Ek Hazaaron Mein Pyaar ka dard hai Bati mein aur Rishtey ka naam hai Saathiya ki Pratigya.
Anjali Raizada ran down the stairs, the palloo of her sari flying behind her. She felt like Paro, in Devdas. Specifically, she felt like Paro in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's bas***dized version of Devdas. She only wished her sari were white. Her husband waited for her below. She flung herself into his arms.
"Shyamji! Shyamji! Aap aa gaye! Humne aapko kitna miss kiya!" she breathed.
Shyam wrapped his beefy arms around his wife's slim waist. "Had there ever been a cake baking in this oven?" he wondered. Then he remembered. He had it rising in the incubator back home. Funny how you could buy anything in India. Farm land that doesn't exist. Kidney bean shaped pregnancy meds. Incubators for preemies. He remembered that movie. The one where a very ugly Miss India pranced around all night with an actor who stammered for a living. They called it something fancy.
"O darling, yeh hai India!"
Shyam Manohar Jha thanked his stars he was born in India. India, where women were always completely, continuously, for generation upon generation, born stupid. Or, if by accident, they grew a brain, they were converted to stupid by the powers-that-be. The Men. Take his ex-fiance, current aadhi-gharwali, Khushiji, for instance. He had cheated her, intended bigamy, kidnapped her almost-husband, tried to kill her and her almost-husband, and unbeknownst to her, murdered his own baby. Yet, she brought him back home. Home where his heart was. In the Raizada safe.
Anjali nestled in her buff man's arms. She was content to know that the father of her dead baby would feed her lunch everyday. For some reason, the dead baby had quite escaped her notice in the last 48 hours. She preferred her flat tummy to the fugly pillow anyway.
Khushi Kumari Gupta (sometimes) Singh Raizada smiled. She had done her duty. The husband was in his rightful place. With his wife. God was in his heaven. All was right with the world. She wondered why her (almost) husband was glaring at her in a manner that could only be described as well, hopping, raving, clinically, enraged! She had only done her duty. As his (almost) wife. Protected Di. Di might be a di-lusional, di-abolical, di-adem wearing di-saster in evident need of brain di-alysis. But she was everything. Chotey's sabkuch. The apple of her Nani's eye. The (somewhat questionable) center of her Dadi's affection. Mami's adopted daughter. Her reptilian husband's path to Millionaire-dom. EVERYTHING. She was everything.
Arnav Singh Raizada wished he could eat Khushi up and spit her out. Actually, he just wanted to eat Khushi up. He was so mad at her. And when he got mad, he got mad. There was going to be some bruising of arms, some slamming into walls, some in her face talking, and, if he had his way today, some tongue action too. She had awakened his third eye. She had brought The Snake back into the Snake pit. And she needed to pay for it. And how.
As was his wont, he grabbed her in front of his entire family (frozen to their spots, as usual) though NK did say a feeble, "Nannav mere bhai!" He picked her up in his arms and charged up the stairs to his room. Once they were safely in, he locked the door (as if that helped in NH-4) and backed her into the wall.
"Aap, aap kya karne waale hain?" asked Khushi Kumari (sadly) Gupta (almost) Singh Raizada. She watched in fascination as he untied his belt and fingered it lovingly. He looked up at her, a strange, feral glint in his eyes.
"You asked for this Khushi (not for long) Kumari Gupta (almost) Singh Raizada," he said.
She hyperventilated. He bared his teeth in a scary buck toothed grin. The time for payback was now!
Author's note: If we, the Chamelis, don't get at least 50 likes and 2 pages of comments there will be no chapter 2. (Low standards, just like 4Lions). Also, please make your comments meaningful. Res, update soon, tfs, luved it, are all acceptable versions of meaningful.
Alrighty, finally: The Chameli anthem. (courtesy Chutki Chameli)
ASR Rox
Sarun Papers
Arshi scissors.
Chapter 2 will be written by our youngest member, (also our biggest pataka), Miss Chutki Chameli when she finds the time.
Ch2 and 3 are on this page, scroll down. Ch4 is here. Ch 5 is here. Ch 6 is here. Ch 7 is here. Ch 8 is here. Ch 9 is here. Ch 10 is here. Ch 11 is here. Ch 12 is here. Ch13 is here. Ch 14 is here. Ch15 part 1 is here.
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