Chapter 172

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[NOCOPY]

Smita,😊

Here is the interpretation to Section 9 of Part 43.

When Anjali, Anamika, NK, Akash, Payal, Ganesh, Khushi, Arnav, Gaurav and Scooby entered the house after an eventful evening, they were apprehensive of turning up together late at night. A circumspect Anjali looking around asked Hari Prakash who had opened the door for them, where were the others? When HP explained, that they had retired for the night, all heaved a sigh of relief.

Anjali giving a conceited, smug grin to the two couples, ready to tie the knot the next day said, it was just a question of few minutes left, to be their Wedding Day, that herald the onset of a new beginning. Anamika and Ganesh looked at each other with a smile, showing their happiness and contentment. Khushi clapped her hands delightedly and smiled into the eyes of Arnav Singh Raizada, who was watching her excitement with tenderness showing in them. His eyes were lapping up her joy with a surge of affection and feasted on it. Their expressions made Gaurav, NK, Akash and Payal smile. Anjali with a mischievous smile said, Let's leave them alone for a moment, making others laugh and join her walk up the stairs. As she neared the top stairs, she turned around calling, Chotey, you and Ganeshji are to sleep in your room making Arnav nod to show that he knew. She continued with mirth that, hope he remembers that his room was upstairs and not on the ground floor. Her naughty remark brought in gales of laughter from those who followed her up on their way to their rooms, while the brides blushed and grooms flushed.

Ganesh smiled into Anamika's eyes and whispered, goodnight. Anamika too smiled and reciprocated with, a goodnight. Sleep tight. As Ganesh turned to leave, he found himself tugged by the firm hold on the hem of his T-shirt by Anamika's hand, making him raise an amused eyebrow, while his eyes twinkled behind his glasses. He found Anamika murmur thoughtfully, tomorrow and pause. Ganesh was suddenly alert and his eyes sharpened by her murmur prompted, tomorrow? She continued telling him, that she would be Anamika Vidyarthi... It feels strange... new.. like becoming a new person. Ganesh, cradling her face in his large hands, kissing her on her forehead, conveyed to her that he was there to comfort her. Looking into her serious eyes, he told her, that she would always be for him the woman he loves, the woman whom he would madly love till he breathes his last and beyond.

Khushi looking at Arnav's face with mock seriousness, in a voice filled with deep regret told him, that she felt sorry for him. Taken in by the tone and the words, Arnav frowned and asked her, why Khushi? What happened? She told him, that he might live to be 90. Right now he was 28. 62 years! she sighed. Not following her train of thoughts, a puzzled Arnav asked her, what! This was his position, more often than not, at Khushi's sweeping statements. Khushi with a laugh stressed, not What, What the! was the phrase. He will have to put up with her craziness for the next 62 years. Her own ogre! What a pathetic state to be in! Arnav with his arms crossed, his eyes brimming with love and a smile playing on his lips was enjoying her playfulness. Khushi with a smile, like a sun that was good enough to melt away the ice, invited her Arnavji to straighten his arms. Abiding by her request, he asked, why was it? Her answer, so that I can do this Laad Governor! was given while she floated towards him and smacked a kiss on his cheek before flitting away, giggling all the way. Arnav stood there, with his eyes in a dreamy gaze, watching her till the last possible moment with pleasure visible on his face, fingering the spot her lips had touched his cheek.

This update is about the feeling that was prevalent after the high voltage drama at the stag party before the youngsters retired for the day. It was a supernatant feeling of being afloat after feeling squirmish due to the stag party incident, in a word BUOYANT.

Anjali, Anamika, NK, Akash, Payal, Ganesh, Khushi, Arnav, Gaurav and Scooby were let inside RM by HP, who when asked told them that all the others had retired for the day. It was a feeling of relief that was prevalent, knowing that they would be spared of being admonished for having flaunted the rule laid down by the elders, that the brides and the grooms would not be meeting and that too when they had met in clandestine. They could not say they met only with genuine reason as the elders were unaware of the stag party! If anyone had been awake, they would not have been able to extricate themselves without resorting to falsehood, which they themselves would not have relished. What could they have told about being together? Nothing! They could neither give reason for the two couples being seen together at night, nor the rest with them. It would look as though the rest were abetting their clandestine meeting! This would have hurt the elders because they had relented to various demands and had let themselves be maneuvred. Even then, if they had found, they had been out together it would have hurt them immeasurably and the youngsters were not ready to do so. Hence the elders, being in the arms of Morpheus, (Greek god of dreams) was a blessing in disguise. This had the entrants feel cheerful.

"The truest form of love is how you behave toward someone, not how you feel about them"

~ Steve Hall

When Anjali told the two to-be-married couples that in a few minutes it would be the dawn of their wedding day, they were happy. Though Anamika and Ganesh looked at each other and smiled welcoming their wedding day, Khushi in a childlike glee clapped her hands with Arnav giving her an indulgent look while smiling broadly at the happiness that awaited them. He had a calm and anticipatory look. Anamika and Ganesh had a resilient feeling, Khushi a bouncy and floating feeling and Arnav had an unsinkable feeling after striving extremely hard to get his Khushi. The varied reactions had the rest smiling, cheerfully.

Anjali's suggestion to to give them some time alone and the reminder that the room of the grooms was upstairs and not on the floor they were, was greeted cheerfully with blushes from the brides, flushes from the grooms and shushes at mirth by the rest.

"The idea of waiting for something makes it more exciting"

~ Andy Warhol

While bidding goodnight, Anamika's whimsical thought that she would be Anamika Vidyarthi by that time next day and it felt quite strange, as though it was a different person, had Ganesh comfort her with his words that whatever be her name, she was his only love till his last breath, quelling the butterflies in her stomach, an attack of bridal panic, the usual affliction that every bride goes through! His reassurance made Anamika bounce back cheerfully.

"Sometimes you just want the comfort of knowing that somebody really does care about you"

~ Cara Lockwood, I Do

Khushi's mock seriousness of feeling regret had Arnav succumb to it and enquire as to its reason. Her counting the years and coming up with the number 62 years as pitiable, leaves him clueless as to what she was talking about and ask her what? Her answer, that it is what the! having to put up with her craziness for the next 62 years was indeed a punishment for her dear ogre and was it not a pitiable fate! had herself double up with mirth and Arnav cross armed look at her with love. It left with him feeling buoyant. When he complied with her request to straighten his arms, the unexpected smack of her lips on his cheek explaining that it was meant for her to enable to kiss, left him feeling weightless in euphoria, his hand touching the cheek where her lips had touched still feeling it with his eyes on her floating figure that left him afloat.

"I was like a chocolate in a box, looking well behaved and perfect in place, all the while harboring a secret center"

~ Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

It was interesting to see two different types of feelings in the two brides. One bugged by a hint of panic and the other oozing with confidence! In the end a disastrous evening had ended leaving all with a sense of buoyancy.

That why it is a BUOYANT update.

That's it from me. Hope you enjoy it.

rulama2013-07-01 09:58:14