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Tum fir se blush kar rahi ho.
This was that one statement that had occupied Anika's mind the moment they left her husband's lips. He had told her "Mujhe nahi pata yeh tadibaaz ladki blush bhi karti hai" the night before and now this. Both statements had one thing in common, she understood all but one word : blush
Aakhir iska matlab kya hai? Shivaay kehte rehte hai ki main blush karti hun... Mujhe toh pata bhi nahi blush kya hota hai?
Om and Rudra were talking about something where Rudra was doing most of it. Om noticed Anika and opened his mouth to speak when Rudra butted in, "O, mujhe pata hai aap kahenge Shut Up Rudra!"
"Main yeh nahi kehne wala tha but it's all the same." Om shrugged. He then averted his gaze back to Anika who mas muttering under her breath, frowning and then wondering. Rudra followed his gaze to find his amazing Bhabhi deep in confusion. When the saw that Anika was heading towards them sub-consciously, they moved a little away so that she could not see them.
"Aakhir yeh blush kya cheez hai?" was all they heard before Anika proceeded to Dadi's room.
"O, Anika Didi blush ke baare main kyu janna chahti thi?" Rudra questioned.
"Chal pata karte hai." Om replied, with a hint of what it might be already.
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Anika was in the kitchen, making a cup of tea for herself. All this thinking about what blush might be and then having flashbacks of all the flirting Shivaay was upto, her head was on the verge of epxploding. Whenever he neared her, she couldn't think with her heart beating rapidly. She didn't notice that the tea was done with until Rudra and Om came into the kitchen and turned the gas knob hurriedly.
That's when Anika came to. She cleared her head and smiled at them.
"Anika is everything alright?" Om asked.
"Haan Bhabhi, you can tell us if something if wrong." Rudra chipped in.
"Everything is alright. It's just that I am wondering something." Anika said while pouring the tea through the sieve into the cup. "Tum dono ko chai chahiye?" she asked.
"Nahi... Chai ko chodo, aap batao kya soch rahi thi?" Rudra nudged her.
"Kuch nahi, ek word ke baare main soch rahi thi." Anika didn't usually find it weird to claim that she didn't know English but asking then about a word that Shivaay usually used when they were close, she wasn't sure.
"Uh, main na kal ek movie dekh rahi thi. Usme hero ne heroine se kaha ki woh blush kar rahi thi. Yeh blush kya cheez hai." She asked tentatively.
Om and Rudra gave each other a knowing smile. "Kal movie kab dekhi?" Om asked.
Anika knew that if she once told them, there was no stopping. She instead aksed, "Aap dono ko matlab pata hai kya?"
"Tum yeh Shivaay se bhi toh puch sakti thi?" Om asked pretending.
"Arey woh toh sirf kehte rehte hai..." but before she could complete, Shivaay shouted her name from the door.
Shivaay had been watching the whole exchange from outside, enjoying his wife's confusion but the moment Om asked this he knew he would be in trouble.
"Maine kaha tha ki tum kissi se puch nahi sakti blush kya hota hai? Shivaay lied in an attempt to be safe.
"Haan?" Anika furrowed her brows in confusion.
"Arey, woh main aur Anika jhagad rahe the..." Shivaat started building up a story which Anika would hopefully agree to when Rudra cut him, "Usme nayi baat kya hai?"
Anika remembered that they hadn't had a proper fight since long. Eveb the small ones always ended up with Shivaay's weird behaviour where he flirted with her.
She looked at her husband as if he had gone nuts.
"Haan, toh woh jhagda karte karte maine Anika ko challenge de diya ki woh blush ka meaning khud dhoond kar aaye." Shivaay grinned, contentedly finishing off with his lie.
Anika got frustrated. He was talking about something that never happened and on top of that, making her look like a cheater.
Maintaining a plastered smile she muttered, "Aisa kab hua?"
"Please chup raho." Shivaay said in a similar manner.
Anika loudly replied, "Nahi!" and then but her lip. Rudra and Om had been watching them all along.
"Areu yeh mujhe kehte rehta hai ki main blush karti hun, par mujhe batate hi nahi haiki uska matlab kya hai. Ab tum dono batao, agar mujhe nahi pata ki blush kya hota hai, toh main blush kaise karungi." Anika said it all like a single word.
Shivaay cursed his luck while Rudra took his Bhabhi's side. "Sahi baat hai."
Om off handedly said, "Shut Up Rudra." While thinking of a way to coax more out of Anika. If what he was thinking was true, he surely needed to know.
Just when Shivaay thought he wouldn't be more embarrassed, Om asked Anika, "Anika, Shivaay ne aisa kya kaha?"
"Arey woh kya hua na ki yeh..." but one look at Shivaay's face and she knew she didn't want to continue. That man looked like he would laugh, cry and explode any moment.
"Haan Bhabhi, batao na."
Anika was quite unsure of what to say. She stammered incoherent sentences.
This was enough to confirm Om's suspicions. Not wanting to trouble a clueless Anika anymore, he said, "Blush matlab jab humari body main se thoda zada khoon humari shakal pe aa jata hai."
"Acha natlab sharmana..." Anika registered hers and Om's statements a little later. Her cheeks were painted red as she blushed
"Haan Didi, hum sharmaate hai ya toh jab hum embarassed hote hain ya jab hum romance karte hai." Rudra commented slyly.
Shivaay took out his phone and started talking to some non-existent client while his face clearky showed what was going on inside him.
Anika understood how she had brought upon herself and her now-romantic huband, the wrath of her Devars' relentless teasing, while innocently wanting to know what blush is.
As Anika's tea lay forgotten, she ran away in embarrassment while Rudra and Om burst into laughter.
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If this sounds stupid, I am sorry. I only watched the last 5 minutes of the episode and I haven't watched in days. I am clueless about the other plot that might have built up.
This came to me the moment we got to another blush-brush and had to write it or I would have kept thinking until I was ready with a Short story 🤣
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Cheers,
Krishi
P.S. Written it in a hurry as you can see. Ignore grammatical errors.
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