Epi 92 Ch 22 Chasing your Love Advay leaves for Allahabad but family worries

Trials Of Fire!!! Adni Untold Saga Chapter 22

IPK3 Season 1 Episode 92

"Laa...lalaa...lalaaa" Pooja hummed softly, a happy smile lighting up her face as she finished pooja preparations.

'Feels so good in heart to do these things...only problem is getting up too early...If I didn't relish losing myself in slumberland in early mornings; I would never ever offload this task to Chandni.' Smiling to herself, Pooja noticed Naani walking in pooja room.

"Good Morning, Naani!" chirped Pooja, "See? I have done the preparations exact as I did in London all these years, haven't I?"

"Yes beta..."Naani was lost in thoughts... her brow creased in frown...her eyes desolated...

"Should I keep the Shankh(konch shell) on right like Chandni or is it OK on left?" Pooja was reveling in her work but noticed Naani's listlessness.

"Haan beta!"

Pooja brow creased in a frown.She stared at Naani.

"I'll take Adi out from this school and send him to boarding."

"Yes Beta."

"Naaani!"yelped Pooja, "where are you lost? Are you paying any attention to me at all?"

Naani did not respond...Her look worried Pooja.

"Naani...What's the matter?...tell me fast...I am getting worried now."

"Haan?...No no!... Nothing is the matter...Don't worry." Naani corrected but her voice had no conviction. Anxiety was written all over her face. She thought back about her call with Chiku.

Advay had been driving incessantly...His rage taken out on the accelerator...Impotent, futile rage that eased nothing...found no recourse...just exhausted him completely...Towards the morning, the all consuming rage driving him started dousing out...

He hadn't drunk even a drop of water since last evening...The dull pain giving him sign of kidney trouble start was already there...Throat parched out, he stopped his car as a Dhaba fell in his sight... 'I need water...Allahabad is still far away. I need to call Naani, too.' 

"Chiku beta, why are you calling me within home itself...that too this early?"

"I am not at home, Naani. I called to update you the same...I had to come away to Allahabad urgently...Mamaji needs me to decide about Meghna... "Advay went out to explain all his convo with Mamaji to Naani.

"What's the matter, Chiku? What has happened?"

The agony surging inside Advay so overwhelming that he needed a moment to close his eyes and manage his composure.

"Nothing, Naani!"

"Don't lie to me...I'll give you a flying thappad from here...Have you had a fight with Chandni?"

"Naani aapko humesha bina dekhe sab kaise pata chalata hai? "(How do you know every time without seeing?)

"Haven't I told you already? Tu mere dil ki dhadkan hai!I know you inside out. Tell me Chiku, what happened?"

"Nothing Naani...just something small...but you are the first one to sense it...Always!...When you came first time from London;..."

The memory of Chandni putting nails in his path hit him. Agony lanced through him, making his voice acerbic.

 "Tab bhi Chandni ne Dard ka tohfa diya tha aur aap maraham lagaane aaye the. (Chandni gifted me with pain and you came to heal)...Today again you want to soothe me ..."

"Women are like that, Chiku...it's not easy to understand a woman, even when she is your own wife."

"True Naani...As it's said, we men are from Mars and women are from Venus." Advay laughed bitterly.

"Maybe Chiku...but I look at it differently...Women look from another plateau of emotion, Men view from glasses of rationality...So conflicts are bound to arise...as a couple, it's all about getting the other's perspective and keeping your home planet in balance...remember that, always!"

"Naani, life does not give all answers to you easily, does it?"

"Answers will lie within you, Chiku. View life in a way that the answers can be found easily..."

"Yes naani...

Duniya mein kissi ko mukammal jahaan nahi milata

Kabhi jameen nahi milati, kabhi aasmaan nahi milata"

(No one ever gets the complete universe 
Somewhere the earth and somewhere the sky is missing)

"Chikuuu..." naani was worried.

"Don't worry Naani. I'll make everything alright. Main sab theek kar doonga...Naani, Chandni is not feeling well, would you please make her rest today? I left in a hurry and could not tell her about my allahabad trip either, you please update her when she gets up...I won't get time to call during the day...I'll be busy."

In his heart Advay knew that he could not face Chandni, yet. He needed time to assimilate himself and find the right answers. Naani knew it, too. She did not poach him any further. 

"Yes Chiku, I'll do that. You take care, Beta."

"Bye Nani."

Next call he dialed to his bro, family's next caretaker after him.

His words kept reverberating in Naani's ears...Chandni's gift to me is always hurt and pain...What might have happened this time to make him so desolate?

"Naani, you are not sharing what's on your mind. Is it something about Bhaiyya?" Pooja persisted in her questioning.

"Yes Pooja, he left for Allahabad in the night..."

"Allahabad? Suddenly?... I spoke with him last night...he was worried over Chandni...for that matter, I found Chandni very sad...couldn't fathom why?...It's just normal monthly process for us; why despair so much over it?"

Naani was startled...her wisdom gave her a hunch...but she couldn't be sure.

Miku entered yawning wide..., "Naani, Bhai had called. He's gone to Allahabad. So he wants me to take care of the family."

"You first take care of yourself , Miku! Why are you in Pooja room without bathing?"criticized Naani. Miku shrugged.

"Don't  shrug so, Miku! Once you're officially mahant(main priest)...these things are important." Pooja warned...her voice fake stern...her smiling eyes giving her away.

"Did Chiku share anything with you, Miku?" Naani queried.

"Shared what?"

"No...I mean" Naani hesitated, not knowing how to ask him,"He sometimes shares his thoughts with you...did he say anything today?"

"Not today... but yesterday, he was worried about the baby...He was wondering how to ensure that the baby suffers no injustice whatsoever."

"Has Bhaiyya gone to Allahabad urgently for the baby matter?" wondered Pooja.

Some pieces of the puzzle were falling in place; yet Naani was not clear about Chiku's agony.

"Maybe!... As such he has lots on his plate today, he said...He'll be meeting Mamaji, discussing about Meghna's future. He is also going to meet up with priest  community there...Also, important authorities of the Temple...The new system will have to be put on the table before I go there as Junior Mahant."

Naani nodded,  jerking away her earlier thoughts and her gloom.

"What Pooja says is true...Your frivolity will hinder your acceptance as mahant in Allahabad, Chiku!"

"I am trying Naani" Miku hugged her lovingly.

"Not just you, Miku, even Shikha has to mold her ways. I love doing the Pooja preparations; but frankly, Shikha must also practice this every morning. It will be helpful for her later." Pooja spoke her thoughts aloud.

"That's true Didi. Don't worry, I'll tell her. I'll make everything alright."

"Both Chiku and you say that; but both you make me worry. Things are hardly ever right in your worlds."Naani shook her head in despair... "Chiku could have gone in the morning to Allahabad. Leaving at night in sudden hurry like this upsets me."

"Oh Naani! That's because you love him so much..."Miku cupped Naani's cheeks.

"Voh mere dil ki dhadkan hai, usse dekhu nahi toh bhi sunkar pehachanati hoon!"(He's my beating heart. Even when I don't see him, I can recognise him by listening)

"Aur Main?" (And me?)

"Tu meri saas hai, Miku "(You're my breath)

"OK Naani, don't forget you have a granddaughter as well. What about me?"Pooja hugged Naani from behind.

"You are my happiness, Pooja. You have made life worthwhile by just your birth Naani smiled...but the smile faded fast, "Somehow, we could not ensure your happiness...we all failed, me, Leela, Chiku...We couldn't find you a good life partner."

"Oh Naani. I am perfectly happy... I have all of you, I don't need anybody else...Stop worrying about me...There comes Ma... Come, let's do Pooja. Miku, please finish your bath and come for prasaad at least."

"Where's Chandni? She didn't come?" Leela queried entering Pooja room.

"Good morning!" chirped Miku and Pooja happily in unison...Miku left the room.

"Chandni has her monthly cycle, she won't come.",informed Pooja.

"Oh! But she gets up and goes in kitchen everyday...she's not there either."

"She's not feeling well. Chiku instructed specifically not to disturb her. She needs to rest." informed Naani.

 "Where's Advay?...on terrace in his calls?"

"No Maa, Bhaiyya is gone to Allahabad."

"What??? ...what's happening in the house?? Nobody tells me anything anymore."

"Leela!"chided Naani, "Don't make everything about yourself. He did not tell anybody. He left in the night suddenly in hurry...poor child of mine, driving all alone."Sighed Naani.

"Oh! Why did he do that? He should have taken a driver...It's such a long drive...it will exhaust him completely...What these children do nowadays?"

"Who can say anything to Bhaiyya? You know, he left from London also without telling anybody. Thank God he had taken Murli along. Murli kept updating us."

"Advay always makes us worry like this. At least now, he should think about Chandni and mend his ways."

'Maybe this time Chandni is the cause of his sudden erratic way!' thought Naani silently, a deep sigh escaping her lips.

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Life doesn't make answers easy, does it? Will Advay find his answers? 

Is Naani getting some premonition that things are not right in both her grandsons' life?

Will shikha's transition to Mahantani's role be smooth?

Will the pain about Pooja's failed marriage be always there?

Will Advay kick start the process of Leela Maasi's revenge in Allahabad?

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