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Posted: 4 years ago

Mru has a childlike personality. Full of suspicion but then quickly accepting the answer she is given.

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Posted: 4 years ago

A little TLC for Mru and Atty even got to hear thanks.

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Mr Nightingale

Half way through the night she woke up ina sneezing bout, and realized she had body ache and fever again, she got up to go to the restroom

She noticed Dhru asleep under what looked like a tent of sorts in the living room

The front door had two chairs and a couple of indoor plants stacked against it

She wondered how he did all that by himself

She went back to the room and found ATTY in the upper berth fast asleep

She froze wondering if she should wake him and kick him out

She walked closer to the bed, and stared at his face under the blue night light glow

He looked unperturbed

He had stayed afterall? Why?

She went to the kitchen everything was put away and spotlessly clean, the morning breakfast mess was also all washed up, a load of laundry had dried in the annexe and the light glowed green

She wobbled back to her bed lay on it and wept softly

“Oh why did he have to be a kind man?” “He shud have been a jerk like Baba”

“I want to hate him”

She wondered if Shyamal was OK with him staying over

She wondered where e his phone was, it lay charging in the bedroom in the corner on a desk, she walked over and tapped it

There were pictures and emojis from Shyamal she went back to bed

“Did u need anything?” he asked gruffly

“No” she sniffled wiping her tears off

He got off and stepped down

“Some tea or hot water before u take ur body ache meds?”

“No” she rolled over facing the wall crying again

“What is going on?”

“Nothing I just have a cold and I feel miserable”

He had watched her check his phone

He reached and felt her forehead

She pushed his hand away, and turned to face him

“Can I just have the meds? I can make my own tea?”

He left her and returned with the tea and handed her two pills

The tea was fantastic

“Are you hungry?”

“No”

He sat there motionless not saying a word

“Why did you stay?”

“I knew you were sick right?” he growled

“Ive managed before u know”

“I know you have”

“I mean I have my parents in town too”

“I know you don’t” he said firmly

She looked at him in horror

“Stop lying to me”

“I have never” she accused

“I am not going to start a fight at… he looked at the clock on the wall, 2:22 AM”

“I have parents”

He didn’t answer

“I will bring you water”

“You could have asked Dhru to sleep in the top berth”

“And wake up every time you sneeze?” he smiled

“I just have a cold”

He nodded

They both went back to their beds

She didn’t wake up at 7 or 8, she foggily recalled seeing Dhru as he was herded to school

Aatreya returned at 10 AM ish

She was still asleep, she heard cooker sounds, it reminded her of childhood and the sounds from the kitchen, her mother rarely entered it, mostly an army of help flit in and out

Even while dreaming She wondered what her mother cooked today, in her new marriage she apparently was quite the culinary expert

He worked in the living room until, she heard him talking laughing, giving directions, chuckling as he worked his Zoom meetings

He took a break 2 ish and got up to fix himself lunch

She got up a couple times to go to the bathroom to throw up and went back to sleep,

She had no energy to fight him

suddenly realized she had subconsciously transferred power to this man and did not know where her son even was

At 2ish she charged into the living room panicking “I will lose my job” “I forgot to tell my boss”

“I think he knows, I called to inform on your sick line”

“Oh” she went back to her bed

“Did you shower in my bathroom?” she demanded when he came in around 3 with some food

“I can if you want me to” he mocked

“I don’t” she said firmly

“I go from a kidnapper to a molester now?”

She ate the khichri quietly, it was delicious, it had coconut and curry leaves in it

Hers had garlic and onions

“Did you make it?” she asked raising a spoonful of dripping ghee scented goodness

“I did” he sat by her on her bunk and ate from his bowl

“Thank you for taking him to school”

“You are welcome”

“If my fever doesn’t go away I want to go see a doctor, can you want him in the evening?”

“I can go with you” he said firmly

“Uh”

“I will head out soon to go pick him up, will you be OK?”

“I think so” she leaned back and closed her eyes, she had just taken her medication and drank two glasses of water

“Don’t buy him too many snacks” she ordered weakly

“Hmm”

“I know you are trying to slowly earn his love and win him over. He is the only one I have” “I really don’t want much from life you know. I am not very career oriented, I don’t have any money, I have few friends, and I have him. I have a bad boss, he wants to fire me. I hate him too. I didn’t listen to my parents when I was a teen and I was in my early 20s. I was too focused on having a good time. I only have Dhru now, most of my friends are not married”

She went into delirium and said things she wouldn’t have otherwise if she was lucid

“You are good cook a great boss, a wealthy successful man, you really should leave us alone”

“Done?” he sighed

“Food?”

“No… umm.. ur thoughts?”

“I am not joking, I am conscious, I love Dhru, he is allergic to 100 things, he has no friends but we have each other so please don’t break us up”

“Got it” he held his breath in shock

“I like Mendy” she whispered slipping back into sleep

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Posted: 4 years ago

I like delirious Mrunalini 😂

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Posted: 4 years ago

"I like mendy" I hope Atty won't take this like Lynn😳...Mrunali has so many insecurities😭

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Posted: 4 years ago

The man is a keeper. If only she could see it that way. He cooked, cleaned, nursed her through her sickness, took care of Dhru.

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Posted: 4 years ago

Omelets & Hope

By Tuesday morning her fever broke and she was able to sit up more than the past two days

He just took care of Dhru and worked the whole time

Tuesday morning when she woke she found father and son both asleep

She woke him in a panic

“there was no school today remember?” “U have his school calendar posted on the frig”

He got off the bunk bed and followed her

She grabbed her reading glasses from the desk by the bed and sprinted and sighed when she realized he was right

“Oh I forgot”

“No worries”

“You’ve really been taking care of him the whole time”

She coughed with the remnants of the cold

“He is easy to take care of

“Thanks”

“And I did not poison you” he smiled leaning on the doorjamb

“Yeah that too”

“I am not going to hurt the mother of my child”

“Thanks”

“I was gob smacked to learn I have a child the worst thing to do would be to kill the mother and head to prison” he said softly

She nodded

“I don’t need to know everything about your life, just enough so I am not in the way”

“OK”

“My parents and I have regressed, in the last 3ish months, Ive broken their heart by announcing I fathered a child and didn’t even know about it”

She stared in disbelief

“My mother and my father have never heard or seen of anyone doing such a thing”

She nodded weakly

“they knew I was different when I wanted to go study in America, they knew I was getting a lot of attention from women in Bangalore” he hid a smile

She shifted awkwardly

“I mean none of this meant I was going to have free wheeling s—with a stranger in Lonavala over a weekend”

“Uh”

“How did your parents take it?” “If u don’t mind my asking?”

Aftera coughing bout they both stared at the living room bed, Dhru did not stire she went to her bed

He sat on the edge, as she crouched by the wall

“My Mum was not kind” she said quietly

He did not reveal Mendy had told him anything

“Do you have your Dad’s support?”

“Umm.. I don’t know if I can call it support”

“Did you have an easy pregnancy?”

She blushed a deep red

“It was great” she whispered huskily

“He looks great so I don’t doubt that” he smiled gently

“I am not close to my parents so”

“Do they wish to see me?”

“They don’t even wish to see ME” she thought

“Umm.. Not… no I don’t think so” she swallowed ashamed

“Hmm”

“I am thinking of going to work, if you have to go to the office today I can drop him off at the activity center”

“I can work from home I can bring him to Khar”

She nodded

“Do u really feel like going in?”

“I should try”

“Don’t you have enough days, sick days?”

She had none, she had taken many randomly, she hated her job, she wanted to be a stay at home Mum

She wanted to spend the afternoons with Dhru like Kirti Sahasre and the million other Mums around the city

“I have some” she lied

“Then take the day off”

“My boss will fire me”

“Why do u keep saying that?”

“Because I work in dispute resolution people love to stay in 5 star resorts but no one likes to pay the inflated Rs,800 rupees for water

she smirked

He smiled wide

“My boss doesn’t like the fact that my team even gets weekends”

“can you find another job?”

“U mean… no (job)” she swallowed

“U know something to do with billing if that’s your expertise?”

“I barely went to college, I studied BBA but” she smiled sheepishly

The first honest thing she said about herself besides her usual paranoid rants about Aatreya kidnapping Jaidrith

“Having too good a time?” he smiled

“U can say that”

They both smiled at each other softly

“No one that knew me back then believes I am holding down a job and raising a child and living by myself” she smiled

“A fantastic mother

he sighed

“We traveled drank danced and party hopped 6 nights a week

“Did you have a boyfriend?” he decided to get bold

“Umm.. here and there”

“None now?” he asked and held his breath

She looked at him like she was on to him

“I better go get ready”

“Good idea” he said getting up “I am going to fix breakfast”

A wonderful breakfast of oatmeal omelets, toast and coffee awaited her

“I eat eggs don’t tell my parents… I mean I eat when I cannot find anything else” he smiled

“How can you lie to your Mum? She is so amazing?” Mrunalini was in agony

He walked up to her slowly and straightened her badge on her shoulder

“Do u like her?”

She nodded

“So there is hope then?” he whispered

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Posted: 4 years ago

For the first time, i feel relieved after reading an update in this story...... One more?

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Posted: 4 years ago

“So there is hope then?” he whispered


Awww...

So sweet.

Atty get bolder man. Tell her why you came to Mumbai in first place.

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Aftera coughing bout they both stared at the living room bed, Dhru did not stire she went to her bed

He sat on the edge, as she crouched by the wall.


Shared parenthood under same roof 😍.
It seemed as been they have been doing it forever.

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