Affirmation
He drove to pick his sister and her husband from the clinic, after a morning row he had advised his parents to stay home and not make a big scene out of the procedure. His mother promised she would be in a corner chanting, he absolutely shot it it down
His father read the newspaper glumly, Dhru was in school, after throwing a big fuss over eating idlis for breakfast
He had to be calmed down and Aatreya allowed him to eat some rice and chocolate based cereal with soy milk. He threw up the soy milk because his mother had accidentally poured milk first into a bowl and drained it to replace it with soy milk
Aatreya had told her at least a 100 times that they did not know which contamination could be deadly for him
Pramila panicked thinking it was a sign things were going to go wrong for Apurva
Aatreya let him have a bowl of mango sorbet and some cookies he loved dearly before dropping him off at school
“Am I going home tonight?” Dhru grumbled
“Umm.. prolyl not tonight, hey whats with “going HOME” “This is your home too”
“Not without Aai” he spoke clearly
“I guess you are right” he nodded sighing
When he had pinned her to the wall by the front door last night to strip the beautiful green saree off her body, she had fought him
“You shouldn’t even be here, your parents are going to hate me more”
“Why should it matter what they think of you? U don’t want a legal permanent relationship with me… so why bother about what impression you make?” he mocked twisting her soft heated body
“Umm.. I”
He had her cornered
“Just lie to me” he begged wanting to hear some affirmation
“I am going to see them right, even if you marry.. (he inhaled the flowers in her hair bunching them in his fist).. some..ATTTY
“Enough” he growled not liking where this was going….
Night in her bed, with her was magic… but he always had to go home!
“Will you also come when I go home?” Dhru wanted his own affirmation
“Sure… I love going to Chembur” he smiled looking at his son
“Aai says, if we change the locks we can keep you away”
He laughed out loud
“BTW your Aai has not given me keys to that place”
“Don’t you have keys?”
“Nope”
“Huh!”
“Will you giveme yours?”
“Well I had one in 3rd grade and I lost it because I left it on the bus one afternoon”
He laughed again
“Reading an anime book?”
“Umm.. yesss” he mumbled softly
“She buys you books and doesn’t want you to read them?” “Huh?”
“She wants me to only eat, I hate eating”
He had dense luscious hair, on a tall skinny body
“Well u cant eat most things that’s why”
“I don’t want to eat idli” he whined
“We settled that dude”
“Can Aai come to your Versova place?”
“Umm.. I am trying man!!”
“Did you go to her house last night?”
“Umm.. yeah…” he turned toward the kid’s school
“Did you two fight”
“No… not last night” heat crawled up his face
“I run away fast when she tries to throw a pillow at me” he giggled
“thanks for the tip” he winked, parking
Pramila called him before Mrunalini
Asking him to bring a few specific veggies
Mrunalini called to know when Dhru was returning
“Whenever you want” he said quietly
“Umm.. OK… OK”
“Changed ur mind?”
“I didn’t expect you to agree so fast” she smiled
“I can be unpredictable” he chuckled
“Your Mum wont get mad?”
“U worry about her don’t you” he mocked
“Cant I worry without marrying you?”
“Nope”
He then told his mother Dhru has to be sent home in two days and then another giant argument broke out……..
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