ch-10 Reet Perspectives

I had come to the restaurant today to meet my brother. But my brother is great, he called me here and went to eat himself.

He had said that he will come in a little while. It was not long before that. I was standing here for about 25-30 minutes but he also came.

I was tired of waiting for him, then my attention went to the table kept nearby. The waiter had kept a glass of juice for me there, but I forgot about it while waiting for my brother. I sat on the sofa kept near the table and drank the juice.

I again started waiting for my brother. Then I saw a girl coming from a room far away. She looked familiar. When I looked carefully, I saw Riya. She was going to the washroom.

I also thought that brother, I had taken so much time, so why not meet Riya. But what is she doing here.

I thought that she must be sad because of those two donkeys, that is why she must have come here. Let me go to her and divert her attention from those two and focus somewhere else.

I had just taken 3 steps to go to her when after a while I saw 2 bodyguards following her secretly. "Why are these two bodyguards following Riya?" I did not understand anything at first but when I observed their actions for a while, they were going towards the washroom.

But this is the ladies washroom, what are those two doing there. I felt something is wrong so I called my brother and told him everything, how two bodyguards are going to go to the ladies washroom while following Riya.

My brother also got tensed after listening to me. He said to me

"Now you stay with Riya. I don't know who those people are? But they can harm Riya. You also take care of yourself and don't do anything stupid. Stay in touch with me. Okay! I will come soon."

"Okay brother" saying this I disconnected the phone.

After cutting the call I followed Riya and the bodyguard stood outside the ladies washroom, probably waiting for Riya to come out. Or for an opportunity.

But I cannot put Riya in danger. I have called my brother so he must be coming. Till then I have to save Riya. Then I remembered my brother's words that don't do anything stupid, but I could not leave Riya like this.

I stood there for a while in a dilemma that what should I do now?, but then I took a decision.

"I have to go inside, for me there is nothing after Riya. She trusts me. As for me, my brother will save me. But Riya... she has no one to call her own. Come on Reet! You can do this. I have to go to Riya, but in a way that Riya does not have any doubts."

She has already faced a lot in her life, I cannot see her sad anymore, and this may affect Riya's mind.

She has already forgotten the things of her childhood. She knows only what we told her. Since then, my brother and I have always been with Riya.

We have never said anything that would make Riya remember her old memories. She is happy without those memories. And if there is any important memory in those memories, then she will remember it automatically. We do not force her.

When Riya was a child, she went to her maternal grandfather's house with her mother. They had to stay there for a few days so that they could find out about her father. So, in those days, someone kidnapped Riya.

They all were searching for Riya like crazy but Riya was nowhere to be found. Aunty found Riya after 10 days, that too on the banks of a river.

They brought her to her maternal grandfather's house. After a few days, it was found out that this kidnapping was done by her mother's aunt so that she could take revenge from her maternal grandfather and others. But all this trapped Riya and her mother.

I and my family also went to meet her, but Riya was not recognizing anyone. After that, her maternal grandfather suggested them to go and live somewhere else, and they started living on rent.

Slowly, we reminded her who we are? Who is she? What is her name? But after that day, she did not remember anything about her childhood.

Nor did we remind them. Riya's mom made us promise to always take care of Riya because she doubted her husband that he got Riya kidnapped. Even after the truth came out in front of everyone, she still thought the same.

But after a few months, aunty stopped using uncle's name. We felt that now she has also accepted the fact that uncle did not do all this.

We all were happy seeing the love between them. Riya was also very happy with her mother. She had forgotten her father that no one could tolerate her happiness and aunty also left us in a car accident. Riya was the most shocked by this.

After that, it took Riya a lot of time to recover from whatever happened.

And after aunty left, Riya had no one except us, Uncle never paid any attention to her. He did not even care about Riya. How can a dad do this to his child!

After thinking all this, I took a decision and decided to help Riya.

I went straight inside the washroom, and after sending Riya out safely from there I called Abhi and told him everything, when suddenly someone hit me on the head from behind and I fell unconscious.