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Part 2 Two Decades Ago...

On the other hand, Kushi was thinking about Arnav. She didn't even have a bit of confusion nor did she have doubt... he is HIM. she was damn sure about it. Yes, she was so certain even after twenty years... she can say he is HIM only by seeing his EYES.

Why didn't he talk to her? They met after twenty years... Can't he ask her 'How are you'? He could have talked to her like a friend. Why didn't he take any step? Is he married? Does he have a family? Maybe... that's why he might have hesitated to talk to her. he might have thought not to keep touch with her... would he have got married? Could he have had? She gulped down the lump that choked in her throat. Tears rolled down on her cheek.

"Mom, is your head aching?" Sagar asked worriedly, seeing her teary eyes.

Khushi nodded yes.

"Bhai, could you please stop the auto in a medical shop?" Sagar asked the auto driver.

The driver nodded ok. The auto was going on... Khushi went back to those beautiful days of her life in which she felt an extreme level of happiness... in which she always drowns... in which she had her Arnav...

Twenty-one years ago

Two decades ago, the world was so different. It was not fond of mobile phones and TV serials. No Facebook... no WhatsApp... mobile phone used as JUST phone. People hardly used mobile phones as it was a Luxury thing at that time. Even incoming calls were not free of cost. People have not started spending their FULL time in front of the TV. People used public transport. only RICH people had two-wheelers.

And... LOVE was also different from nowadays... LOVE was praised like something else... it was celebrated not only on Valentine's day but also the fullest. It was kept so SECRET. Only a few college students dared to LOVE. School students are even scared to utter the word LOVE. According to them, LOVE was a BAD thing. Girls knew to BLUSH. Even boys felt shy to confess their love. LOVE was like a poem... was so beautiful and was DAMN TRUE.

But... some issues are beyond the time cycle... it will be there in the society. One among them is sexual harassment. The only difference is its PERCENTAGE. It was not so in a hike at that time like nowadays.

NCM college Delhi

A few girls were looking at the principal's room nervously, standing behind a building that was a little aloof. They saw a girl coming out of the principal room crying, all dejected. Her face was holding extreme helplessness. The girls pulled her from behind the building.

"What happened, Kushi? Did you tell the principal what our Chemistry professor did?" A girl asked.

"I did but no use... Principal asked me not to create a problem" Kushi cried.

"Whaaaat? Is he insane?" one of the girls angered.

"He said this is the matter of our college's reputation. Our college's name will get spoiled if the matter leaks out" Kushi cried closing her face.

"This is not fair... to save our college reputation, should we tolerate such a womanizer professor?" another girl asked angrily.

"What else he said...?"

"He asked me to take it simply... do you know what he said?"

"what?" all of them asked in the same tone.

"Just think like you are traveling in a bus... just think someone banged on you unintentionally when the brake was applied... will you take it seriously? You won't, right? You will tolerate it because it's common in bus travel. Like the same, some issues are common in society. Take it like that" Kushi said gritting her teeth with overflowing eyes.

The girls also became furious.

"Why not you tell your parents about it, Kushi?"

"No... I can't... they won't send me to the college... they won't allow me to step out of the house if they got to know this. At the same time, how will I face the same professor every day who hugged me with bad intentions? I pushed him hard... he got hit on the wall... he will surely corner me... I don't like to come to college..." she sobbed.

"This is the curse of girls. No support at home nor in the society... this kind of people should rot in hell" a girl said.

"Let's go to the class... this is our physics period." A girl called her to the class.

"You go... I don't like to come to the class" Kushi said.

"Khushi..."

"I will come later"

Her friends nodded ok and left. Kushi cried sitting, behind the building, circling her knees. Suddenly, she jerked hearing,

"Why should you tolerate someone who bangs on you intentionally while applying the brake in the bus?" a voice came from somewhere.

Khushi looked here and there.

"Who will dare bang on you while applying the brake if you break his face?"

Khushi stood from the ground slowly.

"Why are you crying when it is not your fault? Make the people cry who made you cry."

Khushi searched here and there for the person who uttered those cheering words but she could not find anyone. Her hands raised unknowingly to wipe her tears.

"Wash your face and go do the class"

Her eyes were searching curiously to see the person. But it seems it won't happen. She took a step and again turned her face but no one was there. Washing her face, she went to her class as HE said.

"Who is HE,  would he have watched her washing her face?" Khushi thought sitting in the class.

Though she didn't know who he was his words soothed her. that soothing feel made her curious to see the person. But what happened on that day did not let her relish it. She was tensed, embarrassed, felt awkward, what not? After all, a professor tried to harass her sexually. The only thing that pacified her is, it was the last period of the day. She can leave the college immediately. And she did the same. After the last bell rang, she ran from the college.

The next day Khushi didn't come to the college. She could not as she didn't have the guts to face the lusty professor.

In the evening, Khushi's Chemistry professor came out of the college. He didn't notice that he was being followed by a few men who were wearing monkey caps and full-hand sweaters. As it was the winter, no one suspected them. The chemistry professor got down from the bus and walked towards his house in the misty evening. The men who followed him pounced on him and started hitting him black and blue, after stuffing cloth in his mouth.

"Do you think you are a hero? Will you touch any girl you want? Let's see, how will you touch any girl from here on" someone said while hitting him.

They broke a few bones of him. they didn't show kindness to the Professor who never showed mercy on girls and to their feelings. Taking a stone, one of them hit him under his hip with the stone.

"You should not think of touching any girl anymore..."

They pushed him into the nearby bush and left the place, dusting their dress.

The next day also Khushi didn't come to the college.

NCM college, hearing about the Chemistry professor's condition, Some of the Professors became nervous. A few of them felt happy, especially lady professors.

"He needs more" a few countered openly.

Students from the science department celebrated it.

..........

Khushi smiled at her friend Preethi who came to her house.

"Why didn't you come to the college?" she asked Khushi.

"How could I? my body is burning whenever I think of seeing him. I can't come to the college" Khushi said.

"You can... our chemistry professor will not come to the college at least for the next two months for sure"

"What are you saying?"

"Yes, his bones broken..." she whispered.

"Whaaaaat? How? Did he meet with an accident?"

"No... a few men did that good job it seems"

"Who are they?"

"No one knows... they were wearing monkey caps, completely hiding their faces it seems. Whoever those are, they should live long" Preethi blessed them.

"do you know how much I wanted him to get punished?" Kushi said gritting her teeth.

"I know... in fact, everyone wanted it" Preethi chuckled.

Khushi nodded yes.

"Don't you dare bunk the college anymore"

Khushi smiled nodding yes. she was damn happy as the professor won't be in the college for the next few months. Who are the MONKEY CAP guys? Khushi thought.

To be continued...

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