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PART 2
he opened his exhausted eyes, due to lack of sleep and fever... saying a silent sorry to her dreams, he opened his eye lids to survive another day without seeing her... it was sunday... but he was to work... days didnt matter anymore... it was all stuggle for survival...
As he tucked in the white shirt, and searched for the tie... his heart skipped a beat... his fingers trembled with his maa's kankan sticking to his hands...
that day, he recalled... that day, too his heart had tickled him...
the day after haldi, when Kushi came home... and he took her to his room for Punishment...
A stubborn Kushi had to be blindfolded to make her listen to him. just when his sweet kitten was in his arms, he could hear her heartbeat...
he was sure, what her jalebi brain was thinking and without disappointing her, he made her sit on the bed... slowly, he ran his fingers across her lips... she held on to his shirt more firmly... and then he surprised her by kissing softly on her hands...
he saw her lips form an O for a second and then she giggled... tickling his heart with pure joy...
she felt his fingers running through her wrists, but she was too lost in dream land to realize what he was doing... she came back to sense only when she heard his rhythmic voice...
"Kushi... i dont know what rituals mean..." he kneeled down beside her. 'I dont know the significance of these kankans... all that i know is it belonged to my mom... her last gift, left with me... Kushi... i hav cried for days, holding to these... i thought she will come back... but...
kushi... i want you to wear this... i want you to be that heart, who can scold me and then put me to sleep with a soft song...
wear this kushi... so that when i'm sad and you hug me, i can feel the warmth of my mom's heart... that i lost long before...
sometimes when you hug me, and seek solace in my arms, i feel that i'm a dad, kushi... i cant replace the love your bauji gave you, but when you sleep near me, with eyes lost in dreams... and i balance you to prevent you from falling, i feel the responsibility of a dad...
the word dad made him stir... and when Kushi held him close...
he cuddled to her lap...
"be with me Kushi... till the world lasts... till i last..."
ters ran down from her eyes... as she felt tongue tied, meeting Arnav, the child for the first time...
he wiped away her tears... she patted on his back... unknown to her she was patting him to sleep. when again a drop of tear fell on his cheek, he felt guilty for making her cry... he caressed her hands, adorned with his maa's kankan...
"kushi... " he said in a teasing tone. "if you plan to rock me to sleep, then i can get you a cradle for me..."
he wanted the smile back on her face and she did...
she giggled and slipped out of the room...
Memories... haunt like hell, bt,they bring heavenly joys...
He reverted back... he was placing the kankan back to shelf... unknowingly, he was smiling thinking about his kushi.
but then came alive memories of a gun shot... the last shrieks of his maa... her last breath... pool of blood...
he shut the shelf with tears and in such force that, his ring finger got hit and blood dripped... he didnt care... and walked to the car...
kushi didnt know why she her heart was aching too much... she had forgotten that the veins of a certain ring finger runs deep into her heart...
she walked into the shopping mall... and he drove through the busy street, not knowing Destiny has not stopped playing games.
to be continued...
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