Small note before you go further...😊
let me tell you that this chapter does not have a single happy scene at all...i just wanted to show that a marriage does not always mean a bed of roses..it means a crown of thorns too..read if you can take Manveer fight don't worry next update me dono phir mil jaayenge😃
"Veer, TV off karo aur chalo'we are leaving" Manyata said.
"Kya? Par kyon? Abhi kuch din aur rukte hain na?" Udayveer said.
Manyata was unusually enraged today and her temper rose 100 degrees more when she saw his casual attitude about it.
"Veer, tumhe pata hai tumhari problem kya hai? Yeh tumhara careless nature'har cheez ko mazak me le lete ho, kabhi toh serious ho jao" she accused him.
"Manyata, mera yakeen karo..main serious hoon..abhi mera English course poora kahan hua hai? Kam se kam uske liye toh rukte hain" He said.
"Maharaj Udayveer singh'wah wah..kya baat kehdi! Jab dekho, 'main, mera aur mera' humara kuch bhi nahi? Shaadi ki shuruat se saari cheeze main karti aayi hoon..tumne kya kiya hai mere liye?" she was full of anger.
"aap log please ladayi band karo'mera sar dukh raha hai" their lone audience spoke up.
"Manyata, samajhne ki koshish karo'aisa nahi hai" he denied it.
"dekho, ab tumhari wajah se meri behen ka kya haal hua hai'na hi tum ise yahan leke aate, na iski yeh halat hoti'hume Mumbai wapas jaana hi hoga! Koi aur hota toh kabke samajh chuka hota, tum jaisa aadmi jo chawl me pala ho woh kya samajh paayega kisi ka dard!" She said with gritted teeth.
She had inadvertently hit where it would hurt the most. He opened his mouth to say something, closed it again and then said in a voice cold as ice "Manyata, tum meri wajah se sharminda(ashamed) ho? Theek hai aaj hi wapas chalte hain Mumbai" and he went to the adjascent room without a word.
The silence after the storm prevailed in the hall which was buzzing just a moment ago. Manyata sat on the floor holding her head in her hands. Her head was reeling and she wished she could call that chawl reference back. She wanted to tell Veer that she was not ashamed of him and she would always be proud of him. But she was a human afterall, ego; the biggest enemy of communication had consumed her completely. No she wouldn't say sorry, what she said wasn't completely untrue; let him come and apologise.
On the other hand Udayveer was completely stunned after hearing what Manyata said; was she really ashamed of him? Did she regret their marriage? Or is it the reaction of hearing about Akash's death? He was her first love afterall.. oh my oh my it could be right! No wait, it was she who clobbered Akash to death!
Did her mind change back after seeing Akash's painful death on TV? But then was it really Akash who died? The body was charred beyond recognition, the reporter said.. his thoughts were stinging him like giant bumble bees. He remembered there was a bar in some corner of the house..
5 minutes later Uday had finished half the bottle of imported whiskey and still wasn't finished. Whoever said Alcohol could drain a man's sorrow couldn't have been more right. He raised a glass to the time when he was 'Veer' and only that, without sub-titles.
Manyata continued to hold on to her ego and Veer only got himself more drunk. J simply didn't know what to do..her own pain aside; the two people whose love could withstand even the strongest of the storms had been shaken so violently. Was this how every love reached its nadir..
The quietest of the nights prevailed and everyone remained where they are; Veer drank himself to unconsciousness at the bar and Manyata sat unmoving against the pole in the hall. While J lay all alone in the room.. Maybe even nature was in a melancholoy mood; there was not even a sound of a song bird, which was common in this area.
Next morning Manyata gave a handwritten note to J. "J..yeh apne jijusa ko de dena.., aur haan maine yeh hindi me likha hai.." she said the last sentence a bit too harshly.
"Jiji..aisa nahi chalega..main aisa nahi hone doongi..aap dono ek dusre se pyar karte ho, bohot pyar..saara gussa bhool jao aur phirse ek ho jao..please" J pleaded.
"J..pyar toh main ab bhi karti hoon..par main chahti hoon ki Veer mere liye kuch kare; baaki patiyon ki tarah..shaadi ke pehle din se sab maine hi kiya hai" Manyata was adamant in her point.
"Jiji..shaadi me 'mera, tumhara' kuch nahi hota, sab 'hamara' hota hai..please try to understand" J desperately tried to make her see reason.
"J..tu pehle yeh note usko dede aur phir apna samaan pack kar'we are not staying here a moment longer" she said so firmly that there was no room left to argue.
One hour later J was driving and Udayveer sat beside her. Manyata sat alone in the backseat. After a journey that seemed unnecessarily dragging too much, atlast airport came into view.
As they alighted from the rental car and proceeded towards check in counter, someone called out J's name loudly.
"Armaan!" J couldn't believe it.
Ok i did awful lot of delay in updating this chapter..im really really sorry😳
i was suffering a writers block ab update kiya hai toh 'Like' and comment😃