Chapter ten.
kesar stared at her coming down the stairs her red lehenga flowing on the floor behind her, her mang tikka moving as she raced down the stairs, this was gulaal, his gulaal and suddeny it all started to make sense. his mind raced back to all those coincidences, gulaal's rishta coming on the same day as his bhabi, the rishta getting fixed, his bhabi also working in a call centre. a horrible truth struck him, gulaal was going to be his hone wali bhabi and even worse his brother had now spoilt her life. he moved towards her but she reached her mother first.
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gulaal saw her mother sitting on the floor weeping and raced over to her not caring that anyone was loking, she knelt down beside her mother and held her in her arms,
"shh maa, chup hojayie, kya hogaya hai aapko" she loked up at motaba and said to him
"kya hua hai meri maa ko, kya kiya aap logo ne".
motaba looked down not being able to say anything out of shame, gulaal looked questioningly across the room and her eyes fell on kesar.
"tu tu yaha kya kar raha hai" she said shocked because standing there was none other than kesar. he slowly moved foward and stood next to his father,
"humey maaf kar deh gulaal, vasant baa chale gaye hai.
gulaal stared at him trying to make sense of what had just happened, what was he doing here and where had vasant gone. baa he had called vasant baa, she realised this could only mean one thing, kesar was vasant's brother, she stared at him shocked, unable to say anything.
meanwhile poonam had got control of herself and turned towards her daughter, "chala gaya hai vasant, tujhe chor ke, chala gaya hai aur ab yeh ghar bhi humara nahi raha" and she started weeping, gulaal just stared at her mother blankly.
meanwhile the people all around had started to whisper, several things, one after the other.
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kesar wanted to move foward and hide her in his arms, he wanted to tell her that everything was going to be ok, but he knew gulaaal had suffered enough humiliation in one day and could do without. he turned to motaba and said "mujhe aapse baat karni hai".
A few minutes later motaba turned to the people and folded his hands, "sab log kripa kar ke apne apne ghar vaapis chali jayi, yahan koi shaadi nahi hone waali".
someone spoke out from the crowd of people "par poonamji aur gulaal ka kya".
"aap sab inki fikar mat kiyjye, inki zimidari main uta tha hoon, gulaal aur poonamji, aa kar humare saath humare ghar mein rahenge, gulaal ab meri beti jaisi hai, aur jab vakt ayega, main koi accha sa ladka dhoond ke iski shaadi bhi kar doonga".
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gulaal lay in this unkown house, she could not think clear, her mind raced with the events of the day, she could not believe that in less than three weeks, this is what her life had turned into, she had lost her father, her izzat, there house and most important of all, her kesar.
i cant she thought, main ab kesar ke baare mein soch bhi nahi sakti, which was quite hard, considering they were in the same house, she thought of her promise to her father, she looked towards, where her mother lay next to her, she could hear the soft sounds of snoring, her mother had just dozed off, she reached ut and gently touched her mothers head.
main janti hoon maa, aap bohot dookhi hai, lekin ab main aap ko aur dookh nahi doongi, main paise kama kar ab apka beta ban kar rahongi, she stared at the room, aur bohot jald main aapko yaha se bhi bahir nikal doongi, vapis apne ghar mein. she thought, of her house, with her father and mother and her living happily, she felt tears roll out of her eyes, paani she thought, main jaa kar paani le aati hoon.
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in the kitchen gulaal took out the bottle of water out of the fridge and turned to look for a glass, she opened sevaral cupboards, before a hand suddenly slipped passed her and handed her a glass.
"yeh loh" she recognised that voice, she turned and came face to face with kesar.
Edited by rimjhim1 - 13 years ago
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