PART 61
Three months later. Sid sits on the sofa of his room working with some urgent project report that's to be dispatched the very next day. Nithi enters the room and sits on the arm rest of his sofa looking at him. "Bhai..." she calls in a low voice. "Hmmm..." he coos, not lifting his head up from the laptop. "Bhai..." calls Nithi again, bit louder this time. "haan..." says Sid again still in to his work. "Bhai...I got to say you something..." Says Nithi as she shuts the laptop. Sid gives a what the hell' look to Nithi. "Nithi...Why did you shut the laptop...It's an urgent project yaar..." he rants. "Bhai...What I got to say is more important than this..." she says in a serious tone. Now Sid gets that it's not some child's play. "Tell me..." he says turning to her. "Bhai...Don't you think that something is wrong with Simar Bhabhi?" asks Nithi. "With Simar??what's wrong with her?" as Sid totally confused. "Actually Bhai...I'm just noting it since long...She's hiding something from all of us...yesterday night, I saw her at the door, I mean closing the door and when I asked about it she told she heard some voice and was checking the door..But I don't think it's so" says Nithi. Sid hears it all with patience and finally gives a playful hit on Nithi's head. "Areyy my buddhu...It's just this..Nithi if Simar said she heard some voice it'll be some voice, why does she need to lie you? You're thinking too much..." he says trying to restart his work. But Nithi stops him again. "Bhai I'm serious...I have this feelings since the day she came to this house...Like her character, her behavior, humility, shyness everything seems to be framed..." says Nithi. "What the hell Nithi???? Do you have a silly idea of what you're talking? It's not right to talk so about that poor girl..." scolds Sid. "Bhai..I'm not doing it intentionally...But see, there is something in her that makes me believe so..And you remember, these days she's so much interested in our business affairs..Seems like that she's making her presence to it...Remember how she told her opinion shoving yours and Prem Bhai's ideas last day??" questions Nithi. "Nithi...don't behave like a jealous sister in law yaar...See...I agree, she's tries to involve in our business but it's quite obvious as she's a business student..." Says Sid. "Bhai..." Nithi tries protest. "no Nithi...I'm telling you to stop..She's your Bhabhi and you got to respect he...got it? If I see this kind of behavior from you again, you know it na, I won't talk to you..." says Sid and he stirs out of the room leaving Nithi in mixed feelings.
Few days later. Sid wears a blazer over his shirt to complete his dressing for a party. He's seriously not interested in this, but he got to do this. All blame to that silly bet he kept with his friends in the madness of T20 match...Unfortunately it was him who lost the bet and here, he's to go to pub with them for a party. They know he's least interested in this and that's exactly why they chose for him. Leas interested he reaches the pub here his friends have been writing for him. "Siddhant yaar...you're here..." They says as they merrily greets him. Sid flashes an awkward smile clearly showing his nervousness which he tries to hide with difficulty. "Just look at his face yaar...Don't he look like a scared kitty?"asks Krish, one of Sid's friends. "ya yaar...well said..." supports Alvin. Sid is really irritated now. How long will these guy play fool of him? "I'm not nervous...come let's go in..." says him to show that he can deal anything under the sun. His friends agree with a naughty smile and gets in. He follows them silently but chanting "Uparwaale just save me..." in his mind. Reaching the pub, he's little startled by the life there. It's not that he's a silent chick sitting at home holding his mom's saree tip, but it's that he kept himself away from all these just because he's not interested. "Just chill na..." says Alvin to which Sid gives a thumb up. As Sid looks at the night, chilling with a lime juice, Krish comes to him with a drink. "Take this..." he orders to which Sid furrows his brows. "no yaar..i don't drink and you know it..Mataji will kick on my ass if I go home drunk..." Sid denies right away. "No Sid...Just don't say it today because it's a bet and you know you can't get out of it..." says Krish. " Sid...you can't just get out of this..." supports Alvin. "yaar...I don't drink..." says Sid pathetically. "Okay...then you have another way...go and kiss that girl on the left most corner..." orders Sarang, another one in the gang. "NO!!!!! How can I???" asks Sid in utter shock. "you can't right because you are already deewana of a girl, what was her name, ya Roli...So if you need to keep your first kiss preserved for your Roli, come on...Drink this..." they order in one tone, Sid knows that this is not gonna be fine for him. He's in a fix now. Neither he can sip this stupid drink nor can he kiss that idiot girl back there...There is no choice for him and he chooses the first because it's far better than the second. He takes the drink from krish with trembling hands. He looks the drink with an eww expression and bring it close to his nose to smell it. "bwaahhh...it's horrible.." says him as he nods in negative. But all thanks to his adamant friends, he sips down a shot. "uhhh...huhh.,..it burns...Ma..." Sid holds his neck frantically as the drink gets down his throat burning all the way it passes. "Wow...Finally our Sid had a drink...this is awesome...Sid you need another peg?" asks Sarang. "Not in my dreams!!!!" says Sid as he tries to compose himself. He walks away from drinks to use the washroom so that he can wash his face and get out of the effect that the stupid thing created. His friends laugh at his and he just walks neglecting him. And it's then that sight catches his attention, he blinks his eyes and looks more keenly. Is he imagining in the effect of the alcohol he wonders. But no...it can't be. His limb goes weak as he spots Simar dancing merrily with some guy sipping a drink merrily. Is it a dream, he wonders. But no!!!! It's her only. She's dancing forgetting the world leaning on the guy's shoulder. He sees his heart drop to zero level. So Nithi's doubts were true. Simar isn't good after all. Anger seeps in each of his nerves and he clenches his teeth. Hidden below the mask of a shy and cultured daughter in law and a lovely wife is a hippocrat. She's cheating on prem!!!He feels like dragging her to the middle of the stage and slapping her hard, but he couldn't as he thinks about the respect of his family. Silently he walks out of the pub, planning to do what next.
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