CHACHI vs CUTEY 11.12
Mannat Har Khushi Paane Ki: Episode Discussion Thread - 35
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Kindness & Kickboxing
“I don’t want to go to your office” he screamed as she gave him clothes to change in the bedroom
“Sshushhh Dhru….Ēka divasa purēla ēvaḍhaṁ nāṭaka kēlansa (you have done enough drama for one day)
They argued in a whisper
“I PROMISE I will be good, you can lock the door and go to work”
“No” “Are you mad?”
“Aaaiii”
Aatreya was in the living room wrapping up email
She had fed him some juice and rice crackers and given him a dose of meds
“Aaaii I know Ulhas and Utkarsh”
“Tū paḍūna bōṭa mōḍalyāpāsūna tē āmacyākaḍē baghatahī nāhīta kinvā bōlatahī nāhīta” (Since your crash on the stairs they don’t look at us or talk to us)
“Aaai… I can go ask”
“Will you beg?”
“What do u mean?”
He looked cute as a button in the batman jammies
She was too upset to appreciate
"Ā'īlā kāya sāṅgaśīla? Tyānnī malā jināvaruna uḍaṇyācā āgraha kēlā āṇi mī paḍalō, āṇi tyānnī sŏrī mhaṭalē nāhī, paṇa tū malā ēka āṭhavaḍā baghū śakatōsa kā?
"What will you tell the mother? They urged me to fly on the staircase and I fell, and they did not say sorry, but can you watch me for one week?
He looked really sad
She kneeled by him
“Shakaraa… its just you and me” she said
“What about him?” Jai wanted to know
“Umm… to aaji barabar aala? (he came today no?)
“Aaiii” he hid his face in his palm and sobbed
“I am so sorry
They stayed in a hug for a minute
There was a “rec room” or break room of sorts where staff hung out at lunch, if she begged Sen he could allow her, it was afterall a five star hotel so it had really plush relaxation areas
He would have a field day though playing video games and not touching his home work nor logging on online to watch the class lesson videos
How could she walk the distance of a mile almost from her basement office down two basement alleyways to get to the “Staff Lunch Area”
“Let me ask Aaai, (Let me ask Kirti Sahasre)” he squeezed her index finger as they left the room
“No” “Good boy tu eka changla mulga aahes?” she blew air kisses
He looked really sad
“Thank you for coming” “Thank you for helping Aai” he spoke as he was coached
Aatreya was stunned he got up, zipping up his backpack
She wondered what role he had at the bank
She had hardly looked at the Linked In or his job offer letter to know he was an SVP
She assumed he didn’t make enough to pay for nanny at home
“I am glad ur Aaai let me go with you bud” he kneeled
“Will u teach me spider man face in darts?” he looked up at his Mom
She had instructed him to say something generic and casual
She swallowed and looked at her phone
“Sure? When?”
“Aaai?” he looked at her
“Umm.. he is busy for one week”
“Oh? Are you going to fight the suspension?”
“No…. I have to go be at her office” he began to cry again, whimpering and hiccuping
“Dhruuuuu”
“Oh?” he looked stunned
“He will be fine” she hugged him
“I can work from home easy” he said
“Okay” she nodded not making a connection to her needing care and him being able to offer it
“I can be with him during the day”
“Umm.. I do…”
“I can even work from here”
“Can u, can u? can u?” can u?” Dhru was flying like a plane his arms stretched out “whoooooo”
“Dhruuuu” she whispered a warning
“Not here” she rubbed her forehead nervously
“Oh great I can do it my place”
“’I have a break area with table tennis and all”
“Aaaiiiiii” he wailed and begged
“How about you drop him off at my place tomorrow, and also intoroduce me to the principal so I can figure out what the policy is”
“I know the policy”
“I do not Mrunalini” he sighed looking piercingly into her blue eyes
“I don’t want him watching video games or making smiley faces all day” she mocked
“I understand” he nodded losing his patience bit by bit
“I can keep an eye on him remotely from my desk, her paranoia for his safety and insecurity over someone kidnapping him, she had access to a bunch of snooping software
“I am sure you can” he tried to kill the sarcasm
“You think I cant?” she bristled
“I did not say that”
“You must think I am stupid” she whispered trying not to raise her voice in front of Dhru
His “plane” was flying in the bedroom
“I don’t” he was a bit more irritated now
“Until you waltzed in I have been caring for him you know”
“I never debated it” he said coolly
“I SAW it in your eyes” she hissed
“Oh? Really? I assumed only I saw things in urs” he muttered bending down to pick up his power cord that lay astray on the divan below
“If he goes to your place it wont be a punishment”
“U don’t know that”
“Are you going to HIT HIM?” she panicked
He took many long deep breaths
“I will not lay a finger on him, I will keep FT on from when I pick him up to when I drop him off if that helps?”
“He has many allergies”
“Of which I asked more documentation if you bothe… saw ur email?” (he checked himself, she drove him bat sh—crazy)
“Okay” she nodded
She could never tell if she was shi---g him or serious whenever she responded in a bland/blank “Okay”
“Okay? Yes? Okay no?” he pressed
“U want the data now?”
“Umm.. by the end of the night or first thing tomorrow? When I stop by to pick him up?”
“I have those digital”
She was being obtuse
“I should print them?”
“Nope just email”
“I am fine for tomorrow”
“I will be here at 7? Or 8”
“I will drop him” she rushed
“U do not trust my driving?”
“Umm.. no… I have to go to office”
“So u don’t?”
“I can pick him up in a few hours”
He didn’t answer
Dhru was on his Switch
She went in to check
“Dhru get ready for bed”
“Am I going to his house?”
“Umm.. we can talk abt it”
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7 AM when she was watching Marathi news on her wall mounted TV he was reporting to duty
“He is sleeping” she whispered
“I can wait” he leaned on the wall
She reluctantly held the creaky handle and went up down up down up down, as the cylindrical rod pulled out of the wall tunnel, all the while holding his gaze blandly
He was in his work clothes, no laptop though
“Are you also going to take him to your office?”
“No I am not”
“U are”
“I had a call at 5 AM” he said quietly
He turned to look at the TV to see what she was watching
He didn’t understand rapidfire arguments in Marathi
She was still in her night clothes
“If u took the day off I can just head to work” he said
She hated him that second
He was finally finally getting under her skin, for the very first time
Usually he was just a shadow or a zombie
“Umm.. I didn’t think u were coming at 7” she said
“So he is free to go” he wanted to wring it out of her just for amusement
She went into the kitchen and ate her cereal over there, quietly
Took a shower wore her uniform pinned her badge upside down, and woke Jai, all he needed to be told was “He is here”
Jai was showered and ready in less than 10 minutes
To her chagrin
She had packed his food bag his medicine bag, she went out and gave him a good 20 minute lecture on how to store epipen and how and what to give him
And how his knuckle fist wounds should be treated
She told him about getting on the classroom through Zoom
She told him if his classwork and homework is done all done, he cannot go back to Khar East the next day
Causing Jai to almost have a meltdown
He was busy peeking at Ulhas anD Utkarsh as they wore their shoes and socks by the door
TV was playing loudly in their house
And the boys signaled each other like prisoners
Atty was amused by it totally
But the gorgeous mother of his child was not
She always had a look of no f---s to give
He chuckled when that term came to mind
“He has to log on to PT class also”
“Got it” he nodded obediently
“No video games”
“Of course not”
“No basket ball” she said firmly
If basketball was going to germinate a bond she wanted to cut it off
“Got it” he nodded
“Umm.. since he is not well he can take a nap” “After school” she relaxed her shoulders as she watched her son gesticulating explaining his new injury to his buds
He looked at her somberly
“If he is sleeping he cannot FT me no?” she panicked
“How about I set the camera to his face”
“You have a camera?”
“Hmm” he nodded (He had gone off and ordered everything paranoid mother may demand)
She really wanted Mendy to be there
She trusted Mendy
She knew a Dad to two sweet girls could not be a bad guy (yeah! Naïve!)
She stood like a statue wondering how to ask him
“What time?” he asked
“I can pick him up when you want me to” she threw out boldly
She knew Sen would chew her out
“7? “8?”
“6” she said
“Ah”
“Okay” she nodded
Cue for him to get lost he realized
“Tumhālā mājhyā sandēśācē uttara dēṇē āvaśyaka āhē, kŏla karā” she explained to Dhru kneeling down in front of him
“U answer my every call every text, you tell me everything” “I want to know every word u say to him”
He nodded nervously not knowing where thisJara tyānē tumhālā dukhāvaṇyācā prayatna kēlā tara tumhī tyālā lātha mārū śakatā
“If he tries to hurt you, you can kick him” she whispered in his ear as if kissing his cheek
He was more terrified of his Aaai now
She walked to the car with the backpack laptop and his med bag and lunch bag, he carried his car seat/restraint
It was CLEAN
“He will make ur car messy” she waved a finger all knowingly
“Uh oh” he pretended to care
She felt proud she had discouraged him
First thing he asked his son
“What did she say”
“I can boxing kick u if u hurt me” he said looking at his Dad thru the rear view mirror
“I am afraid” he whispered mischievously
Making his kid laugh out loud
Shiv Shakti
Ye Hai Mohabbatein
Arjun
