P&P with a twist IV - Page 14

I love the vibe at the Mathurs' pooja! Lots of food, folks chatting in corners, the hosts serving food and gossip ♥️

Particularly so with this social distancing business irl! 😒

“Savi ruk rahi hai?” Akash was giddy with happiness

So sweet of him! The simple happiness at having a married sister stay over ♥️

The light hearted flirting between Anu and him was making her real mad real fast

Bahut achche! 😈😛

Someone was talking about certain DiLs shooting daggers at their sisters 😆

“Ek gaana yaad aaya” Akash offered 😆

Anu left 🤣

Naina has started to leave a bad, bad aftertaste..

Satyen looked at them with envy

“Chaliye mujhe balcony mein thodi jagah de dein” Satyen laughed

“Zaroor” Anu laughed

Smrita was furious

The light hearted flirting between Anu and him was making her real mad real fast

It is just unfortunate that, blinded by the glitters of the rich world, Smrita seems to have forgotten little joys in life. Satyen surely seems to realise what they are missing after watching Akash and Anu.

Money can never buy such joys in life.

I am hoping Raanav realises that truth soon.

True, there is lot more to life besides money.

Middle class luck!

Husband and wife ate with Harsha and Varsha and Piyush and rakshit and the Shrivastav boys’ friends who Raanav happened to know from 6 months ago, when he wooed her

“Vishwas nahi ho raha mujhe Viveka ne haan kar dee” Avneet the friend chuckled

“You know me I do the unexpected” Viveka ate hungrily

“Does she pulverize you with data?” Rakshit demanded

“Arey, is se baat nahi karta yaar main, she will talk and it usually goes swoosh” Avneet gesticulated with a swipe

“I think I might know what u feel” Rakshit chuckled

“Naina se baat ki tumne?” Viveka asked him in a whisper

He nodded

Wondering why she was stage whispering

“What did she say”

“Schieder, Klaus?” “Yeah that’s where she is I don’t have any understanding of interior design” he laughed

“Was she mad at you?”

“No? why?” he was curious

“Hmm”

“Vi?”

Anu dropped a couple poories on his plate

“Oh no I cant have any” “More I mean” Raanav was uncomfortable

“Mujhe de do” Viveka urged

He put them on her plate

“Yeah a woman to share the love and food” Amma mocked’

“I give him olives and mushrooms from pizza”

“Make it 2 lbs of olives next time” Anu smiled

“Oh? Why? Ohhhh Yes sure” Viveka laughed understanding her mother’s joke

“I could take it back” Raanav pretended to be hurt

“She loves poories I was only kidding” Ma tapped Raanav’s hair

Smrita did not like it one bit Anu had an effortless way to connect with any one

She was smart industrious successful and a knockout in the qualification department… and a knockout in the looks department too she sighed grudgingly

Akash was smitten with her

And if tonight was anything to go by Satyen might be as well

Which reminds me

WE NEED TO LEAVE ASAP

She stood up pretending to take a call

Lekha had left before eating

Rakshit was eager to please the Mathurs, no one in Zip Code 1 was this generous or simple

He envied his brother for a second…

He gets to have this family and all these interactions and this whole entire group of lovely people his entire life

Rakshit glanced sideways at his brother

He was the more good looking one, model and all

He was better suited with a Lekha Tandon

Instead here he was sitting crosslegged on the dhurrie along the wall eating from a leaf plate while he chatted with his wife

Viveka picked up a dona and sipped her kheer

“MAAAAA THANDI hai” she yelled

Bua peeked from imside

Began laughing

She was the only soul in the Mathur family and beyond that loved her kheer GARAM

“Isnt it supposed to be cold?” Raanav mumbled confused

“MUJHE garam kheer achhi lagti hai

“wow” he muttered laughing under his breath

“I am done can I get up?” Rakshit asked Akash

“Haan beta, plate chhod do ya phir bahar ek bada sa trash bin hai usme daal do”

Rakshit did as he was told

The food was delicious

Satyen was engrossed in chatting with Kamal Fa and Mr Asthana and a couple men from the Rohini housing society.

Ma and Papa gave Raanav a box of Burberry ties

He was a bit startled to receive them

“They look great” he gasped

“He probably has a 100 ties… or more” Smrita laughed weakly

“You have 100 earrings that never stopped you” Satyen winked at Anu

“Ouch… you never count a woman’s jewelry mister” Anu waved a finger

He shrugged and apologized “Too late now” he said mirthfully

Smrita didn’t want to thank Anu, but she had received unsolicited defense even after insulting Anu and Akash

Viveka got two beautiful sarees

Dadi waddled out

“SOOTI saree dee BATAO” Dadi scowled

“Ma aapki BIVEKA chiffon nahi pehanegi” Bua was upset

“Ma ko jaanti ho” Akash tried to tone down his sister

“Maine kaha hai SUMITA? Kya naam hai beta aapka? “Apne jaisa haar banwa do Akash se le lena paise”

Satyen turned to Dadi in shock

“Amma jail bhijwayengi?” “Kya?” (dowry)

“Nahi to” Dadi was confused

“Ban jaayega haar” Satyen hugged Dadi

“Rakshit bought a sapphire one for Lekha” Smrita announced smugly

“Ah” Akash nodded

"Arey bhi to batao aap Smri, LEKHA ke ghar se Rakshit ko kuch nahi mila gift mein" Satyen nailed his wife "Raanav is lucky"

Anu and Akash gave Rakshit a wallet and gifted Lekha a lovely silver bracelet

His daughter wasn’t so lucky he knew

After dinner, Naina busied herself in tidying the kitchen she talked to Viveka casually

Viveka was overjoyed almost thinking she should stay the night

She went out to check with Raanav

Her parents were downstairs seeing off Parashars and Rakshit

“Umm.. if u are sleepy we can stay over” she offered “graciously”

“I AM NOT” he yawned growling

“I promise I will remove all the books off the bed

“HOME Vi” he growled

First sneak peak into Rakshit's thoughts.

Seems genuine guy. If only Ranaav realized how lucky he is not coz he got Vievka but coz he got Anu and Akash as in laws.

I love it when he does expressly exercises his right. Best has been the way he proposed. Despite knowing that she had boy friend.

Garam kheer > Cold kheer, hamesha :-)

Originally posted by: Arshi67

Garam kheer > Cold kheer, hamesha :-)

Ek gharam kheer ki katori ho

Aur usko khilane waali ho 😆

Sorry it's a PJ but agree with you 👍🏼

Middle-class luck.

Viv tries to stay back at her maika but Rannav ordered her back home. I guess she loves being ordered by Raanav.

I can't eat cold Kheer. Steaming Kheer with Poories. Yum! Yum!

Azaadi & Rights

Mitali Chachi was arriving the next day. Jagdish Chachu was going to arrive a day later.

Raanav told her on the way home

She snoozed reclining her seat

“I need someone to navigate” he nudged her

She woke in a daze and stared out and at him

“Kya matlab?”

“I need directions” he teased

“RAAA- NAVVV” she scowled in her fave sing song voice followed by her signature “Uff” and glass push up

“Can I have your glasses?”

“Ghar chalkar nahi dogey mujhe its fine I can wear it, if you took the Metro u wud know how to hug ur purse and glasses”

“Umm.. we are not in a Metro”

“Raa-nav”

“Fiine” he drove slowly and quietly, played his fave jazz music

He pushed his seat back and lay back down after getting home

The guard walked up to the car and peeked

He noiselessly opened the window for them to see she was asleep, he rewarded them with a big smile

“Oh sorry sorry” they mumbled walking away

She woke around 1 AM

Confused again and fearfully

She called his name out, he was elated she did that

“Right here” he nodded reaching for her hand

She smarted from his touch until he hit the light

Oh” “Are we home?”

“Yep, over 45 minutes ago”

“You were guarding me?” she smiled

“I guess” he was a little embarrassed

She looked at him intensely

“You’ve worked all day I just met Ishwar and Ratna for a couple hours, you must be so tired”

“I saw you working too” he smiled slowly

“Lifting dal makhana and poories and paneer?”

“Yeah and drinking too much kheer”

“Those are fightin words my man” she chuckled

“Ah” he let the “my man” register in her brain

“Chalo ab” she ordered stumbling out of the car

“Whose car is this?” Do I need to get my bag out now?” “I will just bring the mithai in”

“Its fine” he smiled grabbing a couple more bags from the trunk

“I can grab these”

“Heavy hai mere books hain”

“I carried them downstairs to the car yesterday”

She was confused again

“Kya matlab?”

“At 11:59 when we left your parents house”

“OH… WHO”

“You are quite gullible when you are half awake there might be something in it for me” he said as they walked across the lawn toward their room

He punched the code into the keypad and walked in

“I forgot it doesn’t smell like paint anymore” she mumbled

She went off to the kitchen to put stuff away

Smrita was in the atrium pacing up and down talking on the phone “Saari azaadi to yaha mili hogi” (Viveka ko obviously)

It quickly turning into a whisper when she spotted Viveka

“Good night” Viveka mumbled

No response from Smrita

Viveka would fall right back asleep after arguing with Raanav as to why he needed to stay up

“I CAME HOME aur tum nahi aaogey?” she scowled

“I am not kidding I am just talking to a guy to wrap up some stuff”

“the next time when u urge me to return with you see if I do it” she warned

“Understood”

“LIKH LO” she said

“Got it”

She walked over to her desk in the music room where he had parked himself with his laptop and grabbed a paper and wrote on it in caps

“NO RIGHTS ANYMORE”

He watched her bend down and write, reached for her bare belly under her pallu

She smacked it and walked off

He unmuted and started to talk

She lay in bed and wondered why Smrita ignored her openly, but was too tired to dwell over it

“NO RIGHTS ANYMORE”

Isn’t it the first time she approached him and he has refrained due to work or maybe he is up to some surprise for her.