Epi-3
London...
"How many times I have to remind you of your status?"the extreme irritation was not lost in Avyukt's voice.The party during the whole evening was already taking it's toll on the youth.
Why every single people keep poking their noses in his life?That's so damn annoying.
"I'm really sorry sir...I was just requesting you to have your dinner before going to bed."Mrs. Fernandez tried to convince him.The hurt in his voice was clearly audible.
"So you requested me and here finishes your due job.Whether I accept it or not that's entirely my problem.You are not my mom so please stop annoying the hell out of me."Avyukt was almost yelling at the middle-aged lady in frustration.
"Is this the exact manner to talk to your elders...Avi?"Samar's voice was vibrating in anger behind Avi.
Though a little taken aback Avyukt tried his best to hide the shock and embarrassment in his expressive chocolate eyes.Shock of finding his father awake at this hour of night and embarrassment at the little humiliation in front of a mere maid-servant.
"I know very well how to behave with elders...what I don't know is how a maid falls in the catagory of my elders."Avyukt snapped back instantly emphasiing on the word elder in a mocking tone.
"Enough Avi!Say sorry to her."Samar snarled in fury.
After fidgeting for a second under his father's death glare he finally mumbled "sorry" without looking at Mrs. Fernandez.
Samar wondered how many times he made Avi apologize to her.But everytime he said the word with so much reluctance that screamed out the truth that he was not sorry at all.
"It's all right sir..."she retreated quickly after uttering it knowing the need to give the father-son duo some private moment.
"I guess you forgot that we were planning to have our dinner together...didn't you?"Samar asked him snidely.
"You are fussing over this tiny issue,dad!I guess you forgot that our get-together-in-dinner plan failed many times before.The only difference was that you refused to waste your precious time on me."Avyukt shot back in anger and a hidden hurt."You are being furious because you are at the recieving end this time.Do you have any idea how I felt being at that place every time?"
Samar cringed at the righteous accusation for a brief moment.Somehow deep inside his heart he knew every word pronounced by his son was so true and defensing himself against it will be another injustice to him.
"I have something important to tell you,Avi"he carefully diverted the direction of their conversation."I recieved an invitation card regarding marriage ceremony from an old friend of mine,Nihal Gill...from India."
"Well,why is he planning to get married at this age?"Avyukt quered raising an eyebrow.
"You never has the patience to listen the whole story,kid.Why would he plan to marry again when he's happily married and has two beautiful daughters?It's his elder daughter."Samar clarified in amusement.
"Oh...kay.So give my best wishes to her.I think you must be attending it."Avi replied casually.
"Actually I was thinking why don't you give it to her yourself?I wanted to tell you that you are coming with me this time."Samar concluded in hesitation,wondering what kind of strange reactions will his son give him.
"What?!!!"Avi almost jumped in bewilderment.
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India...
"Simmi,Muski...where were you two have been?I was searching for you since morning."Aparajita inquired her daughters.
"We were just roaming around...you need something,ma?"Simran queried.
"Your bauji has invited his best friend...you remember Samar uncle,Simmi?"Aparajita nodded her head questioningly towards her elder daughter.
"Of course I do,ma.He was such a nice person.How can I forget him?He used to bring chocolates for me."Simran replied in one breath.
"Well...if everything goes well he's most probably coming tomorrow."her mother informed her with a hint of smile in her eyes.
"I know that already..."the wordes slipped off of muskaan's mouth in the form of an incogerent irritated whisper.
"What did you say just say,Muski?"Aparajita's brow got knitted together in suspicion.
"N...nothing ma.So When is he coming tomorrow?"Muskaan blurt out the question in a hurry after biting her tongue and mentally kicking herself for almost disclosing the truth of her stalker sister.
"By afternoon,i think.maybe even earlier.You two make sure they get a warm welcome,right?And Muski...no more silly pranks or sarcastic comments.Got it?"Aparajita warned her younger daughter in a soft but firm tone casting a meaningful glance towards her.
"Okay,ma.They won't be in any kind of trouble because of us."she replied in frustration.
Her sister was questionning her beauty by comparing her to a damn young boy this morning and now her mother is doubting her well-known decent behaviour by asking her to behave herself!Just great!
Then one word caught her attention.
"They?I thought only Samar uncle is coming."Muskaan asked suddenly.
"Oh!I forgot to tell you...his son is coming too."her mother informed her smiling."It's been so long I have seen the last time.I can never get over his heart melting smile.Such a beautiful baby he was!"she added when her mind wondered through the sweet memories.
Muskaan grimaced at the appreciations her mother was showering on the little imp.
Now only her bauji is missing.Once he utters something good about him too and she can found a fan club in India for that nasty little imp.
She thought dryly smirking at her own thought.
"He must be missing India and very excited to visit his native country,I bet."Aparajita sighed.
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London...
"Forget it that.I'm not coming...Do whatever You want to do...stab me with kitchen knife or strangle me using your office tie...I'm not going India,no way!"Avyukt was hyperventilating in exasperation.
"Believe me son...I don't have to do anything.You just refuse it and promise in the name of your beloved mother that you'll change your lifestyle...no late-night party,no club,no drunken girlfriend...you know."Samar suggesthed with a smirk on his face.
"That's not fair dad.You are blackmailing me...your own son...how could you do that to me,dad?"Avyukt was trying to reason with his adamant father with no use for a long hour.
"I'm being fair,Avi.How can you live your wish without compromising anything in return?"he shot back.
"But India is a tropical country.That means it must be very hot and clammy there.And my friends used to say in school that people from foreign country may die there either of food poisonning or of malaria.I'm only 21,dad.I don't want to die this early...please dad?"he was almost pleading in desperation.
Samar was trying his best not laugh at his son's baseless worries.
"Because your friends are dumb.Who told you these crape things?"he tried to sound convincing."India is a mesmerizing sight herself.Once you see it...feel it...i bet you'll love it."
"But what's the need to stay there for one month?Does Indian marreige rituals take this long time?"Avi was trying to decrease the duration of his stay in that stranger country knowing very well that his father was going to win the debate and they were heading towards India.
"I'm visiting my native country after a while.Though I hate to admit it but it's true that I'm getting old.Who knows I'll get another chance to spend some time with them at all or not?Can't you do this little for me,Avi?"Samar asked softly looking at the face of his son which was now surrounded with confusion and indecision.
His dad is doing it again!Every time he has to be emotionally blackmailed by his tricky father!
"Fine,we are going.Happy now?"Avyukt finally gave in.
"I don't think you'll be that much bored.I'm going to ask Vicky to give us company.How about that?"Samar disclosed smiling at his son.
"I was in doubt at first...now I'm damn sure I'm gonna be bored with your 24*7 goody goody good boy."he muttered under his breath drawing a chuckle from his father.
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India...
The taxi was running with as much speed as possible on the uneven raw road blowing off a mist of dust beside and behind it.
Vicky was simply capturing the beauty of the nature in his amused eyes.He didn't visit India for almost 12 years.
"This mustard field is amazing,don't you think Avi?These kind of captivating scenario just gives my mind a refreshing soothing effect."he asked his best friend who was continueously sneezing since almost half an hour since they had entered the raw path.
"If it's gi...*sneez*...ving you soothing eff...*sneez*...ect!! then why am I hav...*sneez*...ing irritating effect on m...*sneeze*...my nose?"Avyukt somehow managed to blurt out in between his sneezing session.
"You can't blame the dust.it's your fault that you are having such terrible kind of dust allergy."Vicky chortled at his friend's strange kind of talking due to sneezing.
Avi tried to say something but a big bad sneeze stopped his retort.And then the taxi paused in a suddedn halt.
"What's wrong?Why did you stop in the middle of the road?"Vicky asked the driver in native Hariyanvi language.
"I think I have to take a look on the engine,sir.I'll try to fix it up as soon as possible"the driver replied in the same language that was not very convenient to Avyukt.
He has often heard conversing his father and Vicky in this confusingly strange language but never felt the need to use it.
Vicky informed about the whole situation to his bewildered friend that only increased his bewilderment several scales up.
"What the *sneez* hell?We have to wa...*sneez*...lk through this D...*sneez*...dirty road *sneeze*!"Avyukt shouted in frustration.The heat of the unforgiving midday sun was only helping him to more worn out.
"Avi...come down.He's trying to fix it.Give him some time at least."Vicky tried to cool his temperament.
"Okay...I'm wai...*sneeze*...ting in the for...*sneeze*...est of those lo...*sneeze*...ng plants.I can't brea...*sneeze*...the in this dus...*sneeze*...ty air anymore."he said pointing towards a maze field.
"That's not a forest,Avi.That's maze field.People cultivated it."Vicky corrected him smiling towards his friend's naive interpretation.
"What...*sneeze*...ever!"he rolled his eyes looking at Vicky and then headed towards the field.
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Avyukt was inspecting those maze plants with scruitinizing eyes.Being an all-time city dweller he never got the chance to know villages not even in England.His sneezings were coming less frequently making him sigh in relief.
It was then a sweet sound like a chiming bell hit his ears.It was coming closer to him every fleeting second and it was coming from his behind.It was something very alien to him.Not that he disliked the ringing.He twisted his neck to turn around and see who or what was causing it and then something slender and soft hit his chest with a moderate force causing him to grasp in shock and fall down and hit the groud on his back.
The living thing that caused him the misery just laid on the top of him.He could feel the velvety softness of the silky strands in his palm.Something soft and smooth covered his lips pressing it against his mouth as if forbidding him to make any noise which he recognized to be of a dainty fair hand.And then his eyes rose to her face.
As if the moment stopped for him which seemed to him like an eternity.
Can anything be more fascinating than this?She is the most heart melting sight he has ever beheld.
Not a single feature on her face seemed to be flawed to him.Those large dark black eyes,the slender nose,the pink cheeks.But the feature that took his breath away was her plump,full lips.
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Edited by prahelika - 13 years ago
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