I am really sorry for keep you all waiting for so long...here is the update..😳
Chapter-6
The old 'Portrait'
Mayank woke up early in the morning as he wanted to finish his work soon and then manage some time to meet Nupur...he was surprised on his own desperation to meet a girl..that was the first time he really wanted to meet someone and that too without any 'so called cost-benefit analysis'...the feeling was quite new to him and he too
was trying to find and explore its depth...untill now he only indulge his mind into logical things but this illogical feeling is paving its way inside his mind slowly...'what is it?' was the most hot question,he was speculating now...and then trying to get evidences to back up his speculations...!
He got ready having all essentials in his bage ,went to gunjan and knocked...after 5-6 knocks she opened the door...she was looking pale and week...and almost dragged back to bed...Mayank followed her...
"Are you okay?"he asked
"Am I looking so!" she replied a bit irritated.
"No...now tell me are you okay?" he again asked and received a glare...
"Sharma!!!can't you see I am not fine..I have fever since mid night..."she said irritated.
"What!!! Why dint you tell me...why dint you wake me up?" he said checking her forehead.
That was the only thing,Gunjan liked about him...he becomes too panic knowing his friend is in pain...he was indeed caring,irritating but yes caring...!She smiled a bit to make him calm...
"I'll fine..had taken medicine..but I think I should take rest today..."she said.
Before he could say anything,Samrat entered in the room,waving his hand in a pleasent 'Good Morning...'
"Morning..." replied gunjan all excited...her faded face had suddenly became delighted and Mayank suddenly found her energetic than the moment just passed...he was amazed...taking it to his mischief he said,
"So GF!!! get ready...we have to go..."putting an extra stress on the word 'GF' he chuckled and looked at samrat to watch his changing expressions.Samrat's face fell...he supressed his winning smile...his target had been shot down...
Samrat looked at gunjan who was looking week,he asked in concern,"What happened,you fine?"
"Yeah...don't worry...just fever..and.."gunjan tried to avoid it but he instantly cut her
"WHAT!!! FEVER...!!!have you taken medicine???are you fine now...you do not need to go..take rest..okay..."he said taking a pillow behind her back so that she could lie on it.
Mayank was watching it with a wide grin...as it was a way awkward for him..showing so much care was not Mayank type,though he proved to be most caring person at times and his friends know it very well but at that time he was enjoying them...Gunjan glanced at him...and he teasingly passed a smile...
"Okay gunjan do as samrat is saying...see you later.."he said and headed to door.
"Thanks Mayank..."said gunjan.
Mayank smiled and then looking at samrat,he said "Samrat tell her not to say thanx to her friends..."
They both blushed...and that make him content,"bye! Keep blushing.."he intentionally replaced 'smiling' with 'blushing' and left after finding their blush deeper.
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Mayank was wondering the famous Mayaara lake and coastal temples...it was the same lake to which another lake was connected at its one end and where 'The golden fish' temple was situated.He took all snapes from all sides of temples..more than enough notes he prepared about their history.It took almost 3 continuous hours for him to do so...Finally he felt tired and hungry so sat down at the side stairs of a temple to fed something to his stomach..after eating he rested his head along the side wall and silently watching temple from there...sudeenly he started visualizing the morning scene where gunjan and samrat were blushing...his heart fluttered and an unknown desire to have acompained like gunjan arose in his heart...the only face which came across his mind was nupur.
He closed his eyes to think more about her...it was strange that he was letting his feelings to wave in the ocean of love so freely and not binding them with any kind of If-else though he was doing so to find out the "real him"..till now it was all about "Me,Myself and Mine.." but now he was thinking of 'Her" It was a big change which 'Mahvira" brought in him..."this place has really some magic!" his mind said..
"No the girl has some magic..."his heart corrected.And then the girl..Nupur with her simple yet royal attitude was standing in front of him...he was looking at her from head to toe...and his eyes got fixed on her eyes...he forgot to breath,forgot to utter a single word...forgot the whole world..he was looking..constantly looking in her eyes...there was something which has captured his mind..arrested his heart and left him to go squirm in existence...he was lost..so lost...
"Mayank!!!" suddenly she said.
He opened his eyes with a jerk,"Nupur!!! you...!! how did you come here?"he asked all confused.
She creeped her fingers on his cheeks and smiled..."You were missing me,no?"
He smiled...such a wide smile he never did..such a huge delight he never felt in his heart..."Yes!! Yes!!" he nodded quickly.
"shut up Mayank..you are acting like a child..."his heart scolded him for his silly act...and he controlled his lips which had curved sufficiently to show his all 32 teeth.
Nupur came near to him and holding his face she blinked her eyes twice like a doll,"I was missing you too so thought of meeting you...because I knew that you must be busy in your work...you don't have time for me..."she pouted.
Mayank embraced her and quickly admitted his mistake..."Sorry nupur...but I promise I'll meet you daily..somehow I will take time to meet you..."
"Man you are gone..!!!She complaint and you admitted your mistake...watch it dude...you never did it before that...tell me when did you last say sorry???tell me???" His mind was asking endless questions and pulling his leg. But he sidelined its questions and concentrated on the most beautiful girl in his arms...
"I love you nupur..." he said
She smiled suspeciouly...he again said "I love you nupur..."
She again smiled more suspeciously...that made him a bit irritated..."I said I love you nupur..."
But she was smiling as if testing his patence..he again said..."I love you nupur...are you listening...??"this time a bit louder.
"O son!!!where are you lost??"someone shook his shoulder strongly and he opened his eyes with a jerk...making a weird expressions seeing so much villagers watching him with a stupid,silly smile.
"Ohh so it was my dream..."he huffed in disappointment.
Villagers went to their work after he came back in his senses.He slammed his head.."Thank god Mayank they dint hear her name from your mouth...otherwise you will be the next breakfast of hungry tigers of palace..."
After taking a slumber he was feeling fresh so he decided to search the jungle nearby temples.
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He was moving ahead in between tress when he bumped with something and lost his balance,fell down...
"ohh God.."he got up removing dust from his cloths,his right hand was scrubbed vigrously and it was bleeding...he tied his handkerchief around it and was about to move when his sight fall on a slivery shining thing which was under the soil,he looked at it more closely..it looked like a sqaurish thing whose one edge or corner came out of surface due to his fall,soil got erased from there...he quickly started digging the soil from there...as he was doing that it was naking and he got to know that it must be some large squarish thing or more like a portrait...finally he digged it off...
Yes it was the portrait..an old , large and beautiful portrait...it silvery corners and fine painting was showing that it belonges to royalty..he turned its side...and scrubbed the soil...as the picture got cleared his eyes broadened with shock...and finally he was all shocked to see the portrait.
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So that's all for now...dint do formatting I always do for this FF coz I was in hurry and have to PM also ...sorry for that..hope you liked it...press 'Like' if so.
Edited by --Ruchi-- - 13 years ago
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