Chapter-32
Nupur panics donot know what to do. Samrat "come and sit Nupur lets complete the album"
Nupur "yes"
Mayank catches her duppata pulling her back whispers "kabaradara, if you go from here without giving me my cream"
Nupur whisper with her teeth "cream means"
Mayank whispers "kiss" Nupur eyes opens wide making a 'o' with her mouth. Nupur takes a deep breath and with fake angry tone says "by god, dekho Mayank please go from here if any one sees you here it will be good"
Mayank "sawal hi nahin vutha… until unless I get my cream"
Samrat turns towards Nupur "what are you doing their?" Nupur gives a helpless smile to Samrat and whisper to Mayank "please Mayank let me go" hearing her helpless voice Mayank says "I will wait for you at the back of your room on the terrace come as soon as possible and remember I wonot leave until I take my cream"
Mayank leaves her duppata and goes otherside of the terrace. Nupur goes near Samrat and starts turning the pages of album but nothing is registered in her brain except Mayank's words. Samrat "Mayank sir" Nupur gets alerted "kahin, kidar kyu" and she starts search around.
Samrat pats her hand and says "where are you searching, I am showing him in the album?"
Nupur "oh, ok I thought you are telling me that he came here"
Samrat "why he will come here, he might be busy with his personal life now or at most he might be sleeping"
Nupur whispers with her teeth sarcastically "ya busy with his personal life" turns towards the director where Mayank might be waiting for her now. Nupur closes her eyes 'by god I am sure Mayank might be waiting for me, he is so stubborn. What can I do now? I cannot say Samrat to leave, it will be so rude. But how can I go to meet Mayank.' Nupur gets an idea, "Samrat oh mujhe bohot pyaas lagi hain, I will go drink some water and come" Samrat "ok" Nupur comes out and turns other side to go when she hears Samrat's voice "where are you going that side. Steps are on other side right"
Nupur closes her eyes and says "oh mee, oh mein bhabi ko bola rahi thi takki she can bring some water bottle and throw from down so that catch it and I donot need to go down" Samrat "ok" and starts checking the album. Nupur checks around her and before she can go into the corner where Mayank is waiting, someone pulls her into the corner, trapping her between the wall and his muscular body. Nupur blushes and bends her eyes lids without looking into Mayank's face. The moonlight is the only light falling on them. The silver line of her body is shining in the moonlight. Mayank placed his thumb on her cheek caring her then traced her lips with his thumb making her shiver. Nupur slowly raises her eyes "May-" and rests of the words are died in her throat when Mayank took her lips into a deep kiss…
Nupur comes to the room controlling her blush and heartbeat. Mayank left the terrace after he got his cream, to very much of Nupur's relief. Mayank came from neighbor's terrace as they are not at home.
Samrat "where is the bottle, even I want the water"
Nupur "oh mein na pani peekar vapas bhabi ko dadee"
Samrat "tum be naa, fine wait I will go and get some water"
Samrat goes down sees Seema coming from outside. Samrat is confused "bhabi you are coming from outside then who gave Nupur water" Seema is confused "what, I did not get you Samrat. I just came"
Samrat "Nupur said she has asked you for some water bottle and you throw from down stair" showing the terrace and ground where they are standing.
Seema "Nupur naa kaha aur tum na maanlee. Tum be naaa"
Samrat scratches his head "then what is Nupur doing on corner of terrace till now? I am so confused" Seema thinks 'corner of the terrace'. While Seema is coming into the house she saw some shadow going out from terrace to neighbor's terrace. Seema 'is this means some guy came to meet Nupur. oh my god, does this means Nupur has some one in her life. So my doubts are right, Nupur is in love. Chalo Nupur keep your secret until I caught you red handed. God kitna satayatha mujhe. Now it is your turn, I am not going to leave you so easily. I will tease the hell out of you the day get the name of that guy' Seema giving a naughty smile goes from their leaving a confused Samrat. Samrat thinks 'what happened to bhabi, she is smiling to herself. God I think I will go mad if I stay any more here. Better I go get some water first.' Samrat leaves after some time.
Next day, Nupur reached her lab to find Gunjan waiting for her. Gunjan is looking dull and she can see marks of tears under her eyes. Samrat is trying to console Gunjan. Nupur goes near Gunjan places her hand on her shoulder says with concern "Gunjan, what happened"
Gunjan burst outs "everything happened as I feared Nupur"
Nupur gives a confused look towards Samrat, where he turns her a helpless look like listen-to-her look. Nupur turns towards Gunjan and says "first relax Gunjan, drink some water"
Samrat supplies the water, Nupur makes her drink and asks her to sit "now tell me what happened?"
Gunjan "my parents came to know about me and Samrat"
Nupur "this is a good thing. When you both decided to marry than ofcourse next step is to tell your parents right"
Gunjan "you do not understand Nupur. I know one or the other day we need to tell our parents but I want to be the first to tell them the news. If the news come from third person it will be horrible to hear. You cannot even imagine how the third person may manipulate the news. My parents-"
she release a sob "my parents trust me so much and when the third person told all wrong things about me and Samrat, I cannot even imagine how much they might be hurt"
Nupur say angrily "how can they believe the third person than their daughter" Gunjan "you are not understanding Nupur, when a third person comes and points a finger at their daughter it will be more humiliation than anything. They feel I hided a big part of my life with them when I never kept any secrets from them. They are so much hurt due to gossips that they are not ready to hear me"
Nupur "come on Gunjan it is you who has to marry Samrat not your parents, let's go we will talk with them and decide immediately" the trio turns when they hears someone voice behind "I think we should wait till they get cool down" Mayank standing at the room with folding his hands to his chest. Gunjan and Samrat become alert.
Mayank comes in "sorry guys I heard your discussion so couldnot stop myself" Samrat "that's ok sir, we really need some advice on this"
Mayank nods his head meaningfully and continues "this is really a sensitive matter; I know they might be very angry to hear the gossips about their own daughter whom they trust the most. So it is good to wait till they cool down so that they can think what is good and what is bad for their daughter. Samrat is good guy no one can reject him but the timing and the way the truth came out is not good. So let's wait for few days and then you take Samrat with you to your parents and introduce him. Then rest we can see what to do later. Well I think it is better if Samrat and Gunjan take leave for the day otherwise in this mood if Gunjan does the work she might blow the lab taking inspiration from Samrat"
Samrat and Gunjan blushes but manages a smile. Nupur shakes her head glaring at Mayank for making fun of her friends. Samrat and Gunjan take leave to discuss how to go infront of their parents and convince them.
Nupur puts her elbow on Mayank's shoulder "not bad, Mr.know-it-all. Kya tum na psychology main PHD ki hain by god"
Mayank removes Nupur's hand on his shoulder and hugs her from back, Nupur panics "Mayank ya office hain" Mayank gives a careless nod and says "mera office hain nothing will happen. Actually PHD nahin but my mom use to say" Mayank becomes little dull but covers his sadness and says "as you know my parents did a runaway marriage, my mom always remembers her family and says 'may be if they could have waiting for little while for some good time and convince their parents, we would have had a very big family' my dad always feel bad for separating my mom from her family. They never argued and blamed each other but they use to feel bad in some occasions where there is no one to share with us. We need the family Nupur; we cannot push our family for our impulse decisions. May be at that time we may feel we are right, our love is the most important thing in our life but in long future may be our relationship may get burdened as we feel separated from everyone. I donot want that to happen to us or to anyone"
Nupur understands what Mayank want to say. Till now Nupur never thought in that prospective may because she never encounters such situation. In her family she is pampered by everyone. She knows the value of relationships but never know how it will feel when the relations get hurt because she never hurt anyone till now intentionally or unintentionally to know the pain. She has full confidence on her parents that they can never mistrust her not for a single moment. Whatever happened her family is with her as her support and in vidith-Seema love story, there is no such drama happened everything went cool. So Nupur has very less experience in handling such gossips.
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