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Posted: 4 years ago

Originally posted by: Sudha1012

Story is very interesting 👍🏻 Waiting for next update

Nisha mam your writing skill vera level👏🏻

Thanks so so much

I totally appreciate that. These days I am not watching any Hindi or Tamil soaps so this is PURELY organic as were all the ones after SoSy actually☺️

Thanks so much Sudha! I was just talking to my mother and used the word "Vera level"🤣 in some context cant recall

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Posted: 4 years ago

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Sameena gave her a much needed hug. Poor thing is so scared.

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Posted: 4 years ago

Imagining Imaginary

Jai is such a lonely kid that he wants Atty to come with a couple of kids he can play with. Mendy's girls will fit the bill.

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Posted: 4 years ago

Affirmation

The results are in. Its not like we didn't know the answer already, but still.

For a sec I thought she left the place and fled. It turned out to be the older place.

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Posted: 4 years ago

Precious

She didn’t talk much on the drive home from after school care. Everything was upended now. She didn’t know how much longer she had this cutie, she had cried a lot during the day

The mere thought that she not see him somedays made her nauseous

To think she would never see him again terrorized her more than the spooked toilet

They went out for pizza, Jaidrith got French fries and gelato

She packed her uneaten pizza and walked home like zombies

She looked up Siddhi Vinayak on her phone and listened to bhajans

She was not spiritual or religious the first 20 something years, but more recently since his allergies were inducing fear she had begun praying more

She listened to Sukha Karta Dukha harata for an hour on loop from 7 to 8 PM and set up her mandir

Around 10 PM the furniture was delivered just when she was yelling at Jaidrith for losing his epipen bag in school, he had not done his homework, read through two anime comics straight up

Not washed his hair three days in a row

And cried about hating this flat, because the boys across the hallway didn’t play with their door open this evening

The furniture made her happy for a bit

A floor level divan and two foldable bamboo chairs for the living room and a bunk bed with tons of storage for the bedroom and a desk for her and a stackable desk for him that slid under her desk

She told him he couldn’t have the top bunk tonight because he misbehaved

He cried himself to sleep without drinking his soy milk

She hated the look of it even

She cried on his behalf, and wondered why he couldn’t have been “normal”

“Its my daughter Ira’s birthday, would Jaidrith like to come over?” Lynn texted her next morning

She had forgotten what connected her to Lynn

It all came back

She was looking up a medium on Google, she was not convinced the toilet door would swing open and shut “just like that”

Jaidrith’s first question

“When are we going back to that house?”

He was sick of holding his pee at night as well

They got ready to leave

Canyon Oaks had rejected him despite the MD’s referral

A place near her hotel sold rice bread she had bought it for the first time, she slathered two tablespoons of jam and gave him a slice

He had the door open a crack, and was happy to be “playing with the kids” across the hallway

He actually are 3/4th of the slice

Small wins!

At work around 10 AM she received a text from “Jaidrith’s ---”

Just when she slid into amnesia over the DNA test one thing or another reminded her

“Hello, Would you like to meet sometime to discuss next steps?”

That was it, she had to run to the bathroom to throw up

The panic attack lasted until 1ish, returning in waves, her body shaking in fear, quite literally

In the lunch hour she hid in the stairwell, and between tears texted her response

“Will you run away with my Jaidrith?”

She saw ----

She held her breath

“No I will not!”

“I want you to know the test doesn’t mean he is not mine”

“I understand!” he smiled over there

He had no idea how broken she was, he was almost amused at her naivete

“He is still mine”

“Of course”

“I am afraid I will never see him again if you take him”

“That won’t happen”

“I don’t know how to save him”

“He won’t need saving” he explained patiently

“He is precious!” she told him vehemently

“Agree!” he said somberly

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Posted: 4 years ago

I am so Happy To read she voiced her concern to him.

Atty is as is sensitive this will just give him an idea why she is the way she is with him around. Her insecurities run deep.

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Posted: 4 years ago

Right now Atty doesn't know anything about her background so he can't understand why she is so skittish. She voiced out her fears and that was a good thing.

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Posted: 4 years ago

It's a start for both of them! ❤

In other news, i saw 'meenakshi sundereshwar' trending on SM. I hadn't watched the trailer until now. Felt little steretotyped depiction of Tamilians. Don't know if anyone here has watched it but my mind immediately went to Nisha's amazing characters of SoSy. Bollywood hasn't progressed much yet. They have cast two non Tamilians for lead role. The actress is Punjabi from Delhi. Sigh!

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Aatreya stayed in Mumbai hoping to find the blue eyed angel. Now that the son is in picture, he feels his duty. But is his passion to find and interact with his fling from 10 years alive n intact ?

Mrinalini’s insecurities can be cured only when she knows Aatreya cares for both her son and her. Let’s wait n see

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Posted: 4 years ago

Father & Friends☺️

Mrunal had never spoken about who his father was, tonight she was going to have to. He has asked her a few times during his school sports day and the Amaltas annual day, and school music performance day

It was always “You are mine, I am both Baba and Aai”

He had looked unsure but never challenged it

Or he had attempted to on a couple occasions, but feebly, not putting up a big resistance

She almost could not drive that evening in fear as she clutched the steering

She decided to bribe him with a treat, she bought him a coconut gelato, bought a quart to put in her new fancy freezer

Now that he had kids he could stare at he wasn’t complaining much, otherwise the first thing when he hopped into the car would be a giant meltdown

“I think you need to make more friends” she began with a nervous chuckle, he never paid any attention when he was reading his anime comics

“Uh”

“Dhruuu”

“Aaiiii” he scowled

“U can make new friends”

“I don’t want to talk about it” he said primly yanking his tie

He flung it carelessly nearby

“Dhruuu Udyā sakāḷī tū malā śōdhāyalā lāvaśīla (u will make me search in the morning)

“Aaiiii pleez, mee vaachat aahe” (I am reading)

She smiled she had been insisting he speak in Marathi more

She was even thinking of enrolling him in a class where he would learn to write the script

“Now I hope that man will allow it”

She cleaned house waited for the maid to come by based on the guard recommendation

Fixed dinner showered and Aatreya called

She answered fearing Dhru would, but he was busy staring out the door at the two boys’ antics

There was a lot of giggling

Dhru was giggling at the show those boys were putting on for him, punching each other playfully, and playing hide and seek with a “hidden” Jaidrith, sliding down the banister rail

She grabbed her phone and went to the kitchen, chopping brinjal

“Hello”

“Thanks for taking my call”

“Its fine”

“Its Ira’s birthday this weekend do you want to bring him to her house?”

“Who is Ira?” she thought she might be his wife “Ur wife?”

“I don’t have one… no… this is Lynn’s daughter”

“Umm.. I don’t know her”

“How old is Jaidrith”

“He will be 10 in two months”

“Great” he said after a pause

She wondered if he was doing the math for when he was in Lonavala

“I wanted to ask you…”

“I don’t know if I can go over the whole story now” she panted as the wok sizzled

“I can wait”

“How many kids do u have?” she asked

“I don’t have kids”… “Except for Jaidrith” he corrected himself

“Do u have other kids?” he asked the question back

“No I do not”

“So we both are coparenting one… or will be”

She did not agree

She didn’t know when she would be OK

She sighed and stirred and rinsed

“Where is he right now?”

“I cannot make him talk sorry” she said abruptly

He smiled at how possessive she was

“I understand I would be too if someone suddenly appeared in my

T child’s life and demanded a portion”

The compassionate way he said that made her tears flow down freely, she rinsed her face, and sniffled

“I can talk later I am making dinner”

“Sure”

“Can I see him once?”

She leaned on the wall shut her mouth and cried

“WHYYYYY?” she thought

It started already

WHYYYY

Why cant ONE thing be mine? JUST MINE?”

“Umm.. hello”

She ran the faucet and sniffled and shut

“Hmm… let me see”

She lowered the volume of music on Alexa, and gave a shout out to Dhruuu

Stepping out of the kitchen

He was OUTSIDE

Just as she hit facetime

She saw her little 9 year old was sliding down the rail of the stairs with those little munchkins cheering him on

There was cheering and loud laughter

She had no idea he could do that

She shut off face time to savor it

Jaidrith unaware his mother was outside continued to slide down the rail from the landing down to the ground floor

“Tujhee aai ithey aahe” (ur mother is here)

“Can I see him? Is he downstairs?” Aatreya demanded cheerfully hearing the laughter

“Hmm” Mrunalini was in complete shock

“I can call back” she lied flippantly and hung up

Watched her son mesmerized for the next 10 minutes,

Her sweet little boy had found a friend for the FIRST time in his life… the day he found a father he found a friend too… friends

Jaidrith gave her a look of sheer pride, and went down without looking and CRAAASHED

The two boys darted a fearful look at her and vamoosed

Jaidrith began to cry loudly, he had broken his pinkie

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