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Lighting lite the evening sky as the lights petered out in unison with the thunder clasp. The servants were on leave. Suddenly, Anandi felt eerily alone in the big unfamiliar house. She consoled herself with the thought Shiv would be home soon. Maybe she could talk to him and see where he was at.
She searched with her hand for her phone in the dark beside the bed as lightening momentarily lite up the room once more. Beyond the thunder she thought she hard a sreech... maybe an open window somewhere. She shivered as a gust of wind blew through the netted window carrying with it the sweet smell of rain. What sounded like a door suddenly slammed shut somewhere in the house and then were footstep...rather what sounded like boot steps!
Shiv had left in normal loafers, so it could not be him. Urgently, Anandi pressed 1 on her phone trying to connect with Shiv. Her heartbeat increasing as the steps got closer and closer to the bedroom. Jumping from the bed she raced to the closet, grabbed the cricket bat Mahi had gifted Shiv recently and raced behind the bedroom door!
Anandi swung the bat onto the head of the large bootclad as he entered the room.
"Anandi!" Shiv screamed in pain - clutching his head and hopping on one booted foot as she had stomped on his foot with her mojri after hitting him on the head!š
"Shiv aap?" Anandi grabbed his arm and directed him to the bed as he continued to clutch his head with one hand and foot with the other. Oh. What had she done.
"Toh aur khon hoga, Anandi?" Shiv complained bitterly rubbing the swelling lump on his head. It just wasn't his day. First, his clothes had gotten ruined when he fell in some keechad at the nehar site including his shoes, then his cell had died, and now this! He had even had to borrow ill-fitting stinky boots from one of the engineers.
"Sorry" She said in dulcet tones near his ear...nuzzling as she ran her fingers through his hair where she had hit him. He winced as her fingers found the swelling, but she distracted him with a nip to the ear.
"Maaf kardijiye, please..aapki jhootey nahi pechaana mein!" She cajoled
"Anandi" He whispered back in a daze from the hit or maybe his wife's scent. He loved it when she coddled him just so. Her parvaah made it impossible to ever be mad at her at least not for very long.
'"Hmm!" She mumbled back, kissing the swelled spot, and easing his jacket off his shoulders till he halted her with a tug on her braid.
"Woh mein keechad mein ghir gayya tha...Mein bahoot zyaada ghila hu! Nahana hoga..." He trailed off as she laid a kiss on his forehead and eyes.
"Kechaad?! Teek hai...aap bath lijiye...Aab uthiye aur mujhe aapki kapda utharne dijiye" Anandi tried to pull him off the bed and back onto his feet only to realize he could not very well undress with the boots still on! Laughing, she pushed him back down on the bed and pulled his boots off one at a time nearly falling in the process.
"Tum theek ho?" Shiv reached out to steady Anandi with a hand to her waist as she regained her balance.
"Haan - aap jacket aur shirt uthariye...mein bath lagah thi hu" She ordered as she set the boots beside the bedroom door and slipped into the bathroom.
Shiv was still struggling with his jacket when Anandi returned. The caked mud from the keechad and wetness from the rain had his jacket and the rest of his clothes clinging to him like a second skin.
"Kya Shiv, aap abhi bhi inn kapdo mein?? Thand lag jayenge!" She scolded as she helped pull his jacket off and one by one undid his shirt buttons. Shivering from the cold,š Shiv unhooked his belt and pants as Anandi finished of the last of his shirt buttons. In sync, he stepped out of the wet pants now pooled at his feet as she walked behind him and eased his shirt off from the back. Hopping from foot to foot he removed his socks on route to the bathroom.
"BUBBLE BATHI!!!!!" Shiv screamed from the bathroom as Anandi dropped all his soiled muddy clothes into the laundry basket. Both hands on hips, Shiv stomped back into the bedroom to glareat his bridek, all indignant male.
"Kya Hua?" Anandi asked innocently, wondering what had ruffled her easygoing husband back into the Khadhoos Collector she had first met. His chest puffing out as he sucked in an angry breath, Shiv tersely stated:
"bubble baths are not for boys certainly not grown men!"
Thoroughly distracted by his shortclad body, Anandi did not fully understand his complaint.
"Woh Sanchi hum dono ke liye diya tha - aap bubble bath leh sakte hain" Her explanation confounded Shiv for a moment. His wife was surprisingly innocent. She obviously had no clue what Sanchi's "dono ke liye" meant.
"Sanchi ka matlab kuch aur tha, Anandi!" Blushing beet-red, Shiv wondered how to explain what his sister had intended.
"Accha - aab samjhi mein!" Anandi stated beaming at her "epiphany" and then blushing, she dragged her dumbfounded husband by the arm, back into the bathtub.
Still at a loss as to what exactly his naive wife understood, Shiv hesitantly followed her ishara and settled into the warm bubbly bath. Anandi closed his eyes with her fingers and pushed him gently back against the back of the tub till his head was resting on the wall. His eyes closed, Shiv imagined her joining him there, soaping him. His breath swooshed out when her soap filled hands did just that!
Tomato red, Anandi slipped her hands under the bubbles with the soapbar. Rubbing the soap on with one hand then wiping it clean with the wash cloth in her other hand. She bathed him thus from his broad shoulders to the creases btw his toes, while Shiv tried to keep breathing. Her administrations between his ticklish toes had him pulling them back, splashing and wetting her almost as much as him. Still she persisted to his back. She even champied and shampooed his hair taking special care not to hurt the bump on his head.
"Mein teekh samjha na! Yeh boli thi na, Sanchi?!" Anandi stated as she gently poured water on his head to rinse off the remaining shampoo. Shiv could not help but, laugh almost choking on the water. š¤£š¤£š¤£
Offended, Anandi stood up from the side of the tub where she had been sitting and hands on hip demanded he explain what was so funny. Wiping the water from his eyes, he tugged her close till her face and body were closer and then pulled her completely into the bath with him.
"Sanchi, ka matlab yeh tha! Kuch samjha?" He asked bumping their noses together as Anandi blushed and hid her face in his shoulder.
"Oh!" She whispered wholly embarrassed at her own naivety and breathless at their sudden proximity.
"Toh aab kya iraada hai Mrs. Shekhar? Mein aapko nehla do?" Shiv asked with a salacious wink enjoying the feel of her on his lap immensely. Her spunk returning at his teasing smile, Anandi splashed the bubbly water into his face, climbed out, and raced for the bathroom door.
"Haan - aap bhi apne haatho se keechad saaf kardiyega agar mein kabhi keechad mein ghir jaoo aapki tarah!" Winking, she closed the door and rested against the otherside of it, breathless, her heart racing with happiness.
The End!š
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