wave arose so high, that we all got scared for a second. We swam in that water for about an hour, played some funny games too.

When we reached the beach the high tide was about finish and water had already started going back to normal state. In an hours time we realized we had come some distance inside the water and we could see Swati & Manasi as small figures only, so we started our long walk back out of the water. We all were so tired that we barley could walk back to the house. Unfortunately one thing was missing: No boiler was available so we had to make use of “Gas” to boil water and too lazy to go for it many of us took bath with the cold water only.

We had nice lunch “Chicken Handi” with coconut base gravy which I liked and we do not get that kind of gravy here in Pune. We were so hungry that no one was talking to each other throughout the meal. We finished eating and I shouted “I want something sweet” everybody was puzzled and looked at me with irks look. “Omkar, do you have enough space in your fat tummy to eat more?” Rucha yelled at me “ I can not even think of eating, leave alone the actual process of eating”.

                Actually I had eaten up to full capacity and was not even able to drink the water. We again went for a walk. After we came back Manasi took out “UNO” cards and we started playing I did not realized that I slept while playing.  And no one bothered to wake me up, as everybody needed some sleep.

                I woke up at around 6 in the evening and everybody was ready and dressed up….

“Where are we going? Why all of you are neatly dressed up? No shorts no pajamas? Aren’t we going to beach again?”  I asked everybody.  “Common you get up first!” Manasi answered “Yes we are going to beach but not in the water now its very low tide and localities have asked us not to go in the water!!” ….

                “I want to stay in the bed then” I said and pulled my blanket over my head. Rohit pulled the blanket, Urjit and Alok tied my hands and all the three nice ladies started tickling me. “Ok …Ok I am getting up, just give me 10 minutes and I’ll be ready”. By the time I was getting fresh, the care taker got use tea. I was ready but still in very sleepy mode. We had nice “Adrak ki chai” which charged up everybody and moved out of house.

                Again the long walk to the beach. As we reached the same last lane “Oh my god” Urjit shouted, and we all were locking at the beach stunned, shocked and with some what “Bach gaye” look. The complete beach was full of big rocks, which were not visible during high tide. We had gone so close to those rocks and yet we everybody was safe. We went across the beach walked on it making new footprints creating memories.

                We came back to house with some snacks, Lays etc. The food was already ready, we enjoyed food with long discussions about the rocky beach. “What about morning?” I asked “I wont go into that beach tomorrow as there is high tide around 11am”. Everybody nodded in acceptance. “We’ll go to Nagoan beach” Rohit said. “It is hardly 30 km from this place we can go early morning and come back by 2pm” he charted the plan too. “Ok that’s fine with me” Urjit joined the conversation. So it was decided to go to “Nagoan” the next morning.

                We played “Antakshari” then “Dum Shiraz” and when we all were extremely tired but not ready to give up shifted to “UNO” again, slowly one by one everybody went to bed, but I could not, not so easily.

I was happy to be with everybody after 2-3 years which I felt were too long yet too quick., so many things changed in past 2-3 years, that was the moment I realized its not goanna be this way always, times will change and friends will go away and I’ll be left alone to fight this world. But yes I know these people will come from any distance if I put my hand up and ask for help. I smiled to myself and closed my eyes.

The Last One

Manasi was the first one to get up on Sunday morning. She woke me up. She was all dressed up and ready. “is everybody up?” I asked with half opened eyes. “Nope, but its time for you to getup its 8 am, and tea would be here anytime”. Manasi answered and the door bail buzzed. Everybody looked at Manasi “Oh you are awake, then please open the door” Swati said and closed her eyes again. Manasi opened the back door, it was tea. “Alok, utho bhi” Shilpa was trying to get him out of bed. “Sunday hai sone do” Alok answered. There was similar conversation between Rohit –Rucha with a small difference Rohit was trying to wake Rucha up and get her off the bed”.

                Urjit entered the room and then I realized he was not in the room when I got up, and I shoot a question at him “Where have you been?” “Clean up!!” Urjit answered. And simply threw himself back to the bed. Rohit and I looked at each other and suddenly both jumped on him “Common get up, get up” we both shouted at him while we continued tickling him, all this had no effect on Urjit but Alok was out of the bed in flash and joined us so do all three ladies. Finally Urjit gave up and said I am ready to move out, it’s you guys who even have not brushed yet.

Everybody rushed to bathrooms while I went for my bag took out my brush and paste then moved towards bathroom. By the time everybody was getting fresh tea was served with breakfast. Rohit went out side to serve the breakfast to the driver. He came in with a big “?” on his face. “What happened?” Urjit asked. “Driver left the key inside the car and now car is locked” Rohit answered in very low sounding voice. “Oh great!!!” Swati said in very frustrated voice. “Ok will help him in unlocking the door” It was Mr. Engineer Urjit. So Rohit and Urjit helped him to unlock the door. Everybody got in the car and we started moving towards “Nagaon” beach.

Beach was good but too much crowded. It was flat and shallow even if you go deep inside, so was safe for swimming. Except for me and Manasi everybody went to beach we both stayed near the car while Swati stayed away from water but she was on the beach.

I had to go and ask everybody to come out as we were getting late. Again we put ourselves in the Tavera and came back to “Deval Vadi” everybody cleaned up – took bath, We were already behind the schedule as we were supposed to drop Rohit and Rucha at Sion, Mumbai and then come back to Pune by 10pm. We hurried up the things had nice lunch settled the bill quickly and moved out for return journey. The return journey I felt was not as much exciting as the one when we came here to Kihim, may be because everybody was too tired and also was thinking why the hell theses 2 days had to be over so quickly.

We kept on chatting throughout till we reached Mumbai at 6.15. We dropped the Mumbaikar’s to Sion circle and headed towards Pune.

Every one was hungry by now so we pulled over near Panwel and picked up Burgers from McD. While we had food Alok-Shilpa went sleep and Manasi too put her head down in my lap. It was me Urjit and Swati awake but speech less. I guess they too were revising the last two days and trying to re-live them. “We should go to such trips once a year, and if we get full quorum then it will be nothing like it” Swati said. And I remembered a similar dialogue from DCH “Sal main 2 bar aana to dur 10 -10 sal main milana bhi mushkil ho jayega” I smiled, took a deep breath and said to myself, this is what is going stay with us forever. No friends, no family but the memories that we will cherish…. Forever….

Omkar Siddharth Bapat

Chapter – 1

“ तन्वी “

२००६ मधे कधी तरी (Just few days before Present day)

खरतर आज माझ्या आयु्ष्यातला खुप आनंदाचा दिवस . . . आज माझा शोणशी साखरपूडा ठरला, पण शोणचा चेहरा पाहून तो आनंदात नाही वाटला आणि माला insecurity वाटायला लागली.

                शोण मला पुरेसा कधी कळलाच नसवा तो काधी-कधी एखद्या लहान मुलासारखा वागतो तर कधी-कधी ६० वर्षाच्या परीपक्व म्हातार्‍यासारखा…

साखरपुड्याला अजुन ३ अठवडे अवकाष आहे, पण हा वेळ तयारीला पूरणार आहे का? मी वेगळ्याच दुनीयेत, भविष्याची स्वप्न बघण्यात दंग होते…

                मागची २ वर्ष मी लग्नासाठी शोणच्या मागे लागले होतेआणि आत्ता कुठे तो तयार झाला होता, लगेच दोघांचे आई –बाबा आणि मी घाईने साखरपुड्याची तारीख ठरवून टाकली. तारीख ठरल्याचा आनंद तर जाउचदे उलट तो तातडीने Mumbai ला गेला… का गेला हे मला माहीत होत आणि म्हणुनच . . .

साखरपुड्याची तारीख ठरून Mumbai ला निघतांना शोण मला म्हणाला . . .

शोण : मी इतक्या घाईने Mumbai ला का जातोय विचरणार नाहीस?

मी : नाही. . . कारण मला महीत आहे.. .  तुझ्या आधी वैदेही माझ्याशी बोलली; तुझा number  हवा होता तीला.. she looked upset… may be she need her best friend…तु जाउन ये शोण.. . नीघ आता नाहीतर flight miss करशील. . . . .

मी शोणला जवळ जवळ हकललाच.. . शोणला airport वर सोडुन घरी येताना मी कधी भुतकाळात हरवले मला कळलच नाही…

मी शोणला पहील्यांदा भेटले तो दिवस मी कधीच विसरणार नाही, पहील्या भेटीतच तो मला खुप आवडला होता… मी वैदेहीच्या नाचाची practice बघायला गेले होते, पुर्ण hall मधे त्याच्याखेरीज एकही मुलगा नव्हता… Auditorium च्या एका कोपर्‍यात बसून तो शांतपणे practice बघत होता..

Practice नंतर वैदेहीने आमची ओळख करून दिली. पहीली काही मिनीटं तो खुप शांत स्वभावाचा आसावा असं मला वाटून गेलं पण फ़क्‍त पहिली काहीच मिनीटं नंतर मात्र “किती बोलतो हा?” असच व्हायला लागलं.. .

आम्ही तीघही खुप वेळा एकत्र भेटायचो. तसा शोण मला एकट्यानं खुपच कमी वेळा भेटायचा.. . बहूतेक वेळेला वैदेही बरोबर आसायची. . .

शोण वैदेहीवर खुप प्रेम करतो हे मी आधीच ओळखल होतं आणि त्याने तसं एक दिवस माझ्याजवळ कबूलही केलं. . . एक दिवस … ज्या दिवशी वैदेही ने त्याला अथर्वबद्दल सांगितलं त्या दिवशी. . .  खुप रडला तो माझ्या जवळ; मला वाटलं तो मला खुप चांगली मैत्रीण समजतो म्हणुन मोकळेपणाने रडला असेल पण मग असही वाटून गेलं की मीच काय पण कोणीही तीथे असतं तरी तो रडला असता. I was just lucky. ‘Lucky’  अस नकोना म्हणायला…

शोणच्या आयु्ष्यातली वैदेहीची पोकळी आपण भरून काढायची अस मी त्याच दिवशी मनशी ठरवलं होतं

पुढचे वर्षभर आम्ही भेटत रहीलो दोघचं. . .

जसजशी आमच्या भेटी वाढत गेल्या तसतशी मी त्याच्यात गुंतत गेले आणि शोण  जास्तच कोरडा होत गेला…

मी आणि शोण आमच्या नेहमीच्या hotel मधे भेटलो. . .

शोण : काय हे तन्वी किती वेळ वाट पहायला लावतेस? कोणाला दाखवायला जायचं असल्यासारखं काय तयार होउन आली आहेस?

मी : काही नाही रे सहजच.. . (मी विषय टाळत म्हंटलं)

शोण नेहमी सरखी non-stop बडबड करत होता.. .

मी : शोण मला तुला कहीतरी सांगायच आहे…

शोण : बोलना मग.. . का माझ्या परवानगीची वाट पहतीयेस?

मी : शोण तु मगाअशी म्हणालासना कोणाला दाखवायला जायच आसल्यासारखी तयार होउन का आलीयेस? कारण मी त्यासाठीच तयार झाली आहे आज.. .

शोण : म्हणजे? कोणाला?

मी : उगाचे आता बनुनाकोस जस काही तुला समजतच नाही. . .

शोणने चेहरा अजुनच confused केला.. .

मी : मी तुझ्यासठी तयार होउन आले आहे शोण.. तु मला खुप आवडतोस.. . .

शोणने चेहर्‍यावरचे भाव न बदलता bill pay केलं आनि १ अक्षरही न बोलता निघून गेला.

रात्री ११-११-३० ला त्याचा phone आला. . .

शोण : “hello तन्वी?”

मी : हां शोण बोल.. .

शोण : जागी आहेस अजुन?

मी : आजच्या आपल्या भेटीनंतर मी छान शांत झोपेन असं वाटतं तुला?

शोण : हं . . . I am sorry मी असं वागायला नको होतं.…  निदान माझ्यामनात काय आहे/नाही किंवा मला विचार करायला वेळ हवा असं तरी म्हणायला हवं होतं. . .

एक मोठा श्वास सोडुन शोण ने पुढे बोलायला सु्रवात केली. . . .

खरं सांगु तु काय सांगितलस हे मी ऐकुन आणि मला समजुनसुद्धा मला काहीच म्हणावस वाटलं नाही. . .

मी : म्हणजे????

शोण : म्हणजे काही नाही. . . मला तुला दुखवायच नव्हतं आणि मी exactly तेच केलं. . . माझ्या कडे हो/नाही कुठलच उत्तर तेंव्हाही नव्हत आणि अत्ताही नाहीये . . .

म्हणजे प्रेम ह्या भावनेशी माझा आता फ़ारसा संबंध नाही. . . मी प्रय्तन पुर्वक स्वत:मधे कोरडेपणा आणला आहे. . . .

एव्ह्ढच सांगायला phone केला होता.. . sorry….

आणि मला पुढे काहीही reaction  देउ  न देता त्याने phone  ठेऊन दिला.. .

शोणच्या बोलण्याचा विचार करतच मला कधीतरी झोप लगली. . . .

दुसर्‍या दिवशी त्याचा परत phone आला.. .

शोण : तन्वी दुपारची २ tickets  काढली आहेत मी १/२ तासात तुला pickup कारतो, आवरून ठेव.

मला हो/नाही बो्लायचीही संधीच मिळाली नाही. . .

कालच्या प्रसंगाचा त्याच्या वागण्यावर काहीही परिणाम झाला नव्हता….

शोण –वैदेही परत MBA साठी एकत्र आले त्यातच वैदेहीचं अथर्वशी breeakup झालं होतं मला सारख वाटायच की आता शोण तीला propose करेल पण त्यानं तीला कधीच मनातल्या भावना सांगितल्या नाहीत. . .

MBA संपलं , वैदेही Mumbai शोण Banglore असे वेगवेगळ्या शहरात गेले.. .

माझा त्या दोघांशीपण contact होता, वैदेहीने Mumbai ला गेल्यावर शोणशी contact हळुहळु कमी केला… का? माहीत नाही…  पण माझ्याशी बोलतांना शोणची सारखी चौकशी व्हायची. . .

मला ही गोष्ट खुप खटकायची पण दोघांशी बोलुन काहीच उपयोग नव्हता ‘जाउ दे गं. .’ हेच ऐकाव लागायच.. .

घरी वैदेहीच्या लग्नाची बोलणीसुरू झाली, आणि एक दिवस वैदेही अथर्वला घेऊन घरी आली… त्यांच्या लग्नाची तरीख ठरली, मी शोणला कळवते असं उत्साहात वैदेहीला म्हणाले . . .

वैदेही : नाही त्याची गरज नाही . . .

मी : म्हणजे?

वैदेही : त्याला लग्नाला नाही बोलवायचय …

मी : का? (मी जरा चिडुनच विचारलं)

वैदेही : नाही बोलवायचे . . . बस्स . . .

मी :  मला कारण कळल्याशीवाय नाही. . .

वैदेही : माझ्या आणि आथर्वच्या आधीच्या breakup ला शोण कारण होता आणि आता मी त्याच्याशी मैत्री ठेवलेली अथर्वला नाही अवडणार.

तरी वैदेहीच्या लग्नाची तारीख मी शोणला कळवली त्यानं फ़क्‍त बरं म्हणून phone बंद केला…

वैदेहीच लग्न खुप जोरात झालं…

मी माझं graduation संपवून नोकरी शोधत होते आणि माझं luck solid असलं पाहीजे मला banglore लाच नोकरी मिळाली.

मी आणि शोण पुन्हा भेटलो…  एखादच वर्ष गेल असेल, जशी माझ्या घरी माझ्यासाठी स्थळं बघायला सुरवात झाली तेंव्हाच मी शोणला परत मागणी घातली आणि to my surprise त्याने होकार सुद्धा दिला. पण मागची १-२ वर्ष लग्नाची किंवा साखरपुड्याची तारीख पण ठरत नव्हती… शोण ह्या ना त्या कारणाने तारीख ठरवायच लांबवत होता…

आगदी २-३ दिवसापुर्वीच आमची साखरपुड्याची तारीख ठरली…  आणि मी अतिशय आनंदात वैदेहीला phone केला पण …

वैदेहीला समजावणं, सावरण हे माझ्या कडून शक्य होईना… शेवटी मी तिला शोणशी बोलं अस सांगितलं…

Chapter – 2

“शोण”

२००६ मधे कधी तरी (Just few days before Present day)

माझा फोन  वाजला ‘दिलबर मेरे कबतक मुझे एसेही तडपाओगे ‘च्या ringtone वरुन मी ओळखल कोणाचा फोन आहे, पण Hows that? …

मी आश्चर्य  करतच फोन उचलला. “Hello” म्हणायचाही अवधी न मिळता समोरून माला फक्‍त रडण्याचा आवाज आला…

“पिलु रडू नकोस, काय झालय सांग आधी” मी तीला शांत करण्याचा प्रयत्न करत म्हणालो. . .

‘वैदेही’ एक वेगळच रसायन… जिच्या नुसत्या हसण्यानेही कीत्येक आयुष्य जगल्याचा आनंद मिळायचा, प्रसन्नता ओसंडून वाहायची… साधारण ५’५” – ५’६” उंची गौरवर्ण. जराशी हट्टी, पण तितकीच समजुतदार. तिच्या गोल चेहर्‍यावर असलेले खट्याळ भाव, दोन्ही गालांवर पडनार्‍या गोड खळ्या, सुंदर लांब केस… सगळ्या गोष्टी डोळ्यासमोर आल्या…

वैदेही :  “मी काय करू शोण?” तिच्या प्रश्नानं मी पुन्हा भानावर आलो.  

मी : “वैदु काय झालय सांगशील का आधी?… बोलणार आहेस का?…  तु बोलल्यशीवाय माला कसं कळेल काय झालयं?”

वैदेही : “हं सांगते…”

पुन्हा कही क्षण तसेच गेले.. . वैदेही रडायची थांबली होती पण आजुनही काहीही बोलत नव्हती. . .

वैदेही : “मी चुकले…  हरले आणि फसलेही…

म्हणजे?… मला अजुनही काहीही सुधरत नव्हतं…

वैदेही :  मी तुला कसं सांगु?…

माझ्या मनात आता शंकांच वादळ सुरु झालं होतं.

वैदेही : ‘अथर्व’ मला परत सोडुन गेला रे…

मी : “असं काय झालं आहे वैदेही?”  मी धक्यातुन सावरत तीला विचारलं.

वैदेही काहीच बोलत नव्हती आणि मी एकदम ५-६ वर्ष मागे गेलो. वैदेही आणि मी ‘दोन-जीव एक-प्राण’ निखळ मैत्रीच एक सुंदर उदाहरण…

खरं सांगायच तर मी कायमच तिच्यावर प्रेम करत आलो पण कधी सांगायची हिम्मत झली नाही… तिला हे महीत असावं ती कायमच हा विषय टाळायची. एक दिवस खुप धीर करुन सांगायच ठरवलं, माझ्या लक्ष्यात आहे त्या दिवशीचा क्षण अन क्षण …

१९९८ मधे कधी तरी

मी college मधे पोहचलो आणि वैदेही धावतच  मझ्याकडे आली…

वैदेही :  शोण… शोण मला तुला कही सांगयच आहे …

तीने माला खेचतच college च्या बहेर काढलं आम्ही नेहमीच्या  hotel  मधे बसलो आणि तिने बोलायला सुरवात केली.

वैदेही : ‘अथर्व’ ने मला  propose केलयं… मी काय करू?

“हो म्हण” क्षणाचाही विलंब न करता मी उत्तर दिलं

‘अथर्व‘ आमचा २ years senior… college मधला ‘Most eligible bachelor’ कुठल्याही मुलीने त्याच्यावर भाळावं आशीच त्याची personality होती, आणि सगळ्यात महत्वाचं म्हणजे खुप चांगल्या स्वभावाच होता. 

मी स्वत:शीच हसलो , ज्या मुलीला मी आज सांगनार होतो ‘मी तु्झ्यावर खूप प्रेम करतो’ ती मलाच येउन विचारते ‘मी अमुक अमुक मुला बरोबर लग्न करू?’

 ‘अथर्व‘ मधे नाही म्हणण्यासारखं काहीच नव्हतं; वैदेहीने त्याला होकार दिला.

१९९९ मधे कधीतरी

                १ वर्ष गेलं सग्ळ्या गोष्टी सुरळीतं सुरु होत्या. मी स्वत:ला समजावात वैदेहीच्या सुखात सुख शोधत होतो. पण एक दिवस मला ‘अथर्व‘चा phone  आला. त्यानं मला भेटायला बोलावलं… मी आणि वैदु भेटायचो त्याच hotel मधे …

मी आणि आथर्व पोहचल्यावर ५ मिनीटातच वैदेही आली पण तिच्या चेहर्‍यावरचा आनंद उत्साह कुठेतरी हरवला होता.. .

Hi, Hello झाल्यावर थोडावेळ कोणिच काहीच बोललं नाही आणि शेवटी मीच शांतता भंग केली…

मी : “काय झालय अथर्व? वैदेही? आरे सांगा काय झालय ते…

अथर्वने एक मोठा सु्सकारा सोडला आणि बोलायला सुरवात केली…

अथर्व : We are breaking up… I am not going to stay with this girl anymore…. Bloody liar….

मी :  काय झालय अथर्व? वैदेही कधीच खोटं बोलत नाही…

अथर्व : ती माझ्याशी खोटं बोलली… मला न सांगता ती त्या room-mate च्य भाव बरोबर movie ला गेली…

मी : आरे हे काय कारण आहे का break –up च? लहान आहात का आता?

अथर्व : नाही शोण लहान असण्याच प्रश्न येत नाही इथे, विश्वासाचा येतो. . .

अथर्व ने काहि तरि सांगण्याच प्रयत्न केला पण त्याल शब्द सापडत नव्हते.. .

अथर्व : शोण खुप छोट्या-छोट्या गोष्टी matter करतात प्रेमात.. .

म्हणजे? मी विचारलं. . .

अथर्व : कुठलही नातं हे खुप छोट्या-छोट्या घटनांचं एकत्रिकरण असतं, त्या घटनांचा आपल्यावर झालेला परिणाम असतं….

त्यानंतर तो खुपवेळ बोलतं होता, पण त्याल नक्कि काय सांगायच आहे आणि त्याच्या बोलण्याचा अथर्व-वैदेही यांच्या break-up शी काय संबंध आहे याचा मला काहीच आर्थवोध होत नव्हता… पण मी सगळ संयमपुर्वक ऐकत होतो, निदान तसं दाखवतं तरी होतो…

सगळ्या conversation च्या शेवटी अथर्व स्वत:चा निर्णय ऐकवुन निघुन गेला… वैदेही ला सोडुन…

कित्येक प्रश्न अन्नुत्तरीत ठेउन वैदेही पण उठुन गेली…

काय झालं होतं हे मला कधीच कळलं नाही, आणि मी पण ते जाणुन घेण्याचा प्रयत्नही केला नाही…

२००६ मधे कधी तरी (Just few days before Present day)

वैदेही : शोण तु ऐकतो आहेस ना?

वैदेहीच्या प्रश्नाने मी भानावर आलो…

मी : बोलं वैदेही मी ऐकतोय…

वैदेही : तु मला अत्ताच्या अत्ता भेटं. . .

मी : वैदु तु Mumbai मधे मी Bangalore मधे… कस शक्य आहे राजा? मी Friday च्या flight ने Mumbai ला येतो ठीक आहे?… पण निदान काय झालयं याची मला कल्प्ना तरी देशील का?

वैदेही : तु Friday ला ये मग़ बोलु आपणं. . .

वैदेही ने phone ठेउन दिला.. .

Friday ला अजून २ दिवस आहेत… मला कहीच कळेनासं झालं होतं. . .

‘अथर्व-वैदेही’ कळायला थोडंस अवघड नातं पण आज ते समजणं आवश्याक वाटतय…

‘वैदेही-अथर्व‘ च्या break-up नंतर २-२.५ वर्ष मी आणि वैदेही बरोबर होतो… मझ्या तिच्या बद्दलच्या feelings लपवत होतो तिला जपत होतो… आमचं B.E. संपलं आम्ही दोघानी एकत्रच एकाच college  मधे MBA साठी admission घेतली.

MBA ची २ वर्ष मस्त गेली खुप धमाल, खुप मस्त्ती, खुप enjoy आणि खुप आभ्यास, campus placement सुद्धा…

मला Bangalore मधे एका MNC त job मिळाला तर वैदेही ला Mumbai मधे.. . ६ वर्षांनी आम्ही पहील्यांदा आणि कदाचीत कायमचे इतके लांब जाणार होतो…

वैदेही ज्या company त join झाली तिथेच अथर्व पण होता.. ते दोघे पुन्हा एकत्र आले त्यांनी रीतसर लग्नही केलं… वैदेही ने मला लग्नाला बोलावलं सुद्धा नाही…

Present Day

Friday office संपवुन मी flight ने Mumbai ला आलो आणि थेट वैदेहीला जाउन भेटलो… परवाच्या phone पेक्षा वैदेही बरीच शांत झाली होती…

वैदेही : ‘तन्वी’ नाही आली?

वैदेही चा पहिला प्रश्नच विषयाला सोडून होता.

‘तन्वी’ माझी होणारी पत्नी… आणि वैदेहीची मावस बहीण…

मी : नाही तन्वी नाही आली… वैदु काय झालं सांगशील का?

वैदेही : अथर्व is having an affair…

मी : काssssय?…  मी जवळ जवळ किंचाळलोच…

“कोण आहे ती?” स्वत:ला सावरत विचारलं…

वैदेही ने माझ्याकडे एक रिकामी नजर टाकली…

वैदेही : त्याची  college ची classmate आहे…

मी : कधीपासुन सुरु आहे हे?

वैदेही: कदाचीत लग्नाच्या आधी पसुनच…

मी : मग तुझ्याशी का लग्न केल त्याने?

वैदेही पुन्हा नुसतीच रिक्‍त हासली…

वैदेही : त्याने divorce papers  तयत करायला सांगितले आहेत २-३ weeks मधे divorce होइल…  ह्याच्याहून जास्त मी नाही सांगु शकणार शोण… Sorry… but I need your support…

मी : I am always there for you dear but I think I must know everything to give you correct suggestion and support

वैदेही ने नुस्तच “हं” केलं आणि पुन्हा थोड्यावेळ शांतता पसरली…

थोड्यावेळाने वैदेहीने बोलायला सुरवात केली…

वैदेही : I guess you are right… सांगते…  शोण तुला आठवतय Athatva and I had a break-up in our college…

मी :  वैदु तु मला तेंव्हाही करण सांगितलं नाहीस…

वैदेही : आज सांगते, तुला ते माहीत आसायला हवं, खरं तर तेंव्हाच सांगायला हवं होतं, पण नाही सांगु शकले

मी : म्हणजे.. .?

वैदेही : आमचं break-up तेंव्हा आपल्या मैत्री मुळे आणि त्या आनन्या मुळे झालं…

मी : काsssssssय?  मला हा फारच मोठा धक्का होता…

अनन्या अथर्वची classmate ५’८” ५’९” उंची घारी-गोरी लांब केस solid sexy figure थोडक्यात आमच्या college ची hot property होती ती…

वैदेही : अथर्वला आपली मैत्री खटकत होती…

खुप आश्चर्य, shock, आणि बर्‍याच भावना माझ्या चेहर्‍यावर एकत्र होत्या पण मला कहिही बोलायला सुचलं नाही.

वैदेही : “शोण अरे”… वैदेहीने पुन्हा रडायला सुरवात केली…

खरतर मी तिला शांत करायला हवं होतं पण मी फक्‍त तीच्याकडे बघतच राहिलो…

थोड्यावेळाने वैदेही रडायची थांबली, आणि डोळे पुसुन तिने पुढे बोलायला सुरवात केली…

वैदेही : अथर्वला आपलं नातं कधीच समजलं नाही… त्याला वाटायचे की you were in love with me, पण तु कधे ते बोलुन दखवत नाहीस…

माझा चेहरा खाडकन उतरला… पण स्वत:ला सावरत शक्य तिताक्या कोरड्या आवाजात मी विचारलं “पुढे?”

वैदेही : आथर्वला वाटायच की मी पण तुझ्यावर प्रेम करते…  And that was not completely wrong…

 मला हा अजुनच मोठा धक्का होता…

वैदेही : मी अथर्व कडे ही गोष्टं कबुल केली… that I was in love with you but you did not ask on time… आणि मी स्वत:ला तुझ्यापसुन वेगळ करत गेले… आणि मग मी अथर्वला भेटले…

काही क्षण तसेच गेले…

ती शांतता माझा जीव घेत होती तेव्ह्ढ्यात वैदेही ने परत बोलायला सुर्वात केली…

वैदेही : मी अथर्वला हे सांगितल्यावर थोडे दिवस तो नीट वागला.., आणि मग़ छोट्या-छोट्या गोष्टींवरुन भांडायला लगला… तुझ्यावरुन चिडवणं, टोमणे मरणं वगैरे सुरु झालं, एकीकडे तो तुझ्यावरुन मला बोलायचा आणि दुसरीकडे आनन्या बद्दल मे काही बोललेलं त्याला चालायचे नाही… मला कळतच नव्हतं मी कस वागु ते…त्यातच मे त्याच्या बरोबर movie ल गेले नाही आणि शिल्पाच्या भावा बरोबर गेले… अथर्वने ह्या गोष्टीचा खुप issue केला आणि हेच कारण पुढेकरुन मला तोडलं…