chapter thirteen motaba,paanba,giga kaka, poonam ba and jumana kaki all left for there walk, gulaal watched them going and smiled and waved at her mother. after half an hour rewa and devika also left for college and gulaal was left alone. kesar and talli were upstairs and gulaal thought it best not disturb them. she went into the kitchen and decided to do some cleaning. while doing the sweeping, she sudddenly saw a big rat, gulaal screamed and run upstairs, kesar ran out of the room and ran straight into her, she clutched his shoulder out of fear and started yelling, 'maine itna bhara rat dekha, mujhe mujhe bohot dar lag raha hai'. kesar started laughing at her bachpana 'tumhe rat se dar lagta hai'. 'haan kesar kitni baar jab hum online the maine tumhe bola tha mujhe rat se bohot dar lagta hai'. a sudden awkwardness came between the two at the mention of being on the online dating site. kesar tried to brush it aside and said 'aao andar aajao' and he indicated inside, gulaal went into the room and looked around ,she had seen this room many times through the computer screen but today it looked somewhat different. talli sat on the sofa looking entirely comfortable like she came here often, this thought made gulaaal feel slightly awkward. 'baito gulaal, yahan tum tallli ke paas baito'. gulaal sat beside talli not knowing if talli welcomed her or not. talli turned and smiled at gulaal 'hum dono laptop pe kesar ke tasveere dekh rahe the, tum computer vagara par zyada jaa thi hoh'.
'haan gulaal, tho hamesha hi computer par lagi rah thi hai' said kesar enthusiastically.
gulaal let out a small smile 'haan voh main aise hi'.
'aur gulaal tum kaam par nahi jaogi' said talli smiling at her brightly.
'maine voh shaadi ke liye, doh hafte off liye the' gulaal said tears brimming up in her eyes and she looked away.
kesar noticed this and felt really bad for her, 'chalo, ab hum meri baki tasveero par hans the hai'.
gulaal turned towards the laptop and talli who was sitting between kesar and her, started flicking through the pictures.
there was several of his baby pictures that made gulaal smile and one particular one of his in the bathtub as big round baby made her laugh out loud'. kesar felt happy to see her smiling again.
'chalo main, washroom hoke aati hoon' said talli satnding suddenly.
when gulaal and kesar were left alone in the room, kesar suddenly said 'yeh dekho' and pointed at the screen, gulaal looked and was suprised to see a picture of herself making a particularly gruesome face, 'yaad hai tumne mujhe bejiye thi' he said smiling at her, she started to laugh and kesar laughed with her.
he suddenly turned towards her and said 'im sorry gulaal kal raat ke liye'.
'koi baat nahi' she said still smiling' lekin aage se please asia mat karna'.
'nahi karoonga baba, kabhi nahi karoonga, toh ab friends again' and he put his hand out.
she glanced at it, thought for a while and realsied there was nothing wrong with being friends.
she took his hand and smiled at him.
meanwhile talli came back and gave there now joint hand a very dirty look.
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