@all...I again ended up stretching the part... I dunno why I feel like writing past long and elongated in this FF...I'll not forget the present though...plz try to keep reading 😊
Part 15:
Mayank was talking to Varun while having break-fast. He informed Varun that he won't be able to join Nupur and Varun at luch since he had to do some important work and then a meeting was scheduled and later he'll come home only to leave for some'Success Party' of a project.
He said "Sorry" when Varun smiled and said, "No problem Dad" in typically his style which was followed by, "Mom has already told me that we are also coming to the party!!!" He moved his face grinning in glee when Mayank asked promptly "We?"
Varun replied as if giving Mayank a surprise, "Yes We – You, Me and Mom. She told me that she'll buy me something new to wear today for the party. Ye!"
Mayank looked confusedly at Varun and then as Nupur came out of the bedroom, he asked as if he was learning to talk to Nupur in a new way – Polite coz Varun was there, angry still, wanting as well as not wanting to ask her, failing to sound as rude as his glares helped him to come across as,he spoke, "You both are coming to the party in the evening?"
Nupur could almost cry, because he had spoken a complete sentence to her after a LONG time! Though it was just a question! That day while she had hurt her hand, it was different, he almost talked in syllables to her then. Only she knew how she had gathered all the courage to self invite herself everywhere he went these days when he seemed least interested in her presence or absence. But she could only help her with what she was doing, she knew.
She still stayed calm, trying to take a cue from Mayank's behavior and said, "Yes! CJ has invited US too"
It was a plain statement by her but Mayank realized in that very moment that how distance had made them look at each other in such a zoomed out way that they had almost forgotten to calculate how routines of each other can be connected too and she had to get an invitation from CJ? Even when he was the one who was in the Board of Directors of the company! Though he had left out inviting her, contrary to how it seemed, he felt left out over here.
Apart from that fact, her still confident and plain reply to him did no good either. She was now, not at all coming across as he had estimated her to. Or probably as she always did. He felt guilty now!
Why did he feel so drawn deeply towards her as if falling in love with someone you are trying to stop to? And he was technically never out of that phase! Nothing had happened as such?
Neither had they sorted out differences, nor were things pleasant enough but his idea of 'riddance is a bitter solution for him' was somehow backfiring. He had no idea at all why he felt so but his heart was once again asking for that very person that he had madly fallen for once and for all.
He smirked at himself in disdain – 'As if! Ofcourse he can fall in love with her everytime – wanting or unwanting was not an option – if only she knew it ALL!'
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Nupur was sitting on a couch watching her fvourite movie and munching on some spiced up and peppered chips with her legs stretched out along the couch. Her grown belly spoke of her months of pregnancy. She was all in a fuming mood for no reason at all.
Mayank came in the room and saw his "favouite movie", I.e, Nupur in extreme moods. He loved to tackle an angry Nupur. Everytime she was a new challenge and every single time he won her over with the simplest of words and affection.
He went over her and took off the bowl of chips from her hands and said, "THIS…is not good for you!"
There he saw her anger rise, quite expected by him.
She glared and he smiled and she sighed and said, "Mayank…I already feel restless and irritated and too hungry even when I have grown so much in size and my tummy doesn't just have my baby now and I still have appetite after a full meal just for THAT" pointing at chips, she continued, "ONLY! Now would you stop acting like a good doctor for once and give that to me right now else you'll make me run and even that is prohibited according to you, right?"
Mayank laughed softly and gave her the chips back and said, "Okay, but just this once, get that straight and you very well know that I can easily stop you from running too" and he winked just as his strict tone trailed off.
Nupur made a face which said, 'Ya right!' and continued her muching when she found out that she's even irritated by chops now. She kept it aside and said in a sweet complaining tone, "Mayank, this help anymore. What do I do?"
Mayank laughed and said, "Umm…good question! Well, you can do anything at all which doesn't harm you or the baby"
Nupur replied irritated even more, "Mayank..can you stop that!"
Mayank asked confused, "Stop what?"
Nupur replied as a matter of factly, "Using 'Be careful' inevery single statement of yours!" She stated calmly but sat now crossing her arms in madness.
Mayank smiled and went over to sit down at the foot of the couch beside Nupur and said, "So what? You want me to entertain you now so that your mood changes?"
Now, this was a new Mayank that Nupur was seeing now, she asked amused, "Entertain?…..me?..you?...how?"
He motioned her hand in his to follow him and lead her slowly towards th mirror. Back hugging her from behind he held her bulgy stomack and she held it over his and looked at him confused.
He said, "Won't you smile Nupur bu jut looking at our child? Look at him/her…must be in their initial stage…I feel so good that its your company that our baby constantly is in. Wouldn't to teach your beautiful smile to our baby and pass mine too…please?" He smiled and Nupur too automatically smiled while a tear escaped her eye; she almost forgot everything else and smiled her trademark smile to the child but this was mixed because it also said 'I-love-my-life-coz-I-have-you-in-it'. She knew how he knew how to handle her and when.
When he got her smile, he made her look at him and after their unaccountable exchange of lances, he took her hand and tenderly and smoothly broke into a close dance with her and sang to her,
"I can be your Hero Baby…."
He moved her so slowly and cautiously and still swiftly enough that it amazed her. It ca obviously be Mayank only…
He continued…
"I can kiss away the pain…" and he kissed her softly only to make her feel so loved.
"I will stand by you forever
You can take my breath away
You can take my breath away
I can be your Hero….!!!!!"
Nupur felt as if she was once again falling in love with the love of her life. How did he manage that everytime with her? She completely agreed with what she had read somehwhere…"Marriage is all about falling in love with the same person again and again!"
She sighed and gave up scope for any more reasoning to it while she comfortably was lost in his loving arms.
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