"Bari mushkil main fasne wali ho."

2 years ago

twerping

@twerping

The Present (contd)

It was the slightest hitch in his breathing but she knows. She knows even as he frees one arm from their embrace and runs it along her spine. His touch is gentle, teasing. He had learnt by now where to touch, where to linger and where to worship. She finds herself melting, the chores that await her recede further and further away. She feels the anticipation mount, what she knows to be coming, hangs before her just out of reach. And then his clasp tightens and he flips her over with the ease of practice and she is where she needs to be....  

Flashback

"Larki, bari mushkil main fasne wali ho"

(Girl, you are going to get into big trouble)

Balaj

She dared! She went around the grounds of the haveli bare-headed without even the shadow of a dupatta, talking to the servants like it was the city. She shouted at him trying to teach him what was the proper way to behave. She scratched and fought against him like a wildcat when he was forced to take her in hand and that was not all. She dared to argue, to raise her voice, to look into Taaya Sarkar's eyes and say that she thought! That she wanted! 

He had done what was right. Bring her back to the house and throw her at Taaya Sarkar's feet. Let her learn a bit of tameez. Let her learn her place. Chachu will have to really check her ways. What an embarrassment for him! She needed a husband who would bring her face to face with the truth about herself. For the first time, Balaj feels a twinge of annoyance at Taaya Sarkar's decision to get him married to Amber. Had he been married to Hooriya, she would have had to dance to his tune sooner or later. Well, they just needed to find her the right husband for that. 

Hooriya

No wonder her mother had not allowed even the shadow of this house to fall on her and Minal. This wasn't a home, this was a prison. Anger makes her almost blind to her surroundings! While she had heard Taaya Jaan's words, he was an elder. It was that badtameez jaahil who now becomes the focus of her anger. How dare he! Hooriya finds her eyes searching for him once Taaya Jaan and her father leave the hall. She has to see him and tell him to remember his place. 

When she walks into that jaahil's room, she sees nothing more than the target of her discontent and rage. And it feels good to unleash the anger, the pent-up annoyance within her. It feels so good that even if only for a moment her words leave him speechless, brows frowned in anger at not being able to respond to her. But he does not disappoint her in the end. Once a badtameez, always a badtameez. Does he think she will cower before his thuggish demeanor? Looming over her, smirking at her, and trying to threaten her! When her words hit their mark, she watches with pleasure at how he starts, his smirk disappearing, the frown drowning out the complacency on his brows. Let them just try to put out her fire. Malik Balaj would soon find out she has the spirit of the arsonist in her.