chapter eight.
"Idhar aao beta" said paanba, "aa kar mere pass baito". Gulaal looked at her and forced a smile on her face, "kitni pyaari hai, haina vasant". vasant looked at his mother, "haan maa", and he looked at her. Gulaal looked at him and saw he seemed quite old, her thought's went back to kesar but she shook them away, looking around the room she saw there was a elderly man sitting in a chair, this must be her prospective father in law, she liked the look of him he seemed quite knowing and sensible.
"yeh hain motaba, gulaal, vasant ke pitaa aur yeh hain vasant ki maa ji, gulaal looked at the lady whom she was sitting next to.
Gulaal sat there hoping they did not like her but nothing of that sort was happening, infact her mother was praising her away and paanba and motaba were listening eagerly, she looked at Vasant again, he looked quite bored and had a faraway look on his face.
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"Toh yeh rishta paka hua" said motaba, "hume aapki gulaal bohot hi acchi lagi hai aur hume yeh shaadi jald se jald karni hai, bohot jald hum apne pure parivaar ko le kar ayenge aapse milne, gulaal ko bhi dekhna chahiye ke vasant ke bhai, behen kaise lagte hain."
"jee jee zuroor" said poonam as she saw them to the door.
They left and gulaal sat there not believing what had just happened, main yeh shaadi kaise kar sakti hoon.
"kitna accha hua na gulaal, kitne ache log hain, tujhe bohot khush rakhenge" said her father. "haan papa, bohot khush rakhenge mujhe" and she left for her room, before he saw the tears flowing from her eyes.
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kya karoon, she thought, nahi gulaal ab tu peeche nahi hat sakti, ab baat bohot aage jaa chuki hai, she thought of her account online, mujhe ab voh, deactivate kar dena chahiye, koi musibat na ajjaye. And she got up and logged on, her inbox showed there was one message, she opened it fearfully knowing it would be from him.
Gulaal, tum mujhe aise nahi chor sakti, ek cheez hain meri joh tumhare paas reh gay hai, main tumhare intezaar karoon gaa vahi jahan hum kal mile the, mujhe meri cheez vapis chahiye, aur jitni der tum nahi aogi main vaha se nahi jaoonga
Kesar
Gulaal stared at the screen blankly, mere paas aisa kya hai, but she knew from talking to him that he was very ziddi, chal main jaa kar ek baar dekh aati hoon ke aisa kya hai and she grabbed her woolen jumper and left.
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Kesar stared down the same path as yesterday, his eyes waiting imaptiently, he did not know what he was doing but he knew he was not leaving from here till she came. He sat on the bench and did not realise when he slept.
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"Kesar kesar uth jao" he looked up to see her staring at him anxiously.
"gulaal tu agayi, mujhe pata tha, tu zaroor ayegi" he smiled at her happily.
"kesar tu kyun nahi samajh raha, yeh mazak nahi chal raha, meri shaadi fix hoh gay hai, main ab kiso aur ki hoh choki hoon. hamara sirf yahi tak safar tha, ab tujhe aur mujhe zindagi mein aage barna chahiye, main tujhse 6 saal badi hoon, tumhare ghar waale mujhe kabhi nahi sweekar karnege aur tumhare kya, mere ghar walon ko pata chal gaya ke tum mujse 6 saal chote hoh, toh voh mujhe kabhi maaf nahi karenge.
Kesar just smiled at her brightly clearly not listening to what she was aying "kesar tu samaj raha hain na mein kya kah rahi hoon".
"haan mujhe sari samajh aa rahi hain, ab tu yaha baith", and he took her by the shoulder's and sat her on the bench. he sat beside her and said to her,
"tune meri neend cheen li aur meri neend sirf meri hain, samjhi kya ab mujhe voh vaapis chahiye, "kesar tu..."
but she was interuppted as he put his head on her lap and closed his eyes "kesar yeh tum kya kar rahe hoh, acchi zabardati hai, kuch samajh nahi aa raha".
"nahi gulaal subah samjhana" and with that he closed his eyes and fell asleep.
"main kya karoon iss ladke ka" gulaal thought, she knew there was not alot she could do and put her head down on top of his and fell asleep.
NEXT MORNING.
Gulaal got up to find herself sleeping in the same position awkwardly with her head on top of his, so close to him, yet so far she reached out and pulled a few locks of hair out of his face, kesar tu bohot accha hai she thought, lekin mein tere dil ke saath aise nahi khel sakti. tujhe mazboot bana hoga gulaal, she breathed in and then opened her mouth and started shouting, "tumhari himmat bhi kaise hui, utho jald utho" kesar got up startled, "kya hua".
maine tumse raat ko bhi kaha aur ab phir keh rahi hoon, mujhe tum mein koi interest nahi hai, meri shaadi ek bohot hi good looking ur rich admi se fix hoh gay hai, aur aaj ke baad mein tumse kabhi nahi miloongi" and with that she turned and started walking away.
he ran after her "tum nahi jaa sakti gulaal, mujme koi interest nahi hai, toh raat koh kyun ruki, kyun mere paas so gayi.?"
"main soi nahi thi, voh toh mujhe tujhpe taras aagaya tha isiliye saare raat baithi rahi, aur ek baat sun lo abhi agar mere peeche aaye, yah mujhe contact karne ki koshish ki, toh mujse bura koi nahi hoga" and she raced away.
"Tum soi thi gulaal mujhe pata hai, tum mere paas soi thi, mujhe paata hain kyunki puri raat,... toh main jagta raha".
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Kesar reached home full of anger and scorn, wondering who was the one, who was stealing his gulaal away from him.
Vasant looked up to see kesar entering, "kya hua Kesar, aise kyun utra chehra bana ke aa raha hai, koi baat hai kya aur itni subha subha kaha chala gaya tha".
Kesar attempted a smile "voh main aisi hi, meri choro aap batao kaisi gayi baat".
"kaunsi baat". "aapke rishte ki vasant baa", "oh voh, haan sab theek hogaya, rishta fix". he said with a far away look on his face.
"sach mein, bohot bohot mubarak hoh vasant baa, hum kab jayenge bhabi se milne".
"mujhe kya pata, jab bhi maa kahengi, maa toh itni khush hain".
"aur aap"
"meri khushi kah kya hai, theek hai ladki, ghar ka kaam sab aathe hai usko aur voh naukri bhi karti hai, call centre main, aslong as maa khush mujhe kya lena dena hai".
kesar stared stunned what a coincident, gulaal also worked in a call centre, infact, she had told him lots of funny stories while they were online, about other girl's there, he wondered if she knew his hone waali bhabi, i will ask her later online, when suddenly he remembered what had happened. he was about to leave to retaliate to his room when paanba entered.
"kesar beta kitni khushi ki baat hai, Vasant ka rishta paaka hogaya, hum kal he jayenge nirja se milne ke liye".
just then the phone rang, paanba went to recieve it "kesar beta, talli ka phone hai".
Edited by rimjhim1 - 13 years ago
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