P&P Part II - Page 76

Don't sell yourself short Nisha. You are professional enough for us. You spin wonderful characters and situations. Put in a good dose of humor and wit. What else do we need?

Originally posted by: coderlady

Don't sell yourself short Nisha. You are professional enough for us. You spin wonderful characters and situations. Put in a good dose of humor and wit. What else do we need?

She has tremendous possibilities and can publish her work.

We have many published author who can get inspiration from her.
Nisha, sosy though read is so captivating that we still haven’t had enough of it.
every work after that has been engaging and unique 👏🙌

Nisha can we get onemore update pls

Chicks & Flicks

She didn’t venture out, contrary to the orders given to her

She was too tired to do anything, her parents were leaving for Bangkok at Noon, and she wanted to go see them at 10

The house was insanely quiet

The front lawn sparkled like emerald under sunny skies

The occasional cars on Prithiviraj Rd not loud at all, since the house was tucked deep into the bungalow lot

She knew there was an upstairs the shiny marble spiral stairway behind the courtyard looked like they headed up to heaven

Most things in the house were either totally white or shades of white

Raanav’s suite had a lot of greys and turquoise, midnight blue, cadet blue and azure.

Rooms flanked both sides of the bedroom, all leading up to the courtyard outside, long white column courtyard with tall white marble pillars much like the white house

One of the rooms was a office, rec room of sorts with music mixing equipment and monitors on the walls, and sound equipment

The other was practically empty

Must be for a kid? Or kids?

All the rooms had twin glass white French doors. She wondered which Brit viceroy was housed here first

The guards gave her a curious look as she ventured out

At a distance she noticed Rakshit and Lekha laying on long loungers, with a gas fire place in the center

Rakshit waved, Lekha just shifted in her seat, and flicked her hair ack with a half smile

She waved back and went inside and locked all the doors as she would back home

Called her parents

“One of you should have stayed” she urged Anu

“Dadi ko bhi rok leti tum?” Anu wiped tears off her eyes

“Sure today I will even take Dadi”

“Why are you not dressed up beta? You got married 10 hours ago”

“He went to the hospital my MIL must have returned home, my BIL will go on duty at 2 or 3 AM I think”

“kaise hain FIL?”

“Just the same” Viveka sighed

“at least he knows his kids are married

“Hmm” Viveka felt teary eyed

“Khaana khaayi who?” Akash was munching in the back

“Did u eat beta?”

“No not yet”

“Jao khao na”

“Umm… yeah, what have you made?”

“Papa bana rahe hain, koi recipe YT dekhkar” Anubha laughed

“KOI nahi hai, KOREAN hai” “KoreanVegan, dekho beta tum bhi she is big on tiktok, now she has a YT also”

“Holy s---” Viveka laughed

“Jal lo beta tumhe nahi milegi” Akash clattered a pan

“Achhi nahi bani to soch rahi ho Dadi ko khila doongi” Anubha said with a serious face

Viveka rolled on the couch

“Sun raha hoon”

“Sorry aapki Ma hai”

“WHO koi baat nahi… tumne pehle decide kar liya achhi nahi banegi” Oh! So Akash was offended about THAT

“I am just sad Papa knows so much about social media and influencers than I. I must live under a rock”

“Papa tumhare dikhaate bahut hain” Anu rolled her eyes

“32 years ago she fell for it, today she thinks I am full of hot air”

“You are” Anu shook her head exasperated

“I miss you guys….” Viveka sighed “Naina hai?”

“Nahi”

“Kidhar hai? Raat ke 7 baj gaye?”

“Naukri nahi to kya? Dost hain bhai” Akash mumbled

Viveka missed the cozy kitchen the familiar view when the ipad camera was planted leaning on the tiled counter wall

“I texted her an hour ago”

“Time do beta” Anu was compassionate

“Hmm”

“Diyu, Karu se baat ho sakti hai?”

“Dono hain apne karmre mein Diyu must be rocking to some song, Karu must be quietly rearranging her closet

“Dadi hain?”

“Haan hain na, Bua keg har thi 6 baje taq Bua chhod gayin abhi”

“AKASHHH” Anu warned

“What did I say?”

“Your tone yaar”

“Papa can you send some?” she asked longingly

“Aaaja beta, main chhod doonga raat ko”

“AAJ hui hai shaadi raat ko aa gaya jaldi to Raanav kya sochega?”

“He will be fine” Viveka’s heart thudded

She wanted to be missed and wanted

She texted him on her phone

“How is he?”

“Awake” he said

“What are you upto?”

“Working”

“Oh”

“Veev”

“Veev”

“Oh sorry text aa gaya”

“Pati ka?” Akash teased and started to laugh as if it was the joke of the year

“Papa aap bahut paneer ho” she said firmly

“Ma ne kiya bhai, neebu nichorkar” warna to main doodh jaisa saaf tha”

She loved them both to the moon and back

She was nervous to go find the kitchen by herself, and Mahesh didn’t stop by either

She couldn’t sleep since the room was so big and the house too spooky

She texted him at 11ish

“I cant sleep”

He sent a smiley back

“Oh please…. Your house is SCARY” (“Umm no… Its not because I

“Cant do anything about that” he said coolly

“Raanavv!”

“Close your eyes and count to a 100”

“I was at 3401”

“Where is Kalyani?”

Before she could send, he had texted her and Kalyani knocked on the suite door

She hung out with her until 2 AM they watched a lame English movie, Kalyani screeched and gushed the whole time and excused herself being too sleepy to stay past 2 (more on their convo in the next)

She just stretched on the couch wrapping one of her favorite shawls around her, and unable to stay up

He was home at 3ish AM, he walked over and kneeled down by her

Gently removed her glasses and pulled her stapled journal article from between the folds of her shawl and arms

She sat up shocked

All the lights in the suite were on

“Youre back… yaayyy” she whispered

“Why didn’t you go to bed”

“This house is so big and lonely” she said in agony

“I am sorry” he held her hands

“I will just go with you from tomorrow”

“Umm.. I don’t know if that’s a great idea”

“How is HE?”

“ marginally better” They will run some tests tomorrow” he said “I mean in 6 ish hours”

“I am sorry its not any faster.” She sighed

“Are you studying?”

“I watched a really bad chick flick with Kalyani”

He began to laugh

“Tumhe PATA THA?”

“She loves those” he laughed

“Did u eat?” he asked

“I forgot” she said awkwardly

Aww they are so cute. Every girls missing their parents home and the food made by them. Thoughtful of Ranaav to text Kalyani. He cares for sure. He knew she hasn’t eaten so he asked. Can’t wait for more

I was going to say....I won’t forget to eat, but that’s me🤣

What a start to a married life...FIL unwell and new environment to get acclimated. Kalyani is a cutie pie! Raanav was super sweet to have called her to keep Viveka company. ❤️

Her conversation with parents was so lovely. First day of the marriage, one seen to miss their parents and home. Specially in a new house, with no one to talk to.

Raanav cares..how sweet of him to send Kalyani. He will take her with him to hospir from tomorrow I think. Leave her and she won't be eating anything..

Originally posted by: kalavathi5

I was going to say....I won’t forget to eat, but that’s me🤣

What a start to a married life...FIL unwell and new environment to get acclimated. Kalyani is a cutie pie! Raanav was super sweet to have called her to keep Viveka company. ❤️

forget to eat is really the last thing that will happen to me as well.

may be at times won’t find time but forget, never 👎

let’s see if this guy addresses this.

Waiting for her to have her diner now 🙇‍♀️

It’s her first day at in laws.

Her MIL wanted Ranaav to have food and leave for hospital couldn’t she ensure that help atleast had courtesy to ensure her DIL is fed on time.
It’s her first day. You cannot expect her to fend for herself in every which way.
I wish Satyen comes to know about this.

Why couldnt Rakshit ask her to join for dinner ?

Not being able to go get your food is really really sad. Can’t imagine how bad anubha and Akash would feel if they find out.

Better Ranaav addresses this for ever.
it seems as if she is unwelcome and even not worth the helps services for her basic needs.
One cannot be expected to go around in new house on your own on the very first day.
I want Ranaav to make up to her for this.
Though looking at Satyens state I would discount Smrita. Can’t do the same for Lekha though. She seems bigger snob than Smrita.
Ranaav better be her support system or else it would be really difficult for her.

I wish she could have gone with Kalyani to the kitchen and fixed herself something while having to watch that chick flick. Munching on food or stuffing yourself with good food makes even a bad movie feel great or at least tolerable 😆

While lekha is more feeling at home , Viveka is seemingly lost and awkward. I'm thinking it was more like she did not have a great appetite and was missing home especially after her convo with her parents. But she'll learn to survive and go about herself very soon as she normally would.

It's a big house and I'm guessing that except for that one meal Satyen insists they all have together everyone goes about their ways. Smrita has her smoothies and diet, lekha should be doing something similar, Raanav , Rakshit and Satyen having their own traveling schedules. It's not just the class every familiar has its own tradition and culture. May be on the whole, Food has a very non personal touch and place at the parashars unlike her bua's or even her home for that matter.

Another thing that Viveka has to do is store her Mil's no on her home . People did you notice that while talking to her parents she did not say "his mom or his brother, instead she said my Mil and my Bil"😉

The onus is on us to adapt. Ours is such a patriarchal society and our belief systems and the training makes us naturally hop on to that train on change in our marital status . Sigh!!!