Seven Vows Part 3 -Part 259 Page 147 - Page 26

@Swati didnt Mami tell naa she is also MVs mother. You cant hide things from mother's. They know you better than yourself 😆😆, how much ever you fight. MV had sent her young widow DIL with her unmarried son. And they do share a beautiful chemistry and comradeship, that means their relation is given freedom in the house. Generally mother's dont allow widow DILs to mingle much with their unmarried sons for obvious reasons. If MV allowed that means she has only one thing in her mind. Latika Mami and Jaideep Mamu observed Suman for what she is for a week. And they were impressed with her. The way she interacted with them, the kids, the way she dealt with Aakash obviously a girl whom everyone prefer to be in their house 😃

Get together of the friends is so nice. Latika mami also allowing shree to drop suman alone for wedding and also asking her to go to thinking room .. Did she understood maheshwari's intention. 😉 😉 . Shree's thoughts were so progressive... Good that he got chances in life to make it happen.

@Hemaji you guess so fast 😆😆. Yes sometimes looking at siblings we also tell right are they born to same parents. Yes kids handled things, but then that was not the way expected out of them. Only thing is that they have to be told their fault and not condemn them as a person which Suman managed to do with Aakash.

Chapter 179- The Welcome

Bhavani was waiting eagerly from morning. Now and then she checked at the gate. She remembered the day when Suman's bidaai was happening. She remembered the tearful look her child had given her. Bhavani had felt it was her final goodbye. With handful of rice she took and threw back, Bhavani knew she was not blessing her home for prosperity to continue even after she was gone, but for it to engulf in flames the way she has been burnt. She remembered Suman falling on her father's feet, her brother's feet crying, begging not to marry her. The boy she loved was good. Just to look at him once. She still couldn't remember the name Suman told through her tears. How could she. Suman's voice was always drained in the slaps she got or in her cries when her legs were burned with tawa

" Chachi " she came back to present hearing Devika. Devika and Jyothi were helping her in the kitchen as the other ladies were not so enthusiastic with what was happening. Jyothi had hinted to Bhavani about her issue and had asked her help. Bhavani had told her, she will do everything to help her and Pritam.

Suman was giving directions to Sreedhar towards her house. As they neared her house Sreedhar could see her voice stammered, from the side mirror he could see her hand trembling.

" Sumanji you know driving always give me beautiful memories " , he looked at her through the mirror. Suman saw his eyes asking her to calm down. Not to show panic attacks. Go back to some good memories. Suman closed her eyes allowing herself to feel Sreedhar's love. She remembered their pheras once again

They were in the sixth round. She was walking in front. Sreedhar told " I promise to share all your happiness and sorrows"

" I promise, in every action of yours I will provide my wholehearted support

" Sumi it is the last round. With this we are symbolically married. Shall we. We can still stops " told Sreedhar grinning

" I didn't walk this much to leave midway. What is your problem. I am walking in front taking the responsibility of completing the rounds" she chided

" My problem is you are walking in front, taking the thorns before me which I don't want " told Sreedhar

" You took enough thorns by walking four rounds in front of me, now allow me" she laughed and they started the last round

" I promise I will always remain your best friend and would make every effort to make our friendship true and eternal " told Sreedhar

" I promise your friendship will be over and above any other relation for me. I will go any extend to protect it. I will ensure our love also has the most beautiful friendship" told Suman

Now completing the seven rounds they stood in front of Maa Durga and prayed asking her to keep them together always

A smile was playing on Suman's lips as the van entered the premises of Rajput Haweli. She was not alone. She was with the person who had promised his eternal love and friendship to her

Bhavani looked through the balcony as she saw Suman getting down with Adwaith and Sreedhar getting down with Namrata. As the four stood together Bhavani didn't know what to feel. It looked like a family. It was as if Suman had come with her husband and kids. Then she came back to present. What was she thinking. Sreedhar was a bachelor, Suman's devar. Already her sasural was doing too much for her. What kind of expectation she was having of seeing Sreedhar as her son in law. She should not be even thinking about that. She wiped her tears and hurried down

Suman looked at Sreedhar. " Sreedhar in my house widows cannot enter through front, you go with kids, I will enter through back door"

Virender stood and observed his daughter as she started to go towards the backside. He looked at Sreedhar and what he was doing. But Sreedhar didn't say anything. He nodded to her and asked the kids to follow him as he moved towards the front door.

Virender had a smirk on his face. A feeling of victory. But then it was shortlived as Bhavani came outside and called Suman

" Suman beta where are you going. Come this way. Your maayka will treat you the way you are treated in your sasural. I don't think you enter through back door in your sasural. So why should you enter here through back door. Come this way. Let me take aarti"

Suman looked at her mother stunned. From where she had got the courage. She looked at her father and bade Papa. Both were standing silent though anger was evident in their face. Suman knew her mother was taking advantage of the presence of Sreedhar in front of whom her family will use the pretense of progressive thinking people.

She slowly walked towards the front door. When Bhavani took aarti Sreedhar and Suman were almost side by side. Bhavani put a tilak on Sreedhar and the kids and a kala teeka on Suman and invited them inside

Sreedhar touched her feet and she blessed him. " Beta you are coming here first time right. I wont leave you till you finish all the food I have made for you"

" Don't worry Aunty I will grant your wish" told Sreedhar grinning as Bhavani took Suman and kids inside. Sreedhar touched the feet of Virender and his elder brothers who were standing there. They all blessed him. Then Sreedhar asked

" Can I meet Dadiji. My Maa tells you always have to take the blessings of the eldest in the family"

Rajput men were stunned. Their mother was a widow. No one so far has gone directly into her chamber to get blessings. She never came out as tradition didn't allow. It was a different thing despite her widow status she ruled the house because she had five sons.

They looked at each other quizzingly, but they knew they will have to oblige Sreedhar.

" She is inside . You can go and meet her " told Virender finally

Kamala Devi looked at the boy who was touching her feet. It was a different thing her equation with Bhavani was not good. She believed in ruling her DILs. She believed in the fact having sons gave the woman power. She supported all the things that happened in the Rajput family in the name of tradition. But after she became widow not one of her sons had come to take her blessings, though her authority was approved. But this boy was asking for her blessing despite her status. She didn't know why, but she felt a sudden surge of affection towards him.

" Long live my son. May the Goddess of wealth Maa Lakshmi shower all her blessings on you" told Suman's dadi. Sreedhar smiled at her and then sat beside her. The men stood by the side stunned.

Amazing parts... I loved how maheshwari has strong connect with her bhabhi. And the contrast of her relationship with mayka to the relationship of shobha mausi and her mayka. for maheshwari its a strong support system while for shobha mausi just a social obligation.. sree has managed to get the heart of the stone hearted to melt and also got the blessings wholeheartedly. No wonder the mischievous kanha grins. Without much effort sree won and made virendar lose in his home ground. Waiting for virendar and sree next word of wars to start.

Oh so finally Sree stepped in his sasural.

Shruthi u will surpass the no of parts of dabh ff with the coming chapter. Congratulations. Now only record is to continue this story even after 6th March,2017. Then this story will be running longer than the dabh ff

@Ria MV is connected to her family very much. She follows what she has learned from there in her own way, while at the same time for Sobha her family is rich and since her maayka is not very rich the relation is like that. One person irrespective of all the riches she has got doesnt forget her roots, while the other when she got all the material things in a way forget her roots. It happens

Chapter 180- Krishna Leela

More than the men of Suman's house it was the ladies who started interacting Sreedhar. Suman's 10 year old niece Anwesha had so many questions for Sreedhar like how was US, whether a girl can go to US, whether a girl can be a pilot etc since she heard her Suman bua is going to work in a shop. Much to the irritation of the men Sreedhar encouraged such ambitions of Anwesha telling of course girls can.

Suman went to kitchen and interacted with her mother and couple of bhabi's. Some of her bhabi's indirectly passed snide remarks at her which both Bhavani and Jyothi defended. Soon it was time for lunch and all the men assembled.

Seeing only men sitting Nami didn't sit instead stood beside Suman. Suman smiled at the girl. She has started to observe things. But what startled everyone was Nami didn't stand silently. " Chachi here also girls are not sitting. So I guess in your family too girls don't sit with boys. You told me observe the rules of the family I go to. So I will stand with you"

For the first time Suman saw her family really uncomfortable on the child's observation. They didn't know what to tell, so Virender directed his remarks at Sreedhar

" Sreedhar don't take us wrong if I ask you this. Does your family business has so much problem that you have to make the woman of your family work. Doesn't it erode the reputation of great Varma family the reputation which your grand father and great grand father has build on"

" Uncle does making a woman work means family is in trouble. Need not be. It is just accepting the fact that woman are capable and can do things beyond housekeeping. The world should also see their talent. Coming to our reputation you very well know we have accepted our elder brother's daughter born to him in an intercaste marriage publicly. Do you know how much that factor played positively for my brother in MA chairperson election. So I don't think allowing the woman folk will affect our reputation. Infact it will enhance our reputation"

" Sreedhar uncle is this Narayana Murthy real. Bhavani Dadi talks about him now and then". It was Suman's nephew Sarath cutting the convo before Virender could reply

" Of course he is real Sarath. So is Infosys. India's bluechip IT company which he build on the savings of his wife Sudha Murthy. I have given the excerpts of his speech to your Virender Dadu. You can read from him" . Suman looked down as she saw her father glaring at Sreedhar.

" Virender Dadu will you give me that" asked the 11 year old. Virender nodded as he didn't had any other option.

Meanwhile Sreedhar turned to Bhavani " Bhavani Aunty the food is really good. I loved Jeera Rice". The ladies were laughing now. Not a single man from that household had complimented them for the food.

" Arrey Beta I didn't make Jeera rice. Jyothi made it " told Bhavani

" Bhabhiji it is really good" told Sreedhar

" Sreedhar take kesar malai also. I have prepared " told Devika

" Hann didi surely let me finish the main course. I will come to dessert ". told Sreedhar laughing. Men at the Rajput family felt completely left out as ladies competed with each other in serving Sreedhar. They heard couple of them murmuring. " I should also have made something. Look how stupid I am looking now. He is complimenting everything" . Suman didn't know what to do. She literally felt like laughing seeing the faces of her father and her uncles. They were stumped and were not sure what hit them.

Once the lunch was getting over Bhavani told " Pritam beta take Sreedhar around our haweli and also to our timber factory. Meanwhile Suman let me know what your devar likes the most. Let me prepare for tea and after that you will have to leave"

" Maa he loves puris the most and gajar ka halwa" told Suman. " Ok I will make puris, gajar ka halwa takes time. But beta I will prepare it for you when I come for Suman's shop inauguration" told Bhavani. Sreedhar smiled at her as he moved with Pritam, while the ladies once again moved to the kitchen and men murmured among themselves what was happening.

Apt title Shruthi..yay 3 more months of reading ur story. So Sree has charmed the ladies and kids. And what befitting reply to virendar. Round 2 goes to Sree.. hope the fun continues.. by the way sarath will also be used in the future story?