Hey guys heres the next update Sorry for the delay :$ but I just couldnt write anything worth putting up here ! This parts again towards happy times !
I hope you guys like it and please comment 😃
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A few days had passed since the lunch date, while Riddhima was very happy with all the love being showered on her, feeling more secure and hopeful than ever, Armaan was on his toes to fulfill Riddhima's wish of doing something . He knew that anything that would keep that smile on her face and fill her heart with happiness would distract her from. Earlier Armaan would do everything for Riddhima ,not let her lift a finger ,but after his conversation with Nikki he realized it was important for him to make her feel needed .She was used to do all her work by herself ,and being dependent on him entirely wasn't working well for her, so he involved her in anything he did , he spent every living moment with her.
They would cook together, clean together ,eat together .Riddhima herself would insist him to take her out ,so they would go down to the garden and sit there ,talk to each other or just sit in silence . Armaan was further surprised to see Riddhima wanting to be close to him , she would want him to cuddle her, kiss her or be by her side always , and he understood her needs like always. He knew the answers for everything already ,so he didn't doubt why she behaved so , not like he wasn't dying to be with her every moment himself ,so it was his pleasure .
Riddhima was making lots of efforts from her side too , she realized that her being in this state or being unable to walk was no excuse for this relation to be one sided , if he did so much too keep her happy , to make her life so beautiful then she would go out of her way to do the same for him, she knew she couldn't do much but she would try pamper him , make him speak out his emotions , respect his opinions and wishes.
Usually Armaan and Riddhima slept differently it was an unspoken agreement ,even though she would require his help during the nights , Armaan himself slept on the extra bed in the room , but last night he was really exhausted. Riddhima had her physiotherapy treatment, and after her every such session she would feel pain and exhaustion .On these days Armaan would sit all night taking care of her, massaging her and caressing her off to sleep.Exhausted he had just slid next to her and dosed off to sleep .
Riddhima woke up to a beautiful sight in front of her , Armaan sleeping cutely with his mouth slightly open and his hair all over his forehead. She looked at him sleepily and couldn't help giggling at how such a baby HER Armaan was. Settling herself on her elbow she just kept staring at him ,then raised her hand to shut his mouth, not wanting to disturb him. She slightly shut his mouth with her hand, but to her amusement , it was back to the same the next moment. She tried really hard to suppress her laughter and shaked her head at her innocent baby ,her eveil mind planning to tease him about it. She caressed his head and slowly pulled back the hair of his forehead, and bent down to kiss it. She kept staring at him , even she didn't know for how long , for so long that her eyes were brimming with tear, but for the first time in many days for the happiness and pride that swelled her heart with the fact that this beautiful man was a part of her life and would be hers till eternity.
He would be exhausted she thought , he got very little rest ,with all the running around he did , taking care of the house ,food ,her appointments with the doctors,her chores and so on .She let him sleep and just cuddled closer to him ,hugging him to her ,running her hands in his head.
A while later she felt him moving in her hold , she saw him rubbing his nose and his ears , because her hair falling on him were tickling her , she purposely didn't move her hair from his face because this sight was one in a million , but she could no longer suppress her giggles and burst out giggling. What she didn't know was , that what she thought could disturb him in his sleep was actually music to his ears , he could give up on anything just to hear her laugh and see her smile. He slowly opened his eyes, smiling hearing her giggle.
The sight that welcomed him was the most beautiful ever ,she was smiling , her eyes bright ,sparkling with happiness . " Haslo Haslo , mai toh joker hun na ,mujhe dekh kar itna jo has rahi ho ," he looked at her teasingly , when infact he could become a joker everyday if it made her smile like this each morning ,Riddhima decided to tease him back and replied smugly, "Khud ko itni importance mat do Armaan , tumhe dekh kar kyun hasungi subah subah , who bhi jab Dr Mallik apna muh khula rakh ke sote hai and not to forget snore bhi karte hai ," she replied over exaggerating a bit. Armaan looked at her with his mouth open , he didn't how much of it was right , but if it was true he would die out of embarrassment and looking at Riddhima he knew she wasn't going to let go off this anyway, so he replied back angrily, " What rubbish Basket, na mai muh khula rakh ke sota hun aur na mai snore karta hun ,subah subah itna jhoot bolti ho Basket ," she replied back angrily , now irked " Jhoot ? aur mai ? , tum muh khula rakh ke sote ho , and wait till I video record all of it for your entertainment tomorrow Armaan , " "Do what you want Basket aur haan mai snore nahi karta , aur na hee apna muh khula rakh ke sota hun ,
" Karte ho Armaan ,"
"Nahi Riddhima, "
"Haan Armaan ,"
Nahi Riddhima, "
"Haan Armaan,"
"Haan Riddhima .. Uhm I mean Nahi Riddhima ," he fumbled and looked at her embarrassed and she looked at him and burst out into peals of laughter , Armaan couldn't hold himself aswell so he giggled "Bahut hassi aa rahi hai na ? you just wait and watch," and holding her with one arm he started tickling her ,she started to laugh uncontrollably , they laughed and tickled and teased each other, rolling on the bed .They layed with her head on his chest tired and exhausted of all the tickling and laughing ,happy content and in bliss.
"Armaan ," Riddhima broke the silence ," Hmm ," Armaan replied while caressing her hair, "Mujhe book lagi hai , " Armaan chuckled at his cute Basket " Mujhe bhi' chalo , let me go get us something ." He got up from the bed and started to walk towards the door, he was stopped by a tug at his hand , he looked back at Riddhima sitting with her hands raised wanting to be picked up pouting at him . Armaan was surprised , as much as he knew Riddhima ,ever since this incident she would be greatly embarrassed to be picked up or looked after too much ,he would always explain to her, that she need not feel that because after all it was just him and like he had said a zillion times before they were one. He was happy to know that even though a bit late she had now found her comfort level .He shaked his head at her and picked her up in his arms , while she wrapped them around him, keeping her head on his shoulder.
Both of them were having their daily dose of fun in the kitchen.They were making Armaans favourite Aloo parathas , while she rolled the rotis he heated them ,because he wouldn't make decent shapes of them if he set out to do that job anyways .Riddhima was sitting on the platform and Armaan standing next to her, he kept troubling her , putting atta on her nose ,while she wasn't far behind either, she put it back on his hair. And while it was heating they would coochie koo with each other , which was usual with Armaan and his basket.
Armaan decided to break the surprise to her today , he had been planning to tell her from sometime now. "Basket lets get ready as soon as we are done with breakfast ok ? " Riddhima looked at him surprised, he hadn't told of her any place they would go today and she didn't remember any appointment ," Kaha jaana hai Armaan ,?"
"Jaana hai kahi ,zyaada door nahi hai , you just get ready ," she looked at him intrigued , this wasn't unlike him , she was used to getting suprises from him ,thinking it was one of those she nodded , curious to know what it was this time. They ate their breakfast feeding each other.
When Armaan took her to the room for her to get ready she saw a set of new pair of clothes lying for her.She was surprised to see that it was a long skirt and t shirt , rather than her salwaar suits. She looked at Armaan raising her eyebrows ,as if he had understood what she wanted to ask he replied ," I just thought , kuch naya pehenogi toh acha lagega, I found this the other day and I thought it would look perfect on you, isliye le aaya, I hope you like it ," looking at his earnest and genuine reply and hopeful eyes ,she nodded and agreed to wear it. She looked at it , it was so pretty, it was so like him to pamper and make his girl feel special.
She wondered why he was behaving so weird , he was so excited and so out of control,he was in a rush for her to take her wherever they were going, but he was happy and because he was, so was she.
She was surprised to see that he was taking her towards the play centre below the colony they stayed in ,what surprise could be waiting there she wondered. On entering the centre she saw it had been converted into something like a play school ,with everything that a child would require through the day.
She looked at him curiously ,he smiled and bend down on his knees near her ,he held her hands tighly in his ,"Armaan ye sab kya hai ? why have you got me here and wasn't this place a play area and gym ? "
"Haan Basket it was, but you know the other day there was an annual meeting in the office of the colony? Toh waha pe all the working parents in our colony were complaining how they aren't able to leave their kids back at home alone and cant take them along too , they couldn't look for good child care centres around too .So everyone mutually decided that we'll have one of our own and so we converted it into a child care centre .Then everyone was wondering who we would hire to take care of them all ,so I suggested that me and you could do it, hum dono toh ghar par hee hote hai , so I thought why not use it in a better way , just like you said you wanted to."
Then with a soft tone and reamy smile he said "Aur waise bhi uss din restaurant mai the time we spent with the child I realized that's what were going to do, jo khushi uss samay maine tumhari aakhon mai dekhi ,I wanted it to be there forever So what better then being with all these angels haina ? . "
Riddhima looked at Armaan surprised, she didn't know what to say .She had just commented that she wanted to do something worthwhile ,she hadn't even expected him to go ahead and do anything about it, because whatever she said she knew it wasn't really possible to do much with all the constraints she had . Her eyes brimmed with tears at his love, he never ceased in surprising her .Armaan looked at her and shaked his head, wiped her tears ,she held his palms tightly and moved her face to kiss them ,still sniffing .
"Oho Basket isme rone wali kya baat hai ,( he caressed her cheeks ) tum bhi na basket ,sad hoti ho toh roti ho, khush hoti ho to bhi roti ho , bahut senti type ho ," Armaan said mouthing the same words he had when he had proposed her 7 months back.
Those words bought back some bitter sweet memories, but they both chose to remember their happy times , and giggled together . She held his face in her hands and shook it a little lovingly . " Tum mujhse itna pyar kyun karte ho ? " she asked innocently as if she didn't know the answer to that ,which she truly didn't know .She always wondered why Armaan loved her so much ,even when she had never reciprocated ,he had always stuck by her.
His answer was just what would be expected of him, he punched his chest with his fist and said , " AHH that's a tough one Basket , a lifetimes too short for me to answer that , aur abhi humare paas itna time nahi hai ,bache thodi der mai aate hi honge." Riddhima looked at him lovingly nodded and kissed him on his cheek.
Their moment was broken when they saw a few parents walk in the room with their little ones. Initially Riddhima felt awkward because she thought the parents might question her as to how she would manage to take care of them, but one look at Armaan and his reassuring blink, cleared any doubts if she had any, why did she have to fear anything when she had him.
He had hired a few helpers too and anyways there weren't too many kids just around seven or eight of them. Four of them were toddlers , about the age of 2/3 and the rest were all five years old . Riddhima seemed satisfied when she saw their parents handling their child to Armaan and looking at both of them with immense trust that they would manage their kids to their best of ability. Maybe the love they both shared for each other reverberated positivity and ensured them of the same. Armaan was already chirping away happily to the angel in his arms, "Hello Princess , mai Armaam hun , don't call me uncle ok ? sounds too old ,uhm you can call me Supercool if you want and for that my dear you'll get the most precious gift ever, a kiss from me."
The parents had left thankfully or they would wonder if the kid was in safe hands looking at the kind of flirting Armaan was upto ,thought Riddhima .The child seemed no less she gurgled and bend towards him as if to give him a kiss and when he bent towards her she gave him a wet sloppy kiss. Riddhima laughed at him ,because she thought he wouldn't like it ,but ot her surprise he kissed her cheek sloppily too and seeing her happy and jumping in his arms smiled back at her wide.
Armaan came towards Riddhima and sat down his knees with the baby , and said "Princess ye Riddhima hai , but you can call her aunty , ok ? " Riddhima glared and hit him hard on his shoulder and that made the little baby laugh louder ,Riddhima took the baby from his arms and kissed her forehead "Baby ye Armaan hai na usse tum Supercool nahi Superfool zaroor bulana ok ? " Armaan smiled and then said " Basket in bachon ke parents hum par bahut bharose se inko chod ke gaye hai ,don't teach them abusive and dirty words," when she wacked him again he said " Unhe marna bhi sikha rahi hoo chi chi ," shaking his head dramatically. The baby looked on at them wondering if she was the younger one or they were and chuckled out loud, making both of them stop their banter and laugh with her.
"Armaan hum sab kaise manage karenge, inka khana peena , we don't even know what they would like or prefer ."
" Don't worry Basket sab manage ho jayega, their parents have written us their daily schedule and the list of what they eat and prefer, how they can be managed when they cry and so on, (he got her a file and gave it to her) iss file mai sab bachon ke details hai ." Armaan said with the baby in his arms,while she had slept off . Riddhima looked at Armaan surprised again, as to how seriously he had taken all of it and done so much.
"Armaan tumne itna sab karliye aur mujhe bataya bhi nahi ," she asked complaining .Armaan smiled and hit her forehead with his hand " Surprise tha na Basket, bata deta toh surprise nahi rehta ." Riddhima smiled at his adorable reasoning and said "Haan par If I had known toh I would have been prepared,".. "Isme prepare hone ki kya zaroorat hai, this just needs some of your motherly instincts basket, and lots of love and that's something you have in abundance don't you ? " Riddhima just kept listening to him spellbound, she always felt short of words to describe her own feelings when he showered so much love and concern.
Just as he was about to comment seeing her lost he felt something warm trickling down his shirt and when both of them realized what it was ,they both started laughing. Riddhima couldn't help tease him, " Look Armaan, she loves you so much ,she showered her love on you ." Armaan who hadn't really been embarrassed or felt dirty about it till now just scowled "Did I have to laugh at that Basket ?" he spoke frustrated and she just giggled at his state. "Lao do use I'll change her nappy, just get the stuff here," Armaan showed her his tongue and left, while she just shook her head at him. He changed and bought the girls stuff " Basket while you are at it teach me aswell, ab toh ye roz ka kaam hone wala hai, and I wonder whats it going to be like jab baaki sab bacha bhi aa jayenge ."
So while Riddhima cleaned the baby with the wipes and powdered her Armaan kept caressing the baby and cuddled her closer because she kept whimpering and crying having woken up from her sleep. Both Armaan and Riddhima cleaned and wrapped the baby warmly. Then Riddhima took the baby in her arms and putting her against her shoulder put her to sleep. When she was fast asleep Armaan took her and put her in one of the man cots there and patted her head because she was disturbed with all the movement.
Slowly all the kids started coming in with their parents, and while Armaan was taking all their requirements from their parents , he kept glancing at a very happy Riddhima who was beaming at all those kids, looking very excited about where this would take them. He could see the ray of hope in her eyes towards their future .
He was very happy with the decision he had taken, he had never wanted her to do anything just for the sake of it. He wanted her to be happy and he could see she had never been this delighted about anything before in all these months. They would find solace with these kids , they had found their home . They would spend time with these kids and live another dream, another life ,they would become kids themselves, who had no worries , no fears, they would live a life with them ,like theirs ,innocent, pure and heaven.
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So here it is guys ! Please let me know if you liked it ! The story may seem slow as of now but its going to get faster and have more happening in it too.
In the next part am going to continue their experience with all the kids and a lot more .
Edited by Ankita.M - 14 years ago
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