Hey guys.. I am sorry for being away. I am unable to get regular because of busy week I had and top of it I fell ill. :( I am still quite unwell. Once, everything i under control I will be back and respond to your stories and replies. Till then guys, enjoy this one-shot. It was requested specially by my beautiful reader and friend: naturegirl99. I hope it is fine, hun.

RAAT AKELI HAI

Kapil is near Sumona's green room when he hears laughters inside. He of course recognizes one of them, which belongs to his Bengoli Beauty. 'His?' God not this again, shaking the thoughts away Kapil goes inside the green room because his curiously starts to get better of him and finds a young man sitting with her. Surprisingly yet annoyingly enough both of them still engrossed in their conversation, laughing with each other that they stay complete oblivious to third person's presence in the room.

"Uff.. kitna maza aya tha us raat."

"Maza? Woh tumhe aya tha, meri toh halat kharab hogayi thi."

"Oh really? Tumhari halat nahi, balke meri halat kharab hogayi thi. Aap madam ne hosh jo ura diye thay mere." Sumona gasps surprisingly as her eyes go wide then seconds later she moves forward and hits him on shoulder, playfully while he tries to hold her hand. Kapil still standing at door and gaping at them, cannot believe what he is seeing. This is some other side of Sumona which doesn't see much. She does have fun on sets but rarely someone comes to meet her on sets and that too a guy. A guy, in HER green room on HIS show. Finally feeling irritated that his presence isn't acknowledged he makes himself present in front of them with fake coughing.

Both of them stop and finally look at side to find Kapil standing there who is trying hard to keep neutral expressions.

"Arre Kapil." Sumona calls him with chirpy voice. Kapil looks between Sumona & the guy who looks familiar. Sumona taking the hint, introduces them both. "Kapil yeh hai Mohit Malhotra... mere ex-co-star and bohut ache dost. Aur Mohit, tum toh jaante hi ho.. Sharma ji ko."

"Of course, it's a pleasure." Mohit extends his hand.

"Nice to meet you, Mohit." Kapil plasters the fake smile takes the hand.

"Mohit mere saath Bade Ache Lagte Hain mein tha. My husband." Then it hits him why he was so familiar, Kapil had seen him few times with Sumona during CC and had seen couple of episodes of BALH. But he had forgotten but as soon Sumona mentioned husband, somehow all of those memories came back, and making him feel bit strange.

"Ex-husband now." Mohit adds, bringing Kapil out of his thoughts and making him curious.

"What?" Sumona voices Kapil's question. He secretly smiles at this, sometimes he loves to believe that he & Sumona have developed some kind of telepathy conection.

"Arre I mean, ke BLAH mein main tumhara husband tha aur ab yahan... Kapil, Sharma ji hain." Mohit teases her for which she gives him dagger looks and Kapil somehow feels misplaced and just want to get away from here and not witness more of this. Somehow Mohit has managed to make Kapil dislike him in first few minutes and Kapil doesn't even know why.

"Mazaya mazaj hai aapka, Mohit."

"Par aap jitna nahi, Sharma ji." Kapil winces at 'Sharma ji', why the hell this guy is calling him that, why not Kapil like others. Only Sumona has right to call him 'Sharma ji'.

"Anyways, aap dono baithein main jata hon."

"Kapil, tum kuch kehne aye thay?"

"Haan.. woh shoot ke liye.. lekin tum.."

"Oh crap. I am so sorry, maine kaafi time le liya aap logon ka."

"Arre nahi, Mohit..."

"Nahi, Sumona, main chalta hon.. you get back to work." Picking up his jacket Mohit gets up to leave.

"Acha, Sharma ji." Kapil smiles. customary he should say something else but he doesn't feel like it, so he keeps quiet and it seems Mohit doesn't notice either because his focus is on Sumona. Before leaving he pulls Sumona into a hug while he whispers somethings into her ear before separating, Kapil can tell because Sumona has very telling smile on her face.

"I will see you soon."

"Of course." He is just out of door when he calls her.

"Sumona."

"Raat akeli hai... boojh gaye diye." He sing-a-long with teasing smile and winks at her. Sumona is about to throw something when he runs away and Sumona starts laughing. While Kapil stands there, still trying to process what just happened.

"Yeh kya tha?"

"Kya?" Sumona gets back to touch up while keeping her focus on mirror in front of her.

"Yeh jo abhi Mohit ne kaha."

"Kya, baba?"

"Woh gana..."

"Ohh.. woh.." She seems to reliving that memory and starts smiling. "Woh toh mujhe tang kar raha tha."

"Par wohi song kyun?"

"Arre woh humara song hai na, es liye." 'Humara song? They have a song together?' His hands turn into fist without him realizing.

"Matlab?" Sumona sighs.

"Arre baba woh BLAH ki episode ki baat kar raha tha, jisme yeh song tha. Acha ab tum jao, main 5 minute mein ati hon." With this she zones Kapil out of her mind and focuses on act and her make up. Confused and somewhat angry Kapil exists from her green room.

Later that night, Kapil spends hours of Google and YouTube searching for BLAH episode which has this song or mention of it. His curiosity was getting better of him, he resisted himself from checking this out during filing of their episode. Kapil couldn't wait to get home and get to work because it was clear sumona wouldn't reveal anymore. The anger he felt during his short encounter with Mohit was still lurking there but he can't place his finger on why is that.

When searching for scenes or any link on Google doesn't give him satisfied answers to his curiosity he ends up on Sony Channel and spends hours going by each episode from beginning to get to scene. Of course he fast forwarded but at some of scenes which had Sumona, he couldn't skip, he was surprised to see how well she was portraying the character of Nats which is opposite of Manju or any others which she played in CC.

Kapil goes through so many episodes and is getting tired yet he doesn't give up, he ends up on wedding episodes and somehow he can feel that he is closer. And finally, finally he ends up on the episode and the scene of which Mohit was talking about. He almost skipped the episode until he got to last few minutes and what he sees takes his breathe away. It is Mohit and Sumona as Kartik & Natasha. But it's not any other scene, Sumona is not typical herself Nats but she is playing the seductive Sumona/Nats. He has to remind himself, it's Nats but it's being played by Sumona. Of course, it's Sumona.

When the scene plays, his mind goes blank, he freezes on spot. Sumona is performing a seductive dance on 'Raat Akeli Hai'. It's their suhaag-raat sequence. She is seducing her on-screen 'husband' who is spell bounded just like Kapil is right now. She is wearing silk red men's shirt which is loosely hanging on her body, black short but curled hair, black tights hugging her legs and her hands covered in menhdi. The clips end with Sumona & Mohit on bed, attached to each other and almost kissing. Clip ends but Kapil can't move. So many emotions flow through his mind and heart at same time, he doesn't know how to react. He just found his on-screen wife seducing another man even though it's a different show and act, he can't help it when a wave of jealousy goes through his body. A part of him is spell bounded by this side of Sumona, even though it was acting, he couldn't take eyes off her. And just watching this clip, this side of her awakened a desire in him. Desire of what exactly, he doesn't know exactly.

He sits there and plays the clip over and over again, the more he watches it, the jealousy, anger, awe and desire get strong. But jealousy wins in that moment when he finally slams his laptop shut and closes his eyes. 'Kapil Sharma, you are in trouble,' he thinks as the clip keeps playing on loop inside his head.

I hope you'll enjoyed it. :)