Arakshi SS : Rhythm of Life *DC here* - Page 6

Sameer came back home... he was late... as usual...

He gently pecked his sleeping son... tiptoeing to his bedroom where Ayesha would have been sleeping...

"Aa gaye?" she said... switching off the television...

Sameer removed his shirt and picked up his pajamas... "Soi nahi abhi tak?"

"Woh neend nahi aa rahi thi..." Ayesha said softly...

Sameer turned towards his wife... it was 12.30 at night... "Ayesha... tumhe bas ek hafta hue hai since you were shot... kuch toh khayal rakho apni... medicines hai right... phir bhi nahi soh rahi ho... mere bare main chinta nahi karna padega..." Sameer slid into the bed...

"Ab kya chinta karne ka haq bhi nahi hai..." Ayesha said wryly...

Sameer just turned towards Ayesha... those words pricked him hard...

"Aaj bohot kaam tha... isliye late ho gaya..." Sameer said... Ayesha hummed in response...

"Yeh toh roz hota hai... anyways... woh Khan ka case crack hua..." Ayesha asked.. Sameer nodded...

She just waited for him to switch off the news channel and perhaps tuck her to bed... these were silly things... but 5 years in marriage... these were a few things that she expected...

Moreover next month was their anniversary... waise bhi he has missed almost all of the anniversaries

"Main Aamir ke paas sone jaa rahi hoon... shayad usko meri zaroorat hai... " Ayesha sighed...

Sameer just turned to look at his wife... he clenched his jaws...

"Jaisi tumhari marzi..." he said softly...

Ayesha looked at Sameer and smiled a little... yeah... he was never the husband who would take the first step...

They were... though at one time inseparable... but there also Ayesha had taken every step forward...

Sigh... at least they used to be together... after the birth of Aamir as of everything changed... his working hours increased... his schedule increased... in fact he somehow made it for Aamir's birthdays...

"Main yahi so jaati hoon... waha jaane main takleef hogi..." Ayesha murmured to herself... unaware that her hot cop husband had heard everything...

She dozed off soon enough... then Sameer gently placed the blanket on her...

"Kaha gayi woh Ayesha jo mere har baat ko leke khush ho jaati... kaha gayi woh Ayesha jo mujhe dekh ke ek pyaari si smile deti... tum maa toh ban gayi Ayesha... par... biwi... usse main kho chuka..." he tenderly planted a kiss on her forehead...

Sameer sighed... Ayesha never had time for him... always running behind Aamir... first few days he used to have lunch with Arjun...

And Ayesha... she didn't bother much... at office, home, bed, kitchen... everywhere... it was only and only Aamir...

Not that he had an angst against it... their baby bonny boy Aamir was indeed such a sweetheart... he was a blessing for Sameer and Ayesha...

Sameer had been an introvert... always... however Ayesha's extrovert behavior made him amaze... as well as fall for her...

Tangled in his thoughts he turned his back towards her and dozed off...

Somewhere... somehow they had lost the Rhythm of their love...

*clink* Arjun's ears picked up on the sound... his hand automatically went to his baby who was fast asleep... he breathed in a sigh of relief...

*clink* his eyes shot open... cold sweat broke out... not again... not again...

His baby slept with her mouth open... twisted into an eagle shape... her one hand clutched her dad's vest...

Arjun kissed his baby softly... shifting her to a cot... so as to she doesn't fall off, he took out his emergency gun... he locked the room... his phone was on his hand... he was ready to speed dial Sameer...

Gently tip toeing towards the kitchen he kept his eyes and ears open...

When he heard... "Mmm..."

Arjun scratched his head... hein?

Arjun walked in to see the most comical scene in his life...

Sakshi was sitting on the counter... ice cubes thrown onto the floor... and she was eating ice cream... from a bucket... and crying... shoving more cookies n' cream ice cream into her mouth...

"Sakshi!" A shocked Arjun said and out of fear Sakshi stumbled from the counter...

Arjun went to help her to slip on the ice cubes...

And both fell on the floor... with a huge *THUD*

"Aaai..." Arjun rubbed his bum...

"Oh... Mummy..." Sakshi rubbed her bum... and saw that the person fallen next to her is her employer ACP Rawte!

"Arrey Deva! Sir! Jai Hind! Vande Mataram! Bharat Maata ki jai! Jai Maharashtra! Jai Mumbai! Satyamev Jayate Sir!" Sakshi blabbered and Arjun shut her mouth!

He sat cross legged on the floor...

"Kripa karke Miss. Anand kya aap humain bata sakte hai ki aap kar kya rahe the?" Arjun half glared at her...

"Woh hum... bhook lag rahi thi... toh ice cream kha rahi thi..." Sakshi gave a tiny smile...

"Acha... aur ro kyun rahi thi?" Arjun asked her... heavily pissed off...

"Sir... woh main emotional movie dekh rahi thi... you know Kal Ho Na Ho ki last scene where SRK dies... toh haan..." Sakshi mumbled...

"Oh God... Miss. Anand... aap thoda na... uffo... you freaked me out... upar se awaaz aa rahi thi!" Arjun grumbled...

"OHHH... me so sorry sir! I'll clean up this mess... abhi..." Sakshi took a broom and started cleaning up the mess...

Arjun just shook his head...

Seriously! What's so emotional in Kal HO Na Ho!

Sakshi came again into his view with a salute...

"Miss. Anand... kitna baar kahu ki salute ki zaroorat nahi hai!" Arjun said when he found Sakshi laugh a little...

"Ab kya?" he gruffed...

"Kuch nahi... aap raat ko sote samay sirf vest aur track pants pehenke sote hai?"

Sakshi laughed...

Arjun felt a little conscious and folded his arms across... "Nahi... usually Sherwani pe sota hoon... aaj by mistake vest aur track pants pehna! Obviously... sone ke samay dheele dhaale kapde hi pehenne chahiye!"

Sakshi got silenced... "Par waise bhi you looked like my dadu... he used to wear vest and dhoti while sleeping... jab main 6 saal ki thi mujhe kuch samaj nahi aaya... toh maine dadu ka dhoti nikal di towel sochke... phir pitayi bhi khayi!" Sakshi chuckled...

Arjun smirked a little... when Sakshi handed him a file...

He looked at her inquisitively...

"Woh sir saare documents aur 450 rupees... hehe... woh ice cream ka bucket khali kiya na... waise ghar pe yeh ice cream tha... matlab wait... aapko bhi ice cream pasand hai... awesome baat na si... yeh awaaz kaisi?" Sakshi strained her ears...

"Chau roh rahi hai!" Arjun shrieked and ran upstairs... Sakshi followed him in heels...

Arjun switched on the lights in his room and found Chaahat crying her lungs out... she was sitting and holding the railing...

"Bababababababababbb..." she flared her little red nose on seeing Arjun...

"Mera baby.. my princy... my angel... my jaan..." Arjun immediately took his crying kid in his arms... she hugged him tightly...

He cradled his child and kissed her...

Sakshi sat on the bed... noticing the duo... her heart swelled up... she loved kids...

Especially this one!

Chaahat snuggled into Arjun... her tiny fist clutching his vest tightly...

Arjun mumbled sorry repeatedly till his baby stopped crying...

Chaahat looked at her baba... she planted a soft kissi on his chest... well... she wasn't tall enough to reach his cheeks!

"Aww..." Sakshi said to catch the attention of the Rawte and Jr. Rawte...

Sakshi squeezed a rubber duckie...

"Quack!" the duckie said and Chaahat looked at it... stunned...

She crawled out of her baba's lap...

"Quack!" the duck said again...

Sakshi made weird funny faces and Chahat looked at her confused...

Even her baba was just looking at her... confused...

And Sakshi hid her face in her palms and suddenly said "Tuki!"

Chaahat burst into peals of laughter...

Sakshi again hid her palms... and yelled Tuki!

Chaahat laughed like anything...

"Get the recorder!" Sakshi whispered to Arjun who took his iPhone and begun to video record his chubby daughter laughing her head off...

She laughed so much that she fell down on the bed again...

Sakshi played with the rubber duckie making her laugh all the more...

Arjun saved the video and dragged his little baby towards him...

"Acha... majhe lahanabala (my little baby) ... apalya baba samora hasata (apne baba ke saamne haso)... please please please... thode hasya (thoda haso)..." he nuzzled into his baby's stomach making her squeal in laughter...

"Bababab..." Chaahat squealed... with her tiny arms she cupped her baba's face... she giggle... "Agu... gugu..." as her baba tickled her stomach and showered her with kisses...

Suddenly Chaahat looked at her father.. she touched her stomach and pouted... "An..nn..naaa" she said softly...

"Aila... isse Suniel Shetty chahiye!" Sakhi said...

Chaahat looked and Sakshi and crawled towards her... "Naa... naaa.. aannn.. anna..." Chahat climbed up Sakshi lap as the necklace dangling took her interest...

"Nahi... Marathi main Anna matlab khaana! Suniel Shetty nahi!" Arjun chuckled...

"Babababababbb..." Chaahat chuckled as she played with Sakshi's necklace and called her father...

"Aww..." Sakshi said again...

Arjun took his baby in his arms and walked towards the kitchen... muttering various things in Marathi...

"Bhukelela vatata? (feeling hungry?) Majhe goda bala...(my sweet bacha)" Arjun tickled her soft stomach as Chaahat smiled and nodded...

"Ahem... Marathi to Hindi translation pleej!" Sakshi said...

"Nothing... just a papa daughter's talk.. hai na Chau!" Arjun smiled...

"Khasmany khaaniya... use dina mainu ika ajnabi si!" Sakshi pouted...

As Arjun placed Chaahat in Sakshi's arms while he prepared Cerelac he asked Sakshi... "Kya keh rahi thi?"

"Kyun... tum Marathi gaana chalao... main Punjabi na bol saku! Yehi kaha ki ek din main paraya kar diya... pata hai Chaahat!" Sakshi complained to Chaahat...

Arjun just smacked his head on Sakshi's crazy antics...

"Waise Sakshi... yeh Cerelac haan... bas itna sa pani ke saath... no cow's milk now okay... only formula milk... samjhi ya samjhaaun?" Arjun asked...

"Samajgayi... waise sir... yeh counter ke upar seating arrangement aur pillows kyun hai?" Sakshi asked as she found one counter to have a cushion base and pillows aside and a hanging table...

"Abhi samjhaata hoon..." Arjun said... he sat on the soft cushion and put on sling kind of thing... he kept the Cerelac bowl at the side and slipped Chaahat into the sling... so he fed her and played with her continuously...

"Kya dekh rahi ho?" Arjun asked after Chaahat ate her full...

"Woh... Chaahat ko ek maa ki zaroorat hai hi nahi.. nahi ek nanny ke..." Sakshi smiled...

And for the first time her akdu employer smiled back...

"Thanks... par kal se am joining office... toh tab you have to handle her... Anna means food... bababab means me... pogu means potty... nini means sleepy... su means susu... agu gu gogoi is when she laughs... ok?" Arjun said...

"Okay sir... waise raat ke ek baje hai... sir aap kab jaa rahe ho..." Sakshi asked...

"Subah 6 baje... utt jaana..." Arjun ordered and Sakshi nodded her head...

Chaahat bid a sleepy tata while Arjun washed her mouth with water and with a baby toothbrush brushed her little forming teeth...

"Sakshi after every meal muh dho lena aur haan... toothbrush at morning and night.. okay?" Arjun asked and Sakshi nodded...

Chaahat rested her bobbing head on the crook of her father's head and dozed off while Arjun tiptoed to his room...

Arjun placed his sleeping baby beside him... he never knew his baby would miss his touch once he left her sleeping...

"Sorry baby... aisa phir nahi hoga..." Arjun smiled and hugged her...

He was happy that he could look after his child... and didn't need a mother... it meant a lot for him... she never bothered about him... nor her child...

Did money mean so much?

Perhaps it did...

"Rohini... please... don't go... humara bacha!" Arjun cradled his infant...

"Arjun... I don't care... tum mere zaroorat poori nahi kar sakte... maine bas 1 lakh ki hi toh kharcha ki hai! It's better I leave..." Rohini stomped her foot...

"Roh... what kind of a mum are you... apne beti ko toh aazmaalo!" Arjun looked at her...

Arjun bit back his tears... he had loved his Rohini from the bottom of his heart... she had meant a lot for him... everything...

He recalled that night...

She had been cheating him... since a month and half... that guy spent crores over her... so she decided to walk out of the marriage... leaving behind him and his 2 months old daughter...

Arjun vowed to kill that woman... he was 26... with a baby in his arms... and a capable officer... this is what he would remain... because of lack of mother's milk Chaahat had faced difficulties but Ayesha and Sam had helped him with the best doctors...

He swore to not marry another woman...

Holding his child near his heart he drifted to sleep...

Precap: Few weeks later..

Arjun walked into his house to see music blasting...

He tiptoed into his room and saw Sakshi performing before Chaahat... wearing his shirt!

Engine ki seeti te maaro bum dole!

"Jamaila!" Sakshi screeched!

"Agugu.. gogoi!" Chaahat cheered... dancing on the bed...

Sameer entered his house late... at around 12.30 in the night...

He checked his phone... there were innumerable missed calls from Ayesha and Arjun...

Strange...

He saw wrappers thrown on the floor and a few flower bouquets here and there...

And on the sofa Ayesha was awake... staring at him...

"Happy Anniversary Sam..." Ayesha said in a broken voice...

Sameer cursed... he forgot their anniversary... again!

"Am so sorry Aye.." Sameer started to be stopped by Ayesha... "Zaroorat nahi hai..." her words were icy, crisp and sharp...