Chapter 125
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FINDING KHUSHI
Part 29
"I want to invite Anamikaji and Ganeshji for our sagai on Monday." Khushi told Arnav.
He smiled. "Why not? After all, you are not getting engaged again, ever in your life."
Khushi smiled, almost jumping up and down in excitement. "It will be so much fun, Arnavji. With Anamikaji, Ganeshji, & Gaurav with us!"
"It is good that Nani and Buaji have decided to hold it in RM. There is ample space, and Babuji will feel more comfortable in familiar surroundings." Arnav remarked.
Khushi beamed. "Aap ko pata he, Arnavji, Babuji moved his fingers last week!"
Arnav nodded, smiling. "The physiotherapist called me. He said Babuji is improving rapidly."
Khushi chuckled. "Arnavji, I think it must be because he doesn't have to worry about me any longer!"
Arnav smiled. "His sanka devi is mine."
"Soch lijiye! It is a big responsibility!" Khushi teased him.
"A responsibility I can't do without." Arnav murmured as he took silent steps towards her and dropped a gentle kiss on her cheek.
Khushi blushed and clutched his shoulders with trembling fingers, her nails biting into his skin through his clothes.
"Khushi..." he murmured, his lips trailing their tingling way towards her parted lips.
"Arnav Babua!" Buaji hollered. "Come and drink your adrak ki chai. I made it with my own hands, Nandkisore!"
Arnav sighed. "Do you really want a sagai, mehendi, sangeet, and haldi? Can't we just have our shadi, straightaway?"
Khushi giggled.
"Sabr ka phal meetha hota he, Arnavji!"
"Meetha hoga. I will make sure of that." Arnav murmured. "But will you be laughing like this on our suhaag raat too, Khushi Kumari Gupta?" He ran a finger down her rosy cheek.
Khushi looked away, blushing.
Ganesh said, "We need to take this slowly, Anamika. The only thing that matters here is whether you are comfortable with what we are doing."
Anamika looked at him with trusting eyes, and nodded.
"You are comfortable with touching me, aren't you?"
"Yes." She was sure about that.
"So touch me whenever you want, where ever you want." Ganesh offered her free use of his body. "Be comfortable with my body. Get used to it, the feel of it."
"Whenever I want?" she asked to make sure.
"Whenever you want. I won't touch you, Anamika. I promise." Ganesh said solemnly, softly, as though to a child.
She nodded.
"But we need to let Gaurav know that we intend to marry. At the earliest." Ganesh reminded her.
"Yes." She smiled. "He will be thrilled."
Ganesh smiled. "And Khushi, ASR, and their family."
Anamika looked at him, smiling.
"Otherwise we will find ourselves bombarded by requests to marry each other." Ganesh smiled.
"Or they will lock us in a room and throw the chabi away!" Anamika continued, smiling.
"Or invite us for a function at their house and arrange a purohit and mandap for us to marry." Ganesh chuckled.
"And Buaji will say, 'The purohit and the mandap are already here, Bitwaa! Why don't you marry Anamika Bitiyaa now, Nandkisore!'" Anamika laughed.
"And Mami will say, 'Hello Hi Bye Bye! Bhy baste (waste) a good mandap?'" Ganesh guffawed.
"And Khushi will be jumping up and down, clapping her hands, encouraging us to take the plunge." Anamika said between her chuckles.
"And ASR will be looking as though he has strayed into a pagalkhana by mistake and can't find the way out." Ganesh choked with laughter.
Anamika clutched her tummy, and both of them laughed till tears streamed down their cheeks.
Gaurav was playing with Scooby, throwing him a small stick with his one good hand, when Ganesh and Anamika walked in.
His face lit up. "Papa... I mean, Ganesh Uncle!"
"Call him Papa." Anamika laughed. "You forget to call him Ganesh Uncle half the time anyway."
Gaurav blushed. "You don't mind, Mama?"
Anamika smiled at him, sorrow hidden in the depths of her eyes. "No, I don't."
Gaurav smiled at her, as though he had been given the sun, moon, and the stars, all at the same time.
"Gaurav, I was thinking..." Anamika began.
"Yes, Mama?"
"I... I like Ganesh. So, I was thinking..." she paused.
Gaurav frowned at her, not getting the point.
Ganesh stepped in. "What your mother wants to know is would you mind if she got married to me?" he smiled.
Gaurav stared at both of them for a moment.
"Marry?" Gaurav could not believe his ears. He looked from Anamika's pale face to Ganesh's waiting one. "Really, Papa?"
Ganesh nodded. "Really."
Gaurav shouted in joy. He jumped up, and limping on one good foot, hugged Ganesh and Anamika. "I am so happy, Mama. I am so happy. You have no idea... you have no idea how long I hoped..."
Ganesh rubbed his back, calming him, knowing everything that the boy was unable to say. Anamika kissed his forehead gently, and wiped away his tears.
Ganesh phoned Buaji.
"Buaji, I called you to tell you that Anamika and I are getting married." He smiled at Anamika who was standing by him, listening to the conversation.
There was a moment of silence. Then Buaji exclaimed, "Hai Re Nandkisore! This is such good news, Bitwaa!"
Ganesh & Anamika smiled at each other. She slipped her hand into his. He clasped her fingers gently, not stopping her if she wanted to free herself.
"What did Gaurav bitwaa do when he heard the news? Dance around on his bad leg, Nandkisore?" Buaji asked.
Ganesh & Anamika chuckled.
"More or less." Ganesh said. "He was very happy."
"Acha he, acha he. May Nandksiore keep you happy for ever." Buaji blessed them. "When is the wedding?"
"We haven't fixed the date yet, Buaji." Ganesh confessed.
"You don't worry about that, Bitwaa. Your Buaji is here. I will help you." she offered. "Let me talk to Devyaniji, Manoramaji, and Anjali Bitiyaa. We will arrange everything. You have both wasted so much time, Nandkisore! Now no more! If we leave it to you, you will delay it till next century!" Buaji was firm on the point.
Ganesh and Anamika laughed.
"No, Buaji. We want it done at the earliest." Anamika said.
"Good, good. Finally your akal is working, twenty years too late." Buaji laughed. She shouted at Khushi who was stirring kheer on the stove. "Titliyaa!"
Ganesh and Anamika winced, smiling.
"Dekho, your mad plan has worked! Ganesh Bitwaa and Anamika bitiyaa are getting married!" Buaji screamed.
The ladle fell into the kheer from Khushi's nerveless fingers. She stood motionless for a moment, and then ran to Buaji and snatched the phone from her hands.
"Anamikaji... Anamikaji..." Tears of joy poured down her cheeks.
"Khushi." Anamika's voice held love and a world of gratitude.
"I am so happy... I can't tell you how happy I am..."
"I know."
"Gaurav... Gaurav must be jumping up and down on his hurt leg..." Khushi laughed through her tears.
"Yes." smiled Anamika.
"I will talk to you later, Anamikaji." Khushi wiped away her tears with a smile. "I have to go to Devi Maiyya's temple with 1kg of my jalebis. I promised her the jalebis if you agreed to marry Ganeshji."
Ganesh and Anamika smiled.
"And I want to call Arnavji and shock him!" she giggled. "He will look so funny with his mouth open!"
Ganesh & Anamika chuckled.
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