Sanjeevani:

Muskaan, Rahul, Atul and Anjali leaves to their destinations after bidding their goodbyes to everyone. They left with heavy hearts unable to leave shattered Armaan and Riddhima behind. But they had to leave as their presence is needed in the hospitals for some emergency and pending cases.

Armaan comes to locker room to take his belongings but memories of past flooded back and he becomes sad.
Shilpa comes to Armaan who will be packing his things from locker. She gives his diary back muttering a sorry looking down unable control her tears.

" Shilpa what happened?" - A

" I don't know armaan I am not happy that you are leaving as I am losing my best friend " - S

" I will be always your friend no matter where I am and we will be in contact,ok " - A

" Ok, but take care of yourself and please don't land in some trouble" - S

" Ok teacher........hahaha........
You take care of yourself and Riddhima too. I know she is not ok and I cannot leave her in such situation but I have to as it is good for us. Please be with her everytime so that she will not feel alone after everyone has left." - A

" Armaan she is my sister , of course I will be with her and take care of her,you don't worry " - S

" Ok,thank you so much" - A

" You too take care of yourself armaan" - S

Armaan bids bye to her by hugging her and leaves to meet others. He meets JP and Jiggy and bids his goodbye. He goes to keerthi and Shashank to sign off officially from Sanjeevani and leaves from there with tears in three of their eyes.

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Armaan leaves with his bags and comes outside sanjeevani. He doesn't get heart and doesn't have strength to say goodbye to Riddhima. But he want to see her for one last time and he knows very well that he will not able to leave her after meeting her.

He will be walking towards his car but his eyes fall on familiar place where his life started,where he met his life,where he found his love,the place which has been very important in his life and in his love story. He smiles with tears and walks towards it glancing that place,refreshing their memories, feeling their memories of love and friendship.

Basketball court

Girls vs boys

Basketball

Basket........

Saying that he closes his eyes with a sad smile on his face and tears slips out of his eyes. Suddenly his heartbeat raises, air flows from nowhere, a familiar feeling of familiar person arises, he shots his eyes open and doesn't dare to look back to face her.

" Jaane se pehle mujhse nahi miloge? "

Armaan listens to her calm voice and turns feeling tensed. He looks at her whose eyes are puff and red. He slowly takes steps towards her calmly. She also takes small steps towards him. They both stop with some distance between them staring at each other with longing look in their eyes as they will not see each other again.

" Mein jaanthi thi tum yehi pe miloge mujhe "saying this riddhima tries to smile at armaan who just stays quiet.

" Tumhe kyaa lagta hai ki tum mujhse mile Bina aise hi chale jaaoge?" Riddhima questions him acting angry for which armaan smiles slightly.

" Too bad armaan ab tumhaare paas aur koi chaara nahi hai sirf Meri bak bak sunne ke alaava" riddhima says laughing slightly and seeing her like this he also smiles.

" Mein bahut buri Hoon na,hamesha tumhe dard deti Hoon?" Riddhima says painfully with tears and tears forms in his eyes also but be blinks away and nods in no.

" No riddhima,tum buri nahi ho,mein bura Hoon kyun ki mein hamesha tumhe takleef,dard aur aasoo ke alaava aur kuch nahi diya. Aaj bhi vahi hua hai mere vajase tum par ilzaam laga hai ki tum......" Armaan couldn't say anymore closes his eyes looking away.

" Kyun?"

Armaan turns to see her narrowing his eyes not understanding what she was saying but looks at her calmly.

" Kyun Armaan? "

" Kyun tum itne acchhe ho?"

"Itne acchhe kyun ho tum? "

" Kyun tum sab kuch apne upar lete ho ?"

" Kyun tumne aaj kuch nahi kaha ?"

" Kyun tumne sid se kuch nahi kaha?"

" Kyun tum chup Raha jab Sid tum pe ilzaam pe ilzaam laga jaa Raha tha? "

"Kyun tum sab kuch suntha Raha jab tumne kuch Kiya hi nahi?"

" Kya tumhe bilkul takleef nahi hua hai ? "

" Tumne kuch bola kyun nahi? "

" Kyun chale jaa rahe ho tum ? "

" Bahut takleef di hai na Maine, nafrat karte ho na mujhse ? "

" Kyun armaan.....kyun......kyun nahi karte ho mujhse nafrat?

" Kyun karte ho tum mujhse itna pyaar?"

Tears flows continously from both of their eyes

" Mein tumhaare pyaar ke laayak nahi Hoon"

Cries falling on her knees with Armaan.

" Maine tumhe bahut pareshaan Kiya,tumhaare Dil dukhaaya,bahut takleef Diya, tumhaare yeh aasuon mere vajase hai......"

Sobs

" Toh kyun karte ho mujhse itna pyaar?..... Nafrat Karo na mujhse?"

Sobs sobs sobs

Cries continously

Both sit in same position for some time. Riddhima will be continously crying unable to control her pain anymore. Armaan heart shatters seeing her in such condition and he also cries with her. Both will be crying together for their situation for the first time after everything happened with them.

Armaan controls himself and puts his hand on her hand and squeezes her hand to console her.

She looks up at him with her red puffed eyes . His eyes also will be bloodshot red. She sits in kneel down position looking at him.

" Kyun hua armaan yeh Sab hamaare saath? Humne tho kabhi kisi ka kuch bhura nahi Kiya na." She pauses and stares into the space thinking while armaan is trying to control his emotions.

" Kyun humaare saath yeh Sab hua?
  Kyun waqt ne Humein alag Kiya ?
  Kyun humse humaara pyaar cheena Gaya hai ?
  Kyun humein dard aur aasoo ke alaava kuch mil nahi Raha hai ?
  Kyun humaare Zindagi aise bikhar gayi armaan ? Kyun ?........" Saying riddhima again breaks down.

Armaan couldn't see her anymore like this. He gets up from his position and help riddhima to stand. She stands but looks at him who has no answers for her questions. There is nothing in there hands and nothing they could do. Armaan clears his throat to find his voice.......

" Don't worry Riddhima, sab teek ho jaayega....." Armaan could say just these words.

" Kaise?" Riddhima pauses to look at him and continues.......

" Tumhaare jaane se sab teek ho jaayega Kya? "

" Mein aisa nahi keh sakta lekin itna zaroor jaanta Hoon ki Mera jaane se tumhaare zindagi mein problems Kam ho jaayenge" armaan says and pauses and riddhima just looks at him.

" Tumhaare life mein Jo bhi problems hai woh saare Meri vajase hai, mera yaha see jaane se hi sab teek ho jaayega" armaan says with tears and she listens to him with tears.

" Par uske liye tumhe bhi kuch karna hoga riddhima" riddhima looks at him with questioning eyes.

" Tumne apni Dil ke darwaaze knolna hoga Jo tumne band karke rakh Diya hai (she looks down). Phir apne Dil se mujhe nikhaal ke woh jagah Sid ko Dena hoga ( she closes her eyes tightly with tears flowing). Tab hi Tum apni life mein move on Kar sakte ho aur Sid ke saath apni life enjoy Kar sakte ho" saying this armaan looks away to hide his pain and tears but riddhima can easily make out his pain in his voice.

Both stays calm for sometime trying to suppress and control their pain of leaving each other.

" I want some thing from you, will you do ?" Riddhima asks controlling her tears and he just nods at her.

" You shouldn't break your promise this time?  " Riddhima warns him pointing her finger at him and he nods again slightly smiling.

" Humesha kush rehna armaan. Aur waapas apna puraana sa, paagal sa,charming armaan ban jaana Jo koi bhi sad situation ho usse happy bana deta hai aur Jo humesha hastha aur sab ko hasaatha rehta hai." Riddhima says with tears continuously flowing from their eyes.

" Humesha yeh baat yaad rakhna ki jis  tarah tumhaara kushi Meri kushi mein hai teek usi tarah mere kushi tumhaare kushi mein Hain." Riddhima stops as her voice will be cracking due to her sobs and Armaan nods to her blinking his tears away.

" Aur hero banne ka bahut shauk hai na tujhe , hero banne ki koshish mein apne aap ko koi musibat mein mat daalna ,teek hai?" Riddhima warns him and he smiles slightly with tears.

" Promise me Armaan." Riddhima asks him forwarding her hand.

Armaan slowly places his hand in hers and both gets tears in their eyes as this will be their last touch,last meeting and last for everything. (Except for their love).

" Promise" armaan says holding her hand with his hands and riddhima places her other hand on his hands smiling.

" Riddhima. Naam yaad rahega na?" Riddhima asks smiling sadly with tears.

( DMG title song sad version in the background ).

Humse hasi humse kushi.......
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Taare hum zameen pe le aayenge.......
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Hum tho chele the dost banke jaane kaha  Dill Mill Gayye.

Both will be looking at each other for one last time with tears in their eyes holding each other's hands and smiling sadly.

" Smile" riddhima says to him.

He smiles tightly as he was unable to smile in such pain but he smiles at her .

Seeing his smile with dimples on his cheeks riddhima grins widely with tears. Seeing her grin automatically a genuine smile appears on his face.

" Can I ask you something?" Riddhima asks him hesitantly.

" Anything for you riddhima" armaan assures her.

" Can you call me basket for one last time?" Riddhima asks and looks down immediately.

He always loves to call her like that and she always loves to called by him like that. Both never ever thought in their life that where everything started there everything is ending, where their love had started there their story is ending, where they met for the first time there they are getting separated on a sad and painful note,where he started calling her basket and there he ended calling her basket.

" Basket " armaan says it with full of his love and heart which made Riddhima happy and grin widely.

They both look at each other with smile contently with longing look in their eyes for the last time, leaving their hands unwillingly and parted their ways with heavy hearts and tears.

To be continued............

I Love them so much.
I cried so much while writing.

Love AR.