‘We cannot leave her alone here’ says Meena to everyone.
Rahini and Sambu look at each with tension. Meena rubs the injured legs of the girl again and again but the girl groans due to the pain.
‘What shall we do now?’ asks Rahini
Meena looks at both of them pitifully. Sambu does not say anything. Rahini looks at both of them and their silence with fear. She looks at the other side where the other girls who have escaped were standing waiting for the rest of them to come. Sambu goes to the girl and looks at her leg.
‘Aahhh’ screams the girl in pain.
Meena gets tensed on her sound and closes her mouth again.
‘Hey! What are you doing there?’ hears a voice from somewhere else
The trio are taken aback by the voice heard suddenly. All of them look at the direction from where voice was heard. The thug is standing near the window looking at them. The trio are shocked to see him at the window.
Sambu turns towards the girls and says ‘No other go. You have get out of this place immediately. We will carry her and jump aside’
Meena looks at him showing disapproval of his proposal.
‘Kaka, how it is possible? How can we carry her?’
‘No time for talking. You first climb the rope and stand beside her. I will tell you what to do next’ says Sambu looking at the thug.
Meena immediately climbs the rope and reaches the top of the wall. The thug gets shocked on looking at the girls and the rope handing on the wall.
‘What the stupid thing are you doing?’ screams the thug loudly.
The trio look at him anxiously and Sambu ties the girl to the rope. Meena and Rahini start to pull the little girl together upwards. Sambu pushes the girl from downwards to make the pull easy for them. The girl slowly goes upwards by the push and pull of the trio.
‘You bloody *****’ screams the thug at them and rushes from the window.
The trio concentrate on the getting the girl to the other side fast. The girl finally reaches the top of the wall. The three girls are standing on the mid-wall and turn to go down.
Rahini looks at Sambu and says ‘Kaka, you also come with us. They will sure kill you if they find that you helped us’
Sambu looks at her with a smile.
‘You don’t worry about me beta. Leave this place as soon as possible. I will take care.’ says Sambu
‘But Kaka…’
‘Come on fast. No time to talk now. Just keep going’ drives Sambu at them.
Rahini looks at him sadly.
‘Just a moment’ says Sambu looking at them. He climbs on the rope and reaches the girl’s place. He puts his hand in his pocket and takes a thing from it.
‘Have this, beta’ says Sambu and gives some rupees notes to them. Rahini hesitantly looks at them. Sambu forcefully places the notes in her hands.
‘These are all what I have. Let God be with you all in your bright days. Do not get trapped to these devils again.. Run as fast as your legs can carry you.’ says Sambu to them.
Lights start to glow everywhere and sound of many footsteps heard from inside the party hall.
‘Come on. Jump from here’ says Sambu to them.
Rahini climbs down the rope and Meena follows her with the little girl at her back. Rahini looks at the rest of the girls and says ‘They are coming after us. Run as fast as your legs can carry you. Hide anywhere if somebody comes near you. Don’t get trapped to them. Run, run and keep running.’ shouts Rahini to them.
‘Aaaaaahhhhhh’ hears a scream of Sambu from other side.
Rahini and Meena look at each other with fear.
‘Kaka’ screams Rahini and she steps towards the gate.
Meena stops her and says ‘No use. Rahini. They have killed him. If they see us, then we too shall face same fate’
Rahini’s eyes sheds tears heavily and she looks at Meena awfully. The sound of the gate opening is heard and both look at each other. Meena holds Rahini’s hands and start to run away from the place.
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The darkness is surrounded at all sides with few dim lights glowing at few places. Two different crowds run on those dark roads with one group chasing their last hope of life and the other group to kill the hope once for all in their lives.
Rahini and Meena run at one corner of the darkness. The girl at Meena’s back does not allow her to run fast and both of them hide at several places whenever any thug comes near them. Rahini offers help to Meena to carry the girl with her but Meena refuses her. Their running speed had made them to miss the other group of girls and they are nowhere seen around.
‘This is not going to work. How much time we can run like this? If it goes on, we will sure be caught’ says Meena to Rahini
The thugs footsteps are near the place and both of them look at each other in panic. They close their mouths tightly to prevent the sound of their breath being heard by them.
‘Damn it. How dare they’ screams the thug who noticed their escape. ‘I smelled something fishy when the whole place was unusually silent. They don’t know what a stupid thing they have done in their life.’
Screams the thug
‘Bhau, what if didhi finds about it?’ asks another thug standing beside
‘Simple. They will face a fate which shall be beyond human’s imagination. Didhi is a woman by appearance but a satan in her heart. All the girls who get trapped to us again shall become living dead after we find them. We should not miss even a single devil. All of them should be caught. Go and search’
The girl behind Meena’s back start to groan in pain. Meena and Rahini become scared fearing of the voice being heard.
‘Please bear the pain for a while. We will soon leave this place’ says Rahini to that girl
‘Didhi, it is paining a lot’ screams the girl
Rahini and Meena try to hide her voice. The thugs stop moving on hearing some sound.
‘You heard any sound?’ asks a thug to other.
‘I feel so. Not sure’ replies the other.
Rahini and Meena get scared. The hold their breath and hold the mouth the of the girl. The thugs step towards the hiding place of the girls slowly. The girls pray God silently to save from the horrible fate after getting caught. The thugs near the hidden place and lean to look at other side.
‘Hey! Who is running there?’ another thug’s voice is heard somewhere.
The other two thugs are distracted by the voice and they look into that direction. The immediately leave the place and run behind the others. Rahini and Meena get their breathe back from the nick of time escape.
‘We cannot run for long time.’ Says Meena to Rahini. ‘We have go somewhere where we will not be found by them forever’
‘How can we go to such a place?’ asks Rahini to her.
A train sound is heard from far away followed by a light glowing from a moving train. Rahini and Meena look at the direction of the moving train. They again look at each other and their face show a glow.
‘Rahini, if we somehow manage to go to railway station, we can escape from them.’ Says Meena
Rahini happily nods her head like ‘Yes’
‘But it is not near from this place. We have to catch some vehicle and only then we can reach fast.’
‘Who will carry us in their vehicle without being being notice by them’ asks Rahini worriedly
Meena looks at her says ‘Nobody will carry us. We have to go by ourselves’
‘No vehicle is seen around. It is a faraway place and no vehicle passes by this area.’ says Rahini
Meena looks at a direction where a thug stops a mini tempo passing on the road. The thugs bully a guy who is driving the tempo. The thug holds the driver’s shirt and threaten him. The other thugs search the tempo everywhere. After a few minutes check, the thugs signal them something and the thug leaves the driver.
‘Rahini, they are checking every vehicle. It is not so easy to hide inside any vehicle and escape to the station’ says Meena
‘What shall we do now?’ asks Rahini worriedly
‘We should catch the vehicle which they have checked. Since they have checked it already, they will not search us in it’ says Meena
‘How can we go to that vehicle? It has left already’
‘Then we have to go that place and hide somewhere. When any vehicle comes and they finish the checking we have to get inside the vehicle.’
Rahini looks at Meena with half hope and half fear. Meena smiles at her giving her courage.
‘Let us go’ says Meena to her.
Both of them go to the place were vehicles pass by. They hide in a dark place far away to avoid being noticed by the thugs.
‘Listen. The vehicles will move fast in this place. It is not possible for us to get inside a running vehicle. We have stop it and get inside. We have to stop without being noticed by the thugs.’ Says Meena to Rahini.
Rahini and Meena wait for another vehicle to pass by. After a long time another tempo passes through the road and thugs stop the tempo also. They threaten the people inside and start searching inside the vehicle. Rahini and Meena look at the vehicle which is going carry them away from a dreadful fate. The thugs leave the vehicle after checking and the vehicle moves. The vehicle moves far away from the place where the thugs are standing. Meena ensures no one can notice her and she stops in the middle of the road to stop the vehicle. The vehicle stops looking at her. An old man looks at her in irritation.
‘Hey! Stupid, why do you want die by my hands? I am poor servant and I don’t have any money. Move away’ shouts the driver
Meena goes to the driver and asks ‘Dadha, can you just tell me where is the harbour?’
The driver looks at her and replies in anger ‘Are you insane? You are asking for harbor in a place where there is no sea at all. Go away. I have to reach the station soon. It is already late because of the idiots. I have only less time and I have to load these stuffs in the next departing train.’
Meena’s face turns bright but she does not show it to him. She meanwhile looks at Rahini and signs her to get inside. Rahini gets inside the backside of the vehicle along with the little girl. Meena looks at the driver and says ‘Sorry Dadha. My mistake.’
She steps at backside and the vehicle moves. Meena grabs the moving vehicle and gets inside it. The vehicle travels for a long time without being stopped further. The vehicle finally stops at a place which is few yards away from the station.
‘We have to get down here and go there by ourselves. It will not move further.’ Says Meena
The trio get outside the vehicle and start to run towards the station. Meena and Rahini carry the girl on their shoulders alternatively. The load behind does not allow them to move fast. The trio reach the railway station’s entrance finally after a long time struggle. Both of them breathe heavily due to the long run along with the burden and they are not able to move further.
‘I cannot run anymore’ says Rahini with breath
‘Even I cannot but we have to. We have come long way from there. If we stop here, then we cannot move further lifelong. Just adjust for a while’ says Meena to her
A female voice is heard from the loudspeaker hanging inside the station.
‘Kripaya Dhyaan dhe! Gaadi No Ek-Dho-Nou-Sunya-Dho Ahmedabad se Bombai Centrale jaanewale agali gaadi che number platform se thodi si dher mein ravana hogi’ hears the announcement in hindi. Then an English announcement follows.
‘For your kind attention passengers! Train No 1-2-9-0-2 from Ahmedabad towards Bombay Centrale will depart from platform number six in another few minutes’
Meena and Rahini look at each other.
‘This train is our last hope of our escape from this hell. If we miss it then we have to wait till morning. Until then our fate will not wait for us. So we have to catch the train’ says Rahini to Meena
‘Yes. But it looks like the train is going to depart in few minutes. We have to run long way. I don’t think we can reach it.’ says Meena in a hopeless tone
‘We should Meena. We have come long way from there till here and it all happened only because of you. Now just few yards are away. We have to make this final struggle. Don’t give up.’ says Rahini in an insisting tone,
Meena smiles at Rahini and she nods her head like ‘ok’. The duo start to run carrying the girl with them. The climb on the stairs so fast to reach the platform number six.
‘Meena, what about the other girls? We have not thought about them and we did not see any of them’
‘Let us hope that they would have also escaped from there and pray for them. This is the only thing which we can do now.’
The duo keep running run fast towards the platform and they start to climb down the staircase. Meena climbs so fast and she slips down from the staircase. The trio lose the overall balance and all of them roll down the staircase so fast. Rahini reaches the ground first among the three and her forhead starts to bleed. Meena and the other girl reach the floor with injuries in their bodies. The trio groan in pain and look at each other. The sound the train hears from the platform and all of them look at it shockingly. Meena and Rahini rise up from their places and they carry the girl with them. They start to run fast that neither of them noticed a fat woman standing in front of them. They dash the woman very fast and all of them once again fall down on the platform. The fat woman angrily looks at them and the duo looks at her and get shocked. The woman also gives a shock expression in her face on looking at them.
‘Hey! Is it you?’ asks the woman to them
Both of them look at each other in panic.
‘I have seen you at Naina Didhi’s warehouse once. You are from there isn’t it?’ asks the woman at them
The girls does not answer her and look at her in fear. The woman holds the hands of Rahini and Meena tightly with her both hands.
‘Answer me, you s*******s. Aren’t you belong to Naina Didhi? I am so sure that I have seen you both there. What are you doing here?’ asks the woman angrily at them.
Rahini and Meena look at each other nervously. Another goon comes running towards the woman and says to her
‘Didhi, a call has come from warehouse. Some girls have escaped from Naina Didhi’s warehouse few minutes before. We are told to keep a watch in whole station and catch if any girls are found’
The woman looks at them furiously again.
‘Oh, you morons. That is how you are here?’ asks the woman to them in angry tone and she holds their more tightly. The girls look at her in bewilder and horror.
‘Oye! You inform them I have caught three of them at the railway station. Ask any of them to come soon and pick them from here.’ instructs the woman to the thug.
‘How dare you think of escaping from Didhi? Now you will face the most horrific consequence of the stupid thing of your life. Very soon the other girls will also be caught. Didhi is going to fry you like potatoes.’ Screams the woman at them.
The horn sound of the train is heard from the platform and train starts to move slowly from the platform. Rahini and Meena look at each other. In a nick of time both of them together bite the hands of the fat woman in full pressure. The woman screams by the pain instilled by the horrible bite of the girls and she relieves the hands of the girls. The girls again start to run from there towards the moving train.
‘Oye! The girls are running. Go and catch them’ commands the woman to the thugs beside her.
The thugs start to chase them on the platform. Rahini and Meena missed the major portion of the train and they run to catch the last coach of the train. A cat and mouse game goes on for a while between the girls and the thugs who chase them. Rahini grabs the train and manages to get inside it. Meena who holds the girl on her back makes a slow progession and she is not able to get inside. Rahini gives her hand to her but Meena cannot reach her hands. Rahini looks at the thugs who almost reached Meena and are just few feet away from catching her. Rahini nervously looks at Meena.
‘Meena, run fast. They are behind you. Get inside the train’ screams Rahini to her
Meena slows down her running speed slowly and the distance between Rahini’s hand and Meena’s hand gradually increases.
‘Meena, please don’t give up. Run fast. Get inside’ screams Rahini with tears in her eyes.
The train moves fast and Meena slows down. The thugs manage to catch the girl and Meena and hold her tightly. Rahini looks at Meena caught by the thugs. She tries to get down from the train. Meena looks at her and screams ‘Rahini, don’t stop. Keep moving. Don’t look behind. One day you come and save us all. Relieve us from this hell. Don’t get caught by them.’
The train moves very fast and leaves the platform. One other thug who chases the train to catch Rahini stops at the platform unable to catch it. Rahini looks at the platform where Meena and the other girl are being held by the thugs and dragged harshly with tears in her eyes.
‘Meenaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!’ shouts Rahini
The mobile phone rings and Rahini opens her eyes and jolts from her seat. The mobile phone keeps ringing on the table in front of her. Rahini looks around the whole room. She then sits straight on the chair. Her body sweats and trembles heavily. The mobile stops ringing and then rings once again. Rahini looks at the mobile which flashes ‘Chithi’. She takes the mobile in her hand and attends the call.
‘Yeah, Chithi. Tell me’
‘Rahini, can you come home immediately?’ speaks Radha nervously on other side
Rahini frowns and asks her ‘Why Chithi? Is everything fine? You are ok, isn’t it?’
‘Yes. I am fine. You just come as soon as possible to Trisha’s house.’
Rahini’s face turns worried
‘Chithi, anything wrong with her? Anything happened to her again?’
‘I cannot say anything to you over phone. You come home soon.’ says Radha to her.
The call gets disconnected. Rahini looks at the phone with tension, fear and worry.
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